Can the Steelers pull off an upset in Baltimore and beat the Ravens?

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Welcome to the Underground, The steel City Underground, the black
and gold standard for Pittsburgh Steelers coverage.

Speaker 2 (00:10):
Now here's your hose. Joe Kuzma and Brian E.

Speaker 3 (00:16):
Rose.

Speaker 1 (00:20):
Hello everyone, and welcome to another edition of the Steel
City Underground podcast. By name is Joe Kuzba, joined here
with my brother from another mother for some bonus football
with the one mister Briany Roach. Brian, what's going on?

Speaker 4 (00:36):
Uh, you know, preparing for another snow apocalypse?

Speaker 1 (00:40):
Oh my goodness, I got hit. I don't know where
everybody else is. I'm in Ohio. I got hit with
the first end of this. Took them like two days
to come around in my complex get some of the snow,
like unburied. I think we were starting to get unburied.
I woke up to, you know, the echo device. If
I say the name, then it starts going off in
like every room around here. But I understand, I say

(01:01):
her name and she appears one degree man, one degree,
And you know, I don't know what they're you know,
I don't know what they're calling for. What are they
call them for in like Baltimore this week? Is it
going to be a snowpocalypse?

Speaker 2 (01:14):
Gonna be cold.

Speaker 4 (01:16):
It'll be cold, but only it's really They keep saying
it's a snow apocalypse, and then it's like I have
a dusting of snow. It's cold as cold as hell.
I was riding my bike yesterday and freezing my you know, off.

Speaker 1 (01:31):
I just saw somebody, somebody posting like bollaclava's like on
Facebook marketplace. It's like perfect for this weather. It's like, gee,
you think, and it was advertising. You know, it goes
under the motorcycle helmet and everything covers. Yeah, you would
have to dude, you wouldn't have a face left, Like
you would literally have like a cavity where your nose is.
They would have to remove it. It's it's my toes

(01:52):
that are the worst.

Speaker 2 (01:53):
Man.

Speaker 4 (01:53):
I have mountain biking shoes that are good for flat
petals because I ride with flat pedals. I know nobody cares,
but I'm gonna talk about it anyway. But my toes,
my toes, oh my god. Like during the winter, I'm
lucky I can do if I can be out for
an hour because my toes are frozen.

Speaker 1 (02:08):
Yeah, I hear you there. Because going to the Bengals game,
which you know, I was like, hey, thank you for
making this an eight o'clock kickoff where we don't have
like any daylight or anything to help foss out. At
one point, I think around four o'clock or so, and
our crazy asses were out there tailgating too. Of course,
a little bit of adult beverages, some hot apple cider
with a little bit of something extra cinnamoni mixed in there,

(02:31):
and I got you through a little bit of that.
But man, I'll tell you, it just seems like there's
nothing that could keep my feet warm no matter what
I try. Two sets of toe warmers now I've got
one of those new as you know. Heather got me
the steelers, the heated coat that has like the heated elements.
My cousin got the vest too, which was funny. But

(02:52):
I had the power bank and I brought an extra
one and that thing got me through. I'm telling you
that was great. But for the most part, man, I
can't figure out my feet. I know some people bring
like cardboard and put it down. I thought about going
the dollar tree and getting the floor mat. I did
that back like two years ago when they had the
Christmas Eve game against the Raiders and it was like
nine degrees and the beer was slushing when you opened
it and everything, and we're not looking at anything that

(03:15):
severe here in Baltimore. I got weather dot Com pulled
up high at thirty nine low of twenty seven. So
it's a night game, but that's gonna be a little
more crisper than what it was minus any kind of wind,
chill or anything like that. Fifteen percent chance of any
kind of precipitation, So it sounds like it's gonna be
pretty good. That's pretty good football weather. If they would

(03:37):
have kicked off in the afternoon, it's thirty nine. Give
me that like every day. That was like Christmas. Christmas
was beautiful for that Chiefs game, So I can handle that.
I was almost ready to not wear a coat for that.
But geez, when you get the wind whipping in makes
you wonder, So makes you wonder about your life choices
like why am I sitting here watching this Steelers team,

(03:57):
this offense play like crap for you know, recorders? And
are they gonna disappoint me? And am I gonna go
hang home angry and know they're gonna turn it around
a little bit? Give you all this a little bit
of false hope and then let you off just slightly
slightly disappointed as opposed to anger. No, I don't get
that frustrated. But man, I'll tell you the people that

(04:17):
are out there Ryan, that are like fire Tomlin, fire
this guy fire that. It's like, look, it's not a
black trash bag day. We were talking about this on
the last show. We're gonna repeat a couple of these things.
I don't want to get into it too far, but
if anyone saw the real or short that was out there,
and I mean mentioned of this on the last show,
I think the kid, I gotta pull it from the

(04:39):
top of my head now. But the Kansasity Chiefs had
like about eight or nine games and only scored like
twenty points a game or less. And people are saying, no, Tomlin,
this whole coaching staff, the Steelers, it's antiquated to you know,
prioritize defense. And you're looking at the Kansas City Chiefs.
You know who's come off of Andy Reid's tree, like recently.
I know there's guys, but he's been around forever, right,

(05:01):
he always used to have the knock of not being
able to win the playoffs. I mean, you're from the
Philadelphia area, I'm sure you heard it from Eagles fans.

Speaker 2 (05:08):
This guy's want and done. This guy's a bust. He
has all of this talent.

Speaker 1 (05:11):
He has the Brian Rustbrooks and the Shawn McCoy's and
Bonavan McNabb and all of these guys, you know what
I mean.

Speaker 4 (05:17):
So I can tell you this, If the Eagles don't
win the Super Bowl again, then we will hear the
we should have kept Andy Reid talk because it keeps
coming up. In fact, even as well as they've done
with sarih what Nick Siriani is that who it is? Ye,
even as they as well as they've managed to do,
there are still people here in Philly, in this area,

(05:40):
in this region. There's a diner that I go to often,
the Meadows Diner, and the guys there are like, we
should have never let Andy Reid go.

Speaker 2 (05:49):
We should have never let him go.

Speaker 1 (05:51):
And I'm like, really, why No, That's not the way
they were acting back when he was there.

Speaker 2 (05:56):
It took him nine seasons to get you know, the
cheap up.

Speaker 4 (05:58):
They were like, he's gotta go where They were like, yeah,
they he's gone whatever, Yeah, they were thrilled.

