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

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

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Speaker 1: and Gold Steelers Nation Radio.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to the Drive. I'm Dale LOLLI he is the

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Speaker 2: Matt Williamson and Matt Happy Friday. We're around to another

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Speaker 2: well the game in a couple of days here and

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Speaker 2: Steelers playing Sunday night at Allegiance Stadium against the Las

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Speaker 2: Vegas Raiders. And the more I dig into this game, Matt,

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Speaker 2: the more I'm just my confidence is a little better.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, well on one side of the ball, for sure,

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Speaker 3: for sure. Yeah, when the Steelers have the football, I expect, hope,

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Speaker 3: pray this is good for what ails you, you know

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Speaker 3: what I mean. It's just their defense is really soft

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Speaker 3: and there's very few threats and even schematically, they don't

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Speaker 3: throw a ton at you, and there's just a lot

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Speaker 3: of things you should be able to do against them.

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Speaker 4: Now.

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Speaker 3: I do think they might throw the ball well against Steelers.

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Speaker 3: I mean, I could see Adams having a nice day,

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Speaker 3: maybe Jacobs gets back on track. But I don't feel

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Speaker 3: confident about that part. But I really think this is

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Speaker 3: about the Steeler offense looking a lot more like they

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Speaker 3: did last.

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Speaker 4: Year and in the preseason than the first two games.

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Speaker 2: And that's the thing, man, I think the Steelers, if

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Speaker 2: they want to get back to that formula that they

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Speaker 2: had last year, running the football, play actioning off of that, yeah,

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Speaker 2: this would be the week that you can do that.

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Speaker 3: I would think you should win at the line of scrimmage.

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Speaker 3: You should be the more physical team. You're the more

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Speaker 3: talented team when you have the ball, I think. I mean,

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Speaker 3: I wrote an arc about this week. I can't imagine

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Speaker 3: Friar Moo's going to get one target. I mean pickens

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Speaker 3: to me. Actually, we know we had a big play

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Speaker 3: against the Browns, but I thought he had a phenomenal game,

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Speaker 3: you know, and could have had a lot more.

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Speaker 2: So.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's Deontae, but I think they have enough weaponry

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Speaker 3: to throw the ball effectively and they should win running

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Speaker 3: the ball. But I mean, the last two games, it's

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Speaker 3: hard to imagine saying that.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, and they have more playmakers on defense

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Speaker 2: as well. That's what gives you, Yeah, that's what gives

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Speaker 2: you some some hope that hey, you know, yes, the

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Speaker 2: Raiders have good skill position players and they have guys

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Speaker 2: that can hurt you offensively, but you have more playmakers

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Speaker 2: on defense. You have as many playmakers on defense as

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Speaker 2: they have on offense.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, that's kind of a fair fight.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and well the way the Steelers offensive play, and

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Speaker 3: that's a fair fight too.

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Speaker 4: But they have better players.

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Speaker 3: I mean, I having better expectations, you know, And that's

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Speaker 3: not just being a homer.

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Speaker 4: Raiders d is really really bad.

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Speaker 3: One thing I don't quite buy with the Raiders offense

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Speaker 3: that I expect to change heavily is that they haven't

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Speaker 3: been sacked yet. Yeah, you know, I mean I don't

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Speaker 3: know that those other four linemen named not named Colton

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Speaker 3: Miller all of a sudden got drastically better, you know.

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Speaker 2: Or.

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Speaker 4: Or that they max protected. I mean the ball comes

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Speaker 4: out quick.

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Speaker 2: They played Denver in Week one. We've talked about that

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Speaker 2: in the off season, that we didn't think Denver's pass

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Speaker 2: rush was going to be that. I mean, there's no Chubb.

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Speaker 4: There, no, no, Miller's got a little overrated.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Buffalos might be two right now.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, they've been searching for d line for a while now.

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Speaker 3: And I don't think it's a great pass rush either.

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Speaker 3: And he doesn't hold the ball long. He's a professional

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Speaker 3: going to get rid of the foot, Yeah, you know so,

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Speaker 3: and they'll use a fullback in there to help protect.

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Speaker 3: Like the Browns, they're a heavy usage of a sixth

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Speaker 3: offensive lineman two and often in protection. And everyone knows

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Speaker 3: the ball is going, it's going to Adams, it's going

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Speaker 2: For two guys, and so if you, if you, I mean,

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Speaker 2: you could almost double those two guys, which you typically can't, like, oh,

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Speaker 2: you can't double two guys. In this case, you might

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Speaker 2: be able to get away there because they don't throw

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Speaker 2: a ball at anybody else.

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Speaker 4: I don't understand their tight end usage.

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Speaker 3: I mean, like, okay, Michael Mayer is a rookie tight end,

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Speaker 3: but he was like quote, the most NFL ready of

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Speaker 3: the group. He was an early second round pick in

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Speaker 3: Lestin Hooper's not the next Antonio Gates, but he's a

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Speaker 3: professional starting type, borderline, better around the block guy. They

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Speaker 3: have the lowest target share amongst tight ends in the

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Speaker 3: whole league. There's a lot of snaps without a tight

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Speaker 3: end on the field. They played twelve personnel, less than

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Speaker 3: anyone in the league. You know, like, what did you

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Speaker 3: draft Mayor for? I don't quite get that.

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Speaker 2: It's interesting and we've seen this playout time and again

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Speaker 2: now where the Belichick disciples. It just doesn't work out.

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Speaker 4: It just doesn't work out.

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Speaker 3: And I think there's enough evidence on McDaniels that he's

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Speaker 3: a really good coordinator. I mean, and I mean that

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Speaker 3: is a compliment, but that might be where he's hitting

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Speaker 3: his head, you know. Yeah, I don't know that that's

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Speaker 3: a great overall environment and system. Culture, you know, growing.

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Speaker 2: I think culture is part of the two man yet

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Speaker 2: into you know, when you when you've got one of

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Speaker 2: your star defensive players, one of the few that you have,

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Speaker 2: and a guy who is you know, one of your

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Speaker 2: true name guys, your veteran name guys on your defense.

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Speaker 4: He gave money and he chose to come there, and.

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Speaker 2: He's at odds with the front office, in the in

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Speaker 2: the team owner. I mean, that's got to reverberate through

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Speaker 2: your through your locker room.

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Speaker 4: I think so.

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Speaker 3: And I mean everyone knows, and I've told the story

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Speaker 3: a million times, Like when I was a kid, you

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Speaker 3: were taught to hate the Raiders more than the Browns

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Speaker 3: and the Bengals, and they're storied rivalry.

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Speaker 2: They met eleven times in the seventies think about that

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Speaker 2: they weren't even in the same division, and they met

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Speaker 2: eleven times.

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Speaker 3: In the seventies, and a lot of them were you

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Speaker 3: knows on the line or best team in the league

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Speaker 3: type of thing. Physicals can be so many Hall of

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Speaker 3: famers on the field between both teams.

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Speaker 2: The Raiders actually have more Hall of famers in the

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Speaker 2: from the seventy seven Steelers, do.

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Speaker 3: I know which I don't know if there's any of

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Speaker 3: them that be like he deserve it. I mean, it's

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Speaker 3: a pretty darn good group and they'd have a lot

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Speaker 3: more rings if it wasn't for all those Deeler Hall

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Speaker 3: of famers too. I have a feeling, and I don't

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Speaker 3: know this as a fact, and I by no mean

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Speaker 3: or am trying to disrespect the Davis family, but al

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Speaker 3: at the end wasn't the same. I mean, the JaMarcus

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Speaker 3: Russell drafts, and nobody drafted worse his last ten years.

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Speaker 2: If there was, if there was a super fast guy

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Speaker 4: They were taking them, they always took on.

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Speaker 2: They were taking. All he wanted was speed and he'd

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Speaker 2: let to figure the rest of it out.

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Speaker 3: And I kind of this is my thoughts, is that

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Speaker 3: Mark Davis kind of learned from end of the line.

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Speaker 3: Al Davis not in his prime Al Davis, and he

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Speaker 3: just don't feel like ownerships of strength, you know. And

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Speaker 3: they're very involved with player acquisition and it's not always

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Speaker 3: gone well for quite some time.

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Speaker 4: Now.

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Speaker 2: Let me ask you this, Matt has Brian Dave ballast

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Speaker 2: lost his fastball already.

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Speaker 4: I hear you. Yeah, I mean, so players of matter

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Speaker 4: play it.

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Speaker 2: So in three games now, the New York Giants have played.

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Speaker 4: Most people watched them last night.

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Speaker 2: Two of the best defenses in football, yeah, and looked

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Speaker 2: like it was amateur hour.

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Speaker 3: Yes, and maybe played the worst defensive football in between that,

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Speaker 3: and had a good half awful first half.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, so they've really had But.

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Speaker 2: They played two good quarters of football.

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Speaker 3: Two good quarters of football to six offensively and offensively yeah,

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Speaker 3: now they're two best offensive players in my opinion. Left

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Speaker 3: tackle and Saquon Barkley were out.

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Speaker 2: Okay, well, Deontay Johnson was out last week for the

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Speaker 2: Steelers exactly.

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Speaker 3: And they supposedly rebuilt this offensive line and it looks horrendous.

