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Speaker 1: He's the Drive with Dale Lolly and Matt Williamson on

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

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Speaker 1: to the Drive. I'm Dale Lolly here with Matt Williamson.

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Speaker 1: It is a Friday, A fantastic Friday. If you sat

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Speaker 1: and watched the Thursday night game on Amazon last neighborhood here,

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Speaker 1: I mean, you know, last night was really hard to watch.

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Speaker 1: Another that's two in a row that had just been

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Speaker 1: awful to watch. But it makes you feel good that

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Speaker 1: you're alive. To be very honest, I think I said

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Speaker 1: I know, I said this on other outlets, my podcast

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Speaker 1: in particular. It's a little offensive to me as a

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Speaker 1: fan slash consumer that the NFL tells you that Thursday

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Speaker 1: nights the same as any other night. I mean, the

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Speaker 1: product is so much worse. That being said, those two

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Speaker 1: teams could play on the moon or in China on

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Speaker 1: any day of the week. It probably wouldn't be much better.

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Speaker 1: It wouldn't look any difference if it was on a Sunday,

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Speaker 1: if it was on a Monday. There were two bad teams,

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Speaker 1: two bad teams, and hey, I love great defense. I mean,

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Speaker 1: if it was that wasn't that that wasn't that the

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Speaker 1: same as last week on Thursday? I mean, they're just

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Speaker 1: awful teams got a question coaching. I mean, bad sacks,

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Speaker 1: bad execution. I told you it was a couple of

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Speaker 1: minutes ago. I mean Washington had three plays where they

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Speaker 1: didn't have eleven guys on the field. I mean, I

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Speaker 1: think the Bears scored their touchdown with ten commanders on

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Speaker 1: and had two others where they had twelve. I mean,

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Speaker 1: like basic stuff counting. I mean you mentioned this too,

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Speaker 1: we were talking fantasy before fields. They drop a nice play,

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Speaker 1: Fields misses a tight end, it's walking into the end

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Speaker 1: zone by himself. That's not good defense. It's not good defense.

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Speaker 1: Maybe maybe Washington needs to hire the count that's on

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Speaker 1: the field. Three plays without with eleven guys on the

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Speaker 1: field's actually five total where they screwed it up completely.

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Speaker 1: That's all they got because they got They got caught

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Speaker 1: with two twelve on the field twice and had ten

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Speaker 1: on the field three other times. I asked, there's only

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Speaker 1: three five of them. No, I'm saying there were two

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Speaker 1: instances where they got caught for having twelve men on

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Speaker 1: the field twice. They also got caught. They also had

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Speaker 1: three occasions where they had ten. So there were five

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Speaker 1: occasions where they didn't have the proper eleven on the field.

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Speaker 1: It's unbelievable out of ten percent of the time they

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Speaker 1: couldn't get the right on the field. If that happens

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Speaker 1: once every three games, you know, people will be losing

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Speaker 1: their mind here in Pittsburgh if that happens right once

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Speaker 1: in a game, let alone five. There's a lot of

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Speaker 1: encompass incompetency right this minute in the league, and people

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Speaker 1: have it worse than the Steelers. Folks. It's kind of

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Speaker 1: telling people that, like, I get it. I mean, the

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Speaker 1: Steelers are one and four. Uh. You know, you saw

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Speaker 1: the thing earlier this week that the ESPNS FPI predicts

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Speaker 1: the Steelers are going to have the first overall pick

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Speaker 1: in the draft. I will bet my house that doesn't happen.

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Speaker 1: I'll bet my house against the dollar it doesn't happen.

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Speaker 1: You know, I'm not even against another house. Because there

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Speaker 1: are worst teams those two last night, the Colts, I mean, Houston,

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Speaker 1: the last four teams that have played on Thursday night. Right,

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Speaker 1: I'm not sure Denver can get the first overall pick,

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Speaker 1: but they're terrible. I don't think they're better than the

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Speaker 1: Steelers right now. No, no, And there's five more teams

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Speaker 1: you could throw out there as well. It's bad across

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Speaker 1: the league right now, it really is. There's there's definitely

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Speaker 1: the haves and the have nots. We've talked about in

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Speaker 1: fantasy football. You know, the teams that have those star quarterbacks.

