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Speaker 1: And we are back. I am Dale LOLLI he is

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Speaker 1: the Matt Williamson and we're pleased to be joined by

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Speaker 1: here on the drive and really looking forward to seeing

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Speaker 1: you out there doing your thing again this season next

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Speaker 1: to Patrick Queen. What's that? What's that process been like

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Speaker 3: How you doing? Guys? Man? I appreciate you guys having

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Speaker 3: me on the show. Man. It's been great. Man. Me

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Speaker 3: and pequ have a great relationship, you know, just chilling

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Speaker 3: as a unit and whatnot. Him Peyton Wilson, you know, uh,

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Speaker 3: So I think the whole linebacker group were jeling on

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Speaker 3: it's been great there and it's gonna continue to be. Man,

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Speaker 4: So watching practice in preseason and even his college tape,

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Speaker 4: Do you agree with that? I mean, how's he compared

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Speaker 3: Well, to be honest with you, I haven't been around. Uh.

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Speaker 1: Our guests here in the drive is a Steelers linebacker

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Speaker 1: in Landon Roberts and Landon, Uh we see this defense.

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Speaker 1: We haven't gotten to see it as a whole yet

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Speaker 1: Look, you get there's two edge guys. You got Cam

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Speaker 1: and the land In this offseason, I had the opportunity

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Speaker 3: I mean a lot, you know the tradition of just

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Speaker 4: So there does seem to be more speed in your

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Speaker 3: I don't know. I don't know. I think that's just

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Speaker 3: That's what I'm saying. Man. You know, look, look I

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Speaker 1: Well, we appreciate your time landing, and we'll catch up

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Speaker 1: on the drive. That is a land In Robert Steelers

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Speaker 1: Just a good football player, yeah, no doubt. And that's

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Speaker 1: But his dad told me that his dad, Eli, we

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Speaker 4: The flag might not be his bag. Put pads on

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Speaker 1: Something you're seriously bad would have to happen, right.

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Speaker 4: They look like they're pretty set up now as well

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Speaker 4: So he doesn't slowly at all. And he doesn't waste

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Speaker 4: No, a lot of times if starting field position wasn't

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Speaker 1: I'm Dale Lollie. You're listening to the Drive here on

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Speaker 1: Welcome back. I am Dale Lolli. He is the Matt

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Speaker 1: Williamson and fun. That was great.

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Speaker 4: We don't do that all the time, you know.

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Speaker 1: I enjoy talking to Landon. He's a good dude, just

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Speaker 4: So no doubt And the first interaction I've ever had

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Speaker 1: He's an old school football player. Yeah, yeah, like you

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Speaker 4: Looking here at just looking at this morning, there's seven

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Speaker 1: So let's take a look here at a fantasypros dot

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Speaker 1: com they have them split up into teers. Here they

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Speaker 4: Okay, I have five and then I have two. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll get to so at Ceedee Lamb, Tyreek Hill,

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Speaker 4: you can't go too wrong with either.

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Speaker 1: If we don't have our draft for a couple of weeks. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: if Lamb signs his contract, does that change the dynamic

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Speaker 4: I just immediately put Hill at one, and I haven't

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Speaker 4: really changed my opinion. They don't have Jefferson in Tier one.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, he's there. He was four.

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Speaker 1: It was Lamb, Hill, Chase Jefferson, and mar Ross Saint Brown.

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Speaker 1: That's why I think everybody has those fus.

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Speaker 4: One of the three running backs the top eight. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: He had ten one hundred yard games that led the NFL. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: I know, I know, but of those top five receivers

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Speaker 1: He just it might be like a basketball game, everybody.

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Speaker 4: Yeah right, Jefferson, and he might be good enough to

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Speaker 1: A lot with it. You know at Lamb and Saint

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Speaker 4: I do too.

438
00:20:12,200 --> 00:20:15,040
Speaker 1: So they've got aj Brown. Yes, I agree with that one.

439
00:20:15,080 --> 00:20:17,400
Speaker 1: Me too, Garrett Wilson, me too, I agree too. Then

440
00:20:17,440 --> 00:20:19,320
Speaker 1: it's a different I don't know who number eight is

441
00:20:19,359 --> 00:20:21,840
Speaker 1: for me. Then they got Poka Nakup at eight, Deebo

442
00:20:21,920 --> 00:20:24,880
Speaker 1: Samuel at nine, Mike Evans at ten. I ain't going there.

443
00:20:25,000 --> 00:20:28,720
Speaker 4: They're not close for me. Everybody has Puka in tier two.

444
00:20:29,680 --> 00:20:31,680
Speaker 4: I have him down as like my I keep moving

445
00:20:31,720 --> 00:20:34,760
Speaker 4: him down every day. I think might be the better player.

446
00:20:35,520 --> 00:20:37,720
Speaker 4: And I'm just looking here my cup might have a

447
00:20:37,720 --> 00:20:41,160
Speaker 4: better year. And I don't have Debo close to number eight.

448
00:20:41,760 --> 00:20:43,880
Speaker 4: I don't have Evans at eight.

449
00:20:44,200 --> 00:20:47,480
Speaker 1: I don't get one. And I know you you've dinged

450
00:20:47,520 --> 00:20:50,639
Speaker 1: them a little bit too. I don't understand why people

451
00:20:50,640 --> 00:20:52,720
Speaker 1: were moving DeVante Adams out of that group.

452
00:20:53,359 --> 00:20:55,320
Speaker 4: I did ding them a little bit. I think their

453
00:20:55,400 --> 00:20:57,639
Speaker 4: quarterback situation is so bad. But he's the one that

454
00:20:57,640 --> 00:20:59,400
Speaker 4: I have the hardest time. I keep moving Puka down.

455
00:20:59,400 --> 00:21:02,000
Speaker 4: The situation last year wasn't great. Now I know, I

456
00:21:02,080 --> 00:21:04,919
Speaker 4: keep moving Puka down and I feel very confident about it.

457
00:21:04,920 --> 00:21:06,520
Speaker 4: I keep moving Adams down and going.

458
00:21:07,560 --> 00:21:10,640
Speaker 1: If there were four there were, let's okay, there were

459
00:21:10,640 --> 00:21:13,480
Speaker 1: four games last year where wide receiver got twenty targets

460
00:21:13,520 --> 00:21:16,080
Speaker 1: in a game. Yeah, DeVante Adams had two of them.

461
00:21:16,160 --> 00:21:19,399
Speaker 4: Oh, I get it, and Minshew will feed Pittman and

462
00:21:19,520 --> 00:21:21,040
Speaker 4: you know what I mean ed Pittman to.

463
00:21:21,000 --> 00:21:24,240
Speaker 1: The point where Pittman will be overdrafted this year.

464
00:21:24,440 --> 00:21:26,480
Speaker 4: Oh too. Pittman's pretty low for me, and I like

465
00:21:26,560 --> 00:21:29,359
Speaker 4: the player a lot. Adams is my hardest receiver to

466
00:21:29,440 --> 00:21:31,760
Speaker 4: rank because he's been that eighth guy for me.

467
00:21:31,840 --> 00:21:33,920
Speaker 1: And we had a big conversation about him last year.

468
00:21:33,920 --> 00:21:36,480
Speaker 1: I think he's still excellent. We show a big conversation

469
00:21:36,720 --> 00:21:37,479
Speaker 1: yesterday about him.

470
00:21:37,520 --> 00:21:42,080
Speaker 4: But yeah, yeah, hopefully being a Steeler, you know, right, Yeah,

471
00:21:42,240 --> 00:21:45,280
Speaker 4: I know he's one that I am very on the fence.

472
00:21:45,440 --> 00:21:47,400
Speaker 1: And that's the thing that could change. Like right now

473
00:21:47,480 --> 00:21:51,520
Speaker 1: they have DeVante Adams wide receiver seventeen. Yeah, that's behind

474
00:21:51,560 --> 00:21:55,920
Speaker 1: guys like Nico Collins and Brandon Ayuk and Marvin Harrison

475
00:21:55,960 --> 00:21:59,960
Speaker 1: and Poka Nakua. Like, so, I know what I say,

476
00:22:00,119 --> 00:22:01,800
Speaker 1: he gets traded after week two.

477
00:22:02,040 --> 00:22:04,119
Speaker 4: If he's if he gets trade, he's going to contender, right,

478
00:22:04,280 --> 00:22:06,120
Speaker 4: He's not going to the garbage.

479
00:22:05,800 --> 00:22:08,280
Speaker 1: What they say them to send them to the Jets.

480
00:22:08,280 --> 00:22:09,800
Speaker 1: And all of a sudden he's back with Aaron Rodgers.

481
00:22:10,160 --> 00:22:12,320
Speaker 1: Like you kidding me? I know you think Rogers isn't

482
00:22:12,359 --> 00:22:13,639
Speaker 1: going to feed feed him.

483
00:22:13,840 --> 00:22:16,680
Speaker 4: So I I already know how you're going to react

484
00:22:16,720 --> 00:22:19,520
Speaker 4: to this, and I don't. It's not my final answer,

485
00:22:19,600 --> 00:22:21,119
Speaker 4: but right now I was just looking at it today.

486
00:22:21,680 --> 00:22:24,680
Speaker 4: I have five guys ahead of Adams that we haven't mentioned,

487
00:22:24,800 --> 00:22:30,760
Speaker 4: and my next group is London, A Lave, Harrison, Neighbors,

488
00:22:30,800 --> 00:22:33,520
Speaker 4: and Waddle Like, I'm sure you're not taking Harrison or

489
00:22:33,560 --> 00:22:34,120
Speaker 4: Neighbors over.

490
00:22:34,320 --> 00:22:37,200
Speaker 1: I like neighbors. Okay, I like neighbors a lot. I'm

491
00:22:37,240 --> 00:22:40,080
Speaker 1: not taking them over at Vante Adams. Adams is right

492
00:22:40,119 --> 00:22:43,480
Speaker 1: behind those five. I like, like, I like those two

493
00:22:43,480 --> 00:22:45,320
Speaker 1: guys more, I think than the consensus does.

