January 13, 2023 • 46 mins
It's the final In the Locker Room show of the season and the guys are having some fun. They hand out awards for the Steelers from this past year, and have a laugh discussing the best possible Looney Tunes football roster.
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Speaker 1 (00:15):
This is in the locker room with Wolf and Starks
on ESPN Pittsburgh against Steelers Nation Radio, presented by your
neighborhood Forward Store. The F one is the official truck
of the Pittsburgh Steelers. Actor Matthew look on a hey, alright, alright, alright,
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get man do your Oh yeah, there's nothing like a
little Matt McConaughey to get your engine started. On a Friday,
as we shut down the locker room for the offseason,
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locker rooms going dark. Max, how are you, my friend?
I am doing well this morning, Wolf, Like I said,
bitter sweet. Right. We would have loved to have continued
this wonderful voyage all the way into February, but unfortunately
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we did not make the I mean kind of sort. Hey.
It would have been nice to go to Buffalo and
have at it and see what happens. But I gotta
tell you this, hey, guys, I got I got it
from from my dear wife, the good Lady Faith. She said.
Max was hilarious doing that soliloquy with um the the
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music from the golfing stuff with Jerry Doola the master.
It was hilarious. That was absolutely hilarious. You had a
faith laughing all through that whole thing that was that
was so funny, And you have that very um voice,
like the galley voice you got in the galley. You
gotta you gotta make sure that you know the gallery.
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You got to make sure that you have that very
nice voice because you never know when somebody's gonna put wolf.
And that's why you have to make sure that if
you're going to be at this low tone, you're not
disturbing the golfer in their focus and laser concentration to
make sure they can sink that double bogey putt. See,
we gotta have golf like happy, that's how we do.
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We gotta who was the guy, Bob, Bob Barker. When
you're getting a fist flight with Bob Barker, all right,
now you got something cooking exactly as all jacked up
on Mountain Dew out there on the course, guys popping
wheelies in your in your golf cart. That was one
of the funniest things without getting a fight with Bob Barker.
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I love that. I just love that. That was just
so cool, you know what I mean, especially when he
played dead oh Man. Unbelievable, but yes, indeed, so here
we go. We are foraying on into the final episode
of the two Locker Room in actually now, but it
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started in the season the season, yeah, season of locker Room.
The first thing I gotta bring up because this is
again for the folks that aren't familiar with the locker
room or you know how it operates. You know, when
you have a bunch of ball players and you come
in with thoughts, with things that captured your attention, your
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imagination as you come in the locker room. And so
you might be, you know, hanging around. We we got
your your notebook, looking at plays, or you just might
have come in and watched some film early. But you're
sitting with the boys, You're hanging out. And the first
thing I would say is say Max, as you realize today.
On this day, January nineteen sixty eight, Johnny Cash stepped
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on stage at the California State Prism and Falsome on
this day and recorded one of the most legendary concerts
in American music history, lore, ending with a song that
made a star out of an inmate. I mean, it's
amazing to me. And then and then there's usually one
person in the crowd that goes who yes, yes, exact
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right now, Yeah, because you're gonna get a mix of
the melody or guys who just never listened to, you know,
that genre of music and they're like, I don't know
what you're talking about. So you could never ask about
million dollar quartet or anything like that because they just
they don't have the capacity to sit there and know that.
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And then there's the one guy that says, oh, yeah,
I was there, How you weren't you weren't born? Yeah, exactly,
how the hell are you there? You know, you know,
And that's what that's what you love about the locker room, right,
You just you get some people are just nod their
heads like yep, yep, you're yeah, yeah, you're probably right.
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But there's always those dissenters and outliers, right, there's always
that that just wasn't that big. Yeah yeah, And you're like,
you're like, are you serious, dude? And then next thing,
you know, that is the entire topic the entire day,
right in between meetings, right in the hallway, when you're
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hanging out, pregame practice, lunch, stretch line, you know, coming
back into the locker room, like I still can't believe
you don't know who Johnny Cash is. You're walking in
the shower. You're just like, hey, would you believe this
guy behind me here? He doesn't even know who Johnny
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Cash is. Under a rock, you know, I gotta tell you.
One of the best shows that and I ever did
over the twenties some years, we did The Locker Room. Okay,
we got into an argument about whether a cobra could
take um, what's what's the critters that kill the cobra's um?
You know, yes, Ricky Ticky Tabby. There we go. So
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we're sitting there, we're arguing over the fact of Ricky
Ticky Tabby could whip up on uh, you know, somebody,
some cobra, right, and so we're going back. We had
almost thirty five or forty phone calls that day over
the two hours to weigh in on whether the cobra
could whip the mongoose or the mongoose could whip the cobra.
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Finally we got we had to get the uh, the
curator from the Pittsburgh Zoo to call in, and then
he decided and he had to weigh in on it.
But that that that's exactly it, because you get these
arguments that seemingly have no exact answer, and then you know,
guys take sides, right because you know, Mike Webster argue
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for for oh he Mike webs would argue that desiccated
liver was great stuff for endurance and strengthen that. And
then you're on the other end going, yeah, but you're
killing us in the meeting room because you're letting out
some gaseous material there, Bud, you know, and then everybody's
piling in with that. You know, listen, I mean but that,
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but that's that, and that's the glory and the beauty
of the locker room. It's it's democratic, and there are
no biases good, better and different. There's no biases. And
everybody's got a voice. Oh just like butt holes, everybody's
got one. And he's just like, man, I got this
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to myself. But it's exactly true. I mean you to
think about it. Guys would jump in and say who's
Johnny Cash? And then the others were dogs would would
jump in and and and in in. You know, they
would say who listens to country music? Know? And then
you would go back at them with whatever genre of
music they listened to, and then you you know, smack
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him with that, and then it would get it would
just explode, be awesome, Yeah exactly. I mean it's just
it's one of those things. It's just back and forth,
back and forth, back and forth. He's just like, come on, guys,
I mean, you know, either a get it together or
be just just just shut up and listen to me,
you know what I'm saying Like that, that's the other thing.
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Just shut up and listen to me. And because I'm right, no,
you had the one that was always the politician. Oh yeah, right,
he was always he's always played kating to the mob. Right. Yes,
he would say things just to get guys on his side,
even though you know, you know he doesn't believe that.
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See back at my time, Tounch would be like the boisterous,
just say something to scream something out, you know what
I mean, and then then people would start to obviously
take sides with that, for or against it, that sort
of thing, and then before you know you you got
this argument going on. And that's the way it was.
Touch was an instigator. Yeah yeah, see that those that
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you know who that was for us that it was
TC Tyrone Carter, okay right right, TC would would would
would just I felt like he he would take the
opposite of what everybody else said, just for the fact
that he was the first one to take the opposite,
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just to argue it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, he was just
he it was like it was like an explorer. You
know what I'm saying, Like I'm a plan a flag
on this because I don't see any other flags on
this boom. Well it's it's it's so, it's already a country.
It doesn't matter. Nope, Nope, it's mine. Boom. It's like,
oh god, It's like and you never wanted to bring
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it up to TC, because TC was also so loud,
like he was the one that was going to just
if he was vehemently wrong. He was just he was
gonna out yell you. And then to the point where
it's like I just don't want to hear him yell anymore.
You know, He's like he's, he's, he's, he's he's hit
my ear drums way too hard. So I'm just gonna
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give up at this point, just because I want to
save my ear drums, you know what I'm saying, Like
that one guy that just just won't let it go.
You're like, I know you're wrong. Two plus two is
not five. It is not five. It's five, and I
believe it's five. How are you gonna sit there and
act like it's not there's a plus there at the two.
And another time it's you know, he's just like, you
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know what, maybe it is, Maybe it is. You know
one thing about TC all right now, the one year
you guys were all driving cars that were like vintage
cars or something the Classic Car Show, Yes, the Classic
Car Show up at St. Vincent, right, So I'm looking
at his car and it's it's beautiful and I think
it was a the top came down on it could
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be convertible not maybe not. I can't remember, but I
do remember was he had a t BE installed in
the front dashboard. And I'm going, okay, really, um, do
you think, Tyrone, do you think maybe that's not a
good idea. I was like a question. I'm going, you know,
I mean, you got a TV sitting right there to
your right in the front dashboard and you're driving you
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maybe you're you know, you gotta keep your eyes. And
he goes, oh, it's just for the passengers. I'm going, oh, sure, yeah, right,
you're on some you're on some long stretch of road
out in Iowa somewhere, just driving for miles, you know,
I mean, you don't you only back up and go
around when when you come to a curve, just so
you drive the curve a couple of times, right, So
those long roads and you're not you're not gonna turn
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on a tune right there? Something you know? All right? Yeah,
all right? So we got into one little little arguments.
