January 24, 2025 • 43 mins
Max and Wolf open the locker room angry about Zach Frazier not being named a finalist for Offensive Rookie of the Year.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Mmmm.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
This is in the Locker Room, presented by Ford and
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Speaker 3 (00:50):
Knowing really well, I was right in our backyard.
Speaker 4 (00:52):
We had a comfort level some player two years ago
against pitt And I remember at halftime Dank Kulver come
up to me and he's like, you see a center
from Virginia dumping guys you know, on the ground. So yeah,
we both saw it and he was on our radar then.
And I think it just says you got to know him.
I went, I went down last year and saw him
play with Mike Butler. We saw play against BYU and
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they had two hundred yards rushing in the first half,
and I mean he was just mowing guys down, you know.
And then just getting to know the kid through the school, visit,
the makeup. You know, he's got a special football character
to him.
Speaker 5 (01:24):
Oh.
Speaker 6 (01:24):
I mean to tell you all want to start off
with an official protest here with you, Max and I
know you're you and I were both in line where.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
I need to ride my pickets sign, I need to
ride in my pickets. That's right, all right.
Speaker 6 (01:35):
So the NFL came out with their offensive Rookie of
the Year finalists. Okay, you've got Rock Bauers tight end,
all right, the fattest of the fat guy the Morgan
guys an end exactly. Then you got Jaydon Daniels quarterback, all.
Speaker 7 (01:49):
Right, definitely not fat.
Speaker 6 (01:51):
Okay, yes, meliek Neighbors wide receiver giants, definitely not fat either. Okay,
Bo Knicks quarterback Broncos or young, so you want.
Speaker 7 (02:00):
To call him, yeah, old, but not that.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
Okay. Then we got Brian Thomas Thomas or what is Brian.
Speaker 7 (02:08):
Brian Thomas Jr.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Thomas.
Speaker 7 (02:09):
Yeah, by the way, that's three l s U guys
all teammates. Really no kick because Jaydon Davis was the
quarterback for both the lak Neighbors and Brian Thomas Junior.
Speaker 8 (02:20):
Seems like somebody should have won more games down there.
Speaker 7 (02:26):
That can't spell defense down there, that's the problem.
Speaker 9 (02:31):
But Brian Kelly can spell family.
Speaker 6 (02:35):
Okay, what's the joke on that? Because I missed that
Kelly the Yeah, go ahead next year.
Speaker 9 (02:39):
You know you got there. You're the SEC guy.
Speaker 7 (02:41):
Go for it.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
Yeah, I have the SEC guy.
Speaker 7 (02:44):
So Brian Kelly when he left Notre Dame and went
to UH sign with l s U, he was they
They had him come out to the l s U
women's basketball game like the night after he got signed,
and he tried talking in the most southern thick fake
accent Foghorn Leghorn esque to trying to pease the crowd,
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and they joked him so bad about it. So that's
why I was like them, ol a, you know, because
he tried to like draw out his his twang and
everything that was non existent.
Speaker 9 (03:15):
I got the audio for you actually ready, Yeah, okay, perfect, It's.
Speaker 10 (03:21):
A great guy to be a Tiger. I'm here with
my family from the North. Where you're going with that one?
Speaker 3 (03:44):
Oh yeah, let's get back to Brian. Let's get back
from Boston.
Speaker 8 (03:49):
He's from Massachusetts and my family.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
Okay.
Speaker 6 (03:57):
So so tell me we've got these and the and
they are worthy all right, offensive rookies, Okay, they are finalists,
they are okay, but the Morgantown Maler should be in there.
There's no question about it. I mean fifteen starts. Yes,
grated out the fifth best center among all centers, not
just amongst rookie centers, nine hundred and seventy five snaps,
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only one sack. And I tell you this, don't give
me that skill position crap. That's the term GMS came
up with in contract negotiations because hey, Max, tell me,
do you let the people go? Do you know how
how much skill it takes to ground and pound and
wrestle with Jurassic Park sized defensive linemen.
Speaker 7 (04:38):
I mean, come on, yeah you have you Have you
heard about a guy by the name of Cam Hayward. Yes, right,
that's the guy that's on his team he has to
wrestle with. Have you heard of a guy named Dexter Lawrence? No, yeah, yep, right,
let's see. I mean Nom de Madabik since his name
is no longer just a Mati bleak. Yeah, that's Nom Dak.
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Travis Jones, Oh that was a big guy, right, uh?
Bj Hill? Uh? What what's that? What? What was?
Speaker 3 (05:12):
What was?
Speaker 7 (05:13):
What was Humungo? Stop sign? Shelby Harris? Oh yeah, yep,
Like I mean, these are all some of the guys
that he went against this season and put them in
the dirt in the dirt, yes, not just the phrases, yes, yeah, right.
Speaker 6 (05:33):
I mean I'm talking the truth here when you see
I go back to the beginning of the season, in
in preseason game, when I saw him take I forgot
who it was. It was a three hundred and thirty
forty pound nose tackle, right, he took him eleven yards
off the ball. I watched that over and over all
by his loansome. I'm sitting there going cut it out.
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I mean, these are Jurassic Park sized dinosaurs that you're
wrestling here, and this dude just came out and just
mauled people.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
Threw him on the ground.
Speaker 6 (06:03):
I had the greatest appreciation for this young man's skill.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
What say you, Max, Oh no, I do as well.
Speaker 7 (06:11):
And I think I think that was a Houston Texas
preseason game.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
I think that's what it would be. I can't remember remember,
because I remember, I remember.
Speaker 7 (06:17):
We were talking about it the next day, because you know,
I watched the film back in my dorm room.
Speaker 6 (06:24):
Oh yes, by myself, as you were enjoying your dorm
room up at Saint Vincent's.
Speaker 7 (06:29):
Yeah, yeah, exactly. Me and a couple other people were
only on campuses like me and Aiden and some of
the camp get uh they were playing FIFA. I was
watching game film anyways, but I mean.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
He had to stay up there too.
Speaker 7 (06:47):
Oh my goodness. Yeah, Aiden is a g for that
who we're talking about, Aiden Hennessy. He's uh, he handles
all of the player logistics and everything. He's a excellent
at what he does a human being. But no, I mean,
I think it is one of those things, like a
lot of these postseason awards, like there's such a bias
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towards guys with skills. I'm air quoting. I'm air quoting
it that, you know. That's why I kind of drew
it out, because because obviously it's radio and you can't
see me doing air quotes as I talk, even though
I'm starting to now get way too used to us
like I'm doing Bunny years anyways. But you know, it's
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such a shit because I would.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
I would.
Speaker 7 (07:40):
That's why you make the finger motions as close as
I get. But you know how linemen don't get considered
for this award for Offensive Rookie of the Year when
we're gonna play probably as much snaps, if not more
than the quarterbacks. Right on a play by play basis.
We have contact every single play, yes, you know, whereas
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skill positions quote unquote don't have that content and they
don't play every single step. They don't have to be
ready every single play. Right, and then for a center position,
you got you set the entire year offense. For the
defensive front, you make the initial middle of the defense call,
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which is called the mic call, and then you have
to move an unnatural way latterly or in reverse, you know,
just go forward and make it, make a cute little cut,
a little stutter and go and then catch a football
or get a football in your stomach.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
Right.
Speaker 7 (08:39):
I mean, there's so many other skills that are associated
with it, and yet they get off overlooked, and especially
when you know how rare it is for a rookie
to start and to be great. I think about that
fifth best percentage grade in all of football. Of all
this to assume there's at least forty to fifty centers
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that played this year, right, and he's the fifth best
as a rookie, and he's only four veteran guys that
were in this league before him, year years before him.
He's the fifth best, and he can't get a nod
for Rookie of the Year finalist Offensive Rookie of the
Year finalists, and he's on the All Rookie team as well.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
Come on, man, come on, yeah, make it makes sense.
Speaker 5 (09:25):
Wolf.
Speaker 6 (09:26):
I know it doesn't make sense. You know it's hurtful
because you got to stand up for the fat guys.
You know, I mean, you gotta have a little appreciation,
a little love for the hogs down there doing the
daily work that it takes. You know, the dirt bag
work is is Arthur Smith would say.
Speaker 7 (09:42):
The calorie consumption that we must sacrifice to be big
enough to play this game.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
Come on, whoae is me to carry all that poundage?
Speaker 7 (09:51):
You know, I mean that body dysmorphia at its finest.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
Do you think I want to eat that extra cheeseburger. No,
you power through.
Speaker 7 (10:03):
I power through the cheeseburger and the fries that are
like poutine. If you know what that is, only fat
guys know what that is. It's gravy and cheese curds
on top of French fries. Do you know how hard
that is?
Speaker 9 (10:15):
Those Canadians, when you talk poutini.
Speaker 7 (10:19):
Once again, you call them freaks. Get out of this conversation.
Canada go drink some maple syrup. Anyways, do you how
hard it is to have to make a salad unhealthy
so you could get extra calories? You have the dedication.
Do you know the amount of cheese you have to
put on broccoli to make it fat.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
We are risking our lives to do this.
Speaker 7 (10:42):
Yes, our cholesterol and vainage is is mad at us,
but we do it because we want to be alignment.
We want to help the team out however we can. Yes,
we might be a little bit slower, and maybe our
hand eye isn't great to catch a ball for forty
yards down the field.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
And maybe we don't look so good.
Speaker 7 (11:01):
Maybe don't look good in spandex. But I mean why
they make spand once again conspiracy? You put us in
span dex out there, you're cutting off the natural foot.