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Speaker 3: And there's a bunch of receivers that are all C minuses,

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Speaker 3: you know, and they they chose to give Barkley and

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Speaker 3: Jones the money thinking that they were the answer and

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Speaker 3: they're going to take this thing to the next step,

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Speaker 3: and it's a disaster.

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Speaker 2: My point being, Brian Brian day Ball was the NFL

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Speaker 2: Coach of the Year last year. He was the toast

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Speaker 2: of New York, one of the great offensive schemer he is.

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Speaker 2: I've brought this up before with day Ball, and I'm

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Speaker 2: not ripping on day Ball at all.

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Speaker 4: No, he did a tremendous job last If you look at.

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Speaker 2: Brian day Ball's coaching career, I'll call it up here.

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Speaker 2: So he came in, he joined.

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Speaker 3: The He's a Saban guy before Buffalo, right, He's got

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Speaker 3: a heavy Bama Saban background, and then came to Buffalo

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Speaker 3: when they had Josh Allen.

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Speaker 2: You well, but he came in Allen's first year and

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Speaker 2: so if you look at his first year there as

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Speaker 2: a offensive coordinator in Buffalo, they ranked what was it here,

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Speaker 2: They were twenty fourth total offense. So the next year

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Speaker 2: they were I'm sorry, they were thirtieth in total offense.

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Speaker 4: They were bad. I mean, people forget that Josh Allen

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that was twenty eighteen, twenty nineteen, they were twenty

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Speaker 2: third in scoring twenty they went to second. Twenty twenty

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Speaker 2: one they were third, and then he gets the job

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Speaker 2: with the Giants.

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Speaker 4: A big thing changed.

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Speaker 2: The players matter.

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Speaker 4: Players matter. So two things changed.

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Speaker 2: First of all, in twenty twenty, they traded for steff

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Speaker 2: On definitely said.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, Kuba got a heck of a lot

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Speaker 3: better when they got Tyreek, Hurts got a lot better

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Speaker 3: when they traded for aj Brown. The Raiders offense improved

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Speaker 3: when they traded for Devonte Adams. These stud receivers that

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Speaker 3: have moved lately, Joe's big time. Yeah, I mean a

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Speaker 3: stud receiver like that has gone so far. And I also,

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Speaker 3: I'm sure Dave Ball had a lot to do with

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Speaker 3: Alan getting better, you know, Yeah, But.

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Speaker 2: I'm sure Dick's had a lot to do with Yeah.

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Speaker 3: And I also think Alan had a lot to do

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Speaker 3: with Alan getting better, because I mean, if you're gonna

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Speaker 3: get that much better accuracy wise, you're doing stuff off

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Speaker 3: the field.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's not unting in those two hours of Ota.

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Speaker 3: Sessions, exactly, Hurts and Alan and Dak and some of

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Speaker 3: these guys that came in the league not very accurate.

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Speaker 3: I really credit personal quarterback coaches and stuff. Like that

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Speaker 3: and today's you know environment for that.

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Speaker 2: But last year, in twenty twenty two, his first year

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Speaker 2: with the Giants, they were fifteenth in scoring offense. Right

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Speaker 2: now they're twenty ninth. Like, does he suddenly become an idiot.

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Speaker 3: Because they can't block anybody in the way play makers

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Speaker 3: and they have an average quarterback.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, right, Like the players matter, and if the players aren't,

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Speaker 2: Then now it's time. Okay, you know this is this

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

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

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Speaker 2: I m jal is being Matt Williams and Mat. As

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Speaker 2: we head into week three here, we've got a bunch

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Speaker 2: Let's go through the teams that have a zero somewhere

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Speaker 3: A one to ten confidence ranking. Yeah, okay, let's do

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Speaker 2: We'll start with the good ones.

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Speaker 4: All right.

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Speaker 4: Seven ten being the best?

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Speaker 3: I mean, so that's the probably the best offense in

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Speaker 3: Anyway, I thought it was really important that the Dolphins

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm surprised they don't have a two hundred thirty

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think there's a Tier one in the NFC.

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Speaker 2: That doesn't matter. You don't want to peak early. That's

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Speaker 4: win the Super Bowl. Though I don't think the Ravens

442
00:20:04,440 --> 00:20:05,160
Speaker 4: will win the Super Bowl.

443
00:20:05,480 --> 00:20:09,040
Speaker 2: Washington is two and oh.

444
00:20:09,240 --> 00:20:12,119
Speaker 3: They can't win the Super Bowl. I don't have confidence

445
00:20:12,119 --> 00:20:13,560
Speaker 3: that they can be a contender.

446
00:20:13,880 --> 00:20:14,639
Speaker 2: They're a four to me.

447
00:20:15,520 --> 00:20:21,280
Speaker 4: Yeah, but I believe. I guess there's two ways looking.

448
00:20:21,080 --> 00:20:23,280
Speaker 2: At they're two and zh and there and their point

449
00:20:23,280 --> 00:20:26,680
Speaker 2: differential is six. I know, like that just that tells

450
00:20:26,680 --> 00:20:27,639
Speaker 2: you a lot right there.

451
00:20:27,680 --> 00:20:28,080
Speaker 4: It does.

452
00:20:28,119 --> 00:20:31,080
Speaker 2: They're winning, but they're barely winning and they haven't played anybody.

453
00:20:31,160 --> 00:20:34,720
Speaker 3: But if I were, I am confident on a eight

454
00:20:34,760 --> 00:20:37,600
Speaker 3: to nine level that they're a lot better than I

455
00:20:37,640 --> 00:20:40,760
Speaker 3: expected them to be. Like, their D line is problematic,

456
00:20:40,840 --> 00:20:42,120
Speaker 3: Chase Young's played well.

457
00:20:41,960 --> 00:20:43,160
Speaker 4: Through two weeks.

458
00:20:43,680 --> 00:20:45,560
Speaker 3: They're all first round picks exactly. I mean, that's their

459
00:20:45,560 --> 00:20:48,720
Speaker 3: bread and butter. But their offense to me is real.

460
00:20:49,000 --> 00:20:51,639
Speaker 3: Not that Hawl's great, but the enemy has done a

461
00:20:51,680 --> 00:20:54,960
Speaker 3: lot of chief stuff there. He's made his life easier. Like,

462
00:20:55,040 --> 00:20:57,280
Speaker 3: I think they might be a Tier two team where

463
00:20:57,320 --> 00:20:59,320
Speaker 3: the Giants definitely aren't, you know what I mean? Like,

464
00:20:59,320 --> 00:21:02,639
Speaker 3: I think Washington can hang with Seattle and maybe the

465
00:21:02,680 --> 00:21:04,120
Speaker 3: Lions and New Orleans.

466
00:21:05,080 --> 00:21:05,960
Speaker 4: I didn't see that coming.

467
00:21:07,880 --> 00:21:10,240
Speaker 2: The Falcons are two and oh you trust in.

468
00:21:10,200 --> 00:21:14,360
Speaker 3: The Falcons six five, you know, I mean we said

469
00:21:14,400 --> 00:21:17,119
Speaker 3: they could win that division before both of us felt

470
00:21:17,119 --> 00:21:17,520
Speaker 3: that way.

471
00:21:18,040 --> 00:21:20,000
Speaker 2: Uh, they and the Saints and the Saints also two

472
00:21:20,040 --> 00:21:22,040
Speaker 2: and oh. I think I think both of those teams

473
00:21:22,040 --> 00:21:23,200
Speaker 2: fall into that same.

474
00:21:23,400 --> 00:21:25,160
Speaker 4: Yeah six, they're great.

475
00:21:25,200 --> 00:21:28,560
Speaker 3: Yeah again, I think there'll be strong playoff push from

476
00:21:28,600 --> 00:21:31,399
Speaker 3: those guys, the Lions, the Packers.

477
00:21:31,640 --> 00:21:33,760
Speaker 2: So the Saints are two and oh they've scored thirty

478
00:21:33,800 --> 00:21:35,240
Speaker 2: six points. They've given up thirty two.

479
00:21:35,800 --> 00:21:37,639
Speaker 4: Really like they're their defenses.

480
00:21:37,720 --> 00:21:39,200
Speaker 2: They're plus four right now.

481
00:21:39,440 --> 00:21:42,679
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's their defense is strong though. Yeah, I mean

482
00:21:42,720 --> 00:21:44,280
Speaker 3: they beat up on Bryce Young.

483
00:21:44,880 --> 00:21:46,920
Speaker 2: The Buccaneers are two and oh the.

484
00:21:46,920 --> 00:21:47,960
Speaker 4: Least confident of anyone.

485
00:21:48,200 --> 00:21:49,879
Speaker 2: I think they would be a two for me. I

486
00:21:49,880 --> 00:21:50,960
Speaker 2: don't think that at all.

487
00:21:51,160 --> 00:21:54,760
Speaker 3: Their offensive coordinator has done good things. He is incorporated Baker.

488
00:21:55,080 --> 00:21:57,840
Speaker 3: They have two legit receivers that seems like a lot

489
00:21:57,880 --> 00:21:59,800
Speaker 3: of us forgot about in the offseason and they just

490
00:21:59,840 --> 00:22:00,240
Speaker 3: got on.

491
00:22:00,320 --> 00:22:02,720
Speaker 2: Typically, they don't stay healthy, no, right.

