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

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

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

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Speaker 1: and uh well, happy fiftieth anniversary of the Immaculate Reception

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Speaker 1: to everybody out there listening to the Actually time of

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Speaker 1: the Immaculate Reception was three PM, so just a little

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Speaker 1: bit ago. Uh. One of the greatest moments, if not

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Speaker 1: the greatest moment in NFL history, happened fifty years ago today.

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Speaker 1: And of course, so we also lost Franco Harris the uh, um,

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Speaker 1: I guess, the architect of the what would you call

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Speaker 1: him the I guess the primary jump started something like that,

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Speaker 1: and the ignission something like that, something explosive to get

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Speaker 1: this thing rolling. Yeah, that's kind of how I described

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Speaker 1: it today in my five for Friday. Um that he

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Speaker 1: ignited the what would become Steelers Nation. Are Steelers the seventies,

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Speaker 1: the the whole thing actually really the everything that's carried

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Speaker 1: through fifty years to today started it day right because

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Speaker 1: before that they never wanted they'd never want a playoff

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Speaker 1: game before. Yeah, it's kind of like BC and you know,

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Speaker 1: a d you know, I mean in terms of the

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Speaker 1: maculate reception. I mean, we don't already talk about those

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Speaker 1: years before it happened. I mean they're a little dim.

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Speaker 1: But since then it's been pretty darn good, pretty darn good.

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Speaker 1: And the Steelers will try to add to that on

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Speaker 1: Saturday when they host the Las Vegas Raiders. Uh, the

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Speaker 1: team that the the immaculate reception came against. And I, Matt,

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Speaker 1: I have the final injury report here for the Steels.

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Speaker 1: We can't talk some football today. Uh so, Uh, the

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Speaker 1: Steelers have three guys with a designation or sort of

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Speaker 1: a designation because Terrell Edmonds did not practice all week long.

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Speaker 1: His status is unspecified. I don't even know what that means.

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Speaker 1: I've never heard that. Yeah, I've never heard that one. Um,

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Speaker 1: you know that's a loophole there. Yeah. Deante Johnson and

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Speaker 1: Derek Watt I'm sorry, Miles Jack both questionable for this game,

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Speaker 1: although Jack was a full participant on Thursday. Deante Johnson

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Speaker 1: did not practice on Thursday, but he did get through

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Speaker 1: a workout today, the walk through today, so it looks

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Speaker 1: good for him to go out and participate. I haven't

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Speaker 1: heard anything yet about Edmonds. I was actually over at

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Speaker 1: the facility today and it was on triple lockdown today. So, um,

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Speaker 1: for the Raiders, this is where it gets. This gets

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Speaker 1: a little interesting. So and the Steeler stufts a little

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Speaker 1: interesting too. Yeah. Cornerback Rocky of Sin is out. He

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Speaker 1: won't play. He's gonna be injury. They have six guys

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Speaker 1: who are questionable, including both starting guards Alex Barrs and

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Speaker 1: Dylan Parham. Both were limited participants in practice on Thursday. Uh,

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Speaker 1: if these come down to game time decisions for these guys,

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Speaker 1: I gotta tell you, I know it's your job, and

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Speaker 1: you know for for both of these guys's knee injuries,

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Speaker 1: and I can just tell you haven't you know, I've

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Speaker 1: got bad knees from from years of beating them up

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Speaker 1: on playing different sports. Um, they don't loosen up real

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Speaker 1: well in the cold. Was that a feeling you're going

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Speaker 1: to bring the weather up here? Yeah, it's kind of

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Speaker 1: like the tin man. I bet in these kind of

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Speaker 1: this kind of weather a little bit. I mean you

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Speaker 1: need to he can't, he can't, you know, pour a

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Speaker 1: little oil on that, uh, to loosen it up. So

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Speaker 1: they're both questionable. Jackson Barton and offensive tackle is questionable.

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Speaker 1: He was limited on on Thursday. Andrew Billings, one of

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Speaker 1: their defensive tackles with a fibula issue, questionable. He was

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Speaker 1: limited all week long. Uh Darian Butler, a linebacker with

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Speaker 1: a quad was limited all week long. And then Zamir

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Speaker 1: White uh with the running back their backup running back

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Speaker 1: with an ankle is also questionable for this game. The

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Speaker 1: two guards and in buildings are big. They are, And

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Speaker 1: I bet some listeners are like, why is that big?

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Speaker 1: I've never heard of any of these guys. Jermane Illuminois.

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Speaker 1: They're starting right tackle. Oh. Absolutely, three offensive linemen are

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Speaker 1: questionable for this game. Yeah, and I think it is

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Speaker 1: a big deal. Like I've been saying this all week

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Speaker 1: that this is really a stars and scrubs roster. You know,

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Speaker 1: they got five or six guys that are about as

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Speaker 1: league Crosby Jacobs, you know, I mean Wall or Adams, etcetera.