Speaker 1 (06:03):
Took him nine seasons to get a playoff win, he
didn't have a playoff win between that and then like
about the first five years with the Chiefs and then
you know, you get Patty Mahomes and then I know,
I'm just saying his name. However, it's like the State
farm guy, the guy that's in the commercials, and.

Speaker 2 (06:17):
I was like, you made him very Irish.

Speaker 1 (06:19):
Now he's a Patty Mahomes. We got the countdown clock going.
I had a New Year's Day brunch at an Irish
pub and it was excellent. My friend and they had
the countdown clock. I think it was sponsored by Guinness
or Jamisoner or something of that nature.

Speaker 4 (06:35):
So to go completely off topic, well, you know what,
I'm gonna save this for the two I'll save this
for the two percenters later on. I'll talk about Okay, Yeah,
remind me that I had a thought and I should talk.

Speaker 1 (06:44):
I'll remind you of that thought. Because the rumors are
hot and heavy the Steelers are going to play in.

Speaker 2 (06:48):
Ireland next year.

Speaker 1 (06:48):
But we still have another game right now. We don't
have to talk about coaching, Firings, Hirings or whatever. My
point was more or less, and the Chiefs have kept
their defensive coordinator all this time, Steve Spagnola almost said
lou Anarroumo who just lost his job in Cincinnati, which
I mean that guy didn't have the players, and I

(07:08):
don't know, I would almost be starting to I'm like
looking across the table here because I get to a
Jato Austin here there. I don't know, you know, it's
hard to say, yeah, his team's with the Bengals and whatnot,
and the talent that he has when he was at
the Bengals with these with the Lions.

Speaker 2 (07:23):
I get.

Speaker 1 (07:23):
There's all this stuff with coaching, and the reason I'm
bringing up all this coaching is like could have, would have?

Speaker 2 (07:27):
Should have?

Speaker 1 (07:28):
You got Eagles fans like you're saying that are like,
you know, hindsight twenty twenty. None of these people, you know,
people finally missed Todd Haley. We were in the Thicke
and thing of doing this stuff when when we first
started the show, then Todd Hailey was the offensive coordinator
and we used to say, no, you're all you're all whack,
you're all on crack, all this stuff. You don't know
what you're talking about. And then you go through guys

(07:49):
like Randy Ficknaer and Matt Canada, and I understand the
still other struggles. There's people that already want to get
rid of Arthur Smith. It's his first year. I think
there's still a stinker, stigma of certain lack of personnel,
you know, the first year of a system, two different
quarterbacks that started over the year, and other things that
get into this. But there's a lot of fire. Tomlin,

(08:10):
Arthur Smith, this team's gonna be one and done. Bench
Russell Wilson. That's where I want to start. Because we
could talk about the coaching thing all day. I'm sure
it'll go through the offseason. Look, if they win in Baltimore,
which that is the biggest question, Can they win in Baltimore?
I'm gonna say yes. Will they win in Baltimore, Well,
that's anybody's guess, right.

Speaker 4 (08:33):
I'm gonna I mean, can they win We talked about
this a little bit last time too. They absolutely can
win in Baltimore. They know how to beat the Ravens,
they know how to play the Ravens. Right, these two
teams know each other very well. They can win in Baltimore.
I will be a little more pessimistic than you right
now based on the last four games.

Speaker 2 (08:50):
Will they win in Baltimore. No, but you never know.

Speaker 4 (08:54):
If they can figure it out, if they can make
some changes, they have the ability to win in Baltimore.

Speaker 2 (09:01):
Do I think they will? I'm not.

Speaker 4 (09:03):
I'm not.

Speaker 2 (09:04):
I'm setting my expectations very low. Well, we had someone
hoping to be pleasantly surprised.

Speaker 1 (09:11):
Well, we had the wild card games last year, forty
five fourteen Texans over the Browns twenty six to seven,
Chiefs over the Dolphins, Packers forty eight to thirty two,
over the Cowboys Lions twenty four to twenty three in
a close one with the Rams Bill's thirty one Steelers seventeen,

(09:33):
and then the Buccaneers thirty two to nine over the Eagles,
which nobody saw coming on that one. That there was
a few surprises here, obviously the Texans beating up on
everyone's darling Cleveland Browns. But look at how many of
these teams aren't even in the postseason again this year,
you've got at least three, off the top of my
head there doing the quick path. So do you think
it's going to be as rough of a game as

(09:54):
a thirty one to seventeen, I mean, very well could be.
But when you were going into this game last year here,
you knew you didn't have TJ.

Speaker 2 (10:01):
Watt against the Bills. You had to play on the road.

Speaker 1 (10:04):
And then they had to unbury Buffalo, and you had
all of this stuff that you know transpired with moving
the game due to snow apocalypse, snow blizzard and snow
whatever that was.

Speaker 2 (10:16):
That was a fun, fun two days that we were
up there. That was fun. It was fun.

Speaker 1 (10:21):
But getting the hell out of there first thing in
the morning was like paramount. It was parent well for you,
it was even worse going east. Me going west. I
was able to go west about you know. I got
out to like Eerie, I remember, I think I got
past Eerie and got all the way out to Ashtabulah
and then hit south. As soon as I hit south,
I was good to go.

Speaker 2 (10:38):
But were scary coming back?

Speaker 1 (10:40):
I bet they were, my friend, I just don't I
don't know that I anticipate the same thing happening here.
I feel like this is a full compliment of defense.
I know that the Ravens, they've been putting up four
hundred yards plus of offense in each of their last
four games. We've highlighted this a little bit on the
show and we haven't, but people are gonna talk about
coaching this or the other thing. I think that bye

(11:01):
week in Week fourteen before the Ravens go and play
the New York Giants is a pretty big deal when
you're playing a two to three win team, even if
you're playing them on the road. You come off of
a bye, you're fresh, you're healthy, and then you get
the rest some more of your players, so you could
get prepared to play the Steelers. After the Steelers play
in this Eagles team where the Eagles offense held the

(11:22):
ball for like ten minutes of the fourth quarter or
whatever god awful time a possession that was. They were
already gassed. They're already playing a one day shorter, so
they get to play on Saturday. And so the Ravens
have their way with the Steelers thirty four to seventeen,
almost a very early similar score to that Buffalo Wild
Card game last year, four hundred and eighteen yards and

(11:44):
whatnot of offense, thirty four points. Then they go to
Houston thirty one to two. Houston also kind of down
in their doldrums. They get to play in a dome.
Then they play against the Browns, who were sitting everyone
they didn't have, like, who did they have? And Jerry
Judy that was it because it was Bailey Sappy. Yeah,
they were gonna play Jamis they have nothing. No, there

(12:08):
was no chance there. But I mean it was Bailey Zappy.
And I'm watching the Hard Knocks thing and they're talking
about Bailey's throwing this hard ball, and of course they
get to the game and one of the first things
he does is strow as a pick six. You're just like, well,
the Wheels have come off of this already. So, I mean,
the Browns at least they put up ten points, but
it was a thirty five to ten they win. For
the Ravens, They've scored thirty plus in each of these games.

