Steelers Gear Up to Face Texans on Wild Card Weekend

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00:00And we're going to start with a little Aaron Rodgers

00:02talking about those special playoff moments here.

00:04I embrace all the moments.

00:06I enjoy all of it.

00:07There's a lot of beauty in the mundane.

00:08The mundane is the Monday to Saturday where you can actually win games.

00:12And I embrace that part of the job.

00:14I loved it.

00:15That's why I'm still here, still playing.

00:17Obviously, the icing on the cake is game day.

00:20But Monday to Saturday is where you win games.

00:22Have you pushed that on those guys about the importance of the mundane?

00:25I mean, you've got to ask them.

00:28I hope so.

00:28It's what I've been about my entire career.

00:31It's the beauty and the details and the small things that show up on game day.

00:36And a conversation that might happen on a Monday or a Tuesday at my house

00:39or Wednesday in this meeting here is going to show up on game day.

00:43So we've got to be locked in.

00:44When you step in the building, there's a professionalism that doesn't turn off

00:50when you're doing any type of rep.

00:52When you're sitting in the classroom, those are all important moments

00:54to get ready to play on Sunday.

00:56Because, like I said, you can win games Monday to Saturday

00:59if you have the details down right away.

01:02There you go, Aaron Rodgers ready to roll, getting into that weight room here,

01:07getting into that meeting room and saying, win those games, not on Sundays or Mondays,

01:10but win them throughout the week here, Joe.

01:12And we take a look, Houston and Pittsburgh, Monday night football, three and a half point

01:16favorite.

01:17Not to the Pittsburgh Steelers.

01:18It's the Texans here.

01:20And a total, Joe, 39 and a half.

01:22How about that?

01:22Yeah, yeah, I know.

01:25Low total here.

01:25But again, I mentioned it last hour.

01:28I'll mention it again.

01:29Of all the games, this one, you better be, you better know what the weather situation

01:34is going to be like.

01:35Because as good as this Houston defense has been, they are a different team indoors

01:40than they are outdoors.

01:42And now you add in the elements, not just for the defense, but CJ Stroud and the offense.

01:48I need to know, is this going to be a seven degree game here with 20 mile an hour winds?

01:54Is it going to be 40 degrees?

01:56I think that's going to go a long way in helping us have a better understanding of whether this

02:00game has a chance of going over or if this thing is a dead under, which is likely the

02:05way I'll be looking one way or the other.

02:08How about DK Metcalf talking about being back in the building from a suspension?

02:13No, I can't.

02:13What was that process like as far as the appeals and talking with the NFL?

02:19Just kind of, can you walk us through that process?

02:20I can't walk y'all through nothing that happened.

02:22Were you surprised that the appeal was about me?

02:25Didn't go the other way?

02:26Yeah, but it's hard to say.

02:28I respect that you don't and can't really go into a lot of it, but is there anything

02:32you would like to clarify about misinformation or anything else?

02:36I can't say nothing about what happened.

02:38Is that because there's-

02:40I can't say anything about what happened for the fifth time.

02:44How excited are you from Monday night to get out there, be back out there with your teammates?

02:47Thank you, Mr. Risa.

02:48I'm excited as hell to be back in the building around my teammates, being in meetings, going

02:53to practice, all the things that encompass a week of preparation.

02:57He can't say anything, not from an NFL perspective, Joe, but from a civil lawsuit here, because

03:02what he said and what goes to discovery on what he says allegedly that person said in

03:07the stands, that could be worth millions of dollars.

03:09So he's smart to just keep his mouth shut and say no comment at that point, but him being

03:13back to that offense gives them a weapon on the outside that they desperately need.

03:18Yeah, big time.

03:19A different team with him on the field.

03:22And yeah, they're going to have their hands full here.

03:27And again, no more experience than the guy under center who will be throwing him the ball

03:31there in Aaron Rodgers, who seems to be playing at a level that is much closer to the Aaron

03:37Rodgers of old than anything we saw with the Jets, thank goodness.

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