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

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Speaker 1: on your twenty four to seven home of the Black

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Speaker 1: and Gold in Steelers Nation Radio.

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Speaker 2: Welcome back to our number two of the Drive here

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Speaker 2: on the Steelers Audio Network. I'm Dale Lolly. He is

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Speaker 2: the Matt Williamson and Matt one of the questions we

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Speaker 2: got a lot at training camp out at Saint Vincent College.

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Speaker 3: I know you're going with this.

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Speaker 2: When are we gonna start doing fantasy football stuff again?

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Speaker 3: I think a lot of our listeners have had drafts,

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Speaker 3: are about to have drafts, and I'm sure you got

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Speaker 3: this and we both got it together. A lot a

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Speaker 3: lot of people over the years have come up to

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Speaker 3: us and be like, you help me win my fantasy league, dude,

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Speaker 3: and I'm like, thanks buying me beer. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: So what we do just so people know, because we

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Speaker 2: also get the other complaints, is well, that's second hour

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Speaker 2: is just fantasy football. It is not just fantasy football now,

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Speaker 2: it's first segment, the first segment of our two. We

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Speaker 2: do a little fantasy football talk in a while. It

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Speaker 2: has been a while, and the fantasy football stuff does

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Speaker 2: give you some insight massively into the league as a

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Speaker 2: whole and your team as.

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Speaker 3: A whole massively, and there's a lot people know that

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Speaker 3: I'm pull up a lot of stats and we talk

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Speaker 3: a lot of analytics here and there, and a lot

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Speaker 3: of it's from these fantasy sites. I mean, they dig

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Speaker 3: in deep on personnel usage and trends and all these

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Speaker 3: different coaching tendencies, stuff that absolutely overlaps the league.

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Speaker 2: And the thing that we do during the regular season.

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Speaker 2: With the fantasy stuff, we'll give you winning DFS lineups.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, the record's been quite good on that. I'm pretty good. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: you make a few bucks hanging with us. Yeah, So

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Speaker 3: I'll be honest, like today, like fantasy season starts months

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Speaker 3: ago for me, you know, like where you start thinking

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Speaker 3: about it. But this is kind of probably the line

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Speaker 3: of demarcation where I feel like I'm a little behind

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Speaker 3: because we've been, we've been, we've done it. We haven't

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Speaker 3: done much, you know, and I need to go back

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Speaker 3: and update my rankings. And you got two games now

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Speaker 3: under your belt of some preseason usage, and that stuff's

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Speaker 3: harder to gather than ever though, because you know, it's

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Speaker 3: been some teams aren't playing anybody, somebody's not playing anybody,

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Speaker 3: or anyone has a knick or a cutter, a scratch

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Speaker 3: or anything wrong, they're sitting out. So you know you

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Speaker 3: mentioned the Jalen Warren stuff like, I'm sure everyone's dropping

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Speaker 3: them in their rankings like crazy. Where I have a

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Speaker 3: hunch you would. I would advantage that right now.

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Speaker 2: I would take advantage of that. Now, heartbeat, So let's

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Speaker 2: take a look here because speaking of updated, Yeah, Pro

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Speaker 2: Football Focus has updated their overall rankings this morning. Okay,

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Speaker 2: so they still have Christian McCaffrey number one overall.

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Speaker 3: So I'm leaning if you if you get like a

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Speaker 3: top seven pick, I think there's four or five really

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Speaker 3: good receivers and three really good running backs. I think

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Speaker 3: I'm leaning this year towards doing that hero running back.

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Speaker 3: Look Like if I can get one of those three

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Speaker 3: running backs, and then I might wait until like round

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Speaker 3: seven or eight and just get loaded, have be loaded

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Speaker 3: everywhere else, and you hope that guy doesn't get hurt.

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Speaker 3: Of course, And where I'm going with this is that

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Speaker 3: would break time eyes for me with like McCaffrey over

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Speaker 3: any wide receiver. If I'm torn between Jamar Chase and

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Speaker 3: Bijon Robinson, i think I'm taking the back in round one,

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Speaker 3: especially in the first half a Round one. I feel

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Speaker 3: this leaning that way.

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Speaker 2: I feel the same way in some of the mock drafts.

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Speaker 2: I have worked some mock drafts.

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Speaker 3: I haven't yet. I need to start fiddling with it more.

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Speaker 3: And we we've been don Ton either.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, because one of the big issues that you have

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Speaker 2: here is the aforementioned Ceedee Lamb and Jamar Chase. They're

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Speaker 2: not even in They're both still setting out.

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Speaker 3: They haven't done anything yet, right, Yeah, I don't know

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Speaker 3: how much you hold that against them.

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Speaker 2: But do they carry this into the regular season?

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Speaker 3: Yeah? Right? They hamstring week one.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they show up a day before training camp starts

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Speaker 2: and say okay ends and and here I am.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, and we've mentioned this, like with the

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Speaker 3: then you know, it's week seven and your ankle's kind

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Speaker 3: it's a it's you know, you're taking a fourth or

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Speaker 3: a tiebreaker you might take justin Jefferson.

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Speaker 2: And even even a justin Jefferson, though he's got a

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Speaker 2: different quarterbacks. Let's go through. Here's what they have. They

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Speaker 2: have Lamb number two, okay, Tyree Hill number three.

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Speaker 3: I'll say Hill and Lamb are going back and forth

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Speaker 3: I get it. It's all volume. Yeah, but do you

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Speaker 3: think he's gonna get more targets than Jefferson?

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Speaker 2: Well, quality of target, quality will be.

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Speaker 3: Better, there's no question, and the targets might be even higher.

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Speaker 3: I don't know, I mean, but I still have Jefferson

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Speaker 3: only is he holding out, but I thought Boodle left

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Speaker 3: I mean, that's the nature of that organization. So I

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Speaker 3: thought Burton would win the number three receiver spot and

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Speaker 3: then Chase would then take the BOYD snaps on the

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Speaker 3: end scene he's gonna be I do too, and I

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Speaker 3: think he's gonna be the slot. So I might drop

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Speaker 3: Chase a it'll compared to these guys.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, uh at six is justin Jefferson, B Jon Robinson

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Speaker 3: Bijon and Hall over Jefferson, Saint Brown.

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Speaker 2: There's fewer, there's few running backs with them.

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Speaker 3: There's I hate the volume running backs and B.

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Speaker 2: He's a safer pick right now than some of those

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I know it's a new coach and

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Speaker 2: Jon Robinson might be safer than McCaffrey right now. Remember

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Speaker 2: McCaffrey's dealing with the calf injury.

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Speaker 3: on the Niners, like is this the year? I mean, like,

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Speaker 2: They have a j Brown eight bresee Hall number nine.

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Speaker 2: And then at ten as wide receiver seven Poka Nikoua,

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Speaker 3: I started fiddling with my rankings this morning, and I

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Speaker 3: Cup looks great and if they're both healthy, and I

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Speaker 3: And I think the Coup is a good player on

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Speaker 2: Yeah, after Nikoua, Jonathan Taylor as are.

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Speaker 3: Before, I understand it. I worry about his touchdowns. I

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Speaker 3: think I still have Jamior Gibbs for Taylor five, Henry

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Speaker 3: have high too, but I don't like that neighborhood of

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Speaker 3: the tier two running backs. No, I don't need a

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Speaker 3: hard time using a first round pick on any of

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Speaker 2: Yeah. If Jamior Gibbs is RB five.

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Speaker 3: Okay, he's shelved and he's not going to play aginst

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Speaker 3: Steelers either, I'm sure. Yeah, but it sounds like he's

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Speaker 2: You just have to assume Garrett Wilson is wide receiver

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Speaker 3: He's my receiver seven. He's definitely heading Nakua and I

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Speaker 3: think he's ahead of everyone else I can think of.

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Speaker 2: Do you have a problem putting two Jets offensive players

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Speaker 3: Yeah? Yeah, but we have two Lions. I mean they're

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Speaker 3: better offenses. Yeah, of course. I hadn't really thought of

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Speaker 3: it in that light. But those who got the ball

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Speaker 3: what the O line situation was, they force fed those two.

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Speaker 3: And they don't have a tight end. Mike Williams to me,

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Speaker 3: target cher will be big for both those guys.

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Speaker 2: At fourteen they have Karen Williams is RB six.

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Speaker 3: Okay, I mean it's good offense, high volume, not a

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Speaker 2: Fifteen Davonte Adams is wide receiver nine.

