May 20, 2025 • 40 mins
Uhler and Moats discuss some of the storylines surrounding the Steelers as OTAs approach and we still await an answer from Aaron Rodgers.
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Speaker 1 (01:31):
But uh, my guy, my guys.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Good to see you, man, really good to see you, because, uh,
I got you to see some ball this weekend. Man,
it was football being played, baby, it was football being played.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Ah. It was good vibes out here.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Man. I don't know if you were aware of this, man,
but it was a championship that took place in Pittsburgh
over the weekend.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Little girls Flag football champion.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
Oh, let's go.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
Okay, okay, little Girls Flag Football Championship down there at
Old High Mark.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
You heard High March Stadium. You've been there before?
Speaker 4 (01:57):
I sure have, I sure have.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
That's what I'm river. I'll tell you.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
It's a beautiful venue. I mean it's lovely, lovely either
the backdrop is nice. This was my first time ever
done it. Man, it was a pretty nice place to be.
Speaker 5 (02:09):
It's right, it's right on the water in downtown Pittsburgh.
It's it's it's It's obviously not one of our biggest stadiums,
but like I think, even more so than P and
C Park. Like, it's it's got a it's got a
really cool a really cool view, and a really cool setup.
It's a very unique stadium, no.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
Doubt, No, without a doubt, Yes, indeed, So for the
Pittsburgh STAIUS now and this is their fourth season where
they've had their Flag Girls Flag Football League where it
started off with just six teams and now it has
expanded at fifty teams and uh, going into next year, man,
it will be officially sanctioned p I double a sport
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where these young ladies can go out there and actually
win state championships and girls flag football. Man, with over
one hundred schools participating in flag football going into a
next year, and we obviously know that it was added
to the Olympics or we'll be added to the Olympics
as an Olympics sport. And just like with all other sports,
they getting recruited into college and actually giving out some
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dollars to be a flag football player for the young
ladies out there.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Man, But it was a cool thing.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
Man, think about this man, Dudes like Charlie Batch down there,
I told you myself was down there doing the color commentary.
But what about Mika Fitzpatrick, man arguably the best safety
in the world. We talked about you guy, Beanie Bishop
and Mason Rudolph, you know at the Pittsburgh Kids Marathon, right,
And how it's cool to see those guys out there have.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
An impact in their free time.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
But see a Mika Fitzpatrick being the guy that's out
there handing out the championship medals to the Upper Saint
Clair Panthers. Right, shout out to Upper Saint Clair coach
by Ryan. Who's Jack? Ryan, Who's Jack, Who's VP of sales? Yeah,
for the Pittsburgh stale was actually his daughter's play.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
For the team. Man. It was pretty cool, man.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
It was a lot of black and goldctions down there. Man.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
So one of our good friends, man, Matt Fargo, is down.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
There as well with the show multiple times absolutely, because
you know, we're talking just youth football. He's one of
the main people man bringing that to life with the
video and the production you know that he does over there.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Man. But it was really cool, man, to just see
a championship. Man.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
It was really cool to see the Steelers being out
there on this football field, man, and ultimately just helping
expand the game because that's the thing that we've talked.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
About, right. The Ireland game is a big deal this year.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
Why because the first time the NFL is going to
be playing a game over in that country, and we've
talked about how you had a game in Spain this year.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
How We've had games in Mexico, Brazil, all over the world.
But they're doing it with the intent to expand the game, to.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
Get more viewership, to get more participants, because that's what
keeps the game alive. It keeps it thriving, It keeps
it for people like me and you have been watching
these games over thirty years now, right. It only gets
like that because it keeps growing, it keeps evolving.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
It either evolve or you die.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
And it's cool to just see that, you know, from
an NFL's respective and specifically the Pittsburgh Steelers them taking
you know, the initiative to put more emphasis on the
girls element, the girls side of it, because now you're
gonna continue to see it grow from them and from
their viewership, and even from a participation standpoint, we've seen
some girls at least play at the collegiate level, I
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mean from a kicking standpoint. So I mean, you're just
seeing more and more growth with it, man, But I
definitely wanted to, you know, touch on that, man, to
just start off with the guys.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Man.
Speaker 5 (05:40):
No, I'm glad you started there. For a multitude of
different reasons. I mean number one, it's just a refreshing
start to the show. I am you know, I am
very aware of what we do for a living, but
I think you and I are also pretty transparent. I'm
a little burnout on talking about Aaron Rodgers and wide receivers,
you know what I mean, And I know we're gonna
do some of that on today's show.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
And that's a job right now. It's the job. It's
the job, so we always right now.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
If you have any other nuggets, you know, we're down absolutely.
Speaker 5 (06:09):
But I do love you starting here for that reason.
It's just something different, it's something exciting, It's something that
deserves spotlight and attention. I also, as a father of
two young girls, love to see the football boom that's
happening not just around here but in other football hotbed
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areas of the country. And I know that for a
fact because I've got a cool connection for you in
just a second. But yeah, as a father of two
young girls, and as a father who does not plan,
both personally or scientifically, to have any more children in
my life, so I don't think I'll be barring a
major miracle of God and or science, I will not
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be having a son in my lifetime. I love this
opportunity to grow the game of football, to grow it
specifically for girls who love the game and like you said,
have done things at the high school in collegiate levels
in football, but obviously not to the same opportunities as
young men, as young boys have in this country. Very
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cool for that reason, and I love you being involved
and you'll love this. I have a cousin, Jared. He
is four years older than me. He's like my best friend.
He has two daughters as well. He's a football junkie.
He was a really good football player in college, had
some Division two offers to schools in Virginia. He ended
up going to where did he go for Richmond?
Speaker 1 (07:36):
I want to say for.
Speaker 5 (07:39):
Like for like a semester, and he had a really
bad back and he was just like, I don't want
to do this, like and he ended up transferring to
WU and going to w It just wanted to go
to college, you know what I mean. He didn't want
to play a sport, but he was his high school's
defensive coordinator for like a decade. Right at college. He
is now still at not even forty years old. He's
the athletic director of his old school district, a big
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school district in Northern Virginia, and Arthur Motes he just
spearheaded an effort in the last month to get girls
flag football added as a school sanctioned sport in Virginia.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
Go starting so starting that.
Speaker 5 (08:16):
And he's I mean, he's obviously not the only one.
He was one of the people at the forefront. He's
got two daughters as well too, of bringing to their
district or their county, or their region, you know whatever
it is like they are going to have school sanctioned
girls flag football next year. And my older cousin Jared,
was a big part of getting that spearheaded in Northern Virginia,
and I'm very proud of him for doing so. I
think it's freaking awesome and for you being involved with
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what you're doing, just you know, as a father of
two girls and as a fan of football, I think
it's awesome.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
It's the grind dad's in this.
Speaker 5 (08:48):
Man.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
Obviously I got two daughters as well, man, And shoot,
I remember back twenty fourteen time frame, Man, my daughter
would be out there doing the youth footboy camps with
the dudes, man, and you know, it was funny, we
would all we's complain about how we never had anywhere
to send them after they finished the youth camps. Because
with the guys, you're like, all right, go set up
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with your local coaches. Man, go play pop one or
go you know, try for your high school.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
Team or for the girls.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
It's like, yo, we don't really know what to tell
you come back next year. But now man to see it,
we we're able to tell them, hey, you could keep
doing this and you don't have to stop. You can
do this or it'll take you to college. You can
get a great education. Heck, you can win an Olympic
Gold metal represent your country. Like, there are a lot
of opportunities. And then when you're talking about how it's
going to continue to grow endorsements, right, so now you're
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going to talk about monetization and how you can really
make a career out of this thing. And it's you know,
due to not just the guys like you know myself
and other NFL players and alum that are taking a
little bit more intention in saying yes, man, let's make
sure that this thing is important. Let's make sure that
instead of waiting till the end of the show, Let's
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talk about it at the beginning, right, instead of treating
the championship game as an afterthought.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
Man, let's put some money into it.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
Man, Let's bring some people out here and make it
feel like an event, because that's why we would treat
the guys, and that's ultimately why the guys game has
grown as much as it has, because of the resources,
because of the time, because people that matter in that
particular feel saying that that matters.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
And I think that that's the important thing.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
And when you see the Steelers, you see the Eagles,
you see the Ravens, the Commanders, these are the big
four teams that are kind of spiritheaded, you know, girls
flag football. It's like, man, when they're the ones saying
that who are you to say is not important?
Speaker 1 (10:40):
Is not cool? You know what I mean?
Speaker 3 (10:41):
And I think that that's the added element that added
bonus to it that for me personally, I'm a big
fan of it. And like I said, it's just cool
to see how it's grown and how it's going to
continue to grow. It's not just for us telling the story, man,
you also got a big time kudos to these young ladies.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
Man.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
The athleticism is on display I think that was one
of the things that we're even seeing with women's basketball
right where prior to you know, people always complain, oh, man,
they're not this, they're not that, and it's like, no,
they just need exposure. Once you get eyes on them,
you can actually they got shooters, they got people that
can handle the ball. They got talented young ladies over there, man,
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and this thing when you're looking at you know them
and girls flag football, it's like, man, I'm watch some
of these girls.