They're not argument, just one of those you know, pro
con type things, you know what I mean? Yeah, no,
I mean listen. Uh. First of all, I'm glad you
remember that when we arranged that. That was that was
pretty awesome. That was at Paula convertible. So yeah, it
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was light blue, white top, white interior. I had to
flip out screen as well. Oh you didn't. How do
I did? How buddy? How does somebody of your intelligence
come up with something like that? I can understand if
it's in the back seat, you know, but the temptation
to flick that thing on. It's not a movie player though,
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like you can't play it on it, but it's That
was the first That was the first age of touch
screens as opposed to having to use the knobs and
the buttons. Right, it was touch screens, so the face
would flip out because cars didn't come with that as
standard like they do now, So it would flip out.
And that was your touch screen. I mean. It also
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had the DVD capability if you wanted to do that, right,
So did you. I did not have DVDs in the car, Okay,
so you're practicing safe driving, and I had music videos,
so it would play the music and also the music
video at the same time. So you obviously you would
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never check the video, right, I mean you would only
only stop only stop signs of stoplights. I swear whenever
you have to swear to something, then oh exactly, especially
when there's no Bible present, you know, exactly. But no,
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But I mean I loved it because Lucille that was
the name of my car's I remember that, Lucy. Yeah,
that's right, Lucile was lucill was was was one of
my pride and joys. Uh. But yeah, but TC TC Yeah,
TC had had a uh he had an eight. He
had an eighty two Caprice every because tcs from South Florida.
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So South Florida. One of the things they're known for
us the dunk or box or a box Chevy. It
was a nickname as a dunk, but they called those
a dunk, but it was it was a it's a
box Chevy. So if you had a box Caprice Classic
or in Paula like back in those days like that.
And then he put it on the big wheels because
he had rims so that he had the mean green machine.
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Uh yeah, so I mean he had that. I would
say d brought a deuce in the quarter. Um, who
else brought something? Ricardo Cokeley, I want to say he
had something. I think he had El Dorado. Um. And
we yeah, we had we had a bunch of It
was about eight of us that came up. Hamp had one.
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I forgot what Hamp was driving. But we actually got
a picture and I actually have the picture in my
in my storage because I'm redoing my office right now.
But it's a big picture of all of us together,
um with with our classic cars. And then also the
year we did the Mini Coopers the office line, so
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we got a picture. So I have a picture of
us in the offensive line doing the Mini Cooper drive up.
And so when I redo my office, I'm gonna put
those two pictures and the two White House pictures kind
of like in a stack row because those are all
the same size. So yeah, so I have some ideas.
So so my off season, you know, well it's gonna
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be busy because I'm I'm reconfiguring and redoing my office.
I hadn't redone my office in like twelve years, so
I've gotta updated and change it around. Obviously, you know,
make make one of these walls zoom background worthy, you know,
because that's the big thing. You gotta have a cool
zoom background because mine is terrible. It's just a fox
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finished wall with nothing on it. Um, So I gotta
get creative. So, you know, also Steelers Nation, throw some ideas,
you know what I'm saying. Just hit me up on
the on the good old tweet box there Twitter. You know,
let me know some thoughts about what you'd like to
see in the background if if you ever catch Max
on a zoom something, I'd like to see what the
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football from Max's uh four yards of tote Russian game
against the Auburn Tigers in two thousand and one. I
just knew you were going to say something like that.
You know, I did not keep that because we lost
the game and once we once I got clipped, I
don't know what happened to that football. That football was
dead to me because it was not lucky. It was
very unlucky. Okay, I get it, even though it wasn't
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the football's fault. Now let me ask a numbers. I
gotta ask Max why I remember this? Okay? Now, you
called your car loose Seal? Was that like BB King
with his guitar named blue Seal? Uh? It was not
exactly like it, but same premise, okay, same premise. Alright, alright,
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because Lucy O Bogan was did Lucille in BB King's life,
and she was an American classic female blues singer and songwriter. Um,
you know so yeah, yeah, so I would have thought
Lucille Ball. You know, I love Lucy, but yep, that's
a that's a better one. Yeah. I think it was
Bogan was her name. I'm gonna I'm gonna be honest.
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I just I just picked a name that sounds like
an older lady. That just sounded good. Huh, Okay, it
just sounded good. It's just it's felt like you know,
I I looked at it, I said the name, and
I felt like the car said, yes, be honest with you.
That's it's about how it went in my head, okay, alright,
So so it made it made it nice and easy. Today.
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Now before we get gone, we got we're gonna intersperse
and we're gonna open up the phone lines right away
four one, three, one six. It's the last day in
the locker room. But we also have the much anticipated lineups,
and it's we don't even have to do lines. What
we gotta do is you give me a player from
Hannah Barbara or from the Looney Tunes. Matt West gives
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a player, you know, and why you gotta you gotta
have a hy for who you you absolutely okay, alright,
So don't just don't just throw a name out there,
that's right, not have any justification for it, you know,
all right, because I'm gonna give you Elmer Fudd, all right,
Elmer Fudd. Elmer Fudd is my equipment manager because he's
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always hunting for something. Okay, So that's my equipment man,
all right. Well, if I made I made Fund my
defensive coordinator for the same reason he's always hutting out,
we're gonna get a lot of turnovers. He's gonna be
hunting that football, Yes, exactly exactly. How about you Max?
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Be very quiet, I'm hunting interceptions. Oh you aascually one
and back. This is gonna be fun. We're gonna have
last year. Where's the jerseys? Where's the jerseys? Where the jerseys?
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I'm looking for? I'm looking for seventy two with seventy two.
I found seventy one. I found seventy three. Can't fight
seventy two? I found seventy What comes after seventy? Yeah exactly.
You know you know what I have? You know, you
know I have Elmer Fudd as Elmer Fudd was is
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my water boy. You know what I'm saying. Be honest.
I had Elmer Fudd as the water board because I
just felt like, you know, he's always paying attention to
every little minute details to give him any type of it.
So I feel like during time outs he's the guy
that would also bring out the little grass cleat thing
because you never know, you know, come guys, come on, wipe,
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wipe those beets off. Wipe those beets off. Here the
water here, the water here, the water. Hey, everybody had
the towels that everybody the towns I got one, I
got a towel. You know what I'm like like, I
feel like he's a multitasker. So that's why I would
have put him more so in the water boy slash
athletic trainer role. That's that's just why I wanted to
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equipment manager, because he's always got something going on. You know,
you gotta get back there, you gotta run, rummage around,
and you know it's this is good, this is fine.
So if you want to get in on this, well
you gotta come up with a Hanna, Barbara or a
Looney Tunes character and then name them to a position.
And why Also any commentary about locker room stuff. You
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know what the off season is gonna look like? Are
you pessimistic? Optimistic? All those things? All those things and
more Max, all the normal, all the normal stuff, plus
the bonus of who you would have on your all
star cartoon lineup here in the locker room when we
come back. Also phone line numbers four six. Want to
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make sure you also remember the phone number. We're here
on ESPN S and R Radio. This is in the
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locker Room with Wolf and Starks on ESPN Pittsburgh against
Steelers Nation Radio, presented by your neighborhood forward store. The
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Hello Steelers Nation, and welcome to the final day of
in the Locker Room here on s n R. I
will be a game show host as we put Craig
Wolfley and Max Starks to the test here on the
final day of in the Locker Room. This will be
question number one before we go back to the phone lines.
Craig Wolfley, let's talk about most likely to succeed. Which
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newcomer do you think is gonna have the stuff going
forward for the Pittsburgh Steelers. Oh yeah, you know there
can only be one that would be or Pickens. If
that was I was l Varral right Pickens, because we're
picking and grinning is what we're doing because of George Pickens.
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Mr Starks, and this is you know, final week of
senior year here. Well, you know what's you know what's
tough is I can't play the buzzer and the theme
music at to say if I hit the buzzer, the
theme music goes away. Gotta work, you got we're not
multitaskers here, will Mr Starks your vote for the Steelers
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twenty three year book, most likely to succeed? All right,
I'm gonna go most likely to succeed. You know what
I've I've still gotta go with Dan Moore. Dan Moore
has been growing and it's at a tough position, and
Dan's made progress, and I think I'm still on the
boat that the youth that he has, the experienced by
fire that he's gone through is making him that much better.
