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Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Drive. I'm Dale Lulli.

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Speaker 2: He is Matt Williamson, and this is the hour two

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Speaker 2: of our three hours here at the Chuck Nole Press

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Speaker 2: bonsa a little bit there, Yeah, on the campus of

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Speaker 2: Saint Vinsi College. As Steelers, of course not practicing at

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Speaker 2: this time. They'll be practicing later tonight as over at

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Speaker 2: the Latrobe Memorial High School Stadium, and that will of

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Speaker 2: course be open to the public. You will need to

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Speaker 2: buy tickets for that one. The proceeds are they go

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Speaker 2: to a good cause?

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Speaker 1: Yes, yes, yes, man.

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Speaker 2: I wanted to look here at Adam Rank did his

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Speaker 2: tiers on NFL dot com and these are fantasy rankings, yeah,

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Speaker 2: but they're relevant because I want to look at these

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Speaker 2: from a perspective of where the Steeler players, like, what's

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Speaker 2: the what's the where does the offense the defense rank,

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Speaker 2: and those kind of things on from a national perspective.

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Speaker 1: Here, I hear you're saying, yeah, obviously things like this

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Speaker 1: is fantasy. So Justin Field is going to rank really

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Speaker 1: high because he's a good run, correct, you know what

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Speaker 1: I mean? So I mean that correlates. Of course, we're

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Speaker 1: looking about production, so.

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Speaker 2: We're gonna look here at quarterbacks. First, the tier one

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Speaker 2: guys are Mahomes, Joe Burrow, Josh Allen, and that's tier one.

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Speaker 1: This is fantasy. This is for fantasy.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he's got Burrow number two.

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Speaker 1: That's strange. I mean, like in almost any quarterback rank,

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Speaker 1: non fantasy, that's the top three. And I agree with that, right, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Sandos Tears, but they're not the same in terms of fantasy.

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Speaker 2: Like you, no, you could almost say Burrow doesn't belong.

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Speaker 1: Burrow's not. Yeah, he doesn't.

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Speaker 2: He's not going to be there with those guys.

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Speaker 1: And I would even put Hurts and Lamar ahead of

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Speaker 1: him in that conversation. I mean, Hurts, Allen and Mahomes

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Speaker 1: and Fantasy are the top three off the board in

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Speaker 1: any almost any draft.

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Speaker 2: See, this is a little crazy too. So he's got

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Speaker 2: Justin Fields at four. That makes more sense, more sense.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's not where i'd have him, but it's Yeah.

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Speaker 2: He's got Trevor Lawrence at five.

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Speaker 1: Okay, that would be a pretty big leap. It would

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Speaker 1: be a pretty big leap. But I think that offense

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Speaker 1: is a chance.

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Speaker 2: I think if you but maybe he's looking at what

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Speaker 2: happened with Trevor Lawrence in the second half of last

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Speaker 2: year in saying, Okay, he's gonna he's going to be

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Speaker 2: that guy for the entire season this year. If that's

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Speaker 2: the case, then might be a top Then he might

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Speaker 2: be a top five guy. Yeah, and he.

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Speaker 1: Runs more than you think. He's got Ridley now as well.

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Speaker 1: I mean that's ambitious, but I can defend it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he's got Hurts at six, Lamar at seven, Herb

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Speaker 2: at eight. Okay, that's your that's that tier. That's your

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Speaker 2: top that's your tier of top eight guys. Yeah, and

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Speaker 2: really kind of your tier except for fields. Really your

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Speaker 2: top seven quarterbacks in the league.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, give or take. I agree, I agree.

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Speaker 2: Uh looking at tier three, oh man, he's got Aaron

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Speaker 1: Who I don't. I mean maybe he throws thirty eight times.

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Speaker 2: Well, let's let's look at the rest of this tier

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Speaker 2: and see can see how they how you would rank them?

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Speaker 1: Uh?

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Speaker 2: So he has Rogers, Dak Prescott, Russell, Wilson, Daniel Jones,

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Speaker 2: Kirk Cousins, Tua and Tua. That's the those are the

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Speaker 2: that thinks you threw nine through fourteen.

