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Speaker 1: I don't know if you're gonna do a bagpipe talk.

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Speaker 1: I'm well aware. I'm well aware. I just wanted to

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Speaker 1: say that. Okay, are you I'm good? How are you?

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Speaker 1: I'm good? We got playoffs around the corner. I'm ready

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Speaker 1: for that. We got coaching stuff going on around the league,

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Speaker 1: Ford Um. But Steelers play the Ravens. Ravens, I get,

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Speaker 1: I get the Ravens on my mind. Dear uh. Steelers

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Speaker 1: play the Browns on on Sunday. That is the night game.

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Speaker 1: So that will be the final of six preseason games.

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Speaker 1: This will be the first time or six postseason games.

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Speaker 1: This will be the first time in league history they'll

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Speaker 1: have six postseason games all in one weekend. Myself included.

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Speaker 1: But I always thought old format Week two of the

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Speaker 1: playoffs was the best because there's some wild card teams

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Speaker 1: and there are this year too. That don't quite belong.

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Speaker 1: I wonder if we're gonna change that tune though. I

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Speaker 1: mean it's just the sheer volume of six games, two

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Speaker 1: snap of everyone live. Is this going to be the

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Speaker 1: best weekend of this? This is your Christmas Us? I

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Speaker 1: this weekend and I'm not gonna be much hope. Um,

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Speaker 1: you got all day all Saturday morning, Yeah, but I

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Speaker 1: I'm pretty excited about it. I mean, some of the

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Speaker 1: still football games, and they're still football games with a

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Speaker 1: the end and be done, you know. And then we

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Speaker 1: Rogers is now in that old guard guy. Yeah, Alex

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Speaker 1: And I mean Smith's kind of anomaly to me. I

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Speaker 1: uh his offensive his offensive breakdowns. Uh. They out of

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Speaker 1: the twelve personnel, they passed sixty two of the time

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Speaker 1: as a hundred fifty dropbacks, they've been sacked five times. Uh.

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Speaker 1: Maker Mayfield has a one point to pass rating. Out

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Speaker 1: of the three wide receiver personnel they throw sixty percent

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Speaker 1: of the times. Mayfield passer rating is one on one

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Speaker 1: point two. But he's been sacked eleven times in that personnel.

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Speaker 1: I don't know what you I mean. Obviously he's been

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Speaker 1: a little bit more successful throwing out of that package.

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Speaker 1: But but your bread and butter, as you're running, you

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Speaker 1: want to run the foot ball, and they do it

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Speaker 1: well obviously. Um. Even in that twelve personnel though, you're

436
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Speaker 1: gonna get a front five for the Steelers with a

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Speaker 1: lulu and called call them linebackers if you want. But

438
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Speaker 1: you know they're gonna get Watton Highsmith on the edge.

439
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Speaker 1: Tight ends are gonna have to block edge guys and

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Speaker 1: that's not a good that's because you can't do it.

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Speaker 1: You can't do it with what. You can't do it

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Speaker 1: with what. That's that's just a recipe for disaster. I mean,

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Speaker 1: he'll raged all those guys and get to the quarter

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Speaker 1: and being your quarterbacks lap in two seconds. I mean,

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Speaker 1: maybe Hooper can do okay against Highsmith half the time

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Speaker 1: or whatever. You know. I mean, I think high Smith

447
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Speaker 1: has some work to do as a run defender. And

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Speaker 1: you're happy it's not Bud if you know, Bud would

449
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Speaker 1: destroy him. Um. And they also like to get double

450
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Speaker 1: teams to the second level on the Vince Williams of

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Speaker 1: the world. I'm sure they'll run the ball reasonably well.

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Speaker 1: But you start looking at the trench matchups. This is

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Speaker 1: about as bad as a situation as the Browns usually

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Speaker 1: deal with. Here's the thing about the coming out and

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Speaker 1: using Hunt as your slot fever per se Hiven practiced.

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Speaker 1: If you haven't, if you haven't done that all season long.

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Speaker 1: It goes back to what we talked about with Matt

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Speaker 1: Filer kicking out the right tackle. He got, you got

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Speaker 1: three practices to get ready for this week. Filers coming

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Speaker 1: back off of an injury where he hasn't played, he

461
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Speaker 1: hasn't played a month, and you're gonna say, hey, Matt,

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Speaker 1: by the way, you're gonna move out the right tackle

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Speaker 1: this week. That's just not realistic. That's not realistic. I mean,

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Speaker 1: it's easy for us to talk about it on paper

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Speaker 1: and we can put our fantasy team put him in

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Speaker 1: a flex position. Well that's not reality. Yeah, So I'm saying, Okay,

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Speaker 1: I mean, maybe you come up with three or four

468
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Speaker 1: plays that you can do out of that right but

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Speaker 1: that's not going to be enough to Okay, we're gonna

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Speaker 1: run this exclusively. I mean, because what I was thinking

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Speaker 1: originally was I think Higgins isn't a bad player, But

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Speaker 1: if you played twenty two personnel Hunt, Chub two tight

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Speaker 1: ends Landry, you probably still get the base three four

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Speaker 1: and I think that package you could make be spread

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Speaker 1: them out you could throw out of that. And they

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Speaker 1: did some of that last week where and people wondering,

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Speaker 1: what why is it? You know, why is Vince you know,

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Speaker 1: why is Vince Williams matched up on a on a

479
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Speaker 1: wide receiver. Well that's why, because they're you know, you've

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Speaker 1: got to respect Chubb in the backfield. Sure, I mean,

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Speaker 1: they could get real what I'm saying, if they get

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Speaker 1: real heavy with twenty two personal two backs and basically

483
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Speaker 1: take your tight ends and detach them a little bit,

484
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Speaker 1: detach hunt. None of them are big play guys, including Landry,

485
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Speaker 1: but maybe you get it out of Baker's hands quick,

486
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Speaker 1: you know, and if the Steelers, you know, if your

487
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Speaker 1: box gets lighter. I don't know, I'm just spit balling.

488
00:25:37,320 --> 00:25:40,760
Speaker 1: I just think that the recipe, the recipe for success

489
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Speaker 1: for the Browns is having Baker Mayfield throw the ball

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Speaker 1: around twenty five times. And we're talking about packages here

491
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Speaker 1: where they're gonna have to where they're throwing the football.

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Speaker 1: They want to run the ball. And if they have

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Speaker 1: success running the ball, then they'll they'll be this will

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Speaker 1: be a close game if they're sporadic and running the Steelers.

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Speaker 1: This is simple. This is the problem with running the

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Speaker 1: football against the Steelers. Yes, you may have some success,

497
00:26:06,440 --> 00:26:08,879
Speaker 1: you may break off a run here or there. But

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Speaker 1: the first time you have a negative run, that's you're

499
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Speaker 1: in trouble. They have so many tackle for losses. That's

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Speaker 1: the that's the key. T json have two of them.

501
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Speaker 1: Camp Now all of a sudden, it's second and eleven

502
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Speaker 1: and you're in trouble. It's like a holding call. Or

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Speaker 1: even if you run the ball again and get five yards,

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Speaker 1: it's still third and six. Bakers in trouble. Right, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: the consistency, they can't have the down plays with that,

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Speaker 1: you know, with that approach, I don't know. I mean

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Speaker 1: it's a good offense. I mean, I feel like we're

508
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Speaker 1: selling it. Shot. They moved the ball reasonably well last week.

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Speaker 1: They've removed the ball quite well in their games this year,

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Speaker 1: especially if you take away the three really bad weather

511
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Speaker 1: games in a row. You know, since then, they've done

512
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Speaker 1: really well if you need kind of outside of the

513
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Speaker 1: two games early in the season against the Ravens and Steelers.

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Speaker 1: Steelers and then that wasn't impressed with their offense against

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Speaker 1: the Steelers on Sunday. I mean, the running game was fine,

516
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Speaker 1: but considering who the Steelers had out there was the

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Speaker 1: running game was Chubb job right? And he's dangerous as

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Speaker 1: could be? Absolutely? Yeah, absolutely, but if you if you

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Speaker 1: contain him, I'm going to be interested to see how

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Speaker 1: much they use Hunt Chubb has had. Chubb has had

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Speaker 1: one game where he's gotten twenty carries since he came

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Speaker 1: back off of that knee injury, and it was his

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Speaker 1: second game back, and they haven't given him twenty carries

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Speaker 1: since it's all been around fifteen. He's only he's only

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Speaker 1: had two games this year where he's gotten twenty or

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Speaker 1: more carries. Wow, So I don't know. Is he still

527
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Speaker 1: banged up a little bit? Is that why they're trying

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Speaker 1: to save him here? Or do they feel like they

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Speaker 1: owe Kareem Hunt something? I think there's some of that

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Speaker 1: because Hunts a good player, He's not as good as Chubb's.

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Speaker 1: I mean, he had ten carries for thirty seven yards

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Speaker 1: and Chubb had four team for one oh eight. Which

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Speaker 1: one are you playing? Yeah? I mean yeah, I'm sure

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Speaker 1: Hunt will get how many touches you thinks in this game? Eight? Okay?

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Speaker 1: If I'm if I'm the steel Is, I'm okay with that.

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Speaker 1: I'm fine with it. Too. Yeah, give me ten, give

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Speaker 1: me twelve. May probably catch a few balls, I mean again,

538
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Speaker 1: every time. If he's on the field and Chubb isn't,

539
00:28:10,600 --> 00:28:13,080
Speaker 1: that's a win for the defense, I assume though. But

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Speaker 1: if it's third and six or longer, chubbs out for Hunt, yes,

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Speaker 1: you know, and I think that's probably the That's how

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Speaker 1: I would do. I just use him as a true

543
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Speaker 1: third down back if it was me, or maybe with Chubb,

544
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Speaker 1: but not instead of yeah never instead Yeah, it's one

545
00:28:30,560 --> 00:28:35,000
Speaker 1: and done. Um again, the ball ain't heavy. Um, he's

546
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Speaker 1: in the Union. But they don't. They don't restrict those things,

547
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Speaker 1: you know. Yeah, give it to him again. Their their

548
00:28:41,280 --> 00:28:44,080
Speaker 1: path to success in this game, their path to win

549
00:28:44,200 --> 00:28:47,640
Speaker 1: this football game. That for the Browns is Chubb gets

550
00:28:48,280 --> 00:28:50,160
Speaker 1: thirty touches in this game. I don't care how they

551
00:28:50,200 --> 00:28:53,840
Speaker 1: do it, touches. If he can do that, if they

552
00:28:53,840 --> 00:28:55,640
Speaker 1: can get him to that, they've got a chance to

553
00:28:55,720 --> 00:28:57,760
Speaker 1: be in this ball game. And they can consistently stay

554
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Speaker 1: ahead of the chains, you know, if he's getting four

555
00:29:00,640 --> 00:29:02,680
Speaker 1: and a half a carry, you know, maybe a big

556
00:29:02,720 --> 00:29:05,440
Speaker 1: play here and there as well. Um yeah, but if

557
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Speaker 1: they if they fall away from that, if they don't

558
00:29:07,960 --> 00:29:10,000
Speaker 1: do that if if they get behind by a score

559
00:29:10,040 --> 00:29:12,400
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden van pelt uh you know,

560
00:29:12,840 --> 00:29:17,040
Speaker 1: panics um and zag when everyone thinks his zigg and

561
00:29:17,120 --> 00:29:19,920
Speaker 1: you know, then you know it doesn't work. No, You're

562
00:29:19,920 --> 00:29:22,280
Speaker 1: probably right. There's been I can't remember a couple of

563
00:29:22,320 --> 00:29:25,240
Speaker 1: the games, but there was. There's been a couple of

564
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Speaker 1: games where the Browns came out throwing heavy against really

565
00:29:29,760 --> 00:29:33,280
Speaker 1: stacked boxes and that's worked for them. But I don't

566
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Speaker 1: know if the Steelers will. They were lesser defenses though,

567
00:29:36,200 --> 00:29:37,880
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, Like I, I don't know

568
00:29:37,920 --> 00:29:40,240
Speaker 1: that that's the approach to take. And I wouldn't trust

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Speaker 1: Baker to carry his team and again especially you know,

570
00:29:43,840 --> 00:29:46,040
Speaker 1: again with that lack of playoff experience. I I don't

571
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Speaker 1: trust him throwing the ball over the middle early in

572
00:29:48,720 --> 00:29:51,480
Speaker 1: this football game. No no practice, all heaked, you know,

573
00:29:51,520 --> 00:29:53,640
Speaker 1: I mean a lot of things going against him. Um,

574
00:29:53,680 --> 00:29:55,080
Speaker 1: we don't they. I wanted to mention too, is I

575
00:29:55,080 --> 00:29:57,800
Speaker 1: have a lot of respect for their offensive line, especially

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Speaker 1: when Beatonio is in there, of course, and Conklin is

577
00:30:00,600 --> 00:30:03,360
Speaker 1: a high price guy, and worse is was my favorite

578
00:30:03,360 --> 00:30:06,200
Speaker 1: tackle in this draft and he's been quite good. But

579
00:30:06,280 --> 00:30:08,880
Speaker 1: those guys. Conklin is much more of a run blocker, yes,

580
00:30:09,160 --> 00:30:11,040
Speaker 1: and Worse has been better in the run game too,

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Speaker 1: you know, like Conklin verse wat is a big problem

582
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Speaker 1: in the past in third and Wall, Yes, I mean

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00:30:17,520 --> 00:30:21,560
Speaker 1: a big problem. Everybody. We had somebody on from Tennessee

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Speaker 1: at the at the Combine last year, like, um, I

585
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Speaker 1: can't remember who remember that though, Yeah, yeah somebody. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Paul Paula Harski is on. He said, you know, if

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Speaker 1: the Browns think that they're getting a premiere, premier pass

588
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Speaker 1: blocking right tackle with this money that they're spending there,

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00:30:37,520 --> 00:30:40,400
Speaker 1: they're wrong. They're wrong, They're wrong. Yeah, that's just not

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Speaker 1: what he does well. Right, if you got him going

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Speaker 1: backwards and kicks sliding against what a fire amount and

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Speaker 1: think that he's gonna hold up on his own right

593
00:30:47,720 --> 00:30:49,240
Speaker 1: and he's not gonna. It's not gonna be easy to

594
00:30:49,280 --> 00:30:52,120
Speaker 1: double wade with the Hayward situation too, and you know,

595
00:30:52,240 --> 00:30:54,680
Speaker 1: so that's something to watch. And I like Worse too,

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Speaker 1: But I think Hi Smith will have some success. Yeah,

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00:30:57,560 --> 00:30:59,920
Speaker 1: hips looks good against I mean he got a sack

598
00:31:00,040 --> 00:31:02,800
Speaker 1: class week and a couple of pressures. Yeah against s

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00:31:02,840 --> 00:31:06,000
Speaker 1: Werf's just so that's that's something to keep an eye on.

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Speaker 1: And you mentioned it to yesterday. We will see a

601
00:31:09,280 --> 00:31:11,080
Speaker 1: lot of double tight end sets and that's what they do,

602
00:31:11,120 --> 00:31:13,760
Speaker 1: it's what they're good at. But if those guys are

603
00:31:13,760 --> 00:31:17,160
Speaker 1: blocking there, the guys out in patterns aren't so great

604
00:31:17,600 --> 00:31:20,320
Speaker 1: right now, it's easier to cover them. It is. I

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Speaker 1: mean again, maybe I get Hunt more involved, but than

606
00:31:22,160 --> 00:31:24,360
Speaker 1: your best players not getting the ball and it's kind

607
00:31:24,360 --> 00:31:25,920
Speaker 1: of a catch twenty two for him. But them in

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Speaker 1: Steelers defense presents these problems everyone they face, but this

609
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Speaker 1: one in particular. If they don't run the ball well,

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Speaker 1: and you said it's ten times this week, I don't

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Speaker 1: know it's closed. Yeah, I agree. Um, he is Matt Williamson.

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Speaker 1: I'm Dale Lala. You're listening to the Drive here on

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Speaker 1: Steelers Nation Radio. It brought to you by Ford and FedEx.

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Speaker 1: Your tunes about Drive home of the Black and Goal

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Speaker 1: Steelers Nation Radio. Welcome back. I'm Dale Ellie here with

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Speaker 1: Matt Williamson, and you're listening to the Drive on Steelers

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Speaker 1: Nation Radio. We're brought to you by Ford and FedEx

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Speaker 1: and Matt as we often do, and we didn't do

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Speaker 1: this last week because well last week was last week.

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Speaker 1: But looking here at the Brown's roster, because this has

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Speaker 1: changed since the first meeting, things have changed for both teams.