My skin is dying, it's suffocating so that I can
look smelt by the way, also not a fat friendly word.
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To make sure that I am ready to do battle
with other behemoths on the other side. And I don't
get any stats for you know, the only stat I
get games played, game start, and penalties exactly. I don't
get any friendly whereas like hey, pancakes and knockdowns. It's
a very pejorative type of thing here. You know, it's subjective.
(11:45):
You know, did you knock them down? Did you not
knock them down? Well, we're not going to grde that
as a stat because we can't put that in fantasy football. Well,
you know what there is, No football is just a
fantasy without fat guys.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
I love it.
Speaker 6 (11:58):
That's as good a dissertation as I've ever heard, you know.
And the fact is and and buying large too. I
also want to take a moment of seriousness too to
congratulate his parents, because if you've ever had the opportunity
to meet Zach and be around him and see just
what a quality human being he is. And the fact
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that his mom and dad delivered up not just a
great player, but a quality human being, a quality young man,
I think, to me, that's that's everything, you know, because
that's the first success. You know, it was bringing into
the world somebody who's going to make things better for
other people around him. And certainly, you know, going into football,
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this kid has just got he's got an edge that
I just love.
Speaker 7 (12:44):
You know.
Speaker 6 (12:45):
It's it's not one of those things that's he's very
comfortable in his own skin, is you know, and he's
not at all intimidated by anything that he's faced. And
I guess if you've wrestled guys and you know, slam
guys all over the place, you're not going to be
too intimidated by anybody at least who has two feet.
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But you know, I salute the parents though, because I
just think that's really a great accomplishment.
Speaker 7 (13:12):
Well it's not only saluting the parents, right, it's it's
understanding you know, the human on top of that. And
like you said, you're trying to raise a quality citizen
for the world, right, I mean that's the job of parenting, right,
And they just so happened to be athletic enough to
play a sport on top of that. So like you said,
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I mean, it's it's a tremendous honor, you know, to
know that his parents, you know, took the time and
raised a good man and he just happened to find
his path in the football. That's what we have to remember, right.
Football players aren't born, they're created, right, and they're fostered
through love, through intention, and through a passion you know,
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to be competitive. And also it's the ultimate team work.
You know, you think about this. A lot of Fortune
five hundred companies want people who play in team sports,
right because when you work within a company, it's a
team and a lot of those foundational principles of working together,
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delegation of responsibility, task management, time, time management, while also
achieving a specific goal, all those things are achieved through
team sports as well. And so for them to allow
him to flourish and to participate because I know a
lot of parents. I mean, heck, I was just talking
to a parent last weekend at my daughter's volleyball tournament.
The reason why this one girl had to play on
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her club team was because her parents said, this is
as close as we want, even though she's good enough
to play on a better team, you know, and possibly
get to an elite level competition. They were like, Bill
has to fit our schedule, right, you know, and just
think about that. I mean what I couldn't imagine saying
that to my kid, or having my mom or my
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dad say that to me, Hey, you can't play the
sport because you know it didn't fit into our schedule.
What it's like, But I but I like this.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
I love No.
Speaker 7 (15:09):
No, No, It's either this or nothing at all, right, And
so I think being able to be open and be
you know, be willing, you know, to see something and
your kids allow them to pursue something tough, I think
is a tremendous thing. And you know, I have to say,
like I said, it's not that common that often because
like I said, I just heard a parent say it.
Speaker 6 (15:28):
Yeah, yeah, exactly. And so again a lot of congrats
and props to mom and dad, uh Frasier because they
they've done a great job of raising a fine young man.
And I think that's great. Now to wrap this up, though,
who do you think is going to be the offensive
rookie of the year?
Speaker 7 (15:44):
I mean, I today Daniels.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
Yeah, I don't think.
Speaker 7 (15:48):
But I.
Speaker 6 (15:49):
Can tell you this in my in my mind, I
if there's some way quantitatively to to equalize what Jayden
Daniels does, you know, from the behind center to what
Zach Fraser does in front of the quarterback. I think
they're on unequal terms. I mean a lot of people
say Poloni, Hey, I'll tell you I think that kid
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Zach Fraser is every bit as valuable for his team
as Jaden Daniels is for his I can understand what
you say, well, the producers. Okay, I give you some
of the extra points stuff, but I'm telling you that
play in, play out, snap in, snap out, guy like Zach,
what a job he's done.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
Congratulations Zach.
Speaker 7 (16:31):
Yeah, no, congratulations to him. And I know, you know
it might have sounded a little joking and my rant,
but I do I do believe that, you know, you
should consider those type of things. Oh yeah, because you know,
like you said, you don't have football, if you don't
have your offensive line, then it becomes seven on seven Pascal,
And who wants to watch that? Oh?
Speaker 3 (16:52):
I know, I know, right yep, Essentially that's what it is.
Speaker 7 (16:55):
You might as well just go out and put some
underwear on and throw some flags on.
Speaker 3 (16:59):
Right, that's a that's a bad visual.
Speaker 7 (17:03):
Okay, once again, it's spandex again. Okay, kids like have
you ever watched those seven on seven? Kids are wearing
like tights and dry fits and cleats and then flags.
They don't want any wind resistance, you know what I'm saying.
So I mean, you might as well do that. If
you're not gonna have an all that's what that's the
purpose of an offensive line, right, and then that's that's
what gives the defensive line purpose. Okay, so so yeah,
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that's what makes football great. It has to be eleven
guys on the field at one time, on each side
of the ball. And what's the biggest what's the biggest
concentration of any team in what position grew?
Speaker 3 (17:42):
What's that offensive line?
Speaker 7 (17:44):
Ye, the largest concentration on the team.
Speaker 6 (17:47):
Now, I will tell you right, So you got me
bugged about the SPANX because you know, the first time
I ever saw any player wearing was Mike Webster wore
them once in a game when it was so cold
out and Tounch and I were killing them after and
we said, I didn't know John Wayne wore a skirt.
Speaker 7 (18:04):
Oh geez, Yeah, y'all yell at about that. I feel like,
y'all just want to piss Mike off. I feel like
that's that's what it is.
Speaker 3 (18:12):
You You.
Speaker 7 (18:13):
You and were like two little brothers messing with the
big brother and all that tis with Mike.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
Yeah, and he didn't slap us down, you know.
Speaker 7 (18:21):
No, he did. He did. He didn't put he didn't
put you in like the cross faced chicken wing either.
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 6 (18:27):
Yeah, I got you, well, I got you perfect Suplex.
Really Okay, that's a wrap on the opening salvo. Here
in the locker Room, Oh we got plenty segment. You
guys have ever done? By the way, all.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
Right, I wonder why wonder from our man w v U. Euler?
All right, what do you say about your man, Zach Fraser?
Speaker 9 (18:49):
I hate to say I told you so, but I
told you so.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
There you go.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
This is in the Locker Room, presented by Ford and
brought to you by acro Sure, the official insurance and
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and by FedEx. Where now meets next? Now here's Craig
Wolfley and Max Starks.
Speaker 7 (19:41):
All right, Well, before we get started into this next segment,
I just realize I have to throw a shout out
to my uncle Keith.
Speaker 6 (19:49):
My uncle Keith Browner. Oh yeah, former teammate of mine.
Speaker 7 (19:53):
Yep, no, no, no, no, no, no, my uncle Keith.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
That Joey not Joey. Yes, I know, I know.
Speaker 7 (19:58):
I have a lot of family members who played in
the NFL. Confusing my uncle Keith Today's birthday sixty three. Right,
he's the he's the baby brother. Uh you know of
the Browners. Now was my uncle Gerald was the youngest.
He passed away, Uh probably early two thousand, two thousand
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and five ish. But so uncle Keith is the youngest.
Uh played for the Bucks, the Raiders, and the Chargers.
And today's sixty third birthday. So I have to give
a special birthday shout out to my uncle Keith.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
Happy birthday.
Speaker 7 (20:36):
Okay, cut it, cut it, cut it.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
There we go.
Speaker 7 (20:39):
I love you, Uncle Keith, but I don't love FCC fines.
We don't know exactly. We want the artist coming after
us for that one time. Yeah, but uh yeah, so
all right, got the pleasantries out the way, and anybody
else born on January twenty fourth, happy birthday as well.
Speaker 9 (20:56):
It's my dad six. It's my dad's sixtieth birthday today,
Fellows six. Oh look at that six zero for the
big Man.
Speaker 7 (21:04):
Fire up, Fire up, two point three seconds of the song.
Speaker 9 (21:06):
You know what, You're right.
Speaker 7 (21:11):
We love we love him, but we don't love him
that much. Okay, we need.
Speaker 9 (21:14):
To get him in here on the violin and he
could play it.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
For there you go exactly.
Speaker 7 (21:17):
That's what we should do, because if he does a
violin recording we can play in his entire.
Speaker 8 (21:22):
We can play whenever we want, as long as we
want exactly all right, we might have to get on
that off season product, off season project for me.
Speaker 3 (21:29):
He could do all the music for all the beds
for us and everything else. You know that. Imagine on violin.
That's it. Man.
Speaker 8 (21:39):
Have to take him in my little basement studio this
summer and lay down some tracks.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
Come on, Pops, we need you, we need something.
Speaker 7 (21:45):
We need you working for the weekend by lover boy
to get that one, that.
Speaker 8 (21:51):
One different like the Fox and the CBS soundbads.
Speaker 6 (21:57):
Yeah, it's the original music, and we would hold it.