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Speaker 1: Okay, I know Seeler fans don't want to hear this,

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Speaker 1: but I have Watson ahead of all those guys, which

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Speaker 1: is here. I'm very high on Watson at all. It's scary.

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Speaker 1: I just say they're gonna throw a lot and he's

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Speaker 1: got to be better.

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Speaker 2: Here's here's the thing, and we've talked about this in

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Speaker 2: the past. Jacoby Brissette was not bad last year.

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Speaker 1: When you look at the numbers. He was in league

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Speaker 1: average quarterback to be a little better, right, and Watson

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Speaker 1: wasn't that right. So he only asked he does not

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Speaker 1: He used to be better than Forsett for them to

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Speaker 2: No, I mean, but Brissett, if you look at some

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Speaker 2: of the advanced metrics on a Resette were really good,

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Speaker 2: know the Watson can get there.

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Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying. Yeah, that's a big bar to

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Speaker 2: Persett last year. Well he wasn't last year. Russette was

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Speaker 1: Him last year he was, they weren't even close, but

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Speaker 2: I would have too ahead of Cousins, a lot of

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Speaker 1: I could the fact that I understand putting Rogers, I

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Speaker 1: get it, right. I mean he's MVP two years ago.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Daniel Jones at twelve is not sexy, but it's fantasy.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but it is fantasy, and he has better weapons

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Speaker 1: this year.

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Speaker 2: Than sounds really strange by the way.

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Speaker 1: Take that clip out and just isolate it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, right, Tier four Anthony Richardson at fifteen, I'm taking

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Speaker 1: That's ambitious, I get it. I just think he's gonna

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Speaker 2: He's going to He's got to do more than run

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Speaker 1: That you do. I mean that's all Fields did, and

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Speaker 1: what did he end up is like, but.

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Speaker 2: He's still threw for one hundred and fifty yards a

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Speaker 2: game and did something.

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Speaker 1: Quarterback will do that. I mean, he'll throw a bubble

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Richardson completed barely completed fifty of his passes in college.

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Speaker 1: I mean he is not a good.

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Speaker 1: Remarkably, where he was really bad is the short stuff.

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Speaker 2: Oh he has a he has a mean, he has

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Speaker 2: a cannon and he doesn't know when to take the

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Speaker 2: the fuse passer no right, uh. He has DeShawn at sixteen,

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Speaker 2: Gino Smith at seventeen, which I think is more realistic.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, boy, I like their offense. Yeah, I mean I

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Speaker 1: but I kind of don't think the weapon's different. I

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Speaker 1: almost think he's Kark cousins. Yeah, I mean that they

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Speaker 2: Some people say the same thing about Jared Goff, but

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Speaker 2: he's at eighteen, no running at all.

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Speaker 1: The home road splits are a real thing. Yeah as well.

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Speaker 1: He also doesn't handle pressure particularly well. It's a good line,

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Speaker 2: He has Car twenty. He has Matthew Stafford twenty one.

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Speaker 1: Kyler's is all about Wednsley get back them. Yeah, when

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Speaker 1: when is he back? And what kind of shape is

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Speaker 2: At twenty two in tier five she got three once again,

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Speaker 2: a bunch of guys here in tier five, but leading

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Speaker 1: Can he Picket? Really?

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Speaker 2: Okay?

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Speaker 1: It's interesting because I'm pulling this up now. I've done,

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Speaker 1: like I want to say, twelve of these fantasy drafts.

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Speaker 1: He's underdog drafts. My most owned player is Picket. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I don't have to do that for Set Nation Radio.