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Speaker 1: Uh So at quarterback, you got Baker Mayfield, you got

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Speaker 1: case keenum Um, I want Ben and Rudolph. That's the thing. Now,

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Speaker 1: we now we've actually seen you know, there were some

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Speaker 1: weeks here We're going, well, I'll take that quarterback room

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Speaker 1: over what the Steeler said. We have a little more

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Speaker 1: tangible evidence for Rudolph that Okay, he's not a bad backup.

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Speaker 1: I mean, would you if you're in big picture, not

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Speaker 1: just some much we always use for Sunday, I don't

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Speaker 1: know that I would even want to be married to

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Speaker 1: Mayfield big picture, Like the rest of the division looks

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Speaker 1: like they're in great shape, you know, at the quarterback

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00:33:10,720 --> 00:33:12,760
Speaker 1: position for years to come, and maybe they are. But

635
00:33:13,360 --> 00:33:15,920
Speaker 1: I trust the Cincinnati Baltimore situation way more than the

636
00:33:15,920 --> 00:33:21,200
Speaker 1: Cleveland one. Well, here's what happened last Sunday. The Browns

637
00:33:21,280 --> 00:33:24,840
Speaker 1: now have to pick up Baker Mayfield's fifth year options.

638
00:33:24,880 --> 00:33:28,720
Speaker 1: They have no choice, no choice. Yeah, if they hadn't

639
00:33:28,760 --> 00:33:31,000
Speaker 1: gotten if he if they had lost that football game.

640
00:33:31,240 --> 00:33:35,440
Speaker 1: If if Mason Rudolph converts to the two point conversion,

641
00:33:35,720 --> 00:33:38,720
Speaker 1: they get the let's say they do the onside kick,

642
00:33:38,760 --> 00:33:43,840
Speaker 1: then after that the Browns lose the game. Uh, they

643
00:33:43,880 --> 00:33:46,080
Speaker 1: may not pick up Baker Mayfield's options because they got

644
00:33:46,160 --> 00:33:48,560
Speaker 1: case Keenum sitting there and they could draft somebody. They

645
00:33:48,560 --> 00:33:50,760
Speaker 1: could draft somebody, could go sign somebody else. They could

646
00:33:50,800 --> 00:33:53,000
Speaker 1: use Keenum for a year and just say he's our bridge.

647
00:33:53,360 --> 00:33:55,120
Speaker 1: I mean, it wouldn't shock me if they extend Baker

648
00:33:55,240 --> 00:33:58,880
Speaker 1: this offseason. That's you. That's the other side of the yeah,

649
00:33:58,960 --> 00:34:03,760
Speaker 1: because you know they've got Casu now and right before

650
00:34:03,920 --> 00:34:05,960
Speaker 1: some other guys come up, and I think the Steelers

651
00:34:05,960 --> 00:34:07,880
Speaker 1: that's what you want. Yeah, So I think he's a

652
00:34:07,920 --> 00:34:11,040
Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins, right, He's not. I don't know that you

653
00:34:11,040 --> 00:34:13,520
Speaker 1: can win a super Bowl with Baker Mayfield. Everything I

654
00:34:13,520 --> 00:34:15,120
Speaker 1: think has to be perfect, and he has to be

655
00:34:15,160 --> 00:34:16,880
Speaker 1: on a hot streak like a flack oh hot streak.

656
00:34:17,120 --> 00:34:20,680
Speaker 1: You know. In your defense has to be good defense,

657
00:34:20,680 --> 00:34:22,640
Speaker 1: and your defense, I mean, they got a lot of

658
00:34:22,680 --> 00:34:24,560
Speaker 1: work to do in the defense. Do I wonder if

659
00:34:24,600 --> 00:34:26,400
Speaker 1: I was in charge of that team this offseason, I

660
00:34:26,440 --> 00:34:29,800
Speaker 1: might go all defense and try to win low scoring games.

661
00:34:29,960 --> 00:34:32,040
Speaker 1: But at the same time, can you ignore the offense?

662
00:34:32,080 --> 00:34:35,680
Speaker 1: Can you can you go into next season? Um? Because

663
00:34:35,680 --> 00:34:37,880
Speaker 1: there's a lot of question marks out there about O'Dell Beckham.

664
00:34:37,920 --> 00:34:39,880
Speaker 1: Do they bring him back next year? It's not a

665
00:34:39,920 --> 00:34:41,960
Speaker 1: Brown next year? So if that's the case, then can

666
00:34:42,000 --> 00:34:45,800
Speaker 1: you go into next season with Jarvis Landry and Richard Higgins?

667
00:34:45,840 --> 00:34:48,160
Speaker 1: Is your top two receivers? Probably not right, you know,

668
00:34:48,160 --> 00:34:51,360
Speaker 1: That's that's the whole Yeah, you're gonna you're gonna loseing Joku,

669
00:34:51,480 --> 00:34:55,120
Speaker 1: so you know. Yeah, Um, anyways, Yeah, so I agree,

670
00:34:55,120 --> 00:34:57,040
Speaker 1: I would I would take I would take the Steelers

671
00:34:57,360 --> 00:35:00,439
Speaker 1: running back. I mean, chubbing its stream hunters are the best.

672
00:35:00,840 --> 00:35:02,480
Speaker 1: That's the best one to punch in the league. I

673
00:35:02,600 --> 00:35:05,080
Speaker 1: take that over Tennessee and New Orleans And yeah, I

674
00:35:05,080 --> 00:35:09,680
Speaker 1: means might be close. Murray's pretty good. Murray's pretty good,

675
00:35:09,680 --> 00:35:13,600
Speaker 1: and Kamara is really dynamics. That's one of the ones

676
00:35:13,640 --> 00:35:16,359
Speaker 1: that I would consider. Yeah, because of the whole room. Yeah,

677
00:35:16,440 --> 00:35:19,600
Speaker 1: I would consider it. They're so different, you know, Chubb

678
00:35:19,680 --> 00:35:22,880
Speaker 1: vers Kamara, Yeah, they're very different. But I mean Kamara

679
00:35:22,960 --> 00:35:25,279
Speaker 1: gives you just a dynamic pass catcher and which neither

680
00:35:25,480 --> 00:35:28,480
Speaker 1: Hunter or chubbar I think if I was starting a team,

681
00:35:28,480 --> 00:35:31,640
Speaker 1: I'd take Kamara over Chubb. That would be a tough decision.

682
00:35:32,480 --> 00:35:35,040
Speaker 1: Both are awesome, But yeah, that's a that's a good

683
00:35:35,120 --> 00:35:39,280
Speaker 1: room um wide receiver. You got Landry, you got Higgins,

684
00:35:39,640 --> 00:35:43,759
Speaker 1: People's jones if he's healthy. Uh, Cadarrel Hodge. I don't

685
00:35:43,760 --> 00:35:46,919
Speaker 1: think it's close. It's not even remotely close. I'm gonna

686
00:35:46,920 --> 00:35:48,480
Speaker 1: try not to be too much of a state where

687
00:35:48,480 --> 00:35:50,839
Speaker 1: when Higgins Higgins on the Steeler's depth chart, I would

688
00:35:50,840 --> 00:35:54,400
Speaker 1: you say words Landry. Yeah, I don't know that Higgins

689
00:35:54,520 --> 00:35:59,520
Speaker 1: is on the Steeler's depth chart. Yeah, in Landry's I

690
00:35:59,520 --> 00:36:02,839
Speaker 1: mean he verse Washington. I guess the conversation. I think

691
00:36:02,840 --> 00:36:06,480
Speaker 1: I wouldn't trade Washington for Higgins. I think Landry's four.

692
00:36:06,640 --> 00:36:09,600
Speaker 1: I think Landry's four. Like I don't want Claypool on

693
00:36:09,600 --> 00:36:13,880
Speaker 1: the sidelines for Landry. No, and Juju and Landry are

694
00:36:13,960 --> 00:36:18,680
Speaker 1: stylistically similar, but I think i'd rather Juju. It's a tougher. Yeah.

695
00:36:18,800 --> 00:36:20,360
Speaker 1: I mean, if you offered that deal with the Browns,

696
00:36:20,400 --> 00:36:22,440
Speaker 1: I bet that say, give me you don't have Landry

697
00:36:22,440 --> 00:36:24,279
Speaker 1: for Juju. Plus he's making a hell of a lot

698
00:36:24,320 --> 00:36:29,160
Speaker 1: more money because they over they overpaid Landry by and

699
00:36:29,239 --> 00:36:32,040
Speaker 1: if I'm juju, I'm jumping off with that contract like

700
00:36:32,080 --> 00:36:34,080
Speaker 1: I want this is I want at least what Landry's

701
00:36:34,120 --> 00:36:37,000
Speaker 1: making or more because you're you're younger, and yeah, you're

702
00:36:37,000 --> 00:36:39,239
Speaker 1: more accomplished at that age. But yeah, I mean that.

703
00:36:39,320 --> 00:36:41,120
Speaker 1: That's what I'm gonna say is not to be too

704
00:36:41,200 --> 00:36:42,799
Speaker 1: much with Steler Homer. But I don't know if they're best.

705
00:36:42,840 --> 00:36:45,400
Speaker 1: Guy plays a lot of snaps here. Yeah, I agree,

706
00:36:45,880 --> 00:36:50,320
Speaker 1: how about Hooper and in Joku they're guys, Okay, telling

707
00:36:50,360 --> 00:36:52,600
Speaker 1: the joke. I think Njoku over Rebrawn. I might be

708
00:36:52,680 --> 00:36:55,480
Speaker 1: in the minority there, I still believe in I think

709
00:36:55,480 --> 00:37:02,919
Speaker 1: they're similar players similar Abron Abron is more established. Yes, um,

710
00:37:03,360 --> 00:37:06,640
Speaker 1: if I need somebody to block them and use McDonald though, Yes,

711
00:37:07,040 --> 00:37:10,680
Speaker 1: but Hooper is the best football player of the four. Yeah, yeah,

712
00:37:11,160 --> 00:37:13,040
Speaker 1: maybe throw Brian in the equation. Who I think is

713
00:37:13,520 --> 00:37:15,960
Speaker 1: he's not gonna play. I'm just looking at what we

714
00:37:16,040 --> 00:37:19,080
Speaker 1: got here now. Uh. The offensive line, which will be

715
00:37:19,160 --> 00:37:23,000
Speaker 1: Jedrick Willis, Michael Donn, J C. Trader, White Teller, Jack Conklin,

716
00:37:23,160 --> 00:37:25,880
Speaker 1: still there, guys, I'll say this. I'm looking here at

717
00:37:25,880 --> 00:37:31,040
Speaker 1: the espn um depth chart in Trader, Teller and Conklin

718
00:37:31,080 --> 00:37:33,319
Speaker 1: all have red cues next to their name. That's not

719
00:37:33,400 --> 00:37:35,319
Speaker 1: a good thing. It's not a good thing. The whole

720
00:37:35,440 --> 00:37:38,600
Speaker 1: right side of your line and your left guard is out. Yeah. Right.

721
00:37:39,120 --> 00:37:40,879
Speaker 1: I think Will's has a really bright future and still

722
00:37:40,880 --> 00:37:43,000
Speaker 1: a good player. It's a good line. It's it's one

723
00:37:43,040 --> 00:37:44,319
Speaker 1: of the better lines in the league. I think it's

724
00:37:44,400 --> 00:37:46,880
Speaker 1: right there at the Saints, but they've got a gaping hole. Yeah,

725
00:37:47,000 --> 00:37:50,400
Speaker 1: I mean, series don't have a gaping hole right now. Um.

726
00:37:50,400 --> 00:37:54,759
Speaker 1: Moving over to the defense. At left defensive end, you've

727
00:37:54,760 --> 00:37:58,560
Speaker 1: got Myles Garrett defensive tackle, Sheldon Richardson who is questionable,

728
00:37:59,239 --> 00:38:01,640
Speaker 1: Larry Ogan, Joe Be who's I'm one of the more

729
00:38:01,719 --> 00:38:05,759
Speaker 1: underrated players. Yeah, and then Adrian Claiborne stepping in for

730
00:38:05,800 --> 00:38:09,080
Speaker 1: Olivia Vernon, which isn't bad either. He's had success in

731
00:38:09,080 --> 00:38:10,560
Speaker 1: so league. I thought you did some good things against

732
00:38:10,600 --> 00:38:13,239
Speaker 1: Bill in the way but last week. But we're including

733
00:38:14,040 --> 00:38:17,200
Speaker 1: t J and this is the free this is your front,

734
00:38:17,239 --> 00:38:19,680
Speaker 1: your front. I'll take the Steelers. Yeah, this isn't a

735
00:38:19,719 --> 00:38:21,360
Speaker 1: bad one at all. It's definitely the strength of the

736
00:38:21,400 --> 00:38:25,120
Speaker 1: Browns football or defense, but I'm not changing the Steelers

737
00:38:25,160 --> 00:38:27,799
Speaker 1: for anybody. But if the Steelers are a ten on

738
00:38:27,880 --> 00:38:32,760
Speaker 1: the defensive front, this is a seven or eight, depending

739
00:38:32,800 --> 00:38:35,320
Speaker 1: what Miles Garrett you get. Well, if we see the

740
00:38:35,360 --> 00:38:40,160
Speaker 1: one we saw last weekend, if it's prime Miles Garrett's

741
00:38:40,160 --> 00:38:43,040
Speaker 1: in eight and a half, but we haven't seen that.

742
00:38:43,360 --> 00:38:47,520
Speaker 1: We haven't seen that since he came back. Yeah. Uh,

743
00:38:47,640 --> 00:38:50,759
Speaker 1: the linebackers you're looking, I don't know even know who

744
00:38:50,760 --> 00:38:52,560
Speaker 1: they're going to line up at linebacker this week. Is

745
00:38:52,600 --> 00:38:56,319
Speaker 1: Mack Wilson healthy, Mack Wilson's healthy. B J. Goodson just

746
00:38:56,360 --> 00:38:59,279
Speaker 1: came off of the he was their leading tackler this season.

747
00:38:59,320 --> 00:39:04,919
Speaker 1: That that's a whole lot. Jacob Phillips is there, well, yeah,

748
00:39:04,920 --> 00:39:10,560
Speaker 1: and Siony Tacky tacky, He's okay. This to me is

749
00:39:10,560 --> 00:39:13,880
Speaker 1: is I think I give the Steelers the edge, and

750
00:39:13,920 --> 00:39:15,359
Speaker 1: we haven't done that a lot this year, and we've

751
00:39:15,400 --> 00:39:18,160
Speaker 1: gone through these rankings. I mean, there's a couple of

752
00:39:18,160 --> 00:39:19,960
Speaker 1: weeks ago, if you could have given me a tacky

753
00:39:20,040 --> 00:39:23,400
Speaker 1: tacky or back, Wilson already said, boy, thee could use

754
00:39:23,440 --> 00:39:26,359
Speaker 1: that guy. But now you're getting splained back he got.

755
00:39:26,360 --> 00:39:29,279
Speaker 1: Williamson moves to the bench, now you get some depth there.

756
00:39:29,400 --> 00:39:32,000
Speaker 1: I don't think Marcus Allen's gonna see any linebacker snaps

757
00:39:32,080 --> 00:39:34,799
Speaker 1: unless it's unless he's playing, you know, in dime. Yeah,

758
00:39:35,800 --> 00:39:40,319
Speaker 1: specific Situationsvince Williams is good. Yeah, I mean it's neither

759
00:39:40,320 --> 00:39:43,160
Speaker 1: one neither groups great. Yeah. I mean when I did

760
00:39:43,440 --> 00:39:46,719
Speaker 1: in the off season, I did this, I ranked the

761
00:39:46,760 --> 00:39:49,320
Speaker 1: whole division the top five guys, and he's positioned across

762
00:39:49,320 --> 00:39:52,360
Speaker 1: the division, and I had Bush was number one and

763
00:39:52,440 --> 00:39:55,239
Speaker 1: inside linebacker, and I think I had I think I

764
00:39:55,280 --> 00:39:59,839
Speaker 1: had Vince Williams at three or four given the lack

765
00:39:59,880 --> 00:40:02,520
Speaker 1: of experience the other guys had around around the division.