Speaker 7 (22:02):
That's it, that's right, exactly exactly, and of course any
proceeds from that, we'd of course give you a chunk
of that after our food budget. It's great, yes, because
we're still dedicated of ex offensive lineman here exactly Listen,
We've sacrificed, and so now this is like, this is
like the payoff of our sacrifice.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
Like that's true.
Speaker 7 (22:24):
If I'm get in trouble, I might as well get
in trouble, you know, for for at least something I enjoy.
You know what I'm saying. I know what you're saying, yeah,
but we are. We are hilarious. No, So the original
thing I want to talk about in the segment is
the NFL. You know, obviously segment. Did you hear about
Joe Mixon getting fined twenty five K by the NFL
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for a tweet?
Speaker 6 (22:46):
You know, I actually did, but it seems to be
surrounded by controversy.
Speaker 7 (22:51):
Yes, yes, So for those that don't know, there was
a tweet that was released that simply said, you know,
if you get up to a fifty to fifty call
with the refs, they're gonna swing in the Chiefs game,
you know, in the Chiefs, favor the Chiefs. You know,
the guests that the refs in the Chiefs game were
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triple trash baskets, which means they were trash, triple trash actually,
And so that was on Joe Mix's page. The only
problem with that is Joe Mixon did not write the tweet.
He's simply reposted a tweet on social media.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
Is that like retweeting something?
Speaker 7 (23:33):
Oh yeah, so he retweeted somebody else and the tweet
came from TJ.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
Houshman Zada.
Speaker 7 (23:40):
With those that don't remember that, that is the guy
with a very long ponytail braided hair that played for
the Bengals that could never seem to have a really
good game against us. He could have a good game
against everybody else except for the Steelers. He's the one
that used the terrible towel. He stepped on it. He
used it to shine his shoes with shoes once, like
like with Chad o Cho Senko. And they were never
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after that, by the way, they were not.
Speaker 3 (24:04):
They were not.
Speaker 7 (24:05):
And Joe Mixon used to be a Bengal, but now
he's a Houston Texan. So he retweeted a tweet from TJ.
And he got fined for it for conduct detrimental. So
that was the thing. And then when he went and
spoke out about getting fined for something that he did
not say and that he only reposted, he didn't got
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fined again.
Speaker 6 (24:29):
Wait a minute, he gets he gets fined for not
saying it, for not saying it, Okay, but he reposted
it or retweeted or whatever you call the thing.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
So TJ. Hushman Zada said, Okay, I see the quotes.
Speaker 6 (24:43):
Is why play the game if every fifty to fifty
call goes with chiefs. These officials are although it says
quadruple baskets here they got oh, sorry, sorry for the
sake of yeah journalistic, yes, yes, for four baskets and bias.
Speaker 3 (24:58):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (24:59):
So he he posts that, So the NFL finds him
for that, but he didn't say that, but because it's
on his website, they're gonna find him. What happened after that?
Speaker 7 (25:09):
And then he went and spoke out about getting fined
for something that he did not say directly, and how
he said the NFL is wrong for doing this.
Speaker 3 (25:20):
He then got fined again.
Speaker 7 (25:25):
Okay, so he got he got double fined for referees
being quadruple trash and he didn't even say it. That's
that's just amazing. I mean, come on, what's going on?
How wild is that? Talk about no fund league? You
know what I'm saying, like, where's the where's the First
Amendment rights of freedom of expression? I mean, we all
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know it and we're all thinking it. But at the
same time, he didn't say it.
Speaker 3 (25:51):
Somebody else said that's just crazy. Yeah, it's wild.
Speaker 7 (25:56):
It's a weird situation there. I mean, listen, you know,
at the end of the day, I'm for all players, right,
I mean, being a former player, I'm always gonna side
player first, and most of these things that have a
fifty to fifty call on it, so you could call
me a bias one kind of like the rest for
the Chiefs. But but yeah, this is one of those things.
(26:19):
It's just wrong. Like like, first of all, who who
in the NFL is scouring all of these tweets to
find that one? Because nobody was added in that tweet.
It was just a freedom of expression. And then clicked.
He clicked a little uh what what's the what's the retweet?
Speaker 3 (26:37):
Is it?
Speaker 7 (26:37):
This is it? It's like the little square with the arrow.
Is the is like the rectangle or oval? However it
looks the retet. He just clicked the retweet. You know
he didn't he didn't quote tweet it.
Speaker 8 (26:50):
You know, forgot to tell you guys, I picked up
a side job with a quality control in the NFL.
It my first duty is to scroll every player's two
winter page after games and make sure they're not saying
anything disparaging.
Speaker 7 (27:04):
Yeah, exact, because God forbid that we would have some
disparaging happening.
Speaker 8 (27:07):
And they promised me a free Pizza Hut personalized pan
pizza every week if I do it.
Speaker 7 (27:12):
Wow. So pretty much like the an Advanced booket program,
is what you're telling me.
Speaker 9 (27:18):
Dang it sounded familiar.
Speaker 7 (27:20):
Yeah, listen, my summers were full of pizza. Hut pizza.
I get to listen. I could I could have gotten
a job as a librarian the amount of books that
I read in the summer.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
Just get free pizza. Oh my, hey, yeah, you know
think about this.
Speaker 6 (27:35):
So all right back around your time, Max, I think
it was I started to notice players doing their website thing,
you know what I mean, Like instead of doing postgame
commentary or anything with somebody'd say, I'll post my thoughts
on my website, check my website. And I thought, okay,
that's a little bit crazy, you know what I mean.
(27:55):
You still got to interact with the press.
Speaker 7 (27:57):
I mean, you know exactly, but unless you're Michah Parsons, Yeah, true, yeah,
because he's like, I'm going to get every dime I
can get from my thoughts even when I'm not playing.
Speaker 3 (28:11):
Well, all right, I cut it off right there.
Speaker 6 (28:13):
Wesley was giving me hand signs here, and even at
this stage of the game, Hi karate, karate, slow to react. Yeah,
we need to break because we got the great Missy
Matthews coming up.
Speaker 7 (28:24):
Oh sideline extraordinary, Missy, there you go. All right, We'll
be back with more here inside the Locker Room on
the Steel's Audio network.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
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Wilfley and Max Starks.
Speaker 6 (29:21):
And it's time to rejoin with the Queen of the sidelines,
Missy Matthews. Join us here in the locker room, And Missy,
I got asked you, how has the Matthew's household settled
down now? With Mom not running here, there and everywhere
all season long? Are things calming down a little?
Speaker 5 (29:39):
I mean we're never calm, you know, We're the people.
We're always on the go. It's just I like, am
the head of laundry instead of like what do you
absolutely need where to basketball or hockey or whatever today
just to get by? So I'm a little I'm a
little head of schedule for one.
Speaker 6 (29:59):
Wow, I don't know, Max, are you the one thing
I got to ask, Missy, is this do you're do
you have one son playing hockey?
Speaker 3 (30:06):
Is that it.
Speaker 5 (30:08):
Both? Oh?
Speaker 7 (30:09):
Both?
Speaker 3 (30:09):
Okay?
Speaker 6 (30:10):
So what are their their their travel bags? Like you know,
I mean, if there's anything that's stunk more than my
son Kyle's hockey bag, I don't know.
Speaker 5 (30:19):
You know, I will say, I'll give my husband credit. Uh.
He created a little like hanging system with hooks in
our garage, so after practice or after a game, everything
gets hung up to dry and I afterwards, I don't
(30:40):
even know, Max. I don't touch hockey stuff. It's like
is the bag packed? Is it in my car? Then
I can make it happen. But having to remember I mean,
like I know how to get them thrust, but they're
pretty self sufficient. Tying skates. They always tell me I
don't tie them tight enough, so I'm like, well, go
find another dad then uh, you know, not my problem.
Speaker 3 (30:59):
But I actually what you need to.
Speaker 5 (31:01):
Wear right right right? We use the I got it
at all. The I was so excited. It's it's almost
like a heater slash dryer that you can put gloods
and skates on. So that's like my new thing is
to try to like take away from the sweat and
the nastiness.
Speaker 3 (31:21):
Got it, got it?
Speaker 7 (31:22):
I love that, love that. No, it's it's one of
those things like you know, because I know, like you know,
football locker room, they have those little shoe dryers that
you stick upside down and everything.
Speaker 5 (31:33):
Yeah yeah, yeah.
Speaker 7 (31:34):
So yeah, you gotta love those. Gotta love those absolutely.
Speaker 5 (31:39):
So.
Speaker 7 (31:40):
But but Missy, you know, kind of as you know,
as we look at this, you know, and Wolf and
I were kind of talking about a couple of things,
obviously postseason accolades. Uh, We're talking about Zach Frasier and
just how cool you know it was for him to
get honored as not only you know, all Rookie team,
you know, by the Pro Football Writers of America. But
(32:03):
you know, we also were wondering, you know, and we
wanted to get your take on this because this is
how we felt why Zack Frasier is not a finalist
for Offensive Rookie of the Year. I mean, what do
you think that is? There is there a bias there?
Do they have it out for guys that are above
two hundred and seventy five pounds?
Speaker 5 (32:22):
You know, it could be that. I do always feel
like it is the quarterbacks, the wide receivers that do,
but it is crazy when you look at his numbers.
