May 28, 2024 • 40 mins
Arthur Moats and Wes Uhler get into some comments made by Patrick Queen over the weekend about his decision to join the Steelers, and hit on some other notable news of the past few days.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:39):
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(01:01):
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the end of the show, hopefully you'll be able to
understand who has the immaculate head of hair and the
decade of NFL experienced Baby. But uh, we are fresh
(01:23):
off the holiday weekend. Memorial weekend. I know, whenever you know,
Memorial Weekend happens, it's usually like the official start of summer. Right,
school's about to be completely completely over. I know, the
kids in the household kissing your itis mode. But this
is also usually when we start breaking out them smokers
(01:45):
and them grillers babies. So did my dog let me down?
And that my dogs still have the juice? I know
the guys are back in town. OTA's you know, they
had to show that they still got it. Some of
the rust would say, you though, good.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Fella, yeah, I listen. To be fair, there was a
lot going on. I had to figure how I wanted
to phrase this in case, in case my wife's listening.
There was a lot going on in the Euler household
in the month of May. Okay, we had birthdays, we
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had we had family members visiting. I mean, I think
legitimately every weekend in May. And people know how this
works if you've listened to the show. This is kind
of the time of year when we we get like
two maybe two and a half months where our schedule
is flexible Arthur motes where it's not dominated by training camp,
regular season, playoffs, combine.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
Draft, right like, we we get we get about two.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
Maybe two and a half months where wee can of
the year where we can kind of be flexible with
our schedule, where our weekends are open all that different stuff.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
And so dark things on Sundays exactly right.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
You could actually have people come visit and and dad's there,
you know, my my my wife's family, her husband's there. Right.
So my wife is from the Philadelphia area, as we've
discussed on this show before too, as is the majority
of her family obviously, and so they live not on
the other side of the country, but also not right
around the corner. So this time of year they like
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to come out and visit us, her parents, her sister,
her aunts, her brothers, whatever, right, And so in the
month of May we had a lot of company because
the weather starts to term. It's our youngest birthday. People
come to visit all that stuff. So I was a
little worn out this past weekend, so I didn't throw down,
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throw down, throw down, you know, but I still had
to do it to them a little bit. So I
kind of hit him with the classics. I did wings, burgers,
and hot dogs this weekend. I did not do any
pulled pork or any ribs.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
Or anything like that. Now, don't worry, I can see
July fourth on the horizon. All right. I'll make I'll.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
Make it, okay, but I'm not gonna lie to you.
I was just we had had three or four straight
weekends of company and I'm cooking and I'm on and
I'm hosting and you know all that stuff, and I
just kind of wanted.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
To be lazy.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
So I just I did smoke.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
I did smoke some chicken wings. But other than that,
I just did burgers and dogs, nice and simple. Not
a ton of prep, not a ton of effort, not
a ton of time. Because I it was like labor
day for me. Arthur Mokes, I wasn't. I wasn't trying
to labor.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
I digs what you are saying and shout out to you. Man.
Suddenly was in similar spaces then, man, because I was
over here, like we're gonna wings it up, We're gonna burgers,
We're gonna you know, I dog steaks, that type of thing.
But yeah, yeah, yeah, baby, were on the same page.
Sometimes the laboring be laboring. Sometimes the labor be laboring.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
Won't like you know, it's a labor love but but
like ribs and pulled pork and brisket and some of
those things.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
I mean, it's like you're cooking it.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
You're cooking cooking, and if you're doing it, if you're
doing it right, you might be sacrificing some of your
sleep along the way as well too, you know what
I mean.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Said man? Every so many hours some hours, man, come on.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Yeah, So again, I was just I was trying to
I was trying to lay low this weekend and uh
so yeah, just kind of stuck with the classics and
ju laugh. I might have h five or six wings
left over, uh from yesterday in the fridge that are
earmarked for lunch as soon as you and I finished.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
This, Los go, Los go. That's what I love to
hear right there.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
Wait, hold on, you said steaks. You did some steaks too,
Like you just slid.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
That in their casual bro I mean, if we go.
I mean it was multiple days this weekend, so I
figured I was like, you know what, one day and
it'll commit to the smoke to the wings, which was
a blast because I was like, man, I hadn't touched
the smoker in a minute. I had neglected it. So
you know, he had to give it that first like
wake and baked the nice little cleaning. Ah, let's just
let's let's just smoke up. Let's smoke up the community
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real quick. Man.
Speaker 4 (05:53):
You gotta let him know there, you're there. You know
what I mean, because they might have forgotten. You gotta
let him know he's there.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
You know what they said, Oh he's back. I know
that smell. He's back. They say, yeah, he back. In
the last he could kicked the habit. He back cooking again,
done hibernating like that. Ain't nothing like that first smoke
off the smoke or for the spread baby, or excuse
me for the summer time. Man. So no, it was
definitely a blast. Man, definitely was man. But salute both
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of us and salute to everybody else man. And obviously
may we obviously know the nature of the holiday man
Memorial Day, you know, just thinking about those that have
served and have ultimately you know, given the ultimate sacrifice, man,
losing their lives and stuff. Man, not something that we
take lightly, and it's something that we are very appreciative
of because that is what allots us, you know, the
ability to you know, talk about cooking on the grill
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or doing the smoker. Obviously it's coming up here, you know,
having fun, you know, doing the radio show with things
like that. Man. But obviously for anybody that you know
has a little bit more of a heavy burden on
them because of what this holiday represents. Man, we don't
want to be insensitive about that either. But on another note, man,
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I got my Grateful Dead t shirt on. I know
in a little bit, what a couple of weeks, man,
you'll be taking your trip out out west to good
old Vegas, to the sphere to see the Grateful Dead
come out of retirement now because they technically retired. I
saw the last stop, all right, I have my last top.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
Well you saw the last tour, you know, but I
guess the last residency, right, I'm like, I have the
last tour, so this is clearly not another tour.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
They were retired, all right, I have Yeah, they're not
touring anymore, you know.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
How, you know how there's a couple jokes of like Florida.
Florida is where America goes to die, like you know,
like us, Yeah, and your you end your career as
a steeler out in Arizona, you know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Like some of these trust that.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
We laugh about.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
Yeah. Another one of those is right like when you're
when you're when you're getting to the end as a band,
you go to Vegas and do resident of Vegas, you know,
like when you're when you're a little bit older, you know,
when you're Mick Jagger and you can't quite you know,
go city to city night tonight, like you still have
the moves.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Like you used to what you still want so you
can get activated?
Speaker 3 (08:06):
Okay, Like you know what, we could just play two
or three shows a week in Vegas, not off to
travel anywhere, and we'll still make all the money that
we want to make.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Let's do it. And everybody wants to travel to Vegas absolutely.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
And yes, obviously I'm not complaining about spending two days
in Vegas here ten days from now, not that I'm
counting down or looking forward to it.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
It is there. It is so obviously I know that
you know me and your the same page with this man.
But bringing it back to why I have the shirt
it on Man. We did lose a media icon, man,
a professional sports icon, but more importantly man to do
that was big in terms of the grateful dead community.
Man talking about NBA Hall of Famer former color commentator
(08:48):
Bill Walton did pass away what over the Weekend Man
at seventy one years old, they said, after a prolonged
battle with cancer. Obviously, man we gere talking about Bill Walton.
The UCLA Superstar Feeta. Take it to the NBA. You
know you obviously dominated their finals, MVP Champion, NBA Top
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fifty Anniversary Team, seventy fifth Anniversary Team. I mean, you
name it, He's a part of it. Anybody that's watched
any Pack twelve basketball, any of the late late me
and by God West, we love it because we would always,
you know, be able to just kind of think about
how he is so interested the grateful Dead culture just
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you know, it's the way we talk about, you know,
just life and how he kind of viewed his perspective
one things. Man was always very entertaining and engaging, and
somebody that you know, as a former athlete, we're talking
about just seeing how a god could transition from being
dominant in one area of a sport but then be
able to transition to the microphone and still have a legacy,
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still have an impact. I thought that was, you know,
really cool to just see how his life kind of
progressed through that and how he stayed current with the
times as well. Man, you know, he didn't allow anything
to pass him by. He updated himself with the way
the game updated. Man. But you know, just shout out
to Bill Walton. Man, definitely one of those guys that
I thought, you know, when you talk about a guy
that played under you know, the legendary coach John Wooden,
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everything that came with.
Speaker 4 (10:17):
Spans a lot of American history.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Honestly, Yeah, dudes, you're like, Man, we talked college hoops history,
Bill Walton is heavily a part of that. You talked
NBA hoops history. Bill Walton's heavily a part of that,
obviously when we're talking about commentating, heavily a part of that.
And even legacy. We know his son not only you know,
played in the league, but also went ahead and coached
in the NBA as well. Man, So just continuing to
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show that legacy, that ripple effect, Man. But definitely wanted to,
you know, just share a little bit of my thoughts
on him, Man, but obviously want to turn it over
to you as well. Man, if you want to share
anything about.