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Speaker 1: This is my money. This is for you, right, because

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Speaker 1: he's just going way too late. Yeah, I mean he's

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Speaker 1: have two or three quarterbacks, he's gonna be better and

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Speaker 1: he runs like crazy.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but I think that's something that a lot of people,

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Speaker 2: a lot of especially a lot of fantasy experts. I

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Speaker 2: don't think they understand that part of his game, right.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I think there's a huge misconception with Kenny

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Speaker 1: Pickett overall. I mean, coming out of pit, people thought, oh,

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Speaker 1: he's Mac Jones, He's this pocket passer processor guy. No,

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Speaker 1: he's much way more athletic, waymore athletic. But he's also

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Speaker 1: a little more of a wild stallion too. He's not

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Speaker 1: a paint by numbers quarterback robot back there at all? Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Twenty three is Bryce Young? Twenty four? Is Brock pretty okay?

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Speaker 2: Twenty five, Mac Jones twenty six, Jimmy Garoppolo twenty seven,

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Speaker 2: Jordan Love twenty eight, Ryan Tannehill twenty nine.

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Speaker 1: CJ.

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Speaker 2: Stroud thirty, Desmond Ritter thirty one, Baker Mayfield thirty two,

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Speaker 1: Actually have how much higher? And I don't even know

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Speaker 1: Is last year in North Carolina he almost rushed for

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Speaker 1: nine hundred yards. Yeah, people don't think to look at

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Speaker 1: him in that light, and it just he could get

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Speaker 1: Ben for percent in week four.

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Speaker 2: I mean, he's the body type is very much. And

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Speaker 2: maybe it's the beard as well. But when I watched him,

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Speaker 2: I thought Baker Mayfield.

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Speaker 1: Me too.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think he's a better athlete than Mayfield. And

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Speaker 2: they had the same build their square bid to kind

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Speaker 2: of look like But yeah, you're right, he did run

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Speaker 1: I don't know that that Washington wants him running like that, No,

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Speaker 1: but I bet he runs for similar numbers of Ritter

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Speaker 1: and Picket And you.

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Speaker 2: Know, there's one game to look at from last year.

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Speaker 2: One game, and he's not Pat Mahomes.

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Speaker 1: This is more of a best ball thing than a redraft,

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Speaker 1: Like you probably don't even have to draft him, but

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Speaker 2: So if at the end of the year, if we're

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Speaker 2: just looking at this is a big picture thing, If

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Speaker 2: Kenny Pickett is the well, he's gonna you get it

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Speaker 2: by the end of the year. He's He's a better

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Speaker 2: quarterback than Anthony Richardson, a better quarterback I would think, so. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: So that would.

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Speaker 1: Put him at twenty one.

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Speaker 2: Looking here, if there's anybody else, I would rather have

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Speaker 2: Kenny Pickett than Daniel Jones as my quarterback for fantasy

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Speaker 2: or I'm just talking in real world stuff.

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Speaker 1: Oh I would too. Yeah, so that moves into twenty.

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Speaker 1: I don't think Daniel Jones is particularly good. Can he

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Speaker 1: be better than Russell Wilson this year? Wilson could be

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Speaker 1: a disaster. If he's Wilson could get.

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Speaker 2: If he's close to what he was last year, Picket

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Speaker 2: should out play.

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Speaker 1: Him this year. Pick It was better than him last year,

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Speaker 1: that's true.

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Speaker 2: I mean, he really was, Yeah, it was. You're right.

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Speaker 2: So now, I mean you're always asking me question better

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Speaker 2: than Justin Fields. I mean, he's not gonna like the

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Speaker 2: yeah right, as a quarterback.

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Speaker 1: As quarterback, not fantasy.

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Speaker 2: But you hear a lot of cool. Can Kenny Pickett

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Speaker 2: crack crack the top twelve to fifteen quarterbacks in the league?

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Speaker 1: Yeah? Absolutely.

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Speaker 2: We just went through the whole list of starting quarterbacks

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Speaker 2: in the league. Right from a fantasy standpoint, you would think.

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Speaker 1: He has Matt Williamson. I am Dale, Lallie.

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Speaker 1: Right after this, you were listening to the official Voice

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Speaker 2: I'm people Adam Rank is a Chicago Bears fan. Ah,

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Speaker 2: I see where you might be going. Yeah, he's got

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Speaker 2: chrysal Lave at eleven.

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Speaker 1: DJ Moore at twelve.