Speaker 5 (11:22):
I'm like, oh, all right, no, whoa No, I think
it's oh you got that, and just I know, we
got to go to break in a minute. But just
to add to that, to piggyback off of what you're saying,
I think the women's basketball example is a great one
by you look at the over the last two three years,
look at the popularity boom and women's basketball. And don't
get me wrong, basketball is a beloved sport in this country.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
But it ain't football.
Speaker 5 (11:46):
So so look look at the boom, look at the
boom in women's basketball over the last two or three years,
and now imagine if we invested in football like that,
what it would be like. In football, are nations by
far most beloved sport. It's I tell you what it's.
It's it's a it's a large surface that we're beginning
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to scratch here.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
I think absolutely absolutely So, like I said, Man just
wanted to acknowledge them on the front end of this.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
Thy man, big time.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
Kudos to all of the young ladies that participated in
the Steelers Girls Flag Football Playoffs season, their fourth season
in the in the books, Man shout out to Upper
Saint Clear getting the championship, and uh yeah, it was.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
Like I said, it's a good vibe all around. Man.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
So with that being the case, let's take our first break.
But you're right, no, don't touch that down. I'm Arthur Motes,
That's Wesley Uler, and this.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
Is the Steelers Blitz.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
This is the Steelers Flits with Wesley Huler and Arthur
Mose on your twenty four seven home of the Black
and Gold cas Skin.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
Are all right, Arthur Motes, Wesley Huler, and it is
time to get to the Aaron Rodgers portion of the show.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
All right. I know we couldn't wait that long, you know,
we had to get to it, all right.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
Listen, listen, man, I was trying to hold off I
was trying, but for order of operation's sake, we had
to get me here to get do it down, all right,
So here we are.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
It's time.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
You know, who would have thought that would be on
the twentieth day of May and still having to give
updates on Aaron Rodgers and more importantly his employment status. Yes,
because for some reason, twenty days into the month of
May still hasn't provided him with enough time to articulate
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his decision for twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
But here we are.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
So the guy that wrote the book on Aaron Rodgers,
like he literally wrote the book on Aaron Rodgers. You
feel me like, like some people know Aaron Rodgers. But
then it's like you wrote the book on a guy.
The guy really wrote the book on Aaron Rodgers, all right,
So they call him an author. Shout out to us authors
often if you need to read a material motes through
your life. You know, I just know, I wrote a book.
It's pretty cool. Author find Moltesterory dot com, you know
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what I mean, or Arthur Mosse dot com. You know,
I mean, if you want to get a book, just
throw it out there. But shout out to authors. Okay,
So the author of the Aaron Rodgers book. They came out,
I believe it was a year ago that actually even
included some commentary from Aaron Rodgers. The gentleman was doing
some media availability over the weekend and I was obviously
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asked about Aaron Rodgerson what he feels Aaron Rodgers is
planning to do time wise, are timeline wise in terms
of a decision, and he felt, based on his communications
with Aaron Rodgers, based on his understanding of him, that
he feels the decision will be being made prior to
the veteran mini camps they will be starting, and.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
Well, I guess it's three weeks now.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
Shout out to these condensed off season workouts for these
young guys.
Speaker 4 (15:00):
Man, it really is right around the.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
Course ot A practices. And then you write into VINDI
camp like how we get here? Like this is crazy, man?
Love it? Love it?
Speaker 4 (15:09):
They moved on or something did not come on.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
They moved up and removed the whole week of of
of practice. How are you going to do that? We
just it's just cutting up my guys opportunities. Man, y'all
cut my guy's opportunities.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
But yeah, with that being the case, though, man, Aaron Rodgers,
or at least the author of the Aaron Rodgers Buck
feels that that would be the time of frame. And
I want to ask you, man, how do you feel
if that is the case. Man, if we are looking
at mini camp time frame, which would be another additional
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two weeks. I believe mini camp starts the was it
the third? The second?
Speaker 1 (15:48):
June June tenth.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
I'm tripping June tenth is when the mini camp will
ficial be ot as is that.
Speaker 5 (15:56):
Lad starts next week and then the week after and
then it's Many Camp June ten, eleven and twelve. Reminder,
the only mandatory part of that is Jude eleventh and twelve.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
So yeah, Ota Prett, this isn't Mini camp, Pratt. This
is we We say them differently because they are different.
One is an optional workout, OTAs, Those are optional mandatory
that Many Camp is not optional. You are required to
get there and you can even be disciplined if you're
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not there, whereas you don't have to show it for OTAs.
Speaker 5 (16:37):
I forget who it was, but it was like someone
who played around your era Arthur Motes, who used to
always say I know OTA stands for it was someone
who was a really good player who was notorious for skipping,
and he said OTA stands for organized team activities, but
it might as well be optional team activities.
Speaker 4 (16:56):
Was the lot I forget who the person.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
That's true, that's true.
Speaker 5 (16:59):
But people will remember from Cam Hayward last year in
terms of you know, what he was a participant for
and what he wasn't when he was when he was
going through some of his contract negotiations.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
In the past three years, Cam TJM.
Speaker 5 (17:11):
So we've seen this fish before. Albeit those guys were
under contract and just wanted extensions. Aaron Rodgers is still
not under contract, so I mean they can't find him
for not showing up for MIDDI camp because he's not
under contract.
Speaker 4 (17:25):
But yeah, I so I have.
Speaker 5 (17:29):
I think I've gone from a little optimistic on this
to a little cynical on this. And I do still
think Aaron Rodgers is going to sign and is going
to be a Pittsburgh Steeler and week one when we
are at MetLife Stadium in early September, he'll be running
out at MetLife Stadium like he did the past two
years when he was playing for the Jets.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
But I'll be in this same years do it more
so like this last year than that first year won
what that first year was.
Speaker 4 (17:53):
Hopefully it will be nothing like that first year.
Speaker 5 (17:57):
But I do think that this fall, Aaron Rodgers is
going to be playing football and we'll be doing so
in black and gold for the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
Thank you for Pittsburgh Steels on the black and gold.
Speaker 4 (18:06):
Makesure you clarify it right, not Iowa, you know what
I mean?
Speaker 1 (18:11):
Or as another black and goal. Yeah, y'all calling that
black and yellow.
Speaker 5 (18:15):
Who also could use a quarterback although they did just
draft one fortieth overall as well.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
The drafted him when Derek Carr was there as well.
Also mm hmm, boy, I think.
Speaker 5 (18:28):
Aaron Rodgers is going to be a Pittsburgh Steeler. I
think he'll be at Latrobe in late July, but will
he be anywhere in Pittsburgh Steelers colors before then? I'm
a little cynical on that part now, I think, particularly
as it relates to the next two weeks.
Speaker 4 (18:45):
Like they're mozy mozy mozy moti.
Speaker 5 (18:51):
He visited the Pittsburgh Steelers in Pittsburgh in the South
Side facility on March twenty first, Like like, I don't
think we were even at the sweet sixteen of March Madness.
At that point, I think the first round was still underway.
It was like day one or day two of March Madness,
and we were like, okayle, this might not be eminent,
but it's gonna get done here sooner rather than later.
Speaker 4 (19:14):
And then the draft rolled around and.
Speaker 5 (19:15):
Then okay, well, it might not be eminent, but it's
gonna get shne sooner rather than later.
Speaker 4 (19:21):
There's part of me that thinks that he's just at
the stage of his career.
Speaker 5 (19:24):
He doesn't want to be bothered with OTAs we know
how he handled those when he was with a new team.
Speaker 4 (19:30):
In the Jets.
Speaker 5 (19:31):
So again just using history here, This is not speculation.
This is going off of history, like it would not
surprise me if he waits until before mandatory mini camp
because he just doesn't want the drama of having to
talk about all this face the media more.
Speaker 4 (19:50):
And face the media.
Speaker 5 (19:51):
That makes it sound like he's skippy, but just be
be do media obligations more than he has to, and
a lot of other different things that could be going
into it as well too. So I am I'm I'm
starting to think that that this makes sense. We'll get
through o t A's here the next two weeks and
then I think it's really time to be on Aaron
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Rodgers watch again, saying all this, knowing that I've been saying, Okay,
well we'll get through March here, and as we get
close to the draft, it's time to be on Aaron
Rodgers watch. Okay, we'll get through free agency here that
it's time to be like, okay, well we'll get into May.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
When is McAfee coming back to Pittsburgh.
Speaker 4 (20:35):
I I, I don't know.
Speaker 5 (20:37):
The last thing that I have to hold on to
is like, all right, he just doesn't want to be
bothered with ot as and then then then it will see.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
So I like what you're with, the approaches that you have.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
I have a similar perspective on it, and largely due
to how last year played out for him.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
He showed up to every OTA practice for the Jets.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
And then he left for veteran mini camp and that's
when he went to I believe it was Egypt, and
he ended up getting disciplined for it. It was a
whole ordeal made about it, and he felt some type
of way because he said, man, I was here for
all of OTAs. I was here for the three weeks,
but you find me and get up sell me for
missing the three days, where all we're doing those three
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days is doing everything that we just did over those
three weeks. We're just condensing it now and saying that
this is a mock training camp or a mock work week.