Speaker 4 (10:49):
Bill, Well, I'm glad.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
I'm glad you closed out the first segment saying that
because very loosely right, but he's in kind of the
same ecosystem as us, that very wide blank of sports broadcasting,
sports media. Obviously, what you and I do on a
day to day basis is much different than him calling
basketball games. But again in kind of that same ecosystem.
And in this ecosystem, I think there's two types of personalities.
(11:14):
There's you know, you get like type A, Type B,
whatever it is if I wanted to really go into psychology.
But there's people who all basketball games, hall football games,
do sports talk shows and.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
They're just business.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
Yeah, by the book, Ye, they're.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
By the book.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
They ninety nine percent of what they talk about is
the sport that they cover.
Speaker 4 (11:34):
They very rarely veer off that path.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
And then there's Colin's Worth. Ain't not wrong with that,
you know, absolutely not.
Speaker 4 (11:41):
You and I work with a lot of people like that,
and we love people like that, and they.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
Can be great. I Sally, I mean obviously you know
I feel about Coysler. I think he's one of the
best doing this.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
Thing under some people like Bill Walton, and I think
you and I would fall into this category as well too.
It's about you're you're having fun, your color outside the lines. Yes,
always in the in the scope of what you're covering,
but you're not afraid to joke about food and music
and all these other things pop culture things and just
life in general, and so yeah, instead of instead of.
Speaker 4 (12:12):
Being buttoned up, we're a little unbuttoned. Instead of color
in between the lines, we like to make our own
patterns out there. And uh yeah, you and I.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
Are definitely of that ladder description, as was Bill Walton.
In fact, he was probably one of the people at
the forefront of that when it comes. He was one
of the original quirky sports broadcasters when there were only
a couple of those guys, when it wasn't a common
thing to do. So yeah, big shout out to Bill Walton.
I mean, you know, it's fun and not funny. But
when I saw that he passed away and was seventy one,
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my first thought was only seventy one because it just
seems like he's been around for Like if you would
have asked me how olds Bill Walton, I would have
probably said eighty one, you know, yeah, Like, it just
seems like he's been around forever, and he's done so much.
And like you said, I mean from really the first
dynasty of college hoops and UCLA and then into the
NBA and just all the pop culture history with.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Him, to all some of the battles to him Celtics
Lakers kareeb like, yeah, at least part of some history
history man.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
And then he again is the well known personality off
of it who went to over a thousand grateful Dead
concerts and you you would like see cycling down the
Oregon or California.
Speaker 4 (13:23):
Country side all the time in the off season.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
Yeah, Guys like that that were doing that before it
was cool and popular. Paved the way for you and
I to do things like we do today where we
can come into the office with our shirt unbuttoned, you
know what I mean.
Speaker 4 (13:38):
We don't have to be wearing.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
A suit and tie all the time, and we could
color outside the lines a little bit. So yeah, big
big shout out to Bill Walton, without a doubt, I'm glad,
You're glad.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
You got Come on, man, it's only right. It is
only right. Like I said, from one dead head to
another dead head, we will always acknowledge a fellow legendary
dead head absolutly.
Speaker 4 (13:59):
Ten days from now, I'll bring it in Bell's honor.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
All right, let's go, and we don't expect anything less.
All right, don't expect anything less, but we will take
our first break for today's show. Betrayed it I don't
test that dow Art the Most Wesley Uler and this
is the Steelers Blitz's.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
The Steelers Blitz with Wesley Euler and Arthur mos on
your twenty four to seven home of the Black and.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
Gold scan are Art the Most Wesley Euler? Back to
the second segment of today's show, Steelers Blitz. Of course
we're having a blast man. As we progressed through this
first show back since the holiday, Man, I don't like
when it's a holid. I mean, it's holidays fun, but
at the same time, I miss you, okay. So with
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that being the case, we had some commentary, some news,
some people talking shout out to the one and only
Patrick Queen Knew a sedition to the Pittsburgh Steelers family.
But he was talking, in fact, he was on these
Steelers Now podcasts I remember correctly, and basically, you know,
he was talking about his decision to sign with the
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Pittsburgh Steelers and ultimately he was saying that, you know,
he had about fifteen teams that he was talking to,
came down to about five, you know, at the end
of it. But he said that ultimately, man, some teams
were offering him about seventeen million dollars, which obviously is
more than what we were proposing. And he said he
had a chance to, you know, decide between going to
(15:41):
the place where he could get more money versus the
place that he felt like he could have a better
chance to win. And he felt and specifically this is
what he said. He says, for me, the difference was
like four or five million dollars. I'm looking at it.
I have never been on a losing team before. I
also don't want to be a part of anything being
re built because I'm trying to win now. So when
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we think about those type of things, and obviously we
know that he signed here for roughly thirteen you know,
thirteen point six million per year, What were your thoughts man,
when you or now that you've heard I wasn't sure
if you heard about it, yeah, when it first came out.
But what are your thoughts on you know, just that
commentary right there from Patrick Queen knowing that he did
(16:23):
potentially leave out a couple ms on the table because
he thinks that we have a situation where it's more
win now and he thinks that that's a little bit
more appealing to him.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
Yeah, I mean, I have no I have No, I
don't want to say this. I have no issues believing
him that that's true. You know what I mean. I
know some people thought that that might be the case.
Some people were saying, ah, you know, he's just saying
that is good pr with the fans or whatever. He
was the linebacker commodity in free agency. He was one
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of the most I think sought after defensive free agents
in this cycle, not just linebackers too. So I'm sure
he had great offers. I'm sure he had offers where
he could have gotten more than he got here in Pittsburgh.
I like that attitude from him. I like that balance
from him as much as you and I talk about
how like we never knock an athlete for take for
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for For some guys, they view it as I only
have this, you know, this finite window of real earning potential.
I'm gonna maximize the number every year that I can
because I never know. Any play could be my last
play and this could all be gone in an instant,
and you and I never fault anybody for doing that.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
I also think, no, no, no, you fault people all
the time for doing that. I'll start that now play.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
I also think, though that we always think that that's
the prevailing mentality of these athletes, and it probably is
for the majority of guys. But everybody's allowed to have
different priorities, different thing that's things that they value. Patrick
Queen is probably also it's it's probably easier for him
to look at it that way when he's still twenty five,
right in the prime of his career. Uh, he's made
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a solid earning as a first round draft pick, right,
It's not like he was an undrafted free agent. It's
not like he was a fourth round guy or something
like that.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
Like change already what is basically said between thirteen and seventeen, Man.
Speaker 4 (18:23):
No, it's a big difference.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
It's a big difference.
Speaker 4 (18:25):
There's no doubt that's a massive on you said, bro.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
We in m double digits? Man? Double digit is double
digit is unless we in twenties ten to twenties so
old to say that's what he said? Bad? Basically, I
hat you know, I actually what you're saying there today?
Thirteen minutes that email? What by what? What? What? What?
Speaker 3 (18:42):
If he's looking at it and saying I'd rather sign
a three year, forty one million dollar deal and and
have a shot to win a ring and play for
an organization like this than a three year, fifty one
million dollar deal somewhere else.
Speaker 4 (18:59):
I don't think it's unreasonable.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
Yes, I agree, everybody always like nobody wants less money.
But as you can also attest to, is the one
on this show spoiler alert, with a decade of NFL experience,
these guys are the ultimate competitors as well too. Yeah,
they want to make money, they also want to win.
Nobody wants to be on a bad team. So I
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think it's I think it's very reasonable. I know a
lot of people were kind of, like I said, quick
to jump out and say, oh, that's easy to say,
you know, you're just trying to play kate the fan base.
But no, I definitely believe he turned down a couple
million dollars, and I don't necessarily think that that should
shock us either, because again, athletes are allowed to have
different priorities. They're competitive too, they want to win two
all within the context it's still making some good money.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
Now, that's one hundred percent accurate, And this is the
beautiful part of the duality of our show, right me,
having you know, the experience. I could also attest to
a similar situation. Now, granted I didn't turn down four
to five edition a million, but I did take less
to state. I'll tell you about my story. Obviously, with
the Atlanta Falcons, prior to me signing my three year
extension here, Atlanta had already had a deal with the table.
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Their deal was better than what the Stills initial deal was.
Pittsburgh then bumped their number up. Atlanta then bumped their
number up again. Picker bumped their number up, and Atlanta
was ready to go up even more, but we knew
the Stills couldn't go any further. And at that time
I felt great in the sense of I felt welcomed here.
I felt great in the sense that this was going
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to be my first chance to plan the same defense
for the first time in my career, and I was
going into the sixth year of my career with would
have been the first time being able to repeat in
the same defense. Also, think about my wife being pregnant
at the time and what that dynamic was or see
not pregnant, shit, we actually just had we're in the
process of having our baby. Yeah, by to say, because
(20:50):
it was like signing contract in marsh Day was born
in April it was boom booth. But you know, I
think of that dynamic and I think of what that
decision when into why we took a little bit less
to stay here. So when I think of Patrick Queen,
I'm like, let's be real. When I was a free
agent or a pending free agent, I wasn't viewed as
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the marquee guy. I was viewed as the marquee name.
