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Speaker 1: He's The Drive with Dale Lolly and Matt Williamson one

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Speaker 1: home of the Black and Goal 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 Tuesday here in Pittsburgh and we just

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Speaker 1: got done earlier today with the Mike Tomlin press conference

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Speaker 1: and a lot of good news from Mike Tomlin in

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Speaker 1: terms of availability, good potential availability. This week. Basically everybody

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Speaker 1: on the fifty three man roster is healthy. I mean,

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Speaker 1: that's the nice perk of having, you know, uh, super

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Speaker 1: short week the week before. You get a little rest time.

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Speaker 1: There is a little bonus prize on the end of it,

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Speaker 1: and you know that Thursday game and go as planned.

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Speaker 1: And I do think the short week probably factored into

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Speaker 1: the slow start to some degree. But you know, you

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Speaker 1: move on from there onto the next one. So now

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Speaker 1: you're set up, and I'll steal your words from off

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Speaker 1: the air. You've got a four game season here, you know,

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Speaker 1: four game season. It's like you're coming to the starting

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Speaker 1: line healthy on week one. It's like it's like the

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Speaker 1: first thirteen weeks of the NFL season where everybody's preseason.

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Speaker 1: I mean, that's everybody's done with the Buyers. Now, everybody's

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Speaker 1: through this, this whole thing. And given the state of

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Speaker 1: the a f C right now, uh, I think the

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Speaker 1: Steelers are eleventh in the a f C. Is that

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Speaker 1: where they're at the moment. But they're one game in

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Speaker 1: the they're they're a half game separates them between the

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Speaker 1: team that is in fifth place or sixth place, I'm sorry,

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Speaker 1: six place. So it really is a three game season

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Speaker 1: or four game season. You gotta win three. I think

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Speaker 1: if you get the nine you get for them nine

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Speaker 1: and a half win, you're probably going to get in

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Speaker 1: and you could win the division. That's the thing is

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Speaker 1: you get to inflict some losses to others too, you know.

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Speaker 1: I mean all these teams play each other, you know,

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Speaker 1: starting even one. That's the thing. You gotta win the

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Speaker 1: right Thursday, Yeah, and it starts three, I think probably

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Speaker 1: get you. But the last you have to win. The

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Speaker 1: last two. Yeah, those are muss. And you know, I

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Speaker 1: just did a hit with Mark Madden before doing the

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Speaker 1: show today and he asked me to rank those games

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Speaker 1: in order of games that I feel the most confident

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Speaker 1: confident about the Steelers winning. I would pick the last

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Speaker 1: two high I picked the Browns game number one, most confident.

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Speaker 1: It's a Monday night game. It could be Ben Roethlisberger's

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Speaker 1: final home game. Probably is right Steelers. The Steelers don't

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Speaker 1: lose again. They don't lose Monday night home games. Although

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Speaker 1: I rather play Browns this week, they just put they

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Speaker 1: just put eight guys on the COVID list, a bunch

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Speaker 1: of starters. But I feel the most confident about that game.

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Speaker 1: I feel the second most confident about going to Baltimore.

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Speaker 1: I was I think that might be number one for

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Speaker 1: me and beating that team, which I don't know if

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Speaker 1: they win another game. I think there are a really

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Speaker 1: bad spot and all of a sudden, the Browns are too,

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Speaker 1: you know, at least for one week and then you know,

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Speaker 1: but that one is on the road, and maybe I

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Speaker 1: put the Browns ahead of it considering the Monday night

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Speaker 1: quottion do you put there? It makes sense? And then

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Speaker 1: I look at this game this week against the Titans

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Speaker 1: is the third on that list. And then of course

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Speaker 1: the k the game in Kansas City has to before

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Speaker 1: because it's on the road. Be it's against Kansas City,

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Speaker 1: you know, Um, I mean, there a lot of Titans

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Speaker 1: worried that Titans will still run all over them without

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Speaker 1: Derrick Henry. But if you look at the Titans defensive performance,

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Speaker 1: it was more indicative of just the Jags. They played

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Speaker 1: a high school team, terrible football team. They played on

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Speaker 1: high school tam Yeah, I mean they're throwing the La

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Speaker 1: Kwan Treadwell and Tavan Austin And you know, any other

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Speaker 1: team in the believable would have beaten the tight or

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Speaker 1: beaten the the Jaguars twenty to nothing last week. If

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Speaker 1: Jets would have beaten them. Yes, would have, right, I

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Speaker 1: mean that they're a miserable football team. Detroit would have

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Speaker 1: mopped the floor with them, right. So I don't take

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Speaker 1: much out of last week's game. In fact, you could

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Speaker 1: look at and say they turned them over. They Trevor

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Speaker 1: Lawrence had four interceptions in that game and they only

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Speaker 1: a cup things from that game that are just insane.