This is what it would feel like, sort of say.
But I personally, as an athlete, understood what he was saying.
He's like when it mattered the most, and we instarted
it was the full meeting potato days, the real commitment.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
I was here for that.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
I left for the three days that were mandatory, But
these are the three days that we are going over
the stuff that we've already done. Why are we treating
this differently? Would you have rather I showed up for
the three days and missed the three weeks. And that's
why for me, I could understand. And I do think
that that part also was what kind of played into
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just the sour and stuff that relationship. When you look
at him, you look at Solent, just howeverything was playing
out last year with them. I don't think that that's
by accident. We saw cases where you know, Seattle had
that with cam Chancellor and with marshan Le's. The difference
was they said, we will wipe those funds away and
we're gonna make sure we compensate, y'all. Everybody'd be happy
about it. But those guys were more invested in terms
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of being a part of that culture longer than Aaron
Rodgers with the Jets. So thinking of all of that information,
it makes one one hundred percent sense to me for
him to say, why sign right now? Why you can't
debate me, You can't argue with me or expect me
to do something. If I'm not even under contract, it
doesn't otate. It don't matter now I'm not in the contract.
I might retire, so why worry about it. I might
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sign with the Saints, so I worry about it. You know,
I like the Vicus, so I worry about it. By
him taking this approach, if this is the case, it
frees up all of that. Heck, if he truly didn't
want you show up too many camp now. The reason
why I'm kind of back and forth on that is
because I'm big on reps, and I understand that at
this level, the only way to get good at playing
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football is by playing to play. Holloway, the only way
to stay good at playing football is by playing football,
because these guys.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
Are constantly working on their craft.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
And that's why even guys like myself who can retire,
we can still talk it and still play.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
It better than eighty percent of the regular population.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
But when you're talking about that one percent, man, you're
doing a disservice to those guys work ethic to those
guys talent. If you think you could just be chilling
for five six years and then just wake up one
day and say, oh yeah, I'm still better than you guys,
that's not how this thing goes.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
Man.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
So with Rogers, it's like, man, as much as I
could understand him simply saying I will wait till a
training camp get in here. I'm smart enough, I'll be
good to go, but at the same time, I would
also love for him to actually be there for a
mini camp. It's like, Yo, get that first introduction to
your team, get that first introduction to the playbook, and
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then have that prior to training camp and at least
getting to work with the guys. Because I'm sure if
Aaron Rodgers wants to get to play, but he can
get it tomorrow. It's Aaron Rodgers. But you can't get
those reps. You can't get that timing versus a defense.
You can't get that feeling of coming in and out
of the huddle and working through all right, I'm a
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little tired right now. I'm my feet here, a little
bit man with these cliques, all right, the little things.
This is what you get done during this time of year.
It's one thing to, like I said, do it at
training camp when it's forced upon you. And that's what
we did with Joe Hayden. But Joe Hayden also wasn't
playing quarterback. Joe Hayden hopped on a moving train preseason, right,
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But he was a corner and he was a man,
a man corner. Hey, Joe, go cover that guy, Go
cover him, just follow him around. Yeah. Whereas when you're
talking about quarterback, way different set of responsibilities response in
terms of expectations and the amount of things you need
(25:10):
to know that don't even pertain to you exclusively. You
need to know old line, you need to know these receivers,
You need to know individual receivers. How does Wes like
to run his routes versus how moch runs his routes
versus how Dale runs his routes versus how Max runs
his routes, and I don't have time to second guests
or be wondering that in the middle of this play
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when we have to be exact because we say it's
a game of inches, and if it's on your left
shoulder versus your left elbow, oh man, that's a terrible throw.
And we're talking about not even ten inches. But that's
what this game truly is. So when I think of that,
I'm always like torn with Rogers and his overall just
(25:53):
pace an urgency that he's displaying right now. It's like,
from an individual standpoint, I don't think it's going to
impact him to negatively, But for the rest, for the
the dependent veribals that are going to be, you know,
depending on him, yeah, they need some time to get adjusted.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
Man.
Speaker 5 (26:11):
Yeah, I think you're spot on, even for a guy
who's a veteran, even for a guy who's accomplished and
knows as much about the game as Aaron Rodgers. It's
a whole new set of teammates, it's a whole new
set of coaching staff, it's a whole different you know, a.
Speaker 4 (26:26):
Whole new dictionary of verbiage, that you're gonna use things
like that.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
Yeah, no connection, Like he hasn't played for Arthur Smith,
for coach.
Speaker 3 (26:36):
Toimeland, doesn't have any of his favorite that's my favorite receiver,
it's my favorite.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
This just like none of that man.
Speaker 5 (26:42):
And like you said, I mean, listen, this is this
is true of any sport, right, you got to play
it to get better. But I think, I mean, I
think football in terms of of that is is the
truest of of all the things. I mean, you you know,
is a basketball player to use another basketball example, like
with the in the first segment, As a basketball player,
you can get a ton out of going into a
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gym by yourself and putting up five hundred shots.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
I mean, you know what I mean.
Speaker 5 (27:07):
But like as a football player, you ge't really like
going to gym by yourself and put up five hundred shots. Like,
there's not an equivalent of that in terms of reps
of what you're actually doing out there. You gotta hone
that skill set in the live environment with your teammates.
And again even for somebody who you know, I think
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gets the benefit of the doubt in that regard as
a very highly accomplished future Hall of fame quarterback, Those
reps are still very limited and there's only so many
of them to go around, especially this time of year.
Speaker 3 (27:41):
No without a doubt, And like I said, that's why
I'm so back and forth on it. But at the
same time, it's like, do you try to nudge him
to get him to make a decision sooner while running
the risk of making him completely just be like all right,
I'm done? Or do you you know, play this waiting
(28:02):
game where it's so open ended right now, it's gonna
almost feel like it's gonna turn into your planning everything
in case he doesn't show up, versus let's plan for
him to show up, if that makes sense. So instead
of me trying to figure out how to customize it
exactly how Rogers wants it, it's almost like I have
to insulate myself for Mason or for Will Howard because
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I don't know what Aaron Rodgers approach would look like.
And if I go all in on that and he
doesn't show up, I'm screwed with the Allen Lizards of
the world.
Speaker 1 (28:34):
I'm screwed with the you know how he likes his guys.
Speaker 3 (28:37):
I don't want that. I don't want that that's Jets esque. Yeah,
you know how the Jets esk looks. You're like, ah,
this looks like he was here. Yeah, this was a Yeah,
I don't want that. So we're trying to figure out
the best of all worlds. But it's just I feel
like we're still spinning and play in place right now.
Speaker 4 (28:56):
Man, it's a very unique place to be.
Speaker 5 (29:00):
Like, don't get me wrong, you and I we have
spent a lot of minutes and hours on quarterback conversation,
both real and hypothetical throughout the last handful of off
seasons since Ben Roethlisberger retired. But this so while this
is kind of the same, it's all so different. It's
(29:20):
same same but different. Yeah, same church, different pew. As
our buddy Mike Persuda would say, like, there's just there's
so much unknown with you think it's going to be
this guy, but until the ink is dried on that paper,
it's you know, you're also there's just that feeling of
uncertainty that I think is fair for everybody to have,
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and it's a weird kind of holding pattern to be all,
especially on the backdrop of for a franchise that we
know views every year is an opportunity to compete for
a championship, and it's a lot of unknown. I mean,
we are just about two months away from training camp,
about two months and a week away from training camp
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opening up.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
And then we still are waiting on this me.
Speaker 5 (30:09):
It's the proverbial, like the Steelers always operate, if they
go play a game on Sunday, they could right like
particularly this time of year. And don't get me wrong,
they could go play a game on Sunday and play
it with Mason Rudolph absolutely done that before. But but
in terms of saying that you want to go into
every season and view that as an opportunity to win
a championship, we all know that that that's a different
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conversation and you can't really have that conversation or I
think look in the mirror and say that until you
have a final answer on this Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 4 (30:41):
Saga.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
But you still feel good about him? Now, you still
feel like he's showing up.
Speaker 5 (30:47):
I don't know, I feel good about him. I don't know,
but I do still feel like he's showing up.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
Yes, the same thing that I.
Speaker 4 (30:55):
Just totally.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
You for certain politicians.
Speaker 3 (30:59):
But before we to break, hey, let us know all right,
power grid mega wise, let us know is Aaron Rodgers
signing with us?
Speaker 1 (31:10):
Or is Aaron Rodgers not signing with us?
Speaker 3 (31:13):
We need to know because I'm starting to have some
serious That was all right, I'm starting I was just like, yo,
at what point are we saying?
Speaker 1 (31:22):
Enough is enough? You've been waiting? All right?
Speaker 3 (31:24):
Like what are you exactly waiting on? Is Is it
some like magical theory? It's gonna wake you up and say,
all right, now it's.
Speaker 1 (31:32):
Time to sign. You need to kind of know you
kinda also.