492
00:22:02,680 --> 00:22:06,080
Speaker 3: I mean they're they're not a tier two team in

493
00:22:06,080 --> 00:22:09,159
Speaker 3: the NFC. You know where these other ones are, Like

494
00:22:09,200 --> 00:22:14,040
Speaker 3: they're behind Washington. Then you have San Francisco nine. Yeah,

495
00:22:14,080 --> 00:22:15,800
Speaker 3: I think they've I think they're best team of football

496
00:22:15,880 --> 00:22:19,200
Speaker 3: right now. Them are Dallas for me, but I would

497
00:22:19,200 --> 00:22:22,520
Speaker 3: probably lean the Niners. I mean they they just walloped

498
00:22:22,520 --> 00:22:25,320
Speaker 3: the Giants without Ayu and you know, I mean that

499
00:22:25,440 --> 00:22:27,840
Speaker 3: was just the second half was just dominant, destroyed them

500
00:22:28,119 --> 00:22:29,600
Speaker 3: and they don't ask a lot of their quarterback.

501
00:22:29,840 --> 00:22:33,080
Speaker 2: Now, let's go through the oh and two teams, So

502
00:22:33,160 --> 00:22:36,520
Speaker 2: how can ye who can rebound from this oh and

503
00:22:36,560 --> 00:22:42,880
Speaker 2: two start to still make potentially make the playoffs? Arizona One. Yeah,

504
00:22:42,880 --> 00:22:44,000
Speaker 2: they have no chance.

505
00:22:44,000 --> 00:22:44,879
Speaker 4: They so many players.

506
00:22:45,040 --> 00:22:47,200
Speaker 3: Yeah, Dobbs played pretty well for him, Good for him,

507
00:22:47,200 --> 00:22:53,720
Speaker 3: But yeah, Carolina two. I'm not sure I've told you this,

508
00:22:53,800 --> 00:22:56,640
Speaker 3: but I really think that the Bears and Cardinals are

509
00:22:56,680 --> 00:22:59,399
Speaker 3: going to have like four of the first five draft picks.

510
00:23:00,400 --> 00:23:03,120
Speaker 2: Carolina scored twenty seven points in their first two games.

511
00:23:03,520 --> 00:23:04,040
Speaker 4: It's bad.

512
00:23:04,240 --> 00:23:06,359
Speaker 3: Yeah, I hate to say it, but he looks so

513
00:23:06,440 --> 00:23:07,320
Speaker 3: little out there.

514
00:23:07,600 --> 00:23:07,919
Speaker 4: Tiny.

515
00:23:08,000 --> 00:23:09,520
Speaker 2: I mean, he looks like did you see the thing

516
00:23:09,520 --> 00:23:11,760
Speaker 2: about their They're afraid that they can't run him on

517
00:23:11,840 --> 00:23:13,720
Speaker 2: quarterback sneaks because he's.

518
00:23:13,760 --> 00:23:16,720
Speaker 3: I think they flat outset it in the postgame presser, like, so,

519
00:23:16,720 --> 00:23:18,119
Speaker 3: why'd you bring Dalton a sneak? Oh?

520
00:23:18,119 --> 00:23:19,320
Speaker 4: Because he's too little? Yeah?

521
00:23:19,480 --> 00:23:21,080
Speaker 2: What Chicago?

522
00:23:21,720 --> 00:23:21,880
Speaker 3: Uh?

523
00:23:23,359 --> 00:23:23,600
Speaker 4: One?

524
00:23:24,840 --> 00:23:28,320
Speaker 3: I mean their decoordinator's gone to the quarterbacks on the

525
00:23:28,359 --> 00:23:31,560
Speaker 3: podium saying coaching is the problem. They had the first

526
00:23:31,560 --> 00:23:33,560
Speaker 3: pick in the draft last year, you know, like people

527
00:23:33,560 --> 00:23:34,719
Speaker 3: think that they're rebounding.

528
00:23:35,359 --> 00:23:37,440
Speaker 2: Look, well, they spend a lot of money in the offseason,

529
00:23:37,480 --> 00:23:39,360
Speaker 2: but it's not coming to fruition.

530
00:23:39,520 --> 00:23:41,960
Speaker 3: No. I mean, there's a couple teams in this situation,

531
00:23:42,280 --> 00:23:46,240
Speaker 3: but they're in contention for worst offense and worst defense

532
00:23:46,280 --> 00:23:48,399
Speaker 3: in the league. I mean, Arizona's probably there too, but

533
00:23:48,400 --> 00:23:49,960
Speaker 3: there's not many that can state that.

534
00:23:50,640 --> 00:23:51,360
Speaker 2: Minnesota.

535
00:23:52,680 --> 00:23:54,720
Speaker 3: I think they could get to like six or seven wins,

536
00:23:55,320 --> 00:23:56,359
Speaker 3: so I think they're a five.

537
00:23:57,440 --> 00:23:58,800
Speaker 4: But if they lose this week.

538
00:23:58,640 --> 00:24:01,280
Speaker 2: I could see I have no idea what the rest

539
00:24:01,280 --> 00:24:02,240
Speaker 2: of their schedule looks like.

540
00:24:02,240 --> 00:24:05,200
Speaker 4: Like the Chargers this week, but they've.

541
00:24:04,359 --> 00:24:08,840
Speaker 2: Played Philadelphia and week one, who Tampa beat them Tampa

542
00:24:08,840 --> 00:24:11,479
Speaker 2: Bay at their place. Yeah, uh, and this week they

543
00:24:11,520 --> 00:24:12,840
Speaker 2: play the Chargers.

544
00:24:12,520 --> 00:24:14,840
Speaker 4: Like, I mean, it's respectable.

545
00:24:14,840 --> 00:24:17,640
Speaker 2: You'd like to have that Tampa game back, I'm sure, but.

546
00:24:17,560 --> 00:24:19,160
Speaker 4: They didn't get blown out in either any.

547
00:24:19,080 --> 00:24:20,960
Speaker 2: Of the Yeah, they're they're minus nine right now in

548
00:24:21,040 --> 00:24:23,720
Speaker 2: terms of like they can move the football. It wouldn't

549
00:24:23,720 --> 00:24:26,680
Speaker 2: surprise me if they're a team that caught some fire

550
00:24:27,200 --> 00:24:29,159
Speaker 2: at some point during the season and beat you know,

551
00:24:29,240 --> 00:24:30,080
Speaker 2: upset somebody.

552
00:24:30,680 --> 00:24:33,560
Speaker 3: I looked at their team and thought, man, their defense

553
00:24:33,600 --> 00:24:37,040
Speaker 3: is going to be horrendous. And Flores I forget who

554
00:24:37,200 --> 00:24:39,000
Speaker 3: described them this way. They called him like a junk

555
00:24:39,000 --> 00:24:41,399
Speaker 3: ball picture, like he isn't a fastball to go to,

556
00:24:41,520 --> 00:24:43,840
Speaker 3: but he's figured out ways to get guys out. You know,

557
00:24:43,920 --> 00:24:47,320
Speaker 3: he's using vasiline on his fingers and nail files or whatever.

558
00:24:48,000 --> 00:24:50,520
Speaker 3: And they have the worst running game in the league

559
00:24:50,720 --> 00:24:53,920
Speaker 3: and cam Akers isn't going to kickstart it. But they

560
00:24:53,920 --> 00:24:57,280
Speaker 3: got Jefferson and Cousins and Hawkinson, and yeah they can

561
00:24:57,560 --> 00:24:58,639
Speaker 3: they can outduel you.

562
00:24:58,680 --> 00:25:00,679
Speaker 2: Like when when I keep seeing, well, you know they

563
00:25:00,680 --> 00:25:03,000
Speaker 2: could trade Kirk Cousins. They're going to be in it.

564
00:25:03,640 --> 00:25:07,280
Speaker 4: I say, if they go, if they lose this week, then.

565
00:25:07,200 --> 00:25:08,439
Speaker 2: They still won't be out of it.

566
00:25:08,560 --> 00:25:10,840
Speaker 3: Now, they won't be out of it, but trade deadline,

567
00:25:10,880 --> 00:25:12,719
Speaker 3: you might be like, eh, we're not going to resign them.

568
00:25:12,760 --> 00:25:14,720
Speaker 2: I mean everybody else in the division, like Green Bay

569
00:25:14,760 --> 00:25:18,600
Speaker 2: and Detroit are both one and one. Like if even

570
00:25:18,600 --> 00:25:20,439
Speaker 2: if you're zero and three, if you have a Vikings're like,

571
00:25:20,600 --> 00:25:21,439
Speaker 2: we can still win this.

572
00:25:22,240 --> 00:25:23,800
Speaker 4: Probably one of those will be one and two after

573
00:25:23,800 --> 00:25:29,520
Speaker 4: this week too. Yeah, you know, uh, the Chargers seven,

574
00:25:30,520 --> 00:25:31,520
Speaker 4: I don't trust.

575
00:25:31,680 --> 00:25:33,840
Speaker 2: I don't trust coaching staff at all. I don't trust

576
00:25:34,440 --> 00:25:35,760
Speaker 2: I just I just don't trust them.

577
00:25:36,000 --> 00:25:39,560
Speaker 4: No, the organization, the coaching staff, they'd be a five

578
00:25:39,640 --> 00:25:41,399
Speaker 4: to me. They have good players, though, there'd be a.