(12:31):
But all it has been made of, you know, the
Steelers losing and not who their competition has been, and
the Raven's winning and not who their competition has been.
The Cleveland Browns have what like the second overall pick,
the Giants have like the third or four. These are
teams that are picking in the top five. The Texans
are supposed to be a contender. They had a very
similar slide and then they sat players last week to

(12:53):
rest as well. Heading into the wild Card, So I
don't know. If I I don't know. I'm not the
betting but if I had to put some money on her.
Just the way that the Steelers defense played against the
Cincinnati Bengals last week, and the way they were able
to hold Joe Burrow in check and hold you know,
I'm not gonna say hold Jamar Chase in check. But

(13:15):
aside from me had the one big play, they had
three throws in a row where Corey Trice kind of
got abused there. They held that offense largely in check,
even in a loss where it now falls aparties. Is
like all the Steelers offense obviously, but it gives me
some optimism that the Steelers defense, which the team is
built and designed to win within the division, and it's
specifically with Baltimore as a target, that gives me some

(13:38):
optimism that there's a fighting chance to slow down the
Ravens and beat them in Baltimore. Yeah, I think the
defense is going to live up to its billing, right.
I think the defense is gonna be good. It will
will help if Zay Flowers doesn't play right. And I
don't know, I've been watching the practice reports and I
have an the injury reports, so I don't.

Speaker 2 (13:57):
Know what the situation is. A DMP for two days
not looking good?

Speaker 4 (14:01):
All right, So say Flowers doesn't play, you know, that's
their biggest receiving threat other than Mark Andrews.

Speaker 2 (14:07):
Right, and I.

Speaker 4 (14:08):
Think, you know, if the Steelers are healthy, if we've
got both our starting cornerbacks, if if we've got a
full compliment, if TJ is feeling better, they absolutely can
hold the Ravens a check. My lack of confidence comes
from the offensive side of the ball.

Speaker 2 (14:24):
Right. The question really is going to be this is
not new for this team.

Speaker 4 (14:29):
Right, If they can get takeaways, if they can win
the turnover battle, if they cannot pick themselves in the
foot or bite themselves in the butt, they can win
the game. Right the offense, I would be stunned to
see the offense destroy the Ravens, Right, I don't buy that.
That's where I don't have the confidence. So I think
the offense struggles to put up points.

Speaker 2 (14:51):
If they get.

Speaker 4 (14:52):
Put in the right positions, if they get short fields,
if you know they can they can capitalize on turnovers
mistakes that the Ravens may or may not make, then
they've got a shot, but things have to roll their
way right from the offensive side. I don't think it
ends up a blowout. If it ends up a blowout,
it's because the offense is turning the ball over left

(15:13):
and right, and we got another one of these thirty
one to ten minute time of possession kind of games
and the defense is just blown out.

Speaker 2 (15:21):
I don't buy that it's going to be that bad, but.

Speaker 4 (15:25):
I think that they can struggle to win if they
can't put up points.

Speaker 2 (15:29):
And I'm just not.

Speaker 4 (15:29):
Confident in the way this offense has been rolling that
they're going to put up points.

Speaker 1 (15:34):
I understand that that leads me to where I almost
jumped in first off of my like little coaching rant.
Let me go back to that real quick before I
talk about offense coaching rant. Do we honestly believe that
Mike Tomlin does not try to get this team the
most prepared as possible. I think that's just that's such

(15:56):
such a terrible, ridiculous take. You look at even if
you will look at the way, you look at the
way hard knocks and all this. Even Kevin Stefanski, who
knows he has a dog and a loser, is still
trying to get Bailey zappy up to speed. They're still evaluating.
I mean, this is what these guys do. None of
these guys are trying to go out there and throw games,

(16:16):
lose games, anything of that nature. They're not trying to
be as some people would accuse Tomlin of being mediocre. Okay,
these coaches, they both know each other's teams very well.
Baltimore will be a tough place to play in. Russell
Wilson's a veteran quarterback. Russell Wilson's still gonna give you
the best opportunity to win this game. The people that

(16:37):
were calling for Justin Fields to play over Russell Wilson,
it don't know ball.

Speaker 2 (16:43):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (16:44):
The Steelers they lost two games to non playoff teams
under the guys of you know, under Justin Fields. While
he was playing, Justin Fields had the full complement of
the defense, and through the first five games. I take
that Vegas game out because remember we were saying even
back then in Week six, this is kind of a mirage.
The defense gave them short fields. They did this, that

(17:06):
and that. Okay, So then you go to Russell Wilson's
first six to seven games, okay, which included loss in
there somewhere. They had the Browns Thursday night or in
that game, and Wilson got this offense over one hundred
yards more per game and ten points per game on average.
Then they went into Philadelphia and the wheels fell off

(17:29):
of this for a number of reasons. You didn't have
George Pickens. Defensively, you didn't have guys like Deshaun Elliott,
Dante Jackson, Joey Porter, a banged up TJ.

Speaker 2 (17:38):
Watt.

Speaker 1 (17:39):
There were a lot of things that just weren't working
in their favor and playing complimentary football. Now, there wasn't
complimentary football against the Bengals where they had, you know,
the complement of all of these guys healthy. It took
them a little bit to try and finally get this going,
and they almost did. But for the most part, I'm
gonna tell you, Justin Fields is giving you the same

(17:59):
thing as Kenny Picket. The people that were out on
Russell Wilson, they're saying, he's watched Okay, he had a
fumble in Baltimore and it's a fourteen point swing. It
could be all the more difference between us saying, hey,
they're heading into this game, all the more difference between
maybe Baltimore coming to Pittsburgh for a home playoff game. Right,
is that fumble and he's had the fumble, but he's
only had two interceptions over like the last six or

(18:20):
seven games. Like this full stretch, he's not throwing picks.
I don't know that I have the same confidence in
fields to find open players and people. The whole reason
that people are thinking this is like, well, look at
Josh Allen and Lamar Jackson running around. Lamar Jackson has
thrown for four thousand yards and forty touchdowns, folks, He's
not just as much as we wanted a joke and
say he's running back. That is not what Todd Monkin

