STEELERS POST GAME

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There you This is the Sports
Porch Black and Gold with your

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hosts, the technical director,
the Grand Schwabini and Hockey

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Jesus.
Come on, Pittsburgh, let's show

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a little.
Steelers, Penguins and Pirates

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love the sports Porch.
Black and Gold starts now.

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You know, every time we play our
intro video, I, I sing along

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with it, you know what I mean?
Oh boy, what a loss.

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Tonight it was just a
heartbreak.

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I just wanted to have a smile on
my face as we finish out the

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last seconds.
Oh my gosh.

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Hey, hey, HJ, calm it down a
little bit while I do the intro

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here.
You're watching the sports

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porch.
I'm not going to calm it down.

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They just open opportunities.
We are on YouTube right now.

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If we would be.
Against the Bungles and they

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bungled it.
We are also on X.

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So.
This is maybe we shouldn't do a

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post game show.
Maybe, maybe we shouldn't do

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that if if you're going to
behave this way.

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Well, how do you think I'm going
to behave?

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I mean they haven't the damn
game one.

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All they have to do is stop them
and they can't even stop them,

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not once they give up 20 targets
to Jamar Chase.

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What the fuck?
Yeah, well, you know.

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Well, their their their defense
sucked tonight.

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Let's be.
Honest, it was awful their their

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scheme was let Jamar Chase catch
the ball.

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That's going to be a loser every
time.

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It it just wasn't it wasn't very
good.

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I mean, I'll tell you what, you
know, just just to bring a

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little bit of good feeling.
Great, great, great running

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attack with Jalen Warren
tonight.

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Yeah, Warren looked great.
Hey, Rogers.

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You know Rogers.
Shut up, Clyde Rogers,

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Professional Rogers, go to hell.
Rogers being Rogers being

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clutched.
Very nice, but you know, like I

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don't know any chance they could
complete like a 20 yard pass and

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get a 70 yard field goal from
boss No.

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Well, they get they're down to
three seconds.

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This is it.
This is.

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This is it.
They got a hell.

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Marry it, hopefully.
Maybe the old This could be a

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very viral video moment.
And it won't.

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Be.
It's not OK.

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No.
All right.

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Chris Swada says that is very
interesting here, Chris, Thanks

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We're coming to live on YouTube

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And listen, Chris Chotta, thanks

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for being here.
Classic trap game.

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That's funny because this is
what I dialed up right before

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the show, the classic Tomlin
trap game.

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That's exactly what it was, the
classic Tomlin trap game.

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And let me lead into it with
this because we we're kind of

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fresh on the stats here.
We'll get into that a little

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bit.
But Tomlin almost trapped

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himself earlier this week when
he criticized the Browns trading

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Flacco to the Bengals in
division.

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You could see it in his eyes.
He was worried about it because

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Joe Flacco is the Steeler
killer.

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How many times has he played the
Steelers over the last, I don't

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know, 17 years of his career or.
It's almost.

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It's almost like he spoke it
into existence.

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Exactly.
And then what did he do in the

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in the beginning of the game
when they're looking good and

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they're up 10 to nothing, he
decides to get cute.

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They try that flea flicker.
They try some weird.

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No, it wasn't supposed to be.
It wasn't supposed to be a flea

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flicker.
He called He, he called it off.

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He called it off because he knew
he knew wasn't going to be good

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call.
Rogers.

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Had nailed that perfectly and
we're.

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Just picking all the painting
out of Steve tonight, it's just

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going to be an argument.
I'm what I'm trying to say is

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this is the classic Tomlin trap
game.

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They went into Cincinnati, they
thought they were just going to

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roll right over them.
And Cincinnati exposed their

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defense, and their defense
played well last week.

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I'm going to.
I'm going to disagree with you

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with this whole track.
We want.

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To we want to hear your
comments.

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We want your comments down
below.

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Obviously Steelers post game
live our first one of the year.

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Give us your comments.
Tell us what you think.

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Go ahead.
Look, the, the, the trap game is

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just a bunch of BS.
I mean, the, the bottom line is

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this this look, the Steelers
wanted to win the game the night

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they came out hot.
They had a 10 nothing lead, you

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know, so there's no trap there.
You know that, you know, and,

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and look, the, the offense
scored 31 points.

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The offense was not thinking
about a trap.

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You know, the, the defense just,
I mean, look, I, I mean, you got

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two of the best receivers in the
league over there and a guy who

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knows how to throw the football.
There was no pass rush from the

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Steelers until there was like 2
minutes left in the game.

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And, and you know, and they
didn't get any of the splash

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plays.
And to be honest, on a lot of

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them, they weren't really that
close.

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I mean, you know, like the, I
mean T Higgins and and Jamar

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Chase especially, they were
catching balls like they were

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wide open the whole night and
they kept on playing zone like

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Steve was saying, and they never
switched it up.

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They never said, all right,
let's try, man, let's do

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something different.
Or, you know, let's let's do a

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double coverage on Jamar Chase.
Like they were given some help.

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But you know, half the time when
you give help, the help doesn't

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get there.
Right, this is true you.

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Know so I don't know.
Well, in one day when the when

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the safety came down and gave
help, they threw it over the top

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to ISO folks or whatever that
guy's name is, and they

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completed that long pass for 37
yards.

