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Speaker 1 (00:21):
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Wolfley and Max Stark's.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Well, we are here. The hour has come.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
It is the power hour.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Oh my goodness, our number two here. We are excited
to be back inside the locker room. And wolf there
there's victory Mondays, right, and then there's victory donut Mondays.
But I would be very hard press to find a
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better victory Monday than a post Baltimore victory victory Monday.
What would you say to that?
Speaker 4 (01:24):
Oh, I'd say it's a double dunker, Yeah, you know,
I mean, yeah, it's good enough to have one donut
well dead gummy, you might have too, or half a
dozen as it were, you know, whatever it takes to
get the job done and do so respectively. So in
accordance with the rules of victory donut Monday.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Well, absolutely absolutely. But I just I think you know,
when you think of the as North Division, right, and
the fist fight that it is and.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
It was yesterday, was it not? Huh man? Literally, did
you have a couple flashba?
Speaker 2 (02:03):
I did? I did? I I had to I had
to call myself a couple of times. Yeah, you know
I did. I didn't cross the chalk. Now now I
take that back, you know what, full disclosure and to
keep a journalistic integrity of our show. I did cross.
I did cross the white chalk. But when I was
going to the end zone corners to get the back
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end zone views, I did. I didn't go the full
l you know what I'm saying. I did. I did
cut through. I made a little diagonal behind the pylons
that I did, But I never stepped in the full
field to play because secondly, it's still out of bounds.
So I didn't get that close. But trust me, there
there was one time and when we were walking in
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the tunnel a halftime, I was walking next to next
to Kyle, one of our equipment managers. I wanted to say, Kyle,
I know you got a spare uniform in there. I'm
just saying we could put it together.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
Just give me a helmet, man, helmet, Yeah, just one more.
I just lay somebody out.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
And now with and now with the kickoff coverage unit,
I don't even have to run that far, you know. Yeah,
I could do specialty that will just that part of
special teams. That's about it. Uh yeah, just give me
like ten yards of space to work with. I'm good,
I'm good.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
Right.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
I mean you think about the kickoff return unit. I
mean it's pretty much like like a like a pass
rush drill. Yeah, you know, it's like you got your guy,
he's only five yards in front of you. I mean,
that's no different than the linebacker that's blitzing from depth.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
Right, I got you. You know, I'm just saying.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
I'm just saying Wolf, we might be able to make
a comeback.
Speaker 4 (03:42):
Like I'm sorry, but I come back ended long ago.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Well come on, say is just jo No, No, I'm
right there with you. I would have been I would
have been like Emmitt Smith sleeping on the bench if
they would have been like all right, Mags, you're right,
what what? What?
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Well?
Speaker 4 (03:59):
My friend, we got all are stacking up like Cordon
Wood here. We better start letting them understand. Victory Monday
is all about baby.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
All right, And of course we're going to go to
our first caller, the one that only Jason in New Hampshire.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
Nice, nice little up tweet the wow.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Hauling in as always.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
Position, give me reps.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
You don't realize this.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
You're giving me reps here, Jason.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
So we do need to hear from you more often
so I can finally get get my get my vocal
pipes warmed up.
Speaker 5 (04:34):
That's awesome. That's awesome to be able to hear you
guys two weeks in a row, I know, but I
got to tell you I'm exhausted. That was a long
trip back after that game yesterday.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
Oh did you drive back? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (04:45):
Oh yeah, we always.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
All right, who's more tired you are? Max? Let's say
who got home later?
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Yeah, Jason? What time did you get the plane though?
Speaker 3 (04:57):
Right?
Speaker 2 (04:59):
No, no, no, I did not. I got I got
hit with with the beverage cart twice the flight, once
in the elbow, on on on the outbound originally funny
bone part of the and then I got no, I
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wasn't first class. I was back in the exit row. Baby,
I was right by the cousin Eddy's r V. It
felt like.
Speaker 5 (05:31):
I thought you big timers always went first class.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Yeah, no, no, no, all that glitters is not necessarily gold.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
I was, I was, I was back there.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
In what I like to call the gim pop section
of the airplane.
Speaker 5 (05:45):
So I frequent that area much.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
Let me say this, Let me say this real quick.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
The only the only guy I know that it's green
around the other side of the fence.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
The grass is green on the other side of fences.
Pack Queen.
Speaker 5 (06:00):
Absolutely, I was wearing his. I got a jersey of
his over the off season that I customized. It says villain.
Oh because he called it because he called himself a villain.