I was a quality name, but not the marquee. Oh
this is the guy that everybody's about to knock down
the door for. But all I had was just an
additional partner. You could see how those numbers could go up,
and ultimately I left money on the table to stay here.
So if a guy like Patrick Queen, who we are
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viewing as what former, what high end draft pick, already
as balled out coming off of being you know, part
of arguably the best inside lineback of tandem in the league.
Sure AFC Championship game starter. And he said he had
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multiple teams. We said fifteen teams in the process, and
they came down to five. Oh yeah, that is very realistic, man,
very realistic. It's a lot of teams out here that
I say, spin foolishly Okay.
Speaker 4 (22:11):
No doubt.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
They have a lot more cap space than the Steelers
as well too.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
Yeah yeah, they got blank checks and they don't operate
with the mindset that we're trying to find the players
that are going to help us win. Sometimes they say
this is going to make our fan base more excited.
They sells tickets, no doubt, and sometimes by just simply saying, hey,
we broke the bank and spent the most on this player.
That's what they That's that's the winning They would much
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rather do that than actually put the work in build
through the draft, free agency, et cetera. And then you know,
put together the form that we've had.
Speaker 4 (22:44):
For examples of this from the past see Jets.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
New York.
Speaker 4 (22:48):
Yeah yeah, win the offseason headlines every year.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
Have you heard of the Cleveland Browns, you know during
the Baker Mayflayer all right.
Speaker 4 (22:57):
Toy every year collecting football.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Yeah yeah. So when I tell you this is very
very legitimate and doubt easily easily the case, I just
simply say, shout out to him for being in a
position where he could decide more on his career and
what he felt was the best for him personally, versus
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chasing the dollar and doing whatever he thinks is going
to be the most lucrative, because not all money is
good money, and it's not even in the sense of
illegal versus legal money, but just in the sense of man,
seventeen million, but you're getting your head beating every week
is miserable, no doubt. I remember having conversations with guys
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like Ramon with with Mike Midge, where we're all at
the end of it and we're like, man, do we
really want to go somewhere else right now? Would you
want to take more to go here? Would we want
to go there? We want to do this work you
every year?
Speaker 4 (23:58):
Right, never play men, No one laws to do that. Man,
in a stadium, it's only fifty percent full, or is
full of the other team's fans.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
And what is your legacy when is over? When it's done,
you go back to the city, you go back to
the and it's like, yo, nobody wants to be here.
Nobody cares about you because you weren't a part of
anything significant. You were part of nothing that mattered. You
were just there collecting the check. And for some people,
like you said, that's fine. But for some of us, man,
we do want to have a little bit of a
ripple effect. When we're gone. We like to hear him say,
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I remember when.
Speaker 3 (24:30):
Again that's the that's the competitor side too, Like everybody
wants to make money, but these you guys make it
to the NFL because competition, competition, competition, competition.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
Your entire life, Patricktasha, since we were kids, I've been
kicking butt since before you even talked about a check.
Speaker 4 (24:48):
And you know what it's like to lose that It sucks.
I don't want to lose. And think about Patrick Quin too.
Speaker 3 (24:53):
Reminder, laid on one of the teams that will that
will be in the conversation of best college football team ever.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
Absolutely think about that.
Speaker 4 (25:02):
LSU team and how many dogs were.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
On that borough just Jeff.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
Chase, Patrick Grant delp It. I mean, like, I'm sure
we're forgetting the couple too. I know there was some
good some uh some decent offensive lineman on that team too,
but like that team went fifteen and oh smoked pretty
much everybody that they played and and was was, you know,
one of the best teams that we've seen in college
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football in the twenty first century, without a doubt, you think,
and then he goes from that to the Ravens where
they've been.
Speaker 4 (25:35):
Competitive, they've been legit every year. You think he wants
to go He think he wants to go win four
games a year after all, Yeah, like.
Speaker 3 (25:43):
After what he's had at LSU and in Baltimore, you
think he wants to go sign with a team that
he thinks is gonna win five or six games. Like
there's there's just no way. And I think everybody can
relate to that.
Speaker 4 (25:55):
Mozi.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
Pick a big corporation media corporate, all right, like ESPN
or Fox Sports or NBC or CBS or whatever. Right,
they knock on my door tonight, Okay, that would be
kind of creepy.
Speaker 4 (26:07):
Maybe they send me an email or.
Speaker 3 (26:08):
A phone call or something first, and they're like, hey,
we've been following you, we've been scouting you. We love
your work. We want you to do a show every day.
You could talk football, you could talk about whatever you want.
We're gonna offer you half a million dollars a year
for salary, or we could do we want to do
the show with Arthur Motes as well too. We love
(26:30):
what you guys have. We think if we're gonna have
Motes and you as well too, though, we'll pay you
four hundred K a year. You don't think I'd be like, oh,
hell yeah, give me motes, give me fun, Like it's
gonna be so much more fun.
Speaker 4 (26:42):
It's gonna be a better work environment. I'm gonna enjoy
it way more like, But that's.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
Not gonna be more beneficient to me.
Speaker 3 (26:52):
I'm still gonna be well compensated in the first place,
you know what I mean. Like, it's it's a no brainer,
and I'm sure a lot of people can really late
to that in their workplace situations as well too. Would
you would you rather make? Would you rather make ex
salary and love your job? Or make ten grand more
a year and have the worst boss ever?
Speaker 4 (27:13):
Like, you know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (27:14):
Honestly, that was that was the legitimate part of it.
You know, I know we're folcusing on Patrick Queen, but
you think about that, And that was literally the convo
that I'll never forget. Joey Porter man coming downstairs. I'm
sitting in the Little Player's lounge, just got done talk
with coach Tomlin, just got done talk with Keith Butler,
and Joey Porter comes down there and he simply said it,
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just like that. He's like, bro Yeah, you're gonna have
another or two. Yeah, you'll be in Atlanta. Yeah, you'll
be you know, court side of the halls. Gay, you
might ride it in some celebs. That's cool. But he's like, bro,
you really want to get your hair beat it every
single week. Every week. It's like, you know what when
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you walk up it with Big Well, you walk there
with a B L Bell the gang, like you know what,
it feels like we show up right, like you want.
Speaker 3 (28:05):
To do that.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
You want to go and gainst that.
Speaker 4 (28:08):
You want to go to the opposite of that, like
you want to have to see those guys.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
You don't want to do that. And Patrick Queed for certain, man,
he's got to do this coming from losing anywhere. So
I could understand that one thousand percent. But then also
I know and we'll get ready to end this segment too.
But I know some people out there that are saying, well,
if that's the case, why didn't he just stay in Baltimore.
This is the difference with Baltimore's probably offering him was
not remotely close to what we're talking about, due to
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the fact they already have one hundred million dollar linebacker
and a two hundred million dollar quarterback, all right, So
you can't afford to pay another dude this when you
got a lot of other players that are getting paid.
If I got one hundred million dollar left tackle, all.
Speaker 3 (28:48):
Just because say, and you and I listen, you and
I love linebackers, all right. I don't want to speak
for you, but it's my favorite position in the NFL. Yeah,
having million dollar linebacker and a forty million dollar linebacker
is bad.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
No, I'm gonna tell you right now, this bad business.
There's not the eighty five Bears, all right. You gotta
score points, all right. This is not where you want
to have all of your resources allocated too, especially inside
off ball live back.
Speaker 4 (29:16):
The quarterback.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
And I'm like Chase, right, I'm absolutely not, no, no, no, no, no,
I'm not about to have one hundred and forty million guaranteed.
The two off ball dudes gonna get me a hundred
plus tackles, You can keep them hundred plus tackles. Give
me fifty tackles and ten sacks, all right.
Speaker 3 (29:33):
They're getting fifty tackles and four interceptions something here.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
Absolutely absolutely. So that's the context in the sense of
why this wasn't really on the table for him. In Baltimore.
But you said best case, they might be offered him
five to six million dollars, and that legitimately could have
been their best offer. That is night and day when
you're talking about ten million dollars difference.
Speaker 4 (29:58):
No leaving a little bit on table and then.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
Right you you were too hard for that one. Now, buddy, okay,
if i'm your mommy, your daddy, your agent, I'm gonna fight.
I'm gonna tell you now, we didn't sacrifice this long
for this sit down. We will talk sit down. You
remember them l s U hard days. You ain't do
that for this. You ain't gonna have to leave ten
on the table.
Speaker 3 (30:22):
No, don't do Don't you remember coach don't you remember
Coach Old down there in about you doing the two
days spring practice, all that money on the table.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
Wes, we left a couple of the table. We ain't
leave ten. Ten. You gonna get your head beating in
for ten? All right? Ten? Bill, you canna get your
head beat in for ten. That's that's a totally different conversation.
Totally different conversation. Let's clarify that. Let's listen West and
West's analogy. Yeah, that was a closer gap who was
ten West is like, Bro, I appreciate you. We're gonna
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vacation together. Bro, I'll catch you on the vacation. Man.
All right, but this is what it is.