766
00:40:02,560 --> 00:40:05,120
Speaker 1: Patrick Queen's had a bad year. Yeah, you know, I

767
00:40:05,120 --> 00:40:10,080
Speaker 1: would take still number one. Yeah. Um with Bengals, the

768
00:40:10,080 --> 00:40:12,920
Speaker 1: Browns inside linebackers, the Browns off the ball linebackers have

769
00:40:13,000 --> 00:40:15,640
Speaker 1: done nothing to show me that they deserve to be

770
00:40:15,640 --> 00:40:19,200
Speaker 1: in the top five group next year. It's got to

771
00:40:19,239 --> 00:40:20,960
Speaker 1: be the worst division on off the ball linebackers in

772
00:40:20,960 --> 00:40:24,040
Speaker 1: the league when you think about what the Browns and

773
00:40:24,040 --> 00:40:27,160
Speaker 1: the Bengals are running out there, the worst linebackers period.

774
00:40:27,480 --> 00:40:29,520
Speaker 1: And we just took the Steelers over the Browns. And

775
00:40:29,560 --> 00:40:32,200
Speaker 1: that's the weakest part of the brown of the Steelers team,

776
00:40:32,239 --> 00:40:35,439
Speaker 1: and it's the weakest part of the Ravens team. Yeah. Defense. Yeah,

777
00:40:35,880 --> 00:40:39,120
Speaker 1: so the division that you used to like to run

778
00:40:39,120 --> 00:40:41,719
Speaker 1: the ball a lot was loaded with you know, you

779
00:40:41,719 --> 00:40:44,400
Speaker 1: had you know, you had Ferrier, you had you had

780
00:40:44,480 --> 00:40:49,000
Speaker 1: Ray Lewis. I mean, and you know, guys Bart Scott right,

781
00:40:49,480 --> 00:40:54,600
Speaker 1: it's bad, um, it's safety. It looks like Karl Joseph

782
00:40:54,680 --> 00:40:57,560
Speaker 1: and Anderson Sendejo are back this week. Baby, they're back.

783
00:40:57,600 --> 00:41:01,560
Speaker 1: They got their starters back. They both stink. Anderson's in

784
00:41:01,680 --> 00:41:05,640
Speaker 1: Dajo is the worst. He's the worst starting safety in

785
00:41:05,640 --> 00:41:09,080
Speaker 1: the league. Remember, folks, they used a very early second

786
00:41:09,120 --> 00:41:11,640
Speaker 1: round pick on Grant Helpitt to be their free safety

787
00:41:11,640 --> 00:41:14,040
Speaker 1: type and he got injured right off the bat. I'd

788
00:41:14,080 --> 00:41:15,880
Speaker 1: be interested what their secondary would look like with the

789
00:41:15,880 --> 00:41:18,120
Speaker 1: two else you dude, with Greedy and delp it would

790
00:41:18,160 --> 00:41:21,480
Speaker 1: have been and stay healthy. But they Williams hasn't been

791
00:41:21,480 --> 00:41:25,120
Speaker 1: healthy in two years. What you do there but safety

792
00:41:25,239 --> 00:41:27,960
Speaker 1: destroy there. Joseph can't cover anybody. He's just a hitter.

793
00:41:28,520 --> 00:41:30,640
Speaker 1: I think Davis would be their starting free safety if

794
00:41:31,040 --> 00:41:34,600
Speaker 1: if you can, you know, comparing the safety rooms, Yes,

795
00:41:35,000 --> 00:41:36,560
Speaker 1: I think, oh yeah, he'd be there. He'd be there

796
00:41:36,560 --> 00:41:40,279
Speaker 1: starting free safety at the very least because Sendejo stinks. Yeah,

797
00:41:40,840 --> 00:41:43,480
Speaker 1: a problem. I mean, he's just awful. Uh so the

798
00:41:43,480 --> 00:41:46,320
Speaker 1: Steelers have a big advantage there. Yeah, I'd like Joseph

799
00:41:46,360 --> 00:41:47,880
Speaker 1: and he's never been as good as I wanted them

800
00:41:47,880 --> 00:41:50,479
Speaker 1: to be. No. Again, big hitter in a league where

801
00:41:50,600 --> 00:41:54,239
Speaker 1: big hitters are are just he can't really use them. Short. Yeah, short,

802
00:41:54,280 --> 00:41:56,319
Speaker 1: Strong safeties have a hard time against the tight ends

803
00:41:56,360 --> 00:42:00,360
Speaker 1: in the world. Now, the cornerback position once again a

804
00:42:00,400 --> 00:42:05,759
Speaker 1: big problem right now, it's Terrence Mitchell, Robert Jackson, M J.

805
00:42:06,000 --> 00:42:09,080
Speaker 1: Stewart to Vario Thomas. Let's put Ward in the equation. No,

806
00:42:09,200 --> 00:42:12,200
Speaker 1: to make it fun. I think he's gonna play, don't you.

807
00:42:12,360 --> 00:42:15,279
Speaker 1: I don't think you don't think he will. He's not

808
00:42:15,280 --> 00:42:18,120
Speaker 1: gonna be activated today, can't be activated tomorrow. It's a

809
00:42:18,160 --> 00:42:20,319
Speaker 1: Sunday thing, right, He'd have to be activated Sunday and

810
00:42:20,320 --> 00:42:22,040
Speaker 1: then come right out and play. I just don't see

811
00:42:22,080 --> 00:42:24,799
Speaker 1: that happening. I think you would describe this, but I'm

812
00:42:24,840 --> 00:42:26,520
Speaker 1: not sure if you were not as on Monday like

813
00:42:26,600 --> 00:42:30,320
Speaker 1: for him to play. He won't practice period all week.

814
00:42:30,840 --> 00:42:33,440
Speaker 1: He's been out three weeks. No, he went out he

815
00:42:33,800 --> 00:42:37,080
Speaker 1: would have been out since last Friday. Okay, Yeah, so

816
00:42:37,120 --> 00:42:42,600
Speaker 1: we played week fifteen and week sixteen, didn't play weeks seventeen. Yeah, okay,

817
00:42:42,640 --> 00:42:45,040
Speaker 1: but it's still pretty long stretch. He would have to

818
00:42:45,120 --> 00:42:47,959
Speaker 1: drive himself from Cleveland. He can't travel with the team,

819
00:42:48,000 --> 00:42:50,480
Speaker 1: can't travel with the team because you're not cleared. So

820
00:42:50,960 --> 00:42:54,160
Speaker 1: they would have to get him down here. Um, then

821
00:42:54,239 --> 00:42:56,360
Speaker 1: he would have to get all the tested, make all that.

822
00:42:56,440 --> 00:42:58,479
Speaker 1: Make that decision Sunday. Now you got all day, which

823
00:42:58,480 --> 00:43:00,959
Speaker 1: is nice. Yeah, it's not the it's not the early game.

824
00:43:01,160 --> 00:43:03,240
Speaker 1: I guess you can make that decision at noon. But again,

825
00:43:03,280 --> 00:43:05,919
Speaker 1: we don't know if he's been ill or not right.

826
00:43:06,000 --> 00:43:09,000
Speaker 1: He may have symptoms and bedridden. He may still test

827
00:43:09,000 --> 00:43:11,279
Speaker 1: positive for all we know, right, I mean, I'm just

828
00:43:11,360 --> 00:43:13,440
Speaker 1: leaning towards you. I'm not even fifty fifty on this.

829
00:43:13,520 --> 00:43:16,520
Speaker 1: That the odds say that he is unlikely to play. Yeah,

830
00:43:16,680 --> 00:43:19,000
Speaker 1: I guess when you add it all up, that's I mean,

831
00:43:19,320 --> 00:43:21,520
Speaker 1: I'm sticking to think his playoff time, he's your best corner.

832
00:43:21,719 --> 00:43:23,520
Speaker 1: At least get him here and dress him and see

833
00:43:23,520 --> 00:43:26,200
Speaker 1: how it goes. But because there's other guys who mentioned

834
00:43:26,200 --> 00:43:28,680
Speaker 1: are junk is what I'm getting Is he ready to

835
00:43:28,719 --> 00:43:30,280
Speaker 1: go out there and run up and down the field.

836
00:43:30,480 --> 00:43:34,080
Speaker 1: You know, boy, I'd like to get Claypool on him,

837
00:43:34,200 --> 00:43:38,040
Speaker 1: absolutely either, even even if he's healthy. Yeah, he's five.

838
00:43:38,480 --> 00:43:40,879
Speaker 1: He's five ft nine and Claypole six four, and he's

839
00:43:40,880 --> 00:43:43,359
Speaker 1: the deep thread and he's really physical and he's gonna

840
00:43:43,360 --> 00:43:45,080
Speaker 1: push you around in the run game. And you know,

841
00:43:45,120 --> 00:43:49,400
Speaker 1: I'm telling Claypool, every time he run the ball, the

842
00:43:49,440 --> 00:43:51,520
Speaker 1: seats just beat him up. Yeah, don't take it easy

843
00:43:51,560 --> 00:43:53,680
Speaker 1: at all. So maybe he maybe he plays me, but

844
00:43:53,680 --> 00:43:56,839
Speaker 1: he's not gonna be a percent. And here's the other thing.

845
00:43:56,880 --> 00:44:02,759
Speaker 1: This is this is the other Yeah he is. Um

846
00:44:03,360 --> 00:44:06,520
Speaker 1: did the Steelers play last week with the idea of putting, Hey,

847
00:44:06,520 --> 00:44:08,960
Speaker 1: we're gonna feature Chase Claypool in this game. And you

848
00:44:09,000 --> 00:44:10,520
Speaker 1: know we're gonna we maybe whoever we play in the

849
00:44:10,520 --> 00:44:13,400
Speaker 1: playoffs is gonna be watching this tape and if we

850
00:44:13,520 --> 00:44:16,560
Speaker 1: pepper Claypool with targets in this game and they see

851
00:44:16,640 --> 00:44:19,520
Speaker 1: him beating cornerbacks up and they can now gonna have

852
00:44:19,520 --> 00:44:21,080
Speaker 1: to say, well, Chief, we better put a second guy

853
00:44:21,080 --> 00:44:23,560
Speaker 1: over there on that. See. It's funny. Brought this up

854
00:44:23,560 --> 00:44:25,719
Speaker 1: because I wanted to talk about it next segment with

855
00:44:25,760 --> 00:44:28,000
Speaker 1: our fantasy team we're putting together because you sent me

856
00:44:28,080 --> 00:44:31,319
Speaker 1: some a certain Steeler receiver that you have on your

857
00:44:31,320 --> 00:44:34,520
Speaker 1: team that I really like that idea because I think

858
00:44:35,840 --> 00:44:37,719
Speaker 1: I think what they did last week was smart for

859
00:44:37,760 --> 00:44:40,239
Speaker 1: two reasons. Because you mentioned it before last game. Let's

860
00:44:40,239 --> 00:44:43,919
Speaker 1: see how Claypool handles being the one handled it. Well. Yeah,

861
00:44:44,400 --> 00:44:46,879
Speaker 1: let's also put it out there because I think there's

862
00:44:46,920 --> 00:44:50,279
Speaker 1: still an illusion around the league that Deonte is not

863
00:44:50,320 --> 00:44:53,799
Speaker 1: the one. Deonte is the one. Dete is the one,

864
00:44:54,200 --> 00:44:57,480
Speaker 1: and if anyone treats them differently, he's gonna have sixteen

865
00:44:57,520 --> 00:45:00,799
Speaker 1: targets if I if you decide gonna okay, we're gonna

866
00:45:00,800 --> 00:45:05,160
Speaker 1: go with Denzel Ward in safety help on Claypool. Deonte

867
00:45:05,239 --> 00:45:08,520
Speaker 1: is gonna feast. Deonte is gonna eat Terrence Mitchell alive,

868
00:45:09,000 --> 00:45:10,439
Speaker 1: and they may all be quick ones that I don't

869
00:45:10,440 --> 00:45:12,359
Speaker 1: even get care and Juju is gonna eat two Varia

870
00:45:12,440 --> 00:45:15,480
Speaker 1: Thomas or whoever you know, whoever you put on him alive.

871
00:45:16,560 --> 00:45:18,800
Speaker 1: I mean, in a perfect world, if Ward was healthy

872
00:45:18,920 --> 00:45:22,520
Speaker 1: and I had my best guns, I would say, Denzel,

873
00:45:22,640 --> 00:45:24,239
Speaker 1: this is why we used the fifth pick in the

874
00:45:24,320 --> 00:45:27,959
Speaker 1: draft on you. You're on Deonte one versus one because

875
00:45:27,960 --> 00:45:29,759
Speaker 1: we need help everywhere. But this is why you question

876
00:45:29,760 --> 00:45:31,560
Speaker 1: when he when they made that pick us the number

877
00:45:31,560 --> 00:45:33,719
Speaker 1: one pick on him. It's kind of like what you know,

878
00:45:33,800 --> 00:45:40,480
Speaker 1: the the what the Titans did with Um Jackson, Dory Jackson.

879
00:45:40,840 --> 00:45:43,680
Speaker 1: He took a five ft nine cornerback in the top

880
00:45:43,719 --> 00:45:47,080
Speaker 1: with a top ten pick. That's not what you're looking for,

881
00:45:47,120 --> 00:45:48,640
Speaker 1: you know, when we talk about these you know you

882
00:45:48,680 --> 00:45:50,359
Speaker 1: want these guys. If you're gonna use a top ten

883
00:45:50,400 --> 00:45:53,200
Speaker 1: pick on a cornerback, you better be a six ft

884
00:45:53,200 --> 00:45:55,680
Speaker 1: cornerback that can run. Everyone that has been taken that

885
00:45:55,760 --> 00:45:58,320
Speaker 1: high in the last ten years doesn't look like Denzel

886
00:45:58,360 --> 00:46:01,040
Speaker 1: Ward right, and he's he's a great player. He's a

887
00:46:01,040 --> 00:46:03,760
Speaker 1: great player, but he's gonna be short his entire career.

888
00:46:04,120 --> 00:46:06,520
Speaker 1: And it's funny because they used two top five picks

889
00:46:06,560 --> 00:46:08,359
Speaker 1: that year on him and Mayfield. Both of them are

890
00:46:08,400 --> 00:46:12,120
Speaker 1: little yeah, you know, like yeah, and it's hurt both

891
00:46:12,160 --> 00:46:15,480
Speaker 1: of them. Um. That being said, I remember writing articles

892
00:46:15,520 --> 00:46:20,120
Speaker 1: when they made that pick saying this is Antonio Brown repellent. Yeah,

893
00:46:20,200 --> 00:46:22,400
Speaker 1: I mean that's when ab was killing the world. But

894
00:46:23,920 --> 00:46:25,600
Speaker 1: I mean it didn't. I mean, like, you can't live

895
00:46:25,600 --> 00:46:27,360
Speaker 1: with a short guy when you're number one guy to

896
00:46:27,400 --> 00:46:30,279
Speaker 1: shut down was a b you know, but now now

897
00:46:30,320 --> 00:46:33,640
Speaker 1: it's you know now you right. I wouldn't hate him

898
00:46:33,640 --> 00:46:36,000
Speaker 1: against Theonte if they're both a hundred percent. But you

899
00:46:36,040 --> 00:46:39,200
Speaker 1: can't do that now. But back to our original conversation,

900
00:46:39,280 --> 00:46:42,160
Speaker 1: I'm taking the Steeler's cornerbacks. Oh yeah, even without Hayden.

901
00:46:42,239 --> 00:46:45,359
Speaker 1: Even without Hayden of course, of course, so they would

902
00:46:45,440 --> 00:46:50,560
Speaker 1: kill for Sutton. We're Steven Nelson or anyone I'm thinking about,

903
00:46:50,560 --> 00:46:53,879
Speaker 1: even nonstarter Hilton. Of course, Sutton would be the best

904
00:46:53,880 --> 00:46:57,880
Speaker 1: corner Yeah, and wore decide. I think Kevin there they

905
00:46:57,880 --> 00:47:02,799
Speaker 1: were lamenting the loss of Kevin Johnson, right, I mean,

906
00:47:03,320 --> 00:47:06,319
Speaker 1: they're back sevens. It's awful. It's awful, might be one

907
00:47:06,320 --> 00:47:07,680
Speaker 1: of the worst in the league. I'm not sure how

908
00:47:07,680 --> 00:47:09,040
Speaker 1: it would get much worse. I mean, I'll take the

909
00:47:09,080 --> 00:47:12,879
Speaker 1: Titans over there, back seven. If you put this, if

910
00:47:12,880 --> 00:47:15,719
Speaker 1: you put the raven or the Browns pass rush with

911
00:47:15,760 --> 00:47:18,960
Speaker 1: the Titans defense, now you might have something. Now you're talking,

912
00:47:19,760 --> 00:47:22,880
Speaker 1: but you can't. Uh, And he was, We're gonna take

913
00:47:22,880 --> 00:47:24,279
Speaker 1: another break when we come back. It's time for the

914
00:47:24,280 --> 00:47:27,080
Speaker 1: fantasy football focus. He is Matt Williamson. I'm Dale Lolly.