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Speaker 3: I've been moving him down more and more too, and

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Speaker 3: it's not his fault one bit. But they're really leaning

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Speaker 3: into this two tight end thing. I think Myers is

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Speaker 3: you know, like I know Minshew fed Pittman like crazy,

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Speaker 3: but I think Bowers is going to eat into that.

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Speaker 3: Like I have like a lave in London and a

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Speaker 3: my tenth's I kill him, but he's moving backwards.

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Speaker 2: It's sixteen. At RB seven is Derrick Henry.

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Speaker 3: I think that's too low. Well, who is the running

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Speaker 3: back ahead of him, Tyron Williams. I prefer Henry to Williams,

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Speaker 3: but I understood Williams to catch Balmore, no question about it.

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Speaker 3: I said Henry might score a million touchdowns.

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Speaker 2: Saquon Barkley at RB eight is seventeen.

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Speaker 3: Okay, so they had at yeah, eight of their.

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Speaker 2: Top seventeen are running backs.

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Speaker 3: And about half of them have a hard time investing in.

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Speaker 3: But you got to start two of them every week,

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Speaker 3: and there's not many you're going to love this year,

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Speaker 3: at least I don't.

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Speaker 2: At RB nine, at eighteen is Isaiah Pacheco.

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Speaker 3: He's not exciting, but there's very little competition. I mean

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Speaker 3: it used to have be like Jarreck McKinnon, but coming

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Speaker 3: on third downs, it looks like he's going to be

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Speaker 3: the every down back. So I trust him to stay healthy. No,

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Speaker 3: but that's not different than a lot of these backs.

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Speaker 3: He's in a really good offense. I've been skeoching him

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Speaker 3: up a little bit more. Is he any different than

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Speaker 3: Karen Williams? Not really. Yeah, I'm they're kind of the

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Speaker 3: same guy. Late round picks that are in good situations.

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Speaker 2: At nineteen as wide receiver ten, this is way too

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Speaker 2: rich for me. Marvin Harrison Junior.

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Speaker 3: Who I keep skeoching him in neighbors up.

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Speaker 2: Wide receiver ten.

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Speaker 3: But it's not ahead of like a Lavee or London. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: it's probably another one or two in between there that

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Speaker 3: I like. Yeah, I mean, I think he's more wide

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Speaker 2: Ish at twenty is wide receiver eleven. Chrystal lave Drake London.

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Speaker 3: Is there a line of scares the heck got to

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Drake London is wide receiver twelve at twenty one.

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Speaker 3: Do you have a preference between those two. I'm racking

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Speaker 2: I like London better.

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Speaker 2: Kind of boring but steady h thirty five or thirty four?

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Speaker 2: I should say Travis atn is running back thirteen. That's

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Speaker 3: Low as I've seen him. But I kind of understand.

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Speaker 2: I don't hate I don't disagree with him.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't think i'd be drafting him where you

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Speaker 2: You got DK Metcalf at thirty five, wide receiver eighteen.

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Speaker 3: I don't think i'd take him that high. Like I

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Speaker 3: have DK Metcalf at behind George Pickens, I have neighbors

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Speaker 2: I'm surprised we haven't gotten to George Pickens. Yeah, but

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Speaker 2: Patrick Mahomes's QB three Deebo Samuel at wide receiver nineteen.

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Speaker 3: Do you take Deebo or Ayuk today?

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Speaker 2: Neither. I think I don't want either one of them.

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Speaker 3: It because you're gonna start him every week and there's

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Speaker 2: Then everything else he's just kind of they all cancelit

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Speaker 3: Yeah. Uh, there's so many other options you can You're

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Speaker 2: That's the thing I'll find unless we're in the fourth

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Speaker 2: Lamar Jackson at QB four at thirty eight, Josh Jacobs

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Speaker 3: I always lump him with Mixing because I didn't think

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Speaker 2: At forty Trey McBride as tight end three.

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Speaker 3: Okay, trying to think who my tight end three? I

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Speaker 2: Forty one is Michael Pittman, that's wide receiver twenty forty

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Speaker 2: two is Malik Neighbors as wide receiver twenty one?

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Speaker 3: They've been treating Worthy as the one, but it doesn't

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Speaker 2: Like there's any suspension in forthcoming right at this point,

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Speaker 2: I don't think we're next.

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Speaker 3: To him yet. Yeah, he's a tough one to rank.

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Speaker 2: For Forty seven is Cooper Cup at wide receiver twenty four.

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Speaker 3: I would have him much higher. Hard to warm up

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Speaker 2: Dalton Kincads tight end six at forty eight.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Stefan Diggs is.

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Speaker 2: Wide receiver twenty five at forty nine.

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Speaker 3: Too high for me. I think that's a better player.

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Speaker 2: Stroud at fifty is QB five steel It's too high too.

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Speaker 2: No Steelers on this list here doesn't run. I think

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Speaker 3: I would have picking already listed.

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Speaker 2: He should already be listed.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. If I knew Warren was missing extended time, Harris

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think I think Pickings that that's your top

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Speaker 2: I think he should have already been listed.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. I think he's like my receiver eighteen seventeen something

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Speaker 2: They're gonna find ways to get him the football.

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Speaker 2: this point, has the ship sailed on Brandon Ayuk at

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Speaker 3: I don't know. I keep thinking he's gonna sign somewhere,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I just don't think it happens at this point.

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Speaker 3: exciting because he's younger that maybe he's a long term answer.

440
00:20:17,400 --> 00:20:19,159
Speaker 3: But I kind of feel like I would roll with

441
00:20:19,200 --> 00:20:22,560
Speaker 3: what I have unless I can land not someone to

442
00:20:22,600 --> 00:20:25,040
Speaker 3: Ayu's level, but a big dog, you know what I mean,

443
00:20:25,080 --> 00:20:28,800
Speaker 3: like a clear starter on any team type of player. Yeah.

444
00:20:29,080 --> 00:20:31,680
Speaker 3: Davante Adams is the other name that I think could

445
00:20:31,680 --> 00:20:33,640
Speaker 3: be had, but he's a big cap hit if they

446
00:20:33,760 --> 00:20:37,960
Speaker 3: lose him, and I think they'll quickly realize they're not

447
00:20:38,000 --> 00:20:39,719
Speaker 3: a good team and maybe try to turn him into

448
00:20:39,800 --> 00:20:42,119
Speaker 3: draft picks. But a lot of these teams need to

449
00:20:42,160 --> 00:20:43,800
Speaker 3: lose some games before they're going to get rid of

450
00:20:43,840 --> 00:20:45,320
Speaker 3: their star receiver. That's the thing.

451
00:20:45,400 --> 00:20:47,400
Speaker 2: You know, still have to sell tickets. Yeah, yeah, yeah,

452
00:20:47,400 --> 00:20:51,200
Speaker 2: you know, especially in Vegas, like oh yeah, are you

453
00:20:51,240 --> 00:20:53,560
Speaker 2: going to see if you don't have Davante Adams.

454
00:20:53,240 --> 00:20:55,919
Speaker 3: And you know, I don't know, Garner Minshew's not going

455
00:20:56,000 --> 00:20:56,280
Speaker 3: to do it.

456
00:20:56,320 --> 00:20:58,640
Speaker 2: You know right now, mustache only carry you so far.

457
00:21:01,119 --> 00:21:03,200
Speaker 2: It is a great mustache, don't get me wrong.

458
00:21:03,480 --> 00:21:05,800
Speaker 3: Do you think that the Steelers will have a receiver

459
00:21:05,920 --> 00:21:09,520
Speaker 3: on their opening day roster that isn't there now, not

460
00:21:09,560 --> 00:21:14,080
Speaker 3: including Robin Wilson. I'm kind of leaning towards no anymore.

461
00:21:14,800 --> 00:21:16,080
Speaker 2: I mean, it might be an end of the raw.

462
00:21:16,480 --> 00:21:17,959
Speaker 2: I don't think it's going to be a starter.

463
00:21:18,520 --> 00:21:23,480
Speaker 3: Okay, maybe a Slaton Woods type of guy.

464
00:21:23,359 --> 00:21:25,320
Speaker 2: Somebody that kind of works their way into it. Slayton

465
00:21:25,359 --> 00:21:26,679
Speaker 2: still could be a guy. I mean, that's when I

466
00:21:26,720 --> 00:21:27,240
Speaker 2: brought up early.

467
00:21:28,280 --> 00:21:29,880
Speaker 3: I like that when you brought up you know, and

468
00:21:29,960 --> 00:21:33,560
Speaker 3: now you'd be it'd fight with Van Jefferson right now

469
00:21:33,560 --> 00:21:35,199
Speaker 3: to be the two probably go ahead of him.