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So, yeah, they had their their
defensive scheme was 100% wrong

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tonight.
I mean, how do you have 45

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targets and give 33 of those
targets to Jamar Chase and T

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Higgins?
I mean, that's a ridiculous

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thing.
Like that's the first thing you

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need to stop.
I mean, I guess, I guess that

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they were they they were going
to do that.

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And then Brown started running
all over them and then they

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switched it up, you know, to
basically put nine guys in a box

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and go man.
But you can't go man to man

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against Chase.
You at least have to have the

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safety on top of him.
And they just, they're

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defensive.
And I'm, I'm, I'm putting this

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on Tomlin.
I mean, he's the guy who runs

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the defense essentially.
And he just, I think he, he sees

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Flacco and he runs to his fears.
He's like, Oh no, Flacco's going

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to beat us.
There's no way we can stop him.

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You know, and like you said, he
he's been saying it all week and

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it was like he was pissed off
because he got traded to, to the

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Bengals.
Just go out and beat the guy,

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right?
Come up with a better scheme.

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Like go after the old man in the
pocket.

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Like, I don't know where Cam
Hayward was except for that one

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last play where him and him and
him and TJ finally got a sack.

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But other than that one play,
they were invisible almost the

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whole game.
They got to be able to.

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They got to be able to be able
to pass rush much better than

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that high Smith completely
invisible.

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In fact, what was he doing on
that quarterback sneak by

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Flacco?
I mean, you don't expect him to

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run.
You can't completely sell out

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there.
You still got to contain.

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I mean it.
The fundamentals on this defense

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are whack.
They got to get it back

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together.
I and Klein, I think maybe

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you're right about this.
You know, I had high hopes that

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they played so well against the
Browns.

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Maybe the Browns offense was
just that terrible.

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Once they play against the half
decent offense, they're not

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going to be good.
And if that's the case, they got

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big problems coming up the next
two games when they play against

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the Colts and the Packers,
because those are two pretty

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damn good offenses.
Yeah, let me get some of these

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comments.
Excuse me, comments in right

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here.
Eric Walker.

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They were getting the ball out
pretty quick though.

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He was talking and he's talking
about the offense.

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Chris Ayers, he just he's got a
lot to say.

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I'm sure a lot of people have a
lot to say tonight, especially

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after a loss like that.
You know, what I thought was

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kind of funny is Kirk Herbstreit
talking about basically how he's

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a Bengals fan and when when they
were up by 6, how every

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everybody in the stadium was
hoping that the Steelers

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wouldn't score a touch.
You know, he kind of turned the

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tables on us up there.
Up there there anyway, Chris,

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Chris Iyers pretty embarrassing
second secondary Chase broke his

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own record tonight.
Jamar Chase.

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But I I like this.
At some point, do you have, you

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have to make sure that one guy
doesn't beat you?

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Look, the defense and I, I was
talking with hockey Jesus, by

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the way, that's hockey Jesus
over there.

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And that's the grand Schwabini
down there.

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I was talking with him during
the last couple minutes of the

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game and I, I said exactly that.
I, I said, look, this defense

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didn't play great against
Cleveland.

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Cleveland has a horrible
offense.

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Now Cincinnati, you would think
their offensive line is not that

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great.
Their running game was pretty

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much last in the league.
What does that really say about

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the Steelers defense right now?
It it, it, I think it we realize

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our worst fears that that they
really are not a good defense.

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I mean, they've got good parts,
they're not playing together and

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JP JS handsy and he's getting
called for it all the time.

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I I even text.
You guys, not all the time.

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He made a good stop on that.
Last game you're going to defend

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him until you die, so.
Well, because it isn't all the

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time, I don't.
Think he's that good.

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I just, I just I haven't thought
he was that good since day one

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just like I didn't think George
Pickens was going to stick

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around and is that good?
He's really not you know, I'm.

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I'm telling you I'm right about
JPJ.

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Sorry.
I, I you're.

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Wrong.
You're wrong about.

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JP Well, we'll let their
careers, we'll let careers play

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it out.
But you know, their their

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defense.
I, I text you guys said, where

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does JJ or does TJ Watt play on
this team anymore?

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I mean, now he looked like maybe
he was at work at some point.

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You know what I you know what I
have.

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You know what I have to say Now.
Now, granted, look, TJ Watt was

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in the game enough to to make
some plays and he didn't.

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But I also too still just have
to you have to think about the

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philosophy of their freaking
defense.

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Now, there's something to be
said for rotating guys and so

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guys are fresher and stuff like
that.

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It was like it was like the
second quarter or, or it might

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have been the second time.
I think it was the second time

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the Bengals got the ball.
TJ Watt is on the sideline for

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the first down and the second
down.

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What in the world is that?
How can that even be possible?

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Pay that guy.
You pay that guy that kind of

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money and he's, he shouldn't be
on the field.

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He, he's he's been on the field
for like, you know, 8 plays.

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I mean, it's crazy.
I mean, I don't know, to me it's

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sort of like creates this sort
of feeling of there's no

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urgency, you know, there's no
urgency.

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It's just like, you know, hey,
you know, we'll you know, if if,

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if they get a first down, it's
OK, then TJ comes in, then we'll

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stop him, you know what I mean?
I don't know.

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No, you're right.
I mean, TJ does take some breaks

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and you know he needs to take
some breaks.

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But it seems like when we need
that splash play now that the

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the defense isn't there to make
the splash play.