494
00:22:45,480 --> 00:22:48,719
Speaker 4: London and Neighbors. Yeah, okay, I think A Lave in

495
00:22:48,760 --> 00:22:51,560
Speaker 4: London are pretty similar, just.

496
00:22:51,440 --> 00:22:55,320
Speaker 1: Because I just like the quarterback situation that a lot too.

497
00:22:55,400 --> 00:22:57,040
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's why I have London over a Lave.

498
00:22:57,280 --> 00:22:59,360
Speaker 1: But I think they have a solid running game that's

499
00:22:59,400 --> 00:23:01,119
Speaker 1: going to force a way better offense. Yeah, it's a

500
00:23:01,119 --> 00:23:01,840
Speaker 1: way better offense.

501
00:23:01,920 --> 00:23:04,159
Speaker 4: I'm interested in Falcons and this is a week one thing.

502
00:23:04,160 --> 00:23:05,560
Speaker 4: I think there's gonna be a lot of shootouts.

503
00:23:05,760 --> 00:23:07,760
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't think that's the thing. I don't think

504
00:23:07,760 --> 00:23:11,240
Speaker 1: their defense is right right right? That Tier three for

505
00:23:11,240 --> 00:23:13,640
Speaker 1: for them, And we didn't talk Mike Evans I think

506
00:23:13,760 --> 00:23:16,120
Speaker 1: is a solid double off the wall all day long.

507
00:23:16,280 --> 00:23:19,119
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't have him that high though he had

508
00:23:19,160 --> 00:23:21,119
Speaker 4: an awesome year. It's not because of his age. I

509
00:23:21,200 --> 00:23:25,320
Speaker 4: just like Waddle the rookies Adams better, but he's right

510
00:23:25,359 --> 00:23:26,000
Speaker 4: there with those.

511
00:23:26,160 --> 00:23:29,440
Speaker 1: I agree with them on Brown and Wilson. I agree

512
00:23:29,480 --> 00:23:32,000
Speaker 1: with Evans being in that tier because he just all

513
00:23:32,000 --> 00:23:33,120
Speaker 1: he does is catch touchdown pas.

514
00:23:33,240 --> 00:23:35,199
Speaker 4: Yeah, and they was nice about it. I don't think

515
00:23:35,240 --> 00:23:38,000
Speaker 4: he'll change because Canals left. He caught a lot more

516
00:23:38,080 --> 00:23:41,200
Speaker 4: slants and every down and more layups too.

517
00:23:41,280 --> 00:23:43,480
Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield knows where his bread is buttered at, and

518
00:23:43,480 --> 00:23:46,240
Speaker 1: it's Mike Adams. I don't have Mike Adams.

519
00:23:46,280 --> 00:23:48,320
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I don't quite have him in tier two,

520
00:23:48,400 --> 00:23:50,000
Speaker 4: and I don't have Debo in No.

521
00:23:50,119 --> 00:23:52,479
Speaker 1: Deebo to me doesn't belong anywhere near that.

522
00:23:52,560 --> 00:23:54,000
Speaker 4: I think he's like my eighteenth.

523
00:23:53,680 --> 00:23:55,600
Speaker 1: Especially since they have Ayuk at twelve.

524
00:23:56,520 --> 00:23:58,200
Speaker 4: I have them real close to each other. But I'm

525
00:23:58,240 --> 00:23:59,880
Speaker 4: not that high over Debo right.

526
00:24:00,160 --> 00:24:02,359
Speaker 1: Defense can't hit that offense once they want to run

527
00:24:02,400 --> 00:24:02,800
Speaker 1: the football.

528
00:24:02,840 --> 00:24:04,720
Speaker 4: They won't to run the football, and they I think

529
00:24:04,720 --> 00:24:06,800
Speaker 4: they had despite being one of the best teams in

530
00:24:06,840 --> 00:24:09,919
Speaker 4: the league. They were either first or thirty first or

531
00:24:09,920 --> 00:24:12,080
Speaker 4: thirty second and pass attempts last year. Yeah, I mean

532
00:24:12,119 --> 00:24:13,840
Speaker 4: they just don't run the ball that much. They get

533
00:24:13,880 --> 00:24:16,200
Speaker 4: big leads the fourth quarter and they don't throw. Yeah,

534
00:24:16,240 --> 00:24:18,120
Speaker 4: and they pillage from each other as we talked about.

535
00:24:17,960 --> 00:24:19,600
Speaker 1: It all to me, I don't know that they still

536
00:24:19,640 --> 00:24:21,280
Speaker 1: want to do a lot of the running back stuff

537
00:24:21,280 --> 00:24:21,680
Speaker 1: with Deebo.

538
00:24:21,840 --> 00:24:23,520
Speaker 4: I don't think so, Yeah, I really don't.

539
00:24:23,680 --> 00:24:25,360
Speaker 1: So that's out the window. So if he's catching three

540
00:24:25,440 --> 00:24:28,679
Speaker 1: or four passes a game, right and he's not running

541
00:24:28,680 --> 00:24:29,320
Speaker 1: the ball.

542
00:24:29,320 --> 00:24:32,040
Speaker 4: And you know me, I'm not usually super afraid of

543
00:24:32,560 --> 00:24:35,439
Speaker 4: injury prone dudes, but he scares me, yeah, a little bit.

544
00:24:35,800 --> 00:24:38,200
Speaker 4: He's so physical and you know, he takes a lot

545
00:24:38,240 --> 00:24:40,639
Speaker 4: of hits. They're not close to Tier two for me.

546
00:24:40,680 --> 00:24:44,800
Speaker 1: They're tier three guys are Harrison Okay? Are you London?

547
00:24:46,119 --> 00:24:48,200
Speaker 1: So they're pretty high on London. I'm high on London.

548
00:24:48,320 --> 00:24:48,480
Speaker 3: Yeah.

549
00:24:48,520 --> 00:24:50,800
Speaker 4: I think that's lower than consensus on London.

550
00:24:51,160 --> 00:24:58,280
Speaker 1: H Nico Collins, Chris Olave, DK Metcalf, DeVante Adams, Jaylen Waddle,

551
00:24:58,960 --> 00:25:02,199
Speaker 1: DJ Moore who like, I think he's the clear number one.

552
00:25:02,359 --> 00:25:05,199
Speaker 1: I do too, and Cooper Cup at twenty Okay, not

553
00:25:05,280 --> 00:25:08,119
Speaker 1: a lot of argument there. I'm higher on Waddle. I'm

554
00:25:08,119 --> 00:25:11,040
Speaker 1: a little higher on Harrison Adams. We've talked to death.

555
00:25:11,160 --> 00:25:13,240
Speaker 1: I'm just on the fence with the guy. I can't

556
00:25:14,160 --> 00:25:16,480
Speaker 1: just slot them where I want yet. One thing I

557
00:25:16,520 --> 00:25:19,320
Speaker 1: heard about Waddle which really adds up. If you look

558
00:25:19,320 --> 00:25:22,600
Speaker 1: at his Fantasy points per game last year, they're good,

559
00:25:22,640 --> 00:25:25,600
Speaker 1: not great, you know, but if you watch the games,

560
00:25:26,080 --> 00:25:27,919
Speaker 1: he was in and out of the lineup a lot.

561
00:25:28,440 --> 00:25:31,800
Speaker 1: But his Fantasy points person per route run.

562
00:25:32,160 --> 00:25:34,440
Speaker 4: Is like through the roof because when he was out there,

563
00:25:34,480 --> 00:25:37,280
Speaker 4: he was awesome, but things were bothering him. So he's

564
00:25:37,320 --> 00:25:41,280
Speaker 4: on the sideline a lot during those Yeah, exactly.

565
00:25:41,040 --> 00:25:42,040
Speaker 1: Need a lot of help.

566
00:25:42,119 --> 00:25:44,040
Speaker 4: And it's true for a couple guys, but what if

567
00:25:44,040 --> 00:25:46,760
Speaker 4: Tyreek gets hurt? Yeah, I mean, wow, you know you

568
00:25:46,840 --> 00:25:47,480
Speaker 4: might win the league?

569
00:25:48,359 --> 00:25:51,840
Speaker 1: Tier four guys. This is twenty one through twenty nine

570
00:25:52,440 --> 00:25:56,920
Speaker 1: according to fantasypros dot Com. Amari Cooper solid and I.

571
00:25:56,880 --> 00:25:57,520
Speaker 4: Never owned him.

572
00:25:57,600 --> 00:26:01,440
Speaker 1: Yeah, DeVonta Smith, Yeah, my leak. Neighbors.

573
00:26:01,800 --> 00:26:03,040
Speaker 4: I'm higher on neighbors than that.

574
00:26:03,240 --> 00:26:06,840
Speaker 1: T Higgins at twenty four, George Pickens at twenty five,

575
00:26:08,160 --> 00:26:12,320
Speaker 1: twenty six, Tank Dell twenty seven, Michael Pittman, there's our

576
00:26:12,720 --> 00:26:14,200
Speaker 1: I think they're a little lower on him than a

577
00:26:14,240 --> 00:26:16,960
Speaker 1: lot of people. Yeah, yeah, that's dropping him five spots

578
00:26:16,960 --> 00:26:19,440
Speaker 1: from where they had him before. Okay, down seven spots

579
00:26:19,480 --> 00:26:22,080
Speaker 1: from where they had him before. Stefan Diggs, and then

580
00:26:22,200 --> 00:26:27,080
Speaker 1: Zay Flowers finishes off. Okay here for I'm glad they

581
00:26:27,080 --> 00:26:29,879
Speaker 1: have Pickens ahead of Zay Flowers because I've seen a

582
00:26:29,880 --> 00:26:33,200
Speaker 1: lot of places that have Jay Flowers ahead of Pickens.