And I was going to tell you, guys, I had
a chance to sit down with him last week, oh,
for an interview that I think they're going to use
on Steelers dot Com at some point. And as soon
(32:43):
as we were done with it, I was like, you
said more words today than you probably did the first
time we interviewed him, when he drove up from West
Virginia after getting drafted. It was like pulling teeth. It
was like David Castro and I go him that. I said,
you gave me the Dave de Castro treat that And
it didn't matter how I asked you a question, how
many times I asked you a question? It was it
(33:04):
was very uh, one word answers. But he was expansive,
just talked a lot about you know, the young guys
growing together, you know, getting a chance to start due
to an injury, but I think we all knew at
some point it was probably gonna happen anyways. But just
really impressed with how he has carried himself throughout this
(33:25):
rookie season. You guys know, he's as down to earth
as humanly possible. He told me he was too busy
focusing on the playbook and the upcoming opponents, did no
woodworking during the season, which I was kind of shocked.
I thought that might be, like, you know, the thing
to do to get away from football, but he said, nope,
saving that for the off season. So yeah, I guess
(33:46):
that is as you said, Max, there is a bias.
Speaker 3 (33:49):
I believe.
Speaker 6 (33:50):
So, I mean, let's take a look at the offensive
Rookie of the Year finalists. Are you got Jade and Daniels,
Malik Neighbors well, Jayden Daniels quarterback, Malik Neighbors wide receiver,
Bo Nicks quarterback, Brian Thomas wild wide receiver, and then
you got Rock Bauers, who's a tight end, who's the
closest to being a fat guy. I mean, no, he's
not fat guys, right, but that he's the closest to
(34:12):
being as compared to the others. And I just find
it impossible. I find it ridiculous that when people tell
me skill position, I tell him that's a term coined
by general managers when contract negotiations come up, because if
anybody knows how to navigate a three hundred and fifty
pound cheese whopper while you snap the ball back six
(34:33):
seven yards, you know, under control, directing it right to
the quarterback and then have to come off and face that.
Speaker 3 (34:41):
To me, that's a skill, let me tell you, hey.
Speaker 5 (34:45):
And not to mention, Zach did it with two different quarterbacks.
I mean, Kyle Allen got in there very briefly in
that Dallas game. But still, I mean, to be a rookie,
to become a starter, and to do it with two
different quarterbacks is not an easy feet And he played
it off like you know, it didn't matter. But I'm
sure you guys know that that is. There's a difference
(35:08):
with how quarterbacks do things. Their voice, their count, their
just everything. And he did it pretty flawlessly. And he
dealt with that ankle injury that forced him to miss
two games. And you know, I was laughing when I
was reading back through some of my game notes when
I was searching for Zach Frazier things, and the one
was how he was having guys bull rush him before
(35:30):
he came back to make sure that he was ready
to go when he returned after that ankle injury. That
he was just asking people in the facility and out
on the practice field to bull rush him.
Speaker 6 (35:41):
Nothing like sitting on squatting on a bull rush to
you know, functionally test your ankle that you destroyed just
two weeks earlier.
Speaker 5 (35:49):
There, right, Yeah, no problem done.
Speaker 6 (35:52):
But like a true offensive lineman, yeah, exactly like nothing
to see here, guys, everything's good. Five. Oh my gosh,
let me ask you, Missy. I just found out TJ.
Speaker 3 (36:07):
Watt.
Speaker 6 (36:08):
Do I understand he's pulled out of the Pro Bowl?
That is that a because of the hand and ankle
injuries that he I think he suffered.
Speaker 5 (36:18):
I don't think there was a reason given. I know
Calvanoy is replacing him, but I also think you know,
they especially very vocal about how he was not happy
how this season ended and how things went. I mean,
do you really yes, do you want to go somewhere warm, Absolutely,
But you go to the Pro Bowl and there's cameras
(36:39):
in your face, there's questions asked. Who knows, you know,
if it was injury related, not wanting to deal with
that related, or a little bit of both. Oh and
by the way, this is actually probably the real reason
his wife is expecting a baby. So oh yeah, now
that I'm now that we're talking this out, I bet
you he's been a good husband, and he's making sure
(36:59):
that any is good to go and has everything that
she needs and he is as close as humanly possible.
Speaker 7 (37:06):
Excellent, Now, Bravo, way to be a dad first. You know,
I think that, Yeah, that's that's pretty awesome. That's pretty
awesome for him, you know. Miss the another thing that
I think, you know, I want to also kind of
ask us as you look at kind of some of
(37:28):
the other guys and their off season plans this year,
you know, what what are you seeing is kind of
some of the things that guys are doing. I mean,
because obviously we have you know, a lot of different
guys who are who are trying to who are trying
to figure out what what what the next steps are.
We have a lot of free agents, a lot of
(37:48):
guys who are going to be uh, you know, possibly
looking for other teams, and of course there's contract talks
started with Russell Wilson. Just kind of any updates on
any of the other guys.
Speaker 5 (38:03):
Nothing official. I mean, I think, you know, there's some
guys that are doing the like get away with the
family type thing, just taking that time to let your
body like recharge, regroup, heal, whatever, you were dealing with
during the season. It's such a grind. You go back
to Latrobe, but you just think that like that's the
(38:23):
starting point and you get so far away from you know, July,
and of course you want to be playing in January
and February and still be alive this weekend. But it
does take a toll on bodies, and I think to
even Beanie Bishop was another rookie that I had a
chance to talk to, and he was just saying, like
at some point, like some of the DB's just getting
(38:45):
together and going somewhere, you know, little things like that.
But there, as we said even last week, like there's
going to be change, especially the locker room will never
look the same year to year. It's not humanly possible.
So I'm sure, you know, for some guys it might
be waiting to see what happens with free agency, and
(39:06):
other guys, you know, I'm not so sure.
Speaker 6 (39:10):
You know that it's interesting because you know, Russ said
that they've started contract talks, and I just wonder how
they're progressing. If they're progressing, you know, this is the
quarterback decision is going to be one of the biggest
decisions in the last decade really coming up, take deciding
what they're going to do to you know, get a
(39:32):
quarterback settlement, you know what, somebody young or somebody somebody.
Speaker 3 (39:36):
That's more mobile or what. You know.
Speaker 6 (39:37):
I don't know, there's just so many questions to be
answered at that quarterback position.
Speaker 5 (39:43):
Yeah, no, I totally agree. And I don't know either way,
yes or no, if those contract talks have happened or
are happening. But I did go back to watch like
a majority of Russ's interview on the Pat mcafe show,
and I felt like when he was talking, he was
saying like, yeah, I've had like my exit meetings, which
(40:06):
are not the same like your exit meeting with coach
Tumlin is not necessarily it's not the contract talk, if
that makes sense. That's more like feedback, criticism, whatever needs
to happen in there. It's different for every player, you know.
I've seen players who have been in his office for
thirty minutes. I've seen players who have gone in for
(40:26):
like ten I think it just depends on the guy
and whatnot. So again, I don't know for sure either
way if that is true. But I kind of took
his answer more as like, you know, we've been having
our exit meeting type of things, so I feel like,
you know, contract talks is more agents and omar at
least that's what I assume that would mean.
Speaker 3 (40:47):
Okay, Well, thank you so much, Missy.
Speaker 6 (40:50):
We greatly appreciate all you've done all season long.
Speaker 3 (40:53):
You are the queen of the sidelines. You do a
great job.
Speaker 6 (40:56):
Appreciate you checking in every Friday here in the locker room.
And I want to thank you personally as I'm sure
Max will, because we really appreciate you.
Speaker 7 (41:04):
Absolutely, we do it. We do appreciate you a lot, Missy.
As always my partner and sideline crime, so I do
appreciate you as always Missy.
Speaker 5 (41:15):
Not a lot of crime, but like some stuff you
know nothing.
Speaker 7 (41:18):
I mean, I mean, you know, it could be misconstrued
it it's it's open for interpretation.
Speaker 6 (41:22):
It could be partner in crime. It could be partner
in crime or partner in crumbs. You know, you don't know.
Speaker 7 (41:28):
Yes, definitely, a lot of a lot uncrustables, a lot
of uncrystable. Yep.
Speaker 5 (41:33):
Absolutely, I appreciate you guys and wes to thanks for
having me.
Speaker 3 (41:37):
Thank you so much, Missy.
Speaker 9 (41:39):
We still have two more weeks of shows. So we
can we go ahead.
Speaker 8 (41:44):
As much as Max and Wolf for trying to say
their tearful goodbyes.
Speaker 9 (41:47):
Can we still have you?
Speaker 3 (41:50):
Okay? I forget where we need you.
Speaker 6 (41:52):
We need you, okay, so forget all the tearful but goodbyes.
You know we'll do it, okay, exactly. We'll see you
next week, mister, No, no, yeah, next week. All right,
thank you so much. All right, and that's a great Missy.
Matthews Queenland Sidelines checking in, doing a great job as always.
Speaker 8 (42:14):
Last seler at the Steelers Audio Network Breaking news desk,
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Speaker 9 (42:28):
Pete Carroll on a three year deal.
Speaker 8 (42:31):
According to Adam Schefter, another legendary veteran coach is back
in the business. Pete Carroll to the Las Vegas Raiders
on a three year contract as head coach.
Speaker 6 (42:44):
Wow, back to you, Okay, it's time for the Power
Hour coming up. Possession Arrow goes to Max Back. Got
a feeling we might discuss that. All this and more
coming up on the Steelers Audio Network
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Speaker 2 (00:28):
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Speaker 3 (00:50):
Knowing really well, I was right in our backyard.