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And that's the, and that's what
this defense is predicated on.

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They have to make the splash
play.

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When they don't, they get the
they get the ball taken down the

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field on them and they only had
to stop them one last time time

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and they couldn't do it and they
couldn't do it.

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And it's it's disappointing on
the defense that you, you know,

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is getting paid $179 million
this year and Flacco's getting

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paid what, a million?
And he just torched them.

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And it's not, it's not, it's not
really even that, You know, they

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had to stop them one time and
they couldn't do it.

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It.
It's the ease in which they went

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down the field.
Yeah.

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No, you're right.
You know what I mean?

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Yeah, I mean that that crossing
pattern, the Jamar chase, nobody

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was there watching him.
I mean, what?

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What?
What?

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What?
Are they in a zone defense when

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that happens?
And he goes on, he goes

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uncovered.
I mean, come on.

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That's the most ridiculous thing
you can do.

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I was waiting for somebody to
jump that, to jump that route

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all night long because you could
see it coming from a mile away.

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So, yeah, I, I think this
defense is, is very suspect now.

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I was driving home from work and
I heard the first series that

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the Bengals had the ball and,
and, and I in the first

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touchdown, that was that Rodgers
threw to Jonny Smith.

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But when Keanu Benton sacked
Glaco, right?

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I, I, I, I thought to myself,
maybe because I was thinking

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about last week's game in
Cleveland, maybe this is kind of

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his coming out party that we've
been waiting for him to do

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something and become a
difference maker on that

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defensive line for a couple
years now.

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This is year three.
It's time.

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But then everybody disappeared
for the rest of the game.

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So right.
Right.

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You know, I, I, I just, I don't
understand that and you're

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absolutely right.
They don't they don't seem to

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shift their coverage.
They don't seem to adjust during

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the game very well.
I will say something now you you

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can say all you want about how
the Steelers offense scored 31

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points and you should win the
game, right?

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That's great.
Aaron Rodgers, Aaron Rodgers

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tonight.
Let's let's talk about him real

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quick because we're not just
going to bitch about the

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Steelers defense, All right?
We, we obviously that was a huge

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problem.
And it's going to be Rodgers had

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four touchdowns tonight.
All of them were the tight ends.

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And this is what I was saying
during the game.

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And it was kind of mirroring,
mirroring what Kirk Herbstreit

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was talking about.
The Steelers aren't built to

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stretch the field.
They have 4 tight ends on their

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roster.
They trot out three tight end

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and and and one wide receiver
sets on a regular basis.

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I I love the idea of at any
given time on the left side or

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the right side of the line, you
can have 1000 or 1200 lbs.

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Yeah, that, that is nice.
I I like that wrinkle they've

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added.
I I like that.

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I think that's good.
But you know, and you guys,

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anybody who watches the the
sports porch on a regular basis

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knows I'm a Darnell Washington
fan.

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I love Darnell Washington, but
you're not going to stretch the

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field with him ever well.
And you know what the thing and

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you know what The thing is,
Darnell Washington can't catch a

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fastball.
Yeah, yeah, I don't.

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It's got to be, it's got to be
like lob to him.

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Nice.
They can catch it.

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Yeah, and you should not be
running a screenplay with him

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either.
That's a dumb play to call to

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him.
Yeah, So Mr. Mr. Tommy's back in

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This is not unique to this game,

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says Mr. Tommy.
Average points for this season

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25 average against 23.3.
So winning and losing is a coin

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toss and the consistent failure
is the defense.

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That is a very good point.
These their extra 3 receivers

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are Wilson, Scaronic and Miller.
They may not even make half the

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NFL rosters any of them.
Yeah.

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Yeah.
But this is this is what Arthur

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Smith wanted.
So that's why when?

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That's true.
The Bengals came back and took a

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10 point lead.
I was, I was texting you guys

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and saying this game's over.
Now it it turns out it wasn't

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quite over, but what I was
talking about was how they're

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built.
They're not built to stretch the

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field and come back quickly.
Well, here.

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Here's another.
Thing but they did tonight.

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Yeah, here's here's another
thing that I think we need to

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talk about with Rogers.
Granted, you know,

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congratulations, accolades to
him on all of his, you know,

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marks that keep going up every
single week.

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You know, I think he passed Ben
Roethlisberger for passing

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yards.
You know, good for him.

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But the bottom line is they win
the football game tonight if he

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protects the ball.
I mean he he threw 4 touchdowns,

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but he threw 2 interceptions and
the first interception is what

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really got the Bengals in the
game.

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Yep, you know it.
Really.

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It really turned the momentum of
the game.

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Now and refresh my memory the
1st.

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Are you talking about the one he
threw deep and they got it on

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the 20 yard line?
No, the one, I think the one

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before that, was that the second
one.

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The, well, the first one, the
one to Metcalf, I blame on

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Metcalf I don't.
Know.

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Yeah, I'm talking.
I'm talking about the deep ball

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to Metcalf, not the one where
Metcalf caught it and the guy

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ripped it away.
Yeah.

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But that was essentially A punt
mark, I mean.

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Well, but it's 10 nothing.
You go down there and you score,

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it's 17, nothing and it's.
Game Well, I mean, so you're

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saying that, but Chris is saying
they're not built to go down the

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field.
They're trying to go down the

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field on that play.
So what do you rather them do?

