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Speaker 1: The Drive with Dale Lolly and Matt Williamson on Home

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Speaker 1: of the Black and Goal Steelers Nation Radio. Welcome back

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Speaker 1: to the Drive. I'm Dale Lollly. It feels like we're

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Speaker 1: just carrying this over day after day after day. Are

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Speaker 1: with Matt Williamson in the morning. Screw me up a

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Speaker 1: little bit too, A little bit? All right, My days

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Speaker 1: are all they've completely run together. I don't know what

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Speaker 1: happens in training camp because you don't take weekends off

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Speaker 1: weekends at all. Every any the day of the week

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Speaker 1: doesn't matter, working on the days the players team schedule

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Speaker 1: right when they're practicing, So I have no idea you

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Speaker 1: know what day of the week it is. What I

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Speaker 1: have that same feeling like I think we're off on Sunday.

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Speaker 1: But how far away is that? I wake up in

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Speaker 1: the morning. I must all I'm missing is at you, babe?

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Speaker 1: Playing missing because I just wake I wake up. Oh,

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Speaker 1: go get a shower, studio, go to practice right stories,

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Speaker 1: then get up and do it again, repeat, repeat, repeat. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: That's how I've been to so no. Well, I mean,

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Speaker 1: at least we have football to talk about. It sure

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Speaker 1: beats uh, you know, doing a lot of other things

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Speaker 1: for a living. There's no I'm not complaining, but it

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Speaker 1: is kind of running together, yeah a little bit. Uh.

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Speaker 1: Steelers are wrapping up a day seven of their training

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Speaker 1: camp yesterday, so let's this time next week we'll have

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Speaker 1: a game in hand. Yeah how about that? So that'll

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Speaker 1: be interesting. Um yeah, we don't. We won't do a

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Speaker 1: show next Friday. I wouldn't think said anything about us

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Speaker 1: to the show. I'm gonna be you and I are

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Speaker 1: doing shows from Canton. We're going to Saturday and sun.

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Speaker 1: Saturday and Sundays. We'll wrap up the game up there.

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Speaker 1: We'll also be talking a lot about the Hall of

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Speaker 1: Fame stuff. Um, that'll be fun. I'm excited to get

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Speaker 1: up there and just see the environment and all that too. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that'll be Uh what are we three to six three

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Speaker 1: six Saturday and Sunday. Yeah, and then back imagine right

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Speaker 1: probably Fridays and yeah, back back at the Drive. Then

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Speaker 1: on on Monday, back at our. I don't want to

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Speaker 1: call this our normal slot. No, I don't want them

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Speaker 1: to get too comfortable. So it worked out so well.

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Speaker 1: I'm also doing the post game show with Adam Crawley,

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Speaker 1: which you definitely wouldn't want to do, the eight am

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Speaker 1: slotted on Friday. I mean we take calls for like

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Speaker 1: an hour, hour and a half or two after the game,

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Speaker 1: and some of those are a little troubling. Matt, you

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Speaker 1: sent me a thing last night. Um, this from Mike Sando.

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Speaker 1: We we we talked about it. This Okay, Yeah, I forgot

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Speaker 1: all the stuff I sent you, but I thought that

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Speaker 1: was interesting, he said. Jared Goff's slide coincided with Todd

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Speaker 1: Gurley's demise in Los Angeles. That could validate the way

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Speaker 1: some voters see Ryan Tanneho in relation to Derrick Henry,

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Speaker 1: um Kirk Cousins in relation to Dalvin Cook, and Baker

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Speaker 1: Mayfield in relation to Nick Chubb. The elite back can

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Speaker 1: help any quarterback if defenses feel compelled to commit additional

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Speaker 1: resources to stopping the run. This is what we've talked about.

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Speaker 1: I thought it was and backed up with some really

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Speaker 1: good examples, and I'm like, that's what I've been trying

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Speaker 1: to say. I mean, we used the Dalvin Cook all

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Speaker 1: these guys, but I didn't put two and two together

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Speaker 1: about Girlie's demise happened to coincide with all of a

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Speaker 1: sudden golf stinks and where I'm going with this is

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Speaker 1: right now. I mean this was off Sandos quarterback tears,

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Speaker 1: and I just grabbed that blurb and thought, where we

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Speaker 1: should talk about this because this is what I liked

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Speaker 1: how this was phrased, Because really, to me, Cousins, Tannehill, Baker,

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Speaker 1: they're all in the same tier. Tannehill's the best of

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Speaker 1: the group and has had the most success and has

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Speaker 1: some really impressive stats. But took a team to the

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Speaker 1: super Bowl, exactly right, He's considered the worst of those groups.

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Speaker 1: But because but he lost his back, you know, like

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Speaker 1: that's where I was going with this, Like if Cousins

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Speaker 1: lost Cook for a year or going forward, he might

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Speaker 1: fall to golf land, you know where he is now,

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Speaker 1: and maybe Tannehill would too, maybe Baker would too. And

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Speaker 1: I certainly recognized that Roethlisberger was way different than that.

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Speaker 1: But late in his career he's I'm not even saying

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Speaker 1: he's at the game manager tier, but he's inching towards

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Speaker 1: as Girley fell apart. You have no there's no threat.

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Speaker 1: There's no threat in all good receive first of all,

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Speaker 1: not Henry, but they're easy throws for him. There, you know,

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Speaker 1: it's and and the nl AF folks can't judge that

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Speaker 1: goes back to you know, the Steelers averaging over the

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Speaker 1: final ten games last season fifty yards rushing per game.

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Speaker 1: That's worse than not having like not you you not

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Speaker 1: only had no threat to like there was no threatening

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Speaker 1: It became too difficult for sure. But you can't tell

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Speaker 1: me whenever you're a linebacker and you see Nick Chubb

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Speaker 1: or Henry or Cook or Girley in his prime or

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Speaker 1: hopefully what Harris is going to become, that doesn't make

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Speaker 1: play in the past, or you know, things a lot harder.

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Speaker 1: You know, in both phases. You know those backs that

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Speaker 1: can do a lot or they're the foundation of their offense.

