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Speaker 1: He's the Drive with Dale Lolly and Matt Williamson on

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Speaker 1: your home of the Black and Gold Steelers Nation Radio.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Drive. I'm Dale Lolly here with Matt Williamson.

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Speaker 1: And it is a love What a beautiful week this

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Speaker 1: has been. This really is this has been like spring

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Speaker 1: and uh god, this was like our week of spring

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Speaker 1: in western Pennsylvania. Yeah. They awning went up yesterday and

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Speaker 1: we were grilling burgers and sitting outside and mow the

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Speaker 1: lawn and it was just like I remember this, this

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Speaker 1: is wonderful. Yeah. I got up and played golf this

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Speaker 1: morning and uh I did a quick eighteen holes by

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Speaker 1: But of course it was a great shape because all

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Speaker 1: the rain that we had previously, and and uh I

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Speaker 1: just flew right around. Or the grass was nice and

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Speaker 1: lush and season for that for you. You didn't have

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Speaker 1: to go first for balls or anything like that. Um.

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Speaker 1: But Matt, you sent me this and the the Athletic

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Speaker 1: has done their power rankings post post draft. Um, and

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Speaker 1: so I thought we take a quick look at that

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Speaker 1: here to start the show today. And they have at

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Speaker 1: thirty two the Houston Texans. Uh, okay, they were thirty

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Speaker 1: one going into the draft obviously, four and thirteen last year.

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Speaker 1: Um are they did they get They didn't get worse?

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Speaker 1: I don't think no. I mean, well, let me preface this.

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Speaker 1: I mean to two first round draft picks that were

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Speaker 1: it makes sense, yeah, highly regarded players. I mean I

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Speaker 1: say this all the time. I mean, now is the

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Speaker 1: season of optimism. I mean a lot of people be like, well, yeah,

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Speaker 1: but we got better. Well so did thirty one other teams.

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Speaker 1: They all just didn't sit around on draft weekend in

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Speaker 1: the off season in general and not add good stuff.

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Speaker 1: So everybody's better. Everybody's at their peak right now, at

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Speaker 1: least I don't know if everybody is better, because I

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Speaker 1: still don't know the Patriots did in their draft. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's a good point. I mean Miami, Miami got very

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Speaker 1: little out of their draft too, and there's a couple

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Speaker 1: of drafts that didn't help. But I don't think Houston's

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Speaker 1: a pushover, you know, Puncil and Green and peers. I

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Speaker 1: think they'll run the ball and they now actually have

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Speaker 1: a respectable group of receivers. The defense played hard last year.

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Speaker 1: Like I definitely would not bet on them to get

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Speaker 1: the first pick overall. No, I agree with you, and

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Speaker 1: I I think Stingley has a chance to be in

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Speaker 1: lockdown cornerback, you know where he could take it, you know,

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Speaker 1: take the other team's number one receiver out of the game.

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Speaker 1: I mean that's if and there's probably what six guys

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Speaker 1: be one of them. I think it's a good chance

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Speaker 1: he will be one of them. And they were in

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Speaker 1: such a bad spot. This is the first time in

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Speaker 1: a year or two that I've looked at and be like, Okay,

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Speaker 1: now I see some building blocks. You know, this house

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Speaker 1: is a long way from being built, but at least

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Speaker 1: there's a foundation being built right now being poured as

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Speaker 1: we speak, you know, which lead just a team number

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Speaker 1: thirty one, which is Jacksonville, which had been thirty two.

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Speaker 1: And I don't know that I can put the Jaguars

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Speaker 1: ahead of the Texas. I will note they're both in

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Speaker 1: the a f C South. No, no doubt pay twice

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Speaker 1: they've added good players. I don't like their process at all. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I still think Lawrence has a chance to be a star,

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Speaker 1: and expecting a breakout from him, but this is still

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Speaker 1: not a good team, and they took a big swing

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Speaker 1: with the number one overall pick. They didn't play it safe, no,

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Speaker 1: and it might not work out, and it might not

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Speaker 1: he might not be a star Trayvon Walker who were

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Speaker 1: talking about there, you know, one of the one of

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Speaker 1: the offensive lineman or Hutchinson would have been a much

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Speaker 1: safer pick, a clear double, and they they took the

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Speaker 1: big swing. Um, you know, if it works out, great,

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Speaker 1: but I think we've seen a lot of times with

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Speaker 1: some of these low production, high athlete, high athletic guys,

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Speaker 1: they sometimes take a year or two. That's what I

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Speaker 1: we didn't get that many chief years out of Yeah,

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Speaker 1: for the number one over I'll pick where. You know,

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Speaker 1: if you if you took cut, you know, one, Hutchinson's

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Speaker 1: don't think almost any other year, Jermal Walker goes first overall. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think the Bears are gonna be horrible. They did

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Speaker 1: not get this whole offseason. They got no better. They

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Speaker 1: got worse. If you remember, it seems like a million

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Speaker 1: years ago, They're big move was signing um what's his face?

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Speaker 1: A job or not a job of the the defensive

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Speaker 1: Robinson like, who's Justin Fields strowing the football too? Yes,

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Speaker 1: And this is all by design. There's a couple of

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Speaker 1: The next team of the Texans at four. Steelers are

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Speaker 1: seventy five, by the way, but this is a total

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Speaker 1: great if just if Justin Fields survives, If he survives,

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Speaker 1: we'll probably pick the Bears fourth in the North, right, Yes,

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Speaker 1: of Ritterer. They won games last year much the same

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Speaker 1: analytics community, I'm sure is going to kill the Falcons.