583
00:26:33,440 --> 00:26:36,080
Speaker 4: Yeah, by a lot, even in similar stages of their career.

584
00:26:36,400 --> 00:26:37,520
Speaker 1: I don't see that at all.

585
00:26:37,800 --> 00:26:39,760
Speaker 4: I don't either. Again, I was looking at this morning.

586
00:26:39,760 --> 00:26:41,119
Speaker 4: I didn't know we were going to talk receivers, but

587
00:26:41,160 --> 00:26:43,800
Speaker 4: Pickens is my eighteenth. Yeah, it's pretty high. I think

588
00:26:43,840 --> 00:26:44,600
Speaker 4: he's just pretty high.

589
00:26:44,600 --> 00:26:46,720
Speaker 1: I mean, we just did a thing earlier this week

590
00:26:46,800 --> 00:26:50,080
Speaker 1: where we talked about was yesterday, I believe, when we

591
00:26:50,160 --> 00:26:53,400
Speaker 1: talked about potential first time Pro bowlers. Yeah yeah, yeah,

592
00:26:53,440 --> 00:26:55,240
Speaker 1: at the article on NFL dot com, and I said

593
00:26:55,280 --> 00:26:57,639
Speaker 1: Pickens is could lead the league in targets this year.

594
00:26:57,640 --> 00:26:59,560
Speaker 4: And I don't think that's a stretch. I don't either,

595
00:26:59,680 --> 00:27:01,920
Speaker 4: And frankly, I think Neighbors is right there too. Yeah,

596
00:27:02,000 --> 00:27:04,760
Speaker 4: immense talent. Nobody else and say what you want about

597
00:27:04,800 --> 00:27:06,800
Speaker 4: Daniel Jones. I don't even really care, but they're gonna

598
00:27:06,800 --> 00:27:09,680
Speaker 4: scheme neighbors up like crazy, like I have neighbors.

599
00:27:09,200 --> 00:27:11,760
Speaker 1: Like my tenth receiver, right. I mean, he's going to

600
00:27:11,840 --> 00:27:13,560
Speaker 1: get the ball a lot, and he's a crazy talent.

601
00:27:14,440 --> 00:27:16,240
Speaker 4: There's a name or two on there. I wasn't super

602
00:27:16,280 --> 00:27:19,360
Speaker 4: thrilled with. I keep moving Pittman down. I mean they

603
00:27:19,400 --> 00:27:22,360
Speaker 4: they were RPO centric to no end. I don't think

604
00:27:22,359 --> 00:27:23,920
Speaker 4: that's going to be Richardson. And there's a lot of

605
00:27:23,960 --> 00:27:26,040
Speaker 4: mouse to feed there too. I don't think they'll throw

606
00:27:26,040 --> 00:27:28,240
Speaker 4: a ton. It's not his fault, but I think you

607
00:27:28,280 --> 00:27:29,719
Speaker 4: got your best year out of Pittman last year.

608
00:27:29,840 --> 00:27:34,159
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I agree. Uh, Tier five guys, there's a

609
00:27:34,200 --> 00:27:35,840
Speaker 1: bunch of guys here from this guy takes you thirty

610
00:27:35,840 --> 00:27:40,760
Speaker 1: through forty three. Stefan Earl, I'm sorry, Terry McLaurin, Rashi

611
00:27:40,960 --> 00:27:43,600
Speaker 1: Rice moving back up boards because the day, yeah he's

612
00:27:43,600 --> 00:27:46,000
Speaker 1: going to be suspended, looks good for him. Kristin Kirk,

613
00:27:46,800 --> 00:27:53,119
Speaker 1: Calvin Ridley, Deontay Johnson, Chris Godwin, Jaden Reid, Keenan Allen,

614
00:27:53,680 --> 00:27:59,960
Speaker 1: Christian Watson, Xavier Worthy, DeAndre Hopkins, Hollywood Brown, Roma Doun's

615
00:28:00,440 --> 00:28:01,399
Speaker 1: and Courtland Sutton.

616
00:28:02,480 --> 00:28:04,199
Speaker 4: So a couple things stand out to me. Is I

617
00:28:04,280 --> 00:28:06,760
Speaker 4: like the first two names you mentioned clearly more than

618
00:28:06,800 --> 00:28:07,680
Speaker 4: everybody else.

619
00:28:07,480 --> 00:28:08,080
Speaker 1: On that list.

620
00:28:09,440 --> 00:28:11,879
Speaker 4: I like Kirk a lot, like you like Kirk more

621
00:28:11,920 --> 00:28:13,680
Speaker 4: than me, but I totally get why you do. I mean,

622
00:28:13,680 --> 00:28:15,960
Speaker 4: he's a double two, you like, he's as solid.

623
00:28:15,680 --> 00:28:16,320
Speaker 1: As a comedy.

624
00:28:16,320 --> 00:28:19,359
Speaker 4: He's a good player too, you know. And I'm a

625
00:28:19,400 --> 00:28:24,800
Speaker 4: Lawrence believer. What's odd to me there is for fantasy.

626
00:28:26,040 --> 00:28:29,080
Speaker 4: I'm just staying away from the Packers. I mean, too

627
00:28:29,080 --> 00:28:32,000
Speaker 4: many miles of he They like Romeo Dubbs way more

628
00:28:32,040 --> 00:28:34,760
Speaker 4: than I do, and that screws everything up. And Wix

629
00:28:34,840 --> 00:28:37,480
Speaker 4: is in the picture.

630
00:28:37,320 --> 00:28:39,680
Speaker 1: Which is the one guy of that group.

631
00:28:39,440 --> 00:28:41,320
Speaker 4: Who He's the one I'm drafting at eighty where he's

632
00:28:41,360 --> 00:28:42,880
Speaker 4: going yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, me too.

633
00:28:43,000 --> 00:28:45,160
Speaker 1: I'll take that and take it. He's a lottery ticket.

634
00:28:45,920 --> 00:28:50,040
Speaker 4: And the Chiefs are interesting to me, like more and more.

635
00:28:50,080 --> 00:28:53,000
Speaker 4: I think Mahomes is going to be for fifty touchdowns

636
00:28:53,000 --> 00:28:54,640
Speaker 4: this year, yeah, but I think they're going to be

637
00:28:54,760 --> 00:28:57,840
Speaker 4: unbelievable on offense. But three receivers in the same tier

638
00:28:57,840 --> 00:28:59,120
Speaker 4: when you Travis Kelsey.

639
00:28:58,880 --> 00:29:01,520
Speaker 1: It's tough like I can't. I kept to hurry WITHO there. Yeah,

640
00:29:01,520 --> 00:29:03,840
Speaker 1: and I'm think is going to get the ball a lot.

641
00:29:03,800 --> 00:29:05,800
Speaker 4: Right, I mean you better be the best offense in

642
00:29:05,840 --> 00:29:07,560
Speaker 4: the league that yeah, I mean not even close to

643
00:29:07,600 --> 00:29:09,640
Speaker 4: support that, it's almost impossible.

644
00:29:09,800 --> 00:29:13,480
Speaker 1: Well, and the problem with guys like Worthy in Hollywood Brown,

645
00:29:14,280 --> 00:29:16,760
Speaker 1: they're little guys and they tend to get nicked up.

646
00:29:16,880 --> 00:29:20,200
Speaker 4: Yeah, absolutely Worthy, He's got a lot of buzz right now.

647
00:29:21,280 --> 00:29:24,040
Speaker 4: I don't know that I'm in that tier with him.

648
00:29:24,080 --> 00:29:26,120
Speaker 1: Yeah, number thirty nine overall, right.

649
00:29:26,120 --> 00:29:27,440
Speaker 4: I think that's a third rookie.

650
00:29:27,640 --> 00:29:29,720
Speaker 1: I mean like I had a Hollywood Brown too, Like

651
00:29:29,800 --> 00:29:31,800
Speaker 1: that's I don't know how much time Brown's going to miss.

652
00:29:31,880 --> 00:29:34,120
Speaker 4: And Racy Rice is the one that got so many

653
00:29:34,200 --> 00:29:35,880
Speaker 4: targets he does like the Kelsey stuff.

654
00:29:35,960 --> 00:29:40,200
Speaker 1: Yeah right, Uh, Tier six guys, and this takes you

655
00:29:40,280 --> 00:29:43,520
Speaker 1: forty four through sixty three. So it's a huge tier, okay.

656
00:29:44,240 --> 00:29:49,960
Speaker 1: Jordan Addison, Jamison Williams, Jackson Smith and Jigba, Lad McConkie,

657
00:29:50,400 --> 00:29:54,280
Speaker 1: Brian Thomas. It's like the rookie Yeah here, Keyan Coleman,

658
00:29:54,960 --> 00:30:02,240
Speaker 1: Rashid Shaheed, Jacobe Myers, Tyler Lockett, Romeo Dobbs, Josh Palmer, Curtis,

659
00:30:02,240 --> 00:30:07,080
Speaker 1: Samuel Brandon, Cooks, Mike Williams, Khalil Shakir, Gabe Davis, Jerry Judy,

660
00:30:07,200 --> 00:30:12,560
Speaker 1: Dontavian Wicks, sixty one, Josh Downs, Johan Dotson, Like this is.

661
00:30:12,560 --> 00:30:14,320
Speaker 4: The first tier I've got to that, we've got to

662
00:30:14,400 --> 00:30:17,040
Speaker 4: that I've said, I'm psyched about starting those.

663
00:30:17,080 --> 00:30:18,480
Speaker 1: I would not want to have to start any of

664
00:30:18,480 --> 00:30:19,880
Speaker 1: those guys except in a bye week.

665
00:30:20,160 --> 00:30:22,320
Speaker 4: And Smith the jig, but I don't think belongs with them.

666
00:30:22,320 --> 00:30:22,920
Speaker 1: I don't think he does.

667
00:30:22,960 --> 00:30:24,280
Speaker 4: You would have him way over the rest of the

668
00:30:24,280 --> 00:30:26,120
Speaker 4: words you mentioned. Everyone else is kind of the same.