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Speaker 1: But then there's no real middle class or well known

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Speaker 1: players because Gruden and Mayock drafted so poorly. So these

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Speaker 1: names we mentioned that might not be a big deal

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Speaker 1: mean Dylan Parr almost like he's a good prospect. People

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Speaker 1: that's the best they've got and they're making do with it,

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Speaker 1: and they're getting a lot out of these guys. So

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Speaker 1: that is a big deal to me. Yeah. I mean,

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Speaker 1: even if one of those guys misses because because of

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Speaker 1: it's a huge deal. Same thing with Billings better it is.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I bet a lot of everyone take two

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Speaker 1: the Raiders. I'm sure you don't know, you know, I

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Speaker 1: mean it's the same situation. I mean, it's below Nichols

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Speaker 1: and Kylie Peco. And they picked up Jerry Tillery who

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Speaker 1: washed out with the Chargers and he's actually helped them

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Speaker 1: a little. The Buildings might be their most well known guy,

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Speaker 1: you know. I mean their first round pick could certainly

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Speaker 1: be a d tackle, right right. I know we do

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Speaker 1: this just because this isn't a team that you know,

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Speaker 1: you see a lot and we we used to do

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Speaker 1: this more we haven't done of of late, but let's

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Speaker 1: take a look at their roster and compare it to

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Speaker 1: the Steeler's roster. So wide receiver, these are the names,

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Speaker 1: you know, Davante Adams, Maccollins, Hunter, Renfroe, and then they

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Speaker 1: have a Keelan Cole. Those are there four guys that

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Speaker 1: they had? They only have four active wide receivers. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I saw that earlier in the week too. That's a

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Speaker 1: little strange. Um, I think Adams might be number one

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Speaker 1: I saw this the other day. Dale just now we're

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Speaker 1: think it's four games with forty or less yards as

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Speaker 1: a Raider. He had one of those in his Green

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Speaker 1: Bay career, right, you know, Like I mean, so everyone's

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Speaker 1: been so focused on him. You can take away a

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Speaker 1: great receiver if that's all they have. Um, but he's

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Speaker 1: a great receiver. He's a great receiver. And when he

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Speaker 1: blows up, he blows up. Yeah. His if you look

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Speaker 1: at his season this year, they I mean, it's like

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Speaker 1: a roller coaster to a certain degree. Um, Hollins is

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Speaker 1: he's bounced rund the league for five or six years now,

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Speaker 1: and because they don't have anybody else, and Renfro was

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Speaker 1: he's a big, tough receiver that was a really good

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Speaker 1: special teamer, you know, I mean, the tough guy blocks

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Speaker 1: sure he'll do more and more. But Hollins played of

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Speaker 1: the Gunner boys. I means, they're they're almost identical in

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Speaker 1: terms of size and punt team and you know they'll

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Speaker 1: they'll make tackles and coaches love those guys, you know,

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Speaker 1: Josh Jacobs rightly loves that guy. Yeah, And and Renfro's

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Speaker 1: Re Renfro is obviously more accomplished, but he is he

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Speaker 1: was really good last year. He hasn't been this year.

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Speaker 1: I predict that he would have a ton of Welker

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Speaker 1: Edelman like targets and that hasn't come to fruition with

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Speaker 1: McDaniels and Renfro yet. Yeah. Yeah, looking at their offensive line, Uh,

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Speaker 1: you probably still give the with with Adams, and there

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Speaker 1: you give the nod to the to the Raiders receives. Huh.

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Speaker 1: I mean I like what the Steelers have depth wise

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Speaker 1: overall better, but I mean Renfro is still good even

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Speaker 1: though he hasn't done us this year in Adams is

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Speaker 1: Adams is the trump card, and I think Hollins would

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Speaker 1: play a lot if you were a Steeler. Yeah. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: On the offensive line, you got the Uh, you got

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Speaker 1: Colton Miller at left tackle, who's a good player, former

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Speaker 1: first round picks. Uh. Then you got it guard palm

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Speaker 1: would take this one there. I think you're head and

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Speaker 1: shoulders above this group. I think it's not even close.

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Speaker 1: I mean, back to bad drafting, they were counting on

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Speaker 1: Leatherwood to be the right tackle or at least a

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Speaker 1: I think Miller is the only guy I would really want.

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Speaker 1: I mean, that's not fair. I would love to have

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Speaker 1: Dylan Parham on this team. I'm not sure exactly where

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Speaker 1: it'd fit in right the second guards center, Like if

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Speaker 1: the Steeler's third round pick, and he was a third

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Speaker 1: somewhere you know, or he'll be great depth. But Miller

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Speaker 1: Is the almost franchise left tackle. But you can keep

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Speaker 1: the other dudes, Yeah, the other ones are I mean

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Speaker 1: the only starter of the group that if you're a

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Speaker 1: way tight end, fourth round pick that's played a lot

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Speaker 1: this year. With Waller being out, I don't honestly know

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Speaker 1: how to compare Waller verse Fryar move. You know, you

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Speaker 1: know when you started the season, you'd be like, boy,

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Speaker 1: I'd love to see Friar Moves turn into Waller. Waller

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Speaker 1: has had a tremendous career, but he was old tremendous

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Speaker 1: like two years. Yeah, yeah, the last couple of years

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Speaker 1: because he was a slow starter. Obviously, he came to

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Speaker 1: public alcohol issues that he's overcome. Good for him, um,

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Speaker 1: but he's thirty already. I was just pulled pulling him up.

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Speaker 1: It's already thirty and he's had like two or three

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Speaker 1: good years. Now he's coming back. I'll give the Raiders

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Speaker 1: the edge of tight end because I'll take in the

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Speaker 1: receiver group. He's not He's not gonna anybody. Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: mean even last year or last week. You know, he

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Speaker 1: those snaps, like eighty of them are in the slot. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean that's what he is. He's he's their fifty,

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Speaker 1: he's their fifth receivers and since only a four on

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Speaker 1: three of them aren't at all similar. That's how it's designed.

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Speaker 1: Because they use a fullback so much or Moreau is

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Speaker 1: the blocking tight end, they still always have six good

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Speaker 1: we should consider anybody, Jacob john somebody else, nobody does anything.

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Speaker 1: That's the amazing thing about this about this roster is

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Speaker 1: that Derek Carr is their second leading rusher. And Derek

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Speaker 1: Carr doesn't run. He's got twenty one krry's all season,

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