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And I feel like next year is going to be
a breakout year for him. So I'm going with Dan Moore,
is my most likely to succeed? Can we get a
point of order here? Didn't you say newcomer? I think
he should be disqualified on that answer. I don't know
if he can. He answered the question to me, is
most likely to succeed newcomer of the year. He didn't
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say newcomer of the year. I was most likely to succeed. Well,
who who is it? Who is the lead kangaroo in
this kangaroo court? That that was perfect answer right there.
Blind leading the blind out here sometimes was done in
the locker room. We got a kangaroo court, and I
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need somebody to stand up for me. So you gotta
get you gotta get one of the in house lawyers,
which in my case, you always got touch because Tonch
could argue anything on both sides. Anything. Alright, one more
here before we get back into it. On our final
day of In the Locker Room, it's the in the
Locker Room game show. Max will start with you like
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the game show host voice. We'll start with your host
on this one. Mr stocks favorite road trip of the
year was Oh, um, I'm gonna have to go. Well,
let's see, I'm basing my favorite road trip on the
based on the food that I had. Sure, and this
is more difficult for you because you know, you're normally
in a college game Saturday, so you don't necessarily get
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the frolicking time in the new city like most of
us do. Yeah, so I'm basing this off of my
door dash order history pretty much. Um yeah, I mean
I still I have to I have to go with Buffalo.
I mean because I got Anchor, I got Anchor bar Wings,
and I went to Dinosaur Barbecue while I was there,
So uh yeah, that's what That's what I'm gonna base
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it off of. I'm I'm gonna I'm gonna go with Buffalo.
I'm gonna go with Buffalo. Whoa, I'm not really disagreeing,
and I just wanted to hit the buzzer. Oh tremendous TuS.
Now I've got a whole plethora of different buzzers here
at my disbuzzle. Hold on, let's try another way. That
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sounded just like the all it's more elongated. Yah, that's
that's like, Oh, yeah, that's a good one. We might
have to keep that for the fog. But oh, that
sounded like who wants to be a millionaire and phone
a friend there or something? Yeah, exactly, hold on, sorry,
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I gotta do that. Mr wolf Lee, back to you.
Your favorite road trip of the season was. I would
have to say Cincinnati because we went down there, we
kicked their butts, and we got home early enough that
I had a nice dinner at home. It was really great.
That's always a good combination. I remember that one. The
host has to chime in on this one. I'm going
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with Atlanta. That was my number two hotel. Hotel was
in a great location. Food at the stadium was fantastic,
The stadium was fantastic. Stealer Nation took over, we won
the game. That's that's that's the that's the highlight trip
of the season. I got them for the host here
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Wesley Bob Barker. Yeah, I like that. Yes, I want
to change mine. Now, count can I do that? I
believe I can. Don't, don't, don't. Don't you give me that.
I will talk through that buzzer. Listen, do you not
know me by now? West Buzzers do not intimidate me, sir,
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Thank you, good date, hold on, hold on, hold on. Well,
I found I found audio of Max on the field
against Auburn when he said that's what the DV said
when I said charge Still that is still one of
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the greatest stories going. Uh oh, I'm just glad I
didn't point my hand out, you know what I'm saying,
like point like baby, Yeah, exactly, like I'm calling my
shot up. Never mind like rectory. I got four yards
down the good you know, I mean if it felt further,
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I mean because I had to take it from behind
the line of scrimmage, I mean it felt further. Yeah,
that's your actual distance traveled. There was more like seven
or eight yards. You know, we should have gotten GPS
measurements on that. You know what your speed was going on?
How many? Like you're like going three or four miles
an hour. You know, well it was night time, so
the sundown was not out, so it was tough to
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read that. Well, if you know, we always always joke
about always falling forward, right, Well, I mean I think
two of those four yards Max gained on that play
where it was it was it was you might have
to buzz yourself on that one. Yeah, yeah, I yeah,
there we go. Thank you. Oh my heavens clarification purposes,
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I don't, I don't know, you know, I maybe I
may I made vapor lock before we get to the
end of the show. Oh well, next on your on
your on your all tent two football team. Man, you
know what, you know who I got? I got a
center Foghorn Leghorn alright, because here's the thing about it, Foghorn.
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You need somebody at center that can direct traffic, that
can call out the fronts, that can identify Mike, And
you know you got Foghorn sitting there going yeah, you know, yeah, yeah, yeah,
oh yeah, I say, I say that Mike is over
here keeper for that's exactly. Does he not sound like
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Jackie Gleason doing Buford Justice, you know, from the Cannonball
and all that stuff. So I would go Foghorn Leghorn
is my center. All right, Well, I mean, hey, let's listen.
You have a good choice there. I have fog Horn
Leghorn as my backup quarterback because I feel like, so
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the reason why I picked fog Horn as a backup
quarterback and not my starting quarterback is simply because he
is going to bore you to death with the very
nuances of things and schematics that nobody cares about. But
also he's watching everything but yet is accountable for nothing.
You ever noticed that, remember what? Yeah? You know? So,
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so I feel like everybody would love his stories and everything,
but nobody pays him any attention. So that's why I
would have fog Horn Leghorns the backup quarterback, because he's
always going to engage you just enough that you will
forget what you are going to do. You know what
I'm saying, Like, he's the guy that takes you out
of that mindset and and yet he and but physical
stature boom, you notice that guy you know is that
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guy immediately, but you also know it's all looks in
that situation, and he keeps in his feathers numbered he does. Yeah,
because listen, you're on the sidelines. You gotta have something
to keep your mind. It's like the guy that keeps
the clipboard, you know what I'm saying. He has all
the plays listed in order and down in distance and
everything and the result like he's he's that guy. He's
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the chart guy. So that's why he's the backup quarter.
The only problem is that you would have to be
stressed during times of up tempo, the no huddle, the
two minute, that sort of thing. You know, he'say, I say,
I say, I said, I don't walk well on the fly.
You don't have trouble getting it out, I say, I say,
I say, I say. Imagine him trying to give hand signals,
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you know, because the back it usually give his hand signals.
It's only three fingers too, because you know exactly he
and he was stuttered through that. Could you imagine somebody
giving you stuttering hand signals. That would be the most
frustrated for the only three fingers. Yeah, exactly what was that?
Was that? Two or four? I don't know what he's doing.
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Does that thumb count as a finger or it doesn't
count as a fun Why are you putting too? Why
are you putting two index fingers together. I don't know
what that means. Well, gentlemen, I have let me Let
let me tell you here too about this defensive line
that I've constructed. Here, I saw going leg Horns at
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d tackle for me. Okay, okay, because I mean he's
gonna have a Casey Hampton type presence in the middle
of my defensive line there. I mean, good luck with
big Foghorn clogging that thing up. I've also got Hugo
the Abominable Snowman next to him, so I mean that's
basically like Warren Sap and Aaron Donald in the middle.
Good luck, And then off the edge, I got Tasmanian
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devil on one side and Nasty Canasta on the other side.
I mean we are we are going quarterback hunting, and pultunately,
we've kept all the feathers and the number for such
an emergency. Okay, it's satting to let some others in
on this one before we totally lose our mind. Let's
go to Circus George and Sarasta, Florida. Circus George, you're
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in the locker room, and hope you got some characters.
Good morning, gentleman, Good morning, Oh what's up? Buddy. Well, yeah,
well we got some interesting stuff going on here. I
thought you just got wanted one player at one position. Now,
if you want me to build a team, I might
might take some time. I say, I say it, but anyway,
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I say it's something, but it has never played baseball
before anyways. Uh, Marvin and Marcia is the field goal kicker? Yeah,
short long kickers are almost always short and if you
block his kick, you doozy. That makes me very angry,
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very angry. Indeed, I shouldn't know. You'd enter right into
the spirit of the thing their circus. Yeah, as far
as kes and cars, look, you know, I had, I
had a motor home and I have my little black
and white television like a nineties screen on my dashboard
illegally want to watch him. Of course that was from
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my passengers, and I had I was watching football with
an antenna black and white, you know, a funny picture.
And I'm watching football while I'm driving at night, while
I'm eating a taco and pulling a trailer behind that.
So yeah, I don't want to hear about the car.
A car that's the boy. So it can be done,
if your smart party can really be done. So I
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always thought. Then idea would have been to put a
webcam on the outside of your car, and then you
could put a giant TV screen on the inside in
stereo windshield, and you can have a picture of the car,
and then you can have a picture and picture like
these you remember the last the shore on the big
just having the corner the screen of your car so
you can see where the driving. You have just confirmed
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what I said. That boy is as sharp as a bowl.
And he said about a shop a sack of wet mice.