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Just not throw it deep.
Well, no, I I disagree with

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that.
I I don't, I think they can go

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down the field.
Yeah, I mean.

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But I mean that to me, that was
like, OK, so so he threw in an

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interception, but they get the
ball in the 20.

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I mean, if the defense can make
a three and out there, it ain't

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no big deal.
I didn't think that was a big.

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I didn't think that was too big
of AI Agree with you.

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You know, unfortunately this
this offense can't turn the ball

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over at all.
When they do, it causes problems

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because once the defense gets on
the field, there's no there's no

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sense in thinking that they can
stop anybody anymore.

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And that's the problem.
I don't think it's the

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interceptions.
I think it's the defense.

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Bonos Tecmo on YouTube says the
deep ball interception was like

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a punt.
For sure the DKINT was on DK

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Rodgers did what he had to do to
win tonight.

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I mean look guys, there's no way
that you can you can fault Aaron

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Rodgers for this loss.
No, you.

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Can't.
Primarily, there's no way, I

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mean the, the, the, and, and
it's absolutely correct.

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The interception to DK.
I'm actually really disappointed

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in DK Metcalf this year, just
just from the standpoint of he

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seems to drop passes.
He he doesn't seem to really

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have a tight grip on that ball
all the time.

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And, and I'm not saying he's
performing poorly because before

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tonight he had four straight
games with a touchdown pass.

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He's been a big part of their
victories, But it it, it there's

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just not what I thought that
number one status on the

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Steelers was going to be.
But he's he's a top wide out.

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Look, he's not Jamar Chase.
Okay, he's not Jamar chase.

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Nobody is.
And he and look, he's been huge

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for them.
I I don't think they have four

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wins if he's not on the team.
Very true, very true.

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So yeah.
Overall, he's been very, very

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good.
I, I mean really look that that

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ball that the guy snagged away
from him.

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And that was a good defensive
play.

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Yeah, that was just, that was
just a phenomenal defensive play

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that I'm sure nobody would have
seen coming, even if it was

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Jamar Chase.
He might have lost that ball

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well.
I mean, in, in, in all in,

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looking at it now, just a little
bit after my emotions have

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already come out.
Jalen, Jalen Warren, Jalen

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Warren.
Jalen Warren had a great game.

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He did.
I said that. 16 rushes, 127

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yards.
I mean, and on top of that, he

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had a good game and Rodgers had
a good game.

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You know why?
Because that offensive line is

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starting to come together.
I mean.

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It didn't seem like, it didn't
seem like Rodgers only he only

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left the pocket because he had
so much time.

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He was just trying to buy time
till guys move the round and he

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they could get open.
You know, they weren't open at

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first.
But that offensive line I

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thought that was that was that
was awesome.

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They had a great game.
The defensive line had a

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terrible game, the secondary
terrible.

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So I mean Thomas got to get this
defense together and and that's

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the that's the thing that's
pulling them down right now.

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That's that that's the boat
anchor.

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That being said, I mean there's
still a game and a half up on on

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on Cincinnati.
So I mean.

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They're they're in a great spot.
I mean, look, the Division has

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completely fallen apart on them.
I mean, look, it just sucks.

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You had this game ready.
You had this game right in front

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of you.
You make one defensive stop the

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last time they have the ball and
like you said, Mark wasn't even

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close.
It wasn't like, oh man, they got

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them 4th down and you know, 5,
they can do this.

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It wasn't even that.
It was first down, they're

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throwing the ball 20 yards.
It was second down, they're

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throwing the ball 15 yards and
it was just too easy.

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Yep, Yep.
Yeah, we got a lot of comments

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Mr. Tommy says the defense is

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actually regressing.
Average points last season was

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20.4 average points against
Bono's.

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Tecmo says Chase and Higgins
were smiling like Cheshire cats

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all night long.
Haven't seen them like this in

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years.
Right.

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A lot.
What's a Cheshire cat?

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The Cheshire Cat from Alice in
Wonderland.

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Alice in Wonderland, you know
the.

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Big smile.
I don't watch Alice in

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Wonderland.
What is wrong with you man?

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I'll tell you what, I watched
it.

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When I was 5.
Maybe, I don't know, Right.

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And yeah, your growth was
severely stunted historically.

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Pathetic defense, Larry Peters
says.

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You know what, Larry?
I'm going to agree.

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Larry's got the comment of the.
Night there.

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Yeah, you got it.
Joe Flacco.

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Let's talk about him. 31 of 47
for 342 yards, 3 touchdowns, no

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interceptions.
I mean, Flacco is the Steeler

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killer.
And the worst part of this is

452
00:22:38,400 --> 00:22:41,840
we, we had a chance to put the
division away, you know, we, I

453
00:22:41,840 --> 00:22:43,960
mean.
Well, it wasn't have been.

454
00:22:44,040 --> 00:22:47,520
It wouldn't have been a way. 3
1/2 games and those two you

455
00:22:47,520 --> 00:22:48,720
think the Bengals are going to
play.

456
00:22:48,720 --> 00:22:51,320
I don't know if they have a buy
next week or not, but if they

457
00:22:51,320 --> 00:22:53,640
do, whatever, you think they're
going to play like this next

458
00:22:53,640 --> 00:22:54,600
week.
I don't.