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Speaker 2: That's rich for more, that's very rich. Jayleen Wattle at thirteen,

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Speaker 1: I liked him to watch Jayleen Waddle. Oh yeah, those two.

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Speaker 1: Keenan Allen at eighteen. Alan slowed down, but his numbers

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Speaker 1: Thirty six is George Pickens. Interesting Okay, so that would

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Speaker 1: See, I think that's going to happen to who's the

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Speaker 1: with anybody, right, I mean I guess, I mean, I

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Speaker 1: guess he's not entirely wrong. But if but they're second

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Speaker 1: to lot, I.

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Speaker 2: Mean they're second a lot and they're not fourth like

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Speaker 2: the Ravens, or the Ravens are on their defensive line

442
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Speaker 2: right where you know, or the you know, the Browns

443
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Speaker 2: are on their defense. They might the Ravens might not

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Speaker 2: even have the worst defensive line in the division. It

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Speaker 2: might be Cleveland.

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Speaker 1: I don't know. If you average all those things out,

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Speaker 1: the Steelers wouldn't have many ones, and they wouldn't have

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Speaker 1: any fours.

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Speaker 2: Any fours right maybe off the ball line, maybe off

450
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Speaker 2: ball linebacker, who knows, We don't know.

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Speaker 1: Forty four Traylan Burks forty five. Cortland Sutton. I don't

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Speaker 1: think he said Hopkins yet, did he? Yeah?

453
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Speaker 2: He was, okay Hopkins forty six. Rondell Moore forty seven

454
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Speaker 2: is Rashaw Bateman. Forty eight is Elijah Moore forty nine

455
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Speaker 2: Jamis and Williams.

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Speaker 1: She's spending six games.

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Speaker 2: Spending six games, he's been hurting camp. Yeah, he might

458
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Speaker 2: just be one of those guys that just never.

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Speaker 1: That doesn't come around. It could be I love them.

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Speaker 1: The Lions do have a history of having guys.

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Speaker 2: Like oh yeah, yeah, Tier seven, number fifty, Juju Smith Schuster.

462
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Speaker 1: Do you think he leads that team in or targets?

463
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Speaker 1: I can't believe they escape Parker pretty.

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Speaker 2: Good money, somebody they ask the wise, right, I mean,

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Speaker 2: if Jujus your number one, it's.

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Speaker 1: Kind of how it's shaping up. Yeah. I mean ju

467
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Speaker 1: Ju and Parker aren't good. I mean they're just very good.

468
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Speaker 1: I mean they'd compete with Alan Robinson for the third

469
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Speaker 1: spot here, Yeah, compete compete. Yeah. Fifty one.

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Speaker 2: Gave Davis fifty two, Allan Lazard fifty three, Adam Thielen

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Speaker 2: fifty four, Tyler Boyd fifty five, Romeo Dobbs fifty six,

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Speaker 2: Odell Beckham. And he hasn't said, Oh, he did say

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Speaker 2: that all three were raven Now you got all three

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Speaker 2: Ravens fifty seven, Cadarius Tony, but none of them in

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Speaker 2: the top forty.

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Speaker 1: No, if you had to take one Ravens receiver. Who

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Speaker 1: would you pick?

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Speaker 2: No, None of the above, Mark Andrews, Mark andrews Uh

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Speaker 2: fifty seven, Kadarius Tony excuse me fifty eight, DJ Chark

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Speaker 2: fifty nine, Quentin Johnston sixty, Michael Thomas sixty one, Nico

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Speaker 2: call On sixty two, Alec Pierce sixty three, Rashid Shaheed.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what got.

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Speaker 2: Here's over guy sixty four, Michael Gallup sixty five, Jalen Hyatt.

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Speaker 1: Oh, I don't think he's gonn play very much. Yeah. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's the first Giants receiver, first Giants receiver.

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Speaker 2: Crazy Yeah. Tier eight, Tier eight leading off Tier eight

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Speaker 2: is the aforementioned Allan Robinson at sixty six.