470
00:21:35,240 --> 00:21:38,400
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's something at some point, I mean point yeah,

471
00:21:38,440 --> 00:21:41,000
Speaker 2: But I've seen enough from Jefferson to be pretty comfortable

472
00:21:41,000 --> 00:21:41,360
Speaker 2: with him.

473
00:21:41,600 --> 00:21:43,840
Speaker 3: Yeah. Now, I think he's been a success story here

474
00:21:43,880 --> 00:21:44,200
Speaker 3: so far.

475
00:21:44,359 --> 00:21:47,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think some people look at that Van Jefferson

476
00:21:47,080 --> 00:21:48,919
Speaker 2: he stinks he only had twenty one catches last year

477
00:21:48,960 --> 00:21:52,119
Speaker 2: or whatever. He had well, he played between two teams. Yeah,

478
00:21:52,240 --> 00:21:54,160
Speaker 2: and the first team he wasn't going to play at all,

479
00:21:54,400 --> 00:21:56,480
Speaker 2: especially when the KUPA showed up. Yeah in a big way.

480
00:21:56,640 --> 00:21:59,560
Speaker 3: Right. No, I have no problem with Jefferson. I would

481
00:21:59,600 --> 00:22:02,760
Speaker 3: still very active or interested in adding a receiver, There's

482
00:22:02,760 --> 00:22:05,120
Speaker 3: no question. And if you could still be had, I'd

483
00:22:05,160 --> 00:22:08,320
Speaker 3: be interested. But I don't see a lot of avenues

484
00:22:08,400 --> 00:22:08,760
Speaker 3: right now.

485
00:22:09,240 --> 00:22:13,480
Speaker 2: Your starting offensive line in Week one against Steve Falcons

486
00:22:13,560 --> 00:22:14,160
Speaker 2: is who.

487
00:22:14,720 --> 00:22:16,280
Speaker 3: Well, who do you think is it right tackle? I

488
00:22:16,280 --> 00:22:17,080
Speaker 3: guess is a question.

489
00:22:17,760 --> 00:22:20,360
Speaker 2: I think it's gonna be Roder Jones. I still don't

490
00:22:20,400 --> 00:22:22,120
Speaker 2: think Fatanho is going to be ready for the start?

491
00:22:22,800 --> 00:22:25,639
Speaker 3: Is the health question? Yeah, I think it's gonna look

492
00:22:25,680 --> 00:22:29,160
Speaker 3: like it did in this past game. I think it'll

493
00:22:29,200 --> 00:22:34,000
Speaker 3: perform better. Yeah, I mean especially Jones. But I do

494
00:22:34,040 --> 00:22:36,360
Speaker 3: you think patan who gets put right back in when

495
00:22:36,359 --> 00:22:37,280
Speaker 3: the time comes? I don't.

496
00:22:37,560 --> 00:22:39,359
Speaker 2: I don't think you can do that with a rookie.

497
00:22:39,680 --> 00:22:41,760
Speaker 3: That's tough. I don't love where they're at all of

498
00:22:41,800 --> 00:22:43,880
Speaker 3: a sudden with that situation, you know, like I wish

499
00:22:43,880 --> 00:22:46,159
Speaker 3: it felt a little better, But I also don't want

500
00:22:46,160 --> 00:22:48,480
Speaker 3: to overreact to one bad game against the bills either,

501
00:22:48,600 --> 00:22:50,639
Speaker 3: you know where both of the lines look really terrible.

502
00:22:53,640 --> 00:22:55,040
Speaker 3: I mean I think Fraser is a center.

503
00:22:55,119 --> 00:22:58,520
Speaker 2: Fraser is the center, and I think and Daniels are

504
00:22:58,560 --> 00:22:59,000
Speaker 2: your guards.

505
00:22:59,080 --> 00:23:01,199
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean tackle the only question, and to me,

506
00:23:01,240 --> 00:23:02,200
Speaker 3: that comes down to health.

507
00:23:02,280 --> 00:23:04,000
Speaker 2: And I think right now, Dan Moore is your best

508
00:23:04,000 --> 00:23:05,000
Speaker 2: option at left tackle.

509
00:23:05,400 --> 00:23:10,000
Speaker 3: Yeah, if if Fatana was healthy, I would put more

510
00:23:10,040 --> 00:23:12,159
Speaker 3: on the bench. But I don't know if that's a

511
00:23:12,200 --> 00:23:15,080
Speaker 3: no brainer. I think he's played a little better than

512
00:23:15,119 --> 00:23:16,359
Speaker 3: people want to get credit for it.

513
00:23:16,440 --> 00:23:19,240
Speaker 2: Nobody ever wants to admit that somebody might get better.

514
00:23:19,320 --> 00:23:20,240
Speaker 2: I know, ever, and I.

515
00:23:20,240 --> 00:23:22,879
Speaker 3: Think it's best he's looked as a Steeler. Yeah, I

516
00:23:22,960 --> 00:23:26,879
Speaker 3: think he's gradually getting better. I think Jones would be

517
00:23:26,880 --> 00:23:28,959
Speaker 3: my left tackle though, if everyone was healthy.

518
00:23:30,000 --> 00:23:31,680
Speaker 2: Coming off of what he did last week, I know

519
00:23:31,960 --> 00:23:33,960
Speaker 2: I can't. I can't just move him over to the

520
00:23:34,040 --> 00:23:35,720
Speaker 2: left side when you couldn't play.

521
00:23:36,119 --> 00:23:36,600
Speaker 3: He played.

522
00:23:38,200 --> 00:23:40,720
Speaker 2: Rousseau played eleven snaps and had two and a half sacks.

523
00:23:41,240 --> 00:23:43,760
Speaker 2: In eleven snaps, he had seven pass rushes. I know

524
00:23:43,960 --> 00:23:46,040
Speaker 2: half of his pass rushes ended in sacks.

525
00:23:46,119 --> 00:23:48,600
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's not a comfortable situation right now. I mean,

526
00:23:49,160 --> 00:23:50,960
Speaker 3: if you throw Fatanu in there, in Week one and

527
00:23:50,960 --> 00:23:54,400
Speaker 3: he hasn't played total rookie on the road. I mean,

528
00:23:55,240 --> 00:23:57,639
Speaker 3: I'm not comfortable with that. Love that either, right right?

529
00:23:57,800 --> 00:23:59,879
Speaker 3: I mean, I think it'll work itself out as a season.

530
00:24:00,880 --> 00:24:03,080
Speaker 3: There's an awful lot of talent there. But I can't

531
00:24:03,080 --> 00:24:06,399
Speaker 3: say I'm thrilled with the tackles right the second to

532
00:24:06,400 --> 00:24:09,160
Speaker 3: beat the Falcons, you know what I mean.

533
00:24:09,800 --> 00:24:12,800
Speaker 2: Fortunately, you're playing a team such as the Falcons who

534
00:24:12,840 --> 00:24:14,040
Speaker 2: have no pass rush.

535
00:24:13,960 --> 00:24:16,960
Speaker 3: No Judaun helps. It's on the road, though, it's a

536
00:24:17,000 --> 00:24:20,080
Speaker 3: tough situation. It's going to be loud, you know. And

537
00:24:20,119 --> 00:24:22,399
Speaker 3: I do think the line will be fine, and I

538
00:24:22,400 --> 00:24:25,320
Speaker 3: don't want to overreact to one game, but I don't

539
00:24:25,600 --> 00:24:28,359
Speaker 3: know how that tackle situation shakes out. And when it

540
00:24:28,440 --> 00:24:29,240
Speaker 3: shakes out.

541
00:24:29,200 --> 00:24:31,359
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think the rest of the offense, we the

542
00:24:31,400 --> 00:24:34,119
Speaker 2: interior know. Yeah, Yeah, Russell Wilson is going to be

543
00:24:34,119 --> 00:24:34,440
Speaker 2: the starter.

544
00:24:34,560 --> 00:24:37,040
Speaker 3: Russell Wilson's gonna be the starter. I think Washington's gonna

545
00:24:37,040 --> 00:24:39,800
Speaker 3: play a lot, Yeah, I mean it is more than

546
00:24:39,800 --> 00:24:42,560
Speaker 3: fifty percent of the snaps type of guy. I think

547
00:24:42,640 --> 00:24:48,399
Speaker 3: Jefferson's the number two receiver. I think Austin's the three reremen.

548
00:24:48,440 --> 00:24:51,320
Speaker 3: Wilson's he's kind of the wild card at this point. Yeah,

549
00:24:51,400 --> 00:24:53,480
Speaker 3: I mean when do we think he's you think he's

550
00:24:53,520 --> 00:24:55,280
Speaker 3: even active for the week one.