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Speaker 1: Right now it's the great you know, that's a you know,

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Speaker 1: to me, the biggest difference in the game last week

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Speaker 1: because both teams had banged up secondaries. Uh you know

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Speaker 1: they so they both had some injuries there. The biggest

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Speaker 1: difference was to me, one team had Josh Allen and

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Speaker 1: the other one did not. And that's nothing against Kenny Pickett.

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Speaker 1: Josh Allen's Allen's playing on another world right now. It's unbelievable.

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Speaker 1: I mean, a couple of throws he made. I think

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Speaker 1: I sent you a great coat Sell's notes. I mean,

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Speaker 1: there's a couple of them in there. It just says, Wow,

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Speaker 1: unbelievable throw. But no one else can make it. You know.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes it's just this guy's way better than if you

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Speaker 1: go through this the stats from this season, Um, we're

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Speaker 1: five weeks into this now, starting week six. Last night

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Speaker 1: and you look at the teams that have the worst

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Speaker 1: past defenses in the league, the common threats, they all

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Speaker 1: that one instance, to that player completely skews your entire

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Speaker 1: like you gonna have to battle the rest of the

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Speaker 1: but they ran Alian place gajillion plays against him in

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Speaker 1: Miami's past defense going into that game. Oh, it's great

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Speaker 1: past events. Now it's like in the middle Worth the Ravens.

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Speaker 1: The Ravens had the same thing happened to them. They're

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Speaker 1: I mean, they're you know, they're well, they're last passive

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Speaker 1: and he started kind of slow after that hundred play

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Speaker 1: he plays tighten, the Titans past defense is bad. No,

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Speaker 1: they played Josh Allen, Josh like, I bet, Kansas City

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Speaker 1: bet that it's gonna be last after this week, and

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Speaker 1: Buffalo will go down a little bit as well, probably probably. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: It's just how that's that's the reality of today's NFL.

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Speaker 1: And I hate to throw a blanket on picket and

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Speaker 1: I think he's extremely promising and I very much believe

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Speaker 1: the Steelers have a quarterback. I like him more every

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Speaker 1: Allen wasn't Alan his first year. He absolutely wasn't, you know.

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Speaker 1: But you look around the a f C. If Lamar

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Speaker 1: it's just crazy how some of these quarterbacks are playing

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Speaker 1: right now. To my point, the Baltimore Ravens right now

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Speaker 1: The Tennessee Titans your third time one thing, the Miami

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Speaker 1: I think there are the the halves and the have nots.

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Speaker 1: Unfortunately for the Steelers, this week they're playing the last

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Speaker 1: week they played one of the halves. Yeah, the perhaps

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Speaker 1: Hopefully I would like to play Miami this week, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean my hunches too, or Bridgewater will be back

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Speaker 1: there's an old theory in in Uh that the gamblers

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Speaker 1: a little slower process and everything that makes sense. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I mean that makes some sense. So I think Miami's

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Speaker 1: Not that the Steelers can't win it. Um, you know,

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Speaker 1: one back should have won that game. Um, you know,

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Speaker 1: And we know what happened after that. So Mike Pursudent

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Speaker 1: what do you do against Brady? And I think you've

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Speaker 1: that's really bad. It's really bad. Yeah. Again, I'm begging

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Speaker 1: them to run. That's definitely my strategy in this one.

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Speaker 1: I was looking at first down offense and defense today.

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Speaker 1: You know, here's the thing with the Steelers offense right now,

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Speaker 1: I can't look at their offense through five games in

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Speaker 1: first three games out. It's a completely new quarterback, completely

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Speaker 1: like when we preview Jets. It's like, well black completely different. Yea,

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Speaker 1: how do you game plan forward? You know, the stats

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Speaker 1: that's a good call. I don't know what they did

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Speaker 1: Some more I think about it, is he keeps them

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Speaker 1: on schedule a little bit more, you know, and again

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Speaker 1: he hits the layups up. Okay, give me a five

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Speaker 1: yard out there. It is five yard out Okay, yeah,

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Speaker 1: like Fields isn't hitting the layups no, you know what

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Speaker 1: I mean? Some of those. Guy, he's a three point

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Speaker 1: shooters and misses a lot of them. Anyways, we're gonna

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