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Tomlin Confirms Fields to Start Amid Wilson's Health
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9/18/2024
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00:00
I will tell you this about Tomlin today.
00:05
He of course said that Fields is going to start again on Sunday.
00:11
Now, we know Mike Tomlin, Scotty.
00:13
He's usually pretty direct about all the things that he says.
00:18
He's still not very direct in terms of what happens when Russell Wilson is 100% healthy.
00:24
And I don't know, Scotty, if he's—and I'll try to play you something from him tomorrow.
00:28
He talked right before we came on the air.
00:30
I don't know if he's protecting Russ in terms of he probably told Russ, you know, for months
00:36
he was going to get a chance to be the Steelers quarterback and Fields is winning games
00:40
and it's hard to pull him out.
00:42
I don't know if Mike himself wants to play Russ and he's just not healthy enough to do it.
00:47
But they're going to keep going with Fields.
00:49
But if he keeps winning, Scotty, as I say this to you every week,
00:52
it makes it harder and harder to give Russ a chance to come in.
00:57
He's playing Sunday.
00:59
And if he wins again—
01:00
He's playing Sunday.
01:01
If he wins again, because I think this is, you know, a game that they got their hands full.
01:08
So just because they're 2-0 and they won in Atlanta and they won in Denver,
01:13
I think people assume that they are going to win at home in their home opener.
01:18
Well, we've seen all these other teams puke all over themselves in their home opener.
01:23
So I do not believe in any kind of home field advantage in sports anymore,
01:30
except in rare occurrences.
01:32
And I mean that.
01:33
Like, you go to a couple places, good luck winning there.
01:37
And then I think there's other situations.
01:39
Like, you and I have had this conversation.
01:41
Like in hockey, I do not believe in any home ice advantage anymore whatsoever.
01:46
And I think the day that it started for me was when the Penguins won Game 7
01:50
at Joe Louis Arena against the Red Wings in 0-9.
01:53
They had never lost a Game 7 ever.
01:56
And they went in there and beat them.
01:58
And now, since then, since 0-9, think about it, Mike.
02:01
We're in 2024.
02:02
And you watch Stanley Cup playoffs now, and it's every game.
02:05
It's the team who plays better wins.
02:07
It doesn't matter where the game is.
02:09
They can play it in hell or heaven.
02:11
And now this game in Pittsburgh, you think they're going to win just because they're in Pittsburgh?
02:14
I have gone to games there where they have laid stinky eggs before like nobody's business.
02:19
So you have to execute and play well to win the game like the Falcons did last night.
02:24
Everyone, 85% of the money was on the Eagles because they were at the link.
02:28
And Jason Kelce was going to be dancing his fat ass around.
02:32
And it was a big party for everybody.
02:34
Oh, and ESPN had their NFL live show in the parking lot with three people there.
02:40
And nice camera work by them making it seem like there was 20,000 there.
02:43
They did a great job fooling everybody.
02:45
Nobody was there at all except three drunk, fat guys.
02:48
So here's the deal.
02:49
You have to play well to win games in every sport.
02:53
Where they play the game does not matter anymore.
02:55
Look it, Indiana went to the Rose Bowl and beat their ass.
02:58
It does not matter where games are.
03:00
It's who executes and who doesn't F it up.
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