579
00:25:41,400 --> 00:25:44,280
Speaker 2: Five, but it doesn't matter. They've had good players.

580
00:25:44,119 --> 00:25:47,159
Speaker 4: Our whole life. Yeah, forever. They've had great quarterbacks our

581
00:25:47,200 --> 00:25:47,840
Speaker 4: whole life, you.

582
00:25:47,800 --> 00:25:53,520
Speaker 2: Know, right, any team had better quarterbacks with less results.

583
00:25:53,160 --> 00:25:54,240
Speaker 4: With less hardware.

584
00:25:54,320 --> 00:25:56,359
Speaker 2: And the one quarterback who took them to a super

585
00:25:56,359 --> 00:25:57,680
Speaker 2: Bowl is Stan freaking Humphreys.

586
00:25:58,280 --> 00:26:02,440
Speaker 3: Yeah, and even Breeze after he left went to one.

587
00:26:02,480 --> 00:26:05,560
Speaker 2: You know right, you had Dan Fouts, you had Drew Brees,

588
00:26:05,640 --> 00:26:08,680
Speaker 2: you had Philip Rivers. Now you have Justin Herbert's.

589
00:26:09,320 --> 00:26:12,240
Speaker 4: That's kind of like Ben Bradshaw and you can't win.

590
00:26:13,000 --> 00:26:15,080
Speaker 2: Stanton Humphries to take you to the super Bowl.

591
00:26:16,119 --> 00:26:19,840
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's really bad, and they never support them properly.

592
00:26:20,920 --> 00:26:22,520
Speaker 2: It's just a dysfunctional franchise.

593
00:26:22,600 --> 00:26:23,120
Speaker 4: But of all the.

594
00:26:23,040 --> 00:26:26,399
Speaker 3: Teams we talked about, they could still go the playoffs.

595
00:26:26,560 --> 00:26:27,640
Speaker 3: I mean, like, I don't think.

596
00:26:27,680 --> 00:26:30,080
Speaker 2: I don't know if they will put it this way

597
00:26:30,200 --> 00:26:32,840
Speaker 2: if they lose this week.

598
00:26:33,680 --> 00:26:35,800
Speaker 3: Yeah, see, I kind of think this is a loser

599
00:26:35,840 --> 00:26:39,119
Speaker 3: leave town match, Like if the Chargers lose and go, Oh, the.

600
00:26:39,160 --> 00:26:41,560
Speaker 2: Chargers find ways to lose. Last year, at least the

601
00:26:41,640 --> 00:26:44,440
Speaker 2: Vikings found ways to win these games. So I have some.

602
00:26:44,680 --> 00:26:47,000
Speaker 4: Trust factor there that's in their building.

603
00:26:47,280 --> 00:26:50,280
Speaker 2: If it comes down to it like that, that Vikings

604
00:26:50,280 --> 00:26:51,639
Speaker 2: team is going to look at this and go, well,

605
00:26:51,680 --> 00:26:53,919
Speaker 2: we've been in this situation before. We went eleven one

606
00:26:53,960 --> 00:26:55,080
Speaker 2: score games last year.

607
00:26:55,400 --> 00:26:56,439
Speaker 4: I think O'Connell's gould go.

608
00:26:56,520 --> 00:26:58,280
Speaker 2: I think the Chargers go the other way with that.

609
00:26:58,840 --> 00:27:00,719
Speaker 4: Yeah, I agree with all that stuff.

610
00:27:01,400 --> 00:27:04,000
Speaker 2: Now they've given up sixty three points in two games.

611
00:27:04,119 --> 00:27:05,560
Speaker 2: And he's a defensive.

612
00:27:05,119 --> 00:27:08,119
Speaker 4: Coach, their lasting defensive EPA. Yeah, and they got dudes,

613
00:27:08,200 --> 00:27:11,400
Speaker 4: he's a defensive defensive coach. Right, if he loses this game,

614
00:27:12,200 --> 00:27:14,000
Speaker 4: I think his seat is red hot.

615
00:27:14,440 --> 00:27:15,840
Speaker 2: It should be, it should be red hot.

616
00:27:15,840 --> 00:27:17,760
Speaker 4: Now what could be? Right? Now?

617
00:27:18,000 --> 00:27:21,600
Speaker 3: You own three with and they're another team that's all

618
00:27:21,680 --> 00:27:22,800
Speaker 3: in salary cap wise.

619
00:27:22,880 --> 00:27:24,160
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the point.

620
00:27:24,240 --> 00:27:26,840
Speaker 4: It gets really bad after their window. You know the

621
00:27:26,840 --> 00:27:27,800
Speaker 4: Browns are that way.

622
00:27:27,760 --> 00:27:30,600
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know we gotta If we're gonna push all

623
00:27:30,600 --> 00:27:32,240
Speaker 3: our chips in, you got to be the best poker

624
00:27:32,240 --> 00:27:32,879
Speaker 3: player you can be.

625
00:27:33,480 --> 00:27:35,120
Speaker 4: I mean, like, Minnesota is not getting fired.

626
00:27:35,160 --> 00:27:37,399
Speaker 3: They won thirteen games last year, but their their season

627
00:27:37,440 --> 00:27:39,679
Speaker 3: could take a different turn all of a sudden.

628
00:27:40,680 --> 00:27:42,800
Speaker 2: Denver four.

629
00:27:43,560 --> 00:27:44,120
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't.

630
00:27:44,400 --> 00:27:46,119
Speaker 3: I just don't see it. No, I don't know what

631
00:27:46,160 --> 00:27:48,440
Speaker 3: you hang your hat on. I think this is a

632
00:27:48,480 --> 00:27:51,600
Speaker 3: Peyton getting rid of the old bringing in the new

633
00:27:52,160 --> 00:27:53,360
Speaker 3: total transition year.

634
00:27:53,920 --> 00:27:57,679
Speaker 2: They're owing to at home right in Denver, in Denver,

635
00:27:57,760 --> 00:27:59,760
Speaker 2: in Denver, which gives you one of the best home

636
00:27:59,760 --> 00:28:01,560
Speaker 2: few advantages in the league.

637
00:28:01,280 --> 00:28:03,160
Speaker 4: And September you're zero to Yeah.

638
00:28:03,160 --> 00:28:05,159
Speaker 3: I mean it's a gift to get two home games

639
00:28:05,200 --> 00:28:07,520
Speaker 3: in that that altitude to start the season, and they

640
00:28:07,520 --> 00:28:12,640
Speaker 3: lost them both. Yeah, Now they go to Miami, I think, yeah, yeah,

641
00:28:12,720 --> 00:28:13,440
Speaker 3: they're gonna lose.

642
00:28:13,920 --> 00:28:15,960
Speaker 2: Now they get the opposite of that, they get the

643
00:28:16,000 --> 00:28:18,359
Speaker 2: game like that. Nobody wants to play in September.

644
00:28:18,480 --> 00:28:21,080
Speaker 3: Yeah, right, Like, no, I think it's gonna be a

645
00:28:21,119 --> 00:28:23,159
Speaker 3: really long year for them. Like Peyton's safe as could be.

646
00:28:23,160 --> 00:28:27,520
Speaker 3: He's make bazillion dollars whatever, But this is like you're

647
00:28:27,640 --> 00:28:29,840
Speaker 3: one of parcels rebuild type thing.

648
00:28:29,760 --> 00:28:29,959
Speaker 4: You know.

649
00:28:30,640 --> 00:28:33,800
Speaker 2: And the problem is first round draft picks they know

650
00:28:33,960 --> 00:28:34,600
Speaker 2: next year.

651
00:28:35,040 --> 00:28:37,240
Speaker 4: Well they have I mean, you've you've the young guys

652
00:28:37,240 --> 00:28:37,399
Speaker 4: on this.

653
00:28:37,480 --> 00:28:38,880
Speaker 2: You don't have the young guys because you haven't had

654
00:28:38,920 --> 00:28:40,760
Speaker 2: first round draft picks because you're married.

655
00:28:40,480 --> 00:28:42,560
Speaker 4: To Russ and this is something with him.

656
00:28:42,600 --> 00:28:45,000
Speaker 2: Yeah, Russ is now thirty five. You can't even you know,

657
00:28:45,120 --> 00:28:47,080
Speaker 2: go into this next draft. So we're going to get

658
00:28:47,080 --> 00:28:47,800
Speaker 2: our quarterback here.

659
00:28:47,840 --> 00:28:51,080
Speaker 4: No, right, you can't get you can't get bad this year.

660
00:28:51,120 --> 00:28:52,840
Speaker 4: I mean, but he's never gonna be the guy he was.

661
00:28:52,880 --> 00:29:00,720
Speaker 4: That was the Bullline Hall of Fame time, dude Houston two. Three.

662
00:29:00,960 --> 00:29:03,120
Speaker 2: I see, I was gonna say three, yeah, because I

663
00:29:03,160 --> 00:29:05,240
Speaker 2: think I think Streud has played well.

664
00:29:05,320 --> 00:29:05,880
Speaker 4: Yeah, me too.

665
00:29:06,520 --> 00:29:08,960
Speaker 3: I mean there's still stink. Their line could get healthy,

666
00:29:09,080 --> 00:29:10,200
Speaker 3: will get healthy time, But.