669
00:30:26,160 --> 00:30:27,720
Speaker 4: They're ride receiver fours five.

670
00:30:27,720 --> 00:30:28,640
Speaker 1: There's some hope there.

671
00:30:29,040 --> 00:30:31,760
Speaker 4: Maybe Mike Williams catches two touchdowns one day or whatever.

672
00:30:31,840 --> 00:30:32,040
Speaker 4: You know.

673
00:30:32,320 --> 00:30:35,200
Speaker 1: So I after the draft I was really high on

674
00:30:35,280 --> 00:30:36,920
Speaker 1: lab McConkie because of the situation.

675
00:30:37,040 --> 00:30:37,920
Speaker 4: The news has been bad.

676
00:30:37,960 --> 00:30:39,240
Speaker 1: Though news's been bad.

677
00:30:39,320 --> 00:30:39,520
Speaker 3: Guy.

678
00:30:39,600 --> 00:30:42,400
Speaker 1: Yeah, because of that, I might bump Josh Palmer. I

679
00:30:42,440 --> 00:30:42,920
Speaker 1: have been too.

680
00:30:43,000 --> 00:30:46,479
Speaker 4: I think that's starting to show itself. He's probably their

681
00:30:46,560 --> 00:30:47,200
Speaker 4: number one.

682
00:30:47,120 --> 00:30:49,920
Speaker 1: And when in previous seasons when the other receivers were

683
00:30:49,960 --> 00:30:52,040
Speaker 1: hurt and he had to be the number one, he

684
00:30:52,040 --> 00:30:52,880
Speaker 1: had some good games.

685
00:30:52,720 --> 00:30:54,240
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, lot a good game, yeah, ye yeah. I

686
00:30:54,280 --> 00:30:55,520
Speaker 4: mean I'd love him to be my four.

687
00:30:55,600 --> 00:30:57,200
Speaker 1: I mean you're looking at like, you know, six for

688
00:30:57,240 --> 00:31:00,640
Speaker 1: eighty three, okay, yeah right, all right, that it be conky,

689
00:31:00,720 --> 00:31:05,320
Speaker 1: Yeah right, Tier seven guys huge once again, takes you

690
00:31:05,360 --> 00:31:09,000
Speaker 1: sixty five or sixty four through eighty three. You're looking

691
00:31:09,000 --> 00:31:12,600
Speaker 1: at a Donnie Mitchell, Darnell Mooney, Michael Wilson, to Mario Douglas,

692
00:31:12,640 --> 00:31:18,480
Speaker 1: Adam Thielen, Jalen Polk, Rashad Bateman, Xavier Lagett, DeMarcus Robinson,

693
00:31:18,560 --> 00:31:23,560
Speaker 1: Marvin Mims, one, Del Robinson, Jermaine Burton, Ricky Piarsow, Quinton Johnston,

694
00:31:23,640 --> 00:31:28,120
Speaker 1: Jawan Baker, Jalen Hyatt, Roman Wilson. It's your second Steeler

695
00:31:28,160 --> 00:31:33,720
Speaker 1: receiver at eighty Darius Slayton, Tyler Boyd, Elijah Moore. I

696
00:31:33,720 --> 00:31:35,320
Speaker 1: don't want to be fishing in that poot.

697
00:31:35,160 --> 00:31:36,400
Speaker 4: As I have to say too, like I want to

698
00:31:36,480 --> 00:31:39,080
Speaker 4: be taking long shots on running backs when those guys

699
00:31:39,080 --> 00:31:41,200
Speaker 4: are getting drafted. You know, give me a backup running back.

700
00:31:41,200 --> 00:31:42,160
Speaker 4: That's an injury.

701
00:31:41,840 --> 00:31:44,239
Speaker 1: Awave, unless I loaded up in the middle rounds. All right,

702
00:31:44,480 --> 00:31:47,800
Speaker 1: A bunch of running backs. Those guys are lottery tickets

703
00:31:47,800 --> 00:31:49,040
Speaker 1: and most of them aren't going.

704
00:31:48,920 --> 00:31:51,560
Speaker 4: To hit, and maybe I'm drafting Matthew Stafford in that area,

705
00:31:51,800 --> 00:31:55,360
Speaker 4: you know, quarterback eighteen or tight end eighteen or something

706
00:31:55,400 --> 00:31:59,560
Speaker 4: like that. Again, I think that's why it's easy to say,

707
00:31:59,600 --> 00:32:00,960
Speaker 4: you never know how the draft is going to go.

708
00:32:01,080 --> 00:32:03,920
Speaker 4: But if I can get in a back early and

709
00:32:03,960 --> 00:32:06,960
Speaker 4: then get like three of my next four picks or receivers,

710
00:32:07,040 --> 00:32:08,880
Speaker 4: then I'm not fishing in those waters, you know.

711
00:32:09,240 --> 00:32:11,920
Speaker 1: Yeah, you have to go all the way down on

712
00:32:12,000 --> 00:32:16,479
Speaker 1: these rankings. Two number what are we looking at here?

713
00:32:16,560 --> 00:32:18,960
Speaker 1: Number one? Thirteen? You get the Van Jefferson.

714
00:32:19,320 --> 00:32:21,840
Speaker 4: Okay, I mean I'd rather Van Jefferson Roum Wilson.

715
00:32:21,880 --> 00:32:24,880
Speaker 1: I think it's I think that's under selling. I think

716
00:32:24,920 --> 00:32:27,760
Speaker 1: he should probably be a couple of tiers higher in

717
00:32:27,840 --> 00:32:30,440
Speaker 1: the number two. He's the number two receiver. He got

718
00:32:30,440 --> 00:32:35,400
Speaker 1: guys like like Adam Thielen and you know, Xavier Lagett

719
00:32:35,480 --> 00:32:36,880
Speaker 1: and Demark Patriot guys.

720
00:32:36,960 --> 00:32:40,160
Speaker 4: Yeah, like, yeah, you don't even know their roles quite yet.

721
00:32:40,440 --> 00:32:42,280
Speaker 1: You know, right now we know what his role is.

722
00:32:42,320 --> 00:32:43,640
Speaker 1: That doesn't mean that's going to be what it is

723
00:32:43,640 --> 00:32:46,280
Speaker 1: when you know, but he's the number two guy. He's

724
00:32:46,280 --> 00:32:48,160
Speaker 1: gonna be on the field pretty consistently.

725
00:32:48,560 --> 00:32:51,920
Speaker 4: It certainly isn't waddle if Tyreek gets hurt. But if

726
00:32:52,040 --> 00:32:55,320
Speaker 4: if by chance Pickens miss time, he's gonna get eight targets. Yeah,

727
00:32:55,360 --> 00:32:56,880
Speaker 4: you know what I mean. I mean, so I don't

728
00:32:56,880 --> 00:32:59,640
Speaker 4: know that any Steeler receiver not named Pickings is fantasy worthy.

729
00:32:59,680 --> 00:33:01,920
Speaker 4: I mean in a normal league, right he would. He

730
00:33:01,960 --> 00:33:02,920
Speaker 4: should be the second one.

731
00:33:03,080 --> 00:33:06,520
Speaker 1: Yeah, and then Calvin Austin is at one nineteen list.

732
00:33:06,640 --> 00:33:08,880
Speaker 1: So okay, that's what you're looking at there with the

733
00:33:08,960 --> 00:33:13,200
Speaker 1: Steeler receivers right now. We'll see if they do something

734
00:33:13,200 --> 00:33:17,480
Speaker 1: at that position. But certainly, uh to me, you know,

735
00:33:17,960 --> 00:33:21,040
Speaker 1: if you if you come out of this draft and

736
00:33:21,080 --> 00:33:23,280
Speaker 1: you don't have one of those top or two of

737
00:33:23,320 --> 00:33:27,600
Speaker 1: those top thirty guys thirty ish, I would say you're scratching.

738
00:33:27,680 --> 00:33:29,320
Speaker 4: You better have two, yeah, and if you have three,

739
00:33:29,360 --> 00:33:30,320
Speaker 4: you're pretty comfortable.

740
00:33:30,400 --> 00:33:30,920
Speaker 1: Yeah.

741
00:33:31,280 --> 00:33:35,000
Speaker 4: The nice thing about receivers is usually those top thirty

742
00:33:35,120 --> 00:33:37,240
Speaker 4: have a pretty high floor week the week, you know,

743
00:33:37,280 --> 00:33:40,200
Speaker 4: I mean, anyone can go one for nineteen or whatever

744
00:33:40,400 --> 00:33:42,880
Speaker 4: or you know, but you're probably gonna get that those

745
00:33:42,880 --> 00:33:46,040
Speaker 4: guys are all number ones. Number two's that you should

746
00:33:46,080 --> 00:33:48,440
Speaker 4: put consistent points up if you're starting three of those

747
00:33:48,440 --> 00:33:51,240
Speaker 4: Top thirty every week. Yeah, kind of shooting to do that.

748
00:33:51,280 --> 00:33:52,920
Speaker 4: But I haven't done any box yet. I mean we

749
00:33:52,960 --> 00:33:55,000
Speaker 4: did one like a couple weeks ago, but I haven't

750
00:33:55,040 --> 00:33:58,080
Speaker 4: done any mocks to see how I can make that happen.

751
00:33:58,160 --> 00:34:00,360
Speaker 1: What we're doing on Friday, Yeah we should, we should

752
00:34:00,640 --> 00:34:05,120
Speaker 1: and uh yeah, see what tough it is. You know again,

753
00:34:05,200 --> 00:34:08,239
Speaker 1: you're you're you know, if you don't get three of

754
00:34:08,239 --> 00:34:10,480
Speaker 1: those Top thirty or whatever, you're you're gonna be kind

755
00:34:10,480 --> 00:34:12,279
Speaker 1: of scratching to So.