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Speaker 1: These teams build it that way for a reason, knowing

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Speaker 1: little frightening when that back isn't there. And Ben's had

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Speaker 1: to deal with that for some time now, Yeah, for sure,

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Speaker 1: and that should change this year. In fact, you know,

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Speaker 1: I actually fashioned a story on d K Pittsburgh Sports

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Speaker 1: I actually asked at first, I asked Darry Alsovski about it,

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Speaker 1: for that for seven shots every day, you know, And

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Speaker 1: I said, you know, I asked, It was kind of

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Speaker 1: a two part question. I said, you know, we I

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Speaker 1: talked about the play that they had run the day

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Speaker 1: before where Naja Harris split out wide and you know,

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Speaker 1: the first time we've seen that, I said, Devin Bush

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Speaker 1: tipping that you're a man right away, uh, And I said,

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Speaker 1: used to being more in the slot, You're used to

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Speaker 1: a sudden, you're going out no man's land. They called

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Speaker 1: He doesn't know how to use the sidelines as his

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Speaker 1: you just don't get asked to do it. A whole

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Speaker 1: I said, it looked like Devon had pretty good coverage

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Speaker 1: closer to him initially. It's hard when you play linebacker

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Speaker 1: somebody used to you're not used to play face up

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Speaker 1: to somebody, uh down there in that situation. We try

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Speaker 1: in a little better position. He was in good position,

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Speaker 1: So it just shows I'm right, Yeah, you know, it's

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Speaker 1: just breaking downward. Yeah, if you're one step closer than

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Speaker 1: I don't care who the line other than maybe Tremaine Edmonds.

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Speaker 1: You know. Um, we've seen him catch the favor routes

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Speaker 1: you know. Um, and I said, how about what about

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Speaker 1: than most backs? He said, He's a weapon. He's definitely

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Speaker 1: a weapon. You know, you expect Devon to nullify that.

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Speaker 1: We're talking about a foot in alignment, which is something

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Speaker 1: something you can easily take care of. It was nice

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Speaker 1: going at it. I'm glad to see it happen because

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Speaker 1: it's helps a coach with a teachable moment for Devin

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Speaker 1: Bush right. At the same time, it just shows how

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Speaker 1: on Chase Claypool touchdown. It was touchdown, and that's an

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Speaker 1: obvious miss, right, And it's a great coaching point obviously

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Speaker 1: by Jerry and that's all. That's how coaches think, Like

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Speaker 1: if you were taking that step forward, maybe it wouldn't

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Speaker 1: have been as a bunch of mismatch. You made it

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Speaker 1: a mismatch because you weren't aligned properly. Right, But on

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Speaker 1: the fiftie play of the game in week twelve, how

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Speaker 1: many linebackers are going to allow? Yeah, exactly properly and

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Speaker 1: it stresses you that that that package that they can

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Speaker 1: they have a wide receiver. Abron went to the Pro

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Speaker 1: Bowl a couple of years ago. He got thirteen touchdown

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Speaker 1: pass many of them down short like that fire move

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Speaker 1: fire moved some weapon down there. Harris is a weapon

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Speaker 1: run the football in that situation. Think about how many

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Speaker 1: touchdowns Harris and Friar Moves combined for last year. It's

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Speaker 1: a bazillion. I mean, I know what only had one

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Speaker 1: last year? Huh. Yeah, I thought he was a great

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Speaker 1: red zone numbers the year before. The year before the

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Speaker 1: only played Remember he only played four games. But they

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Speaker 1: both have a tremendous history of getting into pain. I mean,

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Speaker 1: he has sixteen touchdowns and catches. Uh, you know, Harris

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Speaker 1: eleven touchdown passes. Yeah, and that's they're not coming from

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Speaker 1: behind very often in the fourth quarter. Right, So I mean,

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Speaker 1: These are his best weapons. I think since I tend

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Speaker 1: to agree, I think there's more depth. There's no weak links.

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Speaker 1: good as the others they always had, Yeah, they always

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Speaker 1: you know, after Keith Miller retired, they've been kind of

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Speaker 1: trying to piece it together tight end, yeah, right, right right.

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Speaker 1: Darius Greens and the Yeah those guys. McDonald was fine,

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Speaker 1: but you're right, Um, you know, I think they could

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Speaker 1: go Ebron Harris, three receivers and run out of that

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Speaker 1: you know, easily. Or you could get big with Ebron

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Speaker 1: fly from the coast coast, that's a little different. You're

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Speaker 1: not in the morning. Yeah, that goes back to what

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Speaker 1: you know, Bob Labriola was talking about a couple of

428
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Speaker 1: years ago when when the you know, the Browns were

429
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Speaker 1: suddenly over the hot team. How do you deal with

430
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Speaker 1: that if you haven't had to deal with it on

431
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Speaker 1: a regular something to it. It goes back to that

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Speaker 1: scheduling thing that we just talked about. You know, Mike

433
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Speaker 1: Tomlin has been through it so many times that these

434
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Speaker 1: players have been through it so many times. Okay, I know,

435
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Speaker 1: if I get a West Coast gear, if I've got

436
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Speaker 1: a game in Seattle on a Monday night, the next

437
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Speaker 1: day shot, the next day shot, you're not getting back

438
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Speaker 1: until seven am or whatever, there's probably some jet lag

439
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Speaker 1: and stuff over overlapping there. Prepping the next week is

440
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Speaker 1: gonna be really difficult to sum it up. So you

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Speaker 1: take it easy on the players that week, absolutely, And

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Speaker 1: I hope you don't travel the next week. You hope

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Speaker 1: your home and usually the NFL helps you, but not.

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Speaker 1: You know. The the other thing too is I know

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Speaker 1: it's not necessarily always feasible, but when they went to

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Speaker 1: a seventeen game schedule, I was really hoping for two

447
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Speaker 1: eye weeks so those Thursday night ers wouldn't be short,

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Speaker 1: you know, that you'd have a bye going into a

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Speaker 1: Thursday night or because they also think, you know, there's

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Speaker 1: a lot to the players safety to the product is

451
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Speaker 1: not as good, it's not as good as good enough

452
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Speaker 1: representation of who really is the better team. But more importantly,

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Speaker 1: I think it's not healthy for the players bodies. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's the that's the big thing. So I think you know,

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Speaker 1: when you have you know, Mike Tomlan gets the uh,

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Speaker 1: the you hear the players coach thrown around a lot.

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Speaker 1: Who are the who are the real quote unquote non players?

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Speaker 1: You know who's not a players coach in today's NFL

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Speaker 1: Belichick that's about it. I don't know, because I've also

460
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Speaker 1: heard guys like Shanahan and McVeigh and the real XS

461
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Speaker 1: and oose dudes sometimes look at their players like their

462
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Speaker 1: video games. Yeah you know what I mean, Like they're

463
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Speaker 1: just not I can win with golf or cousins or whoever.