667
00:29:10,160 --> 00:29:12,560
Speaker 2: Now their secondary is all banged up, like they're just

668
00:29:12,560 --> 00:29:14,400
Speaker 2: being a little there's a little snake bit right now.

669
00:29:15,040 --> 00:29:17,240
Speaker 3: I know there's a side note, but last night I

670
00:29:17,240 --> 00:29:19,560
Speaker 3: made a trade for Nico Collins in my Dynasty League. Like,

671
00:29:19,600 --> 00:29:22,200
Speaker 3: I think he's real. I mean, he's playing extremely well.

672
00:29:22,760 --> 00:29:25,880
Speaker 3: He might be a number one or borderline number one receiver.

673
00:29:26,640 --> 00:29:27,640
Speaker 3: Tank Dell is a guy.

674
00:29:27,920 --> 00:29:28,880
Speaker 4: Pierce as a dude.

675
00:29:28,960 --> 00:29:33,680
Speaker 3: If the line's healthy, this could be the twentieth best

676
00:29:33,760 --> 00:29:36,120
Speaker 3: DVR offense when it's all said and done and you

677
00:29:36,200 --> 00:29:36,960
Speaker 3: have a quarterback.

678
00:29:37,040 --> 00:29:37,479
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know.

679
00:29:37,960 --> 00:29:39,400
Speaker 3: So I think they're going the right way. I just

680
00:29:39,400 --> 00:29:41,360
Speaker 3: don't think they'll win many games.

681
00:29:41,400 --> 00:29:43,400
Speaker 2: Cincinnati eight.

682
00:29:44,600 --> 00:29:47,160
Speaker 4: But it better happened like, now, I mean, if Browning

683
00:29:48,440 --> 00:29:48,960
Speaker 4: I'm gonna go.

684
00:29:48,920 --> 00:29:51,280
Speaker 2: Lower, I'm gonna go lower in a six because if

685
00:29:51,400 --> 00:29:54,240
Speaker 2: this I was watching, there was a video today of

686
00:29:54,760 --> 00:29:59,200
Speaker 2: Now understand, So the Bengals have their stadium, their practice

687
00:29:59,200 --> 00:30:02,360
Speaker 2: fields that they use are across the street from that.

688
00:30:02,680 --> 00:30:05,560
Speaker 2: They have to walk out and cross a little freeway there,

689
00:30:06,600 --> 00:30:08,240
Speaker 2: like it's not really a freeway, but it's like a

690
00:30:08,240 --> 00:30:12,600
Speaker 2: four lane or eight lane. Yeah, they show video of

691
00:30:12,680 --> 00:30:16,520
Speaker 2: him walking over. He's limping, he's got the he's got

692
00:30:16,520 --> 00:30:20,560
Speaker 2: the wrap on the on the leg and he's kind

693
00:30:20,560 --> 00:30:22,959
Speaker 2: of dragging that leg a little bit. If he plays

694
00:30:23,000 --> 00:30:25,240
Speaker 2: this week. First of all, they're out of their minds

695
00:30:25,240 --> 00:30:27,960
Speaker 2: if they play him this week, because he's not looked good.

696
00:30:28,280 --> 00:30:30,719
Speaker 2: He's looked like he can't move around in the pocket,

697
00:30:30,960 --> 00:30:33,840
Speaker 2: and you're risking more injury to that he needs the rest.

698
00:30:34,240 --> 00:30:36,480
Speaker 2: The problem is they should have done that from the

699
00:30:36,520 --> 00:30:39,240
Speaker 2: beginning of the season and he would be coming back

700
00:30:39,400 --> 00:30:41,440
Speaker 2: now perhaps ready to go.

701
00:30:41,720 --> 00:30:45,160
Speaker 4: And the other mistake they made is not getting a Bridgewater.

702
00:30:45,440 --> 00:30:49,160
Speaker 2: Yeah you know what, summer though, we said that's the

703
00:30:49,160 --> 00:30:50,560
Speaker 2: first thing he said, like why are you not You

704
00:30:50,560 --> 00:30:52,360
Speaker 2: should be calling Teddy Bridgewater.

705
00:30:52,040 --> 00:30:55,840
Speaker 4: Now or even trading the third round because you.

706
00:30:55,200 --> 00:30:58,440
Speaker 2: Knew your first two games of the season were division games, and.

707
00:30:58,360 --> 00:31:00,400
Speaker 4: You knew it was up in the air. Yeah, and

708
00:31:00,440 --> 00:31:00,800
Speaker 4: you knew.

709
00:31:01,280 --> 00:31:03,480
Speaker 3: And I wonder if some of that's just being frugal.

710
00:31:03,520 --> 00:31:05,720
Speaker 3: We're gonna give this guy a monster contract. We can't

711
00:31:05,720 --> 00:31:08,440
Speaker 3: have another contract in that room. But you mentioned it

712
00:31:08,480 --> 00:31:11,800
Speaker 3: off the air. They signed a quarterback today, Yeah, today today,

713
00:31:12,080 --> 00:31:15,200
Speaker 3: So I mean, if Burrow didn't play, or if Burrow

714
00:31:15,280 --> 00:31:18,440
Speaker 3: wasn't doesn't play, Browning was the only other guy in

715
00:31:18,480 --> 00:31:20,920
Speaker 3: the roster, and now they got some new dude.

716
00:31:20,960 --> 00:31:23,800
Speaker 4: But sure doesn't imply that he's gonna play or play. Well,

717
00:31:23,840 --> 00:31:24,920
Speaker 4: I didn't. They lose the Rams.

718
00:31:25,280 --> 00:31:27,720
Speaker 2: They've scored twenty seven points in their first two games,

719
00:31:28,120 --> 00:31:30,720
Speaker 2: and as I mentioned, they get a punk return touchdown.

720
00:31:31,160 --> 00:31:34,000
Speaker 4: They have total the whole team as they've they've scored

721
00:31:34,040 --> 00:31:34,400
Speaker 4: the offense.

722
00:31:34,440 --> 00:31:36,240
Speaker 2: They've scored twenty offensive points.

723
00:31:36,320 --> 00:31:38,680
Speaker 3: Yeah, the first game was really, really bad. The second

724
00:31:38,680 --> 00:31:40,000
Speaker 3: game was much better, and then he get hurt the

725
00:31:40,080 --> 00:31:43,240
Speaker 3: end of it the Patriots, so real quick. My only

726
00:31:44,040 --> 00:31:47,240
Speaker 3: the confidence isn't on the Bengals, it's just on his calf.

727
00:31:47,960 --> 00:31:50,080
Speaker 4: Well, yeah, that's I mean, but that's everything that's everything.

728
00:31:50,120 --> 00:31:50,920
Speaker 4: To me, that's the whole.

729
00:31:50,960 --> 00:31:54,000
Speaker 2: I mean, there's no there's no quarterback who's more valuable

730
00:31:54,040 --> 00:31:57,080
Speaker 2: to their team because they don't have a viable backup option.

731
00:31:57,160 --> 00:31:58,640
Speaker 4: They don't know have somebody you can win with right

732
00:31:58,680 --> 00:31:59,360
Speaker 4: off the bench.

733
00:31:59,360 --> 00:32:02,200
Speaker 2: Like if if Mahomes missed a couple of games.

734
00:32:02,200 --> 00:32:04,680
Speaker 3: They could squeak past the Broncos or something. Maybe you

735
00:32:04,720 --> 00:32:06,920
Speaker 3: know they did with Henny in the past, and guys

736
00:32:06,920 --> 00:32:07,080
Speaker 3: like that.

737
00:32:07,080 --> 00:32:09,360
Speaker 4: The Bengals don't even have that right. I mean, the

738
00:32:09,400 --> 00:32:10,280
Speaker 4: Patriots when they had.

739
00:32:10,200 --> 00:32:12,800
Speaker 3: Brady could get by with a Hoyer or whoever, you

740
00:32:12,840 --> 00:32:14,280
Speaker 3: know for a little time.

741
00:32:14,120 --> 00:32:16,080
Speaker 2: Because you trust the coaching staff to scheming up. I

742
00:32:16,080 --> 00:32:18,040
Speaker 2: don't trust that coaching staff to scheming up.

743
00:32:18,200 --> 00:32:22,040
Speaker 3: No, I don't either, even but if they go own three,

744
00:32:22,240 --> 00:32:24,360
Speaker 3: I might not care about the calf anymore, you know

745
00:32:24,400 --> 00:32:26,160
Speaker 3: what I mean? Like if they if it's browning this

746
00:32:26,280 --> 00:32:29,360
Speaker 3: week and Joe doesn't come back to week five, they

747
00:32:29,360 --> 00:32:32,160
Speaker 3: could be owned three to zero four. Your hole might

748
00:32:32,200 --> 00:32:33,560
Speaker 3: be two done you know already, Dug.

749
00:32:33,840 --> 00:32:37,160
Speaker 2: Yeah, the Patriots five.

750
00:32:38,040 --> 00:32:39,480
Speaker 4: I mean, I don't think they're playoff team.

751
00:32:40,120 --> 00:32:42,200
Speaker 2: I'd put them almost on the same level as Houston.

752
00:32:43,400 --> 00:32:45,520
Speaker 4: I don't think, more like a better version at Denver.

