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friday news breaking it is great to be here We are live and it is the heard. Wherever you may be, however you may be listening, always appreciate you stopping by. Jamak, you know what? After some time off, you and I got back in the saddle, and there is actually been a lot going on this week, and we got a little story that broke yesterday, which is good for us.

And it's something we've been banging on. I've been banging on in the show for about six months. They hate me in Pittsburgh, and once again, they're not going to like what I'm going to say here. But good Friday to you. You ready to go? Yeah, let's rock and roll. Okay, so T.J. Watt, after our show yesterday, who's a great player. He's an absolutely great player. There's no disputing that, deserves the money happy for him, three-year deal,

$123 million extension. So this goes back to great player deserves the money. I don't question the player.

I question the direction of the Pittsburgh Steelers.

It's like I don't question the power and the brilliance and the influence of meta.

I question the direction of metaverse.

Are we all so miserable with our lives?

We're going to be wearing headsets around all day? It's not the technology. It's the application of the technology with meta. And that's how I feel about Pittsburgh. It's not the talented JJ Watt. It's how they prioritize defense. And frankly, their defense isn't that good. It's four straight years. it's been out of the top 10 in total defense

if you go to the talk playoffs because that's all that matters in this sport January if you go

look at the last five playoff game for the Pittsburgh Steelers they've given up 28 31 42 48

and 45 they give up 40 points a game so like they're spending all this money on the wrong side of the ball and they're not dominant.

Well, they've gotten better on defense and they've gotten worse on offense because the league's changed.

They are completely dysfunctional on offense. Last year, this is hard to do. With the talent they had, it was hard to do.

They were 29th in the red zone.

How?

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