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Speaker 1: It's more me, which is kind of a selfish way

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Speaker 1: of explaining it, and buy a selfish way they look

466
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Speaker 1: at and it's has it's been proven that's a tough

467
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Speaker 1: way to go in when those guys haven't had the

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Speaker 1: Jimmy's and Joe's, the excess and O's have not mattered

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Speaker 1: as much. True. You know, McVeigh has been very successful

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Speaker 1: each time, but he's had great players, but a couple

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Speaker 1: of with with a six and ten. I think a

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Speaker 1: couple of years ago coming off the Super Bowl, the Rams,

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Speaker 1: Yeah weren't they didn't. They weren't quite as good coming

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Speaker 1: off the Super I think he's had a pretty good

475
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Speaker 1: record every step of the way. I mean Shanahan has

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Speaker 1: been the head coach three years, got hit hit hard

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Speaker 1: by injuries, two of them. But they were amongst the

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Speaker 1: worst teams in the league those two years too, you know,

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Speaker 1: and then and then went to the Super Bowl and loss. Okay,

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Speaker 1: they were not They went nine and seven, nine and seven, okay, um,

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Speaker 1: so again they went eleven and five, thirteen and three.

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Speaker 1: Some of the injuries what we talked about in the

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Speaker 1: previous segment, all of a sudden, Todd Gurley shot you

484
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Speaker 1: and nine is seven right, right, So the Jimmy's and

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Speaker 1: Joe's do matter. Oh, they've also especially with that team,

486
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Speaker 1: they're so top heavy. You know, Ramsey and Donald make

487
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Speaker 1: the world go round. It's fine. Kind of interesting, is

488
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Speaker 1: if you look over the last three years, it's a

489
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Speaker 1: football siders thing. The Rams have been by far the

490
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Speaker 1: healthiest team in the league. The Niners have been by

491
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Speaker 1: far the most injured team in the league. So they're

492
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Speaker 1: obvious competitors, similar styles coaching. And you wonder about the Rams,

493
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Speaker 1: I mean part of me wonders, and that is their

494
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Speaker 1: training staff a little better than the average one in

495
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Speaker 1: the league. Is it just purely there's there's injury luck.

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Speaker 1: I think most of it's luck is that do they

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Speaker 1: rest their players a little better so that they get

498
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Speaker 1: a five percent difference. That's That's one thing I think

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Speaker 1: Tomlin does a really good job. You know, you hear

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Speaker 1: the next man up thing thrown all around a lot

501
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Speaker 1: by Tomlin, and he does it to put that mentality,

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Speaker 1: to put that grain of thought within the players like that.

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Speaker 1: You know, you're a backup and you have to step

504
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Speaker 1: in and play for whoever. Well, it's the next man

505
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Speaker 1: up we gotta have. We we can't have any drop off.

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Speaker 1: There's going to be a drop Every coach is going

507
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Speaker 1: to be a drop off. You're so pleasantly surprised if

508
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Speaker 1: there isn't, Like, Wow, is better than I thought. But

509
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Speaker 1: to talk you wind up talking these guys into well,

510
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Speaker 1: the expectation is I gotta you know, there's not the

511
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Speaker 1: only time I've ever heard him talk about the backups

512
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Speaker 1: them having to make adjustments for the backups was in

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Speaker 1: with the quarterback position. You can't sell that to the

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Speaker 1: rest of the team, and you can't sell a lot

515
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Speaker 1: of it to the rest of the team. So let's

516
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Speaker 1: say the Niners lose Trent Williams. Well, everyone's sitting in

517
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Speaker 1: the offensive meeting rooms. We never used to help the

518
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Speaker 1: left tackle, and now all of our protections geared towards

519
00:27:43,320 --> 00:27:46,199
Speaker 1: helping the left tackle. Like, I think there's a difference.

520
00:27:49,160 --> 00:27:51,800
Speaker 1: These guys aren't. I mean, they understand, but I also

521
00:27:51,880 --> 00:27:54,720
Speaker 1: think it puts that mentality with the team that hey,

522
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Speaker 1: just because we're missing said player, the expectation is still

523
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Speaker 1: we go out and win, find a way to win.

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Speaker 1: We need you to play well enough to win. We're

525
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Speaker 1: not going to use as an excuse of why we don't,

526
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Speaker 1: without question, without question, No, there's never I mean Belichick

527
00:28:10,080 --> 00:28:12,320
Speaker 1: didn't make excuses last year. I lost my quarterback and

528
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Speaker 1: all these guys opted out, and you know, they just

529
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Speaker 1: we still expect to win. He kind of did at

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Speaker 1: the end that he actually kind of did, and he

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Speaker 1: kind of played last year like I'm bum punting this year.

532
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Speaker 1: I've had enough. Yeah, when he was when he was asked,

533
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Speaker 1: but I can't remember the exact quotes about it, but

534
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Speaker 1: he was, you know, we had a lot of salary

535
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Speaker 1: caps stuff. Yeah, not much more than them, right right, right,

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Speaker 1: Like I think last year was a big punt for

537
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Speaker 1: the Patriots, especially after the opt outs and stuff. Anyway, Um,

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Speaker 1: where were we I got with that. We've been going

539
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Speaker 1: all over the place. Yeah, we've been kind of um.

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Speaker 1: But I just think that that, you know, when you

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Speaker 1: have a veteran head coach, I wonder how some of

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Speaker 1: the young coaches in the league, like, how's Dan Campbell handling?

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Speaker 1: I look at the Bengals, Yeah, I mean he's been

544
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Speaker 1: three and thirteen two years in a row, and they

545
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Speaker 1: don't get the travel or and neither the Lions. You know,

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Speaker 1: they're they're not asked to be on prime time a ton,

547
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Speaker 1: but they still deal with things they haven't dealt with before.

548
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Speaker 1: And last year was a huge example. Of course, every

549
00:29:11,000 --> 00:29:14,720
Speaker 1: team got rerouted at least one. Honestly think that the

550
00:29:14,800 --> 00:29:17,880
Speaker 1: lack of training camp in preseason helped the team like

551
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Speaker 1: the Steelers, so we talked about it a lot last year.

552
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Speaker 1: The scheduling quirks worked against them. Then everyone had it

553
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Speaker 1: different than they were on the low end of the

554
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Speaker 1: they were on the they were the team that had

555
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Speaker 1: probably hit the hardest, that had more games moved around.

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Speaker 1: The league has said this year for they've already said

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Speaker 1: they they're not going to do an eighteenth week this year.

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Speaker 1: That's not gonna happen. So that's off the table, and

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Speaker 1: a lot of us back to who's vaccinating who isn't.