753
00:32:46,080 --> 00:32:48,400
Speaker 2: Maybe that's might be a better way. Yeah, I just

754
00:32:48,440 --> 00:32:51,239
Speaker 2: don't Yeah, Okay, they got a good coach, but they

755
00:32:51,320 --> 00:32:53,280
Speaker 2: like their defense. They don't have the they don't have

756
00:32:53,320 --> 00:32:53,840
Speaker 2: the horses.

757
00:32:54,280 --> 00:32:54,440
Speaker 4: No.

758
00:32:54,800 --> 00:32:57,320
Speaker 3: I mean, could they somehow squeak into the playoffs as

759
00:32:57,320 --> 00:32:58,120
Speaker 3: a nine win team?

760
00:32:58,240 --> 00:33:03,200
Speaker 2: No, I don't see it, not in the FC, not

761
00:33:03,200 --> 00:33:05,280
Speaker 2: in the a f C. Because they don't they don't

762
00:33:05,280 --> 00:33:06,000
Speaker 2: have the offense.

763
00:33:07,920 --> 00:33:10,120
Speaker 4: I mean, they're playing the Jets. That might be.

764
00:33:10,200 --> 00:33:12,880
Speaker 2: It's gonna it's gonna be in a rain storm too,

765
00:33:12,920 --> 00:33:15,080
Speaker 2: so that plays actually plays into the Jets hands.

766
00:33:15,160 --> 00:33:17,000
Speaker 3: I'd say it helps kind of. That's how both teams

767
00:33:17,040 --> 00:33:19,080
Speaker 3: want to play. Yeah, but it really helps the Jets.

768
00:33:19,280 --> 00:33:21,120
Speaker 2: Yeah, because they don't have a quarterback, Like, okay, we're

769
00:33:21,160 --> 00:33:22,000
Speaker 2: just not gonna throw the ball.

770
00:33:22,040 --> 00:33:23,440
Speaker 4: They'll both just hand it off and play great.

771
00:33:23,520 --> 00:33:25,200
Speaker 2: It's gonna be kind of like that game that they

772
00:33:25,240 --> 00:33:26,800
Speaker 2: played against the Bills a couple of years ago in

773
00:33:26,880 --> 00:33:27,240
Speaker 2: the wind.

774
00:33:29,120 --> 00:33:30,520
Speaker 4: Mac Jones never threw the ball.

775
00:33:30,640 --> 00:33:32,920
Speaker 2: He never threw that. He threw two passes the entire game,

776
00:33:33,000 --> 00:33:35,000
Speaker 2: and and the Bills kept trying because they couldn't run

777
00:33:35,040 --> 00:33:37,480
Speaker 2: the football. They didn't want to run the play Okay,

778
00:33:37,480 --> 00:33:39,160
Speaker 2: we're gonna keep trying to do this. Well, it didn't

779
00:33:39,200 --> 00:33:41,960
Speaker 2: work the Jets. The Jets wanted to want to.

780
00:33:41,960 --> 00:33:44,240
Speaker 4: Play that way. No, I have to now have to

781
00:33:44,440 --> 00:33:45,880
Speaker 4: and really the Patriots kind of do to.

782
00:33:46,240 --> 00:33:49,640
Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree. Uh so that's our state of the

783
00:33:49,800 --> 00:33:53,200
Speaker 2: league right now. He is Matt Williamson. I am Dale Lollett.

784
00:33:53,200 --> 00:33:55,640
Speaker 2: You're listening to the Drive here on Steelers Nation Radio.

785
00:33:56,200 --> 00:33:58,080
Speaker 2: We're gonna take a break. We will be back with

786
00:33:58,160 --> 00:34:03,200
Speaker 2: more right after this.

787
00:34:03,200 --> 00:34:06,640
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788
00:34:06,920 --> 00:34:09,120
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789
00:34:09,160 --> 00:34:12,040
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790
00:34:20,320 --> 00:34:22,720
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791
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792
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793
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794
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795
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Speaker 2: at shop dot Steelers dot com. He is Matt Williamson.

796
00:34:40,719 --> 00:34:42,719
Speaker 2: I'm Dale Lolly. You're listening to the Drive. You're on

797
00:34:42,800 --> 00:34:48,200
Speaker 2: Steelers Nation Radio and Matt. The Steelers are five and

798
00:34:48,239 --> 00:34:52,120
Speaker 2: eleven in their history on the road against the Raiders.

799
00:34:52,640 --> 00:34:55,280
Speaker 2: As our good friend Tim Bens will bring up quite

800
00:34:55,280 --> 00:34:59,160
Speaker 2: so often, here's the thing that included a three and

801
00:34:59,320 --> 00:35:03,399
Speaker 2: nine record in Oakland, in Oakland, in Oakland. Yeah, when

802
00:35:03,400 --> 00:35:06,359
Speaker 2: they played the Raiders in Los Angeles, they were two

803
00:35:06,440 --> 00:35:06,799
Speaker 2: and two.

804
00:35:07,400 --> 00:35:11,080
Speaker 4: Okay, so they played their film, right, they've never played

805
00:35:11,120 --> 00:35:11,760
Speaker 4: in Vegas.

806
00:35:12,000 --> 00:35:16,239
Speaker 2: They've never played in Vegas. Right, And in domes. How

807
00:35:16,280 --> 00:35:21,200
Speaker 2: about this little nugget. The Steelers in their history are

808
00:35:21,320 --> 00:35:27,080
Speaker 2: forty one and twenty in dome stadiums. Really, that's again

809
00:35:27,120 --> 00:35:30,000
Speaker 2: I'm no math mathematician. That means you're winning more than

810
00:35:30,000 --> 00:35:30,919
Speaker 2: two out of every three.

811
00:35:31,080 --> 00:35:32,319
Speaker 4: Yeah, right, right, right on the road.

812
00:35:33,520 --> 00:35:38,960
Speaker 3: Or that's their history. Seems like a lot of bad

813
00:35:39,080 --> 00:35:43,200
Speaker 3: organizations have domes. Well I could give you the run. Okay,

814
00:35:43,239 --> 00:35:45,319
Speaker 3: So Saints in the seventies eighties, you.

815
00:35:45,200 --> 00:35:48,160
Speaker 2: Know they're sixteen and twelve in the Astrodome, which is

816
00:35:48,200 --> 00:35:49,040
Speaker 2: no longer in use.

817
00:35:49,680 --> 00:35:51,799
Speaker 4: I mean they played for people don't remember they were

818
00:35:51,840 --> 00:35:53,680
Speaker 4: in the division. Yeah, at one point they played.

819
00:35:53,480 --> 00:35:55,759
Speaker 2: A lot of games there. Yeah, but the Oilers in

820
00:35:55,800 --> 00:35:56,800
Speaker 2: a lot of those games from.

821
00:35:56,640 --> 00:35:59,439
Speaker 4: Good I mean my dad, the Oilers from.

822
00:35:59,320 --> 00:36:03,759
Speaker 2: About nineteen seventy seven through nineteen. Yeah, we're really through

823
00:36:03,840 --> 00:36:06,080
Speaker 2: nineteen ninety. Really, we're good. Like most of those years

824
00:36:06,120 --> 00:36:06,600
Speaker 2: they were good.

825
00:36:06,880 --> 00:36:08,960
Speaker 3: My dad and uncles and said they would have won

826
00:36:09,000 --> 00:36:10,600
Speaker 3: Super Bowls or it was for the steel you know

827
00:36:11,000 --> 00:36:11,960
Speaker 3: Earl Campbell years.

828
00:36:12,040 --> 00:36:15,600
Speaker 2: Yeah. They were one and four at the Kingdome, which

829
00:36:15,640 --> 00:36:16,440
Speaker 2: is no longer in use.

830
00:36:16,560 --> 00:36:17,719
Speaker 4: Seattle, that was Seattle.

831
00:36:18,360 --> 00:36:21,279
Speaker 2: One and two at the Silver Dome. Didn't play a

832
00:36:21,280 --> 00:36:23,279
Speaker 2: lot of games at Silver Dome. Two and one at

833
00:36:23,280 --> 00:36:28,520
Speaker 2: the Metrodome, which is what that was Minnesota. Wo Okay,

834
00:36:29,600 --> 00:36:33,680
Speaker 2: two and four at the Superdome. Okay, they were a

835
00:36:33,719 --> 00:36:38,600
Speaker 2: bad organization for a long time. Same with Detroit. Six

836
00:36:38,680 --> 00:36:44,320
Speaker 2: and two at Lucas Oil Stadium slash Indianapolis.

837
00:36:44,360 --> 00:36:46,239
Speaker 3: Makes sense, kind of the same place. Yeah, but there's

838
00:36:46,239 --> 00:36:49,520
Speaker 3: some six yeah years there. Six and two is pretty good,

839
00:36:49,760 --> 00:36:50,919
Speaker 3: aren't good. Yeah.

840
00:36:50,960 --> 00:36:52,520
Speaker 2: They were two and one at the Georgia Dome.

841
00:36:53,160 --> 00:36:55,520
Speaker 4: Okay, that's not a great organization either.

842
00:36:55,520 --> 00:36:58,719
Speaker 2: Two and zero at the Edward Jones Dome, which that

843
00:36:58,880 --> 00:37:00,160
Speaker 2: was Saint Louis.