(18:41):
has him doing this year, and they've been able to
throw the football mostly to tight ends. Say, Flowers being
out might be a huge impact to their whole formula
on how they do business. Same thing with Justice Hill,
who's also he came back. He was a concussion protocol
and illness. He was a full PARTICI. But I said, man,
if he's out too, that could be pretty interesting. Also

(19:04):
on their injury report, I'll mention the other notable is
Kyle Hamilton. So Kyle Hamilton not being available would be
a that would make a huge difference. That's a big asset.
That's like saying, because Fitzpatrick isn't going to be playing,
I don't know. I want to put Hamilton on Fitzpatrick's
level just yet, but he's on the cusp. That's an
athletic dude. He does it all, you know what I
mean so offensively, it's I'm just saying that if you

(19:29):
take some of the balls that Russell Wilson put in
the hands of George Pickens, put in the hands of
Pat from you put in the hands of Calvin Austin
Van Jefferson when you're going to him that many times too.
Maybe a little bit of an issue, but you complete
some of these guys actually catch the ball. It's not
like these balls are sailing. You have to make matrix catches.

(19:51):
I rewatched the game that George Pickens won that he
slowed up on. It's like you didn't really get a
replay or see that on TV. You'd also somebody probably
didn't even realize the Ka SICKI catch that I said,
wasn't We had a replay in the stadium that very
clearly showed the ball hit the turf that they did
not show a replay off on TV, so people probably
thinking I'm crazy making up stuff. It's like, now I
go back and see it. I was like, oh my god,

(20:11):
this hasn't even show paint the whole picture. So this
isn't like Mitch Trubisky, like not being able to hit
the broadside of a barn. These are guys legitimately dropping
the ball. Where now you go from like rustaurwing for
like one hundred and seventy yards of throwing for like
three hundred they moved the ball down to the red area,
as long as they don't turn the ball over, which
has been done by other guys like Pat Fryer, muth By,

(20:33):
Najie Harris on a pitch to Themalen. Yeah, guys losing
the football. Other This isn't a Russell Wilson problem. This
is a whole team has to get their head out
of the ass and not make mistakes problem.

Speaker 4 (20:49):
Yeah, they just are not a good enough team to
overcome their own own mistakes. Correct, They need to play
mistake free football. They can maybe make you know, one, two,
but when they just consistently are dropping passes, turning the
ball over, blowing assignments, you know, not communicating that they're not.

(21:10):
They just aren't good enough to overcome that. In the
current configuration of the Steelers. Do I think they like
I said, do I think they can win? Yes, I
think they can win. I give them like a sixty
to forty chance. Steelers got forty percent chance to win
versus sixty right now, simply because I don't have that level.

Speaker 2 (21:32):
Of faith in the offense. Right now, you know, you're
absolutely right.

Speaker 4 (21:37):
You know, if Pickens doesn't drop and Friarmuth don't drop
the passes that they dropped, the Steelers probably beat the Bengals, right,
especially the Friarmuth pass at the end of the game.
Friarmuth doesn't drop that pass, they probably kick a field
goal and win the game. Do you feel good about
the win? Probably not, But they end up winning the game, right,
Does it really make a difference. Yeah, it probably does

(21:59):
because now you're going to Houston. But you know, so,
you know, they're not far off from being able to
make some consistent plays. But they didn't look great against
you know, the Ravens in Baltimore the last time offensively,
and admittedly that's that's the big question. Can they figure

(22:21):
out how to rebound from that and do what they
need to do.

Speaker 1 (22:25):
And I'm wondering what the component might be of that.
Now you look at the Steelers' injury report, Rum and
Wilson full participant, Dante Jackson full participant, Cole Holcombe full participant,
Logan Lee full participant. Mason McCormick has a broken hand.
He is limited, and it's a little questionable if you

(22:45):
want the rook out there with you know, one paw
and the cast. Now they had Spencer Anderson playing at
the beginning of the season. I don't know if Spencer
Anderson offers you more upside or not, because quite clearly
the offensive line has had its struggles. They uh, they're
just not like block how else can you say it.
They're struggling to block and pulling up an from the

(23:07):
previous game. You know, Kyle van Noy's out there, he's
getting got his second center of you got mad at bike.
They've got some dudes up front that could definitely get
after the quarterback. We know this team, We've talked about
this team many times, so that's going to be interesting.
I also have Calvin Anderson, who I forgot was even
on part of this roster and he's a full participant too,

(23:28):
as maybe an extra tackle. They might need him if
McCormick can't go, because Spencer has been that extra body
they bring in for like the jumbo packages. So that
that's one to look at on the for the injury report.
Uh Sam Malo was resting. Michael Pruitt went from limited
to a d m P with his knee.

Speaker 2 (23:48):
I don't know that preuit. It's the biggest the biggest
loss here. That's not going to be the end of
the world.

Speaker 1 (23:53):
I prefer to not see him on the field as
much as he probably is. And then you got the
flu bug going around with Cam Hayward and then Chris Boswell,
and all of a sudden, everybody's like freaking out Chris Boswell.
I think Chris Boswell's good. We'll get an IV and
go out there and be the terminator.

Speaker 2 (24:08):
That he usually is. But he is a huge component
to the Steelers' success. He's a huge.

Speaker 1 (24:15):
Without Boswell, you're probably thinking if you had one of
these other kickers that are around the league, you know
what I mean, You're holding your breath, even if you're
Cincinnati in that game with Kaide York, You're thinking he's
gonna miss like a thirty four yarder or whatever. Like
a chip show. You got Boswell and he's literally got
like the highest percentage now I think, for I don't know,

(24:36):
forty plus from fifty plus in NFL history. I know
he surpassed Tucker, who had his struggles earlier in the
year and came back around. But this could very well
be a classic low scoring game, despite the Steelers going
into this one as ten point underdogs and what was
the over under on this forty three and a half,

(24:56):
which you know, that's that's Vegas or somebody trying say
the Ravens are gonna score thirty and the Steelers are
going to struggle to get the seventeen. I think the Steelers, though,
despite that slide that they've had offensively, they get over
twenty some points. I think they got a shot at
winning this. I just in my gut, I'm saying this

(25:16):
is gonna be close. But is it gonna be another
thirty plus points Baltimore blowout. Only if this offense goes
like three and out on for you know, in the
first half, like three or four times these the defense
out there the hang and the defense can get off
the field on third downs, and let's Baltimore just completely
completely dictate the pace of this game. That's the way
that game script will go. But let's say Labar makes

(25:38):
a big mistake early and the Steelers can get up
like ten to nothing and then dictate the pace. It's
gonna be a whole other story.