Speaker 4 (00:52):
We had a comfort level some player two years ago
against pitt And I remember at halftime Dank Kulver come
up to me and he's like, you see a center
from Virginia dumping guys you know, on the ground. So yeah,
we both saw it and he was on our radar then.
And I think it just says you got to know him.
I went, I went down last year and saw him
play with Mike Butler. We saw play against BYU and
(01:12):
they had two hundred yards rushing in the first half,
and I mean he was just mowing guys down, you know.
And then just getting to know the kid through the school, visit,
the makeup. You know, he's got a special football character
to him.
Speaker 5 (01:24):
Oh.
Speaker 6 (01:24):
I mean to tell you all want to start off
with an official protest here with you, Max and I
know you're you and I were both in line where.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
I need to ride my pickets sign, I need to
ride in my pickets. That's right, all right.
Speaker 6 (01:35):
So the NFL came out with their offensive Rookie of
the Year finalists. Okay, you've got Rock Bauers tight end,
all right, the fattest of the fat guy the Morgan
guys an end exactly. Then you got Jaydon Daniels quarterback, all.
Speaker 7 (01:49):
Right, definitely not fat.
Speaker 6 (01:51):
Okay, yes, meliek Neighbors wide receiver giants, definitely not fat either. Okay,
Bo Knicks quarterback Broncos or young, so you want.
Speaker 7 (02:00):
To call him, yeah, old, but not that.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
Okay. Then we got Brian Thomas Thomas or what is Brian.
Speaker 7 (02:08):
Brian Thomas Jr.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Thomas.
Speaker 7 (02:09):
Yeah, by the way, that's three l s U guys
all teammates. Really no kick because Jaydon Davis was the
quarterback for both the lak Neighbors and Brian Thomas Junior.
Speaker 8 (02:20):
Seems like somebody should have won more games down there.
Speaker 7 (02:26):
That can't spell defense down there, that's the problem.
Speaker 9 (02:31):
But Brian Kelly can spell family.
Speaker 6 (02:35):
Okay, what's the joke on that? Because I missed that
Kelly the Yeah, go ahead next year.
Speaker 9 (02:39):
You know you got there. You're the SEC guy.
Speaker 7 (02:41):
Go for it.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
Yeah, I have the SEC guy.
Speaker 7 (02:44):
So Brian Kelly when he left Notre Dame and went
to UH sign with l s U, he was they
They had him come out to the l s U
women's basketball game like the night after he got signed,
and he tried talking in the most southern thick fake
accent Foghorn Leghorn esque to trying to pease the crowd,
(03:07):
and they joked him so bad about it. So that's
why I was like them, ol a, you know, because
he tried to like draw out his his twang and
everything that was non existent.
Speaker 9 (03:15):
I got the audio for you actually ready, Yeah, okay, perfect, It's.
Speaker 10 (03:21):
A great guy to be a Tiger. I'm here with
my family from the North. Where you're going with that one?
Speaker 3 (03:44):
Oh yeah, let's get back to Brian. Let's get back
from Boston.
Speaker 8 (03:49):
He's from Massachusetts and my family.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
Okay.
Speaker 6 (03:57):
So so tell me we've got these and the and
they are worthy all right, offensive rookies, Okay, they are finalists,
they are okay, but the Morgantown Maler should be in there.
There's no question about it. I mean fifteen starts. Yes,
grated out the fifth best center among all centers, not
just amongst rookie centers, nine hundred and seventy five snaps,
(04:19):
only one sack. And I tell you this, don't give
me that skill position crap. That's the term GMS came
up with in contract negotiations because hey, Max, tell me,
do you let the people go? Do you know how
how much skill it takes to ground and pound and
wrestle with Jurassic Park sized defensive linemen.
Speaker 7 (04:38):
I mean, come on, yeah you have you Have you
heard about a guy by the name of Cam Hayward. Yes, right,
that's the guy that's on his team he has to
wrestle with. Have you heard of a guy named Dexter Lawrence? No, yeah, yep, right,
let's see. I mean Nom de Madabik since his name
is no longer just a Mati bleak. Yeah, that's Nom Dak.
(05:03):
Travis Jones, Oh that was a big guy, right, uh?
Bj Hill? Uh? What what's that? What? What was?
Speaker 3 (05:12):
What was?
Speaker 7 (05:13):
What was Humungo? Stop sign? Shelby Harris? Oh yeah, yep,
Like I mean, these are all some of the guys
that he went against this season and put them in
the dirt in the dirt, yes, not just the phrases, yes, yeah, right.
Speaker 6 (05:33):
I mean I'm talking the truth here when you see
I go back to the beginning of the season, in
in preseason game, when I saw him take I forgot
who it was. It was a three hundred and thirty
forty pound nose tackle, right, he took him eleven yards
off the ball. I watched that over and over all
by his loansome. I'm sitting there going cut it out.
(05:54):
I mean, these are Jurassic Park sized dinosaurs that you're
wrestling here, and this dude just came out and just
mauled people.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
Threw him on the ground.
Speaker 6 (06:03):
I had the greatest appreciation for this young man's skill.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
What say you, Max, Oh no, I do as well.
Speaker 7 (06:11):
And I think I think that was a Houston Texas
preseason game.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
I think that's what it would be. I can't remember remember,
because I remember, I remember.
Speaker 7 (06:17):
We were talking about it the next day, because you know,
I watched the film back in my dorm room.
Speaker 6 (06:24):
Oh yes, by myself, as you were enjoying your dorm
room up at Saint Vincent's.
Speaker 7 (06:29):
Yeah, yeah, exactly. Me and a couple other people were
only on campuses like me and Aiden and some of
the camp get uh they were playing FIFA. I was
watching game film anyways, but I mean.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
He had to stay up there too.
Speaker 7 (06:47):
Oh my goodness. Yeah, Aiden is a g for that
who we're talking about, Aiden Hennessy. He's uh, he handles
all of the player logistics and everything. He's a excellent
at what he does a human being. But no, I mean,
I think it is one of those things, like a
lot of these postseason awards, like there's such a bias
(07:12):
towards guys with skills. I'm air quoting. I'm air quoting
it that, you know. That's why I kind of drew
it out, because because obviously it's radio and you can't
see me doing air quotes as I talk, even though
I'm starting to now get way too used to us
like I'm doing Bunny years anyways. But you know, it's
(07:36):
such a shit because I would.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
I would.
Speaker 7 (07:40):
That's why you make the finger motions as close as
I get. But you know how linemen don't get considered
for this award for Offensive Rookie of the Year when
we're gonna play probably as much snaps, if not more
than the quarterbacks. Right on a play by play basis.
We have contact every single play, yes, you know, whereas
(08:02):
skill positions quote unquote don't have that content and they
don't play every single step. They don't have to be
ready every single play. Right, and then for a center position,
you got you set the entire year offense. For the
defensive front, you make the initial middle of the defense call,
(08:23):
which is called the mic call, and then you have
to move an unnatural way latterly or in reverse, you know,
just go forward and make it, make a cute little cut,
a little stutter and go and then catch a football
or get a football in your stomach.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
Right.
Speaker 7 (08:39):
I mean, there's so many other skills that are associated
with it, and yet they get off overlooked, and especially
when you know how rare it is for a rookie
to start and to be great. I think about that
fifth best percentage grade in all of football. Of all
this to assume there's at least forty to fifty centers
(09:02):
that played this year, right, and he's the fifth best
as a rookie, and he's only four veteran guys that
were in this league before him, year years before him.
He's the fifth best, and he can't get a nod
for Rookie of the Year finalist Offensive Rookie of the
Year finalists, and he's on the All Rookie team as well.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
Come on, man, come on, yeah, make it makes sense.
Speaker 5 (09:25):
Wolf.
Speaker 6 (09:26):
I know it doesn't make sense. You know it's hurtful
because you got to stand up for the fat guys.
You know, I mean, you gotta have a little appreciation,
a little love for the hogs down there doing the
daily work that it takes. You know, the dirt bag
work is is Arthur Smith would say.
Speaker 7 (09:42):
The calorie consumption that we must sacrifice to be big
enough to play this game.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
Come on, whoae is me to carry all that poundage?
Speaker 7 (09:51):
You know, I mean that body dysmorphia at its finest.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
Do you think I want to eat that extra cheeseburger. No,
you power through.
Speaker 7 (10:03):
I power through the cheeseburger and the fries that are
like poutine. If you know what that is, only fat
guys know what that is. It's gravy and cheese curds
on top of French fries. Do you know how hard
that is?
Speaker 9 (10:15):
Those Canadians, when you talk poutini.
Speaker 7 (10:19):
Once again, you call them freaks. Get out of this conversation.
Canada go drink some maple syrup. Anyways, do you how
hard it is to have to make a salad unhealthy
so you could get extra calories? You have the dedication.
Do you know the amount of cheese you have to
put on broccoli to make it fat.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
We are risking our lives to do this.
Speaker 7 (10:42):
Yes, our cholesterol and vainage is is mad at us,
but we do it because we want to be alignment.
We want to help the team out however we can. Yes,
we might be a little bit slower, and maybe our
hand eye isn't great to catch a ball for forty
yards down the field.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
And maybe we don't look so good.
Speaker 7 (11:01):
Maybe don't look good in spandex. But I mean why
they make spand once again conspiracy? You put us in
span dex out there, you're cutting off the natural foot.
My skin is dying, it's suffocating so that I can
look smelt by the way, also not a fat friendly word.