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Speaker 1: Okay, if he's the sixty six moved have seen of

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Speaker 1: him thus far, by the way I say, I do too,

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Speaker 1: I would say, if he's the sixty sixth most productive

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Speaker 1: NFL wide receiver in twenty twenty three, are you taking

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Speaker 1: it or are you going fish? Sixty? Sixty six is

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Speaker 1: a lot, It's not bad. Yeah, six is a lot.

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Speaker 1: That's That's what I'm saying. Some of the other guys

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Speaker 1: down in that riven hundred yards five times ounds. So

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Speaker 1: you know something like that.

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Speaker 2: Mcole, Hardman, Donovan Peoples, Jones, Isaiah Hodgson's Curtis, Samuel, Devonte, Parker,

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Speaker 2: Van Jefferson, Taekwan Thornton, Why, Johnny Mingo, John Maychie, Robert Woods,

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Speaker 2: kJ Osborne, Hunter, renfro One, Del Robinson is a big group,

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Speaker 2: Josh Downs, Marvin Mims, Marquez Valdez, Scantling, Terrace Marshall, Rashi.

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Speaker 1: Rice, Chase, Claypool, Russell.

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Speaker 2: Gage, Jayden Reed, Puka Nikua, Devin Duvernet, Matt Collins. This

503
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Speaker 2: is huge, Yeah, Marvin Jones, Josh Palmer, Corey Davis, Justin Ross,

504
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Speaker 2: Khalif Khalil Shakir, Richie, James, Ques, Watkins, and we're still

505
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Speaker 2: going Nick Westbrook of Kennedy, Tyler Scott and then finally

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Speaker 2: at one hundred Tank Dell.

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Speaker 1: Wow, on the top of that list, are kind of intriguing.

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Speaker 1: On the top of that tier, I mean, are kind

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Speaker 1: of intriguing.

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Speaker 2: But yeah, town point now after reading that whole tier,

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Speaker 2: that tier eight list, Yeah, yeah, I think if Allen

512
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Speaker 2: Robinson comes in as the sixty sixth most productive receiver

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Speaker 2: in the league this year.

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Speaker 1: I think it's a pretty good hear. Yeah, at his

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Speaker 1: age especially what he gave up for him, and there's

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Speaker 1: nothing right, right, right. Yeah, and again that's probably six

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Speaker 1: or seven hundred yards, you know, a bunch of first downs,

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Speaker 1: five touchdowns, something like that. Yeah. Yeah, that's a great

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Speaker 1: year from him.

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Speaker 2: Real quick here, before we take a break, let's look

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Speaker 2: at the tight ends, and I would think one Patrick

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Speaker 2: farmwoth ranks reasonably high.

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Speaker 1: He should he should.

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Speaker 2: Uh Tier one Travis Kelsey alone, Yep, let's call it

525
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Speaker 2: the Kelsey tier. Tier two, Mark Andrews, T. J. Hawkinson,

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Speaker 2: George Kittle. I agree.

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Speaker 1: It's funny because I did my tight end tiers today

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Speaker 1: and we kind of talked through it. I think Andrews

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Speaker 1: is closer to ever you have three than he is

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Speaker 1: number one. We see you said that yesterday on that

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Speaker 1: Oh we just said that. Yeah, I stole it from you.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I might actually have Hawkinson number two hawk.

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Speaker 1: Verus Kittle's tough for me too, but I have Andrews too.

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Speaker 2: If you look at Hawkinson's production last year after he

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Speaker 2: joined the Vikings, he was their clear number two receiver. Know,

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Speaker 2: Jefferson's going to get doubled like crazy.

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Speaker 1: The same is true for Kittle, though once Party took

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Speaker 1: over right, he blew up. I just don't trust Kittle's health.

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Speaker 1: Oh he throws his body around a lot.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Tier three, Kyle Pitts a number five. That's why

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Speaker 2: I have Dallas Goddard number seven. Pat Friarmouth.

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Speaker 1: I'm shocked he hasn't have Waller higher because all his

543
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Speaker 1: giants receivers are like eighty or less.