That's a you know, in the off season when he
got Yeah, he called himself a villain. So I got
I got a customer jersey like that. But yeah, So
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I didn't give a game ball last week. But I'm
going to give the same game ball that I was
going to give last week. And that's for the whole team.
This team is playing like a team in all aspects
special teams, defense, offense. It seems like whenever somebody's got
to come up with a play and it's their term,
they come up with a play, and I'm highly impressed.
Speaker 6 (06:43):
You know.
Speaker 5 (06:43):
The you know something touch and I used to talk
about and agree on quite a bit is execution and
last year I was all over the lack of execution.
People are getting on the coaches all the time, and
it's like the coaches were calling the plays, the plays
where they they weren't executing them. This year, the coaches
are calling the plays and the players are executing them.
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And then something uh.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Oh yeah, I mean, you know, it's it's one of
those things like we were like, man, you know, you
hold your breath because, right, because because the last couple
of years that has been the case, and you know,
I felt like we've always played games not to lose
them versus playing games to win them. And this year
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it has been a start shift in that and that mentality.
It has been, no, we're going to play to win.
We're not going to play scared. We're the ones that
scare others. We don't get scared, right, And that's a
cool shift to see, especially when you've been watching the
last couple of years and the way this roster is
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also turned over over the last two years. Jason, right,
I mean, think of the job that Omar Khan's done
to really churn this roster and genius. I think the
combination with that the pieces you bring in and the
veteran leadership that you have in areas has really led
to that shift in mentality. You know, guys are like, no,
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we're not playing to lose, We're not playing to preserve,
you know something. We're playing to put more, to attain more.
You know why, because it's there for the taking. And
that mentality has just been awesome to see.
Speaker 5 (08:29):
And I agree with you on that for sure. The
thing that I had noticed though, is that Tomlin's been
preaching that every year. He's been in there every year,
you know better than I. And yeah, the fact that
it just didn't seem like the team was all buying
into that, Like Kenny Pickett last year. The biggest thing
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that bothered me about Kenny Pickett last year was when
he was on the sideline. He was kept on the sideline,
and when asked if he was learning anything from the sideline,
he goes, what do I have to learn from the
sideline or something to that of that, And it's like,
that's not the mentality we're looking for on this team
and the altogether we can always pull together. It seemed
to really tie in with I've listened to a bunch
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of what Russ has had to say since he's come
in and granted it's seems stuff he's said through his career,
but I think just these certain people that they brought
in and really galvanized that message. And it might just
me being on the outside looking in, but it seems
like the team is more bought into that entire message
than it ever or than it has been in a
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long time.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
Not ever, Jason. Let me tell you this.
Speaker 4 (09:36):
There's a saying for this, and it comes from my
brother Ronnie Maxwell, not immediately, but it's about the guys
you bring in, the Pac Queens and so forth. It's
like my brother likes to say, you get enough dogs
in your locker room, even the cats start barking, all right,
so you get you know, that's exactly what it is.
It raises the level, the room temperature in the locker room.
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And that's what Pac Queen has done. Defensively speaking, he's
done a lot lot there. That's good stuff. And when
the cats are all barking, Yeah, man, you got a
team going, and my.
Speaker 5 (10:07):
God, Payson or Peyton Wilson, man, that kid is gonna
be something.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
Yep. There's a lot of them.
Speaker 4 (10:13):
Yeah, I mean, take a look, offensive we get we
got two rookies starting side by side on the offensive line.
We got a second year guy standing starting to the
to the right of the two rookies, kad Zookes from
the center to the right tackle is all youth. From
the left side, we got the grizzled vet and we
got a four year guy.
Speaker 5 (10:33):
And they're playing like Steelers. They're playing like Steelers. Wolf
They look like Steelers. You know that bad assy they
had in that game yesterday. Like we're not taking anything.
You guys aren't coming in here, top offense whatever. You know,
They're all in it and playing like Steelers. I love you, guys, man.
I'll let you guys go and comment on the rest
of that and take some more calls, but I gotta.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
Get some sleep, right, Ray to jump in. Jason Max
is gonna join you soon he gets he gets off
the air. Yeah all right, brother.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
All right, I appreciate that. Uh, you know, that was
a good one.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
And always you know, I'm working on my new Hampshire.
You know you're getting You're nailing it. I'm getting it
wasn't perfect when he started off with it, you know.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Yeah, yeah, so so I think I think you know
what we'll get there. Uh, got got to get to
the next caller here and uh, you know, we love
having him called into the locker room.
