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Speaker 1: This is the Drive with Dale Lolly and Matt Williamson

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Speaker 1: on Home of the Black and Goal Steelers Nation Radio.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Drive. I'm Dale Ally, he is Matt Williamson.

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Speaker 1: And well we got a lot of news to get to.

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Speaker 1: Stuff going on the league. It's crazy, crazy weekend. Of course,

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Speaker 1: this will be the final weekend of the NFL regular season.

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Speaker 1: And well, I mean the previous two seasons were a

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Speaker 1: little crazy because of uh yeah right right, Um so

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Speaker 1: why wouldn't this, uh this, why would this season be

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Speaker 1: any differently different? Right? A lot of logistics are always

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Speaker 1: up in the air of these last couple of years,

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Speaker 1: more than ever I can remember. So there we have

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Speaker 1: some news though, right, I mean absolutely the the NFL

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Speaker 1: owners meeting earlier today to ratify what the competition committee. Uh.

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Speaker 1: They had a meeting last night at six uh. The

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Speaker 1: owners met at noon. Uh. And so they have decided

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Speaker 1: that if the a f C Championship involves a team

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Speaker 1: that didn't play as many games as the other teams,

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Speaker 1: uh so that would be Cincinnati and Buffalo. Um, that

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Speaker 1: the a f C Championship game would be played at

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Speaker 1: a neutral site. Yeah, that that doesn't That only means

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Speaker 1: if it's uh, Kansas City with those teams. Okay. So

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Speaker 1: for example, if the if the Steelers would make it

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Speaker 1: to the a f C Championship game against Cincinnati, the

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Speaker 1: game would be in Cincinnati. Got okay, So it's only

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Speaker 1: if it involves the Chiefs. Those three teams are the

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Speaker 1: only ones that could be affect correct. I thought that

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Speaker 1: was the case. And then when he said the first time,

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Speaker 1: I was like, is it for anyone? Okay? So if

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Speaker 1: the Chargers make it, yeah, we know what that building

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Speaker 1: some some sites floated out there. Detroit was one. They

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Speaker 1: can't do it in Detroit because they're tearing the turf

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Speaker 1: out at Ford Field. They've already had this plan because

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Speaker 1: the Lions can't coast a home playoff game there's any turf,

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Speaker 1: so there won't be any turf. That's kind of a

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Speaker 1: big deal. Uh. They can't do it in Indianapolis because

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Speaker 1: Indianapolis is hosting a National Volleyball tournament that's already been scheduled. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's a big deal obviously. I mean that whole Convention

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Speaker 1: Center is probably full ward, you know, but everybody's been

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Speaker 1: looking at indoor facilities. Yeah, I only why we have

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Speaker 1: to narrow it down. You can anywhere to go anywhere, right,

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Speaker 1: I mean, they could potentially if they wanted to, they

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Speaker 1: could play to the college stadium. Yeah, I played a

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Speaker 1: Penn State played it in Arbor, playing in Columbus. You

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Speaker 1: know a lot of big buildings not and they could

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Speaker 1: fill them up and that's not bad idea. And somewhere

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Speaker 1: like that that doesn't usually host a pro game, maybe

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Speaker 1: that would be a great idea. A hundred thousand seats stadium,

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Speaker 1: you know, something like that. That'd be crazy, it would

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Speaker 1: be it would be no and uh to me, you know,

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Speaker 1: I think it depends on kind of who, you know,

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Speaker 1: who's playing. Is it? Is it Cincinnati in Kansas City?

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Speaker 1: Is it? Is it Cincinnati and Buffalo? Is it? You know?

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Speaker 1: I mean so there's there's some variables there. If it's

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Speaker 1: So if it's you know, if it's Kansas City and

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Speaker 1: in Buffalo, well then okay, then you're looking at maybe

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Speaker 1: a Cleveland and Pittsburgh somebody like that stadium or somewhere

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Speaker 1: halfway through. If it's Cincinnati in Kansas City, would you

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Speaker 1: play in Nashville doesn't sound like a bad call. That's

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Speaker 1: kind of in between both, right. I mean, if it's

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Speaker 1: Since and Buffalo, I don't think you played in Glendale.

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Speaker 1: You want to make it. The NFL is going to

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Speaker 1: want as many home fans to be able to get

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Speaker 1: there as possible, Right, So I guess that's what they're

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Speaker 1: kicking around, or maybe they just don't announce it till

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Speaker 1: it's down to the final four, you know what I mean.