844
00:37:00,600 --> 00:37:02,160
Speaker 4: Oh, okay, I never already got that on them.

845
00:37:02,160 --> 00:37:06,800
Speaker 2: Oli test uh three and o at Ford Field, including

846
00:37:06,800 --> 00:37:07,480
Speaker 2: a Super Bowl win.

847
00:37:08,440 --> 00:37:11,120
Speaker 4: H NRG stated there, okay.

848
00:37:10,960 --> 00:37:14,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, NRG Stadium they were to they're two and one.

849
00:37:14,080 --> 00:37:17,080
Speaker 2: They play there next week. That's Houston. How about you

850
00:37:17,160 --> 00:37:19,839
Speaker 2: like this? They don't have where these places are at.

851
00:37:19,880 --> 00:37:20,480
Speaker 4: Just kind of you've been.

852
00:37:21,000 --> 00:37:23,560
Speaker 2: I've been to all these places except for Religious Stadium.

853
00:37:23,600 --> 00:37:26,840
Speaker 2: Elegias Stadium is the last stadium in the NFL that

854
00:37:26,960 --> 00:37:28,040
Speaker 2: I have yet to see a game.

855
00:37:28,080 --> 00:37:30,440
Speaker 4: That's active right now, that's active now, has.

856
00:37:30,320 --> 00:37:32,880
Speaker 2: Been active in the last thirty five years.

857
00:37:33,040 --> 00:37:35,920
Speaker 4: Wow. So there wasn't any like you missed that got

858
00:37:36,120 --> 00:37:38,799
Speaker 4: rector they moved or I've seen all these everyone.

859
00:37:39,400 --> 00:37:39,600
Speaker 3: Wow.

860
00:37:40,239 --> 00:37:42,399
Speaker 2: University of Phoenix Stadium, they're two and one.

861
00:37:42,680 --> 00:37:43,400
Speaker 4: That's in Phoenix.

862
00:37:43,440 --> 00:37:47,480
Speaker 2: That's in Phoenix. At and T Stadium, they are one

863
00:37:47,560 --> 00:37:47,919
Speaker 2: and two.

864
00:37:48,320 --> 00:37:49,200
Speaker 4: Where is that at.

865
00:37:50,000 --> 00:37:53,480
Speaker 2: AT and T is? Uh? That one stumps me now

866
00:37:54,200 --> 00:37:54,640
Speaker 2: I think.

867
00:37:54,480 --> 00:37:55,640
Speaker 4: That one's still in existence.

868
00:37:55,920 --> 00:37:57,880
Speaker 2: Yeah it is. They just played there in twenty twenty

869
00:37:57,920 --> 00:38:01,840
Speaker 2: eight and T google at and T Statedium would be Uh.

870
00:38:02,280 --> 00:38:03,520
Speaker 4: I can't think they'll find it.

871
00:38:03,760 --> 00:38:06,120
Speaker 2: Uh. They're on and one at SOFI, which is people

872
00:38:06,880 --> 00:38:09,799
Speaker 2: Come on, dude, they're screaming it. But I'm I'm having

873
00:38:09,800 --> 00:38:12,360
Speaker 2: a mental block here. A T and T Stadium is

874
00:38:12,360 --> 00:38:13,920
Speaker 2: that Minnesota? It's not Minnesota.

875
00:38:14,040 --> 00:38:17,160
Speaker 3: Arlington, Texas Okay, So that's that's yeah, that's your house

876
00:38:17,160 --> 00:38:17,719
Speaker 3: at Jerry Built.

877
00:38:17,760 --> 00:38:19,680
Speaker 2: That's Cherry World. That's why I know, but nobody knows

878
00:38:19,680 --> 00:38:21,840
Speaker 2: it is a stadium that's.

879
00:38:21,680 --> 00:38:23,640
Speaker 3: A bad investment by a T and T. It really

880
00:38:23,680 --> 00:38:25,200
Speaker 3: is because they're good called Jerry World.

881
00:38:25,280 --> 00:38:29,240
Speaker 2: Yeah, US Bank Sofi Stadium home one. US Bank Stadium

882
00:38:29,280 --> 00:38:33,279
Speaker 2: own one that's Los Angeles and Minnesota. The Mercedes the

883
00:38:33,360 --> 00:38:36,280
Speaker 2: new ones, Yeah, Mercedes Benz Stadium, which is the Atlanta

884
00:38:36,280 --> 00:38:38,200
Speaker 2: that's the new one in Atlanta. That's one they want

885
00:38:38,200 --> 00:38:40,040
Speaker 2: to know there. And then they'll they'll play at a

886
00:38:40,120 --> 00:38:43,560
Speaker 2: Legion Stadium this week. So sixteen different domes that this

887
00:38:43,600 --> 00:38:45,319
Speaker 2: will be the seventeenth that they've played in.

888
00:38:46,520 --> 00:38:48,919
Speaker 3: They've been a really good organization. I mean, they've good

889
00:38:48,920 --> 00:38:51,839
Speaker 3: records outside too, you know. I Mean, I think that's

890
00:38:51,920 --> 00:38:53,360
Speaker 3: part of it. And a lot of those teams, to

891
00:38:53,360 --> 00:38:54,279
Speaker 3: me are there's a lot of.

892
00:38:54,200 --> 00:38:56,400
Speaker 2: Games in the eighties there when the Steelers.

893
00:38:55,920 --> 00:38:59,719
Speaker 3: Work like a lot of astro turf, you know, turf

894
00:38:59,760 --> 00:39:03,400
Speaker 3: shoe who's you know that that era of domes were

895
00:39:03,400 --> 00:39:06,960
Speaker 3: getting big and Saints and Houston and those type of teams.

896
00:39:08,080 --> 00:39:08,520
Speaker 4: Interesting.

897
00:39:09,520 --> 00:39:12,560
Speaker 3: I wonder I'm sure that the answer is yes, but

898
00:39:12,640 --> 00:39:16,799
Speaker 3: I would think experienced head coaches Belichick, Tom and Reid,

899
00:39:16,840 --> 00:39:20,080
Speaker 3: et cetera have some tips for their team playing in

900
00:39:20,080 --> 00:39:20,840
Speaker 3: a dome versus not.

901
00:39:21,320 --> 00:39:23,600
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's different, it's a different environment.

902
00:39:25,280 --> 00:39:27,640
Speaker 3: I would also trust Ben in his prime more than

903
00:39:27,719 --> 00:39:30,080
Speaker 3: pick it in a second year. I mean, I'm sure

904
00:39:30,080 --> 00:39:32,680
Speaker 3: that there's some noise things.

905
00:39:32,400 --> 00:39:35,200
Speaker 2: And noise is definitely a bigger, bigger issue in a

906
00:39:35,239 --> 00:39:39,440
Speaker 2: dome than it is. Like the Kingdome was ridiculously loud,

907
00:39:39,920 --> 00:39:44,839
Speaker 2: the Astrodome was ridiculously loud. Orles New Orleans is unbelievable

908
00:39:44,880 --> 00:39:45,959
Speaker 2: because they piped the music.

909
00:39:46,200 --> 00:39:46,640
Speaker 4: They cheat.

910
00:39:46,680 --> 00:39:50,560
Speaker 2: I guarantee they cheat. Now I cheat that. I guarantee

911
00:39:50,560 --> 00:39:52,839
Speaker 2: they they use music. I know they use music as

912
00:39:52,840 --> 00:39:55,879
Speaker 2: a weapon because they they blare it when the when

913
00:39:55,880 --> 00:39:58,879
Speaker 2: they're when the other team's offense has the ball, they

914
00:39:58,880 --> 00:40:01,640
Speaker 2: blare the offense and betw in place or blair the

915
00:40:01,920 --> 00:40:04,160
Speaker 2: blair the music in between playces don't do that when

916
00:40:04,160 --> 00:40:05,799
Speaker 2: they when the Saints have the ball.

917
00:40:05,840 --> 00:40:08,840
Speaker 4: See, that's not cheating to me. I mean, if it's.

918
00:40:08,480 --> 00:40:10,600
Speaker 2: Gaming the system, let's put it down. That's what it is.

919
00:40:11,239 --> 00:40:14,040
Speaker 4: But if you would pump in crowd additional.

920
00:40:13,680 --> 00:40:15,600
Speaker 2: That's what they were doing. In Indianapolis, which is that

921
00:40:15,920 --> 00:40:16,400
Speaker 2: that's illegal?

922
00:40:16,480 --> 00:40:20,200
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, fair enough? Was it? Was it New Orleans?

923
00:40:20,280 --> 00:40:22,719
Speaker 3: You said, was the loudest place you've ever been, like

924
00:40:22,760 --> 00:40:23,840
Speaker 3: including rock concerts?

925
00:40:23,840 --> 00:40:27,000
Speaker 2: Well, because no, the loudest I've ever been was was

926
00:40:27,000 --> 00:40:29,839
Speaker 2: it in Indianapolis when they were piping when they were

927
00:40:29,840 --> 00:40:32,160
Speaker 2: piping the sound and sitting.

928
00:40:31,840 --> 00:40:33,480
Speaker 4: Next right next to speakers or something?

929
00:40:33,560 --> 00:40:33,880
Speaker 1: No?