Speaker 7 (11:33):
And and it's the one, the only, the not the
not comical, the not the not oh so serious, but
the oh.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
So sarcastic sword one is, uh is who we have
up next? Sword?
Speaker 3 (11:50):
How are we doing today?
Speaker 8 (11:53):
We're doing really good, guys, thanks to you, so many
good things to say. A couple from the sheath. You know,
is there more drama than in an NFL game? I mean,
it's just a game I'd love to watch if for
nothing else. Unscripted, unedited. When you turn your television on,
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everything you see is scripted, and this is minute by
minute happening as you see it live. And to come
down to the end of a game, game after game,
it's just exciting as drama goes and entertainment goes along
those lines. To watch Russell Wilson, who's been through all
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these years, super Bowls, everything else, but the excitement that
guy exues almost like a young kid. It's hard to
believe he's been in the league like he has, but
to see him re energized in a major part of
this team and the way he seems extremely excited about it,
and it shows and rolls off on all of us.
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It's really neat to see an older guy like that
so excited, genuinely excited like he is. Peyton Wilson has
just mentioned his first real big play as a stealer.
I'd say, still, you could see he's not one hundred
percent loose. He's still thinking as he's going. When he
starts reacting like he will, that guy is going to
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be something to watch down the road. And Patrick Queen,
I don't know not enough adjectives to describe how he's
played these last couple of games, and for all of
it to come to ahead in that game yesterday and
hopefully at a level now where he'll be the rest
of the year or better, is something to behold. This
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team seems so far from being as good as they
can be. You know, we're just it's not like we've arrived.
These guys, each one of them will tell you we've
got a lot more to do, and with that attitude,
really like to see so much more I did expect.
I'm not being negative, but I kept thinking, oh boy,
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Andrews is going to catch ten passes down the middle
and end up being a big factor. That defense just
was all over everywhere, and we didn't see that. We
didn't see Jackson taking off the one thing. I don't
want to be critical, but just objectively looking at it
on short yardage plays three and one, four and one,
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I really don't know why they don't. Warren isn't in there, Nagy.
I'm not going to take anything away from them. I
love both of them. But he's more of an upright runner,
and for a split second on short yardage he's upright
and turning sideways looking for a crease. Where Warren goes
where I'm supposed to go A to B immediately full speed,
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and if I don't make it, I don't make it.
But if I do, I will. He goes exactly where
he's supposed to go. And I think on a one
yard play looking to gain a yard with the line
knowing what the play is, I really think an accelerated
bullet type runner would would work more times uh uh
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than than than than running Odgy. And one other thing
h Fields. I honestly thought that bring him in a
little earlier, guys, because uh one of the negative things
about Fields was he brings the ball down maybe too
quick and takes off with that defense of the Ravens
and the way they were playing, that type of play
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might have worked very well to open the field up
against the Ravens, where you did have to recognize his
ability to run at any time. We've seen a glimpse
of it there when he was used. And I'm not
saying he's as good as Jackson, but he's pretty dog
on close and when he would if he would take off,
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you know and get out of the pocket, unlike Russell
who got you know, sacked and collapsed a bunch of times,
I think Fields could have really opened that game up
and maybe used him a little more than we did.
But anxious, anxious for your comments, guys, and Tucker, what
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the heck?
Speaker 6 (16:16):
I mean?
Speaker 8 (16:17):
He if you look at his over fifty average, it's unusually.
I think he only has four or five out of
twelve or thirteen or something, which is extremely unusual for him.
But you know, the football guards were there, buddy, yesterday,
and we've seen ourselves a great game and it's evident
that these guys are nowhere near how good they can get.
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And they're winning as they're getting better. And it's sitting
back and smiling here guys today.
Speaker 4 (16:47):
Absolutely sort I think it's well said by you. You
know the thing about with Justin Fields, I expect to
see a little bit more of a package that might
have included back to back just to set something up.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
But that's okay. You know, we're going to see how
this unfolds.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
We go along.
Speaker 4 (17:01):
There's no rush in being able to say he's got
to have six plays, he's got to have eight plays
or something like that, you know, exactly because right now
Russell has cemented his position as the QB one going
forward and Dad gummt you know, let him, let him rock.
Speaker 8 (17:20):
Yeah, I don't want to quarter back controversy, but when
you've got a toolbox, you use all the tools that
are in it, and I think Russ would agree with you.
At certain times, it just breaks up the moment, you know,
breaks up.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
This.