There's another cart one, I said to a little on
a dump side. Excellent. Hey, guys, players on the uplise,
I really like Picket. I liked him when we took him.
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I'm expecting better things out of me as long as
the offensive line continues to improve, which um, as far
as I'm concerned, I know you guys loved the improvement
of the line, but you gotta consider a little bit
because here's the cold the cold water port, and you're
gonna hate me for it. We played against some lesser
talent towards the end, and you still gotta win. Otherwise
you're astention. If you don't need the bums, you are
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one but against better talent. We need a better offensive tackle.
I don't care if it's a right or left, and
the same on the defensive line. We need to stud
most tackle. So there's your picks for the draft. Not
necessarily wanted to, but just thoughts. All right, Thank you, George.
You appreciate your brother. Thanks for you. Take care of absolutely,
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take care you know. That's what I love you. Gotta
is Chuck Noel would say, get to enter into the
spirit of the thing, all right, what he's talking about
playing the game, enter into the spirit of the thing.
So circus, George paved the way. Let's take a break,
shall we maximum come back with more your calls and
all the all that sort of stuff. All right, Yes,
you heard the man. This is the locker room. Wolf
(36:13):
starts you learn engineering booth, also giving us game show
commentary Here in the locker room on ESPN s in
our radio. This is in the locker Room with Wolf
(36:35):
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welcome back from coming break, ladies and gentlemen, it's time
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for more on the locker Room Game Show. Max Starks,
You'll be up first this time. Let's talk a little
most improved. Who gets your award for the biggest glow
up of this season for the Pittsburgh Steelers. Who's your
ugly duckling? Oh wow, Okay, ugly duck Okay, maybe that
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was a nice way to ward it. But somebody who
looks much better now than they did back in August.
You know, one of the guys that I'm gonna say
actually surprised me a whole lot, James Daniels Uh from
training camp to the end of the season, completely different guy. Um.
We knew who he was resume wise coming in from Chicago,
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but I just I didn't see it early on, And
I think that goes to the chemistry of the offensive line.
And then by the end of the season, I mean
him and Mason Cole were just absolutely rolling guys up.
And I know circus George kind of talked about how
you know, the offense line when he gets lesser competition,
But at the same time, this unit, I wonder what
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they would have done against better competition at the end
of the year. I think it was a perfect storm
catching them early in the year when they weren't together.
But I think they actually would have done a pretty
good job because you saw the job they did against
the Cleveland defense in Week eight team versus Week three, right,
I mean it was a different type of game where
they controlled it. So I wonder what they would have
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looked like going up against Buffalo a second time. You know,
wouldn't this line have established the line of scrimmage a
lot better and been in a position to be successful.
So that's why I can't necessarily give credence to lesser
competition of the second half because they dominated people who
they were supposed to I look at Carolina. Carolina had
some good guys on it, and they absolutely dominated them.
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And then you watched them the next week. They put
almost three yards rushing on teams and hold the other
team to about seventy five yards rushing. So I think
it's a little bit pushing pull. You can't necessarily say
that the first half was so much tougher than the
second half of the season. I like that answer. Maximus
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tough act to follow, but he gets your award from
most improved Pittsburgh Stealer. Well I gotta say, real simple,
out of nowhere did Connor Heyward come along and do
some impressive things as the season unfolded. Now, it's not
exactly like like Max said, the you know, the difference
from being a starter and and doing better all the
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way through is one thing, but you know, it's it's
kind of one of these things, and maybe Connor would
be more better served as a newcomer of the year.
But he's certainly in the conversation for the guy that
really added so much. When I you know, I really
thought he was just gonna play special teams. I didn't
think he would be the contry. I saw that he
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a good route running, I saw a good hands. I
thought he was a decent blocker. But he got better
at blocking, like when he would come across the back
as the wham guy as a trailer around the pin
and pole stuff. He got so much better at that
and did a great job all the way through. But
again the big catches down the scene doing the things
that he did, and then his contributions on the special team.
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So I would have to go as Connor Heyward as
my guy. I like that answer to gentlemen. I know
normally on these game shows. The host doesn't chime in
with opinions, but it's my show, so I'm gonna make
my own rule. I like both of your shouts. Just
one more guy who deserves one in my mind, and
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remember this is most improved. I'm going with Alex Highsmith.
All right. We know he was a good he was
a good football player, dang good one his first two
years in Pittsburgh. But to go from two sacks to
six sacks to fourteen and a half of them things
my most improved player of the year, Alex Heisman not bad.
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I like that. That's a great job. Where to go, Mr?
Mr Game show host? That's right, that is Mr Game
show host to you, Craig with all right, that's Jim
and let's get somebody. We got John and Morgantown. John.
What do you think about our choices thus far? I
like her choices. I like them. They're all good, all
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good for the position. Like, uh like, what's this defensive line? Though?
I think I think that's the crown jewel right there.
Me and coach Dunbar are gonna have him ready to go.
I'd like I'd like to have someone to play behind
that defensive line. You got a inside line back. If
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you're gonna have someone mean so from our inside linebacker,
I'm gonna go with Yosemite Sam. I feel like, eff, really, listen,
you know John's from Morgantown where Simpatico, Because that's the
same middle linebacker. I got baby Yosemite Sam every day.
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And then I also have a receiver return specialist. Okay,
who's that. I'm gonna have to go to the road runner.
I feel like he's probably three guys can take one
to the house. Oh yeah, there's a guy that can
tear the top off the coverage. Huh bet. I got
an offensive coordinator too. All right, I'm gonna I'm gonna
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have to go with Gary from Tom and Jerry. I
feel like he's always that's one stuff ahead I love.
That is really good. Man is really good? Now, John
the couch man, that's good here today. Thanks brother, We
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appreciate you. Alright, rolling on here now, I like, you know,
here's the thing. He had some good choices there. I
went with my head coaches, Wiley Coyote, super y. Yes, yes,
you gotta have somebody at the top who's thinker righting
a lot. So I went with the wily guy. Yeah,
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I mean, I'm with you. Wiley Coyote is my head
coach as well, just because he because he just he
he has access to stuff that I didn't even think
was possible, and he knows how to put it together.
He could he could read instructions, so I know he can.
He can execute game plan. He will. Yeah, acmee has
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everything apparently. I mean that's his playbook and he's always
devising these elaborate things because I now here's the thing.
I contemplated him being an offensive coordinator, you know, because
he just he always has a solution even when there's
not a problem, uh except for in his mind, like
he creates the problems. But I feel like as a coach,
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he could possibly be a play calling head coach. That's
the new Veaux thing right now, right, So so I
have him as a head coach who can also jump
in and play and call plays as well. So if
I didn't have an O C, I know that Wiley
could jump in. It's real good. Excellent, excellent, all right,
I got two for you guys before we got a
break here kick return specialist. With all the respect to
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the road Runner, he's on my roster we'll get to
him in in the second hour. But I got Speedy
Gonzalez as my that is myn If your name is speedy,
you were born to be a kick and point returner. Absolutely,
you know, you know his real life personality who who
who I had envisioned was one of my teammates, Stefan Logan.
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Oh that's a good one. I mean you got you
know you you got Dante Hall is the human joy stick,
right and Speedy Gonzalez. Oh, man, I tell you what
that one just sometimes it just feels right. And Speedy
Gonzalez is my return specialist. Was one of those head
coach gentlemen. Yes, I got porky pig pregame s breeches
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would be a little rough, but you know, you want
your you know, I think a lot of the best
head coaches are CEOs, right, They see the big picture.
They might not be necessarily the greatest X and o's
mind in the world, but they know how to pull
the strings and put the right people in place to
get it done. And they are kind of the figurehead, right,
the boss who sits at the top of everything. They
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are the CEO, their faces out there all the time.
They're the voice you hear from and doesn't that sound
like Porky pick every episode of Breat Breat, Breat Breat.
That's all, folks. I mean, he is the figurehead, he
is the CEO. He is the one who shuts it
all down, good or bad. You always hear from him
at the end, head coach, Parky Pink. And that's why
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he made my head referee because at the end you
shoot the gun off and then you go, that's all, folks,
We better go to break for where we blow up.
Oh my gosh, this is the This is glorious and
this is spectacular. I cannot wait for the Power Hour
version where we start getting into the nuts and bolts
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because there's a couple of guys I gotta I gotta
pick a bone with you guys about one of them
is on the D line. Nobody's mentioned him yet, and
I'm going to mention him next. He is my dark horse.
And I think you guys will agree with this decision
when we come back here in the locker room. It's
well if it starks, And of course you aler here
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get man do your Oh yeah, there's nothing like a
little Matt McConaughey to get your engine started. On a Friday,
as we shut down the locker room for the offseason,
(01:00):
locker rooms going dark. Max, how are you, my friend?