560
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Speaker 1: You know, if you're unvaccinated and you come up positive,

561
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Speaker 1: we're not helping your team because of it, you know,

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Speaker 1: which is big. It sounds like the schedule is likely

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Speaker 1: to stay the same unless something new straian. I mean,

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Speaker 1: who knows. But you shouldn't see teams it like they

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Speaker 1: were last year with the entire you know, hey, your

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Speaker 1: entire offensive line has to sit up practices. It's the Broncos.

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Speaker 1: You don't have a quarterback, you know what. Any crazy

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Speaker 1: Tuesday Wednesday games, but they're But there are coaches that

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Speaker 1: I that I trust to maneuver this, the handle the

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Speaker 1: rapid handle it. Yeah, you know, I agree. You get

571
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Speaker 1: thrown a curveball and you're you don't you don't you know,

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Speaker 1: your knees don't buckles at the topic list on that

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Speaker 1: um you know. But along those lines, how we started

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Speaker 1: this segment was these guys lays things out and he

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Speaker 1: probably looks back and says, last Tuesday, I would have

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Speaker 1: practiced one thousand percent different than I did. I made

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Speaker 1: it a Rudolph Haskins type press pat practice. Thinking I

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Speaker 1: had all this time before. You know when really, if

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Speaker 1: I knew I was playing that when I was, I

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Speaker 1: would have been prepping for the Ravens or whoever. You know,

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Speaker 1: Ravens had tough too. They had a couple of games

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Speaker 1: where they didn't have their guys. You know, that is

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Speaker 1: what it is. They did that to themselves. But anyways,

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Speaker 1: we're gonna take another break. He is Matt Williamson. I'm

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Speaker 1: Dale Ally. When we come back, ESPNS put some player

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Speaker 1: prop bets, their best NFL player prop bets up. Let's

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Speaker 1: talk about some of those when we come back. Right

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Speaker 1: after this. He is Matt Williamson. I'm Dale Lally. You're

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Speaker 1: listening to the Drive here on Steelers Nation Radio. Your

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Speaker 1: tunes about Drive on Home of the Black and Goals

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

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Speaker 1: Matt Williamson and Matt. As I mentioned, ESPN put together

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Speaker 1: some of their best player props bets for uh for quarterbacks,

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Speaker 1: running back, some receivers, the overtriners here. Can I throw

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Speaker 1: one thing in here first? Yes, I don't know if

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Speaker 1: we've ever talked about this, but I have a betting

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Speaker 1: angle that I think would never lose. Okay, if you

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Speaker 1: had a gazillion bazillion dollars. If anybody else wouldn't bet it,

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Speaker 1: do this, they should take my advice and send me

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Speaker 1: ten percent when they went at the end of the year.

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Speaker 1: What if you went to every player, prop everyone and

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Speaker 1: bet the under. I think you'd win because people get hurt.

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Speaker 1: People get hurt. I mean, I think if there's a

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Speaker 1: loophole there. I mean, it's hard to do, and you

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Speaker 1: gotta have a lot of money to do it. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I guess you put a buck on every player. You know,

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Speaker 1: you don't have to put a bazillion dollars on every player,

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Speaker 1: But if you bet every under, I think you win. Probably,

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Speaker 1: I don't know it's true. Well you could. We could

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Speaker 1: print these out and look at them after the season

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Speaker 1: and see how it works out. We do all of them,

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Speaker 1: Cole Beasley, We gotta do. I mean every guy in

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Speaker 1: the league. That would take a lot of it takes

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Speaker 1: a lot of manpower. But if you're a rich millionaire

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Speaker 1: that's retired right now, you should do it. If you're

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Speaker 1: rich millionaire, you're not betting your money. You have nothing

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Speaker 1: to do all day. You get to be a millionaire,

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Speaker 1: don't pop my balloon here. I think I'm right all right,

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Speaker 1: So here the here the props share that they put

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Speaker 1: up here the best ones. Jalen Hurts under three hundred

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Speaker 1: sixty or thirty six hundred point five passing yards seventeen games.

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Speaker 1: You think he played all seventeen games. Well, all these

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Speaker 1: are based on him doing that, which is why my

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Speaker 1: theory hits because nobody many of these people will not

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Speaker 1: and I'm sure they adjusted a little big number, pretty

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Speaker 1: big number. Yeah, I think it will be losing a lot.

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Speaker 1: I don't think he gets benched. I'll still go under.

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Speaker 1: I don't think he's a good pass Carson Wentz over

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Speaker 1: three thousand, six d seventy five passing yards. It's about

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Speaker 1: the same number, about the same number, a little bit higher.

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Speaker 1: They're going over with him under with Hurts, I don't

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Speaker 1: think he gets benched either. Um, Okay, better surrounding cast,

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Speaker 1: better pass are still. I mean, I know they were equal.

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Speaker 1: I think I think that goes over. Um yeah, I'm

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Speaker 1: pretty cool with that. Here's the Okay, here's one little

636
00:33:48,120 --> 00:33:51,760
Speaker 1: loophole for that though. If the Colts season isn't going well,

637
00:33:53,160 --> 00:33:56,479
Speaker 1: if they bench him for under seventy of the snaps.

638
00:33:56,520 --> 00:33:58,040
Speaker 1: They only give up a second round pick, not a

639
00:33:58,080 --> 00:34:01,160
Speaker 1: first round pick. So week a team when you need

640
00:34:01,240 --> 00:34:03,200
Speaker 1: this to hit, if they're not in the playoffs, they

641
00:34:03,320 --> 00:34:05,600
Speaker 1: might be like, we really want to see what Jacobison

642
00:34:05,640 --> 00:34:09,520
Speaker 1: could do. Oh, there's no doubt. So I might go

643
00:34:09,680 --> 00:34:13,200
Speaker 1: under on that one. Daniel Jones over thirty seven point

644
00:34:13,320 --> 00:34:17,000
Speaker 1: five passing yards. I think going under on everything Daniel

645
00:34:17,080 --> 00:34:19,879
Speaker 1: Jones related, no matter what the number is. I love

646
00:34:19,920 --> 00:34:23,920
Speaker 1: his weapons, but there are are lines horrendous. Shane lem

647
00:34:24,040 --> 00:34:26,160
Speaker 1: you got carded off yesterday, And the only thing good

648
00:34:26,160 --> 00:34:29,279
Speaker 1: about Shane Lemus he wears sixty six. I mean their

649
00:34:29,440 --> 00:34:32,440
Speaker 1: lines back when he's a starter and Jones start last year,

650
00:34:32,800 --> 00:34:36,200
Speaker 1: I'm going under on Daniel Jones. Baker Mayfield over thirty

651
00:34:36,280 --> 00:34:39,319
Speaker 1: nine point five passing I'm going over. You're going over.