Speaker 8 (17:33):
I don't want to say stale ones, but they were
getting to Russ and they were collapsing the parkt. They
were sacking him a lot of times, a lot of
pressure on him, and he was kind of struggling back
there where Fields can get out of that. And I
think Russell Wilson would be right with me, hoping Fields
would do that there was no controversy here. I think
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I think this is a team solved, especially order back,
and those guys like each other and are learning from
each other. I appreciate each other and should use each
other as needed. I don't think there'd be any friction whatsoever.
It's just something you have you should bring up, maybe
a little more as the year goes on. But we'll
say it's all unfolding, all exciting to watch, and thank
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you guys for giving me a few minutes or thank.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
You thanks Sword, Nah, thanks Sword, And I'll even go
a little bit further Wolf. I think this is also
you want to tease it because you have to remember
we still have five games of Division play left, so yeah,
you can't unload the clip in the first division game.
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And you also gave other teams, you know, more stuff
that they have to study and defend against with the Steelers.
I think that was what that was. That was that
was the teaser. That was the appetizer, and that wasn't
even like a full order that came to your table.
That was like the past appetizer. You know, where we
got one left and they're about to walk back in
the kitchen, and then you don't see it again the
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rest of the night. It was one of those I
think that was the intent was we don't want to
unleash the full package and give Baltimore game film to study,
give Cincinnati and Cleveland something to get prepared for. I
think they like to say, hey, look at when Justin
Field comes in. He runs the ball. So now we
have to worry about quarterback draw, quarterback boot run, and
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now we got a scheme for that, and then I
think we probably see a little bit more added in
as division play. HAPs It's different if this is like
the third or fourth division game in the season, right well,
m hmmm, where it's like, you know, we're going for
the jugular now. I don't care if you're going to
game plan us or not in these moments because we've
got we're got to have it mode. I think there's
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still so much more left because of the backloaded nature
of it. You have to kind of hold back what
you want to do with Justin even though it could
have been a good change of pace. You also wanted
to get Russell in there and have him work through
his struggles and not just have the fear of we
got a guy off the bench let's just go ahead
and replace him again, right, because think about this, Wolf,
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this is only Russ's fourth game. We've played ten games,
so Justin started six games already this season, right, and
play them in its entirety. Russ is still trying to
get into his groove and he struggled. Listen, yesterday was
not the greatest matchup because Russ is not that tall.
A and B they have a very tall defensive line.
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Everybody except for Justin Monnibique. It's skyscrapers, right, Travis Jones,
Brogerck Washington, Oh way right. They got all these humongous
dudes that that are there, that that that made it
tough for him, right, the hands up there standing there
clogging the pocket and the inside to distort the view
of what Russell wants to do. But when Russell has
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that moment right when he can plan his feet and
he's he's what he's throwing to, he could still deliver
those dimes that one to George Pickens. My god, down
the sideline still one of you know, I mean we
say this like every week. It feels like, oh my god,
what a play, right, But those are the things that
you know, you have to really say that's that's what
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that's what we're playing for. We're playing for those moments.
We just want them to come a little bit more frequently.
But you know, this was a tough matchup, and he
worked through his struggles and the entire team had to
kick in to win this game, and we did exactly that.
So we can't just turn and and just you know,
flounder by it, you know, every time a guy struggles.
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But at the same time, also realize we got more
games to play. I mean we still have you know,
seven very tough games, five division games and two non
division games with two division leaders or yeah, non division,
non conference games with two division leaders in their respective divisions.
That will be we still have yet to see. So
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I'm okay with holding something back, and especially when at
the end of the day it comes down, we still
get the.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
Victory, no doubt about it, my friend. Absolutely.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
Yeah, all right, we're gonna step aside. We'll be back
with more of your calls. Of course, the boards are
lit up like a Christmas tree. I see a cr
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Speaker 1 (23:00):
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p n C, PEPSI, and by FedEx. Where now meets next?
Now here's Craig Wolfley and Max Starks.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
Indeed, we're back and we are ready to roll. Here.
Speaker 4 (23:25):
We got some callers coming up. We got wan you're
in South Carolina.
Speaker 3 (23:29):
One.
Speaker 4 (23:29):
You're now in the locker room, My friend, what do
you got to say?
Speaker 6 (23:33):
Good morning guys?
Speaker 3 (23:34):
How you're doing fabulous? What do you think we're doing? Huho?
Wolf's on his third breakfast sandwich?
Speaker 4 (23:41):
And who's counting here in the seventh coffee?
Speaker 2 (23:45):
No calories.