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Speaker 2: Darren Waller's eight. Yeah, yeah, Dalton Schultz nine, Evan Ingram ten.

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Speaker 2: I don't have Schultzen that finishes off that tier. Somebody

546
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Speaker 2: does have to catch passes for the Houston texts.

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Speaker 1: I know, I know. I just think he got schemed

548
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Speaker 1: up a lot, and I just don't think he's very talented.

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Speaker 2: But Farmmuth comes in at seven on. Let's see if

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Speaker 2: there's any of the other Steeler tight ends come in

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Speaker 2: on there. Chig Wonko is number eleven. Twelve is Dalton

552
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Speaker 2: Kincaid with the Bills, thirteen, Greg Dolcich fourteen, David and Joku.

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Speaker 1: My ranks are pretty similar. Actually, Schultz is I have lower.

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Speaker 2: But Tier five is Sam Laporta, Hunter, Henfrey Hunter, Henry

555
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Speaker 2: cole Comet, Tyler Higbee, IRV Smith, Mike is SICKI Jake Ferguson,

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Speaker 2: Gerald Everett, Jake Ferguson's kind.

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Speaker 1: Of a sneaky, isn't he Waller's backup? No, he's in Dallas.

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Speaker 1: Oh he's he's fighting with Schoonmaker.

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00:26:01,240 --> 00:26:05,359
Speaker 2: Yes, guys, yeah, Gerald Everett, Juwan Johnson, Noah Fans, Hayden Hurst,

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Speaker 2: Zach Ertz, Dawson Knox, Michael Mayer, Trey McBride, Taysom Hill

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Speaker 2: at thirty and yes, folks, Taysom.

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Speaker 1: Hill is a I think that experiment is going to

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Speaker 1: come into an end more and more. Though it's boring,

564
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Speaker 1: But like Hayden Hurst and Tyler Higbey, you are interesting

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Speaker 1: to me because besides Cup on those two teams, who's

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Speaker 1: in their way? Not much?

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Speaker 2: You know what I mean?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, they could be the second leading receiver on their

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Speaker 1: teams and they're not necessarily all that good. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Just do a quick look here to see where here's

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Speaker 2: the Steelers defense ranked Adam rank.

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Speaker 1: By the way doing these, I haven't be in the

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Speaker 1: top ten. I grabbed ten that I would be real

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Speaker 1: comfortable drafting, and they were one of them.

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Speaker 2: Forty nine Ers, Eagles, Jets, Broncos at three.

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Speaker 1: That's what the Bronco that's is tier one pass rushers.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Tier two.

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Speaker 2: Is New England, Baltimore, the Saints, the Cowboys, the Bills.

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Speaker 1: That takes you down to nine Baltimore and Baltimore does

581
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Speaker 1: not belong. Yeah, Baltimore and Denver in my top ten.

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Speaker 2: Tier three Kansas City, Pittsburgh at eleven, Miami twelve, Cincinnati thirteen.

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Speaker 2: That's the Tier three.

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Speaker 1: Teams, Okay, I mean I would have them in that neighbor.

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Speaker 2: I think Miami and the Steelers are being sold.

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00:27:16,119 --> 00:27:17,920
Speaker 1: A little short there. Yeah. I like Miami a lot.

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00:27:17,960 --> 00:27:21,280
Speaker 1: I mean the Ramsey injuries probably pushed them down. I

588
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Speaker 1: don't know if that's enough to change things for me. No,

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Speaker 1: they get a decent passage, they got a good pass rushing,

590
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Speaker 1: a good coordinator, they got corners. They they're gonna be good. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: since he's not bad either.

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Speaker 2: They're not.

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Speaker 1: No, they're not.

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Speaker 2: They're solid and they'll play with leads.

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Speaker 1: And that's why you have Kansas City there ten. I

596
00:27:36,760 --> 00:27:38,520
Speaker 1: say Kansas City's d isn't a good as they don't

597
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Speaker 1: belong to ten, but they'll get sacks. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: But anyways, that's Adam Ranks rankings for fantasy football and

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Speaker 2: how they we that's relevant for real life as well.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, Steelers.