I am doing well this morning, Wolf, Like I said,
bitter sweet. Right. We would have loved to have continued
this wonderful voyage all the way into February, but unfortunately
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we did not make the I mean kind of sort. Hey.
It would have been nice to go to Buffalo and
have at it and see what happens. But I gotta
tell you this, hey, guys, I got I got it
from from my dear wife, the good Lady Faith. She said.
Max was hilarious doing that soliloquy with um the the
(01:45):
music from the golfing stuff with Jerry Doola the master.
It was hilarious. That was absolutely hilarious. You had a
faith laughing all through that whole thing that was that
was so funny, And you have that very um voice,
like the galley voice you got in the galley. You
gotta you gotta make sure that you know the gallery.
(02:06):
You got to make sure that you have that very
nice voice because you never know when somebody's gonna put wolf.
And that's why you have to make sure that if
you're going to be at this low tone, you're not
disturbing the golfer in their focus and laser concentration to
make sure they can sink that double bogey putt. See,
we gotta have golf like happy, that's how we do.
(02:28):
We gotta who was the guy, Bob, Bob Barker. When
you're getting a fist flight with Bob Barker, all right,
now you got something cooking exactly as all jacked up
on Mountain Dew out there on the course, guys popping
wheelies in your in your golf cart. That was one
of the funniest things without getting a fight with Bob Barker.
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I love that. I just love that. That was just
so cool, you know what I mean, especially when he
played dead oh Man. Unbelievable, but yes, indeed, so here
we go. We are foraying on into the final episode
of the two Locker Room in actually now, but it
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started in the season the season, yeah, season of locker Room.
The first thing I gotta bring up because this is
again for the folks that aren't familiar with the locker
room or you know how it operates. You know, when
you have a bunch of ball players and you come
in with thoughts, with things that captured your attention, your
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imagination as you come in the locker room. And so
you might be, you know, hanging around. We we got
your your notebook, looking at plays, or you just might
have come in and watched some film early. But you're
sitting with the boys, You're hanging out. And the first
thing I would say is say Max, as you realize today.
On this day, January nineteen sixty eight, Johnny Cash stepped
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on stage at the California State Prism and Falsome on
this day and recorded one of the most legendary concerts
in American music history, lore, ending with a song that
made a star out of an inmate. I mean, it's
amazing to me. And then and then there's usually one
person in the crowd that goes who yes, yes, exact
(04:26):
right now, Yeah, because you're gonna get a mix of
the melody or guys who just never listened to, you know,
that genre of music and they're like, I don't know
what you're talking about. So you could never ask about
million dollar quartet or anything like that because they just
they don't have the capacity to sit there and know that.
(04:47):
And then there's the one guy that says, oh, yeah,
I was there, How you weren't you weren't born? Yeah, exactly,
how the hell are you there? You know, you know,
And that's what that's what you love about the locker room, right,
You just you get some people are just nod their
heads like yep, yep, you're yeah, yeah, you're probably right.
(05:09):
But there's always those dissenters and outliers, right, there's always
that that just wasn't that big. Yeah yeah, And you're like,
you're like, are you serious, dude? And then next thing,
you know, that is the entire topic the entire day,
right in between meetings, right in the hallway, when you're
(05:32):
hanging out, pregame practice, lunch, stretch line, you know, coming
back into the locker room, like I still can't believe
you don't know who Johnny Cash is. You're walking in
the shower. You're just like, hey, would you believe this
guy behind me here? He doesn't even know who Johnny
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Cash is. Under a rock, you know, I gotta tell you.
One of the best shows that and I ever did
over the twenties some years, we did The Locker Room. Okay,
we got into an argument about whether a cobra could
take um, what's what's the critters that kill the cobra's um?
You know, yes, Ricky Ticky Tabby. There we go. So
(06:19):
we're sitting there, we're arguing over the fact of Ricky
Ticky Tabby could whip up on uh, you know, somebody,
some cobra, right, and so we're going back. We had
almost thirty five or forty phone calls that day over
the two hours to weigh in on whether the cobra
could whip the mongoose or the mongoose could whip the cobra.
(06:39):
Finally we got we had to get the uh, the
curator from the Pittsburgh Zoo to call in, and then
he decided and he had to weigh in on it.
But that that that's exactly it, because you get these
arguments that seemingly have no exact answer, and then you know,
guys take sides, right because you know, Mike Webster argue
(07:00):
for for oh he Mike webs would argue that desiccated
liver was great stuff for endurance and strengthen that. And
then you're on the other end going, yeah, but you're
killing us in the meeting room because you're letting out
some gaseous material there, Bud, you know, and then everybody's
piling in with that. You know, listen, I mean but that,
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but that's that, and that's the glory and the beauty
of the locker room. It's it's democratic, and there are
no biases good, better and different. There's no biases. And
everybody's got a voice. Oh just like butt holes, everybody's
got one. And he's just like, man, I got this
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to myself. But it's exactly true. I mean you to
think about it. Guys would jump in and say who's
Johnny Cash? And then the others were dogs would would
jump in and and and in in. You know, they
would say who listens to country music? Know? And then
you would go back at them with whatever genre of
music they listened to, and then you you know, smack
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him with that, and then it would get it would
just explode, be awesome, Yeah exactly. I mean it's just
it's one of those things. It's just back and forth,
back and forth, back and forth. He's just like, come on, guys,
I mean, you know, either a get it together or
be just just just shut up and listen to me,
you know what I'm saying Like that, that's the other thing.
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Just shut up and listen to me. And because I'm right, no,
you had the one that was always the politician. Oh yeah, right,
he was always he's always played kating to the mob. Right. Yes,
he would say things just to get guys on his side,
even though you know, you know he doesn't believe that.
(08:47):
See back at my time, Tounch would be like the boisterous,
just say something to scream something out, you know what
I mean, and then then people would start to obviously
take sides with that, for or against it, that sort
of thing, and then before you know you you got
this argument going on. And that's the way it was.
Touch was an instigator. Yeah yeah, see that those that
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you know who that was for us that it was
TC Tyrone Carter, okay right right, TC would would would
would just I felt like he he would take the
opposite of what everybody else said, just for the fact
that he was the first one to take the opposite,
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just to argue it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, he was just
he it was like it was like an explorer. You
know what I'm saying, Like I'm a plan a flag
on this because I don't see any other flags on
this boom. Well it's it's it's so, it's already a country.
It doesn't matter. Nope, Nope, it's mine. Boom. It's like,
oh god, It's like and you never wanted to bring
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it up to TC, because TC was also so loud,
like he was the one that was going to just
if he was vehemently wrong. He was just he was
gonna out yell you. And then to the point where
it's like I just don't want to hear him yell anymore.
You know, He's like he's, he's, he's, he's he's hit
my ear drums way too hard. So I'm just gonna
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give up at this point, just because I want to
save my ear drums, you know what I'm saying, Like
that one guy that just just won't let it go.
You're like, I know you're wrong. Two plus two is
not five. It is not five. It's five, and I
believe it's five. How are you gonna sit there and
act like it's not there's a plus there at the two.
And another time it's you know, he's just like, you
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know what, maybe it is, Maybe it is. You know
one thing about TC all right now, the one year
you guys were all driving cars that were like vintage
cars or something the Classic Car Show, Yes, the Classic
Car Show up at St. Vincent, right, So I'm looking
at his car and it's it's beautiful and I think
it was a the top came down on it could
(10:55):
be convertible not maybe not. I can't remember, but I
do remember was he had a t BE installed in
the front dashboard. And I'm going, okay, really, um, do
you think, Tyrone, do you think maybe that's not a
good idea. I was like a question. I'm going, you know,
I mean, you got a TV sitting right there to
your right in the front dashboard and you're driving you
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maybe you're you know, you gotta keep your eyes. And
he goes, oh, it's just for the passengers. I'm going, oh, sure, yeah, right,
you're on some you're on some long stretch of road
out in Iowa somewhere, just driving for miles, you know,
I mean, you don't you only back up and go
around when when you come to a curve, just so
you drive the curve a couple of times, right, So
those long roads and you're not you're not gonna turn
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on a tune right there? Something you know? All right? Yeah,
all right? So we got into one little little arguments.