Speaker 6 (23:49):
Here we talking about here, we're talking about donors. I
just went to Dunkin Donuts. I got my don got.
Speaker 3 (23:55):
A man, that's the way to go.
Speaker 4 (23:59):
You know, where'd you have a weight loss campaign last year?
Your wife puts you? You know, talking calories anymore?
Speaker 3 (24:07):
Baby? We're going forward?
Speaker 6 (24:09):
Hey, yeah, the way the Steelers going. I'm going with
the Steelers. I gotta keep keep eating up.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
Man, that's it.
Speaker 4 (24:15):
Don't you dare derail the season by not not having
a donut victory Monday.
Speaker 6 (24:21):
Yes, sir, yes, sir, right, so let's talk. Let's talk
about the game. So, I mean, you know, y'all know
I've been seeing it in balls like trash no matter what.
So balls of this thing, balls did this thing as
always yesterday and then on defense as I was tolding
the guys on the show last Charlie him on the
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show last night, that play with pet and Wilson me,
that reminded me of Devin.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
A few years ago exactly.
Speaker 6 (24:49):
And after against all those rap birds too, I mean, remember.
Speaker 4 (24:54):
Made the play against you ran with the title him.
I'm pretty sure.
Speaker 8 (25:00):
It was.
Speaker 4 (25:02):
Remember the one he wrestled away from the Seattle tight end.
You know, I don't know, maybe there was more than one.
I I just thought it was that. But if you're right,
you're right, I don't care however he did he did it.
Speaker 6 (25:14):
Yeah, So that was that. That was a game changing play.
And then also with yeah.
Speaker 4 (25:19):
We got the rap persure, uh the play you're right,
you're exactly right. What was the Seattle one? There was
a Seattle one that was I can I can I
remember it, but I don't. I don't know it doesn't
matter you. Hey, plus do you man, you got a
better memory than me, which is that's obvious.
Speaker 6 (25:37):
Yeah. Yeah, see, well even can cuss too much, man.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
I think.
Speaker 4 (25:41):
So that's all right, that's all right. You called it out.
That's good, go ahead.
Speaker 9 (25:46):
It did.
Speaker 6 (25:48):
And then also with the offense yesterday, you know we
in the raids going why not have Mike Williams in
the game. We got a six six four sixty five
guy Baudy. We should have had him in any game.
He used to be on a couple of old Raiders
on plays.
Speaker 4 (26:04):
Sounds reasonable. What else you got got any game balls?
Speaker 6 (26:10):
Okay for game balls, let's see where you can restart at.
I mean, give it to the whole team, because we
showed those dirty rat birds who runs the who's the
King of the North. And then also with and how
about teach it? I played he did on on King Henry.
I reminded me of Bobby playing I'll hit it on
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on Henry.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
Yeah, that that goes right up there. I agree with you.
I would I would put that. I would put that
right there because you know, talk about needing to make
a play, wondering, hey, can we stop, you know, Derek
Henry like he burst for that thirty one yard right
earlier in the game, and you're like, man, this dude, Henry,
I want to warm it up. You know, he started
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started inching and inchin and echine and then saying, hey,
Steelers need to make a play. They just got a
fresh set of downs and for him to go have
that type of tackle for a loss and not just
a tackle for a loss, but a commanding one on
one stop him in his tracks. Can remember he would
take first contact and he would get about extra two
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yards one And in that moment, I mean he went
completely timber, like the final blow to a redwood and
he just went down. That was a huge moment. I
think that was also a huge momentum shift defensively, Like mentally,
the guys are starting to feel a little discouraging. You
probably felt like there was a moment where the damn
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could have cracked and TJ. Watt came in, came in
like an old boy on the infomercials with with with That,
with that clear tape where you know you see the
water leaking into the boat, he just smacks a piece
of tape on top of it, and all of a
sudden he's he's he's he's boating through the Everglades and
then this this quote unquote taped up boat. I felt
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like that was that moment where they just really took
off and really said, you know, we can stop, we
can out Dereck Henry. And they did just that.
Speaker 6 (28:03):
Yeah, and Patrick Queen the last couple of weeks he
was playing, he's playing lights out. And then also about PZR.
He made out from last week because last week he
got a couple of passing the fans and and then
and yesterday he made the meet a game played with
the two point conversions of PR did a pretty good
job yesterday too, absolutely, and.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
Had some fantastic pb us too. Remember I mean a
couple of those like first down conversion and you know
and touchdown type plays where he jarred the ball loose
as well. He had that one on z Flowers across
the middle where I mean he put the hand in
the right moment and broke the ball up. I'm just
thinking about like a couple of those like he had.