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Speaker 1: I mean a couple of them were. I never mentioned

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Speaker 1: I'm just stealing it somewhere. And I don't know how

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Speaker 1: the one of the worst five e p A games

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Speaker 1: in the last offensive performances by the Jags in the

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Speaker 1: last ten years, you know, in the last like five

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Speaker 1: some games, and you still only won nothing. And you

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Speaker 1: show me one time. Yeah, right, and they didn't have

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Speaker 1: to do much. I mean, I'm sure it could have

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Speaker 1: been worse. Have three yards of offense in that game, right, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: they were right at three hundred yards. And the Jaguars

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Speaker 1: defense is not good either. Not that not that the

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Speaker 1: Steelers are playing great on defense, but to your to

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Speaker 1: your point, like those twenty yard runs that Dalvin Cook

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Speaker 1: was getting through those massive holes, if you make it,

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Speaker 1: if the if the Titans somehow are able to get

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Speaker 1: but I'm worried he's gonna have a big day, you know.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I just I think you can you know

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Speaker 1: fight again, and they live to fight again. Actually, in

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Speaker 1: the ranking game, you know, which was an odd, odd

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Speaker 1: football game, Well here's the numbers of that. Against Tennessee

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Speaker 1: last week, the Jags rushed for just eight yards on

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Speaker 1: even worse, though, who's jack for Jacksonville? Who's possession? They

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Speaker 1: had tend possessions that resulted in four interceptions, five punts

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Speaker 1: and a turnover on downs Jacksonville. Jacksonville had as many

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Speaker 1: miserable stats and you don't see in this league. I

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Speaker 1: mean that that's set to me, is why urban Meyer

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Speaker 1: like and he walks off the field all mad, and

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Speaker 1: you know he's talking to everybody else. Toxic toxic environments there.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's the epitome of a toxic environment.

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Speaker 1: I'm surprised she's still employed. I thought after that game

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Speaker 1: talk about the Jacks to get back to our health.

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Speaker 1: It's all right there in front of them. So the

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Speaker 1: Steelers are pretty healthy. It was healthy, you're going to

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Speaker 1: or whatever it is, are extremely healthy. All fifty three

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Speaker 1: and and reiterated today, we will look. We will look

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Speaker 1: under every stone or turn over every stone to find

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Speaker 1: To me, you have some ideas, maybe they were things

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Speaker 1: they could do. I'm looking at this going, okay, I

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Speaker 1: don't care about any that. We're not looking at next

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Speaker 1: year at all. We're not looking at at saving anybody's

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Speaker 1: feelings anything any of that stuff. It's a four game season.

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Speaker 1: The division is there to win. Put your best eleven

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Speaker 1: on the field, regardless of of you know, we like

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Speaker 1: this guy for the future that any of the field. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: right now a game season survive. I would start, first

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Speaker 1: of all. I've put a Kellow Weatherspoon would start for

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Speaker 1: me opposite Joe Hayden, and I would move camp. Sutting

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Speaker 1: you would have Weatherspoon out there over Sutton. Yeah, Okay,

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Speaker 1: that's bold and it's nothing. It's not it's not a

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Speaker 1: knock against Sutton at all. This is what we need

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Speaker 1: right now. It's it's it gives you the best chance

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Speaker 1: to win and a Witherspoon like he takes football away.

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Speaker 1: The turnover numbers are insanely and it's not just it's

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Speaker 1: some picks. Yeah, Like they need to do anything possible

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Speaker 1: nineteen and twenty seasons, far and away the most turnovers

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Speaker 1: in the league created this year, it's like one a game,

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Speaker 1: you know, and it's it's not enough. It's it's not enough.