Speaker 5 (31:36):
Too if you want to and I know you were
just getting ready to go to break, but if you
want to throw more cynical ideas out there, OTAs are
opening up across the NFL and the next week is here, right,
Maybe there's part of him that's like, hey, I want that,
or I want some of these offensive coordinators and head
coaches to see what they got a quarterback and think, uh,
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maybe we do need to give.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
Aaron Rodgers playing us for the field?
Speaker 3 (32:02):
Alight?
Speaker 5 (32:03):
All right?
Speaker 1 (32:04):
That wouldn't surprise me either. That would surprise me either.
Speaker 3 (32:07):
But yeah, let us know on the Twitter dot com
at the body fifty two at Wesley Uli and this
is Arthur Bulson. That's West Leula And this is the
Steelers Blitz on Stealers Niche Radio or the Steelers Audio Network.
Speaker 2 (32:35):
This is the Steelers Blitz with Wesley Euler and Arthur
Motes on your twenty four to seven Home of the
Black and Gold s n R.
Speaker 1 (32:45):
Arthur Motes, Wesleyula, final segment of.
Speaker 3 (32:48):
The first hour, Oh, the Steelers Blitz, and of course
you know, we having fun with it, man, but uh,
we always do it the right way, and that is
by including the power grid, the mega watts and uh,
y'all do continue to do an excellent job, whether it's
during the season when we are live all the time
(33:10):
or postseason off season where we're on the basement tours
we like to call it. But uh, either way, we
do appreciate the uh the tweets that do come in
on occasion. So with that being the case, man, I
do want to go ahead and get one of those
right now, if that's all right with you.
Speaker 4 (33:29):
One hundred percent Arthur Nathan Motes the third.
Speaker 5 (33:34):
Let's see here, Uh, yeah, we got you know what
we have we have We can do two quickies here
that are both kind of along the same vein does
that sound all.
Speaker 4 (33:41):
Right with you? All right, let's do it first up
from steal a Nation nine twenty.
Speaker 5 (33:45):
Who wants to just base know straight up simply, what
is our favorite kind of wine?
Speaker 1 (33:51):
Oh? Favorite type of wine? I like a Merlo, I
like a border.
Speaker 4 (34:01):
Dang Tino, he likes them up.
Speaker 3 (34:08):
I'll probably go murlow. What a border was pretty far though,
I'm stuck between those right now. But definitely a red
definitely red.
Speaker 4 (34:17):
Yeah, I'm one hundred percent of red.
Speaker 1 (34:20):
Guy.
Speaker 5 (34:20):
To cab is my usual go to Okay, Okay, I'm
a big cab guy. Uh pairs pairs well with pasta
and steak, two things that we that we that we
eat in the Euler household. Pretty often pairs well with
seafood too, which I know you're a big fan of
And I know, like I could, I could hear my
(34:41):
mom nagging me in the back of my head. Well,
you know you're supposed to have white wine with seafood.
Speaker 1 (34:45):
I know, Mom, Okay, but I like red the moscatto
come on, now, get the.
Speaker 5 (34:52):
The older I get, the more I enjoy wine. But
uh my, my my favorite kind would be cab for sure.
I'm a cab cab sav kind of guy. It is there,
it is.
Speaker 3 (35:01):
Yeah, my palette has definitely evolved to wine, and yeah
I enjoy it.
Speaker 1 (35:06):
Man, shout out to the wine.
Speaker 4 (35:07):
I do too. I do too.
Speaker 6 (35:09):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (35:10):
Second one here, that's good. Before before before we go
to from Andrew, I need to know the way that
you find yourself procrastinating the most?
Speaker 3 (35:22):
Whoa that I find myself procrastinated? Or he means like
I think he means what make like what do I
procrastinate on the most? Or is like what do I
do when I'm procrastinating?
Speaker 4 (35:32):
So see I thought the latter there, like what do
you do to procrastinate?
Speaker 1 (35:35):
But okay, well yeah, yeah I can't do that. Yeah
all right.
Speaker 3 (35:39):
So for me, man, when I'm procrastinating, I'm on flight
club dot com looking at fire kicks.
Speaker 1 (35:47):
All right, I'll be with that drink for hours.
Speaker 3 (35:50):
I have a cart with like thirty thousand dollars worth
of sneakers, and then I'll look up to I was
I'm like, dang, I did it again.
Speaker 4 (36:02):
I gotta I got a nice down payment here on
sneakers in my cart.
Speaker 1 (36:08):
Yeah that's that's that's yeah, that's that's usually my vit man.
All Right, I love the shop man, like, I'm team
shop till you drop. I'm old school.
Speaker 3 (36:16):
Oh your bored, let's go to the mall, all right,
like and now that you can do it virtually, Yeah,
I just pick up that phote fight clib dot com
wes to see me in the studio. It'd be like
Stealers br Steelers dot com dot com. I'll be shoes
just like Yo, we should just look at sneakers bro.
Just just what I do, man, Yeah, I just can't help. Man,
I love my kicks.
Speaker 4 (36:37):
It's a really good one. That's a really good one.
Speaker 3 (36:40):
Uh my.
Speaker 4 (36:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (36:42):
My number one way of procrastinating is probably just dude,
I could I can just waste an hour, no problem,
like on Instagram reels. I mean just on the reels,
just just flipping through Instagram reels. I know it's very
I know it's very basic. Like it's not as an
(37:03):
answer in this regard. But though I can get lost
in the matrix very I can get swallowed up in
the matrix very easily.
Speaker 4 (37:11):
And you all know it's the algorithm of.
Speaker 1 (37:13):
Things that you like, right like designed is by design.
Speaker 5 (37:17):
Man, you go through my Instagram reels, it is all
cooking videos, stand up comedy videos and music clips. That's
what my that's what my Instagram algorithm is cooking, cooking
comedy music. And I could just sit there, look up,
and oh man, forty minutes went by. That felt like
four minutes, you.
Speaker 1 (37:37):
Know what I mean. So that's how to do with
this guy? Alright, I got him? Hold on? Yeah, yeah,
here we go.
Speaker 5 (37:44):
It's a really good that's a really good question because
I'm sure you and I both we could probably list
five or six more.
Speaker 1 (37:50):
Ways very easily. Absolutely.
Speaker 5 (37:54):
Twitter used to be the big one for me, but
I I just find Twitter to be not as much
fun as it used to be. It's it's just all
like arguments now and people fighting and and and and
screaming about politics.
Speaker 1 (38:10):
Easy boomer supposed to be like that, easy Boomer.
Speaker 5 (38:14):
It's not the same sports and music and food fun
that used to be. So yeah, the Instagram reels have
have been swallowing me into the into the matrix as
of late.
Speaker 4 (38:25):
For sure.
Speaker 1 (38:26):
No, I like that right there, man, shot. That was
a good question. That was definitely good.
Speaker 5 (38:30):
Oh I also was too, Like the last month before
I finally bought my new car, I was, dude, I
was getting lost on like car websites and cars. Look,
they spent a month in the matrix, like just looking
at car prices and what cars were available in the
area every day.
Speaker 3 (38:45):
Dude, that when you are actually on the hunt for
something specifically, that the incident knows how the fees you
everything you need sbsolutely.
Speaker 1 (38:58):
So look, this is you said at this up and
I'm gonna go ahead and transparent with it.
Speaker 3 (39:03):
Obviously, we had the new crib, and you know, we
put the pool in it, So we started looking for
different pool accessories early on.
Speaker 1 (39:10):
When I tell you, every single day some type of
pool ad pops up, and it's it ranges. It ranges.
Speaker 3 (39:20):
It ranges from pool cleaning to pool fun to like
excitement to oh you want to be cool, you want
to be fun, you want to be young, you want
to be oh you want to be sca or you
want to drink it. I'm like, bro, I've never seen
this much pool advertising in my life.
Speaker 1 (39:37):
I googled the final.
Speaker 6 (39:39):
A pool skimmer, and all of a sudden, like mentally,
even on my television, I'm getting pooled television, and I'm like, bro,
what is going on?
Speaker 3 (39:51):
Man?
Speaker 4 (39:52):
It is half amazing to me and half really scary
to me.
Speaker 1 (39:57):
Yeah, absolutely, I'm torn in between the two. Yep.
Speaker 5 (40:00):
It's it's like, dude, like, I remember that same thing
happened to me when I bought a smoker four or
five years ago for the first time. It's like, all
your targeted ads are like, here's this grilling utensil toy
you need, here's this tray, here's this pa, here's this.
Speaker 1 (40:13):
Theometer, here's early on.
Speaker 3 (40:15):
Because you are new to it and you're excited, so
you're just like heck yeah. But then at the same
time you're like, bro, like, dude, how how did you
pick up on this so quick? I know you don't
have me walk I look this stuff up one or
two times.
Speaker 5 (40:29):
Brow what is going I said, it's half impressive, but
it's half really scary.