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He had some fantastic plays. So he took DPIs and
made them pb us or TFLs and I thought that, yeah,
you're right, that was awesome to really rebound from a
from a slumping game in Washington.
Speaker 6 (29:00):
Yeah, so we gotta be got a shot. We got
the brownie. So we beat We got the brownie. We
beat those guys, and we have a we cantrol out
on distantly and and I love it. So I hope
you guys can keep it going un lest some other
guys getting shout out to my guys. Y'all, y'all guys,
have a good victory money.
Speaker 4 (29:20):
Thanks thanks for calling in. Good talking with you, brother.
All right, next one up, we got uh, we got okay,
we're going to CRR. You're in the locker room, buddy,
you're up before that.
Speaker 10 (29:33):
Mother mothers the w n W clue with Max and Wolf. Hey,
hold on.
Speaker 4 (29:40):
Hold on, hold on, hold on, no, no, hold on,
because I got to get this out. My son texted
me from Germany. All right, yesterday it was Veterans Day.
He said, you make sure to tell cr thank you
for his service.
Speaker 3 (29:53):
All right. I just I just I just needed to
get that out.
Speaker 4 (29:58):
He wanted me to make sure that you knew and
that he knew that you knew, or he knew you knew.
But however, but thank you for your service.
Speaker 3 (30:09):
There you go.
Speaker 10 (30:10):
Well, well, you know what, you know, behind every good
officer there's a great n c oh.
Speaker 11 (30:16):
So he understands what that means. I appreciate that.
Speaker 10 (30:19):
Thank you shout out to him when you get back
to him. Hey, but guys, hey, you put me behind one.
This is getting messed up.
Speaker 12 (30:26):
But one.
Speaker 11 (30:26):
He's sending all my thunder man. I was gonna bring
up please too.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
Uh, you got a one.
Speaker 11 (30:34):
You messed up.
Speaker 10 (30:35):
I tried to get a whold of you. I had
a ticket yesterday. I couldn't go to the game. I
tried to get that stuff away. I couldn't give my
ticket away.
Speaker 3 (30:41):
Man.
Speaker 11 (30:41):
So anyway, let's.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
Get down there.
Speaker 11 (30:46):
What's going on here?
Speaker 10 (30:47):
I got I got a couple of I got a
next man Up award, and that next Man Up award
is gonna go to the pat Quinn.
Speaker 11 (30:54):
Uh.
Speaker 10 (30:55):
He the boy, he's doing what he's supposed to be doing.
He had the chip on his shoulder here because he
wasn't They didn't want him at the house. So he
found Greeno passes on the other side. And then I
want to go to Boswell, Boz. We had Baltimore sixteen
at Pitchburg Boz a team, so boz I scored the
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whole Baltimore team. Man, and that's the second time that
he did six field goals. There's another guy did it
to a second player, John Carney. He was with the
Los Angeles Sidney Devis the San Diego charged that he
did a back in nineteen ninety three. And before I
go any further, I do want to talk about this team.
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This team is on par to do what needs to
be done. It's a very special team this year. A
lot of things going on. People underestimated them.
Speaker 11 (31:45):
They still don't do the steals the for real, but
they are for real.
Speaker 10 (31:49):
And I want to shout out to our coach because
our coach is unique.
Speaker 11 (31:53):
He is a special kind of coach. The media was
out there talking to Tomaki yesterday about.
Speaker 10 (31:58):
Them in seventy seven broders and they want to know, well,
when are you gonna set him on the bench, And
the coach stood up for him. I quote, I'm not
worried about that. You guys can write all you want.
Roderick Jones is playing right top for us. He is
going to continue to get better. He is a top
quality player in terms of his talent. He's a young
guy who is experiencing them on the job training. He
(32:20):
and I will not blank keep writing in the quote comments.
Speaker 3 (32:26):
Perfect absolutely, yeah, no, I agree.
Speaker 2 (32:31):
I think you know, there's certain moments where the aggression
is necessary. It sets the tempo, it says the moved.
And I think for Broderick, he thrives in that environment.
He thrives in that adversity he had, thrives in the chaos,
and he ends up kind of answering the call, which
(32:53):
is what we all want to see, which is all
you know. He has that potential, He has the skill
set that he can go out there and he and
he can be a bully when he decides he wants
to be the bully. The one thing where I kind
of I pushed back a little bit is I would
rather it come right out the gate versus be reactionary,
(33:13):
be proactive in your bullying. Don't be reactive in your bullying.