Speaker 3 (30:58):
That's the price has just been set. If you want
to prime me away from Arthur Motes, it's gonna cost
you ten million dollars a year.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
There you go, Bob say less. But I love it, man,
I love it. But as a whole man. Shout out
to Patrick Queen though, man, because like I said, I
do love the fact that he was able to be
a little bit more transparent and just can't get about
the situation. And even though for you know, people that
are always trying to have a negative perspective, it's very
(31:24):
easy to look at this and say, well, hey, man,
why would I believe that? Who would take less? There's
also another side of this thing that people don't talk about,
and that's the side where you do have people that
will look at him and say, you're tripping, bro. No
team is more important than your compensation to maximize it.
Why you can, because we're one play away. And that's
also the reality of it, and that is something that you.
Speaker 3 (31:45):
Don't fault that logic either like I don't, yeah, because
like I don't, I don't, I don't knock that.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
And you can't get it back. And that's the other part.
Whenever it's done is done. You don't get to come
back and retroactively collect. We talk about l Bell one
of the prime examples. Right, he's financially in trouble or anything,
but when you think about, yeah, he did leave fourteen
million out there, regardless of what he signed additionally prior
or post or you know, pre or post, it's like, yo,
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he's still left fourteen million on accounted for that could
have been his. So those are the things that for
Patrick Queen that I look at both sides of it
and say, man, just kudos to you, kudos to your
peace and your maturity on how you want to handle
your career. And like you said, man, hopefully it pays
off for him, not just in the sense of wins,
but like you said, he's still young, so he still
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has a chance to come right back and do it
all again.
Speaker 3 (32:37):
You're like, if he has three great years, he's going
to be twenty seven again when he like, he'll be.
Speaker 2 (32:42):
The marquee guy all over again. So that's definitely like
I said one of the things, man, But we're gonna
take another break real quick. But after that, man, we'll
get right back to this conversation surrounding the Pittsburgh Steels.
But you already know, don't touch that. Dallas are the most.
It's Wesley Juler and this is the Steals Blitz.
Speaker 4 (33:15):
This is the Steelers.
Speaker 1 (33:16):
Blitz with Wesley Euler and ARTHURR. Most on your twenty
four to seven Home of the Black and Gold scn R.
Speaker 2 (33:25):
What's going on? Still his nation, Arthur Most Wesley ullit
back for the final segment of the first Autum Stills Blitz.
Obviously this is still a nation Radio Sigma Caps and
on Fox Sports Pittsburgh. But whats Arthur shout out to
the Pittsburgh Stivens, shout out to the fact that, you know,
we got a lot of history, right, a lot of
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impact players. We were obviously talking about Patrick Qlaine, one
of our new additions who we expect to have a
pretty significant impact for us and have a nice legacy
man where we'll hopefully talk about him years after he's
played there.
Speaker 4 (33:59):
He'll be coming back, you know, every decade for a
Super Bowl reunion.
Speaker 2 (34:04):
But there are two other guys who when they put
on that black and goal with view as superstars, megastars,
I mean arguably the best of their position for multiple
years in a row. I mean they played the game
so well. They both had nicknames. Mm hmm. One was
just two letters a B. The other was al Bail.
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I mean we even called them killer bees. I mean
it was it was to that level right significant Now, obviously,
the last time they took the field was back around
the last time when I was out that thing playing.
So it's been a low while. Now I ain't been
a low wi a low while. But we did have
the gang, the band back together over the weekend. Le'Veon
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Bell obviously, we know has transitioned from his football playing
career to now he's been following and pursuing a professional
seen career, and he had gotten the ring over the
weekend man versus Tristan Ham, Canadian boxer, also for his
fourth professional about But the cool dynamic was this as
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he's walking out for the intro. You know, the walkouts
are important with any combat. You gotta have on now
and if you're a big fish, then you gotta have
a live walk out. You can't just be having a
soundtrack playing I need somebody to walk it out there
with me? Had that mic on, let me pull the
energy right well, L Bell, okay, he went into his
(35:36):
nice little phone. He said, let me call up the
homie real quick, the one and only A B and
Tony Yo Brown. You know, mister recording or it's mister
big chess. Mister put it on that guy right. And
it was good though, because AB did provide the walk
out the intro for el Bell, and ultimately man L
(35:57):
Bell was able to take care of business man. The
fight was broadcasted on the Zone, uh via.
Speaker 4 (36:03):
Pay per view as is that how they pronounced that
I've always wanted out?
Speaker 2 (36:06):
Yeah the Zone, Yeah, Zone, the Zone yep. But yeah, man,
so it was pretty cool, man, It was pretty cool.
But I did want to get your thoughts though on
it real quickly, man, seeing like real we closed down
the positive headlines. Yes, two things.
Speaker 4 (36:22):
Yes, I did see that this weekend. Of course. I
think if you're.
Speaker 3 (36:25):
Involved with Steelers Twitter or Steelers social whether it's TikTok and.
Speaker 2 (36:30):
He put it twenty six. He had a twenty six
black and gold stealers them jersey.
Speaker 3 (36:34):
That was my first thing was I did think it's
pretty cool that while both of these guys have played
for other teams, and even an AB's success or, even
an AB's instance had the ultimate success with another team
one of the Super Bowl with the Bucks, they still
identify as Steelers like they're there levs like quarts or
ring side attire if you will, right, is like a
(36:57):
robe that's black and gold and has the twenty six
and some of the homage to the UH Steelers logos
and stuff like that, and AB comes out as thank you,
I'm glad you said that, because I always forget the
actual term for those Maybe I should just get a
tattooed on me that way I won't forget it. And
a B similar as well too. So I do think
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it's pretty cool that despite all these years, despite I
think we can label for both Rocky exits, right, I
think that's safe to say. It wasn't sunshine and rainbows
when both of those guys were walking away from the
organization either. For them to still kind of show what
the Steelers meant to them, I do think it's pretty cool.
My second thing is, though, it's just when did boxing
(37:41):
become the thing for everybody to do? Like everybody wants
to be a boxer.
Speaker 2 (37:46):
Now, no, no, not everybody wanted to be boxing. No, no, no, no, no, no, no,
everybody wants to be everybody. I don't want to box,
want to box? A hand would box. You said, you're
naving a handful of crazy with a box, that you're
crazy that you you do not see a long list
(38:09):
of people beating the doors and getting there to get
pushed in the face. In fact, every time I see it,
I'm just like, why are you doing that?
Speaker 4 (38:15):
Celebrity boxing? What can we do celebrity baseball instead or somebody?
Speaker 2 (38:20):
What do we do? Listen, this is a very celebrity
a very very small market for this. You don't have
a lot of supply.
Speaker 3 (38:30):
Man, oh instead, what do you mean celebrity boxing?
Speaker 2 (38:34):
But no, this is the thing though, he's not trying
to be a celebrity boxer. That's trying to professionally boxed.
That's what I'm like, dude, was our time to do that?
That's like, really fight, you're fighting celebrity boxing. That's like, yeah,
we're gonna do a little quick cash grab, quick cash
grab versus this like this Mike there. But even in
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that sense, it's like with Logan Paul is or yeah,
what Jake Paul is doing, and that's it. It's the
same thing the regular fighters do. It's just because he's
already a big name, you get to witness it. Man.
You look at Floyd Mayweather's first fifteen fights. You look
at Terrence Crawford's first fifteen fights. Earl Spins first fifteen,
Ryan gress is for fifteen. The difference is they're not
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doing it on pay per view. So because for Jake
it's like, you gotta get it right away millions, right,
You're not about to just fight the best of the
best when you're amateur or when you first starting out.
But no doubt that's that's the whole You know that
he's stuck in and similar for a or for l
Beel differences. L Bill doesn't have as much hype around his.
(39:38):
But I'm like, man, y'all are both crazy, Like who
wants to sign up to get punched when y'all both
made millions doing stuff where you did not have to
get punched. Correct, I'm good on that one, bro A.
Speaker 3 (39:49):
Yeah, that's another one of those like if you want
me to get ten million dollars, if you want to want.
Speaker 2 (39:54):
To get me to get yeah. And then and then
we got to talk, well, who's doing to punch it?
Because some of these dudes, I'm like, these dudes going
to sleep. You've seen dudes go to sleep, bro, Like
I'm not.
Speaker 4 (40:04):
Going to sleep ten million dollars.
Speaker 2 (40:07):
Adrian Peterson to sleep, bro. I don't even think he
got five million dollars sleep sleep bro. Who wants to
go to sleep? That does not look like fun? Man,
that isn't. I'm good.
Speaker 4 (40:19):
I'll stay right here on the zoom call with you.