They're not argument, just one of those you know, pro
con type things, you know what I mean? Yeah, no,
I mean listen. Uh. First of all, I'm glad you
remember that when we arranged that. That was that was
pretty awesome. That was at Paula convertible. So yeah, it
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was light blue, white top, white interior. I had to
flip out screen as well. Oh you didn't. How do
I did? How buddy? How does somebody of your intelligence
come up with something like that? I can understand if
it's in the back seat, you know, but the temptation
to flick that thing on. It's not a movie player though,
(12:27):
like you can't play it on it, but it's That
was the first That was the first age of touch
screens as opposed to having to use the knobs and
the buttons. Right, it was touch screens, so the face
would flip out because cars didn't come with that as
standard like they do now, So it would flip out.
And that was your touch screen. I mean. It also
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had the DVD capability if you wanted to do that, right,
So did you. I did not have DVDs in the car, Okay,
so you're practicing safe driving, and I had music videos,
so it would play the music and also the music
video at the same time. So you obviously you would
(13:09):
never check the video, right, I mean you would only
only stop only stop signs of stoplights. I swear whenever
you have to swear to something, then oh exactly, especially
when there's no Bible present, you know, exactly. But no,
(13:35):
But I mean I loved it because Lucille that was
the name of my car's I remember that, Lucy. Yeah,
that's right, Lucile was lucill was was was one of
my pride and joys. Uh. But yeah, but TC TC Yeah,
TC had had a uh he had an eight. He
had an eighty two Caprice every because tcs from South Florida.
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So South Florida. One of the things they're known for
us the dunk or box or a box Chevy. It
was a nickname as a dunk, but they called those
a dunk, but it was it was a it's a
box Chevy. So if you had a box Caprice Classic
or in Paula like back in those days like that.
And then he put it on the big wheels because
he had rims so that he had the mean green machine.
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Uh yeah, so I mean he had that. I would
say d brought a deuce in the quarter. Um, who
else brought something? Ricardo Cokeley, I want to say he
had something. I think he had El Dorado. Um. And
we yeah, we had we had a bunch of It
was about eight of us that came up. Hamp had one.
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I forgot what Hamp was driving. But we actually got
a picture and I actually have the picture in my
in my storage because I'm redoing my office right now.
But it's a big picture of all of us together,
um with with our classic cars. And then also the
year we did the Mini Coopers the office line, so
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we got a picture. So I have a picture of
us in the offensive line doing the Mini Cooper drive up.
And so when I redo my office, I'm gonna put
those two pictures and the two White House pictures kind
of like in a stack row because those are all
the same size. So yeah, so I have some ideas.
So so my off season, you know, well it's gonna
(15:28):
be busy because I'm I'm reconfiguring and redoing my office.
I hadn't redone my office in like twelve years, so
I've gotta updated and change it around. Obviously, you know,
make make one of these walls zoom background worthy, you know,
because that's the big thing. You gotta have a cool
zoom background because mine is terrible. It's just a fox
(15:49):
finished wall with nothing on it. Um, So I gotta
get creative. So, you know, also Steelers Nation, throw some ideas,
you know what I'm saying. Just hit me up on
the on the good old tweet box there Twitter. You know,
let me know some thoughts about what you'd like to
see in the background if if you ever catch Max
on a zoom something, I'd like to see what the
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football from Max's uh four yards of tote Russian game
against the Auburn Tigers in two thousand and one. I
just knew you were going to say something like that.
You know, I did not keep that because we lost
the game and once we once I got clipped, I
don't know what happened to that football. That football was
dead to me because it was not lucky. It was
very unlucky. Okay, I get it, even though it wasn't
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the football's fault. Now let me ask a numbers. I
gotta ask Max why I remember this? Okay? Now, you
called your car loose Seal? Was that like BB King
with his guitar named blue Seal? Uh? It was not
exactly like it, but same premise, okay, same premise. Alright, alright,
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because Lucy O Bogan was did Lucille in BB King's life,
and she was an American classic female blues singer and songwriter. Um,
you know so yeah, yeah, so I would have thought
Lucille Ball. You know, I love Lucy, but yep, that's
a that's a better one. Yeah. I think it was
Bogan was her name. I'm gonna I'm gonna be honest.
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I just I just picked a name that sounds like
an older lady. That just sounded good. Huh, Okay, it
just sounded good. It's just it's felt like you know,
I I looked at it, I said the name, and
I felt like the car said, yes, be honest with you.
That's it's about how it went in my head, okay, alright,
So so it made it made it nice and easy. Today.
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Now before we get gone, we got we're gonna intersperse
and we're gonna open up the phone lines right away
four one, three, one six. It's the last day in
the locker room. But we also have the much anticipated lineups,
and it's we don't even have to do lines. What
we gotta do is you give me a player from
Hannah Barbara or from the Looney Tunes. Matt West gives
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a player, you know, and why you gotta you gotta
have a hy for who you you absolutely okay, alright,
So don't just don't just throw a name out there,
that's right, not have any justification for it, you know,
all right, because I'm gonna give you Elmer Fudd, all right,
Elmer Fudd. Elmer Fudd is my equipment manager because he's
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always hunting for something. Okay, So that's my equipment man,
all right. Well, if I made I made Fund my
defensive coordinator for the same reason he's always hutting out,
we're gonna get a lot of turnovers. He's gonna be
hunting that football, Yes, exactly exactly. How about you Max?
(18:51):
Be very quiet, I'm hunting interceptions. Oh you aascually one
and back. This is gonna be fun. We're gonna have
last year. Where's the jerseys? Where's the jerseys? Where the jerseys?
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I'm looking for? I'm looking for seventy two with seventy two.
I found seventy one. I found seventy three. Can't fight
seventy two? I found seventy What comes after seventy? Yeah exactly.
You know you know what I have? You know, you
know I have Elmer Fudd as Elmer Fudd was is
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my water boy. You know what I'm saying. Be honest.
I had Elmer Fudd as the water board because I
just felt like, you know, he's always paying attention to
every little minute details to give him any type of it.
So I feel like during time outs he's the guy
that would also bring out the little grass cleat thing
because you never know, you know, come guys, come on, wipe,
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wipe those beets off. Wipe those beets off. Here the
water here, the water here, the water. Hey, everybody had
the towels that everybody the towns I got one, I
got a towel. You know what I'm like like, I
feel like he's a multitasker. So that's why I would
have put him more so in the water boy slash
athletic trainer role. That's that's just why I wanted to
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equipment manager, because he's always got something going on. You know,
you gotta get back there, you gotta run, rummage around,
and you know it's this is good, this is fine.
So if you want to get in on this, well
you gotta come up with a Hanna, Barbara or a
Looney Tunes character and then name them to a position.
And why Also any commentary about locker room stuff. You
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know what the off season is gonna look like? Are
you pessimistic? Optimistic? All those things? All those things and
more Max, all the normal, all the normal stuff, plus
the bonus of who you would have on your all
star cartoon lineup here in the locker room when we
come back. Also phone line numbers four six. Want to
(21:10):
make sure you also remember the phone number. We're here
on ESPN S and R Radio. This is in the
(21:34):
locker Room with Wolf and Starks on ESPN Pittsburgh against
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(22:01):
Hello Steelers Nation, and welcome to the final day of
in the Locker Room here on s n R. I
will be a game show host as we put Craig
Wolfley and Max Starks to the test here on the
final day of in the Locker Room. This will be
question number one before we go back to the phone lines.
Craig Wolfley, let's talk about most likely to succeed. Which
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newcomer do you think is gonna have the stuff going
forward for the Pittsburgh Steelers. Oh yeah, you know there
can only be one that would be or Pickens. If
that was I was l Varral right Pickens, because we're
picking and grinning is what we're doing because of George Pickens.
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Mr Starks, and this is you know, final week of
senior year here. Well, you know what's you know what's
tough is I can't play the buzzer and the theme
music at to say if I hit the buzzer, the
theme music goes away. Gotta work, you got we're not
multitaskers here, will Mr Starks your vote for the Steelers
(23:09):
twenty three year book, most likely to succeed? All right,
I'm gonna go most likely to succeed. You know what
I've I've still gotta go with Dan Moore. Dan Moore
has been growing and it's at a tough position, and
Dan's made progress, and I think I'm still on the
boat that the youth that he has, the experienced by
fire that he's gone through is making him that much better.
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And I feel like next year is going to be
a breakout year for him. So I'm going with Dan Moore,
is my most likely to succeed? Can we get a
point of order here? Didn't you say newcomer? I think
he should be disqualified on that answer. I don't know
if he can. He answered the question to me, is
most likely to succeed newcomer of the year. He didn't
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say newcomer of the year. I was most likely to succeed. Well,
who who is it? Who is the lead kangaroo in
this kangaroo court? That that was perfect answer right there.