And that's a young guy right now. That's that's that's
the tail of the bull, right the young bull and
the old bull going down the hill. And I think
that's where you have to be. You have to be cautious.
What I stopped it there, wolf stop it, don't worry,
(33:34):
get your hand off that dumb button. Wolf.
Speaker 11 (33:37):
Hey, the young bullet, the old bullets they are, Yeah, all.
Speaker 4 (33:43):
Right, but I'm sorry. We gotta let you go because
we got to get one more collar in before we
go to break.
Speaker 11 (33:50):
Okay, here we go, Here we go.
Speaker 3 (33:55):
I just didn't want Mad to slip up.
Speaker 2 (33:58):
Oh god, you stop it. I was done. I was done.
Speaker 3 (34:02):
I know, I know, but I had to bust your chops.
Speaker 4 (34:05):
Man, alread, we got one more calling before we get
the break we got, Ricky, don't lose that number. You're
in Georgia, but now you're in the locker room.
Speaker 13 (34:13):
Hey, what's going on?
Speaker 3 (34:14):
Fellas?
Speaker 13 (34:14):
Good morning, Good morning, and won't getting money to everybody?
Speaker 3 (34:19):
Victory donut Monday? My friend? Have one?
Speaker 13 (34:22):
Good Yes, yes, I don't know. It's great this morning,
along with the hot coffee.
Speaker 3 (34:28):
Yeah that man, I like that.
Speaker 13 (34:31):
Yeah, so I'm just making charge, you know. But hey, man,
that game well today, it was a classic and I
love it. And I wouldn't understand I want to spend
too many points coming from that game because I know
how the game was gonna of the time, was gonna
be everybody still might be for the game point game.
It wasn't gonna be that, and I just want to
say this one thing too. We have fifty three volunteers
(34:53):
on that roster. Everybody, did they joy your state?
Speaker 14 (34:55):
That's what I love, Amen, That's what I love. And
uh yeah, and my game boss. Honestly, I don't want
to give a game about everybody. I can give a
game about individually. But everybody did.
Speaker 13 (35:06):
They part as it because it was It was a
chippy game and it could have went bad, could have
win much were but the referee then kind of throw
them play like they that they was supposed to. I'm
glad they didn't, but you know, end today it was
still a verst raising game and we can we can
take it as the still go no tone. Hey, that's
all I need to get, no more opposunity. Where they
proclaimed to be beat up on the whole game, they
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didn't do it. So shout out to everybody on the team.
Speaker 4 (35:30):
Shout out to the defense for one absolutely all right, brother,
thank you so very much for checking the locker room.
All right, it's the Penn Ultimate segment right here, because
the Ultimate is coming up as Max Texas, we got
three more guys up. Will be back to you right
after this.
Speaker 1 (36:04):
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Speaker 2 (36:27):
All right, fellas we are in the last segment, there's
the bell lap.
Speaker 3 (36:33):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (36:34):
Uh, if you have an indulgent victory donut Monday, then
this is your early lunch warning system. But if not,
just continue as you are. We're gonna yeah, yeah, you're
already there. Well you got you gotta stay afterwards for
the Mike Twan press conference coming up, so you know
that's coming up right after this broadcast. So we're gonna
go rapid fire water cooler here and make sure that
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we get all of our callers in before the end
of the show. So first up, we got Circus George
and Sarasota. What's up? Words, how we doing? What's your
victory Monday thoughts?
Speaker 5 (37:05):
Thoughts?
Speaker 12 (37:05):
I would like to see better third down conversion rates.
I was a little surprised that Williams didn't get any targets,
but Overall, I'm happy that Rappers went down for all
those great lamar As far as I'm concerned, Fifth to
Night is black and yellow. I'm loving it on defense,
bringing it to camp. On offense, I'm getting it to
(37:28):
U Chickens. Even though he didn't score, he had a
good game and special scenes.
Speaker 5 (37:35):
Actually do not give it to bars. So, by the way,
we're gonna get a pulse on here.
Speaker 12 (37:39):
It's gonna go down the fifties come Wednesday night.
Speaker 2 (37:41):
Oh no, no, it's lovely. We can't wait.
Speaker 6 (37:48):
There.
Speaker 2 (37:49):
It is. When it's colder, it doesn't rain as much.
Speaker 12 (37:51):
I found out, by the way, Wesley, I'd like to
do up the Browns scene song.
Speaker 5 (37:55):
But you can play for the whole division except us.