652
00:34:40,560 --> 00:34:42,399
Speaker 1: I think he goes over four thousand yards this year.

653
00:34:42,520 --> 00:34:44,960
Speaker 1: I think that offense is will be quite good. I mean,

654
00:34:45,760 --> 00:34:48,040
Speaker 1: I keep going back to two things last year about

655
00:34:48,080 --> 00:34:50,680
Speaker 1: the Browns, and it's really not even a Baker thing.

656
00:34:51,360 --> 00:34:55,799
Speaker 1: Three games in slop. I mean they played three games

657
00:34:55,800 --> 00:34:57,719
Speaker 1: in a row and the worst weather of they they

658
00:34:57,760 --> 00:34:59,400
Speaker 1: play in Cleveland, so you expect I mean there might

659
00:34:59,440 --> 00:35:01,239
Speaker 1: be one or two here, but I mean they dealt

660
00:35:01,280 --> 00:35:03,279
Speaker 1: with three in a row that his numbers were really,

661
00:35:03,320 --> 00:35:06,480
Speaker 1: really low, And I can't believe that they're passing game

662
00:35:06,600 --> 00:35:10,040
Speaker 1: is better without Odell. I mean, he's got to prove

663
00:35:10,120 --> 00:35:12,359
Speaker 1: that he could stay healthy for quiet. He hasn't done

664
00:35:12,400 --> 00:35:16,520
Speaker 1: so and since. But Betty gives them more than he

665
00:35:16,560 --> 00:35:19,439
Speaker 1: did last year. Maybe, I mean he hasn't two years.

666
00:35:19,560 --> 00:35:22,200
Speaker 1: But now I'll go over on that. Okay. I also

667
00:35:22,239 --> 00:35:24,239
Speaker 1: don't think they can just run the ball like crazy either.

668
00:35:24,920 --> 00:35:30,000
Speaker 1: Joe Burrow over fifty point five over. Yeah, they're going

669
00:35:30,040 --> 00:35:32,920
Speaker 1: to have to throw. Assuming he's right in week one,

670
00:35:33,680 --> 00:35:36,000
Speaker 1: which I'm sure he'll play. But as he right in

671
00:35:36,080 --> 00:35:38,319
Speaker 1: week one, I think he's really good, and I think

672
00:35:38,320 --> 00:35:40,480
Speaker 1: their weapons are really good. These ones are a little

673
00:35:40,520 --> 00:35:44,000
Speaker 1: bit more interesting because they're passing touchdowns. These are it's

674
00:35:44,040 --> 00:35:46,520
Speaker 1: a little bit harder thing to bet on. Sam Donald

675
00:35:46,640 --> 00:35:51,800
Speaker 1: under twenty one and a half touchdown passes mhm, seventeen games,

676
00:35:52,000 --> 00:35:54,840
Speaker 1: seventeen games, it's just over one a game. Yeah, I

677
00:35:54,920 --> 00:35:58,560
Speaker 1: think I'll go over on that. McCaffrey will catch five

678
00:35:58,680 --> 00:36:02,839
Speaker 1: or six. Darn It's production or projection is seventeen point

679
00:36:02,920 --> 00:36:07,359
Speaker 1: two according to ESPN, So that's a four under. Yeah.

680
00:36:07,360 --> 00:36:09,600
Speaker 1: They think he's gonna throw one touchdown a game. They

681
00:36:09,640 --> 00:36:11,719
Speaker 1: think that the Panthers are gonna be one of the

682
00:36:11,800 --> 00:36:15,160
Speaker 1: run heaviest teams in the league. But McCaffrey's gonna catch

683
00:36:15,200 --> 00:36:17,760
Speaker 1: a bunch of passes. He's gonna take three swing passes

684
00:36:17,840 --> 00:36:21,000
Speaker 1: to the house that I'm going over with that. I

685
00:36:21,040 --> 00:36:25,560
Speaker 1: think I go over no question. Ryan seventeen game schedule,

686
00:36:25,600 --> 00:36:27,719
Speaker 1: and I don't think he's getting bench for anybody. Ryan

687
00:36:27,760 --> 00:36:30,880
Speaker 1: Fitzpatrick under twenty two and a half passing touchdowns. I'm

688
00:36:30,920 --> 00:36:34,359
Speaker 1: gonna go under just because he starts the whole year. Yeah,

689
00:36:34,640 --> 00:36:36,600
Speaker 1: I wish there was somebody else that. I mean, I

690
00:36:36,640 --> 00:36:39,480
Speaker 1: think they like Heineken when people realize, But I think

691
00:36:39,560 --> 00:36:42,520
Speaker 1: Fits throws four interceptions and then next day throws two

692
00:36:42,640 --> 00:36:45,080
Speaker 1: and gets benched at halftime at least once this year. Yeah,

693
00:36:45,320 --> 00:36:46,960
Speaker 1: that's who he is. Who he is, and then he

694
00:36:47,000 --> 00:36:49,759
Speaker 1: goes out, you know, three weeks later and throws five touchdowns. Yeah, yeah,

695
00:36:50,000 --> 00:36:52,840
Speaker 1: that's good, But I bet he doesn't play every snap

696
00:36:53,040 --> 00:36:56,360
Speaker 1: even if he's healthy. Trevor Lawrence under twenty four and

697
00:36:56,360 --> 00:36:59,520
Speaker 1: a half touchdown passes. That's a big number. For a rookie,

698
00:37:00,040 --> 00:37:01,920
Speaker 1: it is, but they got a lot of weapons. He's

699
00:37:01,960 --> 00:37:05,080
Speaker 1: gonna play, although they're they've opened camp with with with

700
00:37:05,280 --> 00:37:10,239
Speaker 1: he and uh Menshew Minshew sharing time just at the one.

701
00:37:10,320 --> 00:37:13,160
Speaker 1: To me, I don't urban Meyer might overthink things and

702
00:37:13,239 --> 00:37:14,920
Speaker 1: he may not be an NFL coach. By the way,

703
00:37:15,000 --> 00:37:18,080
Speaker 1: but only four rookie quarterbacks have reached twenty five touchdown

704
00:37:18,120 --> 00:37:20,000
Speaker 1: passes in league history. I think they've all been the

705
00:37:20,080 --> 00:37:22,520
Speaker 1: last couple of years though, right, isn't it Herbert and Mayfield?