Speaker 2 (40:23):
That makes two of us. Y'all keep all money and
good money, baby, all money and good man, y'all keep
that money all right. You ain't trying to get punched
in the face like that. That leg it hurts. But
shout out to both of those guys though for number
one showing that they still rock with Steelers number two
getting another victory. All we do is win. Every day
is a Wednesday shout at the l bell right, and
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then lastly, man, it was not a negative headline, so
would that be in the case. We will take our
final break up the top of the hour. But don't
touch that Dallas or at the most as western ula
and this is Steels blitz
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Speaker 2 (00:39):
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understand who has the immaculate head of hair and the
decade of NFL experienced Baby. But uh, we are fresh
(01:23):
off the holiday weekend. Memorial weekend. I know, whenever you know,
Memorial Weekend happens, it's usually like the official start of summer. Right,
school's about to be completely completely over. I know, the
kids in the household kissing your itis mode. But this
is also usually when we start breaking out them smokers
(01:45):
and them grillers babies. So did my dog let me down?
And that my dogs still have the juice? I know
the guys are back in town. OTA's you know, they
had to show that they still got it. Some of
the rust would say, you though, good.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Fella, yeah, I listen. To be fair, there was a
lot going on. I had to figure how I wanted
to phrase this in case, in case my wife's listening.
There was a lot going on in the Euler household
in the month of May. Okay, we had birthdays, we
(02:18):
had we had family members visiting. I mean, I think
legitimately every weekend in May. And people know how this
works if you've listened to the show. This is kind
of the time of year when we we get like
two maybe two and a half months where our schedule
is flexible Arthur motes where it's not dominated by training camp,
regular season, playoffs, combine.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
Draft, right like, we we get we get about two.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
Maybe two and a half months where wee can of
the year where we can kind of be flexible with
our schedule, where our weekends are open all that different stuff.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
And so dark things on Sundays exactly right.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
You could actually have people come visit and and dad's there,
you know, my my my wife's family, her husband's there. Right.
So my wife is from the Philadelphia area, as we've
discussed on this show before too, as is the majority
of her family obviously, and so they live not on
the other side of the country, but also not right
around the corner. So this time of year they like
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to come out and visit us, her parents, her sister,
her aunts, her brothers, whatever, right, And so in the
month of May we had a lot of company because
the weather starts to term. It's our youngest birthday. People
come to visit all that stuff. So I was a
little worn out this past weekend, so I didn't throw down,
(03:38):
throw down, throw down, you know, but I still had
to do it to them a little bit. So I
kind of hit him with the classics. I did wings, burgers,
and hot dogs this weekend. I did not do any
pulled pork or any ribs.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
Or anything like that. Now, don't worry, I can see
July fourth on the horizon. All right. I'll make I'll.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
Make it, okay, but I'm not gonna lie to you.
I was just we had had three or four straight
weekends of company and I'm cooking and I'm on and
I'm hosting and you know all that stuff, and I
just kind of wanted.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
To be lazy.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
So I just I did smoke.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
I did smoke some chicken wings. But other than that,
I just did burgers and dogs, nice and simple. Not
a ton of prep, not a ton of effort, not
a ton of time. Because I it was like labor
day for me. Arthur Mokes, I wasn't. I wasn't trying
to labor.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
I digs what you are saying and shout out to you. Man.
Suddenly was in similar spaces then, man, because I was
over here, like we're gonna wings it up, We're gonna burgers,
We're gonna you know, I dog steaks, that type of thing.
But yeah, yeah, yeah, baby, were on the same page.
Sometimes the laboring be laboring. Sometimes the labor be laboring.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
Won't like you know, it's a labor love but but
like ribs and pulled pork and brisket and some of
those things.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
I mean, it's like you're cooking it.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
You're cooking cooking, and if you're doing it, if you're
doing it right, you might be sacrificing some of your
sleep along the way as well too, you know what
I mean.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Said man? Every so many hours some hours, man, come on.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Yeah, So again, I was just I was trying to
I was trying to lay low this weekend and uh
so yeah, just kind of stuck with the classics and
ju laugh. I might have h five or six wings
left over, uh from yesterday in the fridge that are
earmarked for lunch as soon as you and I finished.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
This, Los go, Los go. That's what I love to
hear right there.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
Wait, hold on, you said steaks. You did some steaks too,
Like you just slid.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
That in their casual bro I mean, if we go.
I mean it was multiple days this weekend, so I
figured I was like, you know what, one day and
it'll commit to the smoke to the wings, which was
a blast because I was like, man, I hadn't touched
the smoker in a minute. I had neglected it. So
you know, he had to give it that first like
wake and baked the nice little cleaning. Ah, let's just
let's let's just smoke up. Let's smoke up the community
(05:51):
real quick. Man.
Speaker 4 (05:53):
You gotta let him know there, you're there. You know
what I mean, because they might have forgotten. You gotta
let him know he's there.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
You know what they said, Oh he's back. I know
that smell. He's back. They say, yeah, he back. In
the last he could kicked the habit. He back cooking again,
done hibernating like that. Ain't nothing like that first smoke
off the smoke or for the spread baby, or excuse
me for the summer time. Man. So no, it was
definitely a blast. Man, definitely was man. But salute both
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of us and salute to everybody else man. And obviously
may we obviously know the nature of the holiday man
Memorial Day, you know, just thinking about those that have
served and have ultimately you know, given the ultimate sacrifice, man,
losing their lives and stuff. Man, not something that we
take lightly, and it's something that we are very appreciative
of because that is what allots us, you know, the
ability to you know, talk about cooking on the grill
(06:43):
or doing the smoker. Obviously it's coming up here, you know,
having fun, you know, doing the radio show with things
like that. Man. But obviously for anybody that you know
has a little bit more of a heavy burden on
them because of what this holiday represents. Man, we don't
want to be insensitive about that either. But on another note, man,
(07:03):
I got my Grateful Dead t shirt on. I know
in a little bit, what a couple of weeks, man,
you'll be taking your trip out out west to good
old Vegas, to the sphere to see the Grateful Dead
come out of retirement now because they technically retired. I
saw the last stop, all right, I have my last top.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
Well you saw the last tour, you know, but I
guess the last residency, right, I'm like, I have the
last tour, so this is clearly not another tour.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
They were retired, all right, I have Yeah, they're not
touring anymore, you know.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
How, you know how there's a couple jokes of like Florida.
Florida is where America goes to die, like you know,
like us, Yeah, and your you end your career as
a steeler out in Arizona, you know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Like some of these trust that.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
We laugh about.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
Yeah. Another one of those is right like when you're
when you're when you're getting to the end as a band,
you go to Vegas and do resident of Vegas, you know,
like when you're when you're a little bit older, you know,
when you're Mick Jagger and you can't quite you know,
go city to city night tonight, like you still have
the moves.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Like you used to what you still want so you
can get activated?
Speaker 3 (08:06):
Okay, Like you know what, we could just play two
or three shows a week in Vegas, not off to
travel anywhere, and we'll still make all the money that
we want to make.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Let's do it. And everybody wants to travel to Vegas absolutely.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
And yes, obviously I'm not complaining about spending two days
in Vegas here ten days from now, not that I'm
counting down or looking forward to it.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
It is there. It is so obviously I know that
you know me and your the same page with this man.
But bringing it back to why I have the shirt
it on Man. We did lose a media icon, man,
a professional sports icon, but more importantly man to do
that was big in terms of the grateful dead community.
Man talking about NBA Hall of Famer former color commentator
(08:48):
Bill Walton did pass away what over the Weekend Man
at seventy one years old, they said, after a prolonged
battle with cancer. Obviously, man we gere talking about Bill Walton.
The UCLA Superstar Feeta. Take it to the NBA. You
know you obviously dominated their finals, MVP Champion, NBA Top
(09:10):
fifty Anniversary Team, seventy fifth Anniversary Team. I mean, you
name it, He's a part of it. Anybody that's watched
any Pack twelve basketball, any of the late late me
and by God West, we love it because we would always,
you know, be able to just kind of think about
how he is so interested the grateful Dead culture just
(09:33):
you know, it's the way we talk about, you know,
just life and how he kind of viewed his perspective
one things. Man was always very entertaining and engaging, and
somebody that you know, as a former athlete, we're talking
about just seeing how a god could transition from being
dominant in one area of a sport but then be
able to transition to the microphone and still have a legacy,
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still have an impact. I thought that was, you know,
really cool to just see how his life kind of
progressed through that and how he stayed current with the
times as well. Man, you know, he didn't allow anything
to pass him by. He updated himself with the way
the game updated. Man. But you know, just shout out
to Bill Walton. Man, definitely one of those guys that
I thought, you know, when you talk about a guy
that played under you know, the legendary coach John Wooden,
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everything that came with.
Speaker 4 (10:17):
Spans a lot of American history.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Honestly, Yeah, dudes, you're like, Man, we talked college hoops history,
Bill Walton is heavily a part of that. You talked
NBA hoops history. Bill Walton's heavily a part of that,
obviously when we're talking about commentating, heavily a part of that.
And even legacy. We know his son not only you know,
played in the league, but also went ahead and coached
in the NBA as well. Man, So just continuing to
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show that legacy, that ripple effect, Man. But definitely wanted to,
you know, just share a little bit of my thoughts
on him, Man, but obviously want to turn it over
to you as well. Man, if you want to share
anything about.