Speaker 1 (40:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (40:34):
Absolutely, man, absolutely, But with that in the case, man,
let's take our final break for this first hour, and
then we get back heard us a wide receiver we
might be having eyes on whoa wait a minute, wait
a minute, don't touch that down mark the most that's
whatsiola And this is the Stealers Blitz on Stealer's Nation
Radio on the Stealer's Audio Network
Euler and Motes are on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
This is the Steelers Blitz on your twenty four to
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Speaker 1 (00:34):
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Speaker 3 (00:35):
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Art the Motes, that's Wesley Euler. One of us has
a decade of NFL experience, the other an immaculate head
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(01:19):
in sending your thoughts, your engagement, and we will most
definitely be responding to that on today's show and any
of our shows as we continue on throughout this off season.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
But uh, my guy, my guys.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Good to see you, man, really good to see you, because, uh,
I got you to see some ball this weekend. Man,
it was football being played, baby, it was football being played.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Ah. It was good vibes out here.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Man. I don't know if you were aware of this, man,
but it was a championship that took place in Pittsburgh
over the weekend.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Little girls Flag football champion.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
Oh, let's go.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
Okay, okay, little Girls Flag Football Championship down there at
Old High Mark.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
You heard High March Stadium. You've been there before?
Speaker 4 (01:57):
I sure have, I sure have.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
That's what I'm river. I'll tell you.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
It's a beautiful venue. I mean it's lovely, lovely either
the backdrop is nice. This was my first time ever
done it. Man, it was a pretty nice place to be.
Speaker 5 (02:09):
It's right, it's right on the water in downtown Pittsburgh.
It's it's it's It's obviously not one of our biggest stadiums,
but like I think, even more so than P and
C Park. Like, it's it's got a it's got a
really cool a really cool view, and a really cool setup.
It's a very unique stadium, no.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
Doubt, No, without a doubt, Yes, indeed, So for the
Pittsburgh STAIUS now and this is their fourth season where
they've had their Flag Girls Flag Football League where it
started off with just six teams and now it has
expanded at fifty teams and uh, going into next year, man,
it will be officially sanctioned p I double a sport
(02:50):
where these young ladies can go out there and actually
win state championships and girls flag football. Man, with over
one hundred schools participating in flag football going into a
next year, and we obviously know that it was added
to the Olympics or we'll be added to the Olympics
as an Olympics sport. And just like with all other sports,
they getting recruited into college and actually giving out some
(03:13):
dollars to be a flag football player for the young
ladies out there.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Man, But it was a cool thing.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
Man, think about this man, Dudes like Charlie Batch down there,
I told you myself was down there doing the color commentary.
But what about Mika Fitzpatrick, man arguably the best safety
in the world. We talked about you guy, Beanie Bishop
and Mason Rudolph, you know at the Pittsburgh Kids Marathon, right,
And how it's cool to see those guys out there have.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
An impact in their free time.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
But see a Mika Fitzpatrick being the guy that's out
there handing out the championship medals to the Upper Saint
Clair Panthers. Right, shout out to Upper Saint Clair coach
by Ryan. Who's Jack? Ryan, Who's Jack, Who's VP of sales? Yeah,
for the Pittsburgh stale was actually his daughter's play.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
For the team. Man. It was pretty cool, man.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
It was a lot of black and goldctions down there. Man.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
So one of our good friends, man, Matt Fargo, is down.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
There as well with the show multiple times absolutely, because
you know, we're talking just youth football. He's one of
the main people man bringing that to life with the
video and the production you know that he does over there.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Man. But it was really cool, man, to just see
a championship. Man.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
It was really cool to see the Steelers being out
there on this football field, man, and ultimately just helping
expand the game because that's the thing that we've talked.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
About, right. The Ireland game is a big deal this year.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
Why because the first time the NFL is going to
be playing a game over in that country, and we've
talked about how you had a game in Spain this year.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
How We've had games in Mexico, Brazil, all over the world.
But they're doing it with the intent to expand the game, to.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
Get more viewership, to get more participants, because that's what
keeps the game alive. It keeps it thriving, It keeps
it for people like me and you have been watching
these games over thirty years now, right. It only gets
like that because it keeps growing, it keeps evolving.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
It either evolve or you die.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
And it's cool to just see that, you know, from
an NFL's respective and specifically the Pittsburgh Steelers them taking
you know, the initiative to put more emphasis on the
girls element, the girls side of it, because now you're
gonna continue to see it grow from them and from
their viewership, and even from a participation standpoint, we've seen
some girls at least play at the collegiate level, I
(05:31):
mean from a kicking standpoint. So I mean, you're just
seeing more and more growth with it, man, But I
definitely wanted to, you know, touch on that, man, to
just start off with the guys.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Man.
Speaker 5 (05:40):
No, I'm glad you started there. For a multitude of
different reasons. I mean number one, it's just a refreshing
start to the show. I am you know, I am
very aware of what we do for a living, but
I think you and I are also pretty transparent. I'm
a little burnout on talking about Aaron Rodgers and wide receivers,
you know what I mean, And I know we're gonna
do some of that on today's show.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
And that's a job right now. It's the job. It's
the job, so we always right now.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
If you have any other nuggets, you know, we're down absolutely.
Speaker 5 (06:09):
But I do love you starting here for that reason.
It's just something different, it's something exciting, It's something that
deserves spotlight and attention. I also, as a father of
two young girls, love to see the football boom that's
happening not just around here but in other football hotbed
(06:30):
areas of the country. And I know that for a
fact because I've got a cool connection for you in
just a second. But yeah, as a father of two
young girls, and as a father who does not plan,
both personally or scientifically, to have any more children in
my life, so I don't think I'll be barring a
major miracle of God and or science, I will not
(06:52):
be having a son in my lifetime. I love this
opportunity to grow the game of football, to grow it
specifically for girls who love the game and like you said,
have done things at the high school in collegiate levels
in football, but obviously not to the same opportunities as
young men, as young boys have in this country. Very
(07:14):
cool for that reason, and I love you being involved
and you'll love this. I have a cousin, Jared. He
is four years older than me. He's like my best friend.
He has two daughters as well. He's a football junkie.
He was a really good football player in college, had
some Division two offers to schools in Virginia. He ended
up going to where did he go for Richmond?
Speaker 1 (07:36):
I want to say for.
Speaker 5 (07:39):
Like for like a semester, and he had a really
bad back and he was just like, I don't want
to do this, like and he ended up transferring to
WU and going to w It just wanted to go
to college, you know what I mean. He didn't want
to play a sport, but he was his high school's
defensive coordinator for like a decade. Right at college. He
is now still at not even forty years old. He's
the athletic director of his old school district, a big
(08:01):
school district in Northern Virginia, and Arthur Motes he just
spearheaded an effort in the last month to get girls
flag football added as a school sanctioned sport in Virginia.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
Go starting so starting that.
Speaker 5 (08:16):
And he's I mean, he's obviously not the only one.
He was one of the people at the forefront. He's
got two daughters as well too, of bringing to their
district or their county, or their region, you know whatever
it is like they are going to have school sanctioned
girls flag football next year. And my older cousin Jared,
was a big part of getting that spearheaded in Northern Virginia,
and I'm very proud of him for doing so. I
think it's freaking awesome and for you being involved with
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what you're doing, just you know, as a father of
two girls and as a fan of football, I think
it's awesome.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
It's the grind dad's in this.
Speaker 5 (08:48):
Man.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
Obviously I got two daughters as well, man, And shoot,
I remember back twenty fourteen time frame, Man, my daughter
would be out there doing the youth footboy camps with
the dudes, man, and you know, it was funny, we
would all we's complain about how we never had anywhere
to send them after they finished the youth camps. Because
with the guys, you're like, all right, go set up
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with your local coaches. Man, go play pop one or
go you know, try for your high school.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
Team or for the girls.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
It's like, yo, we don't really know what to tell
you come back next year. But now man to see it,
we we're able to tell them, hey, you could keep
doing this and you don't have to stop. You can
do this or it'll take you to college. You can
get a great education. Heck, you can win an Olympic
Gold metal represent your country. Like, there are a lot
of opportunities. And then when you're talking about how it's
going to continue to grow endorsements, right, so now you're
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going to talk about monetization and how you can really
make a career out of this thing. And it's you know,
due to not just the guys like you know myself
and other NFL players and alum that are taking a
little bit more intention in saying yes, man, let's make
sure that this thing is important. Let's make sure that
instead of waiting till the end of the show, Let's
(09:57):
talk about it at the beginning, right, instead of treating
the championship game as an afterthought.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
Man, let's put some money into it.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
Man, Let's bring some people out here and make it
feel like an event, because that's why we would treat
the guys, and that's ultimately why the guys game has
grown as much as it has, because of the resources,
because of the time, because people that matter in that
particular feel saying that that matters.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
And I think that that's the important thing.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
And when you see the Steelers, you see the Eagles,
you see the Ravens, the Commanders, these are the big
four teams that are kind of spiritheaded, you know, girls
flag football. It's like, man, when they're the ones saying
that who are you to say is not important?
Speaker 1 (10:40):
Is not cool? You know what I mean?