706
00:37:22,680 --> 00:37:25,239
Speaker 1: And I mean I think they're all recent guys. It's

707
00:37:25,400 --> 00:37:28,600
Speaker 1: a couple of them, are you know? Times are different now,

708
00:37:29,239 --> 00:37:34,359
Speaker 1: they're different, but it's not a bad offense. I think

709
00:37:34,400 --> 00:37:36,719
Speaker 1: i'd lean over his projections twenty two and a half,

710
00:37:37,080 --> 00:37:39,759
Speaker 1: but this also, I mean I lean over on a

711
00:37:39,880 --> 00:37:42,280
Speaker 1: lot of these. But that's the beauty of what Vegas

712
00:37:42,320 --> 00:37:44,040
Speaker 1: does here. If you go under on all of them,

713
00:37:44,040 --> 00:37:48,359
Speaker 1: which nobody wants to do you uh Derek Carr over

714
00:37:48,440 --> 00:37:52,960
Speaker 1: twenty four and a half passing touchdowns, I think I'll

715
00:37:53,000 --> 00:37:56,120
Speaker 1: go under last. Yeah, it's a really good year and

716
00:37:56,200 --> 00:37:59,360
Speaker 1: they got weapons. I like their passing game. I like

717
00:37:59,600 --> 00:38:03,400
Speaker 1: car I would I think that line is sticking in

718
00:38:03,520 --> 00:38:06,200
Speaker 1: my head, and I think Gruden loves to pound the

719
00:38:06,280 --> 00:38:09,919
Speaker 1: rock in deep with Jacobs and those guys. Matt Ryan

720
00:38:10,080 --> 00:38:16,440
Speaker 1: under twenty eight and a half passing touchdowns under his

721
00:38:16,520 --> 00:38:19,919
Speaker 1: projections twenty four point seven, that would be a really

722
00:38:20,000 --> 00:38:22,400
Speaker 1: down year, from really down to year. And I think

723
00:38:22,440 --> 00:38:25,880
Speaker 1: they'll throw a lot. They don't have a true I mean,

724
00:38:25,960 --> 00:38:28,200
Speaker 1: Mike Davis is the lead running back and they're gonna

725
00:38:28,200 --> 00:38:30,360
Speaker 1: pound him in the ends. You know you're gonna be

726
00:38:30,400 --> 00:38:33,040
Speaker 1: a lot a lot of short passing touchdowns. How many

727
00:38:33,080 --> 00:38:36,040
Speaker 1: touchdowns his pits gonna catch? Yeah? What do you what

728
00:38:36,120 --> 00:38:38,279
Speaker 1: do you think he's over under a touchdown reception number

729
00:38:38,400 --> 00:38:41,120
Speaker 1: is seven? I just think it's seven or eight. Yeah,

730
00:38:42,520 --> 00:38:45,480
Speaker 1: And that was one thing Julio Jones didn't do. It

731
00:38:45,680 --> 00:38:49,000
Speaker 1: was never a big touchdown gun. I don't know. I

732
00:38:49,040 --> 00:38:52,840
Speaker 1: think I'm still going under Miles Sanders under one thousand

733
00:38:52,880 --> 00:38:56,399
Speaker 1: and twenty five and a point and a half rushing yards. Yeah.

734
00:38:56,440 --> 00:38:58,439
Speaker 1: I think I'm under on that he can't stay healthy

735
00:38:58,520 --> 00:39:01,279
Speaker 1: for yeah, And I think Gainwell will be on the

736
00:39:01,320 --> 00:39:04,600
Speaker 1: field a little bit. They get guys a couple other

737
00:39:05,040 --> 00:39:08,440
Speaker 1: retread types that might eat into him. I think that

738
00:39:08,520 --> 00:39:10,879
Speaker 1: the jury is still out if he's an every down back,

739
00:39:12,000 --> 00:39:16,000
Speaker 1: Nausea Harris over over nine and seventy five and a

740
00:39:16,040 --> 00:39:19,439
Speaker 1: half rushing yards, That would that would that would throw

741
00:39:19,520 --> 00:39:21,759
Speaker 1: your your little theory out of whack. I think the

742
00:39:22,040 --> 00:39:26,120
Speaker 1: Vegas is way. I bet they adjust that as this

743
00:39:26,400 --> 00:39:29,840
Speaker 1: as the summer goes along. Yeah, I think that's I

744
00:39:29,880 --> 00:39:32,759
Speaker 1: would bet every under except that one to get to

745
00:39:33,000 --> 00:39:35,560
Speaker 1: in in a seventeen game schedule. Now they to talk

746
00:39:35,640 --> 00:39:37,279
Speaker 1: before as well. If you get a thousand yards of

747
00:39:37,320 --> 00:39:38,960
Speaker 1: season as a running back, I think he only had

748
00:39:38,960 --> 00:39:43,080
Speaker 1: average sixty three yards per game, or a wide receiver

749
00:39:43,239 --> 00:39:45,440
Speaker 1: win him at the sixteen games. What's the number? Ninety

750
00:39:45,520 --> 00:39:49,680
Speaker 1: three seventy five and a half nine seven five point

751
00:39:49,800 --> 00:39:53,759
Speaker 1: five divided by seventeen equals fifty seven point four. You

752
00:39:53,840 --> 00:39:56,480
Speaker 1: gotta average fifty seven yards a game. The stealers are

753
00:39:56,480 --> 00:39:58,919
Speaker 1: average fifty yards a game with no running game. Yeah,

754
00:39:59,239 --> 00:40:00,880
Speaker 1: I mean, I know he and get every carry of

755
00:40:00,920 --> 00:40:03,600
Speaker 1: every game, and of course you could get hurt. I mean,

756
00:40:03,960 --> 00:40:06,520
Speaker 1: but that's that's baked in with all these guys. I

757
00:40:06,600 --> 00:40:09,120
Speaker 1: think the averages sixty yards a game, I would hope, so,

758
00:40:09,440 --> 00:40:11,960
Speaker 1: I would hope. So. Yeah, when the defense should keep

759
00:40:12,040 --> 00:40:14,680
Speaker 1: games close, I mean, even if the offense is a

760
00:40:14,760 --> 00:40:17,239
Speaker 1: disaster and the O line camp lock a soul and

761
00:40:17,320 --> 00:40:21,359
Speaker 1: he's average in three yards to carry, take that one

762
00:40:21,440 --> 00:40:23,360
Speaker 1: to the bank. You can't take that one to the bank.

763
00:40:24,120 --> 00:40:27,640
Speaker 1: Damien Harris under eight d fifty point five rushing yards.

764
00:40:27,800 --> 00:40:30,719
Speaker 1: I'm going over there. I'm accounting on him for touchdowns

765
00:40:30,800 --> 00:40:36,640
Speaker 1: or catches. Over the past ten years, New England's leading rusher.

