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It's Monday, September 25th.

I'm Jamie Errol.

There's Kyle Brandt.

There is Jason McCordy and Sean O'Hara at the table today. Hello, hi today. Hey, Sean, how are you? I'm doing well. Kyle, how are you? I'm great. So many things to unpack today, a lot. Also, the Falcons lost. Yeah, sorry about that. So we have a New York City barber here today. I'm not kidding. He's going to shave me. That's right. Time for the lead block. Young love is in the air. And so are the Steelers and the Raiders.

This is the late one last night, okay? So Jimmy Gropolo is the Raiders quarterback. This is his home opener. He has not played a home game. Steelers country, 2,000-some miles from Pittsburgh set up in the deserts. Guys, the Steelers 2-1, just chugging along. Let's hear from the winning quarterback and the winning head coach after winning two in a row. Good, man, to stack victories. We've got to make winning a habitual thing, man, just to stack winning performance on top of winning performance is significant. I feel good. It's never going to be perfect. There's always things that I'm going to want to improve on and get back to the drawing board. But I think it's a great step for as a team to come on the road, back-to-back primetime wins, one at home, one on the road. It's definitely a good feeling. All right. So that was the Steelers on the road Sunday night. Interesting. As Sean said in the break, he's like a lot of interesting coaching decisions to be made, but what do you make the Steelers taking their defense and traveling to Las Vegas?

Oh, Jason. I know. My guy Josh McDaniels. What are you doing? Talk about it. They're on an eight-yard line. Two minutes and 25 seconds ago is fourth and four. Kicks the field goal, down five. Yes, if you score a touchdown now, you win the game, but ultimately you have to score a touchdown.

I can understand this.

If you're down 9, you go ahead, you get the points. When you get the ball back, now you have to figure it out. But a touchdown here, a two-point conversion, it's tied. That way, if the game ends, you go into overtime. You have extra time to go out and try to win this one. I was racking my brain all last night this morning, trying to figure out why kick the field goal there. I understand, all right, you have your timeouts, you get a stop, you get the ball back. But you can tie the game up right then and there, down eight point. You got all the way there. You're on the doorstep. How does that happen? I don't know. What's going on to the sideline where they say that's a kid? You have to score a touchdown. You may not get a better opportunity than the eight-yard line to be able to do that. Hell, just throw one up to Devonte Adams and see if he can come down with it. Why not? No, no. of coaches that you see them looking down at like a little index card. Yeah, they got number, hey, down by five, on the road, all these different if X plus Y, it's too much algebra. Like you just got a, you know, hey look, we're going to play to win the game. Yeah, that's what we do. I was mesmerized in this game by T.J. Watt. All right, look, I know I'm a former office alignment, so I gravitate towards the line of scrimmage anyways, but it's not the sacks.

Everybody saw the sacks.

It's the amount of times I saw Jimmy Garoppolo every time he dropped back, boom, it was, oh my gosh, I got a job out. Oh, my gosh. That little impact right there, I think as a quarterback, you're aware of it all the time. You see obviously the sacks the way he disrupted the game,

but it's not even the sacks or the hits.

It's just his presence.

And every single time the quarterback would drop back, sacks the way he disrupted the game. But it's not even the sacks or the hits. It's just his

presence. And every single time the quarterback would drop back, Jimmy G, it's like, all right,

here comes this big Paul coming in there, swipe. It's unbelievable to watch him, his explosiveness,

how fast he is, and his craft. And I just couldn't help, but just lock in on him.

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