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Speaker 1: Welcome back. I am Dale Lolly. He is Matt Williamson.

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Speaker 1: Oh the things we talked about off the air. Yeah, uh,

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Speaker 1: it is time for Dan handass power rankings on NFL

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Speaker 1: dot Com. Here on the Drive, he is Matt Williamson.

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Speaker 1: I am Dale Lolly. I'm sure I'll be extremely critical

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Speaker 1: of Dan, but I don't envy him. I'm just gonna

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Speaker 1: say the same thing. Im figuring this horrible teams. There's

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Speaker 1: to my rant from last segment, there's just some bad

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Speaker 1: Fantasy points are down. From this point. I mean that

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Speaker 1: It's huge at thirty two this week, no surprise here,

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Speaker 1: It's it's the problem with having doing power rankings right now.

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Speaker 1: here's the staff for you. The Giants are three and

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Speaker 1: you know, but hey, they're gonna be a playoff team. Yeah, well,

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Speaker 1: there's no doubt, no doubt about that. At three the

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Speaker 1: four and two Chiefs holding steadies. Yeah, I think they're

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Speaker 1: Would you draw a line Here's like I asked my question,

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Speaker 1: the Chiefs closer to two or four? To you? Whoever

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Speaker 1: they're clearly three. They have a tough game this week though,

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Speaker 1: they go to UH to San Francisco. If San Francisco

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Speaker 1: that'll be an interesting one. We'll see how healthy San

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Speaker 1: Francisco is. But those are the Dan Hans's power rankings.

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Speaker 1: I'd fight them more, but it's had a tough it's hard.

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Speaker 1: I mean, there's is there ten teams you think that

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Speaker 1: mean again, this schedule gets remarkably, they're gonna get they're

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Speaker 1: who's gonna show up from week to week. I mean again,

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Speaker 1: who's that guy? Maybe hurts, but like it's not Lawrence,

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Speaker 1: like who's the young guy that even Herbert's a little

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Speaker 1: so right now, Steelers are hoping that guys can you

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Speaker 1: so you shall see. You can now listen to Steelers

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Speaker 1: take care of the rest. He is Matt Williamson. I

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Speaker 1: am Dale, Lala, you're listening to the drive here on

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Speaker 1: Steelers Nation Radio. We come back. It's time for the

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Speaker 1: Fantasy Football Focus. It is waiver Wire Tuesday. We'll take

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Speaker 1: a look at that right after this