551
00:24:55,840 --> 00:24:58,240
Speaker 2: I think he's much closer right now than Fatanu in

552
00:24:58,280 --> 00:24:58,800
Speaker 2: my eyes.

553
00:24:59,160 --> 00:25:01,520
Speaker 3: Okay, I guess that's a question the better way of

554
00:25:01,520 --> 00:25:04,639
Speaker 3: putting it. Okay, But I don't know how you trust

555
00:25:04,680 --> 00:25:06,439
Speaker 3: him or when do you put him? When's he in

556
00:25:06,440 --> 00:25:08,560
Speaker 3: the active lineup? No?

557
00:25:08,680 --> 00:25:10,280
Speaker 2: I mean can he get back this week?

558
00:25:10,800 --> 00:25:12,520
Speaker 3: That would be awesome. Yeah. If I could see him

559
00:25:12,520 --> 00:25:15,040
Speaker 3: in this week, then I'd be okay. I mean maybe

560
00:25:15,040 --> 00:25:16,400
Speaker 3: he even pushes for the three before.

561
00:25:16,480 --> 00:25:18,200
Speaker 2: So it's been three weeks now.

562
00:25:18,160 --> 00:25:21,240
Speaker 3: I know, it just hasn't played. Yeah, it can't be

563
00:25:21,320 --> 00:25:23,600
Speaker 3: running the wrong routes or you know, not knowing the

564
00:25:23,640 --> 00:25:26,399
Speaker 3: offense that type of thing. Quarterbacks have to feel for

565
00:25:26,520 --> 00:25:28,680
Speaker 3: him now. That needs to work itself out too.

566
00:25:28,720 --> 00:25:31,200
Speaker 2: And he was engaged throughout the off season stuff.

567
00:25:30,880 --> 00:25:32,720
Speaker 3: And oh yeah he's smart, he's a hard worker and

568
00:25:32,760 --> 00:25:35,720
Speaker 3: all that stuff. Yeah, I'm not saying he's you know,

569
00:25:35,920 --> 00:25:38,639
Speaker 3: not not doing the work. It's just really hard for

570
00:25:38,720 --> 00:25:41,120
Speaker 3: rookies to jump on a moving train, it really is.

571
00:25:41,160 --> 00:25:44,280
Speaker 3: And those two not being in right tackle and slot

572
00:25:44,280 --> 00:25:46,840
Speaker 3: receiver is an ideal at the moment, you know, no,

573
00:25:47,080 --> 00:25:50,120
Speaker 3: you're right. Yeah. Yeah.

574
00:25:50,200 --> 00:25:53,560
Speaker 2: So moving over to the defense, I mean your three

575
00:25:53,560 --> 00:25:56,160
Speaker 2: starting defensive linemen or Hayward, Benton.

576
00:25:56,080 --> 00:26:00,160
Speaker 3: Ogunjobi, and I think you can see a pretty wrong

577
00:26:00,280 --> 00:26:03,560
Speaker 3: rotation too, like Leowl's gonna play snaps, Lowry's gonna play snaps,

578
00:26:03,560 --> 00:26:06,920
Speaker 3: Adams is gonna play snaps. That six is is fine

579
00:26:06,920 --> 00:26:07,080
Speaker 3: with me.

580
00:26:07,080 --> 00:26:07,600
Speaker 2: It's pretty good.

581
00:26:07,680 --> 00:26:08,840
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean fine.

582
00:26:10,560 --> 00:26:13,800
Speaker 2: I think we know who the outside linebackers obviously are. Yeah,

583
00:26:13,880 --> 00:26:15,600
Speaker 2: I think we have a pretty good idea that Herbig's

584
00:26:15,600 --> 00:26:16,119
Speaker 2: are three.

585
00:26:16,480 --> 00:26:18,240
Speaker 3: How many snaps do you think he plays in Week one?

586
00:26:18,760 --> 00:26:19,600
Speaker 3: He's gonna be out there some.

587
00:26:19,760 --> 00:26:22,399
Speaker 2: I mean he's I mean just based on the history

588
00:26:22,400 --> 00:26:28,040
Speaker 2: of you know, how much what isn't out there? Or

589
00:26:28,080 --> 00:26:31,320
Speaker 2: high Smith? I mean they both play seventy five to

590
00:26:31,320 --> 00:26:33,919
Speaker 2: eighty percent of the snaps sometimes high Smith's at ninety.

591
00:26:34,200 --> 00:26:36,320
Speaker 2: You're still gonna have fifteen snaps a game out of

592
00:26:36,320 --> 00:26:36,640
Speaker 2: her Big.

593
00:26:36,800 --> 00:26:40,280
Speaker 3: Yeah, and he's a high energy plus big time special

594
00:26:40,280 --> 00:26:43,960
Speaker 3: team or I don't know how you do it, but

595
00:26:44,040 --> 00:26:46,040
Speaker 3: I wouldn't mind getting the three of them on the

596
00:26:46,040 --> 00:26:47,960
Speaker 3: field at some point this season two. I mean they

597
00:26:48,000 --> 00:26:50,600
Speaker 3: flirted with that, like when Ingram was here and dupre.

598
00:26:50,840 --> 00:26:52,639
Speaker 2: They showed in a little bit in training him too.

599
00:26:53,320 --> 00:26:55,160
Speaker 3: Maybe I missed it, but I mean I'm not sure

600
00:26:55,160 --> 00:26:58,200
Speaker 3: who I'm pulling off for that, but I'm just saying

601
00:26:58,200 --> 00:27:02,160
Speaker 3: herbig's demanding time more so. Yeah, I mean I don't

602
00:27:02,200 --> 00:27:06,840
Speaker 3: want just ten steps out of him because he's effective. Yeah.

603
00:27:06,280 --> 00:27:08,800
Speaker 2: Uh, your inside linebackers, I think are still going to

604
00:27:08,880 --> 00:27:12,359
Speaker 2: be Queen and Roberts in your base package. Agreed, Queen

605
00:27:12,400 --> 00:27:13,720
Speaker 2: and Wilson in the sub package.

606
00:27:13,800 --> 00:27:15,840
Speaker 3: Yeah. I think that they showed in this last game

607
00:27:15,880 --> 00:27:19,560
Speaker 3: pretty explicitly that they're going to change that though those

608
00:27:19,560 --> 00:27:21,560
Speaker 3: two will sub in and out maybe fifty percent of

609
00:27:21,600 --> 00:27:23,240
Speaker 3: the time. Yeah, Queen's never leaving.

610
00:27:23,400 --> 00:27:24,400
Speaker 2: No, He's going to be on the field.

611
00:27:24,560 --> 00:27:26,520
Speaker 3: That's a good situation. Yeah, it's a good situation.

612
00:27:28,840 --> 00:27:33,000
Speaker 2: Cornerbacks, you're looking at Dante Jackson, Joey Porter. I guess

613
00:27:33,040 --> 00:27:36,000
Speaker 2: Beanie Bishop is a slot at this point. We'll see

614
00:27:36,000 --> 00:27:38,080
Speaker 2: if that changes, if they can find somebody.

615
00:27:38,440 --> 00:27:42,000
Speaker 3: Is that your weakest starter? Yeah, I think it has

616
00:27:42,040 --> 00:27:44,440
Speaker 3: to be. Yeah, I mean it's an unknown. I think

617
00:27:44,440 --> 00:27:48,440
Speaker 3: they like him, but I mean I think he's a concern,

618
00:27:48,680 --> 00:27:48,919
Speaker 3: you know.

619
00:27:49,359 --> 00:27:51,080
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know that he is a you know,

620
00:27:51,119 --> 00:27:54,600
Speaker 2: if you told me going into this that he would

621
00:27:54,640 --> 00:27:57,240
Speaker 2: be your your only well, I guess he won't be

622
00:27:57,240 --> 00:27:59,399
Speaker 2: the only rookie starter because you're definitely going to have

623
00:27:59,680 --> 00:28:02,120
Speaker 2: a star at center and Zach Frasier.

624
00:28:02,280 --> 00:28:06,600
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, but Wilson's gonna be a pseudo starter Foratan,

625
00:28:06,600 --> 00:28:08,120
Speaker 3: who's gonna be in there sooner than later.

626
00:28:08,119 --> 00:28:10,160
Speaker 2: I would think it wouldn't surprise me though, to see

627
00:28:10,160 --> 00:28:11,159
Speaker 2: more of the big Nickel.

628
00:28:11,920 --> 00:28:15,080
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, I think that's a maybe a better solution.