766
00:40:36,719 --> 00:40:39,640
Speaker 1: It's just ten years, though New England's reading leading rushers

767
00:40:39,680 --> 00:40:44,040
Speaker 1: averaged eight point nine rushing yards per season. They liked,

768
00:40:44,520 --> 00:40:47,280
Speaker 1: they like to do the whole You know this guy, Okay,

769
00:40:47,320 --> 00:40:48,920
Speaker 1: he had a good game this week. We're going to

770
00:40:49,080 --> 00:40:51,080
Speaker 1: change things up and this guy's gonna this team of

771
00:40:51,160 --> 00:40:54,759
Speaker 1: attack with James White. That's why you don't draft Patriots running.

772
00:40:54,760 --> 00:40:57,680
Speaker 1: But Garett Blunt probably never got that number there. I

773
00:40:57,719 --> 00:40:59,239
Speaker 1: think Harri is a better runner than a lot of

774
00:40:59,280 --> 00:41:01,319
Speaker 1: those guys. I think their line is a lot better,

775
00:41:02,160 --> 00:41:06,040
Speaker 1: but I don't that's the thing. And I think Ramandre

776
00:41:06,160 --> 00:41:08,520
Speaker 1: Stevenson is a little bit banged up now. Sony Michelle

777
00:41:09,000 --> 00:41:12,360
Speaker 1: might not make the team. You want Mac Jones to

778
00:41:12,400 --> 00:41:14,879
Speaker 1: be the quarterback, though at some point that would help

779
00:41:14,880 --> 00:41:17,759
Speaker 1: your about a lot and really help his touchdowns. For

780
00:41:17,920 --> 00:41:22,239
Speaker 1: it's a fantasy note. Gus Edwards the gust bus over

781
00:41:22,360 --> 00:41:25,399
Speaker 1: six hundred point five rushing yards. I think I'm going

782
00:41:25,520 --> 00:41:28,480
Speaker 1: under that. That's a big number, A big number. I

783
00:41:28,520 --> 00:41:34,000
Speaker 1: think Dobbin's role grows. Edwards doesn't break long ones. Edwards

784
00:41:34,120 --> 00:41:36,759
Speaker 1: has recorded over seven hundred rushing yards in each of

785
00:41:36,840 --> 00:41:39,280
Speaker 1: his three seasons. Yeah, I know he's been more productive

786
00:41:39,280 --> 00:41:43,400
Speaker 1: than people realize. And that was one mark ingram. That

787
00:41:43,520 --> 00:41:45,800
Speaker 1: was a three headed rack field. Right. I think they'renna

788
00:41:45,800 --> 00:41:47,719
Speaker 1: throw more this year, though, I think they're passing for

789
00:41:47,840 --> 00:41:49,719
Speaker 1: sentage will go up. They're still going to run the

790
00:41:49,719 --> 00:41:53,200
Speaker 1: ball bunch show. Yeah, I don't know. Six hundred point

791
00:41:53,239 --> 00:41:55,279
Speaker 1: five is a is a low number for for a

792
00:41:55,320 --> 00:41:57,719
Speaker 1: guy who's had seven hundred each of the last three years.

793
00:41:57,800 --> 00:42:00,480
Speaker 1: How many carries the averages per year because I mean,

794
00:42:00,960 --> 00:42:02,800
Speaker 1: how much how many times do we say money talks

795
00:42:02,920 --> 00:42:06,800
Speaker 1: they extended him. He gets a hundred and fifty carries

796
00:42:07,640 --> 00:42:12,440
Speaker 1: at least probably those backs. I mean that team always

797
00:42:13,040 --> 00:42:15,640
Speaker 1: under this new system, pretty much always leads the league

798
00:42:15,800 --> 00:42:19,560
Speaker 1: in yards per carry because of their unique system. I

799
00:42:19,600 --> 00:42:23,759
Speaker 1: mean it's not even necessarily the back. Yeah, Okay, I

800
00:42:23,800 --> 00:42:26,840
Speaker 1: guess you can convince me on that one. Ezekiel Elliott

801
00:42:26,920 --> 00:42:31,799
Speaker 1: over nine and a half rushing touchdowns under. I think

802
00:42:31,800 --> 00:42:34,160
Speaker 1: I go over that. It's a big number. It's a

803
00:42:34,239 --> 00:42:37,120
Speaker 1: big number, but we're talking about them being one of

804
00:42:37,120 --> 00:42:39,800
Speaker 1: the most potent offenses in the league. You have to

805
00:42:39,880 --> 00:42:43,960
Speaker 1: be concerned about those those receivers. He's gonna be the

806
00:42:44,000 --> 00:42:46,640
Speaker 1: short yard like I hope the short yardage hammer Emmett.

807
00:42:47,760 --> 00:42:50,080
Speaker 1: They've always had that, awesome dude. That's great for fantasy.

808
00:42:53,280 --> 00:42:56,840
Speaker 1: Just a big number. I mean the other one besides that,

809
00:42:56,920 --> 00:43:00,239
Speaker 1: Derrick Henry or so betting for ten rushing touchdowns are

810
00:43:00,320 --> 00:43:04,040
Speaker 1: more seems like a losing proposition. That's not ten rushing

811
00:43:04,120 --> 00:43:07,239
Speaker 1: touch is his ten I was rushing. Okay, how about

812
00:43:07,239 --> 00:43:10,840
Speaker 1: this one, Antonio Gibson over eight and a half touchdowns total.

813
00:43:11,760 --> 00:43:14,840
Speaker 1: I think I'll go over. I'm a believer that's basically

814
00:43:14,920 --> 00:43:18,040
Speaker 1: one every other game. I just hope he's used in

815
00:43:18,080 --> 00:43:21,040
Speaker 1: the passing game instead of mkissic because mckissic is an

816
00:43:21,120 --> 00:43:23,480
Speaker 1: accomplished type guy that coaches love, that's hard to get

817
00:43:23,520 --> 00:43:28,200
Speaker 1: off the field. There's no upside Austin r under five

818
00:43:28,239 --> 00:43:31,880
Speaker 1: and a half rushing touchdowns. Yeah, I think so. He

819
00:43:31,960 --> 00:43:34,879
Speaker 1: won't be the short yardist guy. He has a score

820
00:43:34,920 --> 00:43:37,399
Speaker 1: from distance, catch a ton of balls, but who cares?