756
00:34:12,400 --> 00:34:14,120
Speaker 4: I should have asked you this off the get go,

757
00:34:14,239 --> 00:34:17,600
Speaker 4: who's your number eight? If we agree that there's five studs,

758
00:34:18,920 --> 00:34:20,680
Speaker 4: Wilson and A. J. Brown, to me are in a

759
00:34:20,719 --> 00:34:26,160
Speaker 4: tier by themselves, it could be Adams. I've had them there.

760
00:34:26,719 --> 00:34:27,719
Speaker 1: To me, it's Adams.

761
00:34:27,960 --> 00:34:31,880
Speaker 4: Okay, I've bumped Adams behind Mine's London at the moment,

762
00:34:31,920 --> 00:34:37,719
Speaker 4: but that doesn't feel right. It's London, A Lave, Harrison, Neighbors, Wattle, Adams.

763
00:34:38,400 --> 00:34:40,040
Speaker 4: But those five are all kind of same to me,

764
00:34:40,080 --> 00:34:41,719
Speaker 4: I might put Adams right back on top.

765
00:34:41,960 --> 00:34:44,759
Speaker 1: To me, Adams is a safe double, like if you

766
00:34:44,800 --> 00:34:48,600
Speaker 1: take Harrison or you take uh, you know, Neighbors there

767
00:34:48,800 --> 00:34:49,719
Speaker 1: you're hoping.

768
00:34:49,520 --> 00:34:52,239
Speaker 4: Oh you're hoping right. I mean that's early for a rookie.

769
00:34:52,040 --> 00:34:55,520
Speaker 1: For a rookie receiver, like it's isn't a rookie running back? No, right, right, Well,

770
00:34:55,520 --> 00:34:57,520
Speaker 1: you're gonna have to take them to get them as

771
00:34:57,520 --> 00:35:00,360
Speaker 1: the eighth bests that you're talking about, maybe first round,

772
00:35:00,920 --> 00:35:06,320
Speaker 1: early second round for rookie receiver. That history shows us overall,

773
00:35:06,400 --> 00:35:07,320
Speaker 1: that's that's a stretch.

774
00:35:07,400 --> 00:35:08,879
Speaker 4: I mean, it's not You're not gonna have the pook

775
00:35:08,920 --> 00:35:12,240
Speaker 4: a year probably either, you know. I mean it's again

776
00:35:12,320 --> 00:35:14,080
Speaker 4: I mentioned we're in the league together. I picked two.

777
00:35:15,320 --> 00:35:18,440
Speaker 4: I don't love that two three turn. At that point,

778
00:35:18,480 --> 00:35:22,160
Speaker 4: like the twenty third and twenty sixth pick, I'm gonna

779
00:35:22,160 --> 00:35:25,359
Speaker 4: be making those decisions. Those tops seven receivers are gone. Yeah,

780
00:35:25,360 --> 00:35:28,520
Speaker 4: there's no question about that. Do you take them? Waddle there,

781
00:35:28,560 --> 00:35:32,160
Speaker 4: you're taking Harrison there. I probably would just take Adams

782
00:35:32,160 --> 00:35:32,319
Speaker 4: of that.

783
00:35:32,400 --> 00:35:34,480
Speaker 1: And if you don't take one of those top receivers,

784
00:35:34,520 --> 00:35:38,359
Speaker 1: you're not getting one long wait right right right, And

785
00:35:38,600 --> 00:35:40,920
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna take I mean, I don't care if

786
00:35:40,960 --> 00:35:41,759
Speaker 1: you are listening or not.

787
00:35:41,840 --> 00:35:44,600
Speaker 4: I'm not taking a tight end or quarterback at twenty

788
00:35:44,680 --> 00:35:48,359
Speaker 4: three or twenty six yet. Yeah, those positions are too deep.

789
00:35:48,400 --> 00:35:50,239
Speaker 4: So those are going to be running backs or receivers

790
00:35:50,600 --> 00:35:52,799
Speaker 4: my top three picks. But I don't think I love

791
00:35:52,840 --> 00:35:54,440
Speaker 4: where I'm at. I'd rather pick pick them or you

792
00:35:54,480 --> 00:35:58,480
Speaker 4: are I'm at seven. Yeah, I like this year because, yeah,

793
00:35:58,600 --> 00:36:00,880
Speaker 4: I don't think your first round picks much different than mine.

794
00:36:01,880 --> 00:36:04,080
Speaker 1: No, not in the general. I'm gonna get one of

795
00:36:04,080 --> 00:36:06,160
Speaker 1: those top eight guys. Yeah, it's one of the three

796
00:36:06,239 --> 00:36:08,640
Speaker 1: running backs for one of those five wide receivers, and

797
00:36:08,680 --> 00:36:11,080
Speaker 1: I'm still going to have an opportunity in round two.

798
00:36:11,760 --> 00:36:15,280
Speaker 1: You probably won't get Wilson or Brown. No, but again,

799
00:36:15,360 --> 00:36:17,640
Speaker 1: if if you know a guy like.

800
00:36:18,239 --> 00:36:20,360
Speaker 4: You might get the back that falls that shouldn't.

801
00:36:20,640 --> 00:36:23,359
Speaker 1: Yeah, if Adams or London are there, all right, I'm

802
00:36:23,360 --> 00:36:23,840
Speaker 1: happy with that.

803
00:36:23,960 --> 00:36:25,440
Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah, Like I'm not sure I'll even have a

804
00:36:25,440 --> 00:36:27,160
Speaker 4: crack at London or Adams.

805
00:36:26,840 --> 00:36:28,640
Speaker 1: At that point where a Lave or you know, any

806
00:36:28,640 --> 00:36:29,799
Speaker 1: of those guys, I'm happy with that.

807
00:36:30,000 --> 00:36:32,640
Speaker 4: Yeah. You know, like I picked two, you pick seven.

808
00:36:32,760 --> 00:36:34,600
Speaker 4: I don't think our first picks are that much different.

809
00:36:34,880 --> 00:36:37,640
Speaker 4: But whoever picks nine there picks a lot different than

810
00:36:37,680 --> 00:36:39,240
Speaker 4: your seventh one. Yeah, I mean.

811
00:36:39,160 --> 00:36:41,040
Speaker 1: It's hugely different from yours.

812
00:36:41,520 --> 00:36:44,040
Speaker 4: Yeah, but not as much as you say, right right,

813
00:36:44,080 --> 00:36:46,880
Speaker 4: I mean Saint Brown versus Chase versus Tyreek.

814
00:36:47,239 --> 00:36:49,719
Speaker 1: I mean they're pretty darn good. Yeah, you know, it's

815
00:36:49,719 --> 00:36:51,360
Speaker 1: a good place. I like the middle. That's the sweet

816
00:36:51,400 --> 00:36:53,840
Speaker 1: spot to be in the draft. That's going to do

817
00:36:53,880 --> 00:36:55,600
Speaker 1: it for the Fantasy Football Focus. Matt and are going

818
00:36:55,640 --> 00:36:57,239
Speaker 1: to take a break. We'll be back with more here

819
00:36:57,400 --> 00:37:01,680
Speaker 1: on the Steelers Audio Network. This is the We'll be

820
00:37:01,719 --> 00:37:06,640
Speaker 1: back with more right after this.

821
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Speaker 2: This is the Drive with Dale Lolly and Matt Williamsons

822
00:37:11,080 --> 00:37:13,320
Speaker 2: on your twenty four to seven home of the Black

823
00:37:13,360 --> 00:37:16,160
Speaker 2: and Gold Steelers Nation Radio.

824
00:37:21,080 --> 00:37:23,799
Speaker 1: And we are back. I am Dale LOLLI he is

825
00:37:23,960 --> 00:37:26,200
Speaker 1: the Matt Williamson and this is the Drive on the

826
00:37:26,200 --> 00:37:31,680
Speaker 1: Steelers Audio Network. And Matt dan Graziano on ESPN has

827
00:37:31,840 --> 00:37:36,320
Speaker 1: ranked the divisions uses FPI.

828
00:37:36,239 --> 00:37:40,040
Speaker 4: Which is the that's their version of their power INDI yeah, yeah.

829
00:37:39,920 --> 00:37:42,400
Speaker 1: Football Power Index to do so, so he kind of

830
00:37:42,400 --> 00:37:46,120
Speaker 1: has something to back this up. Not surprisingly, he has

831
00:37:46,160 --> 00:37:48,520
Speaker 1: the NFC South last.

832
00:37:49,640 --> 00:37:52,440
Speaker 4: They're distant last, right yeah. I mean, maybe the Bucks

833
00:37:52,440 --> 00:37:56,480
Speaker 4: in Atlanta are better than we think. Maybe the Saints

834
00:37:56,480 --> 00:38:00,480
Speaker 4: win eight games like they usually do. But I don't

835
00:38:00,520 --> 00:38:02,080
Speaker 4: see I don't see a contender there.

836
00:38:02,160 --> 00:38:02,399
Speaker 1: Yeah.

837
00:38:02,480 --> 00:38:06,320
Speaker 4: I mean, even if things go perfect for Tampa and Atlanta,

838
00:38:06,360 --> 00:38:08,920
Speaker 4: they stay healthy, their quarterbacks best season in their career,

839
00:38:09,560 --> 00:38:11,680
Speaker 4: can they win the Super Bowl? No, I don't think.

840
00:38:11,920 --> 00:38:12,600
Speaker 4: I don't think.

841
00:38:12,400 --> 00:38:14,759
Speaker 1: Winner that division wins how many games this year?

842
00:38:15,719 --> 00:38:15,919
Speaker 3: Ten?

843
00:38:16,840 --> 00:38:18,759
Speaker 1: I don't even think I'd go that high.

844
00:38:18,840 --> 00:38:20,719
Speaker 4: Just because they play each other and Carolina's on the

845
00:38:20,719 --> 00:38:22,680
Speaker 4: schedule and their schedule is so easy.