629
00:28:15,480 --> 00:28:19,560
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, And maybe Wilson's in there with the big nickel.

630
00:28:20,160 --> 00:28:22,600
Speaker 2: Let's be honest. I mean, you're gonna play Atlanta in

631
00:28:22,600 --> 00:28:25,800
Speaker 2: week one. Does Atlanta have a number three receiver that's

632
00:28:25,840 --> 00:28:27,680
Speaker 2: really gonna challenge you?

633
00:28:27,720 --> 00:28:30,080
Speaker 3: No, But I think in the Rams like fashion, they're

634
00:28:30,119 --> 00:28:32,240
Speaker 3: gonna be in eleven A lot. That's fine, you know.

635
00:28:32,400 --> 00:28:36,359
Speaker 3: I mean it's Mooni's of two for them. With Rondell

636
00:28:36,440 --> 00:28:38,400
Speaker 3: Moore's injury, I don't know who their three is gonna right,

637
00:28:38,400 --> 00:28:41,880
Speaker 3: they don't have I think that's who they're good. Smith

638
00:28:41,960 --> 00:28:43,360
Speaker 3: isn't there as a second tight end.

639
00:28:43,360 --> 00:28:45,200
Speaker 2: And now it's Ray Ray McCleod.

640
00:28:45,680 --> 00:28:48,240
Speaker 3: I bet he plays a lot for him too, Yeah, Yeah,

641
00:28:48,240 --> 00:28:52,120
Speaker 3: that doesn't scare me. Yeah, I don't know. I mean,

642
00:28:52,120 --> 00:28:55,000
Speaker 3: I'm fine with a big nickel against that eleven personnel.

643
00:28:55,040 --> 00:28:57,920
Speaker 3: But I also think, Beanie, it's time to see if

644
00:28:57,920 --> 00:28:59,120
Speaker 3: you're good or not. Yeah.

645
00:28:59,320 --> 00:29:02,120
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you gotta stay healthy. But I like where

646
00:29:02,120 --> 00:29:04,360
Speaker 2: they're at with the two starting cornerbacks. I feel better

647
00:29:04,400 --> 00:29:07,200
Speaker 2: about the cornerback position now. Yeah, I'm a j after

648
00:29:07,240 --> 00:29:10,400
Speaker 2: week two. Yeah, I think Rush showed me some stuff

649
00:29:10,560 --> 00:29:12,840
Speaker 2: last week. I think Trice is starting to show some things.

650
00:29:12,880 --> 00:29:15,000
Speaker 2: I think Watts has some potential there.

651
00:29:15,160 --> 00:29:15,400
Speaker 3: Yeah.

652
00:29:15,440 --> 00:29:17,960
Speaker 2: We've seen him play outside cornerback. We've seen him play

653
00:29:17,960 --> 00:29:19,000
Speaker 2: in the slot in the dime.

654
00:29:19,240 --> 00:29:23,600
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, so you can play deep safety too. Yeah.

655
00:29:23,760 --> 00:29:27,760
Speaker 3: Are you confident that Trice is definitely on the team. No,

656
00:29:28,120 --> 00:29:29,440
Speaker 3: I'm not confident confident.

657
00:29:29,440 --> 00:29:32,120
Speaker 2: I think I feel better about Rush than I Rushes

658
00:29:32,160 --> 00:29:32,680
Speaker 2: ahead of them.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that doesn't mean they both can't make it, but

660
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Speaker 3: I think Rush is on the team. Yeah. And Frankly,

661
00:29:38,560 --> 00:29:41,960
Speaker 3: that slock corner might be someone that's a Texan or

662
00:29:42,160 --> 00:29:44,400
Speaker 3: you know, Titan or something right at the moment too. Yeah,

663
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Speaker 3: there there will be veteran slot corners released.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, I just you know, look at what the

665
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Speaker 2: Bills had there right now they've got and the Bills

666
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Speaker 2: don't have a ton of depth. But if you look

667
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Speaker 2: at their defense at nickel corner, they got Tron Johnson,

668
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Speaker 2: who's really good.

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Speaker 3: He's a really good players every snap. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Well then you get day Kwon Hardy, the rookie behind him.

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Speaker 3: Is he going to make the team. Yeah, it's a

672
00:30:07,200 --> 00:30:08,800
Speaker 3: good question. It's hard to keep too true, hard to

673
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Speaker 3: keep nickels right unless they're stud special team ors. And

674
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Speaker 3: he's six corners, you.

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Speaker 2: Know, dayk one Hardy's five to nine.

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Speaker 3: He's a soft corner. Yeah. Now some have become available,

677
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Speaker 3: and it'll be some that are a little older, little richer,

678
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Speaker 3: you know, a little more expensive. Some of these teams

679
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Speaker 3: don't have a ton of cap space to play with.

680
00:30:25,160 --> 00:30:27,720
Speaker 3: They most teams want to come in with five million

681
00:30:27,840 --> 00:30:29,640
Speaker 3: or so to get him through the season, so you

682
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Speaker 3: can make some room.

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Speaker 2: Might even need more than that now with with some

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Speaker 2: of the adjustments to the base salaries and things of that.

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Speaker 3: That's true. Yeah, I mean there's inflation. Yeah, and there's

686
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Speaker 3: also one more game too. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Safety position I feel really good about with Menka, Fitzpatrick

688
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Speaker 2: and Elliott there.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think Elliott's is a good player.

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00:30:49,160 --> 00:30:51,080
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I still have killer brew there.

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Speaker 3: Frankly, I think KZ is what he is, which is

692
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Speaker 3: pretty average. Yeah, he's your third guy, you know. I mean,

693
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Speaker 3: he's been around the block, and I like his versatility.

694
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Speaker 3: Could play a lot. So I think Elliott's a nice

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Speaker 3: addition to the defense.

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Speaker 2: I think Watts might be maybe he could might be

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Speaker 2: a future strong safety.

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Speaker 3: I was thinking that too, Like, I think he could

699
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Speaker 3: be a future starting defensive back. Yeah, and you know

700
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Speaker 3: how this league works. I mean, he might get thrust

701
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Speaker 3: into action week ten, sink or swim, and if he swims,

702
00:31:17,280 --> 00:31:19,320
Speaker 3: he may never come out. Yeah. I mean it's just

703
00:31:19,640 --> 00:31:21,840
Speaker 3: they would like to have him last year. Oh you

704
00:31:21,920 --> 00:31:23,960
Speaker 3: know what I mean? Yeah, like that.

705
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Speaker 2: I've been impressed with what I've seen of him.

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Speaker 3: He's a big athlete that can do a lot of

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Speaker 3: different things. For you mentioned, Dave lined him up a

708
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Speaker 3: lot of different positions. I think he's getting better on

709
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Speaker 3: special teams. I don't know how much he did to

710
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Speaker 3: that in Texas. Probably very little.

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Speaker 2: You know, he's in Ohio state before that's.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, a big time prospect. Yeah, so we'll see.

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Speaker 2: I mean, but I feel pretty good about the defensive

714
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Speaker 2: depth and where they're at overall, except in the nickel

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Speaker 2: corner spot.

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Speaker 3: Do you think a fourth edge guy could be not

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Speaker 3: on the team at the moment.

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Speaker 2: I think between Moon Karen Johnson, Johnson played a lot

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Speaker 2: and Jakobe Winman, I think I think he probably got

720
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Speaker 2: a guy there because that four spot's gonna be a

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Speaker 2: special team spot.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I know that was always the golden issue, you know,

723
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Speaker 3: it was like, what do you bring the teams? I

724
00:32:07,720 --> 00:32:09,640
Speaker 3: think all three of those guys you'd like to be

725
00:32:09,680 --> 00:32:12,000
Speaker 3: on the team in some capacity. You hope you get

726
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Speaker 3: them out on practice squad. Maybe one of them makes

727
00:32:15,240 --> 00:32:17,920
Speaker 3: the opening day roster. I could see it. I mean,

728
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Speaker 3: as much as Herbie could play, you could be weak

729
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Speaker 3: there in terms of not needing a defensive guy.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, because maybe keep two of those guys in your

731
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Speaker 2: practice squad and flip flop bringing them up.

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Speaker 3: And yeah, and how much Danny needs them? Yeah, on

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Speaker 3: game day.

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Speaker 2: That's gonna be a huge part of this. You know,

735
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Speaker 2: how much does Danny need them?