915
00:47:27,160 --> 00:47:30,080
Speaker 1: You're listening to the Drive here on Steelers Radio Nation Radio,

916
00:47:30,120 --> 00:47:37,160
Speaker 1: brought to you by Ford in FedEx. Please he's the

917
00:47:37,280 --> 00:47:41,800
Speaker 1: Drive with Dale Lolly and Matt Williamson on Home of

918
00:47:41,880 --> 00:48:04,680
Speaker 1: the Black and Goal Steelers Nation Radio. Welcome back. I'm

919
00:48:04,760 --> 00:48:07,440
Speaker 1: Dale Ali here with Matt Williamson. Our coverage here on

920
00:48:07,480 --> 00:48:09,600
Speaker 1: Steelers Nation Radio brought to you by Ford and fed

921
00:48:09,719 --> 00:48:12,160
Speaker 1: X throughout the playoffs, and it's time for the Fantasy

922
00:48:12,200 --> 00:48:17,040
Speaker 1: Football Focus. Today. We will create our DFS lineup. If

923
00:48:17,040 --> 00:48:19,719
Speaker 1: you played our DFS lineup last week, you probably did

924
00:48:19,800 --> 00:48:24,400
Speaker 1: very well north of a hundred eighty points, and uh

925
00:48:24,560 --> 00:48:27,120
Speaker 1: so we'll build that again. We'll use both Saturday and

926
00:48:27,160 --> 00:48:29,759
Speaker 1: Sunday games. Uh So, that gives us six games to

927
00:48:29,760 --> 00:48:33,080
Speaker 1: work with. As we talked about earlier in the week,

928
00:48:33,160 --> 00:48:34,879
Speaker 1: I think you want to kind of shy away from

929
00:48:34,880 --> 00:48:37,680
Speaker 1: the NFC games if you can, for the most part,

930
00:48:38,239 --> 00:48:41,160
Speaker 1: maybe on defense you want to go NFC. Let's let's

931
00:48:41,200 --> 00:48:45,960
Speaker 1: start off by get picking a defense first. We'll go there. Okay,

932
00:48:46,000 --> 00:48:48,040
Speaker 1: so you got the Saints are the top defense on

933
00:48:48,040 --> 00:48:50,360
Speaker 1: the board at thirty eight hundred. Remember were we have

934
00:48:50,400 --> 00:48:53,279
Speaker 1: fifty thousand to spend here. The Steelers are second at

935
00:48:53,320 --> 00:48:58,120
Speaker 1: thirty six hundred. Yeah, the Bills are third at und

936
00:48:58,320 --> 00:49:01,080
Speaker 1: You got the Bucks at thirty four hundred, the Ravens

937
00:49:01,080 --> 00:49:05,080
Speaker 1: at thirty three hundred, the Rams a hundred, the Bears

938
00:49:05,200 --> 00:49:12,320
Speaker 1: a hundred, Seahawks at hundred, the Browns Washington at hundred,

939
00:49:12,360 --> 00:49:18,479
Speaker 1: the Colts Titans. I would probably vote the Bus with

940
00:49:18,560 --> 00:49:23,040
Speaker 1: no respect for Washington's offense, and Alex Smith is questionable

941
00:49:23,040 --> 00:49:26,040
Speaker 1: when he's not good anyway. Um, I kind of like

942
00:49:26,160 --> 00:49:29,000
Speaker 1: Seattle and the Rams, though, I think that game is

943
00:49:29,000 --> 00:49:32,840
Speaker 1: gonna be Like I I also did it just a

944
00:49:32,920 --> 00:49:34,560
Speaker 1: DFS line up on my own, and I picked the

945
00:49:34,600 --> 00:49:37,919
Speaker 1: Seahawks with that in that in mind, and I took

946
00:49:37,920 --> 00:49:40,399
Speaker 1: the one that was cost the less the least because

947
00:49:40,400 --> 00:49:43,160
Speaker 1: you're gonna get points one way or the other, um,

948
00:49:43,200 --> 00:49:45,000
Speaker 1: you know, and I wanted to save money so I

949
00:49:45,000 --> 00:49:47,839
Speaker 1: could go big on some other yea, make it makes sense.

950
00:49:48,040 --> 00:49:50,640
Speaker 1: I got no qualms with that. I think Seattle's defense

951
00:49:50,800 --> 00:49:53,399
Speaker 1: is way better than it used to be. And Jared

952
00:49:53,440 --> 00:49:55,440
Speaker 1: Goffman not play, and even if he does, he's got

953
00:49:55,440 --> 00:49:59,319
Speaker 1: a broken right thumb. Right, it's a big deal. I

954
00:49:59,360 --> 00:50:01,759
Speaker 1: like the Rams too, because I think in the real

955
00:50:01,840 --> 00:50:04,879
Speaker 1: world the Saints, Rams, and Steelers are the best three

956
00:50:04,880 --> 00:50:08,799
Speaker 1: defenses in the in the league right now, and then

957
00:50:08,920 --> 00:50:11,080
Speaker 1: that would just be a vodacont and Seattle's offense isn't

958
00:50:11,080 --> 00:50:14,239
Speaker 1: playing that well. But the Rams offense is a much

959
00:50:14,280 --> 00:50:18,680
Speaker 1: better matchup. And Seattle's a little cheaper, right, Seattle's two cheaper.

960
00:50:19,040 --> 00:50:21,280
Speaker 1: Let's save some bucks and okay, let's go to Seattle.

961
00:50:21,280 --> 00:50:23,360
Speaker 1: I mean, I can't see the Rams putting thirty points up. No,

962
00:50:23,440 --> 00:50:26,120
Speaker 1: I don't think they will. Okay, so we want to

963
00:50:26,160 --> 00:50:28,839
Speaker 1: go quarterback. We're gonna go running back, wide receiver. Next

964
00:50:28,880 --> 00:50:33,360
Speaker 1: tight end, tight end? Okay, tight end. Mark Andrews is

965
00:50:33,400 --> 00:50:37,000
Speaker 1: the highest price guy this week. I did go with

966
00:50:37,080 --> 00:50:39,360
Speaker 1: him because the last time these two teams played, he

967
00:50:39,360 --> 00:50:42,240
Speaker 1: had five catches for ninety seven yards in a touchdown.

968
00:50:42,520 --> 00:50:44,640
Speaker 1: I mean, he that one I might have to think

969
00:50:44,680 --> 00:50:48,239
Speaker 1: about of is he someone worth going big on because

970
00:50:48,280 --> 00:50:49,960
Speaker 1: I think there's a big gap between him and whoever?

971
00:50:50,160 --> 00:50:54,320
Speaker 1: Well the number two guys, Logan Thomas at yah, I

972
00:50:54,440 --> 00:50:56,879
Speaker 1: keep horrible, but not horrible. I don't think I'm paying

973
00:50:56,880 --> 00:50:59,600
Speaker 1: that for him. Jered Cook is three at fort hundred.

974
00:51:00,000 --> 00:51:03,240
Speaker 1: You got Gronk at four thousand. Austin Hooper at hundred,

975
00:51:03,719 --> 00:51:07,200
Speaker 1: Eric Ebron at thirty seven hundred, UH Tyler Higbee at

976
00:51:07,200 --> 00:51:09,800
Speaker 1: thirty four hundred, Jimmy Graham at thirty three hundred, Johnny

977
00:51:09,880 --> 00:51:14,399
Speaker 1: Smith at UH, Dawson Knox at one hundred, year Old

978
00:51:14,440 --> 00:51:17,520
Speaker 1: Everett at three thousand, Cold Comment at three thousand, Jack

979
00:51:17,560 --> 00:51:23,040
Speaker 1: Doyle at then we're getting done into I'm leaning towards

980
00:51:23,600 --> 00:51:27,200
Speaker 1: Andrews because I think there's a lot of B level

981
00:51:27,239 --> 00:51:29,520
Speaker 1: guys at running back and receiver that we're gonna like

982
00:51:29,640 --> 00:51:31,640
Speaker 1: this week. John Brown's a guy I really like. That's

983
00:51:31,680 --> 00:51:33,759
Speaker 1: kind of what what I did with that, kind of

984
00:51:33,800 --> 00:51:35,480
Speaker 1: like feeling, you know, I don't typically pay up for

985
00:51:35,520 --> 00:51:39,320
Speaker 1: the tight end position, but in this case not that bad.

986
00:51:39,680 --> 00:51:43,640
Speaker 1: Like if Kelsey would be yeah hundred or something like that.

987
00:51:44,239 --> 00:51:46,560
Speaker 1: The other name there that if if we decide to

988
00:51:46,600 --> 00:51:48,879
Speaker 1: come back and not go big on tight end, would

989
00:51:48,880 --> 00:51:53,160
Speaker 1: be Abron for me. He would be my fallback, cheap plan. Yeah, well,

990
00:51:53,239 --> 00:51:56,120
Speaker 1: let's go let's throw Andrews in there for now. Okay,

991
00:51:56,160 --> 00:51:58,160
Speaker 1: so now we go, let's go to let's let's go

992
00:51:58,200 --> 00:52:01,080
Speaker 1: to quarterback. Let's go to quarterback. Uh, you got Lamar

993
00:52:01,200 --> 00:52:05,240
Speaker 1: Jackson at seventy hundred. Consider it you've got Josh Allen

994
00:52:05,280 --> 00:52:10,400
Speaker 1: at hundred d I'm sorry, I don't Wally got that number. Uh,

995
00:52:10,440 --> 00:52:16,359
Speaker 1: Tom Brady at one, Russell Wilson at sixty seven hundred. Uh,

996
00:52:16,640 --> 00:52:20,919
Speaker 1: Ryan tanne Hill at sixty six hundred. Maybe Ben Roethlisberger

997
00:52:21,000 --> 00:52:25,319
Speaker 1: at sixty one hundred. Maybe that's that's intriguing to me.

998
00:52:25,920 --> 00:52:30,480
Speaker 1: Jared Goff Jared Raff is six thousand. No, Drew Brees

999
00:52:30,560 --> 00:52:35,640
Speaker 1: fifty seven hundred, that's not terrible. Philip Rivers is fifty

1000
00:52:35,680 --> 00:52:40,880
Speaker 1: five hundred. No, Baker Mayfield is fifty four hundred, Mitchell

1001
00:52:40,960 --> 00:52:45,319
Speaker 1: Robiskie fifty, Alex Smith is fifty one hundred, and then

1002
00:52:45,320 --> 00:52:48,080
Speaker 1: you're down to Taysom Hill at five thousand. Sonna go

1003
00:52:48,120 --> 00:52:53,120
Speaker 1: with Bed. Let's throw Ben in there end they I mean,

1004
00:52:53,160 --> 00:52:54,839
Speaker 1: they don't run the ball. They don't run the ball.

1005
00:52:54,880 --> 00:52:57,080
Speaker 1: And he's got matchups all over the back seven of

1006
00:52:57,160 --> 00:52:59,160
Speaker 1: the Viking. Yeah, I mean they're gonna throw the full

1007
00:52:59,360 --> 00:53:01,879
Speaker 1: and he's got a hell the group of receivers. Let's

1008
00:53:02,440 --> 00:53:04,479
Speaker 1: let's look at those receivers. Now, we'll go to that next.

1009
00:53:05,400 --> 00:53:08,200
Speaker 1: Um digs is number one at seventy seven hundred. I

1010
00:53:08,239 --> 00:53:10,359
Speaker 1: don't pay him that considering that some of the other

1011
00:53:10,360 --> 00:53:12,839
Speaker 1: guys that are out there. A. J. Brown is seventy one,

1012
00:53:14,239 --> 00:53:18,279
Speaker 1: Chris Goblin is seven thousand, Tyler Locke at six d

1013
00:53:19,520 --> 00:53:24,320
Speaker 1: DK metcalf Stred definitely not. Allen Robinson sixty six hundred.

1014
00:53:25,239 --> 00:53:26,960
Speaker 1: Maybe if I knew he was healthy, but he's not.

1015
00:53:27,080 --> 00:53:30,280
Speaker 1: Mike Evans is sixty five hundred. Michael Thomas is expected

1016
00:53:30,280 --> 00:53:34,480
Speaker 1: to play, He's sixty. McLaurin is sixty three hundred, Robert

1017
00:53:34,480 --> 00:53:40,240
Speaker 1: Woods at sixty two hundred. Deonte Johnson is yes, Okay,

1018
00:53:40,400 --> 00:53:42,399
Speaker 1: that's a good bargain there at that, and you've you've

1019
00:53:42,440 --> 00:53:47,360
Speaker 1: stacked him now with Roth's Chris um Antonio Brown at

1020
00:53:49,080 --> 00:53:50,480
Speaker 1: I'm not sure Evans is gonna get a lot of

1021
00:53:50,480 --> 00:53:52,480
Speaker 1: playing time. Yeah, I don't know about that either. Cooper

1022
00:53:52,520 --> 00:53:55,400
Speaker 1: Cup six thousand. There's something wrong with him too. I

1023
00:53:55,400 --> 00:53:59,600
Speaker 1: think he's a questionable. He didn't have a designation. Jarvis

1024
00:53:59,719 --> 00:54:03,200
Speaker 1: land Is fifty eight hundred, Jujuice Smith Schuster fifty five hundred,

1025
00:54:04,080 --> 00:54:09,440
Speaker 1: Marquise Brown fifty four hundred, maybe, Cole Beasley uh hundred.

1026
00:54:09,480 --> 00:54:11,960
Speaker 1: I don't know that he plays. Chase Claypot two hundred.

1027
00:54:13,280 --> 00:54:16,640
Speaker 1: T Y Hilton at fifty one hundred, not bad Emmanuel

1028
00:54:16,640 --> 00:54:20,160
Speaker 1: Sanders at five thousand, Corey Davis at hundred mm hmm,

1029
00:54:21,120 --> 00:54:25,759
Speaker 1: John Brown at Okay, so we got Deante Johnson and

1030
00:54:25,840 --> 00:54:29,000
Speaker 1: John Brown. We still have one d left and we've

1031
00:54:29,000 --> 00:54:32,440
Speaker 1: only got a fill four spots. We can spend an

1032
00:54:32,480 --> 00:54:34,719
Speaker 1: average of sixty two dollars here on the rest of

1033
00:54:34,719 --> 00:54:37,360
Speaker 1: our We got to pick another receiver though, Shard Higgins

1034
00:54:37,360 --> 00:54:41,000
Speaker 1: is forty one. UM, let's hold off on the other receiver. Yeah,

1035
00:54:41,080 --> 00:54:42,600
Speaker 1: let's let's wait. Let's let's see what we got the

1036
00:54:42,680 --> 00:54:45,080
Speaker 1: running back position. Do we want to go big here?

1037
00:54:45,120 --> 00:54:48,320
Speaker 1: Derrick Henry's hundred Is that like as much as you

1038
00:54:48,400 --> 00:54:52,439
Speaker 1: ever see? It's pretty high. I think I've seen some tens.

1039
00:54:52,520 --> 00:54:58,279
Speaker 1: Usually it's a quarterback matchup. Alvin Kamars I kind of

1040
00:54:58,320 --> 00:55:05,759
Speaker 1: like that. Uh, Taylor is definitely that. David Montgomery, don't

1041
00:55:05,760 --> 00:55:15,520
Speaker 1: trust him. Nick chobb JK. Dobbins, Chris Carson is mm hm.

1042
00:55:16,520 --> 00:55:19,880
Speaker 1: Antonio Gibson fifty seven hundred. He doesn't play in the snaps.

1043
00:55:20,560 --> 00:55:23,879
Speaker 1: Ronald Jones. I don't think they'll run the ball well

1044
00:55:24,560 --> 00:55:31,480
Speaker 1: cam Acres James Conner five thousand. Here's the I just

1045
00:55:31,520 --> 00:55:35,080
Speaker 1: noticed this today in the last two games. James Conner

1046
00:55:35,080 --> 00:55:38,320
Speaker 1: has been targeted thirteen times. He has ten catches in

1047
00:55:38,360 --> 00:55:40,440
Speaker 1: the last two games. They started throwing him the football,

1048
00:55:41,320 --> 00:55:42,759
Speaker 1: and you know he's gonna get the goal, He's gonna

1049
00:55:42,760 --> 00:55:46,600
Speaker 1: get the shortyardage stuff. I don't think he does gets all.