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Speaker 1: I mean, in terms of all their wins were by

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Speaker 1: Didn't pick up Daniel Jones, options, guys like Barkley, Shepherd, Gladay,

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Speaker 1: they're looking for big picture items. They drifted last year.

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Speaker 1: People don't look at them that way. Yeah. At seven

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Speaker 1: they are moving up. They're heading in the right direction.

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Speaker 1: Am I nuts to say? That's gonna be the sevent

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Speaker 1: from offal um are the Seahawks. I don't know if

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Speaker 1: not a lot. I mean that the receivers are good,

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Speaker 1: five to seven. They're the worst team in that division easily, yes,

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Speaker 1: could look like the Chargers head coach last year. Let's

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Speaker 1: But you would not do a straight up trade picket

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Speaker 1: one to get behind, but again where they belong. DeAndre

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Speaker 1: a nice player, Okay, but they get but they got

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Speaker 1: rid of the other two top three receivers. Are the

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Speaker 1: you added on Marii Cooper. How are you better? You

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Speaker 1: added one guy for three, then you got rid of

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Speaker 1: I still think that's high. I think it's really high.

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Speaker 1: I might have them. They should be at twenty quite frankly,

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Speaker 1: I mean I just don't. I don't see it. I mean,

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Speaker 1: without Watson, I think they're twenty four. Yeah, maybe lower,

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Speaker 1: maybe lower at thirteen of the Raiders, I don't know.

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Speaker 1: They're much different than the Steelers and Saints in that group.

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Speaker 1: But I think their offense has a chance to be

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Speaker 1: pretty good. That's great, But where are they going to

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Speaker 1: finish in their division? Fourth? Okay, so if they're the

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Speaker 1: in the league, well, these power ranks agree that they

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Speaker 1: will be fourth in the division even mentioned on anyone else.

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Speaker 1: So if you're thinking they go one in five, two

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Speaker 1: and four in a division where the other you know

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Speaker 1: that that that at you in a pretty big hole

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Speaker 1: to begin with. Their power rankings might be better than

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Speaker 1: their record. Yeah you know what I mean, which I agree. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: But I don't think the defense is very good. I

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Speaker 1: don't either, rights over the Colts, that's the AC South. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think they're clearly better than Titans. I think Matt

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Speaker 1: Ryan will bring that Rivers plus, you know, stability. I

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Speaker 1: defense quietly got better too. They added like the dock Way,

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Speaker 1: and I bet Quitty pays better in his second year.

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Speaker 1: And I forget that they signed a corner. I forget

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Speaker 1: somebody good too. But I think they'll be solid that

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Speaker 1: they're probably a playoff team. At eleven of the Cowboys

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Speaker 1: real quickly. The Colts don't have a high ceiling though. No,

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Speaker 1: they don't know. They're just kind of who they are.

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Speaker 1: Alas is one of the few teams I think is

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Speaker 1: worse than they used to be. I would completely agree

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Speaker 1: with that the defense got worse, the offense got worse. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: everything depends on Dak Prescott bouncing back. Like I think,

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Speaker 1: Zeke is vastly declined now all of a sudden, it

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Speaker 1: the Ravens. I'm cool with that. I might even have

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Speaker 1: him higher. At nine are the Broncos. I'm not that

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Speaker 1: had a winning record since like two thousand fifteen, right,

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Speaker 1: and hey, I like Russell Wilson as much as well,

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Speaker 1: if that's Aaron Rodgers. Yeah, I don't know that Wilson's

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Speaker 1: the top five quarterbacks. Wilson is is declined in each

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Speaker 1: of the last two seasons. People think this is nuts,

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Speaker 1: but I think Wilson is closer to car than he

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Speaker 1: is to my homes in that division. I could agree

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Speaker 1: That's too Yeah, that's that's too high for me. We

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Speaker 1: haven't seen Trey Lancer play much. Um, that's a big

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Speaker 1: to start, even if Jimmy's on the roster. I know

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Speaker 1: they went far, but I just need to know more

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Speaker 1: about the guy taking snaps. Yeah, it's seven of the Chargers.

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Speaker 1: I'm cool with that. Six or six of the Packers

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Speaker 1: The Bengals at five. Are they better than the Packers

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Speaker 1: what they've done this offseason. I mean secondary and oldline

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Speaker 1: improvements were the way to go. I commend them for that,

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Speaker 1: and I'm a Boro fan, but I think it's a

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Speaker 1: big plexiglass thing, you know, you took five steps forward,

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Speaker 1: you'll probably take one or two back. Yeah, I agree. Uh,

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Speaker 1: four of the Buccaneers very solid. Yeah yeah, three of

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Speaker 1: the Bills. I don't think we could argue with those.

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Speaker 1: They would be my top four, I think, yeah, regardless

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Speaker 1: of whatever, do you could put them in so they

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Speaker 1: think I think they're I think they're on their own tier.

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Speaker 1: I might have the Chiefs fourths in that group. I

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Speaker 1: was thinking that too. I might have the box over case. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Brady can still do it. Yeah, yeah, Yeah. That was

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Speaker 1: the athletic power rankings. We're gonna take a break. He

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