Speaker 4 (25:44):
Oh absolutely if they if they can get Baltimore to
make a mistake and then they can capitalize on it.
That's been one of the achilles heels of this team
over the last four games is when those teams are
making mistakes, we're.

Speaker 2 (25:58):
Not doing anything about it. Right.

Speaker 4 (26:00):
Balls are on the ground, but we're not getting them,
Balls are tipped in the air, but we're not coming
down with them. When we do manage to get a turnover,
we're not turning it into points.

Speaker 2 (26:10):
So, you know, if they can.

Speaker 4 (26:11):
Do that and they can reverse that kind of trend,
it's certainly possible.

Speaker 1 (26:18):
Yeah, And Lamar not the biggest, the best playoff record.
He kind of got that chip off his shoulder last year,
got to the at least one one.

Speaker 2 (26:28):
He finally got one.

Speaker 1 (26:29):
But you know, six touchdowns the six interceptions is what
I think I saw for his you know, postseason career.
It's not been the it's not been the sharpest of performances.
When you get Lamar Jackson in the playoffs, MVP or not.
So I think that's something too. I think, how did
the Steelers attack like Lamar Jackson slow down Derrick Henry.

(26:51):
I think it does help a lot when you don't
have maybe some of your backup corners, you have physical
guys like Deshaun Elliott in his game. I think Deshaun
Elliott is going to be so paked up. I am like,
I can't like describe just how over the course of
this season, how much I'm in this guy's camp more
and more I watch them, and then you see the
type of versatility he brings. The things they had him

(27:13):
do in the Bengals game, even covering receivers and tight
ends or bracketing and some of the confusion that goes there.
And I go back to Brian Flores a couple of
years ago being the linebackers coach, and one of the
things he did back when he was with the Dolphins
and they were up against Lamar Jackson and the Ravens
was a lot of zero blitz type stuff. So you're
gonna see stack boxes you're gonna see three inside linebackers.

(27:36):
It makes me wonder if they would.

Speaker 2 (27:39):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (27:39):
It's a playoff game. It's is it risky to bring
Cole Holkom out there, but you're gonna have at least
the Land and roberts We saw Mark robertson some of
the very little playtime that he's had on defense. He
was out there in one of these Ravens games too,
and that you know they're gonna stack. They're gonna They've
had Preston Smith playing as a defensive end as well,
playing in you know, cam Or, Larry Ogans, Obie Spot

(28:00):
and Keanu Benton. One hell of a play made right
after Renegade, you know Renegade after during the Bengals game,
he comes out and gets a huge sack just manning
up on his guy. Those are the type of plays
that you're gonna need. But the broken tackles letting Derrick
Henry get away like a runaway train, you're not gonna
be able to. They're gonna have to slow that down.

(28:23):
And I think that also helps because a lot of
like their offense is still built too on we're gonna
run the ball, We're gonna run the ball. We're gonna
run the ball. Then you got like a fast guy
like Zay Flowers and he gets open. Well, if he's
not on the field, that's one less weapon that they have.
I think that does handicap them just as much as
the Steelers not having George Pickens. So Pickens is also
another guy that's huge to this game. You know, I'm talking,

(28:45):
I'm talking defense. But Pickens got to bring it around.
He's got to grow up in a hurry. Everybody talks
about diva wide receivers and whatnot, Brian, why do the
Steelers always get them? It's like, are you not paying
attention to everybody around?

Speaker 3 (28:58):
Everybody? What about what is name? I mean, come on,
that's all divas. That's that's the whole thing. They're all
a bunch of divas. The wide receivers are the worst.
They're the worst, dude.

Speaker 2 (29:12):
And I don't get it.

Speaker 1 (29:13):
And you go back to guys like o Jo Sinko
and Randy Moss and.

Speaker 4 (29:19):
And when you think back to a hinz Ward, you
just have to sit there and go, where's those guys?

Speaker 2 (29:26):
Hines had his own divonus to him too, like you know,
nearly the same just not the same smiling all.

Speaker 1 (29:32):
The time, but then like hitting people. I know, but
Plexico sure did. It isn't like exclusive to the Steelers.

Speaker 2 (29:38):
Was a bit of a diva, no question.

Speaker 1 (29:41):
Yeah, I mean they've They've had more than one. And
that not just Antonio Brown, but George Picking.

Speaker 2 (29:47):
Though, that's the king. That's the king of the divas
right there.

Speaker 1 (29:51):
King, he's supreme leader of the diva receivers. Like all
others bow.

Speaker 2 (29:56):
To his feet. I mean, Owens would be kind of
up there too. I think, I mean.

Speaker 4 (30:03):
Was winning that battle, and then you know, Antonio Brown
said hold my beer.

Speaker 1 (30:08):
Oh my god, Antonio Brown was like holding my six pack.
He just kept throwing chuck goodbeers to him. But you know,
aside from this though, oh kidding aside, I think that's
the way that they have to play against the Ravens.
They got to put him in like some third and
not so manageable. I do like the Corey Trace got
some good playing time too, and some good opportunities. I'm
starting to wonder if Beanie Bishop shouldn't play some more.

(30:30):
I know that, you know, there is a thing about
Mike tom and being stubborn and getting back to the coaching. Yes,
he is stubborn because he looks at the risk reward
factor of we're playing certain rookies, whether it be Peyton Wilson,
whether it be Beanie Bishop, whether you're gonna try and
put Roman Wilson out there, or not even having like
Mason McCormick wasn't gonna play initially, but you've got stuck

(30:52):
in having Zach Frasier as a starter.

Speaker 2 (30:54):
For sure.

Speaker 1 (30:55):
It's just that thing where he realizes the rookie wall.
He realizes the way the NFL is go back to
Andy Reid, he didn't even have Patrick Mahomes, not Patty
Mahomes starting his first year, and then you look at
all the success they had and it was like, well,
they've had the same success if he would have came
and played right out out the gate or already have
had a slower learning curve because people point at Josh
Allen and how he had his struggles over his first

(31:17):
two three years. So not the same thing as Justin Fields.
You can't put those two guys. Somebody was trying to
put Justin Fields in the same category as like Josh Allen.
I'm like, that's not you can't put him there. It's
not the same.