1050
00:55:46,640 --> 00:55:53,160
Speaker 1: Connor J. D. Mckissic is, Kareem Hunt is fort hundred,

1051
00:55:54,719 --> 00:55:59,200
Speaker 1: Naim Hines is forty seven. These kind of cheap guys

1052
00:55:59,200 --> 00:56:01,520
Speaker 1: I didn't honor than all those names about. Let's say

1053
00:56:01,560 --> 00:56:05,839
Speaker 1: this Murray. Maybe you like him more than I do,

1054
00:56:05,880 --> 00:56:08,440
Speaker 1: but he's productive. I just don't think they're gonna Camars

1055
00:56:08,480 --> 00:56:10,400
Speaker 1: just saying automatically come back and they're gonna play him.

1056
00:56:12,080 --> 00:56:14,120
Speaker 1: He's not a huge snap to begin with, right, I mean,

1057
00:56:14,120 --> 00:56:16,080
Speaker 1: I think you know they're going to run the football

1058
00:56:16,080 --> 00:56:17,680
Speaker 1: at all in this game. I think if they get

1059
00:56:17,800 --> 00:56:19,799
Speaker 1: especially if they get a lead, which they probably, it's

1060
00:56:19,800 --> 00:56:22,120
Speaker 1: gonna be all. It's all. It's gonna be all Murray

1061
00:56:22,120 --> 00:56:25,600
Speaker 1: in the second half. Uh So, what are you feel

1062
00:56:25,600 --> 00:56:31,560
Speaker 1: in there? Let's take Connor. Okay, we're stacking. We're stacking

1063
00:56:31,640 --> 00:56:36,839
Speaker 1: some Steelers here, swords. Connor go go. I mean, I'd

1064
00:56:36,920 --> 00:56:41,000
Speaker 1: certainly prefer him to all the cheaper names. Okay, he's

1065
00:56:41,040 --> 00:56:42,960
Speaker 1: five thousands. So now we have an average of sixty

1066
00:56:43,400 --> 00:56:46,120
Speaker 1: unred to spend on three players of running back, a

1067
00:56:46,160 --> 00:56:51,640
Speaker 1: wide receiver, and a flex I like Dobbins. Okay, I

1068
00:56:51,719 --> 00:56:57,840
Speaker 1: like Acres. Let's see Dobbins is sixty acres. If we

1069
00:56:57,880 --> 00:57:02,120
Speaker 1: do that right, Yes, let's let's let's go with Acres

1070
00:57:02,120 --> 00:57:04,040
Speaker 1: and see what we like at the wide receiver position.

1071
00:57:04,520 --> 00:57:06,399
Speaker 1: See what they go there? I mean that it leaves

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00:57:06,480 --> 00:57:08,759
Speaker 1: us fifteen hundred. We could take them both. Actually, we

1073
00:57:08,800 --> 00:57:12,880
Speaker 1: could use Dobbins as our flex. Let me go to

1074
00:57:12,880 --> 00:57:16,720
Speaker 1: the flex here. Dobbins is a flex is sixty six hundred.

1075
00:57:16,880 --> 00:57:22,520
Speaker 1: That leaves us hundred. For a receiver. Digs is number

1076
00:57:22,560 --> 00:57:24,640
Speaker 1: one guy, and he's probably about that. Digs is seventy

1077
00:57:24,680 --> 00:57:28,080
Speaker 1: seven hundred. So we could actually pay up somewhere else

1078
00:57:28,120 --> 00:57:30,680
Speaker 1: on the roster too. If we want to, maybe a defense,

1079
00:57:31,240 --> 00:57:33,120
Speaker 1: we don't have to go cheap with the Seahawks defense.

1080
00:57:33,160 --> 00:57:34,280
Speaker 1: We can go up, pay up for one of those

1081
00:57:34,280 --> 00:57:39,080
Speaker 1: other defenses. For Lamar, for Allen, well, let's see what

1082
00:57:39,080 --> 00:57:42,320
Speaker 1: happens when we did pretty invested in Steelers, which worries. Yeah,

1083
00:57:42,440 --> 00:57:44,920
Speaker 1: so if we take Lamar hundred, that leads us with

1084
00:57:44,920 --> 00:57:49,560
Speaker 1: sixty seven hundred then at the receiver position, which leaves us. Uh.

1085
00:57:49,640 --> 00:57:51,600
Speaker 1: That takes some of the top four guys off the board,

1086
00:57:51,600 --> 00:57:54,520
Speaker 1: but our number one choices DK metcalf at sixty seven.

1087
00:57:54,880 --> 00:57:57,000
Speaker 1: I don't like that matchup with Ramsey Allen Robinson at

1088
00:57:57,000 --> 00:58:03,440
Speaker 1: sixty six. Is there any uh distinctions with him? Medical? Uh?

1089
00:58:03,560 --> 00:58:06,120
Speaker 1: You got Mike Evans a sixty five, Michael Thomas at

1090
00:58:06,120 --> 00:58:10,200
Speaker 1: sixty four, Terry McLaurin at sixty three, Robert Woods at

1091
00:58:10,240 --> 00:58:12,560
Speaker 1: sixty two. I think Allen Robinson's gonna get a lot

1092
00:58:12,600 --> 00:58:16,160
Speaker 1: of second half love for fantasy. I think so too.

1093
00:58:16,440 --> 00:58:18,880
Speaker 1: I'm cool with that. We'll go with that. That leads

1094
00:58:18,920 --> 00:58:20,880
Speaker 1: us with a hundred dollars left over with our lineup.

1095
00:58:20,920 --> 00:58:23,560
Speaker 1: That's not enough to pay up and get the Rams defense.

1096
00:58:23,680 --> 00:58:26,320
Speaker 1: We want to do that. Yeah, So we got Lamar

1097
00:58:26,400 --> 00:58:30,120
Speaker 1: Jackson at hundred, James Conner at five thousand, cam Acres

1098
00:58:30,160 --> 00:58:33,480
Speaker 1: at fifty one hundred, Deante Johnson at sixty two hundred,

1099
00:58:33,920 --> 00:58:37,160
Speaker 1: John Brown at forty seven hundred, Allen Robinson at sixty

1100
00:58:37,200 --> 00:58:41,600
Speaker 1: six hundred, you got and Mark Andrews at fifty two,

1101
00:58:41,840 --> 00:58:45,680
Speaker 1: d our flexes JK. Dobbins at sixty six hundred, and

1102
00:58:45,720 --> 00:58:50,080
Speaker 1: our defense is the Seahawks are pretty pretty Raven heavy.

1103
00:58:50,160 --> 00:58:52,960
Speaker 1: But I feel better being Raven heavy this week than

1104
00:58:53,000 --> 00:58:56,680
Speaker 1: Steeler heavy. It's a bad defense, great defense matchup. Yeah,

1105
00:58:56,720 --> 00:58:59,440
Speaker 1: I'm cool with that. I mean, we're not super Ravens heavy. No,

1106
00:58:59,520 --> 00:59:01,160
Speaker 1: and we're not. Yeah, we we don't have any you know,

1107
00:59:01,200 --> 00:59:02,880
Speaker 1: We've got their number one receiver, we got the top

1108
00:59:02,960 --> 00:59:07,000
Speaker 1: running back, and we get the quarterback. Yeah that's pretty good. Yeah,

1109
00:59:07,040 --> 00:59:08,520
Speaker 1: I mean I think they're gonna get the forty points.

1110
00:59:08,520 --> 00:59:12,800
Speaker 1: We got two Steelers. Again, We're we're pretty AFC heavy

1111
00:59:12,840 --> 00:59:15,560
Speaker 1: on this for a reason. Now, I like that squad

1112
00:59:16,680 --> 00:59:19,280
Speaker 1: one quickie, which I don't think I'm gonna vote for.

1113
00:59:19,960 --> 00:59:24,560
Speaker 1: If we went Alan instead of Lamar, okay, could we

1114
00:59:24,600 --> 00:59:28,320
Speaker 1: get a noticeably better defense? Let me see here? Well,

1115
00:59:28,360 --> 00:59:31,919
Speaker 1: we save uh, where's he at here? Alan? We save

1116
00:59:32,000 --> 00:59:35,800
Speaker 1: three three hundred dollars. I guess it's an extra four hundreds.

1117
00:59:35,800 --> 00:59:38,440
Speaker 1: And then if we change the defense out that leaves

1118
00:59:38,520 --> 00:59:41,360
Speaker 1: us we could take the Rams or the Bears couldn't

1119
00:59:41,400 --> 00:59:42,920
Speaker 1: get up to the box. Though we can't get up

1120
00:59:42,920 --> 00:59:46,560
Speaker 1: to the box. Now we we have thirty one dollars uh,

1121
00:59:46,600 --> 00:59:52,240
Speaker 1: and we need another uh. We need another three hundreds

1122
00:59:52,280 --> 00:59:55,520
Speaker 1: somewhere to get to the stick with Lamar. Then okay,

1123
00:59:55,560 --> 00:59:57,640
Speaker 1: so let's get Lamar back and let's go back to

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00:59:57,640 --> 01:00:04,000
Speaker 1: the Seahawks in our pocket. I'm fine with that, all right.

1125
01:00:04,040 --> 01:00:08,840
Speaker 1: I'm entering that in this coat. Boom done. We got

1126
01:00:08,840 --> 01:00:11,600
Speaker 1: a five dollar bet there on the five dollar lineup.

1127
01:00:12,280 --> 01:00:16,120
Speaker 1: Expect our way as this goes down, all you people

1128
01:00:16,120 --> 01:00:18,520
Speaker 1: listening in the contest. My lineup that I started on

1129
01:00:18,560 --> 01:00:21,640
Speaker 1: my own in my contest, and I utually ended up

1130
01:00:21,640 --> 01:00:23,760
Speaker 1: with two hundred extra dollars. I could actually actually pay

1131
01:00:23,800 --> 01:00:25,800
Speaker 1: up for the Rams defense if I wanted to. I

1132
01:00:25,840 --> 01:00:29,360
Speaker 1: think I took Seattle because they were the cheaper option.

1133
01:00:30,040 --> 01:00:34,960
Speaker 1: But I've got Josh Allen, got Dobbins at sixty hundred

1134
01:00:35,320 --> 01:00:37,800
Speaker 1: one back, I got let Tavis Murray as my other

1135
01:00:37,880 --> 01:00:43,920
Speaker 1: back at Stefon Diggs, Deante Johnson, John Brown, Mark Andrews,

1136
01:00:44,000 --> 01:00:47,120
Speaker 1: naim Ma. Hines is my flex and the Seahawks. I

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01:00:47,120 --> 01:00:48,920
Speaker 1: went with Hines is my flex because I think they're

1138
01:00:48,920 --> 01:00:50,680
Speaker 1: gonna be behind a lot They're gonna have to throw

1139
01:00:50,720 --> 01:00:52,400
Speaker 1: to keep up and there. Yeah, and I think he'll

1140
01:00:52,440 --> 01:00:54,200
Speaker 1: have some success catching them. I mean, if he catches

1141
01:00:54,240 --> 01:00:57,640
Speaker 1: five or six passes, you're pretty cheap and he's cheap. Yeah,

1142
01:00:57,640 --> 01:00:59,600
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get I'm gonna get ten to fifteen points

1143
01:00:59,600 --> 01:01:02,560
Speaker 1: out of a guy I at seven hundred bucks. Could

1144
01:01:02,600 --> 01:01:04,440
Speaker 1: you said you had two hundred bucks in your pocket?

1145
01:01:04,920 --> 01:01:07,280
Speaker 1: Could you turn Hines in the corner for two bucks?

1146
01:01:07,360 --> 01:01:10,720
Speaker 1: I would need another hundred. I believe Connor was five thousand.

1147
01:01:10,840 --> 01:01:13,360
Speaker 1: I believe, but that let me look at you. Yeah,

1148
01:01:13,400 --> 01:01:16,160
Speaker 1: I haven't turned this lineup in you. I just locked

1149
01:01:16,160 --> 01:01:19,560
Speaker 1: that light. I would need a hunt another hundred dollars

1150
01:01:19,560 --> 01:01:24,280
Speaker 1: to make that work. Um, is Murray more expensive than Connor? No,

1151
01:01:24,440 --> 01:01:28,840
Speaker 1: he's less. He's forty five. Got you, but you can't

1152
01:01:28,880 --> 01:01:32,200
Speaker 1: get the Connor for Murray? Can't? Yeah, I don't know

1153
01:01:32,200 --> 01:01:34,240
Speaker 1: that I would blow everything up. I like your logic

1154
01:01:34,320 --> 01:01:38,920
Speaker 1: on Murray and Hines both because of the game scripts

1155
01:01:38,920 --> 01:01:40,480
Speaker 1: that you're Yeah, I think that's what you look at,

1156
01:01:40,520 --> 01:01:43,880
Speaker 1: because again, when the Saints get up in that game,

1157
01:01:44,040 --> 01:01:47,760
Speaker 1: and even when they just run the ball normally, it's

1158
01:01:47,760 --> 01:01:49,840
Speaker 1: gonna be you know, he's gonna get He might play

1159
01:01:49,880 --> 01:01:51,880
Speaker 1: the whole fourth quarter of Yeah, he's gonna get ten

1160
01:01:51,920 --> 01:01:54,800
Speaker 1: touches in the first half, and then the second half

1161
01:01:54,800 --> 01:01:58,520
Speaker 1: could be fifteen. Could you know and I like that,

1162
01:01:59,120 --> 01:02:02,080
Speaker 1: but we'll see. Mean, that's the thing with getting a

1163
01:02:02,120 --> 01:02:05,280
Speaker 1: winning entry in one of these DFS things is they

1164
01:02:05,280 --> 01:02:07,720
Speaker 1: think outside the box. You don't want to have all

1165
01:02:07,800 --> 01:02:10,840
Speaker 1: chalk picks. You don't want the same picks that everybody

1166
01:02:10,840 --> 01:02:13,400
Speaker 1: else hays. You've gotta have something different to win. You

1167
01:02:13,480 --> 01:02:15,960
Speaker 1: gotta have Let Tavis Murray, who goes out and let's

1168
01:02:16,000 --> 01:02:20,240
Speaker 1: say he scores twice Sunday, right right right, we're heinz.

1169
01:02:20,320 --> 01:02:23,600
Speaker 1: You know, catches one and takes you know in scores. Um,

1170
01:02:23,720 --> 01:02:25,920
Speaker 1: you know those are that's how you win. Because everybody's

1171
01:02:25,920 --> 01:02:28,200
Speaker 1: gonna have the quarterbacks and there's not a lot of

1172
01:02:28,240 --> 01:02:31,640
Speaker 1: difference with especially now, if one of those guys goes

1173
01:02:31,680 --> 01:02:34,760
Speaker 1: off and has a huge game, you want to have him. Yeah,

1174
01:02:34,920 --> 01:02:36,720
Speaker 1: you want to have him in the lineup. That helps.

1175
01:02:37,040 --> 01:02:39,480
Speaker 1: But I would think, just as a rule, again I'm

1176
01:02:39,520 --> 01:02:42,320
Speaker 1: a novice for DFS, I bet I would take some

1177
01:02:42,360 --> 01:02:45,400
Speaker 1: long shots the tight end a lot, you know, maybe

1178
01:02:45,400 --> 01:02:49,040
Speaker 1: try to find that guy that Logan Thomas earlier. I mean,

1179
01:02:49,040 --> 01:02:53,320
Speaker 1: that's that's yeah, that's but then once they once they

1180
01:02:53,320 --> 01:02:56,120
Speaker 1: start blowing up the price, Yeah, the price comes up

1181
01:02:56,160 --> 01:02:57,880
Speaker 1: on him, and yeah, you gotta find the next guy

1182
01:02:57,880 --> 01:02:59,560
Speaker 1: who's gonna who's gonna be that guy? I mean, I'm

1183
01:02:59,560 --> 01:03:02,840
Speaker 1: sure you know again, Tyler Higbee was a perfect one

1184
01:03:03,040 --> 01:03:06,720
Speaker 1: monster last year for a stretch. But interesting. Yeah, but

1185
01:03:06,760 --> 01:03:09,320
Speaker 1: that's our DFS lineup. But for this week, hopefully he

1186
01:03:09,440 --> 01:03:12,120
Speaker 1: got that down and and I can play that if

1187
01:03:12,160 --> 01:03:14,080
Speaker 1: I can read it off here once again for people

1188
01:03:14,080 --> 01:03:17,280
Speaker 1: if they they want to do this. We got Lamar

1189
01:03:17,360 --> 01:03:19,600
Speaker 1: Jackson at quarterback. This is on DraftKings, by the way,

1190
01:03:19,640 --> 01:03:22,680
Speaker 1: Cam Akers at running back, James Conners, the other back,

1191
01:03:22,760 --> 01:03:25,600
Speaker 1: Allen Robinson at one wide receiver spot, Deante Johnson and

1192
01:03:25,720 --> 01:03:29,080
Speaker 1: John Brown at the other two wide receiver spots Mark Andrews.