Speaker 7 (37:57):
Mm hm, oh my god.
Speaker 2 (38:06):
That was awesome. Thanks George. We appreciated. And then we're
gonna we're gonna keep the party going. We're gonna go
to John and Michigan. John, what's up your inside the
locker room? Game balls, postgame thoughts? What you got for us?
Speaker 3 (38:16):
Bud?
Speaker 15 (38:18):
Oh, game balls? You gotta give one to Patrick Queen.
That was out saying and the third one of private
that Steelers defensive line between the battle balls down on
third down and the pressures that you know, make Lamar uncomfortably.
You gotta give them one mm hmm. So what do
you guys think about You guys think and next week
(38:38):
they will tune up. Mike Williams Moore, I feel like
yesterday having a six or five guy in the red
zone would have really helped our red zone woes.
Speaker 2 (38:48):
Yeah. Well, and I said it during the broadcast, John,
I was talking about you know, getting getting you know,
Mike Williams, George Pickens, Darnell Washington, and Pat Friar move
all in all in a red zone package together to
give RUSS four skyscrapers back there.
Speaker 13 (39:05):
Now.
Speaker 2 (39:05):
Granted, he did try and throw to Darnell Washington, of course,
I'm not sure if Darnell knew that throw was coming
to him or whether you know, he was trying to
get it out of out of the back of the
end zone. However it happened and turned into an interception.
But I would like to see a little more development.
I think you're right. I think, you know, the slump
in the red zone area, especially the high red zone,
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was something needs to be worked on. But you know,
I completely agree. I think you know, when you look
at just you know, as his team, that's an area
that's that's in need of constant improvement. That's kind of
been the one week spot. If you're looking at a negative,
that's that's been one that's kind of traveled the entire
year has been red zone offense.
Speaker 15 (39:45):
And before I go, shout out to all the media
that said we would finish last on the division this year.
Speaker 13 (39:50):
You got to take care.
Speaker 2 (39:51):
Yeah right, they can eat Raven, not just crow, eat
some Raven on that one. Anyways.
Speaker 3 (40:00):
All right, yeah, now we're cooking you wake up. But
right there it is there it is.
Speaker 2 (40:06):
Wait till the last four minutes of the show to
really get me going. All right, last call. Here we
got David Nashville. Dave, what's up, man, you're inside the
locker room, game ball and thought process. We are inside
the two minute warning.
Speaker 9 (40:19):
All right, Hey, this is yeah today from Nashville, but
I'm in Pittsburgh.
Speaker 6 (40:22):
I went to the game yesterday.
Speaker 3 (40:24):
All right, there we go, there we go.
Speaker 5 (40:28):
I got a question. Here's my question.
Speaker 9 (40:31):
Is the fact that our defense on the number one
offense supposedly in the league and held them to our
lowest score this year.
Speaker 6 (40:39):
Does that make our defense and number one defense.
Speaker 2 (40:42):
I think, but I love your math and by Steelers math.
Yes it does. We are the number one defense. You
can go poop poo and everybody else. But yeah, we
did it better than the vaunted Kansas City defense and
and Buffalo and everybody else that they think is the
Bee's knees. We we we are. I mean, we're the
best knees because we also have black and yellows our colors.
Speaker 9 (41:02):
Sam save coach Bees had a great time at the
game yesterday, especially with some of the Ravens fans.
Speaker 6 (41:08):
I got to sit next to one.
Speaker 5 (41:09):
She was having a great time.
Speaker 9 (41:11):
It's just an awesome rivalry and it's cool that us
and the Ravens fans can let the guys on the
field do it out and we can have a fun
time watching the game. I had a dangerous sandwich at
for Mandy Brothers and I'm going to Calientes right now
for a slice of pizza.
Speaker 2 (41:29):
In a draft there, that's how you do He is
winning the day, right there, is winning the day.
Speaker 3 (41:37):
That's how you do well.
Speaker 2 (41:40):
Dave, you enjoy it, man, And of course we appreciate
all you guys calling in today. Uh short week. Cleveland
Brownie is week, so we'll turn the page with Mike Tomlin,
the press conference coming up right after us. He's Craig
Woefully on Max Star's Wesh you are on the ones
and two cj our Chief Gremlin Hunter, a k a.
The head Hancho of the Ninjas. And of course this
sends say Brian La Martina keeping us on the airwaves.
(42:02):
We are we will be back tomorrow Saint Bat channel
saying bat time. But next we got the Mike townand
press conference. Go make it a great day.
Speaker 12 (42:11):
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