Speaker 4 (10:49):
Bill, Well, I'm glad.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
I'm glad you closed out the first segment saying that
because very loosely right, but he's in kind of the
same ecosystem as us, that very wide blank of sports broadcasting,
sports media. Obviously, what you and I do on a
day to day basis is much different than him calling
basketball games. But again in kind of that same ecosystem.
And in this ecosystem, I think there's two types of personalities.
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There's you know, you get like type A, Type B,
whatever it is if I wanted to really go into psychology.
But there's people who all basketball games, hall football games,
do sports talk shows and.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
They're just business.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
Yeah, by the book, Ye, they're.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
By the book.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
They ninety nine percent of what they talk about is
the sport that they cover.
Speaker 4 (11:34):
They very rarely veer off that path.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
And then there's Colin's Worth. Ain't not wrong with that,
you know, absolutely not.
Speaker 4 (11:41):
You and I work with a lot of people like that,
and we love people like that, and they.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
Can be great. I Sally, I mean obviously you know
I feel about Coysler. I think he's one of the
best doing this.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
Thing under some people like Bill Walton, and I think
you and I would fall into this category as well too.
It's about you're you're having fun, your color outside the lines. Yes,
always in the in the scope of what you're covering,
but you're not afraid to joke about food and music
and all these other things pop culture things and just
life in general, and so yeah, instead of instead of.
Speaker 4 (12:12):
Being buttoned up, we're a little unbuttoned. Instead of color
in between the lines, we like to make our own
patterns out there. And uh yeah, you and I.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
Are definitely of that ladder description, as was Bill Walton.
In fact, he was probably one of the people at
the forefront of that when it comes. He was one
of the original quirky sports broadcasters when there were only
a couple of those guys, when it wasn't a common
thing to do. So yeah, big shout out to Bill Walton.
I mean, you know, it's fun and not funny. But
when I saw that he passed away and was seventy one,
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my first thought was only seventy one because it just
seems like he's been around for Like if you would
have asked me how olds Bill Walton, I would have
probably said eighty one, you know, yeah, Like, it just
seems like he's been around forever, and he's done so much.
And like you said, I mean from really the first
dynasty of college hoops and UCLA and then into the
NBA and just all the pop culture history with.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Him, to all some of the battles to him Celtics
Lakers kareeb like, yeah, at least part of some history
history man.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
And then he again is the well known personality off
of it who went to over a thousand grateful Dead
concerts and you you would like see cycling down the
Oregon or California.
Speaker 4 (13:23):
Country side all the time in the off season.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
Yeah, Guys like that that were doing that before it
was cool and popular. Paved the way for you and
I to do things like we do today where we
can come into the office with our shirt unbuttoned, you
know what I mean.
Speaker 4 (13:38):
We don't have to be wearing.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
A suit and tie all the time, and we could
color outside the lines a little bit. So yeah, big
big shout out to Bill Walton, without a doubt, I'm glad,
You're glad.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
You got Come on, man, it's only right. It is
only right. Like I said, from one dead head to
another dead head, we will always acknowledge a fellow legendary
dead head absolutly.
Speaker 4 (13:59):
Ten days from now, I'll bring it in Bell's honor.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
All right, let's go, and we don't expect anything less.
All right, don't expect anything less, but we will take
our first break for today's show. Betrayed it I don't
test that dow Art the Most Wesley Uler and this
is the Steelers Blitz's.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
The Steelers Blitz with Wesley Euler and Arthur mos on
your twenty four to seven home of the Black and.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
Gold scan are Art the Most Wesley Euler? Back to
the second segment of today's show, Steelers Blitz. Of course
we're having a blast man. As we progressed through this
first show back since the holiday, Man, I don't like
when it's a holid. I mean, it's holidays fun, but
at the same time, I miss you, okay. So with
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that being the case, we had some commentary, some news,
some people talking shout out to the one and only
Patrick Queen Knew a sedition to the Pittsburgh Steelers family.
But he was talking, in fact, he was on these
Steelers Now podcasts I remember correctly, and basically, you know,
he was talking about his decision to sign with the
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Pittsburgh Steelers and ultimately he was saying that, you know,
he had about fifteen teams that he was talking to,
came down to about five, you know, at the end
of it. But he said that ultimately, man, some teams
were offering him about seventeen million dollars, which obviously is
more than what we were proposing. And he said he
had a chance to, you know, decide between going to
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the place where he could get more money versus the
place that he felt like he could have a better
chance to win. And he felt and specifically this is
what he said. He says, for me, the difference was
like four or five million dollars. I'm looking at it.
I have never been on a losing team before. I
also don't want to be a part of anything being
re built because I'm trying to win now. So when
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we think about those type of things, and obviously we
know that he signed here for roughly thirteen you know,
thirteen point six million per year, What were your thoughts man,
when you or now that you've heard I wasn't sure
if you heard about it, yeah, when it first came out.
But what are your thoughts on you know, just that
commentary right there from Patrick Queen knowing that he did
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potentially leave out a couple ms on the table because
he thinks that we have a situation where it's more
win now and he thinks that that's a little bit
more appealing to him.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
Yeah, I mean, I have no I have No, I
don't want to say this. I have no issues believing
him that that's true. You know what I mean. I
know some people thought that that might be the case.
Some people were saying, ah, you know, he's just saying
that is good pr with the fans or whatever. He
was the linebacker commodity in free agency. He was one
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of the most I think sought after defensive free agents
in this cycle, not just linebackers too. So I'm sure
he had great offers. I'm sure he had offers where
he could have gotten more than he got here in Pittsburgh.
I like that attitude from him. I like that balance
from him as much as you and I talk about
how like we never knock an athlete for take for
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for For some guys, they view it as I only
have this, you know, this finite window of real earning potential.
I'm gonna maximize the number every year that I can
because I never know. Any play could be my last
play and this could all be gone in an instant,
and you and I never fault anybody for doing that.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
I also think, no, no, no, you fault people all
the time for doing that. I'll start that now play.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
I also think, though that we always think that that's
the prevailing mentality of these athletes, and it probably is
for the majority of guys. But everybody's allowed to have
different priorities, different thing that's things that they value. Patrick
Queen is probably also it's it's probably easier for him
to look at it that way when he's still twenty five,
right in the prime of his career. Uh, he's made
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a solid earning as a first round draft pick, right,
It's not like he was an undrafted free agent. It's
not like he was a fourth round guy or something
like that.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
Like change already what is basically said between thirteen and seventeen, Man.
Speaker 4 (18:23):
No, it's a big difference.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
It's a big difference.
Speaker 4 (18:25):
There's no doubt that's a massive on you said, bro.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
We in m double digits? Man? Double digit is double
digit is unless we in twenties ten to twenties so
old to say that's what he said? Bad? Basically, I
hat you know, I actually what you're saying there today?
Thirteen minutes that email? What by what? What? What? What?
Speaker 3 (18:42):
If he's looking at it and saying I'd rather sign
a three year, forty one million dollar deal and and
have a shot to win a ring and play for
an organization like this than a three year, fifty one
million dollar deal somewhere else.
Speaker 4 (18:59):
I don't think it's unreasonable.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
Yes, I agree, everybody always like nobody wants less money.
But as you can also attest to, is the one
on this show spoiler alert, with a decade of NFL experience,
these guys are the ultimate competitors as well too. Yeah,
they want to make money, they also want to win.
Nobody wants to be on a bad team. So I
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think it's I think it's very reasonable. I know a
lot of people were kind of, like I said, quick
to jump out and say, oh, that's easy to say,
you know, you're just trying to play kate the fan base.
But no, I definitely believe he turned down a couple
million dollars, and I don't necessarily think that that should
shock us either, because again, athletes are allowed to have
different priorities. They're competitive too, they want to win two
all within the context it's still making some good money.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
Now, that's one hundred percent accurate, And this is the
beautiful part of the duality of our show, right me,
having you know, the experience. I could also attest to
a similar situation. Now, granted I didn't turn down four
to five edition a million, but I did take less
to state. I'll tell you about my story. Obviously, with
the Atlanta Falcons, prior to me signing my three year
extension here, Atlanta had already had a deal with the table.
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Their deal was better than what the Stills initial deal was.
Pittsburgh then bumped their number up. Atlanta then bumped their
number up again. Picker bumped their number up, and Atlanta
was ready to go up even more, but we knew
the Stills couldn't go any further. And at that time
I felt great in the sense of I felt welcomed here.
I felt great in the sense that this was going
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to be my first chance to plan the same defense
for the first time in my career, and I was
going into the sixth year of my career with would
have been the first time being able to repeat in
the same defense. Also, think about my wife being pregnant
at the time and what that dynamic was or see
not pregnant, shit, we actually just had we're in the
process of having our baby. Yeah, by to say, because
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it was like signing contract in marsh Day was born
in April it was boom booth. But you know, I
think of that dynamic and I think of what that
decision when into why we took a little bit less
to stay here. So when I think of Patrick Queen,
I'm like, let's be real. When I was a free
agent or a pending free agent, I wasn't viewed as
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the marquee guy. I was viewed as the marquee name.
I was a quality name, but not the marquee. Oh
this is the guy that everybody's about to knock down
the door for. But all I had was just an
additional partner. You could see how those numbers could go up,
and ultimately I left money on the table to stay here.