Speaker 2 (31:28):
Come on, what are you talking about now, Well, they
have a.

Speaker 1 (31:30):
Package for him, it concerns me. It's the same risk reward.
We saw them take that risk in Cleveland and it
didn't pay off. And again you're going to somebody. It
should be your playmaker, your wide receiver, one in George Pickens,
and it doesn't come down for one of many reasons.
So the playmakers, well, go ahead.

Speaker 4 (31:48):
Yeah, that's to say, if they've got packages for Justin Fields,
the first thing that they need to do is let
him throw the ball on one of them, right, because.

Speaker 2 (31:55):
As soon as he comes into game, the assumption is run.

Speaker 4 (31:58):
That's just gonna be the assumption because those are the
packages they've had.

Speaker 2 (32:03):
So if you put Justin Fields in the game for
a package, it better be the first one.

Speaker 4 (32:07):
Better be a pass because you've got a chance to
catch everybody on their heels not thinking about it, right,
and then that will loosen them.

Speaker 2 (32:14):
Up for the rest of the game. If you have
the additional packages and maybe he can run and do
other things. I just don't I.

Speaker 4 (32:20):
Don't think it's really viable at this point, right, honestly,
you know, it just just isn't the offensive line is
just not good enough to begin with right now.

Speaker 2 (32:31):
I just you know, keep with consistency.

Speaker 4 (32:35):
But I said this, at the end of the game,
figure out what you do well and do that right.

Speaker 2 (32:41):
Stop doing the things.

Speaker 4 (32:43):
That you don't do well just because you think that's
your identity. Sometimes you have to figure out that you
know who you want to be is not who you are.

Speaker 2 (32:53):
Yeah, I agree with that. For whatever reason.

Speaker 1 (32:57):
I feel like, like the whole toss sweep thing, it's
just slow. Like Nashi just doesn't hit at the same pace.
Cordero Patterson doesn't hit the same pace. But you put
those guys like up the middle, and it seems to
that seems to work out A and B gap type
runs when you when maybe you pull the guard. But
the whole toss sweep type thing, it almost seems like

(33:18):
it's slow in developing. Like the lineman don't get by
the time they get a hat on a hat, the
hat isn't on the hat. The defenders already buy them.
And if you've got good corners, which the Ravens do. Wiggins,
I think Wiggins was the one who had to pick
six the rookie out of Clemson. He's been he's been
pretty solid for them. I know they got Stevens Stevens

(33:40):
and then of course Marlon Humphrey, but they've got some
guys in addition to just you know, a Kyle Hamilton
and then Washington who's now been playing at safety and
was that was the huge, huge piece that they were
struggling with defensively, and they got to turn some of
it around. But I still think this is a team
that you could get point points could be scored on them.

(34:02):
It's it's not impossible, and it's just the impression is
is that there's some unstoppable juggernaut when the bulk of
their more difficult games earlier in the season, I mean
the Ravens started zero and two. They lost to the Chiefs.
I know it was a close game that came down
to a foot on the stripe out of bounds. Then
they went to the Vegas Raiders and lost or at

(34:24):
home they lost in the Las Vegas Raiders. I should
say they squeaked out games against the Cowboys by three points.
You look at the Steelers losing the Cowboys. They were
able to beat the Bills. They had an overtime game
with the Bengals. Bengals put up.

Speaker 4 (34:38):
Both those Bengals games. Both those Bengals games could have
gone the other way. The Ravens in had just as
many close games as the Steelers have bad That's what
I'm trying to say. And they just, you know, their
record could easily have flopped.

Speaker 2 (34:50):
They're not an unstoppable juggernaut.

Speaker 4 (34:53):
That is media hype that is being played up to,
you know, to boost this Lamar, you know everybody. Look,
don't get me wrong, Lamar's had a great season. He's
had a historic level season. But you know, the amount
of noses up his butt in the media is insane.
And the team itself is not the juggernaut that they

(35:15):
want to be portrayed as. They can be beat. They've
been beat. They've been very close to losing even more
games than they have. So it's not an impossible task.
I just, as I said, my hesitancy like I want
to be I want to be full both. The problem
is I don't want to end up Saturday night going
well now I'm crushed and depressed.

Speaker 2 (35:36):
I just so, my expectations are very low right now.

Speaker 1 (35:39):
Yeah, well, and I mean my expectation isn't to blake
this team. My expectation isn't to keep them the ten points.
I think that will all be highly shocking. My expectation
is is the Steelers need to do some things on
offense and actually drive the ball, which they were able
to do in the last game. And of course the
turnovers shot themselves in the foot. The one with Wilson
that was the pick six was just that's one. That

(36:01):
was what was the dagger? That was the dagger after
the first stab. Yeah, I knows we're both kind of
on him and that could have happened to literally any
dB in any situation there. But you need to slow down.
Henry has had almost two thousand yards rushing, He had
sixteen rushing touchdowns. He gets involved a little bit in
the receiving game, I said, Jackson over four thousand yards,

(36:23):
forty one seventy two forty one touchdowns, just four interceptions.
But we've seen guys like Alex Heismith or TJ. Water
whatever get they get their hands with the ball, it's
not impossible to get to him and rattle him. I
think it is a unique playoff situation. We get Alex
Kemp again as the referee, by the way, and just
the programming Note eight o'clock on Amazon Prime. If you're

(36:46):
in Pittsburgh or Baltimore and you get the flags Flagship
Networks there, you will get the game. I'm trying to
remember where it actually is being broadcast in Pittsburgh. I'll
get that for you in a second, because I know
some of theans like, well, it's on episode on Prime
and I'm not gonna be able to watch it. And
it's just like I get so tired of hearing or
seeing that. It's like at one point I didn't have

(37:08):
cable TV and I couldn't watch the stuff that was
on ESPN. You still have to pay and watch for
something somewhere. I know somebody's gonna be like, well, they
have these apps, this, that and the other thing. I
only speak at legal things here so I don't get
booted off of you know, all these platforms that we're on.
So let's see if we've got an updated we do.
It's the you know Thursday Night Crew with Al Michael's
and Kirk karb Street, Kaylee Hartung on the sideline, Westwood

(37:31):
One with Ryan Radkey and Mike Go like Ross Tucker
on the field. That's an excellent radio call, by the way,
but you know the Steelers group is just as good
with Rob King and Craig Wolfley, but they'd locally WPXI,
so go ahead and pick that up on Channel eleven.
I had to think about that for a second. So

(37:54):
it just it was brutal just trying to get the
Browns and Ravens game to come in tailgating too.