(11:23):
To make sure that I am ready to do battle
with other behemoths on the other side. And I don't
get any stats for you know, the only stat I
get games played, game start, and penalties exactly. I don't
get any friendly whereas like hey, pancakes and knockdowns. It's
a very pejorative type of thing here. You know, it's subjective.
(11:45):
You know, did you knock them down? Did you not
knock them down? Well, we're not going to grde that
as a stat because we can't put that in fantasy football. Well,
you know what there is, No football is just a
fantasy without fat guys.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
I love it.
Speaker 6 (11:58):
That's as good a dissertation as I've ever heard, you know.
And the fact is and and buying large too. I
also want to take a moment of seriousness too to
congratulate his parents, because if you've ever had the opportunity
to meet Zach and be around him and see just
what a quality human being he is. And the fact
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that his mom and dad delivered up not just a
great player, but a quality human being, a quality young man,
I think, to me, that's that's everything, you know, because
that's the first success. You know, it was bringing into
the world somebody who's going to make things better for
other people around him. And certainly, you know, going into football,
(12:40):
this kid has just got he's got an edge that
I just love.
Speaker 7 (12:44):
You know.
Speaker 6 (12:45):
It's it's not one of those things that's he's very
comfortable in his own skin, is you know, and he's
not at all intimidated by anything that he's faced. And
I guess if you've wrestled guys and you know, slam
guys all over the place, you're not going to be
too intimidated by anybody at least who has two feet.
(13:05):
But you know, I salute the parents though, because I
just think that's really a great accomplishment.
Speaker 7 (13:12):
Well it's not only saluting the parents, right, it's it's
understanding you know, the human on top of that. And
like you said, you're trying to raise a quality citizen
for the world, right, I mean that's the job of parenting, right,
And they just so happened to be athletic enough to
play a sport on top of that. So like you said,
(13:33):
I mean, it's it's a tremendous honor, you know, to
know that his parents, you know, took the time and
raised a good man and he just happened to find
his path in the football. That's what we have to remember, right.
Football players aren't born, they're created, right, and they're fostered
through love, through intention, and through a passion you know,
(13:55):
to be competitive. And also it's the ultimate team work.
You know, you think about this. A lot of Fortune
five hundred companies want people who play in team sports,
right because when you work within a company, it's a
team and a lot of those foundational principles of working together,
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delegation of responsibility, task management, time, time management, while also
achieving a specific goal, all those things are achieved through
team sports as well. And so for them to allow
him to flourish and to participate because I know a
lot of parents. I mean, heck, I was just talking
to a parent last weekend at my daughter's volleyball tournament.
The reason why this one girl had to play on
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her club team was because her parents said, this is
as close as we want, even though she's good enough
to play on a better team, you know, and possibly
get to an elite level competition. They were like, Bill
has to fit our schedule, right, you know, and just
think about that. I mean what I couldn't imagine saying
that to my kid, or having my mom or my
(15:00):
dad say that to me, Hey, you can't play the
sport because you know it didn't fit into our schedule.
What it's like, But I but I like this.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
I love No.
Speaker 7 (15:09):
No, No, It's either this or nothing at all, right, And
so I think being able to be open and be
you know, be willing, you know, to see something and
your kids allow them to pursue something tough, I think
is a tremendous thing. And you know, I have to say,
like I said, it's not that common that often because
like I said, I just heard a parent say it.
Speaker 6 (15:28):
Yeah, yeah, exactly. And so again a lot of congrats
and props to mom and dad, uh Frasier because they
they've done a great job of raising a fine young man.
And I think that's great. Now to wrap this up, though,
who do you think is going to be the offensive
rookie of the year?
Speaker 7 (15:44):
I mean, I today Daniels.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
Yeah, I don't think.
Speaker 7 (15:48):
But I.
Speaker 6 (15:49):
Can tell you this in my in my mind, I
if there's some way quantitatively to to equalize what Jayden
Daniels does, you know, from the behind center to what
Zach Fraser does in front of the quarterback. I think
they're on unequal terms. I mean a lot of people
say Poloni, Hey, I'll tell you I think that kid
(16:11):
Zach Fraser is every bit as valuable for his team
as Jaden Daniels is for his I can understand what
you say, well, the producers. Okay, I give you some
of the extra points stuff, but I'm telling you that
play in, play out, snap in, snap out, guy like Zach,
what a job he's done.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
Congratulations Zach.
Speaker 7 (16:31):
Yeah, no, congratulations to him. And I know, you know
it might have sounded a little joking and my rant,
but I do I do believe that, you know, you
should consider those type of things. Oh yeah, because you know,
like you said, you don't have football, if you don't
have your offensive line, then it becomes seven on seven Pascal,
And who wants to watch that? Oh?
Speaker 3 (16:52):
I know, I know, right yep, Essentially that's what it is.
Speaker 7 (16:55):
You might as well just go out and put some
underwear on and throw some flags on.
Speaker 3 (16:59):
Right, that's a that's a bad visual.
Speaker 7 (17:03):
Okay, once again, it's spandex again. Okay, kids like have
you ever watched those seven on seven? Kids are wearing
like tights and dry fits and cleats and then flags.
They don't want any wind resistance, you know what I'm saying.
So I mean, you might as well do that. If
you're not gonna have an all that's what that's the
purpose of an offensive line, right, and then that's that's
what gives the defensive line purpose. Okay, so so yeah,
(17:28):
that's what makes football great. It has to be eleven
guys on the field at one time, on each side
of the ball. And what's the biggest what's the biggest
concentration of any team in what position grew?
Speaker 3 (17:42):
What's that offensive line?
Speaker 7 (17:44):
Ye, the largest concentration on the team.
Speaker 6 (17:47):
Now, I will tell you right, So you got me
bugged about the SPANX because you know, the first time
I ever saw any player wearing was Mike Webster wore
them once in a game when it was so cold
out and Tounch and I were killing them after and
we said, I didn't know John Wayne wore a skirt.
Speaker 7 (18:04):
Oh geez, Yeah, y'all yell at about that. I feel like,
y'all just want to piss Mike off. I feel like
that's that's what it is.
Speaker 3 (18:12):
You You.
Speaker 7 (18:13):
You and were like two little brothers messing with the
big brother and all that tis with Mike.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
Yeah, and he didn't slap us down, you know.
Speaker 7 (18:21):
No, he did. He did. He didn't put he didn't
put you in like the cross faced chicken wing either.
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 6 (18:27):
Yeah, I got you, well, I got you perfect Suplex.
Really Okay, that's a wrap on the opening salvo. Here
in the locker Room, Oh we got plenty segment. You
guys have ever done? By the way, all.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
Right, I wonder why wonder from our man w v U. Euler?
All right, what do you say about your man, Zach Fraser?
Speaker 9 (18:49):
I hate to say I told you so, but I
told you so.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
There you go.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
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Speaker 7 (19:41):
All right, Well, before we get started into this next segment,
I just realize I have to throw a shout out
to my uncle Keith.
Speaker 6 (19:49):
My uncle Keith Browner. Oh yeah, former teammate of mine.
Speaker 7 (19:53):
Yep, no, no, no, no, no, no, my uncle Keith.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
That Joey not Joey. Yes, I know, I know.
Speaker 7 (19:58):
I have a lot of family members who played in
the NFL. Confusing my uncle Keith Today's birthday sixty three. Right,
he's the he's the baby brother. Uh you know of
the Browners. Now was my uncle Gerald was the youngest.
He passed away, Uh probably early two thousand, two thousand
(20:20):
and five ish. But so uncle Keith is the youngest.
Uh played for the Bucks, the Raiders, and the Chargers.
And today's sixty third birthday. So I have to give
a special birthday shout out to my uncle Keith.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
Happy birthday.
Speaker 7 (20:36):
Okay, cut it, cut it, cut it.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
There we go.
Speaker 7 (20:39):
I love you, Uncle Keith, but I don't love FCC fines.
We don't know exactly. We want the artist coming after
us for that one time. Yeah, but uh yeah, so
all right, got the pleasantries out the way, and anybody
else born on January twenty fourth, happy birthday as well.
Speaker 9 (20:56):
It's my dad six. It's my dad's sixtieth birthday today,
Fellows six. Oh look at that six zero for the
big Man.
Speaker 7 (21:04):
Fire up, Fire up, two point three seconds of the song.
Speaker 9 (21:06):
You know what, You're right.
Speaker 7 (21:11):
We love we love him, but we don't love him
that much. Okay, we need.
Speaker 9 (21:14):
To get him in here on the violin and he
could play it.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
For there you go exactly.
Speaker 7 (21:17):
That's what we should do, because if he does a
violin recording we can play in his entire.
Speaker 8 (21:22):
We can play whenever we want, as long as we
want exactly all right, we might have to get on
that off season product, off season project for me.
Speaker 3 (21:29):
He could do all the music for all the beds
for us and everything else. You know that. Imagine on violin.
That's it. Man.
Speaker 8 (21:39):
Have to take him in my little basement studio this
summer and lay down some tracks.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
Come on, Pops, we need you, we need something.
Speaker 7 (21:45):
We need you working for the weekend by lover boy
to get that one, that.
Speaker 8 (21:51):
One different like the Fox and the CBS soundbads.
Speaker 6 (21:57):
Yeah, it's the original music, and we would hold it.
Speaker 7 (22:02):
That's it, that's right, exactly exactly, and of course any
proceeds from that, we'd of course give you a chunk
of that after our food budget. It's great, yes, because
we're still dedicated of ex offensive lineman here exactly Listen,
We've sacrificed, and so now this is like, this is
like the payoff of our sacrifice.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
Like that's true.