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Speaker 1: I mean, they got time to figure those kind of

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Speaker 1: know if that if those scenarios are going to play out,

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Speaker 1: the things be changed this weekend Cincinnati. If Cincinnati loses

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Speaker 1: who they would then host, Potentially those two teams would

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Speaker 1: then meet again in the first round of the playoffs,

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Speaker 1: assuming the Chargers, assuming the Chargers beat Denver Denver, which

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Speaker 1: if that happens, If if Cincinnati loses to Baltimore and

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Speaker 1: same amount of wins, right, I mean, I guess there's

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Speaker 1: a complaint to be had there. Okay, when I just

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Speaker 1: the best way to do this. I mean, Baltimore or

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Speaker 1: no coin flip, and again, who knows what's going to happen.

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Speaker 1: But I looked at lines for the first time this morning.

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Speaker 1: Their fourteen point favorites over the Ravens. That's a lot

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Speaker 1: the Ravens now have a reason to play hard in

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Speaker 1: that line, I was like, why are the Ravens getting fourteen?

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Speaker 1: In fact, what the what the league did, Matt? They

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Speaker 1: want they incentivized a lot of these games. Yeah, right right?

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Speaker 1: They think even if Kansas City wins, Buffalo still has

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Speaker 1: a reason to want to play hard, right Like, which

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Speaker 1: is great for the Steelers because you get the JV.

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Speaker 1: But because if you there's a difference. All right, So,

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Speaker 1: this weekend and fit to finish ahead of Cincinnati, you're

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Speaker 1: the two seed. That's something to play for. You would

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Speaker 1: Cincinnati with everything that you don't want to do that obviously. Wow.

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Speaker 1: be five. I mean fives are really spot Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: I didn't understand the line when I saw it either.

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Speaker 1: We also now know that Mike White is out right

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Speaker 1: for the New York Jets, I said, and Joe Flacco

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Speaker 1: Lacko as opposed to Mike White. I don't know if

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Speaker 1: I agree. I think White's the better player at this moment,

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Speaker 1: win you a game? And Flacco has been around the

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Speaker 1: can't disagree with your analysis that White puts up numbers

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Speaker 1: just a fact. I mean, that's you know, he's he's

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Speaker 1: a young quarterback. And he has not gotten over the

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Speaker 1: red zone hump, that's for sure. But I don't think

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Speaker 1: it's you know now now that Jets have no chance. Well,

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Speaker 1: here's here's flat. Here's Flacco stats for the season. He's

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Speaker 1: made three starts this year. He's won in three games, yeah,

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Speaker 1: one and two. But his losses were to Baltimore and Cincinnati. Right, Okay,

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Speaker 1: you know, they just didn't you know they what's his

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Speaker 1: he's gonna have all the mental stuff there, you know.

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Speaker 1: And I think they're gonna play hard. I mean, I'm

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Speaker 1: sure some people are like, well, why do the Jets

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Speaker 1: even care? You don't want to lose six in a

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Speaker 1: a little bit of momentum on a young team. And

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Speaker 1: if you're Flacco, you're thirty seven years old. Does he

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Speaker 1: want to play again next year? Because if he gets

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Speaker 1: We'll bring Joe the Steelers might yeah, you know, Kenny's

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Speaker 1: Your best players are like, I mean a Sauce Gardner

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Speaker 1: for Miami, it's when you know win or go home, right,

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Speaker 1: So you know they've got something to play for. So

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Speaker 1: you want your young guys playing in those kind of situations.

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Speaker 1: I mentioned the spreads earlier. I think when we broke yesterday,

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Speaker 1: the Jets were favored by one. Now they're getting three.

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Speaker 1: White thing. I mean, maybe I prefer white, you prefer

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Speaker 1: a Flacco, but not four points to you know, I

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Speaker 1: don't understand that. It's like, oh, they got no shot now.

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Speaker 1: I don't get that at all. Miami's in a bad spot.

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Speaker 1: I mean, both of those guys have looked more efficient

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Speaker 1: moving the football with the Jets than Zack Wilson did.

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Speaker 1: the opening series, he was nineteen of thirty three for

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Speaker 1: lot of attention. Yes. Absolutely. You can subscribe to the

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Speaker 1: Mike Tomlin Game Day podcast. Steelers Digest editor Bob Labriola

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Speaker 1: New episodes drop every game day. They're available on the

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Speaker 1: Steelers Mobile app, the I Heart Radio app, and wherever

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Speaker 1: you get your podcasts. He is Matt Williamson. I am

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Speaker 1: Dale Lally. You're listening to the drive here on Steelers

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Speaker 1: Nation Video. We'll be back to preview all those other

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Speaker 1: games right after this