846
00:38:23,920 --> 00:38:25,480
Speaker 1: Yeah, but you're still.

847
00:38:26,640 --> 00:38:28,919
Speaker 4: Nine. But yeah, I tends a lot, tends a lot.

848
00:38:29,280 --> 00:38:31,280
Speaker 4: I don't think any of their over under win totals

849
00:38:31,360 --> 00:38:33,920
Speaker 4: or double digits. Yeah, you know, so they would exceed that.

850
00:38:34,320 --> 00:38:35,080
Speaker 1: I think it's nine.

851
00:38:35,360 --> 00:38:35,759
Speaker 4: It could be.

852
00:38:35,880 --> 00:38:37,720
Speaker 1: I think it's a nine and eight division.

853
00:38:37,800 --> 00:38:40,080
Speaker 4: And then probably a first round loss kind of like

854
00:38:40,160 --> 00:38:40,799
Speaker 4: last year. Yeah.

855
00:38:40,800 --> 00:38:41,160
Speaker 1: Probably.

856
00:38:41,239 --> 00:38:43,000
Speaker 4: I mean I know Atlanta has higher hopes than that,

857
00:38:43,080 --> 00:38:46,839
Speaker 4: but last year, Oh they played that down Trott and Eagles. Yeah,

858
00:38:46,880 --> 00:38:48,680
Speaker 4: that they were cooked before they got there.

859
00:38:50,600 --> 00:38:50,719
Speaker 3: Uh.

860
00:38:51,080 --> 00:38:55,200
Speaker 1: Number seven and this one might surprise some people. The

861
00:38:55,239 --> 00:38:57,120
Speaker 1: AFC West good.

862
00:38:57,200 --> 00:38:58,800
Speaker 4: I was gonna say the AFC West is going to

863
00:38:58,880 --> 00:39:00,879
Speaker 4: be too high because everyone thinks the Chargers are good.

864
00:39:01,520 --> 00:39:03,840
Speaker 4: I think they have one team. Yeah, I think Denver

865
00:39:03,960 --> 00:39:06,640
Speaker 4: and the Raiders could pick in the top five. I

866
00:39:06,640 --> 00:39:08,960
Speaker 4: think the Chargers might pick in the top ten, and

867
00:39:09,160 --> 00:39:10,840
Speaker 4: the Chiefs are probably the best team league.

868
00:39:11,440 --> 00:39:14,960
Speaker 1: Yeah. Right now, FPI has Kansas City at number two

869
00:39:15,280 --> 00:39:20,680
Speaker 1: in the NFL, the Chargers at eighteen, the Ers with that, Yeah,

870
00:39:20,680 --> 00:39:22,480
Speaker 1: it's still a little rich, you know, right, the Raiders

871
00:39:22,480 --> 00:39:24,200
Speaker 1: at twenty four, the Broncos at thirty.

872
00:39:24,880 --> 00:39:27,760
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think that's close. I would probably be lower

873
00:39:27,800 --> 00:39:29,840
Speaker 4: on all three of those teams, though, in terms of

874
00:39:29,840 --> 00:39:31,080
Speaker 4: if I was power ranking them.

875
00:39:30,960 --> 00:39:33,319
Speaker 1: Right now, I think, yeah, I think I would be two.

876
00:39:33,480 --> 00:39:35,800
Speaker 4: I mean, I think the easiest pick the whole league

877
00:39:35,880 --> 00:39:37,719
Speaker 4: is Chiefs to win their division. If you had to pick,

878
00:39:38,760 --> 00:39:39,200
Speaker 4: they have to be.

879
00:39:39,200 --> 00:39:43,080
Speaker 1: The gap is so great between them and everybody else.

880
00:39:43,080 --> 00:39:45,040
Speaker 4: I think Mahomes has lost like one division game is

881
00:39:45,120 --> 00:39:46,920
Speaker 4: life too, and Andy Reid's not far behind.

882
00:39:47,280 --> 00:39:48,920
Speaker 1: Well, that would be to Russell Wilson.

883
00:39:49,480 --> 00:39:51,759
Speaker 4: Yeah, he's lost more than he lost the Raiders.

884
00:39:51,920 --> 00:39:53,600
Speaker 1: The Raiders, Yeah, last year they lost too.

885
00:39:53,480 --> 00:39:56,000
Speaker 4: They lost too. Yeah, so it doesn't happen.

886
00:39:55,840 --> 00:40:02,480
Speaker 1: Much, No, it does not. At sick the NFC East,

887
00:40:03,160 --> 00:40:06,520
Speaker 1: which Washington got two Giants. You got two good teams, Yeah,

888
00:40:06,600 --> 00:40:07,879
Speaker 1: he got two really bad ones.

889
00:40:07,960 --> 00:40:10,439
Speaker 4: Yeah, those other two could be top five picks too.

890
00:40:11,400 --> 00:40:14,319
Speaker 4: I have some doubts about Dallas being they'd be more

891
00:40:14,400 --> 00:40:16,080
Speaker 4: like a Tier two team on a Tier one team

892
00:40:16,120 --> 00:40:19,480
Speaker 4: for me. Philly's played really bad then to see, really bad.

893
00:40:19,480 --> 00:40:21,120
Speaker 4: But I'm going to pick them to win the division.

894
00:40:21,880 --> 00:40:23,799
Speaker 1: I get it. Yeah, but some of the news out

895
00:40:23,800 --> 00:40:25,439
Speaker 1: of Philly hasn't been grade either.

896
00:40:25,560 --> 00:40:25,600
Speaker 3: No.

897
00:40:25,800 --> 00:40:28,040
Speaker 4: Yeah, I thought they'd be a better spot right now.

898
00:40:29,400 --> 00:40:32,960
Speaker 1: Number five is the AFC East, which is kind of surprising.

899
00:40:33,120 --> 00:40:35,480
Speaker 4: I'd have them higher. I think they'd be my third.

900
00:40:35,280 --> 00:40:38,560
Speaker 1: One their FPI rankings, the Patriots have to kill them.

901
00:40:38,560 --> 00:40:42,680
Speaker 1: Buffalo's fifth, the Dolphins are eleven, the Jets twelve. New

902
00:40:42,680 --> 00:40:46,200
Speaker 1: England's thirty first. Yeah, okay, I only got good teams

903
00:40:46,200 --> 00:40:47,920
Speaker 1: and one really bad one, and I don't think i'd

904
00:40:47,920 --> 00:40:48,680
Speaker 1: have the Bills fifth.

905
00:40:49,440 --> 00:40:49,640
Speaker 4: Yeah.

906
00:40:49,640 --> 00:40:50,479
Speaker 1: I don't think so either.

907
00:40:50,480 --> 00:40:52,279
Speaker 4: If I were a power ranking the other I think

908
00:40:52,320 --> 00:40:54,160
Speaker 4: they might have three in the top ten or twelve

909
00:40:54,239 --> 00:40:58,360
Speaker 4: like they do. And New England's really bad, really banker

910
00:40:58,440 --> 00:40:59,799
Speaker 4: for them, so I guess I get that.

911
00:41:00,280 --> 00:41:02,560
Speaker 1: I got a text today from a reporter that I

912
00:41:02,640 --> 00:41:05,680
Speaker 1: know in New England who when the New England signed

913
00:41:05,840 --> 00:41:09,400
Speaker 1: Chucks of Corp for was asking me questions about him

914
00:41:09,560 --> 00:41:11,480
Speaker 1: and he said he texted me today. They said Chucks

915
00:41:11,480 --> 00:41:14,680
Speaker 1: of Corps told the Patriots he doesn't want to play

916
00:41:14,719 --> 00:41:15,200
Speaker 1: left tackle.

917
00:41:15,920 --> 00:41:19,920
Speaker 4: Ah, okay, they're gonna take a tackle really early in

918
00:41:19,920 --> 00:41:20,239
Speaker 4: the draft.

919
00:41:20,520 --> 00:41:22,759
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That offense might be the

920
00:41:22,760 --> 00:41:24,120
Speaker 1: worst in the league. Oh, it's gonna be awful.

921
00:41:24,160 --> 00:41:25,160
Speaker 4: Carolina's will be better.

922
00:41:26,440 --> 00:41:31,960
Speaker 1: Number four the AFC South, You've got Houston at nine,

923
00:41:32,360 --> 00:41:35,600
Speaker 1: Jacksonville at sixteen, the Colts at twenty, the Titans at

924
00:41:35,600 --> 00:41:36,200
Speaker 1: twenty seven.

925
00:41:38,040 --> 00:41:38,279
Speaker 3: Yeah.

926
00:41:38,400 --> 00:41:40,120
Speaker 4: I think I would have the East over them. Still,

927
00:41:40,239 --> 00:41:42,360
Speaker 4: I think so too. I mean, I think those three

928
00:41:42,560 --> 00:41:45,719
Speaker 4: have a stronger almost than those four, even with New

929
00:41:45,719 --> 00:41:47,040
Speaker 4: England not counting.

930
00:41:47,120 --> 00:41:48,640
Speaker 1: And Tennessee's better than New England.

931
00:41:48,680 --> 00:41:52,239
Speaker 4: Tennessee's better in New England. I could see Tennessee ending

932
00:41:52,239 --> 00:41:55,640
Speaker 4: the season twenty seconds if everything goes right.

933
00:41:55,719 --> 00:41:58,799
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know if I see that. Where are

934
00:41:58,800 --> 00:42:01,440
Speaker 1: you at on Indy? Would they of India twentieth?

935
00:42:02,200 --> 00:42:04,000
Speaker 4: I think I'd probably have them higher, like i'd have

936
00:42:04,040 --> 00:42:05,040
Speaker 4: them over the Chargers.

937
00:42:06,440 --> 00:42:09,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, but we both thought the Chargers were too high.

938
00:42:09,080 --> 00:42:12,279
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I guess that's fair. Would you take

939
00:42:12,320 --> 00:42:13,480
Speaker 4: the East of the South in the AFC?