Speaker 2 (38:00):
The antenna.

Speaker 1 (38:00):
I don't know what it is with some of these
local stations, but if you've got an antenna, you should
be able to grab it, if you're able to get
a Channel eleven out of Pittsburgh. So otherwise, get use
your Prime membership, get your Prime video to watch the game,
and hopefully there's not hasn't been any bugs with Thursday
Night or anything that I know of, nothing like the
Netflix stuff with the Tyson fights, so we should be okay,

(38:21):
I watch that crap. Well did you watch the Steelers
on Christmas?

Speaker 2 (38:25):
Though? Was there any hiccups? I never did. I didn't
have any. It was fine.

Speaker 1 (38:29):
I never did get this. I didn't see it seemed
nearly the same amount of complaints with the Tyson fight
was a struggle even where I was, And you know,
I've got to kick a bit Internet and all all
the fancy bells and whistles that things are hardwired in
for the Internet, and it's still it was just like, Nope,
their servers are getting hammered. But you've got Thursday Night
Crew here, so you don't have to listen to Collins worthless.

Speaker 2 (38:51):
At least that's one positive that we could talk about. Positive.

Speaker 1 (38:54):
So Steelers protect the football on offense, get the football
on defense. They're gonna have to create some turn and
they're gonna have to do something with those turnovers. Points
off of turnovers will probably be the determining factor.

Speaker 2 (39:06):
And I agree completely since I said the same thing.

Speaker 1 (39:12):
Yeah, I know, I'm just I'm trying to make sure
I got my keys in there because somebody's gonna accost
me and say no matter what. You know, winning heals everything.
Tomlin gets this off his back and he gets his
first playoff win since the twenty sixteen season. He's got
probably the healthiest team that he's had in a little while.

(39:35):
You know, you look at some of these other games
twenty twenty where they're missing like Bud Dupree and Devin
Bush and there's no fans or you go. You know,
they limped in and they had to play Kansas City
with Ben it was like on his last leg and
the only guy that could score was what. I'm going
to give them a little more credit than that going into.

Speaker 2 (39:53):
This one last year. This is a better team.

Speaker 1 (39:55):
Yeah, Miles Check and Michael Walker and Eric Row and
what Tristan Thompson or Elijah Riley, whichever one of them
was playing. I mean, they just had so many bodies
that were missing and they were struggling against Buffalo. I
think this so all hands on deck. I thinks that
being healthy side from the offensive line is the one

(40:15):
thing that I think is a very positive in their favor.
And I think they match up really well with the Ravens.

Speaker 2 (40:22):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (40:22):
I there's much more I could say other than that.
And waiting for the game here on Saturday night. So
here we go.

Speaker 2 (40:29):
All right, here we go.

Speaker 4 (40:30):
We'll see and by the way, okay, so for the
two percenters, here's the thing, We're gonna go to Ireland.
There was already discussion if you go to Ireland and
try and watch the game in Ireland, were going I'm
all up for I've been to Ireland.

Speaker 2 (40:42):
I would go back there in a heartbeat, man, and
need you to be my tour guide there.

Speaker 1 (40:46):
But yeah, that's the word on the street is and
maybe against the Packers is what the murmurs are. There's
people that already know this in the media because I
was tipped off years ago. If you happen to remember,
there was they were going to play in Mexico City
against the Chargers. That was that was a done deal
until that was it Chiefs forty nine Ers maybe I

(41:09):
know it was the Chiefs. They had to replay the game,
or maybe the Chiefs Rams they had to They rescheduled
the game and it bumped the Steelers Chargers the following
year to being you know, state side. So but had
that not happened whatever the or field conditions or whatever
that was going on at you know, the what they
call the Big the I want to say Arena Mexico,
but that's not the name for it, but you know,
the big the big A stadium they got in Mexico City.

(41:32):
It was just not playable and they had to move it.
So some of the folks that are already kind of
putting this out there those International Games, they've already got
it figured out.

Speaker 2 (41:39):
They know they have to know zoom.

Speaker 1 (41:42):
I think so I mean, I really don't know they
were talking about, is there like a crow Chief field
or something like that that's out there. I'm not sure
if that's like how do you even say it? But
I'm sorry, I don't know a whole lot about Ireland.
I'm not going to try to pretend I know a lot.
I'm just trying to recall some of the things that
I see floating around out there in Rimmerville. But that
might be a fun trip. I it's something I would

(42:04):
have to seriously debate. My cousin was already talking about
doing it. You look, we already know the schedules for
next year. I think the road games that are most doable,
at least for me. Uh, they're going to play at
Chicago with the Bears and then at Detroit with the Lions.
But that Lions right now is a hot ticket, and
I'm not sure it's going to be an easy one
to get into, even though it's a nice Bears.

Speaker 4 (42:25):
Unless they turn around and have a hell of a
season and start to win, we probably get Bears tickets
for next to nothing.

Speaker 1 (42:31):
Well, it's a pad, so is it going to be
like their home opener? And there's like a little bit
of optimism because now they get whoever the new shiny
coaching higher point. Yeah, but then again, if it's in December,
do you want to go? I mean I might right
on the lake. They're right on the lake there too.

Speaker 2 (42:48):
Man, So I want might not want to do that?

Speaker 1 (42:50):
Yeah, Windy City is That's no joke. It is a crisp,
cool breeze over by Soldier Field there.

Speaker 2 (42:57):
I've not.

Speaker 1 (42:57):
I did not take in a game, but I was
there for a bachelor already about two years ago, and
two of the guys split off from the group. There
was a group of us. It was two guys that
were getting married one of my best friends and then
like one of his best friends. They're both rooms. They're
both best men's for each other's weddings. Right, So we
go to Chicago for like a three day weekend or
whatever it was, and that's when you know, we got

(43:19):
the illusion of a Steelers offense with Matt Canada and
Kenny Pickett when they lit up the Bucks and I
was like, Oh, this looks really good.

Speaker 2 (43:25):
I'm excited for football.

Speaker 1 (43:26):
Well, to get to the point, the Bears were playing
a preseason game and two of the guys splintered off.
They're not even Bears fans. They just went for the
hell of it. I was like, oh my goodness, I
would have went for like twenty dollars just to go
and just hang around. So we didn't have anything else
going on. It was just sitting around in the hotel.
So it would have been really easy. There was you know,
the train or the bus or whatever. The drops off
right there, goes back to the hotel. It's like, well, however,

(43:48):
five bucks for a day pass. That would have been
a lot of fun. So Chicago might be I got
to go back to Chicago just to get some pizza, Brian.
I know we talk about coffee. I know we talked
about toast. But for the two percenters out there, this
is very important for the survival of the Steelers this Saturday.
Are you a pizza guy or are you not a
pizza guy?