736
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Speaker 3: Yeah? I mean I think we know the core special

737
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Speaker 3: teamers at this point, but who are the fill in guys? Yeah,

738
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Speaker 3: that's gonna be the biggest question. Okay, and Matty Kaevitch

739
00:32:43,880 --> 00:32:45,360
Speaker 3: is going to make the team obviously to him and

740
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Speaker 3: Killerbrew be your core special teamers. Yeah. I like where

741
00:32:49,640 --> 00:32:52,480
Speaker 3: they're at. I mean, I think slot corner, in wide

742
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Speaker 3: receiver or spots. You're gonna be eyes wide open for

743
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Speaker 3: what the rest of the league presents, whether that's trade

744
00:32:59,040 --> 00:33:02,000
Speaker 3: or pick someone up off the waiver wire. I always

745
00:33:02,000 --> 00:33:04,160
Speaker 3: say this, like Joe Hayden wasn't a Steeler at this time,

746
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Speaker 3: you know, whenever. Yeah, the Browns let them go.

747
00:33:07,360 --> 00:33:11,960
Speaker 2: Other teams make bad decisions, yeah as well sometimes of course,

748
00:33:12,320 --> 00:33:14,120
Speaker 2: but they have a lot of cap space and they

749
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Speaker 2: could afford to go get something if they needed. Absolutely,

750
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Speaker 2: and maybe some you know, maybe it's a trade.

751
00:33:19,600 --> 00:33:20,200
Speaker 3: Yeah, it could be.

752
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Speaker 2: We've seen some already, some late round draft picks swapped

753
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Speaker 2: for players already this year. Teams start to call each

754
00:33:27,120 --> 00:33:29,400
Speaker 2: other as they get closer. You never want to just

755
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Speaker 2: give a guy away for nothing.

756
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Speaker 3: No, right, right, right, And seventh round picks are real

757
00:33:34,160 --> 00:33:37,080
Speaker 3: easy bargaining bargaining chips. At this point, you can you know,

758
00:33:37,200 --> 00:33:39,280
Speaker 3: it doesn't hurt you to give one up. I do

759
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Speaker 3: think there'll be a lot of trades between now an

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Speaker 3: Opening Day around the league. I think so too. It

761
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Speaker 3: could be ten to twelve of them something like that,

762
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Speaker 3: some small maybe a big one. Who knows.

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Speaker 2: the Steelers Audio Network and Matt ESPN updated their team rankings.

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Speaker 3: Did they like a power rank?

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Speaker 2: Like a power ranking today based on what's happened in

788
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Speaker 2: the preseason. You want to talk about complete overreactions?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, wow, these guys don't even play half their dudes right.

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Speaker 2: I don't know how you do this, but some teams

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Speaker 2: have moved up, some teams have moved down. The Carolina

792
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Speaker 2: Panthers still at thirty two. They have unmoved, unmoved. Denver Broncos.

793
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Speaker 2: Didn't we played anybody.

794
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Speaker 3: They didn't play anybody. They don't. They think they're just fine.

795
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Speaker 2: Broncos are a thirty one, unmoved.

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Speaker 3: I think bo Nicks is taken over there by the way.

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Speaker 3: I mean, they're they're a bad roster. But he's actually

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Speaker 3: looked decent and seems like they do anything like it's

799
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Speaker 3: it's a lot of checkdown and stuff like that too. Yes, Sideway, sideway, sideways,

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Speaker 3: big time. You know, once once teams.

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Speaker 2: Get start game playing for that look out.

802
00:36:02,239 --> 00:36:04,800
Speaker 3: I agree he made a few plays out of structure.

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Speaker 3: I watched a lot of that game. But there's not

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Speaker 3: much around them either. No, I mean, I think there

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Speaker 3: should be at the bot in this list.

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Speaker 2: At thirty the Patriots unmoved.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, when do they play the rook I don't I

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Speaker 3: don't want what the nswer.

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Speaker 5: I don't know.

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Speaker 3: I don't think he's gonna make it. He's not look

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Speaker 3: good either. No, I don't know what I don't They

812
00:36:25,480 --> 00:36:26,800
Speaker 3: should be at the ball, and that offense might be

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Speaker 3: the worst in the league.

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Speaker 2: Twenty nine unmoved is are the Cardinals?

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Speaker 3: Real quick on the Patriots too?

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Speaker 2: Like?

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Speaker 3: I like their defense, but their two best offenders might

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00:36:33,920 --> 00:36:38,120
Speaker 3: be Judeon and Barmore. And Judon's gone and Barmore who

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Speaker 3: knows how long you might not play?

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Speaker 5: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Twenty eight down from twenty seven is Washington.

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Speaker 3: They probably lower for me. Those other teams are pretty bad. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: I think it's probably my pretty bad team, that's the problem.

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Speaker 2: Twenty seven down from twenty five are the Raiders.

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Speaker 3: Okay, they'll be respectable when they play their starters Adams

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Speaker 3: causby those guys.

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Speaker 2: At twenty six, up from twenty eight to Giants based

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Speaker 2: on what the three interceptions at Daniel Jones through on Sunday,

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Speaker 2: Like you see.

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Speaker 3: That horrendous one. He's terrible, He's terrific. Yeah, I don't

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Speaker 3: tht you move them up.

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Speaker 2: But okay, twenty five down from twenty four.

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Speaker 3: New Orleans.

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Speaker 2: I mean some teams have moved up considerably this one.

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Speaker 3: Their O lines really worrisome.

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Speaker 2: At twenty four, up from twenty six. The Titans, Okay,

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Speaker 2: I mean I don't know how you I don't even

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Speaker 2: care about the movement. I mean, I'm not sure how

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Speaker 2: you move any team based I mean maybe the Vikings

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Speaker 2: because you know, Sam Darnold's the quarter that makes me

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Speaker 2: want to move them down.

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Speaker 3: If you're going to move a team, at least you

844
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Speaker 3: got some information on that team, you know, speaking with

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Speaker 3: your Vikings are at twenty three.

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Speaker 2: They're even they say're holding holding, steady.

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Speaker 3: Holding steady. Okay, would you assign Gilmore for your team

848
00:37:56,560 --> 00:38:00,200
Speaker 3: like that? You know, like it's not like they no

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Speaker 3: chance of the playoffs, have any system.

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Speaker 2: I guess maybe you don't have anything else.

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00:38:04,360 --> 00:38:07,040
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean their corners, they've been looking for corners forever. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: I don't know. I just look at it like we're

853
00:38:10,400 --> 00:38:13,799
Speaker 3: not getting younger by doing that or developing talent. But

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Speaker 3: you know, he's not bad.

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Speaker 2: At twenty two down from twenty one are the Seahawks.

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Speaker 3: Okay, I have a problem with that. I'm interested to

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Speaker 3: see what they do this year. I mean their O

858
00:38:26,239 --> 00:38:27,400
Speaker 3: line is really rough too.

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Speaker 2: Really bet Yeah, at twenty one down from nineteen or Tampa.

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Speaker 3: Bay so that whole of Atlanta hasn't been mentioned yet. Yeah, okay, yeah,

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Speaker 3: it's a bad group.

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Speaker 2: At twenty up from twenty two, the Chargers.

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Speaker 3: I don't know why I'm moving them up. I mean,

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Speaker 3: Herbert's situation didn't get any better by getting hurt.

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Speaker 2: He hasn't played, he hasn't even taking snaps in the

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Speaker 2: next season. We're training camp.

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Speaker 3: I don't know if he'll be there for week one

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Speaker 3: or not. But I think we both anyone's listened to us.

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Speaker 3: We haven't talked around the league as much late. It

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00:38:57,000 --> 00:38:59,360
Speaker 3: could be in a camp, but I think the Chargers

871
00:38:59,440 --> 00:39:01,839
Speaker 3: are way ahead of their skis in terms of what

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00:39:01,840 --> 00:39:04,680
Speaker 3: people think the Harbaugh's gonna do in your one. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: At nineteen up from twenty, the Falcons.

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Speaker 3: Okay, they got a little better. I mean they added

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Speaker 3: two defensive pieces in the last week.

876
00:39:12,480 --> 00:39:16,560
Speaker 2: At eighteen holding steady the Colts, I'm not sure.

877
00:39:16,400 --> 00:39:18,520
Speaker 3: What to think of them, but I think they're probably

878
00:39:18,560 --> 00:39:20,319
Speaker 3: about as average as you can get.

879
00:39:21,840 --> 00:39:23,960
Speaker 2: At seventeen down from sixteen.

880
00:39:24,239 --> 00:39:29,319
Speaker 3: The Bears. Ooh, I don't think I'm there with them

881
00:39:29,400 --> 00:39:33,680
Speaker 3: quite yet either. That old line hasn't been moving people

882
00:39:34,120 --> 00:39:36,560
Speaker 3: at all in the preseason. I know Caleb Williams is

883
00:39:36,600 --> 00:39:39,840
Speaker 3: everyone excited, but he's not doing the routine stuff routinely

884
00:39:39,920 --> 00:39:40,359
Speaker 3: yet either.