1193
01:03:29,080 --> 01:03:32,080
Speaker 1: I really like that pick this week at the tight

1194
01:03:32,160 --> 01:03:35,480
Speaker 1: end position, our flexes JK. Dobbins is sixty shundred although

1195
01:03:35,560 --> 01:03:37,400
Speaker 1: he could replace either one of the running backs that

1196
01:03:37,520 --> 01:03:40,960
Speaker 1: really doesn't matter. And then the seat yeah, and then

1197
01:03:40,960 --> 01:03:43,280
Speaker 1: the Seahawks defense. Yeah, I don't think it'll be any

1198
01:03:43,280 --> 01:03:44,520
Speaker 1: points in that game. Yeah, it should be a it

1199
01:03:44,520 --> 01:03:46,640
Speaker 1: should be a good, good entry there. But we'll let

1200
01:03:46,680 --> 01:03:49,960
Speaker 1: you know on Monday how we did with that. Again. Yeah,

1201
01:03:50,480 --> 01:03:54,720
Speaker 1: if you you win some money with that, have ad.

1202
01:03:54,840 --> 01:03:57,080
Speaker 1: We we feel good about it. But uh, he is

1203
01:03:57,120 --> 01:03:59,520
Speaker 1: Matt Williamson. I'm Dale Lali. You're listening to the Drive

1204
01:03:59,560 --> 01:04:01,720
Speaker 1: here on Dealer's Nation Radio. We're brought to you by

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01:04:01,760 --> 01:04:03,760
Speaker 1: Ford and fed X. We're gonna take our break. We'll

1206
01:04:03,760 --> 01:04:06,680
Speaker 1: be right back with our picks on this game for Sunday.

1207
01:04:06,960 --> 01:04:12,560
Speaker 1: Right after this your tunes about Drive on Home of

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01:04:12,640 --> 01:04:49,280
Speaker 1: the Black and Goal Steelers Nation Radio. We are back.

1209
01:04:49,320 --> 01:04:52,120
Speaker 1: I'm Dale Alle here with Matt Williamson. It's Matt. It's

1210
01:04:52,160 --> 01:04:54,000
Speaker 1: time for us to make our picks. Of course, our

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Speaker 1: show brought to you by Ford and FedEx, and it's time.

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01:04:58,520 --> 01:05:01,480
Speaker 1: I'll let you go first, Matt. I got Steelers twenty

1213
01:05:01,600 --> 01:05:09,800
Speaker 1: seven brownies thirteen you're kidding me, actually seventeen this morning.

1214
01:05:11,320 --> 01:05:13,840
Speaker 1: Nice And we do talk each other in the things

1215
01:05:13,880 --> 01:05:18,400
Speaker 1: throughout the week, and yeah, the chances what I mean.

1216
01:05:18,480 --> 01:05:20,480
Speaker 1: I I did my thing last night. I put my

1217
01:05:20,520 --> 01:05:22,680
Speaker 1: score in last night on my preview and that's that's

1218
01:05:22,680 --> 01:05:26,800
Speaker 1: the score that I picked a spore. I think they

1219
01:05:26,840 --> 01:05:29,760
Speaker 1: beat him by more than that. Even I think it

1220
01:05:29,800 --> 01:05:31,280
Speaker 1: could be closed for a while. I mean, I think

1221
01:05:31,320 --> 01:05:33,960
Speaker 1: the first quarter will be be closed. But I'm expecting

1222
01:05:34,000 --> 01:05:37,960
Speaker 1: some Mayfield mistakes. I'm expecting a lot of Steeler pass

1223
01:05:38,000 --> 01:05:42,880
Speaker 1: rush and that's just you know, Mayfield repellent. Um. I

1224
01:05:42,960 --> 01:05:46,240
Speaker 1: got I hopes for the offense. Yeah, I do as well.

1225
01:05:46,280 --> 01:05:50,200
Speaker 1: I think you know, this defense, um is probably the

1226
01:05:50,280 --> 01:05:54,080
Speaker 1: second worst defense in the playoffs where right now? Yeah,

1227
01:05:54,160 --> 01:05:58,440
Speaker 1: I mean behind Tennessee. Um. The difference, however, is that

1228
01:05:58,560 --> 01:06:02,320
Speaker 1: Tennessee has an offense that I think is more capable

1229
01:06:02,360 --> 01:06:04,360
Speaker 1: of It might be the best offense and one of

1230
01:06:04,400 --> 01:06:08,200
Speaker 1: the best off Um. This Browns team, again, I don't

1231
01:06:08,240 --> 01:06:11,840
Speaker 1: trust the quarterback. Uh. If you look at their offensively

1232
01:06:11,880 --> 01:06:15,800
Speaker 1: there average per play five point eight yards per play

1233
01:06:15,800 --> 01:06:18,240
Speaker 1: on offense, they allow five point five yards per play

1234
01:06:18,520 --> 01:06:23,320
Speaker 1: on defense. Um, you know, deferential and yeah, again that's

1235
01:06:23,360 --> 01:06:25,160
Speaker 1: another thing. But you look at the Steelers, they get

1236
01:06:25,680 --> 01:06:27,800
Speaker 1: the only average five point one yards on offense, but

1237
01:06:27,840 --> 01:06:30,680
Speaker 1: they give a four point nine on defense. And that's

1238
01:06:30,720 --> 01:06:33,880
Speaker 1: that's one of the best. I'm sure one of the best. Um. Yeah,

1239
01:06:33,920 --> 01:06:35,680
Speaker 1: I mean I think the Steelers will move the football

1240
01:06:35,720 --> 01:06:37,560
Speaker 1: in this game. I think if they take care of

1241
01:06:37,600 --> 01:06:39,480
Speaker 1: the football this game, if they get a takeaway, a

1242
01:06:39,720 --> 01:06:43,920
Speaker 1: just a single takeaway plus one and the turnover, they

1243
01:06:43,960 --> 01:06:45,920
Speaker 1: win the game. Yeah. And I think that the Browns

1244
01:06:45,920 --> 01:06:48,960
Speaker 1: in this situation will will cough one up at some point.

1245
01:06:49,160 --> 01:06:51,800
Speaker 1: I think there's gonna be a Mayfield fumble in the pocket,

1246
01:06:51,880 --> 01:06:55,000
Speaker 1: and I bet there's a Mayfield interception. Yeah, over under

1247
01:06:55,040 --> 01:06:57,640
Speaker 1: on sacks of Mayfield in this game four and a

1248
01:06:57,640 --> 01:07:00,400
Speaker 1: half they got. They got to him four times in

1249
01:07:00,400 --> 01:07:02,200
Speaker 1: both of these games this year, and he only played

1250
01:07:03,200 --> 01:07:05,120
Speaker 1: midway through the third quarter in that second in that

1251
01:07:05,200 --> 01:07:07,400
Speaker 1: first meeting this year, and they got him four times.

1252
01:07:07,520 --> 01:07:09,560
Speaker 1: All right, let's set that five and a half because

1253
01:07:09,600 --> 01:07:11,040
Speaker 1: I think we both go over on four and a half.

1254
01:07:11,040 --> 01:07:14,080
Speaker 1: Wouldn't you'd be right around that number. Yeah, I think

1255
01:07:14,080 --> 01:07:17,480
Speaker 1: if they get to him for at least four times. Um. Again,

1256
01:07:17,520 --> 01:07:19,760
Speaker 1: it's it's it's it's not as much the number of

1257
01:07:19,800 --> 01:07:22,000
Speaker 1: sacks that you get, it's the pressure as well, right,

1258
01:07:22,040 --> 01:07:24,240
Speaker 1: And the Steelers are always the top of league in pressures,

1259
01:07:24,360 --> 01:07:27,200
Speaker 1: and by far more than most. And he's not a

1260
01:07:27,280 --> 01:07:29,920
Speaker 1: quarterback that handles it well. Four point five yards per

1261
01:07:29,960 --> 01:07:33,360
Speaker 1: past attempt when pressured. That's awful. I bet Hayward gets

1262
01:07:33,480 --> 01:07:35,919
Speaker 1: quite a few. Yeah, I bet Watt has quite a few.

1263
01:07:36,160 --> 01:07:38,160
Speaker 1: I mean we even saw to it last week, walking

1264
01:07:38,200 --> 01:07:41,640
Speaker 1: Teller back into the obvious passing downs. He was walking

1265
01:07:41,680 --> 01:07:44,000
Speaker 1: Teller back to the quarterback. He was, I mean, tell

1266
01:07:44,000 --> 01:07:47,360
Speaker 1: her I had some nice run game, you know, flashes there,

1267
01:07:47,440 --> 01:07:49,440
Speaker 1: but too it's a handful. I mean it was a

1268
01:07:49,600 --> 01:07:53,320
Speaker 1: it was a good battle. Um. But again there I

1269
01:07:53,360 --> 01:07:56,560
Speaker 1: asked to it about that today, about the big runs

1270
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Speaker 1: that Chubb had, the two big runs, because because yeah,

1271
01:07:59,040 --> 01:08:00,360
Speaker 1: that got to me. But I was and in there

1272
01:08:00,400 --> 01:08:03,680
Speaker 1: on those plays. So both of the big place, both

1273
01:08:03,720 --> 01:08:05,240
Speaker 1: of the big run plays came. When to it was

1274
01:08:05,280 --> 01:08:07,280
Speaker 1: standing on the sideline, Well, he's not going to be

1275
01:08:07,360 --> 01:08:09,080
Speaker 1: standing on the sideline a whole lot in this one,

1276
01:08:09,200 --> 01:08:12,480
Speaker 1: nor is Hayward, nor is Watt or Lulu. I think

1277
01:08:12,480 --> 01:08:15,280
Speaker 1: as a decent matchup, I think he'll hangs. And if

1278
01:08:15,520 --> 01:08:17,960
Speaker 1: I think in this game, if Titt or if Tuart

1279
01:08:18,000 --> 01:08:21,040
Speaker 1: and Hayward are standing on the sidelines, it's going to

1280
01:08:21,040 --> 01:08:23,880
Speaker 1: be a Lulu in there instead of You're not Henry

1281
01:08:23,920 --> 01:08:27,360
Speaker 1: Mondo or something. Nothing against those guys, but their backup

1282
01:08:27,920 --> 01:08:29,880
Speaker 1: your fifth and sixth lineman where you might there's no

1283
01:08:30,000 --> 01:08:32,519
Speaker 1: tomorrow you play your guys in this game. Oh yeah,

1284
01:08:32,560 --> 01:08:34,800
Speaker 1: I mean that's gonna be the difference is not only

1285
01:08:34,880 --> 01:08:36,600
Speaker 1: gonna have the star power, but you're not gonna have

1286
01:08:36,640 --> 01:08:39,280
Speaker 1: the bottom of the roster players like, oh, it's not

1287
01:08:39,280 --> 01:08:41,400
Speaker 1: gonna play Harve any snaps, you know, those type of

1288
01:08:41,479 --> 01:08:44,280
Speaker 1: dudes that are special teamers or you know projects. Yeah,

1289
01:08:44,439 --> 01:08:47,519
Speaker 1: that's huge to me. Yeah, everything that you saw during

1290
01:08:47,560 --> 01:08:50,559
Speaker 1: the course of the regular season with guys, Okay, he

1291
01:08:50,600 --> 01:08:53,439
Speaker 1: only played seventy of the snaps in this game. They know,

1292
01:08:53,439 --> 01:08:55,280
Speaker 1: they're kind of you know, they took him out when

1293
01:08:55,280 --> 01:08:57,439
Speaker 1: they when the the offense was down at the other

1294
01:08:57,520 --> 01:08:59,280
Speaker 1: end of the field. That kind of stuff that's out

1295
01:08:59,280 --> 01:09:02,120
Speaker 1: the window. That's these guys are all your your top

1296
01:09:02,120 --> 01:09:04,560
Speaker 1: defensive guys are playing eighty five plus percent of the

1297
01:09:04,600 --> 01:09:06,439
Speaker 1: snaps in this game. And I think that's would be

1298
01:09:06,520 --> 01:09:09,920
Speaker 1: really true with Connor. Yeah, ride him to no end.

1299
01:09:10,120 --> 01:09:12,040
Speaker 1: There is no tomorrow that he This might be his

1300
01:09:12,120 --> 01:09:13,479
Speaker 1: last couple This could be his last game of the

1301
01:09:13,479 --> 01:09:16,599
Speaker 1: Steeler you know what I mean. Possibility And for if

1302
01:09:16,640 --> 01:09:18,880
Speaker 1: you're him, you want that kind of issue. You want

1303
01:09:19,240 --> 01:09:21,600
Speaker 1: you want to be showcased in these playoffs. You do

1304
01:09:21,320 --> 01:09:22,800
Speaker 1: you do. You want to be a reason why your

1305
01:09:22,800 --> 01:09:25,240
Speaker 1: team goes out there and when the regular season is

1306
01:09:25,240 --> 01:09:28,040
Speaker 1: is behind you. Your team went twelve and four, great,

1307
01:09:29,080 --> 01:09:31,240
Speaker 1: but how many times do you see guys get paid

1308
01:09:32,120 --> 01:09:34,160
Speaker 1: big money for something that they did in the playoffs.

1309
01:09:34,200 --> 01:09:37,160
Speaker 1: Absolutely happens all the time, and maybe even the Steelers

1310
01:09:37,200 --> 01:09:40,599
Speaker 1: give him, you know something, maybe because you know, Cornor

1311
01:09:40,640 --> 01:09:42,240
Speaker 1: goes out there and puts up a hundred fifty total

1312
01:09:42,360 --> 01:09:44,479
Speaker 1: yards and they go, hey, that was pretty good. I

1313
01:09:45,160 --> 01:09:46,720
Speaker 1: don't know if he's the answer. I don't think he

1314
01:09:46,880 --> 01:09:48,800
Speaker 1: is long term, but I know he's a lot better

1315
01:09:48,800 --> 01:09:50,920
Speaker 1: than what the other dudes are at that position right now,

1316
01:09:51,439 --> 01:09:53,680
Speaker 1: and he needs to be featured heavily. I mean run

1317
01:09:53,800 --> 01:09:55,880
Speaker 1: and passed. You mentioned the targets he got the last

1318
01:09:55,920 --> 01:09:58,160
Speaker 1: couple of games too. Yeah, I don't think that's an accident. No,

1319
01:09:58,400 --> 01:10:02,800
Speaker 1: he's a he's an accomplished receiver. Yeah, I mean those

1320
01:10:03,720 --> 01:10:05,720
Speaker 1: were his two best receiving games of the year, and

1321
01:10:05,760 --> 01:10:07,720
Speaker 1: back to back, you know, five catches in each of

1322
01:10:07,720 --> 01:10:10,840
Speaker 1: those games that we mentioned their linebackers, and he's always

1323
01:10:10,880 --> 01:10:13,280
Speaker 1: gonna it's not like he's get doubled anyways, but he's

1324
01:10:13,280 --> 01:10:15,240
Speaker 1: gonna have a lot of dump offs where you know,

1325
01:10:15,320 --> 01:10:18,439
Speaker 1: Claypool takes people downfield, and no, I think he's gonna

1326
01:10:18,439 --> 01:10:21,000
Speaker 1: have a decent game here. Yeah, I think so as well.

1327
01:10:21,000 --> 01:10:23,120
Speaker 1: I think he's gonna be a factor especially again leaking

1328
01:10:23,120 --> 01:10:26,000
Speaker 1: out of the backfield, you know, Chip Garrett and yeah

1329
01:10:26,120 --> 01:10:27,519
Speaker 1: get out and then get out in the flat help

1330
01:10:27,520 --> 01:10:29,880
Speaker 1: with Garrett a fair amount as Um, do you think

1331
01:10:29,960 --> 01:10:33,880
Speaker 1: raiders in active on this game? That's gonna be kind

1332
01:10:33,880 --> 01:10:35,599
Speaker 1: of ran out of time. I was wondering who would

1333
01:10:35,600 --> 01:10:38,320
Speaker 1: you have inactive for this game the week out ahead

1334
01:10:38,320 --> 01:10:40,679
Speaker 1: of us? But I hate I hate figuring out inactives,

1335
01:10:40,720 --> 01:10:43,360
Speaker 1: and I think it's such as they're gonna put some

1336
01:10:43,400 --> 01:10:45,720
Speaker 1: good guys inactive, and that's not a bad thing. No,

1337
01:10:45,840 --> 01:10:48,320
Speaker 1: it's just shows the state that they're in right now.