Blind leading the blind out here sometimes was done in
the locker room. We got a kangaroo court, and I
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need somebody to stand up for me. So you gotta
get you gotta get one of the in house lawyers,
which in my case, you always got touch because Tonch
could argue anything on both sides. Anything. Alright, one more
here before we get back into it. On our final
day of In the Locker Room, it's the in the
Locker Room game show. Max will start with you like
(24:40):
the game show host voice. We'll start with your host
on this one. Mr stocks favorite road trip of the
year was Oh, um, I'm gonna have to go. Well,
let's see, I'm basing my favorite road trip on the
based on the food that I had. Sure, and this
is more difficult for you because you know, you're normally
in a college game Saturday, so you don't necessarily get
(25:02):
the frolicking time in the new city like most of
us do. Yeah, so I'm basing this off of my
door dash order history pretty much. Um yeah, I mean
I still I have to I have to go with Buffalo.
I mean because I got Anchor, I got Anchor bar Wings,
and I went to Dinosaur Barbecue while I was there,
So uh yeah, that's what That's what I'm gonna base
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it off of. I'm I'm gonna I'm gonna go with Buffalo.
I'm gonna go with Buffalo. Whoa, I'm not really disagreeing,
and I just wanted to hit the buzzer. Oh tremendous TuS.
Now I've got a whole plethora of different buzzers here
at my disbuzzle. Hold on, let's try another way. That
(25:47):
sounded just like the all it's more elongated. Yah, that's
that's like, Oh, yeah, that's a good one. We might
have to keep that for the fog. But oh, that
sounded like who wants to be a millionaire and phone
a friend there or something? Yeah, exactly, hold on, sorry,
(26:08):
I gotta do that. Mr wolf Lee, back to you.
Your favorite road trip of the season was. I would
have to say Cincinnati because we went down there, we
kicked their butts, and we got home early enough that
I had a nice dinner at home. It was really great.
That's always a good combination. I remember that one. The
host has to chime in on this one. I'm going
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with Atlanta. That was my number two hotel. Hotel was
in a great location. Food at the stadium was fantastic,
The stadium was fantastic. Stealer Nation took over, we won
the game. That's that's that's the that's the highlight trip
of the season. I got them for the host here
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Wesley Bob Barker. Yeah, I like that. Yes, I want
to change mine. Now, count can I do that? I
believe I can. Don't, don't, don't. Don't you give me that.
I will talk through that buzzer. Listen, do you not
know me by now? West Buzzers do not intimidate me, sir,
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Thank you, good date, hold on, hold on, hold on. Well,
I found I found audio of Max on the field
against Auburn when he said that's what the DV said
when I said charge Still that is still one of
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the greatest stories going. Uh oh, I'm just glad I
didn't point my hand out, you know what I'm saying,
like point like baby, Yeah, exactly, like I'm calling my
shot up. Never mind like rectory. I got four yards
down the good you know, I mean if it felt further,
(28:05):
I mean because I had to take it from behind
the line of scrimmage, I mean it felt further. Yeah,
that's your actual distance traveled. There was more like seven
or eight yards. You know, we should have gotten GPS
measurements on that. You know what your speed was going on?
How many? Like you're like going three or four miles
an hour. You know, well it was night time, so
the sundown was not out, so it was tough to
(28:26):
read that. Well, if you know, we always always joke
about always falling forward, right, Well, I mean I think
two of those four yards Max gained on that play
where it was it was it was you might have
to buzz yourself on that one. Yeah, yeah, I yeah,
there we go. Thank you. Oh my heavens clarification purposes,
(28:50):
I don't, I don't know, you know, I maybe I
may I made vapor lock before we get to the
end of the show. Oh well, next on your on
your on your all tent two football team. Man, you
know what, you know who I got? I got a
center Foghorn Leghorn alright, because here's the thing about it, Foghorn.
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You need somebody at center that can direct traffic, that
can call out the fronts, that can identify Mike, And
you know you got Foghorn sitting there going yeah, you know, yeah, yeah, yeah,
oh yeah, I say, I say that Mike is over
here keeper for that's exactly. Does he not sound like
(29:43):
Jackie Gleason doing Buford Justice, you know, from the Cannonball
and all that stuff. So I would go Foghorn Leghorn
is my center. All right, Well, I mean, hey, let's listen.
You have a good choice there. I have fog Horn
Leghorn as my backup quarterback because I feel like, so
(30:05):
the reason why I picked fog Horn as a backup
quarterback and not my starting quarterback is simply because he
is going to bore you to death with the very
nuances of things and schematics that nobody cares about. But
also he's watching everything but yet is accountable for nothing.
You ever noticed that, remember what? Yeah? You know? So,
(30:26):
so I feel like everybody would love his stories and everything,
but nobody pays him any attention. So that's why I
would have fog Horn Leghorns the backup quarterback, because he's
always going to engage you just enough that you will
forget what you are going to do. You know what
I'm saying, Like, he's the guy that takes you out
of that mindset and and yet he and but physical
stature boom, you notice that guy you know is that
(30:48):
guy immediately, but you also know it's all looks in
that situation, and he keeps in his feathers numbered he does. Yeah,
because listen, you're on the sidelines. You gotta have something
to keep your mind. It's like the guy that keeps
the clipboard, you know what I'm saying. He has all
the plays listed in order and down in distance and
everything and the result like he's he's that guy. He's
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the chart guy. So that's why he's the backup quarter.
The only problem is that you would have to be
stressed during times of up tempo, the no huddle, the
two minute, that sort of thing. You know, he'say, I say,
I say, I said, I don't walk well on the fly.
You don't have trouble getting it out, I say, I say,
I say, I say. Imagine him trying to give hand signals,
(31:31):
you know, because the back it usually give his hand signals.
It's only three fingers too, because you know exactly he
and he was stuttered through that. Could you imagine somebody
giving you stuttering hand signals. That would be the most
frustrated for the only three fingers. Yeah, exactly what was that?
Was that? Two or four? I don't know what he's doing.
(31:54):
Does that thumb count as a finger or it doesn't
count as a fun Why are you putting too? Why
are you putting two index fingers together. I don't know
what that means. Well, gentlemen, I have let me Let
let me tell you here too about this defensive line
that I've constructed. Here, I saw going leg Horns at
(32:15):
d tackle for me. Okay, okay, because I mean he's
gonna have a Casey Hampton type presence in the middle
of my defensive line there. I mean, good luck with
big Foghorn clogging that thing up. I've also got Hugo
the Abominable Snowman next to him, so I mean that's
basically like Warren Sap and Aaron Donald in the middle.
Good luck, And then off the edge, I got Tasmanian
(32:37):
devil on one side and Nasty Canasta on the other side.
I mean we are we are going quarterback hunting, and pultunately,
we've kept all the feathers and the number for such
an emergency. Okay, it's satting to let some others in
on this one before we totally lose our mind. Let's
go to Circus George and Sarasta, Florida. Circus George, you're
(32:59):
in the locker room, and hope you got some characters.
Good morning, gentleman, Good morning, Oh what's up? Buddy. Well, yeah,
well we got some interesting stuff going on here. I
thought you just got wanted one player at one position. Now,
if you want me to build a team, I might
might take some time. I say, I say it, but anyway,
(33:19):
I say it's something, but it has never played baseball
before anyways. Uh, Marvin and Marcia is the field goal kicker? Yeah,
short long kickers are almost always short and if you
block his kick, you doozy. That makes me very angry,
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very angry. Indeed, I shouldn't know. You'd enter right into
the spirit of the thing their circus. Yeah, as far
as kes and cars, look, you know, I had, I
had a motor home and I have my little black
and white television like a nineties screen on my dashboard
illegally want to watch him. Of course that was from
(34:02):
my passengers, and I had I was watching football with
an antenna black and white, you know, a funny picture.
And I'm watching football while I'm driving at night, while
I'm eating a taco and pulling a trailer behind that.
So yeah, I don't want to hear about the car.
A car that's the boy. So it can be done,
if your smart party can really be done. So I
(34:23):
always thought. Then idea would have been to put a
webcam on the outside of your car, and then you
could put a giant TV screen on the inside in
stereo windshield, and you can have a picture of the car,
and then you can have a picture and picture like
these you remember the last the shore on the big
just having the corner the screen of your car so
you can see where the driving. You have just confirmed
(34:47):
what I said. That boy is as sharp as a bowl.
And he said about a shop a sack of wet mice.
There's another cart one, I said to a little on
a dump side. Excellent. Hey, guys, players on the uplise,
I really like Picket. I liked him when we took him.