So if a guy like Patrick Queen, who we are
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viewing as what former, what high end draft pick, already
as balled out coming off of being you know, part
of arguably the best inside lineback of tandem in the league.
Sure AFC Championship game starter. And he said he had
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multiple teams. We said fifteen teams in the process, and
they came down to five. Oh yeah, that is very realistic, man,
very realistic. It's a lot of teams out here that
I say, spin foolishly Okay.
Speaker 4 (22:11):
No doubt.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
They have a lot more cap space than the Steelers
as well too.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
Yeah yeah, they got blank checks and they don't operate
with the mindset that we're trying to find the players
that are going to help us win. Sometimes they say
this is going to make our fan base more excited.
They sells tickets, no doubt, and sometimes by just simply saying, hey,
we broke the bank and spent the most on this player.
That's what they That's that's the winning They would much
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rather do that than actually put the work in build
through the draft, free agency, et cetera. And then you know,
put together the form that we've had.
Speaker 4 (22:44):
For examples of this from the past see Jets.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
New York.
Speaker 4 (22:48):
Yeah yeah, win the offseason headlines every year.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
Have you heard of the Cleveland Browns, you know during
the Baker Mayflayer all right.
Speaker 4 (22:57):
Toy every year collecting football.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Yeah yeah. So when I tell you this is very
very legitimate and doubt easily easily the case, I just
simply say, shout out to him for being in a
position where he could decide more on his career and
what he felt was the best for him personally, versus
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chasing the dollar and doing whatever he thinks is going
to be the most lucrative, because not all money is
good money, and it's not even in the sense of
illegal versus legal money, but just in the sense of man,
seventeen million, but you're getting your head beating every week
is miserable, no doubt. I remember having conversations with guys
(23:44):
like Ramon with with Mike Midge, where we're all at
the end of it and we're like, man, do we
really want to go somewhere else right now? Would you
want to take more to go here? Would we want
to go there? We want to do this work you
every year?
Speaker 4 (23:58):
Right, never play men, No one laws to do that. Man,
in a stadium, it's only fifty percent full, or is
full of the other team's fans.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
And what is your legacy when is over? When it's done,
you go back to the city, you go back to
the and it's like, yo, nobody wants to be here.
Nobody cares about you because you weren't a part of
anything significant. You were part of nothing that mattered. You
were just there collecting the check. And for some people,
like you said, that's fine. But for some of us, man,
we do want to have a little bit of a
ripple effect. When we're gone. We like to hear him say,
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I remember when.
Speaker 3 (24:30):
Again that's the that's the competitor side too, Like everybody
wants to make money, but these you guys make it
to the NFL because competition, competition, competition, competition.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
Your entire life, Patricktasha, since we were kids, I've been
kicking butt since before you even talked about a check.
Speaker 4 (24:48):
And you know what it's like to lose that It sucks.
I don't want to lose. And think about Patrick Quin too.
Speaker 3 (24:53):
Reminder, laid on one of the teams that will that
will be in the conversation of best college football team ever.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
Absolutely think about that.
Speaker 4 (25:02):
LSU team and how many dogs were.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
On that borough just Jeff.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
Chase, Patrick Grant delp It. I mean, like, I'm sure
we're forgetting the couple too. I know there was some
good some uh some decent offensive lineman on that team too,
but like that team went fifteen and oh smoked pretty
much everybody that they played and and was was, you know,
one of the best teams that we've seen in college
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football in the twenty first century, without a doubt, you think,
and then he goes from that to the Ravens where
they've been.
Speaker 4 (25:35):
Competitive, they've been legit every year. You think he wants
to go He think he wants to go win four
games a year after all, Yeah, like.
Speaker 3 (25:43):
After what he's had at LSU and in Baltimore, you
think he wants to go sign with a team that
he thinks is gonna win five or six games. Like
there's there's just no way. And I think everybody can
relate to that.
Speaker 4 (25:55):
Mozi.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
Pick a big corporation media corporate, all right, like ESPN
or Fox Sports or NBC or CBS or whatever. Right,
they knock on my door tonight, Okay, that would be
kind of creepy.
Speaker 4 (26:07):
Maybe they send me an email or.
Speaker 3 (26:08):
A phone call or something first, and they're like, hey,
we've been following you, we've been scouting you. We love
your work. We want you to do a show every day.
You could talk football, you could talk about whatever you want.
We're gonna offer you half a million dollars a year
for salary, or we could do we want to do
the show with Arthur Motes as well too. We love
(26:30):
what you guys have. We think if we're gonna have
Motes and you as well too, though, we'll pay you
four hundred K a year. You don't think I'd be like, oh,
hell yeah, give me motes, give me fun, Like it's
gonna be so much more fun.
Speaker 4 (26:42):
It's gonna be a better work environment. I'm gonna enjoy
it way more like, But that's.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
Not gonna be more beneficient to me.
Speaker 3 (26:52):
I'm still gonna be well compensated in the first place,
you know what I mean. Like, it's it's a no brainer,
and I'm sure a lot of people can really late
to that in their workplace situations as well too. Would
you would you rather make? Would you rather make ex
salary and love your job? Or make ten grand more
a year and have the worst boss ever?
Speaker 4 (27:13):
Like, you know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (27:14):
Honestly, that was that was the legitimate part of it.
You know, I know we're folcusing on Patrick Queen, but
you think about that, And that was literally the convo
that I'll never forget. Joey Porter man coming downstairs. I'm
sitting in the Little Player's lounge, just got done talk
with coach Tomlin, just got done talk with Keith Butler,
and Joey Porter comes down there and he simply said it,
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just like that. He's like, bro Yeah, you're gonna have
another or two. Yeah, you'll be in Atlanta. Yeah, you'll
be you know, court side of the halls. Gay, you
might ride it in some celebs. That's cool. But he's like, bro,
you really want to get your hair beat it every
single week. Every week. It's like, you know what when
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you walk up it with Big Well, you walk there
with a B L Bell the gang, like you know what,
it feels like we show up right, like you want.
Speaker 3 (28:05):
To do that.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
You want to go and gainst that.
Speaker 4 (28:08):
You want to go to the opposite of that, like
you want to have to see those guys.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
You don't want to do that. And Patrick Queed for certain, man,
he's got to do this coming from losing anywhere. So
I could understand that one thousand percent. But then also
I know and we'll get ready to end this segment too.
But I know some people out there that are saying, well,
if that's the case, why didn't he just stay in Baltimore.
This is the difference with Baltimore's probably offering him was
not remotely close to what we're talking about, due to
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the fact they already have one hundred million dollar linebacker
and a two hundred million dollar quarterback, all right, So
you can't afford to pay another dude this when you
got a lot of other players that are getting paid.
If I got one hundred million dollar left tackle, all.
Speaker 3 (28:48):
Just because say, and you and I listen, you and
I love linebackers, all right. I don't want to speak
for you, but it's my favorite position in the NFL. Yeah,
having million dollar linebacker and a forty million dollar linebacker
is bad.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
No, I'm gonna tell you right now, this bad business.
There's not the eighty five Bears, all right. You gotta
score points, all right. This is not where you want
to have all of your resources allocated too, especially inside
off ball live back.
Speaker 4 (29:16):
The quarterback.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
And I'm like Chase, right, I'm absolutely not, no, no, no, no, no,
I'm not about to have one hundred and forty million guaranteed.
The two off ball dudes gonna get me a hundred
plus tackles, You can keep them hundred plus tackles. Give
me fifty tackles and ten sacks, all right.
Speaker 3 (29:33):
They're getting fifty tackles and four interceptions something here.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
Absolutely absolutely. So that's the context in the sense of
why this wasn't really on the table for him. In Baltimore.
But you said best case, they might be offered him
five to six million dollars, and that legitimately could have
been their best offer. That is night and day when
you're talking about ten million dollars difference.
Speaker 4 (29:58):
No leaving a little bit on table and then.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
Right you you were too hard for that one. Now, buddy, okay,
if i'm your mommy, your daddy, your agent, I'm gonna fight.
I'm gonna tell you now, we didn't sacrifice this long
for this sit down. We will talk sit down. You
remember them l s U hard days. You ain't do
that for this. You ain't gonna have to leave ten
on the table.
Speaker 3 (30:22):
No, don't do Don't you remember coach don't you remember
Coach Old down there in about you doing the two
days spring practice, all that money on the table.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
Wes, we left a couple of the table. We ain't
leave ten. Ten. You gonna get your head beating in
for ten? All right? Ten? Bill, you canna get your
head beat in for ten. That's that's a totally different conversation.
Totally different conversation. Let's clarify that. Let's listen West and
West's analogy. Yeah, that was a closer gap who was
ten West is like, Bro, I appreciate you. We're gonna
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vacation together. Bro, I'll catch you on the vacation. Man.
All right, but this is what it is.