459
00:22:55,040 --> 00:22:59,400
The Bengals will.
The Bengals will at best go 500

460
00:22:59,520 --> 00:23:03,280
until Joe Bauer returns.
I mean, it's it's not, it's not

461
00:23:03,280 --> 00:23:05,440
really an issue.
Really.

462
00:23:05,440 --> 00:23:08,080
The Steelers issue is
themselves.

463
00:23:08,280 --> 00:23:09,240
Yeah.
You know.

464
00:23:09,600 --> 00:23:12,160
Well, no.
The Steelers need to fix

465
00:23:12,160 --> 00:23:13,640
themselves.
I think.

466
00:23:13,640 --> 00:23:14,840
They're able to win the
division.

467
00:23:14,960 --> 00:23:17,640
I think you're right, but their
their issue is when they play

468
00:23:17,640 --> 00:23:21,520
against teams that have great
offenses and in this case you're

469
00:23:21,520 --> 00:23:25,520
going against 2 great offensive
wide receivers.

470
00:23:25,760 --> 00:23:28,640
That's why.
OK, my turn to talk about Joe

471
00:23:28,640 --> 00:23:31,240
Burrow.
That's why Joe Burrow is a damn

472
00:23:31,240 --> 00:23:35,320
bum because anybody can throw
for 350 yards on this team.

473
00:23:35,320 --> 00:23:39,680
When you got you, when you got
Jamar Chase and and T Higgins,

474
00:23:39,840 --> 00:23:41,880
it doesn't matter who's throwing
the ball.

475
00:23:42,240 --> 00:23:44,640
You could, you could bring Ben
Roethlisberger out of

476
00:23:44,640 --> 00:23:47,240
retirement.
He would throw for 450 yards

477
00:23:47,240 --> 00:23:49,680
against the Steelers.
That's the thing.

478
00:23:49,680 --> 00:23:52,520
Their offensive weapons are just
so great.

479
00:23:52,520 --> 00:23:56,000
It doesn't matter who's slinging
the ball to them and and Joe

480
00:23:56,000 --> 00:24:00,400
Flacco proved that tonight.
Yeah, yeah, I don't, I don't

481
00:24:00,400 --> 00:24:05,920
think that Joe Burrow is a bum.
And for those of you new to the

482
00:24:05,920 --> 00:24:11,200
show, Steve thinks Joe Burrow is
a bum, but I I think he actually

483
00:24:11,200 --> 00:24:13,160
thinks Joe Burrow really is a
bum.

484
00:24:13,280 --> 00:24:17,320
Well, that's because Joe Flacco.
Why would you?

485
00:24:17,320 --> 00:24:18,920
Why would you?
Why would you pay?

486
00:24:18,920 --> 00:24:22,720
Why would you pay?
Why would you pay that guy $35

487
00:24:22,720 --> 00:24:25,920
million a year when you can pay
Joe Flacco 2 million?

488
00:24:25,920 --> 00:24:29,040
He can do the same damn thing.
And all you have to do is go out

489
00:24:29,040 --> 00:24:31,680
and get a couple defensive
players, then they might win a

490
00:24:31,680 --> 00:24:34,120
Super Bowl.
But instead, let them hog that

491
00:24:34,120 --> 00:24:34,920
money.
I don't care.

492
00:24:34,920 --> 00:24:38,160
It's fine with me.
Hey, listen, I'm going to bring

493
00:24:38,160 --> 00:24:44,200
something up here real quick
that that HJ said last show this

494
00:24:44,200 --> 00:24:47,840
just this past Monday.
Boy, I don't know about.

495
00:24:47,960 --> 00:24:51,680
That I still had the I still had
the ticker set up for it.

496
00:24:52,160 --> 00:24:55,040
This is what this is what I bet
we win the next game.

497
00:24:55,040 --> 00:24:57,320
I yeah, I don't know about that
either, but I don't know.

498
00:24:57,880 --> 00:25:00,440
Remember this, remember this
Monday show?

499
00:25:00,640 --> 00:25:04,720
HJ said the chance of playoffs
of the Steelers 76%, the Bengals

500
00:25:04,720 --> 00:25:06,960
8%.
Why should we worry about this

501
00:25:06,960 --> 00:25:09,720
game?
Those are his words exactly.

502
00:25:09,720 --> 00:25:10,680
Yeah.
And you know what?

503
00:25:10,880 --> 00:25:12,360
And you know what I said right
after that?

504
00:25:12,560 --> 00:25:15,160
We we should worry because we're
not worried.

505
00:25:15,520 --> 00:25:17,280
That's true.
That's exactly right.

506
00:25:17,360 --> 00:25:19,960
It did.
And I, I actually picked the

507
00:25:19,960 --> 00:25:22,520
Steelers to lose this game, but
but I don't, I don't want to

508
00:25:22,520 --> 00:25:24,760
gloat over a Steelers loss.
And by.

509
00:25:24,800 --> 00:25:26,560
The way it's the last thing I
wanted.

510
00:25:26,640 --> 00:25:29,320
By the way, Amy said that the
announcer said this, but I

511
00:25:29,320 --> 00:25:30,960
didn't hear it.
Is it true?

512
00:25:30,960 --> 00:25:33,440
Has Tomlin never won a Thursday
night?

513
00:25:33,520 --> 00:25:33,880
Game.
Yeah.

514
00:25:33,960 --> 00:25:35,320
Yeah, they said that at the
beginning.