Speaker 3 (10:41):
And I think that that's the added element that added
bonus to it that for me personally, I'm a big
fan of it. And like I said, it's just cool
to see how it's grown and how it's going to
continue to grow. It's not just for us telling the story, man,
you also got a big time kudos to these young ladies.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
Man.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
The athleticism is on display I think that was one
of the things that we're even seeing with women's basketball
right where prior to you know, people always complain, oh, man,
they're not this, they're not that, and it's like, no,
they just need exposure. Once you get eyes on them,
you can actually they got shooters, they got people that
can handle the ball. They got talented young ladies over there, man,
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and this thing when you're looking at you know them
and girls flag football, it's like, man, I'm watch some
of these girls.
Speaker 5 (11:22):
I'm like, oh, all right, no, whoa No, I think
it's oh you got that, and just I know, we
got to go to break in a minute. But just
to add to that, to piggyback off of what you're saying,
I think the women's basketball example is a great one
by you look at the over the last two three years,
look at the popularity boom and women's basketball. And don't
get me wrong, basketball is a beloved sport in this country.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
But it ain't football.
Speaker 5 (11:46):
So so look look at the boom, look at the
boom in women's basketball over the last two or three years,
and now imagine if we invested in football like that,
what it would be like. In football, are nations by
far most beloved sport. It's I tell you what it's.
It's it's a it's a large surface that we're beginning
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to scratch here.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
I think absolutely absolutely So, like I said, Man just
wanted to acknowledge them on the front end of this.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
Thy man, big time.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
Kudos to all of the young ladies that participated in
the Steelers Girls Flag Football Playoffs season, their fourth season
in the in the books, Man shout out to Upper
Saint Clear getting the championship, and uh yeah, it was.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
Like I said, it's a good vibe all around. Man.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
So with that being the case, let's take our first break.
But you're right, no, don't touch that down. I'm Arthur Motes,
That's Wesley Uler, and this.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
Is the Steelers Blitz.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
This is the Steelers Flits with Wesley Huler and Arthur
Mose on your twenty four seven home of the Black
and Gold cas Skin.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
Are all right, Arthur Motes, Wesley Huler, and it is
time to get to the Aaron Rodgers portion of the show.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
All right. I know we couldn't wait that long, you know,
we had to get to it, all right.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
Listen, listen, man, I was trying to hold off I
was trying, but for order of operation's sake, we had
to get me here to get do it down, all right,
So here we are.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
It's time.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
You know, who would have thought that would be on
the twentieth day of May and still having to give
updates on Aaron Rodgers and more importantly his employment status. Yes,
because for some reason, twenty days into the month of
May still hasn't provided him with enough time to articulate
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his decision for twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
But here we are.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
So the guy that wrote the book on Aaron Rodgers,
like he literally wrote the book on Aaron Rodgers. You
feel me like, like some people know Aaron Rodgers. But
then it's like you wrote the book on a guy.
The guy really wrote the book on Aaron Rodgers, all right,
So they call him an author. Shout out to us authors
often if you need to read a material motes through
your life. You know, I just know, I wrote a book.
It's pretty cool. Author find Moltesterory dot com, you know
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what I mean, or Arthur Mosse dot com. You know,
I mean, if you want to get a book, just
throw it out there. But shout out to authors. Okay,
So the author of the Aaron Rodgers book. They came out,
I believe it was a year ago that actually even
included some commentary from Aaron Rodgers. The gentleman was doing
some media availability over the weekend and I was obviously
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asked about Aaron Rodgerson what he feels Aaron Rodgers is
planning to do time wise, are timeline wise in terms
of a decision, and he felt, based on his communications
with Aaron Rodgers, based on his understanding of him, that
he feels the decision will be being made prior to
the veteran mini camps they will be starting, and.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
Well, I guess it's three weeks now.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
Shout out to these condensed off season workouts for these
young guys.
Speaker 4 (15:00):
Man, it really is right around the.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
Course ot A practices. And then you write into VINDI
camp like how we get here? Like this is crazy, man?
Love it? Love it?
Speaker 4 (15:09):
They moved on or something did not come on.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
They moved up and removed the whole week of of
of practice. How are you going to do that? We
just it's just cutting up my guys opportunities. Man, y'all
cut my guy's opportunities.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
But yeah, with that being the case, though, man, Aaron Rodgers,
or at least the author of the Aaron Rodgers Buck
feels that that would be the time of frame. And
I want to ask you, man, how do you feel
if that is the case. Man, if we are looking
at mini camp time frame, which would be another additional
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two weeks. I believe mini camp starts the was it
the third? The second?
Speaker 1 (15:48):
June June tenth.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
I'm tripping June tenth is when the mini camp will
ficial be ot as is that.
Speaker 5 (15:56):
Lad starts next week and then the week after and
then it's Many Camp June ten, eleven and twelve. Reminder,
the only mandatory part of that is Jude eleventh and twelve.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
So yeah, Ota Prett, this isn't Mini camp, Pratt. This
is we We say them differently because they are different.
One is an optional workout, OTAs, Those are optional mandatory
that Many Camp is not optional. You are required to
get there and you can even be disciplined if you're
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not there, whereas you don't have to show it for OTAs.
Speaker 5 (16:37):
I forget who it was, but it was like someone
who played around your era Arthur Motes, who used to
always say I know OTA stands for it was someone
who was a really good player who was notorious for skipping,
and he said OTA stands for organized team activities, but
it might as well be optional team activities.
Speaker 4 (16:56):
Was the lot I forget who the person.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
That's true, that's true.
Speaker 5 (16:59):
But people will remember from Cam Hayward last year in
terms of you know, what he was a participant for
and what he wasn't when he was when he was
going through some of his contract negotiations.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
In the past three years, Cam TJM.
Speaker 5 (17:11):
So we've seen this fish before. Albeit those guys were
under contract and just wanted extensions. Aaron Rodgers is still
not under contract, so I mean they can't find him
for not showing up for MIDDI camp because he's not
under contract.
Speaker 4 (17:25):
But yeah, I so I have.
Speaker 5 (17:29):
I think I've gone from a little optimistic on this
to a little cynical on this. And I do still
think Aaron Rodgers is going to sign and is going
to be a Pittsburgh Steeler and week one when we
are at MetLife Stadium in early September, he'll be running
out at MetLife Stadium like he did the past two
years when he was playing for the Jets.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
But I'll be in this same years do it more
so like this last year than that first year won
what that first year was.
Speaker 4 (17:53):
Hopefully it will be nothing like that first year.
Speaker 5 (17:57):
But I do think that this fall, Aaron Rodgers is
going to be playing football and we'll be doing so
in black and gold for the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
Thank you for Pittsburgh Steels on the black and gold.
Speaker 4 (18:06):
Makesure you clarify it right, not Iowa, you know what
I mean?
Speaker 1 (18:11):
Or as another black and goal. Yeah, y'all calling that
black and yellow.
Speaker 5 (18:15):
Who also could use a quarterback although they did just
draft one fortieth overall as well.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
The drafted him when Derek Carr was there as well.
Also mm hmm, boy, I think.
Speaker 5 (18:28):
Aaron Rodgers is going to be a Pittsburgh Steeler. I
think he'll be at Latrobe in late July, but will
he be anywhere in Pittsburgh Steelers colors before then? I'm
a little cynical on that part now, I think, particularly
as it relates to the next two weeks.
Speaker 4 (18:45):
Like they're mozy mozy mozy moti.
Speaker 5 (18:51):
He visited the Pittsburgh Steelers in Pittsburgh in the South
Side facility on March twenty first, Like like, I don't
think we were even at the sweet sixteen of March Madness.
At that point, I think the first round was still underway.
It was like day one or day two of March Madness,
and we were like, okayle, this might not be eminent,
but it's gonna get done here sooner rather than later.
Speaker 4 (19:14):
And then the draft rolled around and.
Speaker 5 (19:15):
Then okay, well, it might not be eminent, but it's
gonna get shne sooner rather than later.
Speaker 4 (19:21):
There's part of me that thinks that he's just at
the stage of his career.
Speaker 5 (19:24):
He doesn't want to be bothered with OTAs we know
how he handled those when he was with a new team.
Speaker 4 (19:30):
In the Jets.
Speaker 5 (19:31):
So again just using history here, This is not speculation.
This is going off of history, like it would not
surprise me if he waits until before mandatory mini camp
because he just doesn't want the drama of having to
talk about all this face the media more.
Speaker 4 (19:50):
And face the media.
Speaker 5 (19:51):
That makes it sound like he's skippy, but just be
be do media obligations more than he has to, and
a lot of other different things that could be going
into it as well too. So I am I'm I'm
starting to think that that this makes sense. We'll get
through o t A's here the next two weeks and
then I think it's really time to be on Aaron
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Rodgers watch again, saying all this, knowing that I've been saying, Okay,
well we'll get through March here, and as we get
close to the draft, it's time to be on Aaron
Rodgers watch. Okay, we'll get through free agency here that
it's time to be like, okay, well we'll get into May.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
When is McAfee coming back to Pittsburgh.
Speaker 4 (20:35):
I I, I don't know.