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Speaker 1: That would be such a difference, so many other warts

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Speaker 1: you embarrass yourself in the first half and you got

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Speaker 1: doing it. He was five for his first seven, and

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Speaker 1: why the Vikings have lost a lot of these close

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Speaker 1: to see more of Witherspoon. Um. I wouldn't mind seeing

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Speaker 1: Spillane on the field. I figured, you go there, he's healthy, right,

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Speaker 1: been impressive. Do you go with some kind of three

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Speaker 1: like you do like a running back backfield type of situation. Maybe,

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Speaker 1: but I think I might want Spilean on the field, like,

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Speaker 1: all the time. He might be by one, right, you know,

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Speaker 1: and the other two guys are out rotating around him. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: differences nowadays between their two responsibilities. By no, Spileane can

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Speaker 1: I mean if but I think Spillane by default should

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Speaker 1: be the number one. Yeah, and I don't think he's

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Speaker 1: a great player, but especially as the Titans and the

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Speaker 1: don't want to run the football. I'm okay, we're gonna

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Speaker 1: comes downhill for their linebacker room. He's the thumper. Yeah, yeah, No,

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Speaker 1: I might I might want to see. I'm willing to look.

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Speaker 1: Then the opener against the Bills, Carlos Davis played seventeen snaps.

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Speaker 1: he was the backup nose when they broke camp. I'm willing.

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Speaker 1: don't want these guys to check out for the remainder.

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Speaker 1: Well I'm out of the lineup. I'm done. I mean

424
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Speaker 1: you do. There is some massaging of egos that has

425
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Speaker 1: to be done there, I mean telling Cam Sutton, hey,

426
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Speaker 1: you're you're gonna be the slot, you know that kind

427
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Speaker 1: of thing. You're still in our future to play a time,

428
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Speaker 1: You're gonna play a time. But to do what's best

429
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Speaker 1: for the team, we need you to move to the slot. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: That that it's interesting, like they may have a guy

431
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Speaker 1: in Witherspoon, Yeah you know, I mean, and maybe a

432
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Speaker 1: couple of that's certainly without to move to make against Chiefs. Yeah,

433
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Speaker 1: I agree with that. Yeah, that makes some sense. I'm

434
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Speaker 1: trying to think there's some really good defensive lineman in

435
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Speaker 1: the future here though, on those out I mean, some

436
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Speaker 1: of the best in the league. Jones Simmons, You definitely

437
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Speaker 1: you'd definitely like to get Dots in back sooner rather

438
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Speaker 1: than later. Do you have any updates on that? I mean,

439
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Speaker 1: it was a high ankle spring, so he's not always

440
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Speaker 1: able to come off until next week. A week from now,

441
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Speaker 1: he could come off, right, Yeah, okay, okay, I mean

442
00:21:35,480 --> 00:21:37,680
Speaker 1: he'd be nice for this week for sure, absolutely, But

443
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Speaker 1: such as life, Yeah, Haig, they're dealing with power worries me,

444
00:21:42,000 --> 00:21:45,800
Speaker 1: Hoss or Green dealing with power worries me. But those

445
00:21:45,800 --> 00:21:49,000
Speaker 1: guys cause problems for everybody, and where you lesson little

446
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Speaker 1: Google glue right right, Yeah, I mean I'm just being

447
00:21:52,200 --> 00:21:54,480
Speaker 1: honest here, right, If that's if that's your only other option,

448
00:21:54,520 --> 00:21:57,720
Speaker 1: if it's Hagar Leglue, I'm going with Haig, Dirt Austin

449
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Speaker 1: and Fan Gutter and walking through the door, right all right,

450
00:22:00,480 --> 00:22:02,439
Speaker 1: you gotta we gotta picked from this group and make

451
00:22:02,480 --> 00:22:05,399
Speaker 1: it work. Banner and the Core for might be a

452
00:22:05,440 --> 00:22:08,640
Speaker 1: decent bookend, right, And I think Turner is what he is. Yeah,

453
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Speaker 1: I'm cool with it. I would I would expect a

454
00:22:12,240 --> 00:22:14,679
Speaker 1: lot of blitz, you know, I would challenge the Steelers

455
00:22:14,760 --> 00:22:17,600
Speaker 1: communication and that kind of stuff. And nice thing is

456
00:22:17,600 --> 00:22:20,760
Speaker 1: your home, yeah right right. The crowd noise shouldn't be

457
00:22:20,800 --> 00:22:22,960
Speaker 1: an issue. And you've had an extra long week to

458
00:22:23,040 --> 00:22:25,560
Speaker 1: kind of prepare for these things too. Yeah, that's helpful.