515
00:25:35,720 --> 00:25:38,560
O and six on Thursday night
games in the division.

516
00:25:38,800 --> 00:25:41,640
Now he's O.
Now he's O and seven.

517
00:25:41,680 --> 00:25:43,480
Now he's O and seven.
He's game.

518
00:25:43,640 --> 00:25:44,360
He.
Probably.

519
00:25:45,160 --> 00:25:47,720
He probably has won a Thursday
night game, but not.

520
00:25:47,720 --> 00:25:49,280
In the division.
Gotcha.

521
00:25:49,480 --> 00:25:51,920
Yeah.
All right, let's move on real

522
00:25:51,920 --> 00:25:55,280
quick here to the worst part of
the loss.

523
00:25:55,440 --> 00:25:57,920
Let's do that.
Blame balls.

524
00:25:58,080 --> 00:26:00,200
Yes, let's who?
Gets your blame ball.

525
00:26:00,480 --> 00:26:09,480
Absolute worst part of the loss.
Oh, oh boy, it it has to be the

526
00:26:09,480 --> 00:26:13,960
the two or three Jamar Chase
catches on that last on that

527
00:26:13,960 --> 00:26:17,440
last drive down the field.
I just don't understand how you

528
00:26:17,440 --> 00:26:20,240
can leave it so open.
So I'm going to give my game

529
00:26:20,240 --> 00:26:23,480
ball to the defensive
coordinator for having such a

530
00:26:23,480 --> 00:26:28,240
shitty scheme when all you had
to do was stop them four times

531
00:26:28,240 --> 00:26:31,760
in a row.
Chris Iyer says Flacco's 13 yard

532
00:26:31,760 --> 00:26:38,480
run or no a fan catching ATD
Grand Schwabini What's the worst

533
00:26:38,480 --> 00:26:43,600
part of the loss for you?
The worst part, I mean, the

534
00:26:43,600 --> 00:26:46,080
worst part of the loss,
honestly, it's, it's just the

535
00:26:46,080 --> 00:26:49,440
defense.
I mean, and look, I'm not going

536
00:26:49,440 --> 00:26:53,240
to say that this defense is an
absolute disaster.

537
00:26:53,240 --> 00:26:55,840
It's easy to say that right
after the game.

538
00:26:56,240 --> 00:26:59,200
There is a lot of talent on the
defense and maybe over the

539
00:26:59,200 --> 00:27:01,960
course of the season they will
pull something together.

540
00:27:02,680 --> 00:27:07,440
But still, I mean, I just feel
like, come on, like, you know,

541
00:27:07,760 --> 00:27:09,760
it's like they're playing games
with our head.

542
00:27:09,760 --> 00:27:12,160
I mean, okay, yeah, there's
nobody on Cleveland.

543
00:27:12,160 --> 00:27:13,960
We know that.
But you know, they still, they

544
00:27:13,960 --> 00:27:17,040
looked pretty darn good last
week right now and then and then

545
00:27:17,040 --> 00:27:21,040
they come out this week and and
look, I'm sorry, look, Joe

546
00:27:21,040 --> 00:27:25,000
Flacco, it's not like he's a a
bad quarterback or anything, but

547
00:27:25,080 --> 00:27:28,920
isn't he also 40 years old?
I mean, look, I, I, I don't

548
00:27:28,960 --> 00:27:31,920
recall these other stops that
Joe Flacco made where he was

549
00:27:31,920 --> 00:27:34,440
setting the world on fire.
I mean, he was doing so well in

550
00:27:34,440 --> 00:27:36,760
Cleveland.
They said, see ya after a couple

551
00:27:36,760 --> 00:27:39,920
games.
So, you know, look, I mean, you

552
00:27:39,920 --> 00:27:43,200
got to be able to stop Joe
Flacco, even if the receivers

553
00:27:43,200 --> 00:27:45,440
are great.
I mean, come on, you know, there

554
00:27:45,440 --> 00:27:50,280
was no pass rush.
So, you know, I'm disappointed

555
00:27:50,280 --> 00:27:52,960
in the defense.
I'm still willing to give them

556
00:27:52,960 --> 00:27:57,560
time to grow and figure out an
identity and come together.

557
00:27:57,560 --> 00:28:01,280
But I mean, God, they were bad.
Yeah, I, I, I think the worst

558
00:28:01,280 --> 00:28:05,440
part of this for me was you can
combine the defense with the

559
00:28:05,440 --> 00:28:11,000
fact that Joe Flacco just pulled
into town a few days ago and now

560
00:28:11,000 --> 00:28:16,040
he's played two games, but he
basically butchered the Steelers

561
00:28:16,040 --> 00:28:19,280
defense.
Now Joe Flacco's experienced,

562
00:28:19,720 --> 00:28:22,800
he's won a Super Bowl, he was
Super Bowl MVP.

563
00:28:23,000 --> 00:28:25,840
He's like a gunslinger now.
He's like Aaron Rodgers.