Speaker 5 (20:37):
The last thing that I have to hold on to
is like, all right, he just doesn't want to be
bothered with ot as and then then then it will see.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
So I like what you're with, the approaches that you have.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
I have a similar perspective on it, and largely due
to how last year played out for him.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
He showed up to every OTA practice for the Jets.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
And then he left for veteran mini camp and that's
when he went to I believe it was Egypt, and
he ended up getting disciplined for it. It was a
whole ordeal made about it, and he felt some type
of way because he said, man, I was here for
all of OTAs. I was here for the three weeks,
but you find me and get up sell me for
missing the three days, where all we're doing those three
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days is doing everything that we just did over those
three weeks. We're just condensing it now and saying that
this is a mock training camp or a mock work week.
This is what it would feel like, sort of say.
But I personally, as an athlete, understood what he was saying.
He's like when it mattered the most, and we instarted
it was the full meeting potato days, the real commitment.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
I was here for that.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
I left for the three days that were mandatory, But
these are the three days that we are going over
the stuff that we've already done. Why are we treating
this differently? Would you have rather I showed up for
the three days and missed the three weeks. And that's
why for me, I could understand. And I do think
that that part also was what kind of played into
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just the sour and stuff that relationship. When you look
at him, you look at Solent, just howeverything was playing
out last year with them. I don't think that that's
by accident. We saw cases where you know, Seattle had
that with cam Chancellor and with marshan Le's. The difference
was they said, we will wipe those funds away and
we're gonna make sure we compensate, y'all. Everybody'd be happy
about it. But those guys were more invested in terms
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of being a part of that culture longer than Aaron
Rodgers with the Jets. So thinking of all of that information,
it makes one one hundred percent sense to me for
him to say, why sign right now? Why you can't
debate me, You can't argue with me or expect me
to do something. If I'm not even under contract, it
doesn't otate. It don't matter now I'm not in the contract.
I might retire, so why worry about it. I might
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sign with the Saints, so I worry about it. You know,
I like the Vicus, so I worry about it. By
him taking this approach, if this is the case, it
frees up all of that. Heck, if he truly didn't
want you show up too many camp now. The reason
why I'm kind of back and forth on that is
because I'm big on reps, and I understand that at
this level, the only way to get good at playing
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football is by playing to play. Holloway, the only way
to stay good at playing football is by playing football,
because these guys.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
Are constantly working on their craft.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
And that's why even guys like myself who can retire,
we can still talk it and still play.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
It better than eighty percent of the regular population.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
But when you're talking about that one percent, man, you're
doing a disservice to those guys work ethic to those
guys talent. If you think you could just be chilling
for five six years and then just wake up one
day and say, oh yeah, I'm still better than you guys,
that's not how this thing goes.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
Man.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
So with Rogers, it's like, man, as much as I
could understand him simply saying I will wait till a
training camp get in here. I'm smart enough, I'll be
good to go, but at the same time, I would
also love for him to actually be there for a
mini camp. It's like, Yo, get that first introduction to
your team, get that first introduction to the playbook, and
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then have that prior to training camp and at least
getting to work with the guys. Because I'm sure if
Aaron Rodgers wants to get to play, but he can
get it tomorrow. It's Aaron Rodgers. But you can't get
those reps. You can't get that timing versus a defense.
You can't get that feeling of coming in and out
of the huddle and working through all right, I'm a
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little tired right now. I'm my feet here, a little
bit man with these cliques, all right, the little things.
This is what you get done during this time of year.
It's one thing to, like I said, do it at
training camp when it's forced upon you. And that's what
we did with Joe Hayden. But Joe Hayden also wasn't
playing quarterback. Joe Hayden hopped on a moving train preseason, right,
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But he was a corner and he was a man,
a man corner. Hey, Joe, go cover that guy, Go
cover him, just follow him around. Yeah. Whereas when you're
talking about quarterback, way different set of responsibilities response in
terms of expectations and the amount of things you need
(25:10):
to know that don't even pertain to you exclusively. You
need to know old line, you need to know these receivers,
You need to know individual receivers. How does Wes like
to run his routes versus how moch runs his routes
versus how Dale runs his routes versus how Max runs
his routes, and I don't have time to second guests
or be wondering that in the middle of this play
(25:31):
when we have to be exact because we say it's
a game of inches, and if it's on your left
shoulder versus your left elbow, oh man, that's a terrible throw.
And we're talking about not even ten inches. But that's
what this game truly is. So when I think of that,
I'm always like torn with Rogers and his overall just
(25:53):
pace an urgency that he's displaying right now. It's like,
from an individual standpoint, I don't think it's going to
impact him to negatively, But for the rest, for the
the dependent veribals that are going to be, you know,
depending on him, yeah, they need some time to get adjusted.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
Man.
Speaker 5 (26:11):
Yeah, I think you're spot on, even for a guy
who's a veteran, even for a guy who's accomplished and
knows as much about the game as Aaron Rodgers. It's
a whole new set of teammates, it's a whole new
set of coaching staff, it's a whole different you know, a.
Speaker 4 (26:26):
Whole new dictionary of verbiage, that you're gonna use things
like that.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
Yeah, no connection, Like he hasn't played for Arthur Smith,
for coach.
Speaker 3 (26:36):
Toimeland, doesn't have any of his favorite that's my favorite receiver,
it's my favorite.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
This just like none of that man.
Speaker 5 (26:42):
And like you said, I mean, listen, this is this
is true of any sport, right, you got to play
it to get better. But I think, I mean, I
think football in terms of of that is is the
truest of of all the things. I mean, you you know,
is a basketball player to use another basketball example, like
with the in the first segment, As a basketball player,
you can get a ton out of going into a
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gym by yourself and putting up five hundred shots.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
I mean, you know what I mean.
Speaker 5 (27:07):
But like as a football player, you ge't really like
going to gym by yourself and put up five hundred shots. Like,
there's not an equivalent of that in terms of reps
of what you're actually doing out there. You gotta hone
that skill set in the live environment with your teammates.
And again even for somebody who you know, I think
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gets the benefit of the doubt in that regard as
a very highly accomplished future Hall of fame quarterback, Those
reps are still very limited and there's only so many
of them to go around, especially this time of year.
Speaker 3 (27:41):
No without a doubt, And like I said, that's why
I'm so back and forth on it. But at the
same time, it's like, do you try to nudge him
to get him to make a decision sooner while running
the risk of making him completely just be like all right,
I'm done? Or do you you know, play this waiting
(28:02):
game where it's so open ended right now, it's gonna
almost feel like it's gonna turn into your planning everything
in case he doesn't show up, versus let's plan for
him to show up, if that makes sense. So instead
of me trying to figure out how to customize it
exactly how Rogers wants it, it's almost like I have
to insulate myself for Mason or for Will Howard because
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I don't know what Aaron Rodgers approach would look like.
And if I go all in on that and he
doesn't show up, I'm screwed with the Allen Lizards of
the world.
Speaker 1 (28:34):
I'm screwed with the you know how he likes his guys.
Speaker 3 (28:37):
I don't want that. I don't want that that's Jets esque. Yeah,
you know how the Jets esk looks. You're like, ah,
this looks like he was here. Yeah, this was a Yeah,
I don't want that. So we're trying to figure out
the best of all worlds. But it's just I feel
like we're still spinning and play in place right now.
Speaker 4 (28:56):
Man, it's a very unique place to be.
Speaker 5 (29:00):
Like, don't get me wrong, you and I we have
spent a lot of minutes and hours on quarterback conversation,
both real and hypothetical throughout the last handful of off
seasons since Ben Roethlisberger retired. But this so while this
is kind of the same, it's all so different. It's
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same same but different. Yeah, same church, different pew. As
our buddy Mike Persuda would say, like, there's just there's
so much unknown with you think it's going to be
this guy, but until the ink is dried on that paper,
it's you know, you're also there's just that feeling of
uncertainty that I think is fair for everybody to have,
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and it's a weird kind of holding pattern to be all,
especially on the backdrop of for a franchise that we
know views every year is an opportunity to compete for
a championship, and it's a lot of unknown. I mean,
we are just about two months away from training camp,
about two months and a week away from training camp
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opening up.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
And then we still are waiting on this me.
Speaker 5 (30:09):
It's the proverbial, like the Steelers always operate, if they
go play a game on Sunday, they could right like
particularly this time of year. And don't get me wrong,
they could go play a game on Sunday and play
it with Mason Rudolph absolutely done that before. But but
in terms of saying that you want to go into
every season and view that as an opportunity to win
a championship, we all know that that that's a different
(30:30):
conversation and you can't really have that conversation or I
think look in the mirror and say that until you
have a final answer on this Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 4 (30:41):
Saga.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
But you still feel good about him? Now, you still
feel like he's showing up.
Speaker 5 (30:47):
I don't know, I feel good about him. I don't know,
but I do still feel like he's showing up.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
Yes, the same thing that I.
Speaker 4 (30:55):
Just totally.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
You for certain politicians.
Speaker 3 (30:59):
But before we to break, hey, let us know all right,
power grid mega wise, let us know is Aaron Rodgers
signing with us?
Speaker 1 (31:10):
Or is Aaron Rodgers not signing with us?