Speaker 7 (22:24):
If I'm get in trouble, I might as well get
in trouble, you know, for for at least something I enjoy.
You know what I'm saying. I know what you're saying, yeah,
but we are. We are hilarious. No, So the original
thing I want to talk about in the segment is
the NFL. You know, obviously segment. Did you hear about
Joe Mixon getting fined twenty five K by the NFL
(22:45):
for a tweet?
Speaker 6 (22:46):
You know, I actually did, but it seems to be
surrounded by controversy.
Speaker 7 (22:51):
Yes, yes, So for those that don't know, there was
a tweet that was released that simply said, you know,
if you get up to a fifty to fifty call
with the refs, they're gonna swing in the Chiefs game,
you know, in the Chiefs, favor the Chiefs. You know,
the guests that the refs in the Chiefs game were
(23:13):
triple trash baskets, which means they were trash, triple trash actually,
And so that was on Joe Mix's page. The only
problem with that is Joe Mixon did not write the tweet.
He's simply reposted a tweet on social media.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
Is that like retweeting something?
Speaker 7 (23:33):
Oh yeah, so he retweeted somebody else and the tweet
came from TJ.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
Houshman Zada.
Speaker 7 (23:40):
With those that don't remember that, that is the guy
with a very long ponytail braided hair that played for
the Bengals that could never seem to have a really
good game against us. He could have a good game
against everybody else except for the Steelers. He's the one
that used the terrible towel. He stepped on it. He
used it to shine his shoes with shoes once, like
like with Chad o Cho Senko. And they were never
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after that, by the way, they were not.
Speaker 3 (24:04):
They were not.
Speaker 7 (24:05):
And Joe Mixon used to be a Bengal, but now
he's a Houston Texan. So he retweeted a tweet from TJ.
And he got fined for it for conduct detrimental. So
that was the thing. And then when he went and
spoke out about getting fined for something that he did
not say and that he only reposted, he didn't got
(24:26):
fined again.
Speaker 6 (24:29):
Wait a minute, he gets he gets fined for not
saying it, for not saying it, Okay, but he reposted
it or retweeted or whatever you call the thing.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
So TJ. Hushman Zada said, Okay, I see the quotes.
Speaker 6 (24:43):
Is why play the game if every fifty to fifty
call goes with chiefs. These officials are although it says
quadruple baskets here they got oh, sorry, sorry for the
sake of yeah journalistic, yes, yes, for four baskets and bias.
Speaker 3 (24:58):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (24:59):
So he he posts that, So the NFL finds him
for that, but he didn't say that, but because it's
on his website, they're gonna find him. What happened after that?
Speaker 7 (25:09):
And then he went and spoke out about getting fined
for something that he did not say directly, and how
he said the NFL is wrong for doing this.
Speaker 3 (25:20):
He then got fined again.
Speaker 7 (25:25):
Okay, so he got he got double fined for referees
being quadruple trash and he didn't even say it. That's
that's just amazing. I mean, come on, what's going on?
How wild is that? Talk about no fund league? You
know what I'm saying, like, where's the where's the First
Amendment rights of freedom of expression? I mean, we all
(25:45):
know it and we're all thinking it. But at the
same time, he didn't say it.
Speaker 3 (25:51):
Somebody else said that's just crazy. Yeah, it's wild.
Speaker 7 (25:56):
It's a weird situation there. I mean, listen, you know,
at the end of the day, I'm for all players, right,
I mean, being a former player, I'm always gonna side
player first, and most of these things that have a
fifty to fifty call on it, so you could call
me a bias one kind of like the rest for
the Chiefs. But but yeah, this is one of those things.
(26:19):
It's just wrong. Like like, first of all, who who
in the NFL is scouring all of these tweets to
find that one? Because nobody was added in that tweet.
It was just a freedom of expression. And then clicked.
He clicked a little uh what what's the what's the retweet?
Speaker 3 (26:37):
Is it?
Speaker 7 (26:37):
This is it? It's like the little square with the arrow.
Is the is like the rectangle or oval? However it
looks the retet. He just clicked the retweet. You know
he didn't he didn't quote tweet it.
Speaker 8 (26:50):
You know, forgot to tell you guys, I picked up
a side job with a quality control in the NFL.
It my first duty is to scroll every player's two
winter page after games and make sure they're not saying
anything disparaging.
Speaker 7 (27:04):
Yeah, exact, because God forbid that we would have some
disparaging happening.
Speaker 8 (27:07):
And they promised me a free Pizza Hut personalized pan
pizza every week if I do it.
Speaker 7 (27:12):
Wow. So pretty much like the an Advanced booket program,
is what you're telling me.
Speaker 9 (27:18):
Dang it sounded familiar.
Speaker 7 (27:20):
Yeah, listen, my summers were full of pizza. Hut pizza.
I get to listen. I could I could have gotten
a job as a librarian the amount of books that
I read in the summer.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
Just get free pizza. Oh my, hey, yeah, you know
think about this.
Speaker 6 (27:35):
So all right back around your time, Max, I think
it was I started to notice players doing their website thing,
you know what I mean, Like instead of doing postgame
commentary or anything with somebody'd say, I'll post my thoughts
on my website, check my website. And I thought, okay,
that's a little bit crazy, you know what I mean.
(27:55):
You still got to interact with the press.
Speaker 7 (27:57):
I mean, you know exactly, but unless you're Michah Parsons, Yeah, true, yeah,
because he's like, I'm going to get every dime I
can get from my thoughts even when I'm not playing.
Speaker 3 (28:11):
Well, all right, I cut it off right there.
Speaker 6 (28:13):
Wesley was giving me hand signs here, and even at
this stage of the game, Hi karate, karate, slow to react. Yeah,
we need to break because we got the great Missy
Matthews coming up.
Speaker 7 (28:24):
Oh sideline extraordinary, Missy, there you go. All right, We'll
be back with more here inside the Locker Room on
the Steel's Audio network.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
This is in the Locker Room, presented by Ford and
brought to you by acro Shure, the official insurance and
Cybersecurity partner of the Pittsburgh Steelers, by Bett MGM, Huntington Bank, PNC, PEPSI,
and by FedEx. Where now meets next? Now here's Craig
Wilfley and Max Starks.
Speaker 6 (29:21):
And it's time to rejoin with the Queen of the sidelines,
Missy Matthews. Join us here in the locker room, And Missy,
I got asked you, how has the Matthew's household settled
down now? With Mom not running here, there and everywhere
all season long? Are things calming down a little?
Speaker 5 (29:39):
I mean we're never calm, you know, We're the people.
We're always on the go. It's just I like, am
the head of laundry instead of like what do you
absolutely need where to basketball or hockey or whatever today
just to get by? So I'm a little I'm a
little head of schedule for one.
Speaker 6 (29:59):
Wow, I don't know, Max, are you the one thing
I got to ask, Missy, is this do you're do
you have one son playing hockey?
Speaker 3 (30:06):
Is that it.
Speaker 5 (30:08):
Both? Oh?
Speaker 7 (30:09):
Both?
Speaker 3 (30:09):
Okay?
Speaker 6 (30:10):
So what are their their their travel bags? Like you know,
I mean, if there's anything that's stunk more than my
son Kyle's hockey bag, I don't know.
Speaker 5 (30:19):
You know, I will say, I'll give my husband credit. Uh.
He created a little like hanging system with hooks in
our garage, so after practice or after a game, everything
gets hung up to dry and I afterwards, I don't
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even know, Max. I don't touch hockey stuff. It's like
is the bag packed? Is it in my car? Then
I can make it happen. But having to remember I mean,
like I know how to get them thrust, but they're
pretty self sufficient. Tying skates. They always tell me I
don't tie them tight enough, so I'm like, well, go
find another dad then uh, you know, not my problem.
Speaker 3 (30:59):
But I actually what you need to.
Speaker 5 (31:01):
Wear right right right? We use the I got it
at all. The I was so excited. It's it's almost
like a heater slash dryer that you can put gloods
and skates on. So that's like my new thing is
to try to like take away from the sweat and
the nastiness.
Speaker 3 (31:21):
Got it, got it?
Speaker 7 (31:22):
I love that, love that. No, it's it's one of
those things like you know, because I know, like you know,
football locker room, they have those little shoe dryers that
you stick upside down and everything.
Speaker 5 (31:33):
Yeah yeah, yeah.
Speaker 7 (31:34):
So yeah, you gotta love those. Gotta love those absolutely.
Speaker 5 (31:39):
So.
Speaker 7 (31:40):
But but Missy, you know, kind of as you know,
as we look at this, you know, and Wolf and
I were kind of talking about a couple of things,
obviously postseason accolades. Uh, We're talking about Zach Frasier and
just how cool you know it was for him to
get honored as not only you know, all Rookie team,
you know, by the Pro Football Writers of America. But
(32:03):
you know, we also were wondering, you know, and we
wanted to get your take on this because this is
how we felt why Zack Frasier is not a finalist
for Offensive Rookie of the Year. I mean, what do
you think that is? There is there a bias there?
Do they have it out for guys that are above
two hundred and seventy five pounds?
Speaker 5 (32:22):
You know, it could be that. I do always feel
like it is the quarterbacks, the wide receivers that do,
but it is crazy when you look at his numbers.