564
00:28:25,840 --> 00:28:29,440
If you think about it.
He's basically the same age and

565
00:28:29,440 --> 00:28:31,800
he's been around the league and
done there, been there, done

566
00:28:31,800 --> 00:28:33,280
that.
Aaron Rodgers been around the

567
00:28:33,280 --> 00:28:37,480
league, won Super Bowl victory.
I mean, we were kind of playing

568
00:28:37,480 --> 00:28:40,360
the same guy.
And a couple times when I was, I

569
00:28:40,360 --> 00:28:44,360
was looking at the screen and
they would show Rodgers on the

570
00:28:44,360 --> 00:28:47,280
bench and then they would show
Flacco and I'd be like, this is

571
00:28:47,280 --> 00:28:50,440
bizarro world.
I'm sitting here hoping that I'm

572
00:28:50,440 --> 00:28:53,600
going to watch the Pittsburgh
Steelers win a game with a 41

573
00:28:53,600 --> 00:28:56,600
year old Aaron Rodgers and go to
the playoffs.

574
00:28:56,600 --> 00:28:59,800
I mean, really, here's the worst
part of the loss for me.

575
00:29:00,880 --> 00:29:03,840
It's that Mike Tomlin is still
the coach of this team.

576
00:29:05,440 --> 00:29:09,640
Honestly, I mean, it, it is it
You look at this team and you

577
00:29:09,640 --> 00:29:14,880
say there is talent on the team,
but a lot of the talent right

578
00:29:14,880 --> 00:29:19,360
now is talent they had to go get
and talent that is over the

579
00:29:19,360 --> 00:29:22,880
hill.
OK, Slay, Darius Slay, Pro

580
00:29:22,880 --> 00:29:26,320
Bowler, Super Bowl champion over
the hill.

581
00:29:26,600 --> 00:29:30,440
Just like we picked up Adrian
Peterson last year, you know, or

582
00:29:30,440 --> 00:29:32,720
the year before, whatever it
was, Patrick.

583
00:29:32,800 --> 00:29:36,360
Peterson.
They would have if he was

584
00:29:36,360 --> 00:29:37,640
available though.
I always.

585
00:29:38,200 --> 00:29:41,520
Flipped those games I think.
Let me finish my rant.

586
00:29:41,520 --> 00:29:44,160
I will not let you finish.
Go ahead.

587
00:29:44,160 --> 00:29:46,640
All right, go ahead.
You know, you got Jalen Ramsey,

588
00:29:46,640 --> 00:29:51,080
who still has some of those ball
hawk skills, but he seems to

589
00:29:51,080 --> 00:29:55,560
kind of give up that big play.
Jamar Chase schooled him and I

590
00:29:56,040 --> 00:29:59,520
taught him how how not to play.
Cornerback and Jamar High

591
00:29:59,640 --> 00:30:00,880
School.
Had a lot, yeah, he.

592
00:30:01,720 --> 00:30:04,280
Does that to everybody but.
We got to get we got to get feel

593
00:30:04,280 --> 00:30:06,240
the steel in here, Feel the
steel.

594
00:30:06,240 --> 00:30:08,600
What's up the sport, another
game.

595
00:30:08,600 --> 00:30:11,320
Thanks for being here.
And before we give our final

596
00:30:11,320 --> 00:30:13,800
thoughts and wrap it up because
it's getting late and it's past

597
00:30:13,800 --> 00:30:16,120
my bedtime, I want to thank you
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598
00:30:16,120 --> 00:30:19,680
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600
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Every time we come to you with
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609
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Steelers, Penguins, Pirates.
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610
00:30:51,240 --> 00:30:53,120
Pitt.
But really, we don't like to.

611
00:30:53,800 --> 00:30:56,200
OK, I do.
That Penguinos doing tonight,

612
00:30:56,280 --> 00:30:58,160
Steve.
It's right up in the third.

613
00:30:58,160 --> 00:31:00,000
They just started the third
period, so.

614
00:31:00,560 --> 00:31:02,000
And one of the.
Things I'll let you know in

615
00:31:02,000 --> 00:31:05,200
about 27 minutes.
If you're a pure black and gold

616
00:31:05,200 --> 00:31:06,880
fan and you're going to be
watching that or you're watching

617
00:31:06,880 --> 00:31:09,360
that Pens game right now, after
the Pens game, this guy right

618
00:31:09,360 --> 00:31:12,400
over here, hockey, Jesus, he's
going to be on.

619
00:31:12,640 --> 00:31:16,480
He's going to be doing his, what
are we calling it, hockey Jesus?

620
00:31:16,480 --> 00:31:18,360
His sermon, right, and his
sermon.

621
00:31:18,440 --> 00:31:20,800
Those game sermons.
Hockey Jesus preaches on the

622
00:31:20,800 --> 00:31:25,200
podcast after every single
Penguins game all year long, and

623
00:31:25,200 --> 00:31:28,600
this year he promised on these
West Coast trips he would do it

624
00:31:28,840 --> 00:31:30,920
after those games, even if it
was 2 in the morning.

625
00:31:30,920 --> 00:31:33,640
So far we're a few games in.
So far, he's hanging in there.

626
00:31:34,120 --> 00:31:36,280
Let's see what Tom.
Wants, yeah, I mean you guys.

627
00:31:36,320 --> 00:31:38,520
Hard fought game.
Yeah, I don't.

628
00:31:38,520 --> 00:31:42,400
Give credit to those guys.
Did what was required to the

629
00:31:42,400 --> 00:31:44,840
win.
We got a few more play.

630
00:31:45,560 --> 00:31:47,120
We got to work on the
collective.

631
00:31:47,640 --> 00:31:50,240
From an analysis perspective, I
just thought.