940
00:42:15,640 --> 00:42:18,920
Speaker 1: I think it depends on how you view Jacksonville. Is

941
00:42:19,000 --> 00:42:20,120
Speaker 1: Jacksonville contender?

942
00:42:22,640 --> 00:42:24,279
Speaker 4: Are they an above average team?

943
00:42:24,640 --> 00:42:27,800
Speaker 1: Because they seems like a perfectly average right here at sixteen,

944
00:42:28,800 --> 00:42:29,160
Speaker 1: I think.

945
00:42:29,040 --> 00:42:32,799
Speaker 4: They're kind of perfectly average. Yeah, okay, so yeah, they're

946
00:42:32,800 --> 00:42:35,680
Speaker 4: close splitting hairs there that the Patriot thing hurts bad

947
00:42:36,840 --> 00:42:37,880
Speaker 4: at three.

948
00:42:38,640 --> 00:42:43,680
Speaker 1: The NFC North you got detroited green Bay at ten,

949
00:42:43,920 --> 00:42:47,240
Speaker 1: Chicago at nineteen, which might be high, might be high,

950
00:42:47,440 --> 00:42:48,839
Speaker 1: and Minnesota at twenty five.

951
00:42:49,520 --> 00:42:55,120
Speaker 4: I would have them over the NFC West. Okay, I

952
00:42:55,120 --> 00:42:57,839
Speaker 4: think green Bay's really good. I think Detroit's really good

953
00:42:58,080 --> 00:43:03,440
Speaker 4: and basically the same here as the Niners and the Rams.

954
00:43:03,440 --> 00:43:06,840
Speaker 4: Would be my fourth pick if we're drafting the eight teams. Yeah,

955
00:43:07,320 --> 00:43:09,040
Speaker 4: Arizona is probably my last pick.

956
00:43:10,719 --> 00:43:14,960
Speaker 1: You think they're from Minnesota or under built below Minnesota.

957
00:43:15,280 --> 00:43:17,839
Speaker 4: I mean, here's what I think Arizona. I mentioned it

958
00:43:17,840 --> 00:43:20,719
Speaker 4: in the fantasy segment. I think Atlanta and Arizona are

959
00:43:20,760 --> 00:43:24,360
Speaker 4: gonna play in shootouts. I really like their offenses. I

960
00:43:24,440 --> 00:43:26,440
Speaker 4: think they've invested a lot on that side of the ball.

961
00:43:27,400 --> 00:43:30,280
Speaker 1: It's hard to name starters on Arizona defense, though, Yeah,

962
00:43:30,400 --> 00:43:32,000
Speaker 1: I mean it's rough. I think they're gonna be a

963
00:43:32,040 --> 00:43:33,400
Speaker 1: lot of points in those So what you're saying is

964
00:43:33,440 --> 00:43:34,520
Speaker 1: take the overs in those.

965
00:43:34,400 --> 00:43:36,520
Speaker 4: Games, overs and Arizona overs.

966
00:43:36,760 --> 00:43:41,480
Speaker 1: Yeah, there you go. Uh, they had the NFC West.

967
00:43:41,520 --> 00:43:44,440
Speaker 1: Graziano has the NFC West number two. Yeah, that's San

968
00:43:44,480 --> 00:43:45,719
Speaker 1: Francisco at number one.

969
00:43:45,960 --> 00:43:47,879
Speaker 4: Okay, I think the Chiefs are better than Niner.

970
00:43:47,960 --> 00:43:50,360
Speaker 1: The Rams at thirteen, the Seahawks at twenty one, the

971
00:43:50,360 --> 00:43:51,480
Speaker 1: Cardinals at twenty.

972
00:43:51,239 --> 00:43:56,040
Speaker 4: Three, thirteen, twenty three. I mean, like thirteen is your best,

973
00:43:56,080 --> 00:43:58,759
Speaker 4: second best team and you're the second best division. Yeah,

974
00:43:59,120 --> 00:44:02,879
Speaker 4: Seattle's slightly below average. I mean, I guess I don't

975
00:44:02,880 --> 00:44:03,319
Speaker 4: have a true PA.

976
00:44:03,640 --> 00:44:06,320
Speaker 1: He's going strictly by their FPI rating. Yeah, yeah, yeah,

977
00:44:06,320 --> 00:44:10,319
Speaker 1: So San Francisco's five point one FPI rating brings that

978
00:44:10,360 --> 00:44:13,600
Speaker 1: whole division up massively. Not a lot of great news

979
00:44:13,600 --> 00:44:17,239
Speaker 1: there either, No, I mean Trent Williams heard guys holding out.

980
00:44:17,320 --> 00:44:20,920
Speaker 4: Yeah, there's just a lot of turmoil right now. Okay.

981
00:44:21,280 --> 00:44:25,440
Speaker 1: I do think the NFC North's better, and at number

982
00:44:25,440 --> 00:44:28,960
Speaker 1: one is the AFC North. That's with Baltimore at three,

983
00:44:29,200 --> 00:44:31,240
Speaker 1: which I don't agree with. He doesn't agree with Baltimore

984
00:44:31,239 --> 00:44:33,239
Speaker 1: at three. Oh really, Yeah, he thinks that's too high

985
00:44:33,239 --> 00:44:36,960
Speaker 1: on that too. That's Cincinnati at seven. He thinks Cincinnati

986
00:44:37,120 --> 00:44:40,880
Speaker 1: should be ahead of Baltimore. I as well both that. Yeah,

987
00:44:41,160 --> 00:44:45,600
Speaker 1: that's with Cleveland at fourteen to Cincinnati's at seven, Cleveland

988
00:44:45,600 --> 00:44:49,160
Speaker 1: at fourteen, the Steelers at seventeen. He thinks he thinks

989
00:44:49,200 --> 00:44:52,920
Speaker 1: their FPI ratings are too low on Cleveland.

990
00:44:53,440 --> 00:44:56,239
Speaker 4: I think they're too low in the Steelers. I might

991
00:44:56,320 --> 00:44:58,239
Speaker 4: even have Cleveland, and I might have both the whole

992
00:44:58,239 --> 00:45:00,000
Speaker 4: division in the top twelve or thirteen.

993
00:45:00,120 --> 00:45:02,960
Speaker 1: I think Cleveland to me right now, with everything that's

994
00:45:02,960 --> 00:45:08,080
Speaker 1: happening there is clearly fourth in the division. They have

995
00:45:08,080 --> 00:45:11,640
Speaker 1: a quarterback that hasn't played in the preseason to not

996
00:45:11,680 --> 00:45:15,040
Speaker 1: because they're holding him out because he can't physically play.

997
00:45:15,080 --> 00:45:18,120
Speaker 4: I can't even get on the field. And even if

998
00:45:18,160 --> 00:45:20,520
Speaker 4: he's never shown to be good, Yeah, he hasn't been

999
00:45:20,520 --> 00:45:26,240
Speaker 4: good since twenty twenty. So I think Baltimore's there three.

1000
00:45:26,800 --> 00:45:28,440
Speaker 4: We would have Cinci over Baltimore.

1001
00:45:28,520 --> 00:45:31,520
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'd have Sinci at like five in Baltimore at

1002
00:45:31,560 --> 00:45:32,120
Speaker 1: like eight or nine.

1003
00:45:32,120 --> 00:45:33,600
Speaker 4: I was about to ask you who's your three? Then

1004
00:45:33,600 --> 00:45:37,160
Speaker 4: I think mine's Detroit. Yeah, I might even have Green

1005
00:45:37,200 --> 00:45:40,680
Speaker 4: Bay ahead of Baltimore. That's a leap of faith with

1006
00:45:40,760 --> 00:45:45,319
Speaker 4: their youth, but well, and he said Fbilow wouldn't be

1007
00:45:45,320 --> 00:45:45,799
Speaker 4: five for me.

1008
00:45:45,920 --> 00:45:48,080
Speaker 1: This is what Graziano says. The FBI is higher on

1009
00:45:48,160 --> 00:45:50,480
Speaker 1: Baltimore than I am, mainly because I have concerns about

1010
00:45:50,480 --> 00:45:54,320
Speaker 1: the Raven's ability to seamlessly replace three offensive line starters

1011
00:45:54,640 --> 00:45:56,920
Speaker 1: and all the coaches and players they've lost on defense.

1012
00:45:56,960 --> 00:46:00,000
Speaker 1: It's the same reasons why we're a little down on them. Yeah,

1013
00:46:00,000 --> 00:46:01,759
Speaker 1: it's just a lot of turmoil. It's a lot of

1014
00:46:01,760 --> 00:46:05,240
Speaker 1: stuff that's not easy to overcome. And I love Lamar.

1015
00:46:05,400 --> 00:46:07,919
Speaker 1: I think he's a wonderful player, but he probably won't

1016
00:46:07,920 --> 00:46:08,720
Speaker 1: be the MVP again.

1017
00:46:09,000 --> 00:46:10,440
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know what I mean, Like he's going to

1018
00:46:10,520 --> 00:46:12,520
Speaker 4: be better than he was last night. I mean, chances

1019
00:46:12,520 --> 00:46:14,520
Speaker 4: are no, because he was like the best player in

1020
00:46:14,560 --> 00:46:16,239
Speaker 4: the league, you know. I mean that's he's probably going

1021
00:46:16,280 --> 00:46:18,440
Speaker 4: to be the twentieth best player in the league, not

1022
00:46:18,480 --> 00:46:20,840
Speaker 4: the first or second. Yeah, and which is awesome.

1023
00:46:20,880 --> 00:46:25,120
Speaker 1: But and he also mentions Cincinnati's schedule much easier than

1024
00:46:25,120 --> 00:46:25,960
Speaker 1: that of Baltimore.