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I'm expecting better things out of me as long as
the offensive line continues to improve, which um, as far
as I'm concerned, I know you guys loved the improvement
of the line, but you gotta consider a little bit
because here's the cold the cold water port, and you're
gonna hate me for it. We played against some lesser
talent towards the end, and you still gotta win. Otherwise
you're astention. If you don't need the bums, you are
(35:30):
one but against better talent. We need a better offensive tackle.
I don't care if it's a right or left, and
the same on the defensive line. We need to stud
most tackle. So there's your picks for the draft. Not
necessarily wanted to, but just thoughts. All right, Thank you, George.
You appreciate your brother. Thanks for you. Take care of absolutely,
(35:53):
take care you know. That's what I love you. Gotta
is Chuck Noel would say, get to enter into the
spirit of the thing, all right, what he's talking about
playing the game, enter into the spirit of the thing.
So circus, George paved the way. Let's take a break,
shall we maximum come back with more your calls and
all the all that sort of stuff. All right, Yes,
you heard the man. This is the locker room. Wolf
(36:13):
starts you learn engineering booth, also giving us game show
commentary Here in the locker room on ESPN s in
our radio. This is in the locker Room with Wolf
(36:35):
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welcome back from coming break, ladies and gentlemen, it's time
(36:56):
for more on the locker Room Game Show. Max Starks,
You'll be up first this time. Let's talk a little
most improved. Who gets your award for the biggest glow
up of this season for the Pittsburgh Steelers. Who's your
ugly duckling? Oh wow, Okay, ugly duck Okay, maybe that
(37:17):
was a nice way to ward it. But somebody who
looks much better now than they did back in August.
You know, one of the guys that I'm gonna say
actually surprised me a whole lot, James Daniels Uh from
training camp to the end of the season, completely different guy. Um.
We knew who he was resume wise coming in from Chicago,
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but I just I didn't see it early on, And
I think that goes to the chemistry of the offensive line.
And then by the end of the season, I mean
him and Mason Cole were just absolutely rolling guys up.
And I know circus George kind of talked about how
you know, the offense line when he gets lesser competition,
But at the same time, this unit, I wonder what
(38:00):
they would have done against better competition at the end
of the year. I think it was a perfect storm
catching them early in the year when they weren't together.
But I think they actually would have done a pretty
good job because you saw the job they did against
the Cleveland defense in Week eight team versus Week three, right,
I mean it was a different type of game where
they controlled it. So I wonder what they would have
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looked like going up against Buffalo a second time. You know,
wouldn't this line have established the line of scrimmage a
lot better and been in a position to be successful.
So that's why I can't necessarily give credence to lesser
competition of the second half because they dominated people who
they were supposed to I look at Carolina. Carolina had
some good guys on it, and they absolutely dominated them.
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And then you watched them the next week. They put
almost three yards rushing on teams and hold the other
team to about seventy five yards rushing. So I think
it's a little bit pushing pull. You can't necessarily say
that the first half was so much tougher than the
second half of the season. I like that answer. Maximus
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tough act to follow, but he gets your award from
most improved Pittsburgh Stealer. Well I gotta say, real simple,
out of nowhere did Connor Heyward come along and do
some impressive things as the season unfolded. Now, it's not
exactly like like Max said, the you know, the difference
from being a starter and and doing better all the
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way through is one thing, but you know, it's it's
kind of one of these things, and maybe Connor would
be more better served as a newcomer of the year.
But he's certainly in the conversation for the guy that
really added so much. When I you know, I really
thought he was just gonna play special teams. I didn't
think he would be the contry. I saw that he
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a good route running, I saw a good hands. I
thought he was a decent blocker. But he got better
at blocking, like when he would come across the back
as the wham guy as a trailer around the pin
and pole stuff. He got so much better at that
and did a great job all the way through. But
again the big catches down the scene doing the things
that he did, and then his contributions on the special team.
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So I would have to go as Connor Heyward as
my guy. I like that answer to gentlemen. I know
normally on these game shows. The host doesn't chime in
with opinions, but it's my show, so I'm gonna make
my own rule. I like both of your shouts. Just
one more guy who deserves one in my mind, and
(40:32):
remember this is most improved. I'm going with Alex Highsmith.
All right. We know he was a good he was
a good football player, dang good one his first two
years in Pittsburgh. But to go from two sacks to
six sacks to fourteen and a half of them things
my most improved player of the year, Alex Heisman not bad.
(40:56):
I like that. That's a great job. Where to go, Mr?
Mr Game show host? That's right, that is Mr Game
show host to you, Craig with all right, that's Jim
and let's get somebody. We got John and Morgantown. John.
What do you think about our choices thus far? I
like her choices. I like them. They're all good, all
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good for the position. Like, uh like, what's this defensive line? Though?
I think I think that's the crown jewel right there.
Me and coach Dunbar are gonna have him ready to go.
I'd like I'd like to have someone to play behind
that defensive line. You got a inside line back. If
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you're gonna have someone mean so from our inside linebacker,
I'm gonna go with Yosemite Sam. I feel like, eff, really, listen,
you know John's from Morgantown where Simpatico, Because that's the
same middle linebacker. I got baby Yosemite Sam every day.
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And then I also have a receiver return specialist. Okay,
who's that. I'm gonna have to go to the road runner.
I feel like he's probably three guys can take one
to the house. Oh yeah, there's a guy that can
tear the top off the coverage. Huh bet. I got
an offensive coordinator too. All right, I'm gonna I'm gonna
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have to go with Gary from Tom and Jerry. I
feel like he's always that's one stuff ahead I love.
That is really good. Man is really good? Now, John
the couch man, that's good here today. Thanks brother, We
(42:52):
appreciate you. Alright, rolling on here now, I like, you know,
here's the thing. He had some good choices there. I
went with my head coaches, Wiley Coyote, super y. Yes, yes,
you gotta have somebody at the top who's thinker righting
a lot. So I went with the wily guy. Yeah,
(43:15):
I mean, I'm with you. Wiley Coyote is my head
coach as well, just because he because he just he
he has access to stuff that I didn't even think
was possible, and he knows how to put it together.
He could he could read instructions, so I know he can.
He can execute game plan. He will. Yeah, acmee has
(43:36):
everything apparently. I mean that's his playbook and he's always
devising these elaborate things because I now here's the thing.
I contemplated him being an offensive coordinator, you know, because
he just he always has a solution even when there's
not a problem, uh except for in his mind, like
he creates the problems. But I feel like as a coach,
(44:01):
he could possibly be a play calling head coach. That's
the new Veaux thing right now, right, So so I
have him as a head coach who can also jump
in and play and call plays as well. So if
I didn't have an O C, I know that Wiley
could jump in. It's real good. Excellent, excellent, all right,
I got two for you guys before we got a
break here kick return specialist. With all the respect to
(44:24):
the road Runner, he's on my roster we'll get to
him in in the second hour. But I got Speedy
Gonzalez as my that is myn If your name is speedy,
you were born to be a kick and point returner. Absolutely,
you know, you know his real life personality who who
who I had envisioned was one of my teammates, Stefan Logan.
(44:44):
Oh that's a good one. I mean you got you
know you you got Dante Hall is the human joy stick,
right and Speedy Gonzalez. Oh, man, I tell you what
that one just sometimes it just feels right. And Speedy
Gonzalez is my return specialist. Was one of those head
coach gentlemen. Yes, I got porky pig pregame s breeches
(45:08):
would be a little rough, but you know, you want
your you know, I think a lot of the best
head coaches are CEOs, right, They see the big picture.
They might not be necessarily the greatest X and o's
mind in the world, but they know how to pull
the strings and put the right people in place to
get it done. And they are kind of the figurehead, right,
the boss who sits at the top of everything. They
(45:29):
are the CEO, their faces out there all the time.
They're the voice you hear from and doesn't that sound
like Porky pick every episode of Breat Breat, Breat Breat.
That's all, folks. I mean, he is the figurehead, he
is the CEO. He is the one who shuts it
all down, good or bad. You always hear from him
at the end, head coach, Parky Pink. And that's why
(45:50):
he made my head referee because at the end you
shoot the gun off and then you go, that's all, folks,
We better go to break for where we blow up.
Oh my gosh, this is the This is glorious and
this is spectacular. I cannot wait for the Power Hour
version where we start getting into the nuts and bolts
(46:10):
because there's a couple of guys I gotta I gotta
pick a bone with you guys about one of them
is on the D line. Nobody's mentioned him yet, and
I'm going to mention him next. He is my dark horse.
And I think you guys will agree with this decision
when we come back here in the locker room. It's
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