Speaker 3 (31:13):
We need to know because I'm starting to have some
serious That was all right, I'm starting I was just like, yo,
at what point are we saying?
Speaker 1 (31:22):
Enough is enough? You've been waiting? All right?
Speaker 3 (31:24):
Like what are you exactly waiting on? Is Is it
some like magical theory? It's gonna wake you up and say,
all right, now it's.
Speaker 1 (31:32):
Time to sign. You need to kind of know you
kinda also.
Speaker 5 (31:36):
Too if you want to and I know you were
just getting ready to go to break, but if you
want to throw more cynical ideas out there, OTAs are
opening up across the NFL and the next week is here, right,
Maybe there's part of him that's like, hey, I want that,
or I want some of these offensive coordinators and head
coaches to see what they got a quarterback and think, uh,
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maybe we do need to give.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
Aaron Rodgers playing us for the field?
Speaker 3 (32:02):
Alight?
Speaker 5 (32:03):
All right?
Speaker 1 (32:04):
That wouldn't surprise me either. That would surprise me either.
Speaker 3 (32:07):
But yeah, let us know on the Twitter dot com
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Speaker 1 (32:45):
Arthur Motes, Wesleyula, final segment of.
Speaker 3 (32:48):
The first hour, Oh, the Steelers Blitz, and of course
you know, we having fun with it, man, but uh,
we always do it the right way, and that is
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(33:10):
or postseason off season where we're on the basement tours
we like to call it. But uh, either way, we
do appreciate the uh the tweets that do come in
on occasion. So with that being the case, man, I
do want to go ahead and get one of those
right now, if that's all right with you.
Speaker 4 (33:29):
One hundred percent Arthur Nathan Motes the third.
Speaker 5 (33:34):
Let's see here, Uh, yeah, we got you know what
we have we have We can do two quickies here
that are both kind of along the same vein does
that sound all.
Speaker 4 (33:41):
Right with you? All right, let's do it first up
from steal a Nation nine twenty.
Speaker 5 (33:45):
Who wants to just base know straight up simply, what
is our favorite kind of wine?
Speaker 1 (33:51):
Oh? Favorite type of wine? I like a Merlo, I
like a border.
Speaker 4 (34:01):
Dang Tino, he likes them up.
Speaker 3 (34:08):
I'll probably go murlow. What a border was pretty far though,
I'm stuck between those right now. But definitely a red
definitely red.
Speaker 4 (34:17):
Yeah, I'm one hundred percent of red.
Speaker 1 (34:20):
Guy.
Speaker 5 (34:20):
To cab is my usual go to Okay, Okay, I'm
a big cab guy. Uh pairs pairs well with pasta
and steak, two things that we that we that we
eat in the Euler household. Pretty often pairs well with
seafood too, which I know you're a big fan of
And I know, like I could, I could hear my
(34:41):
mom nagging me in the back of my head. Well,
you know you're supposed to have white wine with seafood.
Speaker 1 (34:45):
I know, Mom, Okay, but I like red the moscatto
come on, now, get the.
Speaker 5 (34:52):
The older I get, the more I enjoy wine. But
uh my, my my favorite kind would be cab for sure.
I'm a cab cab sav kind of guy. It is there,
it is.
Speaker 3 (35:01):
Yeah, my palette has definitely evolved to wine, and yeah
I enjoy it.
Speaker 1 (35:06):
Man, shout out to the wine.
Speaker 4 (35:07):
I do too. I do too.
Speaker 6 (35:09):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (35:10):
Second one here, that's good. Before before before we go
to from Andrew, I need to know the way that
you find yourself procrastinating the most?
Speaker 3 (35:22):
Whoa that I find myself procrastinated? Or he means like
I think he means what make like what do I
procrastinate on the most? Or is like what do I
do when I'm procrastinating?
Speaker 4 (35:32):
So see I thought the latter there, like what do
you do to procrastinate?
Speaker 1 (35:35):
But okay, well yeah, yeah I can't do that. Yeah
all right.
Speaker 3 (35:39):
So for me, man, when I'm procrastinating, I'm on flight
club dot com looking at fire kicks.
Speaker 1 (35:47):
All right, I'll be with that drink for hours.
Speaker 3 (35:50):
I have a cart with like thirty thousand dollars worth
of sneakers, and then I'll look up to I was
I'm like, dang, I did it again.
Speaker 4 (36:02):
I gotta I got a nice down payment here on
sneakers in my cart.
Speaker 1 (36:08):
Yeah that's that's that's yeah, that's that's usually my vit man.
All Right, I love the shop man, like, I'm team
shop till you drop. I'm old school.
Speaker 3 (36:16):
Oh your bored, let's go to the mall, all right,
like and now that you can do it virtually, Yeah,
I just pick up that phote fight clib dot com
wes to see me in the studio. It'd be like
Stealers br Steelers dot com dot com. I'll be shoes
just like Yo, we should just look at sneakers bro.
Just just what I do, man, Yeah, I just can't help. Man,
I love my kicks.
Speaker 4 (36:37):
It's a really good one. That's a really good one.
Speaker 3 (36:40):
Uh my.
Speaker 4 (36:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (36:42):
My number one way of procrastinating is probably just dude,
I could I can just waste an hour, no problem,
like on Instagram reels. I mean just on the reels,
just just flipping through Instagram reels. I know it's very
I know it's very basic. Like it's not as an
(37:03):
answer in this regard. But though I can get lost
in the matrix very I can get swallowed up in
the matrix very easily.
Speaker 4 (37:11):
And you all know it's the algorithm of.
Speaker 1 (37:13):
Things that you like, right like designed is by design.
Speaker 5 (37:17):
Man, you go through my Instagram reels, it is all
cooking videos, stand up comedy videos and music clips. That's
what my that's what my Instagram algorithm is cooking, cooking
comedy music. And I could just sit there, look up,
and oh man, forty minutes went by. That felt like
four minutes, you.
Speaker 1 (37:37):
Know what I mean. So that's how to do with
this guy? Alright, I got him? Hold on? Yeah, yeah,
here we go.
Speaker 5 (37:44):
It's a really good that's a really good question because
I'm sure you and I both we could probably list
five or six more.
Speaker 1 (37:50):
Ways very easily. Absolutely.
Speaker 5 (37:54):
Twitter used to be the big one for me, but
I I just find Twitter to be not as much
fun as it used to be. It's it's just all
like arguments now and people fighting and and and and
screaming about politics.
Speaker 1 (38:10):
Easy boomer supposed to be like that, easy Boomer.
Speaker 5 (38:14):
It's not the same sports and music and food fun
that used to be. So yeah, the Instagram reels have
have been swallowing me into the into the matrix as
of late.
Speaker 4 (38:25):
For sure.
Speaker 1 (38:26):
No, I like that right there, man, shot. That was
a good question. That was definitely good.
Speaker 5 (38:30):
Oh I also was too, Like the last month before
I finally bought my new car, I was, dude, I
was getting lost on like car websites and cars. Look,
they spent a month in the matrix, like just looking
at car prices and what cars were available in the
area every day.
Speaker 3 (38:45):
Dude, that when you are actually on the hunt for
something specifically, that the incident knows how the fees you
everything you need sbsolutely.
Speaker 1 (38:58):
So look, this is you said at this up and
I'm gonna go ahead and transparent with it.
Speaker 3 (39:03):
Obviously, we had the new crib, and you know, we
put the pool in it, So we started looking for
different pool accessories early on.
Speaker 1 (39:10):
When I tell you, every single day some type of
pool ad pops up, and it's it ranges. It ranges.
Speaker 3 (39:20):
It ranges from pool cleaning to pool fun to like
excitement to oh you want to be cool, you want
to be fun, you want to be young, you want
to be oh you want to be sca or you
want to drink it. I'm like, bro, I've never seen
this much pool advertising in my life.
Speaker 1 (39:37):
I googled the final.
Speaker 6 (39:39):
A pool skimmer, and all of a sudden, like mentally,
even on my television, I'm getting pooled television, and I'm like, bro,
what is going on?
Speaker 3 (39:51):
Man?
Speaker 4 (39:52):
It is half amazing to me and half really scary
to me.
Speaker 1 (39:57):
Yeah, absolutely, I'm torn in between the two. Yep.
Speaker 5 (40:00):
It's it's like, dude, like, I remember that same thing
happened to me when I bought a smoker four or
five years ago for the first time. It's like, all
your targeted ads are like, here's this grilling utensil toy
you need, here's this tray, here's this pa, here's this.
Speaker 1 (40:13):
Theometer, here's early on.
Speaker 3 (40:15):
Because you are new to it and you're excited, so
you're just like heck yeah. But then at the same
time you're like, bro, like, dude, how how did you
pick up on this so quick? I know you don't
have me walk I look this stuff up one or
two times.
Speaker 5 (40:29):
Brow what is going I said, it's half impressive, but
it's half really scary.
Speaker 1 (40:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (40:34):
Absolutely, man, absolutely, But with that in the case, man,
let's take our final break for this first hour, and
then we get back heard us a wide receiver we
might be having eyes on whoa wait a minute, wait
a minute, don't touch that down mark the most that's
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