Speaker 3 (30:58):
That's the price has just been set. If you want
to prime me away from Arthur Motes, it's gonna cost
you ten million dollars a year.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
There you go, Bob say less. But I love it, man,
I love it. But as a whole man. Shout out
to Patrick Queen though, man, because like I said, I
do love the fact that he was able to be
a little bit more transparent and just can't get about
the situation. And even though for you know, people that
are always trying to have a negative perspective, it's very
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easy to look at this and say, well, hey, man,
why would I believe that? Who would take less? There's
also another side of this thing that people don't talk about,
and that's the side where you do have people that
will look at him and say, you're tripping, bro. No
team is more important than your compensation to maximize it.
Why you can, because we're one play away. And that's
also the reality of it, and that is something that you.
Speaker 3 (31:45):
Don't fault that logic either like I don't, yeah, because
like I don't, I don't, I don't knock that.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
And you can't get it back. And that's the other part.
Whenever it's done is done. You don't get to come
back and retroactively collect. We talk about l Bell one
of the prime examples. Right, he's financially in trouble or anything,
but when you think about, yeah, he did leave fourteen
million out there, regardless of what he signed additionally prior
or post or you know, pre or post, it's like, yo,
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he's still left fourteen million on accounted for that could
have been his. So those are the things that for
Patrick Queen that I look at both sides of it
and say, man, just kudos to you, kudos to your
peace and your maturity on how you want to handle
your career. And like you said, man, hopefully it pays
off for him, not just in the sense of wins,
but like you said, he's still young, so he still
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has a chance to come right back and do it
all again.
Speaker 3 (32:37):
You're like, if he has three great years, he's going
to be twenty seven again when he like, he'll be.
Speaker 2 (32:42):
The marquee guy all over again. So that's definitely like
I said one of the things, man, But we're gonna
take another break real quick. But after that, man, we'll
get right back to this conversation surrounding the Pittsburgh Steels.
But you already know, don't touch that. Dallas are the most.
It's Wesley Juler and this is the Steals Blitz.
Speaker 4 (33:15):
This is the Steelers.
Speaker 1 (33:16):
Blitz with Wesley Euler and ARTHURR. Most on your twenty
four to seven Home of the Black and Gold scn R.
Speaker 2 (33:25):
What's going on? Still his nation, Arthur Most Wesley ullit
back for the final segment of the first Autum Stills Blitz.
Obviously this is still a nation Radio Sigma Caps and
on Fox Sports Pittsburgh. But whats Arthur shout out to
the Pittsburgh Stivens, shout out to the fact that, you know,
we got a lot of history, right, a lot of
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impact players. We were obviously talking about Patrick Qlaine, one
of our new additions who we expect to have a
pretty significant impact for us and have a nice legacy
man where we'll hopefully talk about him years after he's
played there.
Speaker 4 (33:59):
He'll be coming back, you know, every decade for a
Super Bowl reunion.
Speaker 2 (34:04):
But there are two other guys who when they put
on that black and goal with view as superstars, megastars,
I mean arguably the best of their position for multiple
years in a row. I mean they played the game
so well. They both had nicknames. Mm hmm. One was
just two letters a B. The other was al Bail.
(34:30):
I mean we even called them killer bees. I mean
it was it was to that level right significant Now, obviously,
the last time they took the field was back around
the last time when I was out that thing playing.
So it's been a low while. Now I ain't been
a low wi a low while. But we did have
the gang, the band back together over the weekend. Le'Veon
(34:51):
Bell obviously, we know has transitioned from his football playing
career to now he's been following and pursuing a professional
seen career, and he had gotten the ring over the
weekend man versus Tristan Ham, Canadian boxer, also for his
fourth professional about But the cool dynamic was this as
(35:14):
he's walking out for the intro. You know, the walkouts
are important with any combat. You gotta have on now
and if you're a big fish, then you gotta have
a live walk out. You can't just be having a
soundtrack playing I need somebody to walk it out there
with me? Had that mic on, let me pull the
energy right well, L Bell, okay, he went into his
(35:36):
nice little phone. He said, let me call up the
homie real quick, the one and only A B and
Tony Yo Brown. You know, mister recording or it's mister
big chess. Mister put it on that guy right. And
it was good though, because AB did provide the walk
out the intro for el Bell, and ultimately man L
(35:57):
Bell was able to take care of business man. The
fight was broadcasted on the Zone, uh via.
Speaker 4 (36:03):
Pay per view as is that how they pronounced that
I've always wanted out?
Speaker 2 (36:06):
Yeah the Zone, Yeah, Zone, the Zone yep. But yeah, man,
so it was pretty cool, man, It was pretty cool.
But I did want to get your thoughts though on
it real quickly, man, seeing like real we closed down
the positive headlines. Yes, two things.
Speaker 4 (36:22):
Yes, I did see that this weekend. Of course. I
think if you're.
Speaker 3 (36:25):
Involved with Steelers Twitter or Steelers social whether it's TikTok and.
Speaker 2 (36:30):
He put it twenty six. He had a twenty six
black and gold stealers them jersey.
Speaker 3 (36:34):
That was my first thing was I did think it's
pretty cool that while both of these guys have played
for other teams, and even an AB's success or, even
an AB's instance had the ultimate success with another team
one of the Super Bowl with the Bucks, they still
identify as Steelers like they're there levs like quarts or
ring side attire if you will, right, is like a
(36:57):
robe that's black and gold and has the twenty six
and some of the homage to the UH Steelers logos
and stuff like that, and AB comes out as thank you,
I'm glad you said that, because I always forget the
actual term for those Maybe I should just get a
tattooed on me that way I won't forget it. And
a B similar as well too. So I do think
(37:18):
it's pretty cool that despite all these years, despite I
think we can label for both Rocky exits, right, I
think that's safe to say. It wasn't sunshine and rainbows
when both of those guys were walking away from the
organization either. For them to still kind of show what
the Steelers meant to them, I do think it's pretty cool.
My second thing is, though, it's just when did boxing
(37:41):
become the thing for everybody to do? Like everybody wants
to be a boxer.
Speaker 2 (37:46):
Now, no, no, not everybody wanted to be boxing. No, no, no, no, no, no, no,
everybody wants to be everybody. I don't want to box,
want to box? A hand would box. You said, you're
naving a handful of crazy with a box, that you're
crazy that you you do not see a long list
(38:09):
of people beating the doors and getting there to get
pushed in the face. In fact, every time I see it,
I'm just like, why are you doing that?
Speaker 4 (38:15):
Celebrity boxing? What can we do celebrity baseball instead or somebody?
Speaker 2 (38:20):
What do we do? Listen, this is a very celebrity
a very very small market for this. You don't have
a lot of supply.
Speaker 3 (38:30):
Man, oh instead, what do you mean celebrity boxing?
Speaker 2 (38:34):
But no, this is the thing though, he's not trying
to be a celebrity boxer. That's trying to professionally boxed.
That's what I'm like, dude, was our time to do that?
That's like, really fight, you're fighting celebrity boxing. That's like, yeah,
we're gonna do a little quick cash grab, quick cash
grab versus this like this Mike there. But even in
(38:56):
that sense, it's like with Logan Paul is or yeah,
what Jake Paul is doing, and that's it. It's the
same thing the regular fighters do. It's just because he's
already a big name, you get to witness it. Man.
You look at Floyd Mayweather's first fifteen fights. You look
at Terrence Crawford's first fifteen fights. Earl Spins first fifteen,
Ryan gress is for fifteen. The difference is they're not
(39:17):
doing it on pay per view. So because for Jake
it's like, you gotta get it right away millions, right,
You're not about to just fight the best of the
best when you're amateur or when you first starting out.
But no doubt that's that's the whole You know that
he's stuck in and similar for a or for l
Beel differences. L Bill doesn't have as much hype around his.
(39:38):
But I'm like, man, y'all are both crazy, Like who
wants to sign up to get punched when y'all both
made millions doing stuff where you did not have to
get punched. Correct, I'm good on that one, bro A.
Speaker 3 (39:49):
Yeah, that's another one of those like if you want
me to get ten million dollars, if you want to want.
Speaker 2 (39:54):
To get me to get yeah. And then and then
we got to talk, well, who's doing to punch it?
Because some of these dudes, I'm like, these dudes going
to sleep. You've seen dudes go to sleep, bro, Like
I'm not.
Speaker 4 (40:04):
Going to sleep ten million dollars.
Speaker 2 (40:07):
Adrian Peterson to sleep, bro. I don't even think he
got five million dollars sleep sleep bro. Who wants to
go to sleep? That does not look like fun? Man,
that isn't. I'm good.
Speaker 4 (40:19):
I'll stay right here on the zoom call with you.
Speaker 2 (40:23):
That makes two of us. Y'all keep all money and
good money, baby, all money and good man, y'all keep
that money all right. You ain't trying to get punched
in the face like that. That leg it hurts. But
shout out to both of those guys though for number
one showing that they still rock with Steelers number two
getting another victory. All we do is win. Every day
is a Wednesday shout at the l bell right, and
(40:43):
then lastly, man, it was not a negative headline, so
would that be in the case. We will take our
final break up the top of the hour. But don't
touch that Dallas or at the most as western ula
and this is Steels blitz
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