885
00:39:40,560 --> 00:39:44,799
Speaker 2: No, No, I think that's ahead of Yeah, it's sixteen

886
00:39:45,239 --> 00:39:46,280
Speaker 2: down from fifteen.

887
00:39:46,480 --> 00:39:50,520
Speaker 3: The Steelers. Okay, i'd have them ahead of the Browns.

888
00:39:51,120 --> 00:39:51,640
Speaker 3: I would too.

889
00:39:51,840 --> 00:39:54,680
Speaker 2: I probably haven't what have the Browns done in this preseason, like.

890
00:39:54,760 --> 00:39:59,480
Speaker 3: Right, excited situation or anything? Right, Steelers preseason hasn't been pretty,

891
00:40:00,080 --> 00:40:02,960
Speaker 3: But yeah, I might have him had the Jags, I

892
00:40:03,040 --> 00:40:06,399
Speaker 3: think about their AFC teams. Yeah, Miami and the Jets

893
00:40:06,440 --> 00:40:07,680
Speaker 3: are in the Steelers neighborhood to me.

894
00:40:07,880 --> 00:40:10,480
Speaker 2: At fifteen up from seventeen are the Jets?

895
00:40:10,840 --> 00:40:12,480
Speaker 3: Okay? I mean I don't know what you They haven't

896
00:40:12,480 --> 00:40:13,520
Speaker 3: done any of the preseason either.

897
00:40:13,719 --> 00:40:18,120
Speaker 2: Yeah, at fourteen down from thirteen The Jaguars.

898
00:40:19,000 --> 00:40:22,080
Speaker 3: Yeah, they've done some good things in the preseason, Bigsby

899
00:40:22,120 --> 00:40:24,600
Speaker 3: and these guys, but we'll see on them.

900
00:40:25,320 --> 00:40:28,080
Speaker 2: At thirteen up from fourteen the Rams.

901
00:40:28,440 --> 00:40:32,480
Speaker 3: Okay, that again, that anybody, right, But I mean that

902
00:40:32,640 --> 00:40:35,000
Speaker 3: doesn't make them worse or better. But they haven't done anything.

903
00:40:35,000 --> 00:40:37,320
Speaker 3: They've been really banged up too at the line and

904
00:40:37,360 --> 00:40:38,800
Speaker 3: Stafford are not healthy.

905
00:40:39,040 --> 00:40:43,960
Speaker 2: At twelve, holding steady of the Browns.

906
00:40:42,640 --> 00:40:45,920
Speaker 3: Okay, I mean, if I were them, I'd love to

907
00:40:45,920 --> 00:40:47,120
Speaker 3: see Watson next week.

908
00:40:47,480 --> 00:40:49,480
Speaker 2: They have to tell them a lot, but they don't

909
00:40:49,480 --> 00:40:50,240
Speaker 2: have any tackles.

910
00:40:50,400 --> 00:40:53,480
Speaker 3: How many tackles, right, I think I'd still put him

911
00:40:53,480 --> 00:40:54,960
Speaker 3: out there. I think he needs to play.

912
00:40:55,520 --> 00:40:59,560
Speaker 2: At eleven, holding steady the Cowboys.

913
00:40:58,840 --> 00:41:01,080
Speaker 3: Okay, they have nor a game, and I've been some

914
00:41:01,800 --> 00:41:04,160
Speaker 3: rumblings Zeke Elliot might not even make the team. Like

915
00:41:04,239 --> 00:41:06,880
Speaker 3: he's looked that slow and sluggish, and.

916
00:41:06,840 --> 00:41:09,479
Speaker 2: He's probably slower than he looked last year, right, right,

917
00:41:10,520 --> 00:41:11,160
Speaker 2: that's a problem.

918
00:41:11,280 --> 00:41:14,120
Speaker 3: That's a big problem. U. At ten, the two rookies

919
00:41:14,160 --> 00:41:17,080
Speaker 3: are now inserted into their line too for Dallas, which

920
00:41:17,680 --> 00:41:19,320
Speaker 3: could be good or bad, but they have talent.

921
00:41:19,920 --> 00:41:21,800
Speaker 2: At ten holding steady the Packers.

922
00:41:23,000 --> 00:41:25,000
Speaker 3: They haven't done a thing in the preseason either, but

923
00:41:26,200 --> 00:41:27,640
Speaker 3: I liked I like where the team's at.

924
00:41:29,040 --> 00:41:32,360
Speaker 2: At nine, holding steady the Bengals.

925
00:41:31,840 --> 00:41:35,960
Speaker 3: Okay, they actually their backups did well out there. I

926
00:41:36,000 --> 00:41:38,239
Speaker 3: mean like that they've been doing good things in the

927
00:41:38,239 --> 00:41:40,000
Speaker 3: preseason even without playing their dudes.

928
00:41:41,239 --> 00:41:45,640
Speaker 2: At eight, down from seven Miami, that's too.

929
00:41:45,520 --> 00:41:48,080
Speaker 3: High for me. Yeah, I mean I'd have the Bengals

930
00:41:48,120 --> 00:41:51,360
Speaker 3: noticeably higher than them. Teams Dallas easily, A couple of

931
00:41:51,360 --> 00:41:55,279
Speaker 3: these teams I think are easily better than Miami. Yeah.

932
00:41:55,080 --> 00:41:57,440
Speaker 2: Uh, it's seven up from eight Buffalo.

933
00:41:59,160 --> 00:42:02,600
Speaker 3: Okay, it still seems a little rich for me. I mean,

934
00:42:03,160 --> 00:42:06,920
Speaker 3: back seven of that defense is concerning and the weapons

935
00:42:07,120 --> 00:42:10,360
Speaker 3: the receivers are just okay at best. I'd have the

936
00:42:10,360 --> 00:42:13,440
Speaker 3: Bengals ahead of them. Yeah, me too. Definitely out of

937
00:42:13,480 --> 00:42:14,680
Speaker 3: the Bills. Down a couple spots.

938
00:42:15,160 --> 00:42:16,760
Speaker 2: Six holding steady is Houston.

939
00:42:17,840 --> 00:42:19,879
Speaker 3: I'm there with that, and we'll see how they deal with,

940
00:42:20,080 --> 00:42:22,520
Speaker 3: you know, being the hunted instead of the hunter. But

941
00:42:23,000 --> 00:42:24,560
Speaker 3: it's a good, good roster. I think they have a

942
00:42:24,560 --> 00:42:25,760
Speaker 3: good coach and a good quarterback.

943
00:42:26,120 --> 00:42:28,600
Speaker 2: At five is Philadelphia holding steady.

944
00:42:29,600 --> 00:42:32,439
Speaker 3: Okay, looks like Kenny Pickett might not even be the two,

945
00:42:33,760 --> 00:42:35,240
Speaker 3: Danner McKee might be beating him out.

946
00:42:35,400 --> 00:42:37,359
Speaker 2: You have to actually try to throw the football down

947
00:42:37,360 --> 00:42:40,280
Speaker 2: the field a little bit. Yeah yeah, at four holding

948
00:42:40,320 --> 00:42:41,520
Speaker 2: Steady Destroit.

949
00:42:41,960 --> 00:42:43,000
Speaker 3: Yeah, they're a legit team.

950
00:42:44,640 --> 00:42:49,120
Speaker 2: At three down from two San Francisco, I just think there's.

951
00:42:48,920 --> 00:42:51,400
Speaker 3: A little bit of disruption. I mean it's not a

952
00:42:52,120 --> 00:42:54,319
Speaker 3: is everyone on the same track together? Is everyone on

953
00:42:54,360 --> 00:42:57,000
Speaker 3: the same page. A lot of people worrying about contracts

954
00:42:57,000 --> 00:42:59,319
Speaker 3: and getting ahead themselves, thinking you're better than you are

955
00:42:59,400 --> 00:43:03,000
Speaker 3: and has happened. Yeah, we'll see two up from three

956
00:43:03,160 --> 00:43:05,759
Speaker 3: is Baltimore. Oh, they wouldn't be in my top three

957
00:43:05,840 --> 00:43:08,000
Speaker 3: or four. No, I think people ahead of them.

958
00:43:08,040 --> 00:43:10,240
Speaker 2: I think people are way ahead of themselves at the Ravens,

959
00:43:10,239 --> 00:43:12,800
Speaker 2: just assuming that offensive line is going to be fine,

960
00:43:12,880 --> 00:43:15,640
Speaker 2: Oh well they'll get it right. No, right, I think

961
00:43:15,680 --> 00:43:18,160
Speaker 2: that's I don't know that Ronnie Stanley is still good.