459
00:22:25,720 --> 00:22:27,760
Speaker 1: Not that they've practiced, no, but right, I mean, but

460
00:22:27,800 --> 00:22:30,840
Speaker 1: the coaches aren't the coaches, Yeah, they've they've been sitting

461
00:22:30,840 --> 00:22:33,440
Speaker 1: here all weekend, like, Okay, what can we do? What

462
00:22:33,440 --> 00:22:37,480
Speaker 1: what changes can be made? Interesting? Those are all things

463
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Speaker 1: that I would definitely be shocked if they're not at

464
00:22:39,720 --> 00:22:42,159
Speaker 1: least looking at them. No, I think you have to

465
00:22:42,200 --> 00:22:44,919
Speaker 1: at least have that conversation, especially with the O line,

466
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Speaker 1: the nose tackle things, the one. I don't know if

467
00:22:47,680 --> 00:22:51,600
Speaker 1: there's an answer. That's the problem. That's the that's the group, right,

468
00:22:51,880 --> 00:22:55,080
Speaker 1: Not that the O line situations ideal either, but that

469
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Speaker 1: you've dealt with that all season, right right, right, I

470
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Speaker 1: mean it might be better to do it this way.

471
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Speaker 1: It probably won't be worse. Yeah, right, I mean that's

472
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Speaker 1: the one way I look at it too. Yeah, I

473
00:23:03,200 --> 00:23:06,000
Speaker 1: mean that's what that's what those two at tackle was

474
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Speaker 1: what you went into this season planning to do. Yeah, right,

475
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Speaker 1: you know that makes sense. And the core force probably

476
00:23:12,400 --> 00:23:13,760
Speaker 1: just as good at left those right, I mean, I

477
00:23:13,800 --> 00:23:15,879
Speaker 1: think that might be better. It might be better, you know.

478
00:23:16,080 --> 00:23:17,960
Speaker 1: I mean the off season I thought he's more of

479
00:23:18,000 --> 00:23:19,800
Speaker 1: a left it was a coot more comfortable there. But

480
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Speaker 1: he's definitely played more snaps a right. Okay, No, I

481
00:23:23,280 --> 00:23:26,080
Speaker 1: got no qualms with that. And then let the chips

482
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Speaker 1: fall where they may. I mean, you know, I think

483
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Speaker 1: you know, if you look at can you have a

484
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Speaker 1: left guard coming back, which is not who might be

485
00:23:32,800 --> 00:23:36,200
Speaker 1: your best offensive lineman? They might be right. Yeah, that's

486
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Speaker 1: not the worst thing I've ever heard. He's just got

487
00:23:38,200 --> 00:23:40,040
Speaker 1: to get through this one. You gotta get through this

488
00:23:40,040 --> 00:23:41,639
Speaker 1: one and then get him back and see where you go.

489
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Speaker 1: I mean, I know everybody's after every time they every

490
00:23:45,000 --> 00:23:49,359
Speaker 1: time the Steelers lose up, season's over. Season's over. It's not.

491
00:23:49,840 --> 00:23:52,520
Speaker 1: It's not over. Yeah, you know, the Germans did not

492
00:23:52,560 --> 00:23:56,080
Speaker 1: bomb Pearl Harbor. I mean, look at that. We can

493
00:23:56,119 --> 00:23:58,080
Speaker 1: pick any team in the league, and there was a

494
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Speaker 1: stretch where it looked like their season was or you know,

495
00:24:02,000 --> 00:24:03,639
Speaker 1: the rest of the division right now is all in

496
00:24:03,680 --> 00:24:05,560
Speaker 1: a bad spot. I mean, I still think the Bengals

497
00:24:05,600 --> 00:24:08,680
Speaker 1: are in a nice spot, but I'm not sold for

498
00:24:08,760 --> 00:24:11,880
Speaker 1: this weekend. There's no doubt about it. They've got their

499
00:24:11,920 --> 00:24:14,360
Speaker 1: issues too. That Ravens game against the Rams now looks

500
00:24:14,359 --> 00:24:16,760
Speaker 1: a little more different after the Rams went and handled.

501
00:24:17,720 --> 00:24:21,880
Speaker 1: They get back to back games against the Packers and Rams.

502
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Speaker 1: I don't think they have a chance against the Packers.