632
00:31:50,320 --> 00:31:51,880
You know, people are watching
it.

633
00:31:51,880 --> 00:31:54,480
We have we.
Allowed them to run the ball too

634
00:31:54,480 --> 00:31:55,640
much.
Mark Lee says.

635
00:31:55,640 --> 00:31:57,600
In half we allowed them to pass
the ball.

636
00:31:59,600 --> 00:32:02,520
Onos Tecmo says yeah, the
calling card of the Steelers was

637
00:32:02,520 --> 00:32:04,480
drafting well and developing
talent.

638
00:32:04,480 --> 00:32:07,640
Now the. 3 was we were fighting
an uphill battle.

639
00:32:07,760 --> 00:32:11,520
There's a good one.
Hired gun I'm I'm going to have,

640
00:32:11,680 --> 00:32:12,800
I'm going to have to get rid of
him.

641
00:32:13,240 --> 00:32:17,560
What we need, what we need to do
is we need to run toward the

642
00:32:17,560 --> 00:32:20,840
challenge, not away from the
challenge.

643
00:32:20,960 --> 00:32:25,200
They fought their tail off man.
They were certainly deserving of

644
00:32:25,200 --> 00:32:26,720
the win.
Oh my God.

645
00:32:28,520 --> 00:32:30,560
All right.
So thank you for.

646
00:32:30,560 --> 00:32:33,480
Turning him off NBC or Prime
Vision?

647
00:32:33,480 --> 00:32:37,880
Yeah, at at this point right
now, oh boy, this doesn't look

648
00:32:38,280 --> 00:32:40,080
obviously things don't look
good.

649
00:32:40,080 --> 00:32:42,720
Next week could change things.
The week after could change

650
00:32:42,720 --> 00:32:45,440
things.
But like I was saying before,

651
00:32:45,440 --> 00:32:51,200
Steve decided to go off on the
Tomlin press conference at

652
00:32:51,360 --> 00:32:52,360
least.
Entertaining though you.

653
00:32:52,360 --> 00:32:54,080
Have worst part of the loss for
me you have.

654
00:32:54,280 --> 00:32:59,120
No right to take him off.
I, I The worst part of the loss

655
00:32:59,120 --> 00:33:01,360
for me is that Mike Tomlin is
still the head coach.

656
00:33:01,600 --> 00:33:02,280
We.
We.

657
00:33:02,320 --> 00:33:04,120
You've said that.
We need to move on.

658
00:33:04,160 --> 00:33:06,120
Yeah, we absolutely need to move
on.

659
00:33:06,120 --> 00:33:09,320
So very.
Very appreciative, right feel

660
00:33:09,320 --> 00:33:09,680
to.
Steal.

661
00:33:09,680 --> 00:33:11,320
Yeah, Yeah.
You've heard.

662
00:33:11,320 --> 00:33:13,320
You've heard them before.
Yeah, absolutely heard.

663
00:33:13,320 --> 00:33:16,840
Them We've all heard them.
All right guys, well, listen, HJ

664
00:33:16,840 --> 00:33:19,080
is going to go watch that Pens
game and then he's going to be

665
00:33:19,080 --> 00:33:21,920
on the podcast.
Exactly.

666
00:33:21,920 --> 00:33:24,680
He's going to be on the podcast
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00:33:53,000 --> 00:33:54,280
well.
So it's in a podcast.

678
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But listen, guys, we're going to
see you Monday.

679
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We're going to catch up.
We have NFL predictions.

680
00:33:58,960 --> 00:34:00,280
We're going to be talking
Steelers again.

681
00:34:00,280 --> 00:34:02,440
Of course, there's going to be
fallout through the rest of the

682
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week and into the weekend.
We'll talk other NFL stuff and

683
00:34:04,960 --> 00:34:07,320
we're going to talk about the
Penguins and we're also going to

684
00:34:07,320 --> 00:34:10,600
talk about a new sports sports
shop that I think everybody's

685
00:34:10,600 --> 00:34:13,360
going to love.
I got some of that swag on right

686
00:34:13,360 --> 00:34:15,840
here, right now, right there.
There it is.

687
00:34:17,080 --> 00:34:20,800
There it is.
Chris, Chris, this is a really

688
00:34:20,840 --> 00:34:22,960
good question for the poor John
Monday.

689
00:34:23,520 --> 00:34:25,400
All right.
Who would you want to be the

690
00:34:25,400 --> 00:34:27,800
head coach?
I say we tackle that on Monday.

691
00:34:28,239 --> 00:34:31,280
We should tackle that on Monday.
We'll tackle that on Monday.

692
00:34:31,800 --> 00:34:34,120
Anyone.
Anyone.

693
00:34:34,159 --> 00:34:38,080
Anyone at all?
All right, everybody all right.

694
00:34:38,360 --> 00:34:42,480
Steelers lost in Cincinnati, but
for the grand Schwab beanie for

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00:34:42,480 --> 00:34:43,480
hockey.
Jesus.

696
00:34:43,719 --> 00:34:45,679
I'm your technical director.
This is a sports.

697
00:34:45,679 --> 00:34:49,080
Sports black and gold.
We'll see you Monday at 7:00 PM

698
00:34:49,080 --> 00:34:51,120
Eastern Time.
Drop us a line.

699
00:34:51,120 --> 00:34:55,719
In the meantime, I am out, she
blondes.