12PM - Mark Kaboly on Steelers-Ravens, if the Steelers can win in playoffs; Kaboly on Joey Porter Jr.'s growth, predicts Steelers-Texans
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
That's our cue. It's time for Mr. Mark Caballi, the big boy. And Bob, I might add, as you go back to your seat, I'll tell you a good decision the Steelers made, a great decision, was to let Najee walk and then bring in Kenny Gainwell. Kenny Gainwell had two longer runs than Najee, or was it Warren, in a matter of like eight carries than Najee did his whole career, which was 37 yards.
And that all started with Tomlin watching him, playing against him last year, where he ran for like 125 yards or something against him, marking that the Eagles game.
What are the latest developments in the Steelers offensive line?
Hello, big boy.
How are you? Great. How are you guys? Who's behind you now? Hokie had someone behind him.
Oh, my God. He has a frozen person behind him, too.
So you have somebody behind you. Is that you in a younger stage?
I can't believe he has this too. Look at this. That's the infamous fathead on a stick on college game day.
Oh, I see. So it was a plant then, Mark. So you gave it to somebody to plant your face into the crowd.
Or it was a, how can I put this, a replica.
This guy's a hell of a man, isn't he, Bob?
You know where that picture come from, Bob? It came from the showdown maybe eight or nine years ago. Wow. Somebody just took a screenshot off the internet, I swear to you.
Well, see, that's how popular that show is. Mark comes on and gets all this kind of attention. Does he still come on, Bob? Yeah, he's going to be on this show. Unlike you, Joe.
I'm too tired to go on. I don't get invited. I get invited every week almost, right, Bob? I ask you all the time. I don't want to do that to my Sundays. Sunday is the only day I have for family time.
I get it. Listen, time is money.
How has Joey Porter Jr. improved this season?
As you get older. Why haven't you invited limits on the show?
You have to go through a process.
And I told Bob, I am willing and able to be a part of the process. Put me in front of the processing committee and I will do that. I will talk to them.
You know what happened when he froze out Ron? He didn't talk to you for three months.
This is why Ron had totally, he thought I can try. I don't control any of that. They make those decisions. I don't. This is why you called Ron stupid.
I never called him stupid. But I'm being shelled out, Joe.
I'm being held out. I think it's an outrage myself. All right, big boy. Here's my first question for you. You were at the game, correct?
Absolutely.
Take us inside the post-game locker room. Cigar smoke, champagne. What was going on in there?
A lot of loud music. They had three of the biggest speakers I've ever saw in my life. That's not unusual, but the unusual part is they never shut it off while we were trying to do our interviews. I don't think they really cared, I guess, nor should they have. It reminded me of a bar I used to go to back in the 90s. where you would have to cut through the smoke just to get into it.
What challenges does Dylan Cook face against the Texans?
That's how many cigars were going on. It was a somewhat of a festive attitude or a festive, uh, uh, place in there with, uh, a lot of party in and, uh, I'm getting, imagine what was going on later that night. They enjoyed themselves, but, uh, I could have did without the cigar smoke, but they didn't ask me.
Well, that normally in my experience going into, and I haven't done it in a while, but a championship locker room or someone, you win something significant. The cigar smoke and there's other smells and the combination of the smells is just too much. You got to get out of there. Other smells? What are we talking about, Pop? Well, I mean, just, you know, game uniforms, dirty. I thought you were talking about something else. No, no, no. I'm just saying overall, I just think it's like, wow, this is a little pungent for me.
Yeah, the sweaty spandex girdles. And they throw them around everywhere.
Nothing smells worse than a hockey locker room. Do we agree on that? For the same reason.
The wet equipment, all that stuff.
Horrifying.
Yeah, Willie Colon used to smell so bad. That's ironic, too, isn't it?
Willie Colon.
I mean, you'd have to take five steps back because he would never wash his... I guess it was his... I don't even know, his knee pads or his leg, whatever.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–0:36
2
What are the latest developments in the Steelers offensive line?
0:36–1:48
3
How has Joey Porter Jr. improved this season?
1:48–2:59
4
What challenges does Dylan Cook face against the Texans?
2:59–7:07
5
How did the Steelers perform in their last game against the Ravens?
7:07–7:40
6
What was the atmosphere like in the Steelers locker room post-game?
7:40–10:03
7
How do the Steelers plan to approach the upcoming playoffs?
10:03–22:28
8
What predictions are made for the Steelers-Texans matchup?
22:28–42:36
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