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Speaker 1: There's a lot of relations between fantasy and real.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: One lot of stats I pull from fantasy, yeah right,

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Speaker 1: you know, the more fantasy side.

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Speaker 2: I read all the different fantasy sites out there to

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Speaker 2: dig up those little yeah right stats, and we trade

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Speaker 2: them for his eyesight.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: So's there's all kinds of little interesting nuggets out there

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Speaker 2: that pertain the fantasy football.

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Speaker 2: You're listening to the Drive here on Steelers Nation Radio

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Speaker 2: Vincent College and a few rain drops starting to fall here. Again,

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Speaker 2: this is supposed to push through before the night practice

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Speaker 2: tonight at seven o'clock over at the Trope Memorial Stadium,

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Speaker 1: Over there now.

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Speaker 2: Yes, it is supposed to reign here between four and six,

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Speaker 2: but that's supposed to be out of the area.

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Speaker 1: Then after that you'll kick yourself if you don't go

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Speaker 1: because of the rain.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, but we're going to take a break. We'll be

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Speaker 2: Nation Radio right after.

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Speaker 1: This time the Black and Gold live here twenty four

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Speaker 2: Williamson and this is the drive on Steelers Nation Radio.

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Speaker 2: And I make mention that the rain just a little

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Speaker 2: sprinkles here and there coming down. Uh it might have

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Speaker 2: already passed. It looks like it has sudden. The skies

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Speaker 2: of are blue again here. Yeah, over a little, but yeah,

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Speaker 2: not so bad. And if that's all we get, great.

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Speaker 2: But we've been unbelievingly lucky with weather and really have,

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Speaker 2: really have, and hopefully that that muck holds through to tonight.

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Speaker 2: If you remember, last year's Friday night lights practice didn't

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Speaker 2: hold up, so that was like, uh, you know, we

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Speaker 2: we we almost started building an arc. Yeah that was bad.

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Speaker 2: Influences things a little bit, but of course they had

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Speaker 2: to go inside the gym and it really canceled that

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Speaker 2: that practice, and you know, they came back and did

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Speaker 2: some things later to kind of rectify that. But yeah,

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Speaker 2: it's not the same. It's not the same.

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Speaker 1: It's such a cool environment and the fans are, you know,

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Speaker 1: right there on top of you and get to see

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Speaker 1: so much and you know, the coach Tomlin, who I

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Speaker 1: know won't be there, but scripts are real good practice

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Speaker 1: for that one too.

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Speaker 2: In terms of stuff to look at. Yeah, I'm looking

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Speaker 2: forward to seeing some more backs on backers tonight, yeah too.

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Speaker 2: You know, typically there might be even another two minute

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Speaker 2: drilling there or something like that. I haven't seen the

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Speaker 2: practice schedule yet or anything like that, but one on

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Speaker 2: ones yea. And for me this is an opportunity because

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Speaker 2: we do this show during practice. I haven't been able

658
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Speaker 2: to be down on the sideline set and I'll be

659
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Speaker 2: doing the practice report tonight on Steelers dot com.

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Speaker 1: So I want to get down there and here it really,

661
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Speaker 1: you're right down in there.

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Speaker 2: I want to get down in there and and and

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Speaker 2: see what what some of these guys look like up close,

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Speaker 2: the one on ones.

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Speaker 1: And things like that. Yeah, coaching points telling them what

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Speaker 1: they did, did right or wrong, or you need to

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Speaker 1: correct this, or you quick dip in your head whatever

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Speaker 1: it is, you know.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so I learned a little bit as well. Oh yeah,

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Speaker 2: you can't help it, absolutely, but really looking forward to

671
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Speaker 2: that tonight, and uh, well let's see what Darnell Washington

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Speaker 2: and uh, Joey Porter Junior have for what they do

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Speaker 2: for an encore.

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Speaker 1: Great practices by those two yesterday. Now do it again, yeah,

675
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Speaker 1: do it together. Then take it to the next level

676
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Speaker 1: and perform well against the uncommon opponent, you know, against

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Speaker 1: you know, and then then you gain the coaches trust

678
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Speaker 1: and then week one you're part of things.