1025
00:46:26,239 --> 00:46:30,000
Speaker 4: True it is. I mean just that the opponents are

1026
00:46:30,080 --> 00:46:33,000
Speaker 4: much easier. I would so he agrees since he should

1027
00:46:33,000 --> 00:46:35,640
Speaker 4: be the top team of the division, Yeah, yeah, I

1028
00:46:36,120 --> 00:46:38,160
Speaker 4: don't think anyone's close to the division though, I mean

1029
00:46:38,200 --> 00:46:39,640
Speaker 4: like they're easily number one.

1030
00:46:39,920 --> 00:46:43,000
Speaker 1: Here's what he writes about the Steelers. Okay, if anyone

1031
00:46:43,000 --> 00:46:45,200
Speaker 1: but Mike Tomlin were coaching the Steelers, I'd be a

1032
00:46:45,280 --> 00:46:49,359
Speaker 1: lot lower on them, a lot lower. The FBI ranks

1033
00:46:49,400 --> 00:46:51,759
Speaker 1: him as the nineteenth best offense in the league, which

1034
00:46:51,760 --> 00:46:53,600
Speaker 1: feels a little bit generous based on what we've seen

1035
00:46:53,600 --> 00:46:57,799
Speaker 1: from quarterbacks Russell Wilson and Justin Fields so far in camp. Well, Dan,

1036
00:46:57,840 --> 00:47:00,760
Speaker 1: you were at camp one day, you know, and Russell

1037
00:47:00,840 --> 00:47:03,040
Speaker 1: Wilson wasn't practicing that day, I might add.

1038
00:47:02,920 --> 00:47:05,719
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean the preseason hasn't been pretty what we've

1039
00:47:05,719 --> 00:47:06,279
Speaker 4: seen in camp.

1040
00:47:06,360 --> 00:47:08,799
Speaker 1: I hate when guys who haven't been to camp, Yeah,

1041
00:47:09,000 --> 00:47:12,000
Speaker 1: say in camp, right, because you might watch the preseason,

1042
00:47:12,040 --> 00:47:14,480
Speaker 1: you weren't there watching every practice. Pretty sure the coaches

1043
00:47:14,480 --> 00:47:16,840
Speaker 1: aren't sending you the coaches tape of practice either, one

1044
00:47:16,920 --> 00:47:21,080
Speaker 1: hundred percent sure of that. But the nineteenth best offense

1045
00:47:21,160 --> 00:47:22,839
Speaker 1: is a pretty big jump from where it was last year.

1046
00:47:22,840 --> 00:47:25,840
Speaker 1: If they're the nineteenth best offense this year in the league,

1047
00:47:26,239 --> 00:47:28,280
Speaker 1: the Steelers won eleven or twelve games, I agree.

1048
00:47:28,320 --> 00:47:29,879
Speaker 4: I agree because I think they'll be good on teams.

1049
00:47:29,920 --> 00:47:31,719
Speaker 4: They'll be good on defense, Yeah, and.

1050
00:47:31,640 --> 00:47:33,520
Speaker 1: He says, but they made the playoffs last year with

1051
00:47:33,600 --> 00:47:35,800
Speaker 1: Kenny Pickett Mason Rudolph playing that position.

1052
00:47:36,360 --> 00:47:36,600
Speaker 3: T J.

1053
00:47:36,719 --> 00:47:39,600
Speaker 1: Wattley's defense ranked fifth in the league per FPI. So

1054
00:47:39,600 --> 00:47:41,880
Speaker 1: who am I to doubt? Yeah?

1055
00:47:42,080 --> 00:47:44,120
Speaker 4: Everyone says the same thing about Steelers, like, yeah, some

1056
00:47:44,160 --> 00:47:45,880
Speaker 4: of these numbers don't add up, you know, just like

1057
00:47:45,920 --> 00:47:47,759
Speaker 4: the barn roll thing we did yesterday. They're going to

1058
00:47:47,920 --> 00:47:50,600
Speaker 4: probably lose more one score games. But I might be

1059
00:47:50,600 --> 00:47:52,480
Speaker 4: totally wrong. I'm wrong every year on them. Yeah, you

1060
00:47:52,480 --> 00:47:54,799
Speaker 4: know what I mean? So where do they have them?

1061
00:47:54,880 --> 00:47:57,920
Speaker 1: Nineteenth? No, they were seventeenth.

1062
00:47:58,000 --> 00:47:58,920
Speaker 4: The offense was nineteenth.

1063
00:47:59,000 --> 00:48:02,719
Speaker 1: Okay, the offense was nineteen. If they're nineteen on offense

1064
00:48:03,560 --> 00:48:06,319
Speaker 1: in fifth on defense, how the hell are they seventeenth?

1065
00:48:06,400 --> 00:48:08,040
Speaker 4: Yeah? I was thinking that too. I mean, I'm sure

1066
00:48:08,080 --> 00:48:10,279
Speaker 4: offense has a little more weight, but it can't have

1067
00:48:10,360 --> 00:48:11,080
Speaker 4: that much more weight.

1068
00:48:11,120 --> 00:48:14,960
Speaker 1: You wouldn't think, And it can't be like where's Cleveland's offense?

1069
00:48:15,880 --> 00:48:16,400
Speaker 4: Good question?

1070
00:48:16,560 --> 00:48:16,880
Speaker 1: Ranked?

1071
00:48:17,080 --> 00:48:19,280
Speaker 4: Does I tell you where all the offense I'm.

1072
00:48:19,080 --> 00:48:22,120
Speaker 1: Calling off their FPI rankings now they have. Cleveland's offense

1073
00:48:22,200 --> 00:48:29,320
Speaker 1: is rated as a minus one point five. The Steelers

1074
00:48:29,360 --> 00:48:32,279
Speaker 1: are minus point nine, So Cleveland's offense much worse than

1075
00:48:32,320 --> 00:48:33,160
Speaker 1: that of Pittsburgh's.

1076
00:48:34,280 --> 00:48:36,560
Speaker 4: Considering I don't know how much they value the Chub situation,

1077
00:48:36,680 --> 00:48:38,640
Speaker 4: but that hurts them a lot, a lot. I would

1078
00:48:38,640 --> 00:48:41,880
Speaker 4: feel really much different about their offense with Chubb and

1079
00:48:41,920 --> 00:48:44,719
Speaker 4: are many running backs i'd say that about, yeah, prime Chub.

1080
00:48:44,760 --> 00:48:46,080
Speaker 4: You know, I'm not like, oh, he's just start with

1081
00:48:46,360 --> 00:48:48,319
Speaker 4: if we ever see that guy again, I don't have

1082
00:48:48,360 --> 00:48:50,280
Speaker 4: any clue. Right, if they had the guy that before

1083
00:48:50,320 --> 00:48:52,880
Speaker 4: his injury, you can weather a lot of storms with

1084
00:48:52,880 --> 00:48:57,040
Speaker 4: that defense. But drum Ford not the same, right right?

1085
00:48:57,120 --> 00:49:00,480
Speaker 1: Not the same playing quarterback? Yeah right, Yeah, you got

1086
00:49:00,480 --> 00:49:03,320
Speaker 1: buy with all those quarterbacks last year because your defense

1087
00:49:03,360 --> 00:49:05,879
Speaker 1: was suffocating. I assume they're going to be that good

1088
00:49:05,920 --> 00:49:07,080
Speaker 1: again this year. Probably not.

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00:49:07,840 --> 00:49:08,799
Speaker 4: Do they have the D at one?

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00:49:09,680 --> 00:49:13,840
Speaker 1: Cleveland's defense is I believe second behind Baltimore.

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00:49:14,600 --> 00:49:17,040
Speaker 4: Baltimore's D was better in my opinion last year, but

1092
00:49:17,080 --> 00:49:18,640
Speaker 4: they lost a lot more than Cleveland did.

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00:49:18,760 --> 00:49:23,080
Speaker 1: Yeah, on defense, and Cleveland's defense, including coordinators, depth is

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00:49:23,120 --> 00:49:25,560
Speaker 1: not They don't have depth.

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00:49:25,600 --> 00:49:28,080
Speaker 4: No, they don't rotate fifteen in or anything like that.

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00:49:29,040 --> 00:49:32,640
Speaker 1: But are the Bengals D the Bengals D is way

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Speaker 1: down there.

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00:49:33,080 --> 00:49:34,479
Speaker 4: I say, I bet it's pretty low.

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00:49:35,160 --> 00:49:36,880
Speaker 1: I know we're both high on the Bengals, but I

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00:49:36,880 --> 00:49:40,640
Speaker 1: don't let their defense it's not that bad. It's actually

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00:49:40,719 --> 00:49:42,960
Speaker 1: three spots behind Pittsburgh, so they're eighth.

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00:49:43,200 --> 00:49:44,160
Speaker 4: Oh that I don't agree.

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00:49:44,200 --> 00:49:45,239
Speaker 1: I don't agree with that at all.

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00:49:45,360 --> 00:49:48,360
Speaker 4: No, they allowed a lot of explosives. Their tackling was

1105
00:49:48,400 --> 00:49:52,759
Speaker 4: really poor. Their run defense was bad. Readers gone. I

1106
00:49:52,760 --> 00:49:56,040
Speaker 4: don't think they did much accepted safety to get better. Yeah.

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00:49:56,080 --> 00:49:59,000
Speaker 4: I think their defense is one of I wouldn't say

1108
00:49:59,040 --> 00:50:01,760
Speaker 4: the weakest unit in of the four in the division

1109
00:50:01,840 --> 00:50:03,760
Speaker 4: or eight in the division, but it's near the bottom,

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Speaker 4: pretty close.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Matt, that's going to do for the show today.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely appreciate Land and Roberts dropping by and taught chatting

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Speaker 1: with us there for a little while. But we also

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Speaker 1: appreciate you doing the same for my partner, Matt Williamson,

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Speaker 1: for Justin Miller here on site, keeping us on the

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Speaker 1: air and keeping us on a straight line, straight and narrow.

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Speaker 1: I'm Dale Lallie. We thank you for listening to this

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Speaker 1: edition of the Drive on Steelers Nation Radio.