1338
01:10:48,360 --> 01:10:50,519
Speaker 1: They're a really good position. There would be a couple

1339
01:10:50,520 --> 01:10:52,599
Speaker 1: of active guys like oh, I bet they could use them.

1340
01:10:52,600 --> 01:10:55,720
Speaker 1: But it's not a fat form. Yeah. I mean, if

1341
01:10:55,720 --> 01:10:58,320
Speaker 1: it comes down to it, you know, everybody says we'll

1342
01:10:58,360 --> 01:11:01,519
Speaker 1: just have Jalen. Samuel's inactive. Samuel's played, you know, he

1343
01:11:02,160 --> 01:11:05,080
Speaker 1: plays double digits special team snaps every week. I say,

1344
01:11:05,160 --> 01:11:07,880
Speaker 1: McFarland probably gets sat down before him. Yeah he doesn't.

1345
01:11:07,920 --> 01:11:11,320
Speaker 1: McFarland doesn't play any special times. Um. You know, if

1346
01:11:11,320 --> 01:11:14,840
Speaker 1: you run into a situation where Connor gets hurt and

1347
01:11:14,880 --> 01:11:17,960
Speaker 1: you're going into your your passing package, Sam Samuels is

1348
01:11:18,000 --> 01:11:20,599
Speaker 1: probably out there. Yeah, I mean it's unfortunate, but if

1349
01:11:21,560 --> 01:11:25,200
Speaker 1: Connor does get hurt, I think you become very predictable.

1350
01:11:25,240 --> 01:11:28,720
Speaker 1: And Snell was your early guy and Samuel's is your yeah,

1351
01:11:28,760 --> 01:11:30,599
Speaker 1: which is why again you need to draft it back

1352
01:11:30,600 --> 01:11:34,080
Speaker 1: next year and down back. And that's the value of Connor.

1353
01:11:34,120 --> 01:11:35,960
Speaker 1: And you know, if my chance to lose them, which

1354
01:11:36,320 --> 01:11:39,720
Speaker 1: unfortunately happens too much, then yeah, I mean I think

1355
01:11:39,720 --> 01:11:42,120
Speaker 1: that's your situation. So those guys get hats. But I've

1356
01:11:42,120 --> 01:11:46,479
Speaker 1: got the Steelers winning this as well. Um. You know,

1357
01:11:46,520 --> 01:11:48,920
Speaker 1: I've seen some predictions that have it closer. I've seen

1358
01:11:48,960 --> 01:11:51,559
Speaker 1: some that have it actually even more, uh than the

1359
01:11:51,600 --> 01:11:53,519
Speaker 1: bigger spread than that. I mean, this was a thirty

1360
01:11:53,520 --> 01:11:56,400
Speaker 1: eight to seven game when they played back in October,

1361
01:11:56,880 --> 01:11:59,679
Speaker 1: and it wasn't really that close. It wasn't that close,

1362
01:11:59,800 --> 01:12:02,960
Speaker 1: and they destroyed them. I mean, what would the score

1363
01:12:03,080 --> 01:12:05,599
Speaker 1: been last week with not even with Ben, what about

1364
01:12:05,600 --> 01:12:09,240
Speaker 1: with Watton cam And yeah, I mean they don't they

1365
01:12:09,240 --> 01:12:12,040
Speaker 1: don't break off a bunch of those runs. Steelers win

1366
01:12:12,080 --> 01:12:14,400
Speaker 1: that game. Yeah, I think so too, right, Yeah, I

1367
01:12:14,400 --> 01:12:16,800
Speaker 1: mean just with the one defense, they win that game. Yeah,

1368
01:12:16,960 --> 01:12:19,880
Speaker 1: without question. So yeah, I think that's what we're looking

1369
01:12:19,880 --> 01:12:22,280
Speaker 1: at here. We'll see, uh when we come back on Monday.

1370
01:12:22,320 --> 01:12:27,000
Speaker 1: If that's the case they are, even if these two teams,

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Speaker 1: if the Browns had no COVID situation this week, everybody's healthy,

1372
01:12:31,080 --> 01:12:35,680
Speaker 1: the coaches there, I'm picking and wise for them, let

1373
01:12:35,720 --> 01:12:38,320
Speaker 1: alone all these issues and their young team. I kind

1374
01:12:38,360 --> 01:12:40,080
Speaker 1: of feel for him a little bit. They can win

1375
01:12:40,120 --> 01:12:41,840
Speaker 1: this game. I mean, don't get me wrong. Yeah, I

1376
01:12:41,840 --> 01:12:43,400
Speaker 1: mean if the Steelers come out and turn to football

1377
01:12:43,400 --> 01:12:45,800
Speaker 1: over three times, yeah, right, if the offense doesn't do anything,

1378
01:12:45,880 --> 01:12:48,479
Speaker 1: We've seen how that looks. Yeah, I just don't. I

1379
01:12:48,560 --> 01:12:52,920
Speaker 1: just can't see them doing nothing against this particular defense.

1380
01:12:52,960 --> 01:12:55,320
Speaker 1: I mean, if it's a Bengal like performance, but the Steelers,

1381
01:12:55,320 --> 01:12:58,800
Speaker 1: they won't win. But I don't see it. Yeah, I

1382
01:12:58,840 --> 01:13:01,680
Speaker 1: don't see it either. But he is Matt Williamson. I'm

1383
01:13:01,720 --> 01:13:04,000
Speaker 1: Dale Lally. You're listening to the drive here on Steelers

1384
01:13:04,080 --> 01:13:06,960
Speaker 1: Nation Radio, brought to you by fed X and Ford.

1385
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Speaker 1: We're gonna take a break. When we come back, we'll

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01:13:08,439 --> 01:13:10,559
Speaker 1: hear from Dave Damashek. I'm sure he has some thoughts

1387
01:13:10,560 --> 01:13:12,960
Speaker 1: on this game as well. We'll hear that right after this.

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Speaker 1: Your tunes about drive on Home of the Black and

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Speaker 1: Goal Steelers Nation Radio. We are back and Matt, as

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Speaker 1: we do often, we'd like to play back Dave Damaschek

1391
01:13:56,280 --> 01:13:58,680
Speaker 1: on the DV Morning Show. Dave drops in from the

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01:13:58,760 --> 01:14:01,680
Speaker 1: NFL Network and NFL dot Com to talk with the

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01:14:01,800 --> 01:14:04,040
Speaker 1: guys on the DV Morning Show in VOW. I don't

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01:14:04,040 --> 01:14:07,200
Speaker 1: want to forget about uh, and we'd like to do that.

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01:14:07,280 --> 01:14:09,360
Speaker 1: Of course, our show brought to you by Ford and

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Speaker 1: fed X, But we want to get to what Dave

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01:14:12,280 --> 01:14:16,040
Speaker 1: Damashek had to say about this particular playoff matchup. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: we'll do that right now. It's the d V Morning

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Speaker 1: Show Randy Bauman along with Bill Crawford, welcoming our friend

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Speaker 1: from Minus three podcast and Extra Points Podcasts from Southern California.

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01:14:28,120 --> 01:14:30,720
Speaker 1: Though is hard always lie right at the banks of

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Speaker 1: the Three Rivers. It's our friend, Dave Damaschik. Dave, Good morning, sir,

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Speaker 1: how are you fellas? Happy New Year to you? So far?

1404
01:14:39,760 --> 01:14:43,320
Speaker 1: Not so happy? Not no, you know, listen, let's let's

1405
01:14:43,320 --> 01:14:47,600
Speaker 1: not drive ourselves, but we need someum. We need to

1406
01:14:47,680 --> 01:14:50,280
Speaker 1: make sense of this crazy world that we live in.

1407
01:14:50,720 --> 01:14:55,240
Speaker 1: And what makes sense is the Pittsburgh Steelers vanquishing the

1408
01:14:55,280 --> 01:14:59,840
Speaker 1: Cleveland Browns. This is what This is not just what

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01:15:00,000 --> 01:15:02,120
Speaker 1: we need on the banks of the Three Rivers, this

1410
01:15:02,200 --> 01:15:06,600
Speaker 1: is what our society needs. Ben Roethlisberger is here to

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01:15:06,640 --> 01:15:11,200
Speaker 1: make everything right. Sunday Night can't wait. Well return to

1412
01:15:11,280 --> 01:15:17,200
Speaker 1: normalcy before we're calling it. That's how Sunday Night Football

1413
01:15:17,439 --> 01:15:22,800
Speaker 1: should build the game things have gone haywire. Tune in

1414
01:15:22,840 --> 01:15:27,599
Speaker 1: on Sunday Night to feel what it's Remember last century

1415
01:15:27,680 --> 01:15:30,240
Speaker 1: when the Browns never beat the Steelers, Well, guess what

1416
01:15:30,360 --> 01:15:33,479
Speaker 1: on Sunday night. Gather around with everybody. It's gonna be

1417
01:15:33,520 --> 01:15:36,479
Speaker 1: like a Norman Rockwell painting come to life, the Steelers

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01:15:36,520 --> 01:15:39,400
Speaker 1: beating the Browns. Ah, this is the America. I know,

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01:15:40,000 --> 01:15:43,280
Speaker 1: all right, But I've been quoting you all week long

1420
01:15:43,800 --> 01:15:48,639
Speaker 1: using your theorem of the supposed to game, right, and

1421
01:15:48,800 --> 01:15:52,439
Speaker 1: this is very much a supposed to game for the Steelers,

1422
01:15:52,720 --> 01:15:57,160
Speaker 1: who have nearly lost a supposed to game to the

1423
01:15:57,200 --> 01:16:01,400
Speaker 1: covid Ravage Ravens, who lost a supposed to game to

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01:16:01,560 --> 01:16:05,160
Speaker 1: the Washington football team, who lost another supposed to game

1425
01:16:05,520 --> 01:16:10,760
Speaker 1: to the Cincinnati Bengals. This is more supposed to than

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01:16:10,920 --> 01:16:15,920
Speaker 1: all of those. Well, if anybody has warned the curse

1427
01:16:15,960 --> 01:16:19,360
Speaker 1: of supposed to more than Mike Tomlin. I'm not sure

1428
01:16:19,360 --> 01:16:21,360
Speaker 1: who it is. I mean, over the course, I mean

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01:16:21,960 --> 01:16:25,560
Speaker 1: his kryptonite. As great as he's been, everybody knows, no

1430
01:16:25,760 --> 01:16:29,120
Speaker 1: losing season, so on and so forth. If Mike Tomlin's

1431
01:16:29,160 --> 01:16:32,240
Speaker 1: teams have been plagued by one thing, it is the

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01:16:32,240 --> 01:16:34,920
Speaker 1: curse of supposed to, which is that when you are

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01:16:34,920 --> 01:16:38,840
Speaker 1: supposed to win, there's an extra layer of pressure upon

1434
01:16:38,880 --> 01:16:42,559
Speaker 1: your shoulders. Now the Cleveland Browns coming into Pittsburgh for

1435
01:16:42,640 --> 01:16:45,599
Speaker 1: any game, obviously the Steelers are supposed to win that one.

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01:16:46,040 --> 01:16:49,240
Speaker 1: Now we're in January, and as you say, they don't

1437
01:16:49,240 --> 01:16:52,080
Speaker 1: have their head coach. For goodness sakes, they don't have

1438
01:16:52,520 --> 01:16:56,519
Speaker 1: their best offensive lineman. It's Baker Mayfield. We have a

1439
01:16:56,560 --> 01:16:59,840
Speaker 1: first ballot Hall of Famer on our side under center. There.

1440
01:17:00,080 --> 01:17:03,559
Speaker 1: All things point towards a Pittsburgh Steelers victory. That's right.

1441
01:17:03,760 --> 01:17:07,240
Speaker 1: There's a certain amount of of supposed to get it

1442
01:17:07,320 --> 01:17:11,679
Speaker 1: done here. You know, in the Cleveland some of their

1443
01:17:11,800 --> 01:17:15,160
Speaker 1: guys are like, I don't know what they're like on there.

1444
01:17:15,200 --> 01:17:18,559
Speaker 1: They're out there. Some of them have COVID and some

1445
01:17:18,680 --> 01:17:25,599
Speaker 1: of them are on Rue Paul's Drag Show. That's hell

1446
01:17:25,640 --> 01:17:27,240
Speaker 1: are they I don't even know what's going on. They

1447
01:17:27,240 --> 01:17:29,680
Speaker 1: make the they make the playoffs for once, and they

1448
01:17:29,720 --> 01:17:32,479
Speaker 1: just completely lose their minds. This is this is the

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01:17:32,600 --> 01:17:35,600
Speaker 1: danger of low expectation. That's what it is that I

1450
01:17:35,600 --> 01:17:39,599
Speaker 1: think that's what's revealing here. Well, the one concern I've

1451
01:17:39,600 --> 01:17:42,759
Speaker 1: had is that we did not get to see Myles

1452
01:17:42,840 --> 01:17:46,839
Speaker 1: Garrett in uh full form last week, that he's still

1453
01:17:47,400 --> 01:17:51,280
Speaker 1: getting over COVID, and we saw Lamar Jackson struggle and

1454
01:17:51,280 --> 01:17:53,080
Speaker 1: take a few weeks to get back to form, and

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Speaker 1: my my worry as well, this was the week that

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Speaker 1: he finally was like, now I'm and alvill in away,

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01:18:00,080 --> 01:18:04,840
Speaker 1: but who's had a so so year? You know, like

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01:18:05,200 --> 01:18:09,200
Speaker 1: he's kept Ben from getting killed. But it looks like

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01:18:09,479 --> 01:18:12,280
Speaker 1: Al's reserve tank is you know, starting to get a

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01:18:12,320 --> 01:18:16,599
Speaker 1: little bit low here. That that scares me. But Mason's

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01:18:16,960 --> 01:18:20,960
Speaker 1: Mason's performance last week is a little more reassuring. Should

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01:18:21,000 --> 01:18:26,760
Speaker 1: Ben get absolutely you know, destroyed by Myles Garrett coming

1463
01:18:26,760 --> 01:18:29,240
Speaker 1: off the edge, I I mean I do think a

1464
01:18:29,240 --> 01:18:31,720
Speaker 1: few things. First of all, they figured out how to

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01:18:31,760 --> 01:18:33,640
Speaker 1: slow him down a little, but you just have to

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01:18:33,920 --> 01:18:37,799
Speaker 1: you you need to put vance or or another person

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01:18:37,920 --> 01:18:40,760
Speaker 1: over there to help out on Miles Garrett, especially without

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01:18:40,800 --> 01:18:45,160
Speaker 1: Olivier Vernon on the other side. That is, that's that's manageable.

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Speaker 1: And of course this whole thing is four miles the

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01:18:48,120 --> 01:18:54,759
Speaker 1: entire event. But I will say legitimately that if Mason Rudolph,

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Speaker 1: I really did get concerned going into the half. I

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01:18:57,000 --> 01:19:00,560
Speaker 1: was like, if Mason led a touchdown dry before the

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Speaker 1: half last week, and and as it turns out, had

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01:19:04,000 --> 01:19:07,120
Speaker 1: they had he pulled that game out, you know that

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01:19:07,200 --> 01:19:10,599
Speaker 1: there would be some small percentage of Pittsburgh's He's like, Dade,

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01:19:10,640 --> 01:19:16,120
Speaker 1: I don't know, dude, it's happening now, it's happening. Despite that,

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01:19:16,960 --> 01:19:21,080
Speaker 1: there is gonna be a ton of living rooms around

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01:19:21,240 --> 01:19:25,320
Speaker 1: the Pittsburgh area with cries for Mason Rudolph to go

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01:19:25,360 --> 01:19:27,160
Speaker 1: in the you know, one want to say it. I

1480
01:19:27,160 --> 01:19:31,120
Speaker 1: don't want to be sacrilegious or nothing, but Dave Mason

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01:19:31,200 --> 01:19:33,760
Speaker 1: was throwing that deep. I what I will say is, though,

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01:19:33,760 --> 01:19:35,960
Speaker 1: what I have been calling for three or four weeks ago,

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01:19:36,120 --> 01:19:38,640
Speaker 1: and I'm glad to be wrong about it, is I

1484
01:19:38,680 --> 01:19:43,920
Speaker 1: said institutional um resistance to doing anything that isn't down

1485
01:19:43,960 --> 01:19:46,559
Speaker 1: the middle and conventional. I'm glad to be wrong about that,

1486
01:19:46,600 --> 01:19:48,920
Speaker 1: and see Josh Dobbs out there in weeks seventeen, and

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01:19:49,040 --> 01:19:51,200
Speaker 1: I do hope to see him there. That's the answer.