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Speaker 2: I'm sure that was part of the meetings today with

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Speaker 2: with those guys in their rooms, like okay, great, yeah, great, right,

681
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Speaker 2: I'll do it again.

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Speaker 1: Do it again, do it again, do it two days

683
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Speaker 1: in a row, do it three days in a row,

684
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Speaker 1: do it four out of five days.

685
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Speaker 2: That's that consistency that you're looking for out of those

686
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Speaker 2: young players. And a lot of times, you know, you

687
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Speaker 2: see flashes like that from young players, but they don't.

688
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Speaker 1: Have the consistency really hard, really hard, or some might

689
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Speaker 1: just think, oh this is easy, I got it.

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Speaker 2: I'm here.

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Speaker 1: No, you're not not even close.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, So it's uh, you know, that's part of being

693
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Speaker 2: a pro is being able to be able to do

694
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Speaker 2: it day after day after day after Cam Hayward, Yeah,

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Speaker 2: you know, just.

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Speaker 1: You we mentioned nausey hair is another segment. Yeah, right,

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Speaker 1: takes a beating every time but you can count on them, right.

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Speaker 2: And that's that's what coaches and do your assignment and

699
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Speaker 2: do those things. Those things. Yeah, I'll tell you what

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Speaker 2: I've been I've really been a pressed by this rookie class.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a good group. They a lot of key positions.

702
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Speaker 1: I think there's a lot of playing opportunities for them,

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Speaker 1: both for now and especially years down the road, you

704
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Speaker 1: know what I mean.

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Speaker 2: I want to see how they go to tonight putting

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Speaker 2: the pads back on, because you're.

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Speaker 1: Padded for two days in a row, then yesterday's.

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Speaker 2: Kind of non pad. Yeah, now you're back in pads.

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Speaker 2: You're under the lights. There's a bunch of fans in

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Speaker 2: that stadium on both sides.

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Speaker 1: When you're out here on the on.

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Speaker 2: The practice was, Yes, there's a big crowd, but you're

713
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Speaker 2: not surrounded by a stadium.

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Speaker 1: It's not a stadium.

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Speaker 2: It's not a stadium.

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Speaker 1: And so I mean, of course this isn't an NFL

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Speaker 1: stadium tonight, but it's the first one with these teammates.

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Speaker 2: They'll be twelve.

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Speaker 1: To fifteen thousand people there.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, a lot of terrible twenty Yeah, and for the fans,

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Speaker 2: you know, many of the fans who haven't been able

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Speaker 2: to get out here during the day.

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Speaker 1: This will be their first opportunity to see those guys. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Not everyone can get here for normal practices or whatever.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Do you think tomorrow's practice will be fit? They

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Speaker 1: have two more before a break. Yeah. Do you think

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Speaker 1: one will be physical and one won't. I've seen him

728
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Speaker 1: go both ways with that. Yeah. I've heard a couple

729
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Speaker 1: of former players say that he loves to do the

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Speaker 1: day after Friday light.

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Speaker 2: It's pretty nasty. Yeah, just to see how you react

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Speaker 2: to that, do it? Can you do it? You know

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Speaker 2: again the next day and so Yeah, but then you

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Speaker 2: know next week when they come back after that break,

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Speaker 2: you probably will start to scale things back again. The

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Speaker 2: Steelers do play a preseason game on Friday. Yeah, so

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Speaker 2: you got to get ready for that. But I'm interested

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Speaker 2: to see that. Matt, we're going to take another break here.

739
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Speaker 2: We'll be back with our number three, uh from Saint

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Speaker 2: Vincent College here in beautiful La Trope. It is beautiful

741
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Speaker 2: right now, the sun is shining. But he is Matt Williamson.

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Speaker 2: I am Dale Lully. We thank you. We're listening. Uh,

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Speaker 2: you're listening to the Drive here on Steelers Nation Radio.

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Speaker 2: number three right after this