962
00:43:18,640 --> 00:43:20,840
Speaker 3: Right, And I think falle is gonna be the starting

963
00:43:20,920 --> 00:43:24,719
Speaker 3: right there, the right tackle situations problematic, and I don't

964
00:43:24,719 --> 00:43:27,719
Speaker 3: know the Vorhees is good or not. I mean like

965
00:43:28,160 --> 00:43:31,719
Speaker 3: he's gonna have to play is Lamar gonna be the

966
00:43:31,760 --> 00:43:36,440
Speaker 3: MVP again? You mean like I feel like him and

967
00:43:36,480 --> 00:43:38,719
Speaker 3: Allen almost have to play at m VP levels to

968
00:43:38,800 --> 00:43:41,399
Speaker 3: be ranked where they are there, and that's just hard

969
00:43:41,440 --> 00:43:43,279
Speaker 3: to do. It's something he's bad. They're both awesome, but

970
00:43:44,120 --> 00:43:46,440
Speaker 3: playing at m VP level is not easy to do,

971
00:43:46,600 --> 00:43:47,359
Speaker 3: you know, you know.

972
00:43:47,960 --> 00:43:50,879
Speaker 2: And then of course one is Kansas City. Bring all

973
00:43:50,880 --> 00:43:54,720
Speaker 2: this up. If you look at the teams the Steelers

974
00:43:54,760 --> 00:43:56,680
Speaker 2: are playing in the preseason.

975
00:43:56,440 --> 00:43:58,280
Speaker 3: Yeah, they're good ones, They're all They're.

976
00:43:58,160 --> 00:43:59,680
Speaker 2: All ranked in the top ten of this And I

977
00:43:59,680 --> 00:44:01,760
Speaker 2: don't have problem with any of this stuff.

978
00:44:02,000 --> 00:44:05,320
Speaker 3: No, No, you're right, And frankly, at the beginning of

979
00:44:05,320 --> 00:44:07,399
Speaker 3: their schedule doesn't have a lot of the top ten

980
00:44:07,560 --> 00:44:09,759
Speaker 3: teams in there. I mean, I think that the regular season, well,

981
00:44:09,800 --> 00:44:11,360
Speaker 3: I know the regular season is going to look a

982
00:44:11,400 --> 00:44:14,879
Speaker 3: lot different for all these teams, but the Steelers in particular. Yeah,

983
00:44:15,000 --> 00:44:16,560
Speaker 3: I think the regular season is gonna be a lot

984
00:44:16,560 --> 00:44:21,000
Speaker 3: different schematically. Who's on the field. I mean, how many

985
00:44:21,040 --> 00:44:24,879
Speaker 3: times have we cited all the different numbers you can

986
00:44:24,920 --> 00:44:27,239
Speaker 3: say when Watt's on the field versus not, you know

987
00:44:27,280 --> 00:44:29,719
Speaker 3: what I mean? Like that in itself is enough to

988
00:44:30,600 --> 00:44:33,040
Speaker 3: make you a lot more competitive in the regular season

989
00:44:33,080 --> 00:44:33,920
Speaker 3: than you've been now.

990
00:44:33,920 --> 00:44:36,120
Speaker 2: And the defense hasn't been bad, No, the defense has

991
00:44:36,160 --> 00:44:37,560
Speaker 2: been gone good.

992
00:44:37,680 --> 00:44:37,839
Speaker 3: Yeah.

993
00:44:37,920 --> 00:44:40,080
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you haven't had Watt out there even you

994
00:44:40,080 --> 00:44:41,359
Speaker 2: haven't even had a high Smith out there.

995
00:44:41,960 --> 00:44:43,920
Speaker 3: Out there, and you're playing with a handful of backups

996
00:44:43,920 --> 00:44:47,200
Speaker 3: at key positions pass rushers, and the pass rush hasn't been.

997
00:44:47,040 --> 00:44:51,359
Speaker 2: Bad, no, So I look at that and the continuity

998
00:44:52,320 --> 00:44:55,320
Speaker 2: factor with these teams that you're playing in the preseason

999
00:44:55,360 --> 00:44:55,840
Speaker 2: as well.

1000
00:44:56,120 --> 00:44:59,040
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, I don't think it was beneficial to

1001
00:44:59,040 --> 00:45:01,239
Speaker 3: play the Texans after they had already got a game

1002
00:45:01,239 --> 00:45:03,480
Speaker 3: and they're under their belt too. Yeah, you know, they

1003
00:45:03,520 --> 00:45:05,000
Speaker 3: were a little clean. They were a lot cleaner than

1004
00:45:05,040 --> 00:45:06,000
Speaker 3: the Steelers in that game.

1005
00:45:06,360 --> 00:45:09,920
Speaker 2: And then mcdermot's his group has been there for a while.

1006
00:45:10,080 --> 00:45:13,480
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's true too. I don't know that playing or

1007
00:45:14,440 --> 00:45:16,919
Speaker 3: getting beat up a little bit they're not playing great

1008
00:45:16,960 --> 00:45:20,840
Speaker 3: in the preseason is necessarily bad either, like attention getting Yeah,

1009
00:45:20,960 --> 00:45:23,040
Speaker 3: I mean you see sometimes and maybe it's even true

1010
00:45:23,120 --> 00:45:26,160
Speaker 3: last year that preseason went a little too smooth, Like

1011
00:45:26,200 --> 00:45:28,160
Speaker 3: I don't know, the coaches love that, you know, like

1012
00:45:28,960 --> 00:45:31,080
Speaker 3: I want coaching points. I want things to stress that

1013
00:45:31,080 --> 00:45:32,879
Speaker 3: we can get better at, you know, and and deep

1014
00:45:32,920 --> 00:45:35,399
Speaker 3: down I'm knowing that I'm not putting my my best

1015
00:45:35,400 --> 00:45:37,320
Speaker 3: game plans out for these things either, you know what

1016
00:45:37,360 --> 00:45:40,360
Speaker 3: I mean. So, yeah, I would think they're they're practicing

1017
00:45:40,360 --> 00:45:43,560
Speaker 3: for the Falcons as we speak, right, I mean they're

1018
00:45:43,560 --> 00:45:44,759
Speaker 3: starting to put some Yeah.

1019
00:45:45,040 --> 00:45:46,960
Speaker 2: The way that works is you start to install. You

1020
00:45:46,960 --> 00:45:50,440
Speaker 2: don't necessarily tell the players that you're installing stuff for

1021
00:45:50,520 --> 00:45:53,400
Speaker 2: week one, but you do install some stuff for we

1022
00:45:53,480 --> 00:45:55,120
Speaker 2: You work on some things that you know Atlanta is

1023
00:45:55,160 --> 00:45:55,719
Speaker 2: going to do if.

1024
00:45:55,600 --> 00:45:57,400
Speaker 3: They're a week at linebacker, We're going to work on

1025
00:45:57,680 --> 00:45:59,839
Speaker 3: middle of the field routes more this week or things

1026
00:45:59,840 --> 00:46:01,879
Speaker 3: like that that. Yeah, I think you're dead on there.

1027
00:46:02,280 --> 00:46:05,480
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think you know, Arthur Smith knows that personnel

1028
00:46:05,520 --> 00:46:08,000
Speaker 2: pretty well. He knows where he wants to attack the Falcon.

1029
00:46:08,120 --> 00:46:10,000
Speaker 3: He's been thinking about it since he got hired.

1030
00:46:10,200 --> 00:46:13,720
Speaker 2: Yeah, so that that's something you know, you can definitely

1031
00:46:13,760 --> 00:46:16,160
Speaker 2: do without again telling the team that you're doing it,

1032
00:46:16,840 --> 00:46:19,080
Speaker 2: and then they you know, the team, somebody lets it

1033
00:46:19,080 --> 00:46:21,680
Speaker 2: slip to the media or well, we worked on the

1034
00:46:21,680 --> 00:46:22,560
Speaker 2: falcon stuff.

1035
00:46:22,280 --> 00:46:24,880
Speaker 3: Today reversus this game, right, Yeah, they don't need to

1036
00:46:24,880 --> 00:46:25,160
Speaker 3: know that.

1037
00:46:25,080 --> 00:46:26,880
Speaker 2: They don't You don't tell them that. They don't need

1038
00:46:26,920 --> 00:46:29,120
Speaker 2: to know, all right, So we're back to five days

1039
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1040
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