1488
01:19:51,320 --> 01:19:56,200
Speaker 1: If if Sean Payton, who is you know, football terms

1489
01:19:56,200 --> 01:20:00,880
Speaker 1: a genius or whatever offensive genius by all pigsky in accounts,

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01:20:01,320 --> 01:20:04,040
Speaker 1: if he can put Taysom Hill out there in place

1491
01:20:04,080 --> 01:20:07,720
Speaker 1: of Drew Brees, surely coach he can do a little. Yeah,

1492
01:20:07,760 --> 01:20:10,559
Speaker 1: I'm not talking about you know, five series. I'm talking

1493
01:20:10,600 --> 01:20:13,120
Speaker 1: about three or five snaps over the course of a game.

1494
01:20:13,520 --> 01:20:15,080
Speaker 1: It makes all the sense in the world to put

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01:20:15,160 --> 01:20:18,559
Speaker 1: Josh Dobbs out there. Forget about Mason Rudolph. Dobbs can

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01:20:18,640 --> 01:20:21,639
Speaker 1: legitimately make a difference. I do like what he brings,

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01:20:21,720 --> 01:20:23,960
Speaker 1: and I also think and I hear you completely. The

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01:20:24,000 --> 01:20:26,680
Speaker 1: Steelers are supposed to win, and it is a dangerous

1499
01:20:26,720 --> 01:20:29,160
Speaker 1: spot here because you never know with these with these

1500
01:20:29,680 --> 01:20:33,040
Speaker 1: puncher's chance teams were just happy to get into the playoffs.

1501
01:20:33,120 --> 01:20:35,479
Speaker 1: Devil make care attitude. Yeah, when you're playing free and

1502
01:20:35,520 --> 01:20:38,040
Speaker 1: loose like that, the Browns kind of can be scary

1503
01:20:38,080 --> 01:20:41,280
Speaker 1: when you're that team or did they meet their goal

1504
01:20:41,680 --> 01:20:43,840
Speaker 1: and now it doesn't make a difference and they're just

1505
01:20:43,840 --> 01:20:45,800
Speaker 1: gonna lay down at the first sign of trouble. I

1506
01:20:45,840 --> 01:20:48,280
Speaker 1: think that's maybe the case if the Steelers can jump

1507
01:20:48,400 --> 01:20:52,479
Speaker 1: up ten points. Um, I think the Browns are just

1508
01:20:52,520 --> 01:20:55,360
Speaker 1: gonna be like, oh, well, good season. Everybody seeing next

1509
01:20:55,720 --> 01:21:00,840
Speaker 1: next July for the start of training camp. Um. And also,

1510
01:21:01,680 --> 01:21:03,719
Speaker 1: doesn't their head coach kind of have to lay down

1511
01:21:03,760 --> 01:21:06,639
Speaker 1: for the good of a profession? Isn't if they win

1512
01:21:06,920 --> 01:21:10,280
Speaker 1: without him? Isn't he kind of Wally Wally pipping the

1513
01:21:10,439 --> 01:21:13,960
Speaker 1: entire profession? Like, oh yeah, as it turns out, head coaching, Yeah,

1514
01:21:14,000 --> 01:21:16,320
Speaker 1: you don't have to pay them eight million dollars here,

1515
01:21:16,840 --> 01:21:22,719
Speaker 1: not that important. Special teams guy, Wait, don't hey, listen,

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01:21:22,760 --> 01:21:25,519
Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'm gonna tank this one. It's best for

1517
01:21:25,640 --> 01:21:27,800
Speaker 1: us if we want to continue to make this level

1518
01:21:28,560 --> 01:21:32,639
Speaker 1: of of cash. Everybody, you gotta beat us. Uh. Eight

1519
01:21:32,800 --> 01:21:36,280
Speaker 1: seven to zero could be a real big boon for

1520
01:21:36,320 --> 01:21:38,479
Speaker 1: special teams coaches if the guy can pull it off.

1521
01:21:39,880 --> 01:21:42,960
Speaker 1: I'll tell you, Dave, who I'm the most fired up about. Like,

1522
01:21:43,040 --> 01:21:47,120
Speaker 1: I love that we're getting t J and Cam back. Um. Um,

1523
01:21:47,200 --> 01:21:49,640
Speaker 1: I'm sad for Joe Hayden that he doesn't get to

1524
01:21:49,680 --> 01:21:53,400
Speaker 1: go in a playoff game that features the Cleveland Browns

1525
01:21:53,400 --> 01:21:57,639
Speaker 1: and the Pittsburgh Steelers the last eleven years of his career. Um,

1526
01:21:57,880 --> 01:22:03,679
Speaker 1: but I am pumped Mickey night Train Spelaine potentially playing

1527
01:22:03,680 --> 01:22:06,240
Speaker 1: in this game, a guy that looks like he was

1528
01:22:06,320 --> 01:22:09,320
Speaker 1: born in the slag dumps beside the Squirrel Hill tunnels

1529
01:22:09,320 --> 01:22:12,600
Speaker 1: and raised at the Irish Center at the bottom of

1530
01:22:12,640 --> 01:22:16,400
Speaker 1: Commercial I want to see that guy back out on

1531
01:22:16,439 --> 01:22:19,240
Speaker 1: the field because I love everything about him. I love

1532
01:22:19,320 --> 01:22:24,320
Speaker 1: his his horrible tricept tattoos. I love how hard he hits.

1533
01:22:25,360 --> 01:22:27,360
Speaker 1: I want to see him because he plays the run

1534
01:22:27,400 --> 01:22:29,800
Speaker 1: well and that gives us some depth inside. And I

1535
01:22:29,880 --> 01:22:33,200
Speaker 1: just I want to see it. I'm with you completely,

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01:22:33,479 --> 01:22:36,160
Speaker 1: And um yeah, he has to smack around Nick Chubb

1537
01:22:36,200 --> 01:22:40,559
Speaker 1: and and Kareem Hunt good and maybe for once this

1538
01:22:40,920 --> 01:22:43,840
Speaker 1: if the Browns they gotta do the right thing and

1539
01:22:43,920 --> 01:22:47,040
Speaker 1: just lay down here there there covid ravage some of them,

1540
01:22:47,080 --> 01:22:49,120
Speaker 1: you know, all this stuff that we're talking about here,

1541
01:22:49,680 --> 01:22:52,840
Speaker 1: they don't seem mentally and spiritually right for this one.

1542
01:22:52,920 --> 01:22:55,320
Speaker 1: So what we really need is and I don't I

1543
01:22:55,800 --> 01:22:58,200
Speaker 1: I really hesitate to say this kind of stuff, but we,

1544
01:22:58,600 --> 01:23:02,240
Speaker 1: the Steelers in this wild card game, need an easy

1545
01:23:02,320 --> 01:23:05,160
Speaker 1: one here and then and then we'll talk I don't

1546
01:23:05,160 --> 01:23:07,880
Speaker 1: want to talk about what could be, but let's talk

1547
01:23:07,920 --> 01:23:12,320
Speaker 1: about what could be. The Colts. The Colts are going

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01:23:12,360 --> 01:23:15,320
Speaker 1: to beat the Bills. I got news for you. I really,

1549
01:23:15,360 --> 01:23:18,080
Speaker 1: I really think they are. And then and if that happens,

1550
01:23:18,120 --> 01:23:20,360
Speaker 1: then it would be the Colts of the Chiefs. And

1551
01:23:20,400 --> 01:23:22,960
Speaker 1: then the Ravens are gonna beat Tennessee. I think we

1552
01:23:23,000 --> 01:23:24,840
Speaker 1: can all agree with that. And then that would be

1553
01:23:24,840 --> 01:23:28,960
Speaker 1: the Ravens in Pittsburgh. What a week after the Browns.

1554
01:23:29,160 --> 01:23:31,439
Speaker 1: I brought I brought that up. Yeah, I brought that

1555
01:23:31,520 --> 01:23:33,479
Speaker 1: up yesterday on the show. I'm like, wait a minute,

1556
01:23:33,479 --> 01:23:36,439
Speaker 1: if the if, if the Bills lose, like, who do

1557
01:23:36,520 --> 01:23:38,800
Speaker 1: we face? And when you look at the Ravens coming up, boy,

1558
01:23:39,000 --> 01:23:43,200
Speaker 1: that is a lot scarier than going from the Browns

1559
01:23:43,200 --> 01:23:45,479
Speaker 1: to the Bills, because I think we can beat the Bills.

1560
01:23:46,080 --> 01:23:48,320
Speaker 1: The Ravens are on. I know that. I know the

1561
01:23:48,320 --> 01:23:50,120
Speaker 1: Bills are are great, and they're the darling in the

1562
01:23:50,200 --> 01:23:53,360
Speaker 1: NFL right now. But the Ravens are playing some real

1563
01:23:53,400 --> 01:23:55,960
Speaker 1: good ball right now. I've been talking about that since

1564
01:23:56,800 --> 01:24:00,599
Speaker 1: before their second string almost beat Pits Burger. I said,

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01:24:00,600 --> 01:24:02,400
Speaker 1: this sets up this is you know what it is

1566
01:24:02,479 --> 01:24:08,320
Speaker 1: actually Steelers fans, Uh, well, we'll get this. Um. Comparison

1567
01:24:09,040 --> 01:24:12,120
Speaker 1: is when you know all those great teams in the

1568
01:24:12,160 --> 01:24:15,639
Speaker 1: early part of the twenty first century that couldn't get

1569
01:24:15,680 --> 01:24:18,519
Speaker 1: over the hump, and then they finally do in in

1570
01:24:18,600 --> 01:24:22,320
Speaker 1: Detroit as a six as the stick seed. That's all

1571
01:24:22,360 --> 01:24:26,719
Speaker 1: owed to the big bounce back of Jerome Battist Trucking

1572
01:24:27,000 --> 01:24:30,479
Speaker 1: Brian Urlacker was a part of the resurgence of the

1573
01:24:30,520 --> 01:24:34,000
Speaker 1: return of Ben Roethlisberger. People kind of forget they I

1574
01:24:34,000 --> 01:24:35,760
Speaker 1: think it was three in a row or something like that.

1575
01:24:35,800 --> 01:24:37,439
Speaker 1: In the middle of the season when they put Tommy

1576
01:24:37,479 --> 01:24:40,200
Speaker 1: Maddox in, he threw the pick six and over time

1577
01:24:40,200 --> 01:24:42,759
Speaker 1: and all of that, and so the Steelers were finished.

1578
01:24:42,760 --> 01:24:47,760
Speaker 1: They were announced finished by the national media. Um. But

1579
01:24:47,800 --> 01:24:49,960
Speaker 1: then Roethlisberger came back and they reeled off all those

1580
01:24:49,960 --> 01:24:51,640
Speaker 1: wins and they snuck in as a six seed and

1581
01:24:51,640 --> 01:24:53,519
Speaker 1: they were a dangerous team. They just didn't have their

1582
01:24:53,600 --> 01:24:56,080
Speaker 1: QB for three of those games, so their record was bad.

1583
01:24:56,360 --> 01:24:58,360
Speaker 1: That's exactly what happened with the Ravens this year, is

1584
01:24:58,360 --> 01:25:01,400
Speaker 1: like they're they're done, They're are finished there, their run

1585
01:25:01,439 --> 01:25:04,639
Speaker 1: is over. The Lamar Jackson phenomenon. It's finished like they

1586
01:25:04,680 --> 01:25:10,080
Speaker 1: just weren't healthy. Their defense is potentially dominant. Um anyway, listen,

1587
01:25:10,080 --> 01:25:12,600
Speaker 1: work cart before the horse stuff. But still, yes, the

1588
01:25:12,720 --> 01:25:15,360
Speaker 1: Ravens are the team. I think that is the scariest

1589
01:25:15,479 --> 01:25:18,720
Speaker 1: in the whole bracket outside of the Chiefs. Um and

1590
01:25:18,760 --> 01:25:20,840
Speaker 1: we may catch them as soon as a week from now.

1591
01:25:20,920 --> 01:25:24,320
Speaker 1: But I think the other thing to root for is Bills.

1592
01:25:24,360 --> 01:25:26,840
Speaker 1: I think I'm with you about it. We can beat

1593
01:25:26,840 --> 01:25:30,479
Speaker 1: the Bills. The Ravens going into Arrowhead, let them kick

1594
01:25:30,520 --> 01:25:32,280
Speaker 1: the crap out of each other and hope we can

1595
01:25:32,320 --> 01:25:34,920
Speaker 1: survive against Buffalo and then uh and then see where

1596
01:25:35,000 --> 01:25:38,240
Speaker 1: things land. But listen, this is the dangerous game we're playing.

1597
01:25:38,320 --> 01:25:42,360
Speaker 1: This is that we're falling into. Miles is trapped, don't

1598
01:25:42,360 --> 01:25:47,920
Speaker 1: you Yes, this is the trap that he laid for us.

1599
01:25:49,320 --> 01:25:53,880
Speaker 1: Dave Damnaschek from the Extra Points podcast. And you don't

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01:25:53,880 --> 01:25:55,920
Speaker 1: cut me off. Don't you cut me off. I'm not

1601
01:25:56,000 --> 01:26:00,320
Speaker 1: even ready yet. Listen, they're the Browns, we are the Lers.

1602
01:26:00,880 --> 01:26:03,960
Speaker 1: We took the only two things worth anything out of

1603
01:26:03,960 --> 01:26:09,639
Speaker 1: that bump state named Chas Noll and Ben Roethlisberger. Now

1604
01:26:09,960 --> 01:26:13,240
Speaker 1: go back to your bump state. Stay here for three hours,

1605
01:26:13,439 --> 01:26:16,840
Speaker 1: have the buses heated up, go back to go back

1606
01:26:16,920 --> 01:26:20,200
Speaker 1: to Rue Paul or whatever the hell you're up to

1607
01:26:20,840 --> 01:26:23,280
Speaker 1: and uh and and we gotta start prepping for the

1608
01:26:23,360 --> 01:26:26,880
Speaker 1: divisional round to make everything right, not yet, not just

1609
01:26:27,240 --> 01:26:30,640
Speaker 1: for the banks to the three Rivers for America. That

1610
01:26:30,720 --> 01:26:35,360
Speaker 1: was NFL dot Com and NFL Network panelist Dave Damaschik

1611
01:26:35,520 --> 01:26:39,639
Speaker 1: on his thoughts on this UH on this matchup, Um,

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01:26:39,680 --> 01:26:42,519
Speaker 1: I can't really argue with any of that. He's always

1613
01:26:42,520 --> 01:26:44,360
Speaker 1: a great way to wrap the show up to him

1614
01:26:44,439 --> 01:26:47,080
Speaker 1: and brings a little a little energy from besides us

1615
01:26:47,120 --> 01:26:49,880
Speaker 1: two and he's kind of been a fixture for us

1616
01:26:49,920 --> 01:26:51,640
Speaker 1: for a while. It's good stuff. Yeah, I'm glad the

1617
01:26:51,760 --> 01:26:53,960
Speaker 1: DV Morning show gets him and they send that over

1618
01:26:54,000 --> 01:26:55,599
Speaker 1: to us. We can play it back for you all

1619
01:26:55,680 --> 01:26:59,160
Speaker 1: out there. But um hey, that's gonna do it for

1620
01:26:59,200 --> 01:27:01,360
Speaker 1: our show. That's gonna do for our first playoff week.

1621
01:27:01,400 --> 01:27:03,280
Speaker 1: We'll see if there's a next playoff week next week.

1622
01:27:03,320 --> 01:27:06,240
Speaker 1: One way or the other, we'll be back either to

1623
01:27:06,280 --> 01:27:11,280
Speaker 1: wrap up a big Steelers win or a Steeler's loss. UH.

1624
01:27:11,280 --> 01:27:13,439
Speaker 1: In the aftermath of that, but we both think it's

1625
01:27:13,439 --> 01:27:15,360
Speaker 1: going to be a win with both both of us

1626
01:27:15,400 --> 01:27:22,240
Speaker 1: picking victory once yeah. But for my partner Matt Williamson,

1627
01:27:22,760 --> 01:27:24,720
Speaker 1: for Jacob here on site keeping us on the air,

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Speaker 1: I'm Dale Lali. We thank you for listening to this

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Speaker 1: edition of the Drive, brought to you by Ford and

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