Speaker 4 (44:07):
I'm one hundred percent of pizza guy, provided that it's
not a satanic pizza that has fruit on it.

Speaker 2 (44:13):
Oh you're not a pineapple on pizza. No, that's that's
just crap right there.

Speaker 4 (44:18):
That's just wrong. It's it's against nature. It's that's no good.

Speaker 2 (44:22):
It's bad.

Speaker 4 (44:23):
That's very bad. We've had that conversation before we had
it is wrong.

Speaker 2 (44:29):
Macon, ham and pineapple together is an amazing combo. Amazing combo.

Speaker 4 (44:33):
Bacon, ham and pineapple together are an amazing columbo.

Speaker 2 (44:37):
As long as they're not on a pizza.

Speaker 1 (44:39):
Well there will be people. The only reason I brought
it up is because of Chicago, and people will say, no,
that's a pie, that's a castle roll of the deep dish.
I know it's a tourist pizza. In many cases, Chicago
has a tavern style very similar to the Dayton cut
style pizza. Looked that one up, folks, It's been like
crack yeah, Well, man depends on so the casinos you ate,

(45:02):
does they have the salt on the bottom, salt.

Speaker 4 (45:05):
On the bottom, It's got the little teeny tiny sausages.
The Sano Supreme Man I go in when I go
back to Dayton, Right, when I go back to Ohio. Uh,
not to quote the Pretenders, but when I go back
to Ohio, the Sano's Pizza and Skyline.

Speaker 1 (45:20):
I have to have them, have to can't. Can't go
back without having them. And if I do, then I'm
I'm very grumpy.

Speaker 2 (45:26):
On the way home.

Speaker 1 (45:26):
Cincinnati, chili is a whole other thing. But yeah, look
it up, folks. If your pizza connoisseurs the Daton style
of the south southern Ohio, you won't find that up
in the northeast. We're all, you know, there's a ton
of battalions and stuff like where you're talking about, you know,
Youngstown area, my old home hometown and stomping Grounds where
there's a lot of great pizza there. But I'll leave
it at that. Might go to Chicago just to get
some meats. Folks, don't forget the like, comment and subscribe.

(45:49):
Thanks for hanging around two percenters for our little chit
chat about pizza and Ireland. I don't know that those
mixed together, but we made it work. Normally, it's merit Stayeler's.
Cabali's the only guy I see in the media that's
pro Steelers. You got Ben and everybody else picking against it.
Cabali said something like twenty seven to seventeen. I said,
why not, let's roll with it. But you know what,
I'll take twenty one to twenty. I'll take twenty one

(46:10):
to twenty.

Speaker 2 (46:10):
That's fine. What means, all right, win? How about this?
All the road teams win? You know what, and we
were talking about last year.

Speaker 4 (46:19):
I actually need that to happen. By the way, that
makes my weekend. If all the road teams win, you
know why?

Speaker 2 (46:25):
You know why? Right?

Speaker 4 (46:27):
If all the road teams win and then the Broncos
can beat the Chiefs in Arrowhead, we get a home playoff.

Speaker 1 (46:35):
I mean we're stretching, We're stretching a little really, But
for a guy who's.

Speaker 4 (46:40):
Not even optimistic about winning this game, right, my dream
scenario is all the road teams win, we beat the
Chargers in Los Angeles, and.

Speaker 2 (46:53):
You know, the Broncos.

Speaker 4 (46:54):
Beat the Chiefs and then we host the Broncos in
the AFC Championship game.

Speaker 2 (47:00):
That's my dream scenario.

Speaker 1 (47:01):
I'm not sure, like I'm trying to math there, but yeah,
you have to in order for the Steelers to not
if they win, this.

Speaker 4 (47:08):
Game has to be five to six, that's it has
to be. What has to be six to seven. It
has to be us and the Broncos are the only
teams left.

Speaker 1 (47:15):
Well, and not only that, but the Broncos have to
win this weekend in order to avoid going to Kansas City.

Speaker 4 (47:21):
So wells this weekend and then they will go to
Kansas City. Correct, they'd be the lowest seed. If the
Steelers do upset, the Baltimore Ravens move on, and then
you still have the Broncos losing, then the Steelers have
a returning Steelers go to Kansas City, Kansas City, which
you know in Kansas City.

Speaker 1 (47:39):
Yeah, you know the path. That path, as crazy as
it sounds, that's still that. That's doable. That's doable. We
just talked about Kansas City. They're playing a lot more defense.
That'd be two defensive teams. Now I know Momes and
Andy Reid offensive mine blah blah blah. Yeah, a lot
of that's true. They put a lot on the Steelers,
but I think a return engagement in some far already

(48:00):
there that could put them in jeopardy as well.

Speaker 2 (48:03):
So we'll see. I was looking at them, I was looking.
I think it was I went back two years.

Speaker 1 (48:09):
So forty nine Ers won at home, Jaguars won by
a point at home. We're talking about playoff teams here,
forty nine Ers and Seahawks, Jaguars, Chargers, Bill's won at
home over the Dolphins. Vikings lost at home to the Giants.
Bengals beat the Ravens at home, and the Cowboys won
on the road and Tampa. So for the last two

(48:30):
seasons you've had two or three road teams go in
and and win. That's usually been like in your five
to four seed thing, although the Giants here were six seeds.
So I won't necessarily say so. You're saying there's a chance,
That's all I'm saying. I know we sound crazy, we
sound optimistic, but you know what, damn it, I'm gonna
be Claire.

Speaker 4 (48:50):
I'm not optimistic. I'm not optimistic. Are you little pessimistic?
But I have hope, hopeful what I do?

Speaker 1 (48:57):
You have brothers, That's That's that's where I'm at. I'm
not necessarily optimistic either. I'm not sitting here bremming with
confidence that they're gonna gonna wipe the floor with the
Baltimore Ravens.

Speaker 2 (49:07):
I'm hoping. I just told you twenty one twenty I'm hoping.
I'm optimistic. That's until next time, folks. My name's Joe,
his name's Brian.

Speaker 1 (49:17):
As always, we encourage everyone out there to be safe,
be good, and we'll catch you later. We would like
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Speaker 4 (49:28):
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Speaker 1 (49:31):
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