821
00:43:37,440 --> 00:43:39,960
Speaker 1: That doesn't factor in this. Yeah, I think I'm under

822
00:43:40,000 --> 00:43:43,759
Speaker 1: on that. James three or four. James Conner over five

823
00:43:43,800 --> 00:43:47,120
Speaker 1: and a half rushing touchdowns and over five seventy five

824
00:43:47,160 --> 00:43:51,240
Speaker 1: and a half rushing yards going under on both playing

825
00:43:51,239 --> 00:43:54,279
Speaker 1: on a one year deal. I trust him to stay

826
00:43:54,320 --> 00:43:58,200
Speaker 1: healthy less than any player in the league. His projection

827
00:43:58,280 --> 00:44:01,920
Speaker 1: is seven eleven rushing yard and six and point six touchdowns.

828
00:44:02,239 --> 00:44:05,720
Speaker 1: I think he could be a very good September player.

829
00:44:06,760 --> 00:44:09,239
Speaker 1: I don't trust him to be. I don't trust him either.

830
00:44:10,200 --> 00:44:13,440
Speaker 1: Keenan Allen. We're moving on to wide receivers over one thousand,

831
00:44:13,560 --> 00:44:19,280
Speaker 1: fifty point five receiving yards model of consistency. Yeah, Kenny

832
00:44:19,360 --> 00:44:23,280
Speaker 1: Golladay over one thousand, twenty five and a half receiving

833
00:44:23,320 --> 00:44:26,399
Speaker 1: yards under. I don't trust him, to be honest with him.

834
00:44:26,680 --> 00:44:31,560
Speaker 1: Robert Woods over one thousand point five receiving yards over. Yeah,

835
00:44:31,760 --> 00:44:35,120
Speaker 1: I think he's a step above Cup too. He's averaged

836
00:44:35,160 --> 00:44:38,200
Speaker 1: a thousand and seventeen and a half yards per season,

837
00:44:38,280 --> 00:44:40,640
Speaker 1: sixty nine yards per game. If he does that this year,

838
00:44:41,880 --> 00:44:45,360
Speaker 1: blows that number away. Calvin Ridley under nine and a

839
00:44:45,400 --> 00:44:50,879
Speaker 1: half touchdown receptions. We've we already talked Atlanta touchdowns through

840
00:44:50,920 --> 00:44:56,120
Speaker 1: the air. I'm gonna go lower. I mean, scores one

841
00:44:56,160 --> 00:44:58,440
Speaker 1: every other game. He still doesn't get there. Yeah, he

842
00:44:58,520 --> 00:45:01,360
Speaker 1: scored seven and nine in his first two seasons. Kyle

843
00:45:01,480 --> 00:45:04,880
Speaker 1: Pitts over six and a half receiving touch said that

844
00:45:04,960 --> 00:45:09,000
Speaker 1: at seven. So that's we set that right. Over Odell

845
00:45:09,120 --> 00:45:12,359
Speaker 1: Beckham over five and a half touchdown receptions. I don't

846
00:45:13,600 --> 00:45:15,680
Speaker 1: I don't trust him. I'll never convince you to draft.

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Speaker 1: Don't trust Nancy segments, but I'm gonna go over. I

848
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Speaker 1: don't trust him. And then the last one is Courtland

849
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Speaker 1: Sutton over five and a half touchdown receptions over seventy

850
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Speaker 1: five and a half receiving yards. I would rather go

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Speaker 1: the over on touchdowns, yeah, because I think he's he's

852
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Speaker 1: the target down there. I don't trust Teddy Bridgewater. If

853
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Speaker 1: that's who the quarterbacks gonna trust, tell me who they

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00:45:37,920 --> 00:45:39,520
Speaker 1: tell me who the quarterback is gonna be. At least

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00:45:39,560 --> 00:45:41,880
Speaker 1: lock will take chances down the field. I don't know

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Speaker 1: he'll have as many first downds in time possession. And

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Speaker 1: I gonna check down Teddy. I think they just have

858
00:45:46,920 --> 00:45:50,960
Speaker 1: too many good weapons. Yeah, I have a hard time

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Speaker 1: buying that passing game. The Steeler receivers aren't on here. Uh.

860
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Speaker 1: If you had to bet one of the Steeler receivers

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Speaker 1: to go over a thousand yards, who would that be? That?

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Speaker 1: Johnson clay I think Claypool's average yards per catch will

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Speaker 1: be higher. I mean that doesn't have catch any balls.

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Speaker 1: And if you had to go over eight and a

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Speaker 1: half touchdowns for one of the Steeler receivers, I think

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Speaker 1: i'd go under across the board. Across the board Claypool

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00:46:15,120 --> 00:46:17,839
Speaker 1: at eleven last year. Yeah, I just think there's back,

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Speaker 1: sort of back to the two point conversion conversation. I

869
00:46:20,760 --> 00:46:23,080
Speaker 1: think they can spread it around. You know, it's an

870
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Speaker 1: advantage that. Sure the long ones could go to Claypool,

871
00:46:26,320 --> 00:46:28,480
Speaker 1: but he may get a short one or two. But

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Speaker 1: Harris is a good option. Fire muth catch a few more,

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Speaker 1: you know over under on Harris touchdowns total total dozen'

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Speaker 1: I was gonna say eleven. Yeah, so st that at

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00:46:42,320 --> 00:46:45,960
Speaker 1: eleven and a half. I bet he gets four receiving Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think short yardage will be a lot more about

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Speaker 1: what's just hammered in there. Then let's get cute and hopefully.

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00:46:52,160 --> 00:46:54,640
Speaker 1: Yeah so I thought, yeah, so, if you're betting those things,

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Speaker 1: you go ahead and touchdown. Use those number Ben touchdowns

880
00:46:57,880 --> 00:47:00,040
Speaker 1: at thirty three last year. I'm going on sad a

881
00:47:00,120 --> 00:47:03,439
Speaker 1: game and sad a game. True. I'm going under that, though,

882
00:47:04,400 --> 00:47:06,319
Speaker 1: because I think short yardage are gonna run it more.

883
00:47:06,360 --> 00:47:10,680
Speaker 1: I would put his number. I think that's fair. Yeah,

884
00:47:12,040 --> 00:47:14,640
Speaker 1: I mean a guy his age I would think has

885
00:47:14,680 --> 00:47:19,680
Speaker 1: a little less chance of playing all seventeen. But I

886
00:47:19,719 --> 00:47:22,359
Speaker 1: don't think you've actored that in much so. Anyways, those

887
00:47:22,360 --> 00:47:24,560
Speaker 1: are the over unders from ESPN. He is Matt Williamson.

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Speaker 1: I'm dale lally that that'll do it for the first

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Speaker 1: hour here on the drive on Steelers Nation Radio. We're

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Speaker 1: gonna take a break. We'll be back with our two

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Speaker 1: right after this