503
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Speaker 1: I don't know if they have a chance against the Rams, right,

504
00:24:27,320 --> 00:24:29,800
Speaker 1: I mean, if Lamar comes back, any superman, maybe they

505
00:24:29,840 --> 00:24:32,320
Speaker 1: got who's covering cup on that team. They're just gonna

506
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Speaker 1: live in three wide and Van Jefferson is a good player, right,

507
00:24:39,400 --> 00:24:41,479
Speaker 1: defend this? Yeah, best of luck with that. And then then,

508
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Speaker 1: by the way, deal with Aaron Donald as he charges,

509
00:24:43,680 --> 00:24:49,639
Speaker 1: you know, runs around rough shot over your offensive last time. Um,

510
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Speaker 1: at least the Browns have the Raiders. Maybe they can

511
00:24:53,280 --> 00:24:57,919
Speaker 1: get through a COVID stricken week after. It's awful. I mean,

512
00:24:58,000 --> 00:25:00,520
Speaker 1: people don't know. It's like three fifths of they're great

513
00:25:00,560 --> 00:25:03,080
Speaker 1: offensive line, all four of their tight ends, which they

514
00:25:03,200 --> 00:25:05,720
Speaker 1: want to they live They're all out anyway. They live

515
00:25:05,760 --> 00:25:08,800
Speaker 1: in tight end in two and three tight end packages.

516
00:25:09,160 --> 00:25:12,480
Speaker 1: And this Jervis Landry, Jarvis Landry, their top proceis all

517
00:25:12,640 --> 00:25:15,480
Speaker 1: in the same areas, which unfortunately, and that's just today.

518
00:25:16,040 --> 00:25:19,159
Speaker 1: There could be more coming out tomorrow, like we don't know.

519
00:25:19,320 --> 00:25:21,439
Speaker 1: They're on the Other thing about it is they're on

520
00:25:21,560 --> 00:25:24,960
Speaker 1: lockdown at their facility now, so they're not practicing. They're

521
00:25:25,000 --> 00:25:28,399
Speaker 1: doing everything virtually this week because they're in they're in

522
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Speaker 1: the intensive protocols. Like it's bad they home a road

523
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Speaker 1: this week. They're at home. Okay, at least they're hosting. Yeah,

524
00:25:34,960 --> 00:25:38,040
Speaker 1: and the Raiders are in a bad spot. But they're

525
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Speaker 1: all about the old line in Cleveland. If that's if

526
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Speaker 1: they're the backbone of the team, isn't there that's a

527
00:25:43,160 --> 00:25:46,720
Speaker 1: coin flip game to me? Oh definitely, you know, I'm

528
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Speaker 1: sure that I'm positive even looked that that game has

529
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Speaker 1: been taken off the board. Has to be because there

530
00:25:52,240 --> 00:25:54,199
Speaker 1: could be more common. That's the thing. I mean, this

531
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Speaker 1: is step one of the because once you go into

532
00:25:56,359 --> 00:26:00,280
Speaker 1: those intensive protocols, now everybody's getting tested every day. And

533
00:26:00,480 --> 00:26:04,320
Speaker 1: that's that which brings me to hopefully the Steelers don't

534
00:26:04,320 --> 00:26:06,960
Speaker 1: get because that's sweeping the league right now, and hopefully

535
00:26:07,000 --> 00:26:10,000
Speaker 1: the Steelers don't. And you mentioned this off the year too,

536
00:26:10,119 --> 00:26:12,760
Speaker 1: like I would be stressing it like crazy, like folks

537
00:26:12,960 --> 00:26:15,200
Speaker 1: go here and home. I mean, just look what's going

538
00:26:15,280 --> 00:26:17,160
Speaker 1: on around the league and even at home. You can't

539
00:26:17,160 --> 00:26:20,639
Speaker 1: be keep your kids away and put yourself in a

540
00:26:20,640 --> 00:26:22,840
Speaker 1: bubble for the last four weeks of this. Let's see

541
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Speaker 1: where we go. Yeah, because we got a shot. Yeah,

542
00:26:25,040 --> 00:26:28,880
Speaker 1: and yeah, it could ruin any of these teams right now. Absolutely.

543
00:26:28,920 --> 00:26:30,800
Speaker 1: I mean the Rams one last night, but they lost

544
00:26:30,840 --> 00:26:33,600
Speaker 1: like Ramsey and Higbee and a couple other dudes right

545
00:26:33,640 --> 00:26:36,400
Speaker 1: before the game, before the game. Yeah, brutal. Yeah, it's

546
00:26:36,400 --> 00:26:40,040
Speaker 1: it's actually protocol too. Yeah, it's interesting for sure. Yeah,

547
00:26:40,040 --> 00:26:43,280
Speaker 1: they're on the intensive protocol as well, a little bit

548
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Speaker 1: of a rough spot. Yeah, but we're gonna take a break.

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Speaker 1: He is Matt Williamson. I'm Dale Lolla. You're listening to

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