And I was going to tell you, guys, I had
a chance to sit down with him last week, oh,
for an interview that I think they're going to use
on Steelers dot Com at some point. And as soon
(32:43):
as we were done with it, I was like, you
said more words today than you probably did the first
time we interviewed him, when he drove up from West
Virginia after getting drafted. It was like pulling teeth. It
was like David Castro and I go him that. I said,
you gave me the Dave de Castro treat that And
it didn't matter how I asked you a question, how
many times I asked you a question? It was it
(33:04):
was very uh, one word answers. But he was expansive,
just talked a lot about you know, the young guys
growing together, you know, getting a chance to start due
to an injury, but I think we all knew at
some point it was probably gonna happen anyways. But just
really impressed with how he has carried himself throughout this
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rookie season. You guys know, he's as down to earth
as humanly possible. He told me he was too busy
focusing on the playbook and the upcoming opponents, did no
woodworking during the season, which I was kind of shocked.
I thought that might be, like, you know, the thing
to do to get away from football, but he said, nope,
saving that for the off season. So yeah, I guess
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that is as you said, Max, there is a bias.
Speaker 3 (33:49):
I believe.
Speaker 6 (33:50):
So, I mean, let's take a look at the offensive
Rookie of the Year finalists. Are you got Jade and Daniels,
Malik Neighbors well, Jayden Daniels quarterback, Malik Neighbors wide receiver,
Bo Nicks quarterback, Brian Thomas wild wide receiver, and then
you got Rock Bauers, who's a tight end, who's the
closest to being a fat guy. I mean, no, he's
not fat guys, right, but that he's the closest to
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being as compared to the others. And I just find
it impossible. I find it ridiculous that when people tell
me skill position, I tell him that's a term coined
by general managers when contract negotiations come up, because if
anybody knows how to navigate a three hundred and fifty
pound cheese whopper while you snap the ball back six
(34:33):
seven yards, you know, under control, directing it right to
the quarterback and then have to come off and face that.
Speaker 3 (34:41):
To me, that's a skill, let me tell you, hey.
Speaker 5 (34:45):
And not to mention, Zach did it with two different quarterbacks.
I mean, Kyle Allen got in there very briefly in
that Dallas game. But still, I mean, to be a rookie,
to become a starter, and to do it with two
different quarterbacks is not an easy feet And he played
it off like you know, it didn't matter. But I'm
sure you guys know that that is. There's a difference
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with how quarterbacks do things. Their voice, their count, their
just everything. And he did it pretty flawlessly. And he
dealt with that ankle injury that forced him to miss
two games. And you know, I was laughing when I
was reading back through some of my game notes when
I was searching for Zach Frazier things, and the one
was how he was having guys bull rush him before
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he came back to make sure that he was ready
to go when he returned after that ankle injury. That
he was just asking people in the facility and out
on the practice field to bull rush him.
Speaker 6 (35:41):
Nothing like sitting on squatting on a bull rush to
you know, functionally test your ankle that you destroyed just
two weeks earlier.
Speaker 5 (35:49):
There, right, Yeah, no problem done.
Speaker 6 (35:52):
But like a true offensive lineman, yeah, exactly like nothing
to see here, guys, everything's good. Five. Oh my gosh,
let me ask you, Missy. I just found out TJ.
Speaker 3 (36:07):
Watt.
Speaker 6 (36:08):
Do I understand he's pulled out of the Pro Bowl?
That is that a because of the hand and ankle
injuries that he I think he suffered.
Speaker 5 (36:18):
I don't think there was a reason given. I know
Calvanoy is replacing him, but I also think you know,
they especially very vocal about how he was not happy
how this season ended and how things went. I mean,
do you really yes, do you want to go somewhere warm, Absolutely,
But you go to the Pro Bowl and there's cameras
(36:39):
in your face, there's questions asked. Who knows, you know,
if it was injury related, not wanting to deal with
that related, or a little bit of both. Oh and
by the way, this is actually probably the real reason
his wife is expecting a baby. So oh yeah, now
that I'm now that we're talking this out, I bet
you he's been a good husband, and he's making sure
(36:59):
that any is good to go and has everything that
she needs and he is as close as humanly possible.
Speaker 7 (37:06):
Excellent, Now, Bravo, way to be a dad first. You know,
I think that, Yeah, that's that's pretty awesome. That's pretty
awesome for him, you know. Miss the another thing that
I think, you know, I want to also kind of
ask us as you look at kind of some of
(37:28):
the other guys and their off season plans this year,
you know, what what are you seeing is kind of
some of the things that guys are doing. I mean,
because obviously we have you know, a lot of different
guys who are who are trying to who are trying
to figure out what what what the next steps are.
We have a lot of free agents, a lot of
(37:48):
guys who are going to be uh, you know, possibly
looking for other teams, and of course there's contract talks
started with Russell Wilson. Just kind of any updates on
any of the other guys.
Speaker 5 (38:03):
Nothing official. I mean, I think, you know, there's some
guys that are doing the like get away with the
family type thing, just taking that time to let your
body like recharge, regroup, heal, whatever, you were dealing with
during the season. It's such a grind. You go back
to Latrobe, but you just think that like that's the
(38:23):
starting point and you get so far away from you know, July,
and of course you want to be playing in January
and February and still be alive this weekend. But it
does take a toll on bodies, and I think to
even Beanie Bishop was another rookie that I had a
chance to talk to, and he was just saying, like
at some point, like some of the DB's just getting
(38:45):
together and going somewhere, you know, little things like that.
But there, as we said even last week, like there's
going to be change, especially the locker room will never
look the same year to year. It's not humanly possible.
So I'm sure, you know, for some guys it might
be waiting to see what happens with free agency, and
(39:06):
other guys, you know, I'm not so sure.
Speaker 6 (39:10):
You know that it's interesting because you know, Russ said
that they've started contract talks, and I just wonder how
they're progressing. If they're progressing, you know, this is the
quarterback decision is going to be one of the biggest
decisions in the last decade really coming up, take deciding
what they're going to do to you know, get a
(39:32):
quarterback settlement, you know what, somebody young or somebody somebody.
Speaker 3 (39:36):
That's more mobile or what. You know.
Speaker 6 (39:37):
I don't know, there's just so many questions to be
answered at that quarterback position.
Speaker 5 (39:43):
Yeah, no, I totally agree. And I don't know either way,
yes or no, if those contract talks have happened or
are happening. But I did go back to watch like
a majority of Russ's interview on the Pat mcafe show,
and I felt like when he was talking, he was
saying like, yeah, I've had like my exit meetings, which
(40:06):
are not the same like your exit meeting with coach
Tumlin is not necessarily it's not the contract talk, if
that makes sense. That's more like feedback, criticism, whatever needs
to happen in there. It's different for every player, you know.
I've seen players who have been in his office for
thirty minutes. I've seen players who have gone in for
(40:26):
like ten I think it just depends on the guy
and whatnot. So again, I don't know for sure either
way if that is true. But I kind of took
his answer more as like, you know, we've been having
our exit meeting type of things, so I feel like,
you know, contract talks is more agents and omar at
least that's what I assume that would mean.
Speaker 3 (40:47):
Okay, Well, thank you so much, Missy.
Speaker 6 (40:50):
We greatly appreciate all you've done all season long.
Speaker 3 (40:53):
You are the queen of the sidelines. You do a
great job.
Speaker 6 (40:56):
Appreciate you checking in every Friday here in the locker room.
And I want to thank you personally as I'm sure
Max will, because we really appreciate you.
Speaker 7 (41:04):
Absolutely, we do it. We do appreciate you a lot, Missy.
As always my partner and sideline crime, so I do
appreciate you as always Missy.
Speaker 5 (41:15):
Not a lot of crime, but like some stuff you
know nothing.
Speaker 7 (41:18):
I mean, I mean, you know, it could be misconstrued
it it's it's open for interpretation.
Speaker 6 (41:22):
It could be partner in crime. It could be partner
in crime or partner in crumbs. You know, you don't know.
Speaker 7 (41:28):
Yes, definitely, a lot of a lot uncrustables, a lot
of uncrystable. Yep.
Speaker 5 (41:33):
Absolutely, I appreciate you guys and wes to thanks for
having me.
Speaker 3 (41:37):
Thank you so much, Missy.
Speaker 9 (41:39):
We still have two more weeks of shows. So we
can we go ahead.
Speaker 8 (41:44):
As much as Max and Wolf for trying to say
their tearful goodbyes.
Speaker 9 (41:47):
Can we still have you?
Speaker 3 (41:50):
Okay? I forget where we need you.
Speaker 6 (41:52):
We need you, okay, so forget all the tearful but goodbyes.
You know we'll do it, okay, exactly. We'll see you
next week, mister, No, no, yeah, next week. All right,
thank you so much. All right, and that's a great Missy.
Matthews Queenland Sidelines checking in, doing a great job as always.
Speaker 8 (42:14):
Last seler at the Steelers Audio Network Breaking news desk,
and boys, do I have a doozy for you?
Speaker 7 (42:22):
Boo?
Speaker 8 (42:22):
This just in your newest loss, Your new Las Vegas
Raiders head coach.
Speaker 9 (42:28):
Pete Carroll on a three year deal.
Speaker 8 (42:31):
According to Adam Schefter, another legendary veteran coach is back
in the business. Pete Carroll to the Las Vegas Raiders
on a three year contract as head coach.
Speaker 6 (42:44):
Wow, back to you, Okay, it's time for the Power
Hour coming up. Possession Arrow goes to Max Back. Got
a feeling we might discuss that. All this and more
coming up on the Steelers Audio Network
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