930
00:40:34,360 --> 00:40:36,480
Speaker 2: Like, but it's opening, You're so the press boxes in

931
00:40:36,520 --> 00:40:37,720
Speaker 2: those places are open.

932
00:40:38,080 --> 00:40:39,080
Speaker 4: Most domes are open.

933
00:40:39,120 --> 00:40:41,239
Speaker 2: They're all open. All domes are open because makes sense.

934
00:40:41,280 --> 00:40:43,880
Speaker 2: You don't need to win those birds fly in or anything.

935
00:40:44,360 --> 00:40:48,759
Speaker 2: I can remember my ears rang that the Colts that

936
00:40:49,320 --> 00:40:51,640
Speaker 2: was the RCA Dome back then. Uh No, it's a

937
00:40:51,680 --> 00:40:53,840
Speaker 2: regular season game in ninety five or two thousand and

938
00:40:53,920 --> 00:40:56,920
Speaker 2: five when we went out there and it was so

939
00:40:57,120 --> 00:40:59,640
Speaker 2: loud you couldn't. I couldn't. You couldn't hear the person

940
00:40:59,719 --> 00:41:00,920
Speaker 2: sitting next to you talking.

941
00:41:01,040 --> 00:41:02,440
Speaker 4: Like if you and I are this close away at

942
00:41:02,520 --> 00:41:03,439
Speaker 4: arms like the way you.

943
00:41:03,360 --> 00:41:05,480
Speaker 2: Had to, I would literally have to get up in

944
00:41:05,560 --> 00:41:07,400
Speaker 2: your ear and yell what I wanted to say to you.

945
00:41:07,280 --> 00:41:12,360
Speaker 3: You might like write it down and hay.

946
00:41:09,040 --> 00:41:13,160
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I for for the next three days after that,

947
00:41:13,239 --> 00:41:14,840
Speaker 2: my ears.

948
00:41:14,520 --> 00:41:17,400
Speaker 4: Rang really like, it'd have been not fun to do

949
00:41:17,520 --> 00:41:18,359
Speaker 4: radio the day after.

950
00:41:19,920 --> 00:41:22,600
Speaker 2: It was awful, your like, it was loud enough that

951
00:41:22,640 --> 00:41:24,439
Speaker 2: your ears hurt.

952
00:41:24,719 --> 00:41:26,520
Speaker 4: So like, if you covered the Colts, do you think

953
00:41:26,520 --> 00:41:27,560
Speaker 4: you'd ever get used to it?

954
00:41:28,120 --> 00:41:30,200
Speaker 2: If I covered the Colts on a regular basis, I

955
00:41:30,200 --> 00:41:31,279
Speaker 2: would have worn the ear.

956
00:41:31,440 --> 00:41:34,200
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm sure if you if you go back, yeah, Like,

957
00:41:34,239 --> 00:41:36,880
Speaker 3: do you keep earplugs with you for road trips?

958
00:41:37,480 --> 00:41:39,759
Speaker 4: I don't know, Okay, you would.

959
00:41:39,960 --> 00:41:41,359
Speaker 2: I would have. I would have taken them that day.

960
00:41:41,360 --> 00:41:44,480
Speaker 2: If you remember, it was Ed Bouchette who broke the

961
00:41:44,560 --> 00:41:46,760
Speaker 2: new or broke or got them in trouble.

962
00:41:47,200 --> 00:41:48,880
Speaker 4: Oh, I didn't know. That's where it came from.

963
00:41:48,800 --> 00:41:51,200
Speaker 2: Because he was down on the field doing pregame stuff

964
00:41:51,520 --> 00:41:54,440
Speaker 2: and he noticed that they had the speakers or the

965
00:41:54,719 --> 00:41:59,720
Speaker 2: microphones all lining the field.

966
00:41:58,960 --> 00:42:01,719
Speaker 4: So the micrones just sucking the crowd noise and then

967
00:42:01,840 --> 00:42:02,400
Speaker 4: recycle it.

968
00:42:02,480 --> 00:42:04,520
Speaker 2: Pointed at the crowd to amplify it.

969
00:42:04,719 --> 00:42:07,120
Speaker 4: Okay, I see what you're saying. So the crowds they

970
00:42:07,120 --> 00:42:07,760
Speaker 4: were they were.

971
00:42:07,640 --> 00:42:11,520
Speaker 2: Illegally amplifying the crowd sound. You're not allowed to do that.

972
00:42:11,640 --> 00:42:12,719
Speaker 4: It's like they're recycling it.

973
00:42:12,800 --> 00:42:14,799
Speaker 3: Yeah, I yell into it and then microphone that comes

974
00:42:14,840 --> 00:42:16,400
Speaker 3: out of the speaker up above or whatever.

975
00:42:16,239 --> 00:42:19,880
Speaker 2: And then making of course making it louder and louder. Yeah.

976
00:42:19,920 --> 00:42:22,480
Speaker 2: So that was the loudest I've ever been in. But

977
00:42:22,680 --> 00:42:25,839
Speaker 2: the Kingdome was super loud. The astros should be towards

978
00:42:25,840 --> 00:42:30,040
Speaker 2: the field. Yeah, the Astrodome is super loud. Uh. You

979
00:42:30,080 --> 00:42:33,520
Speaker 2: know some of these places are just ridiculously loud.

980
00:42:33,560 --> 00:42:34,160
Speaker 4: No, no question.

981
00:42:34,440 --> 00:42:38,080
Speaker 2: I will say Mercedes Benz Dome and US Bank Stadium,

982
00:42:38,120 --> 00:42:40,520
Speaker 2: those are both enclosed press boxes now that they think

983
00:42:40,520 --> 00:42:43,880
Speaker 2: about it. Yeah, so they're domes, but you're but the building.

984
00:42:44,040 --> 00:42:45,920
Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, right, so home was Atlanta? What was the

985
00:42:45,920 --> 00:42:48,160
Speaker 4: other one, the Minnesota one? Yeah, okay, maybe.

986
00:42:48,120 --> 00:42:49,680
Speaker 2: Try to remember. Maybe so far is that way too.

987
00:42:49,719 --> 00:42:52,480
Speaker 2: Maybe that's a new thing with the with the new dome.

988
00:42:52,520 --> 00:42:53,840
Speaker 4: You don't know if the Vegas one is or not.

989
00:42:53,920 --> 00:42:55,759
Speaker 2: I don't know yet. I'll be very interesting. You have

990
00:42:55,800 --> 00:42:57,239
Speaker 2: to check this place out when I go out there.

991
00:42:57,280 --> 00:42:58,800
Speaker 4: But it sounds like it's a cool stadium.

992
00:42:58,880 --> 00:43:02,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, it looks great. I'm really interested in seeing that one, Matt.

993
00:43:02,719 --> 00:43:05,120
Speaker 2: Real quick, we here, we have the Steelers practice report

994
00:43:05,160 --> 00:43:08,280
Speaker 2: for today, and this will of course be the final

995
00:43:08,600 --> 00:43:10,000
Speaker 2: practice report for the Steelers and.

996
00:43:09,960 --> 00:43:11,200
Speaker 4: Then they're traveling tomorrow morning.

997
00:43:11,320 --> 00:43:14,719
Speaker 2: The only player listed is out Gunner Old Chefsky, he

998
00:43:14,880 --> 00:43:18,920
Speaker 2: is the concussion Devonte Kyz full practice, make a Fitzpatrick

999
00:43:18,960 --> 00:43:23,320
Speaker 2: full practice, Marcus Golden full practice, Darnell Washington full practice,

1000
00:43:23,360 --> 00:43:25,320
Speaker 2: and Larry Ogan Joebi full practice.

1001
00:43:25,680 --> 00:43:28,200
Speaker 3: That's it, exactly what you want to ye, And I

1002
00:43:28,239 --> 00:43:30,000
Speaker 3: picked on Gunner a lot, but if I could pick

1003
00:43:30,040 --> 00:43:32,120
Speaker 3: one guy that you don't have for this game, he'd

1004
00:43:32,120 --> 00:43:32,960
Speaker 3: be pretty high my list.

1005
00:43:33,080 --> 00:43:33,480
Speaker 2: There you go.

1006
00:43:33,680 --> 00:43:38,160
Speaker 3: Yeah, anyways, he is, here's what will look like this week.

1007
00:43:38,320 --> 00:43:40,080
Speaker 2: Well, you know Gunner is going to be one of them. Yeah,

1008
00:43:40,120 --> 00:43:43,120
Speaker 2: and of course Mason Rudolph. We're not going to play that.

1009
00:43:43,239 --> 00:43:43,880
Speaker 4: Yeah, right right now.

1010
00:43:44,760 --> 00:43:48,720
Speaker 2: I know some podcasts and websites and things of that nature.

1011
00:43:48,760 --> 00:43:51,319
Speaker 2: Let's guess the inactives who cares they're in active.

1012
00:43:51,320 --> 00:43:52,960
Speaker 4: They're going to tell you right before the game they're

1013
00:43:53,000 --> 00:43:53,719
Speaker 4: an active.

1014
00:43:53,840 --> 00:43:56,000
Speaker 2: Like they're not going to play. I know these guys

1015
00:43:56,040 --> 00:43:58,319
Speaker 2: are not going to make a difference in this game.

1016
00:43:59,040 --> 00:43:59,239
Speaker 3: Uh.

1017
00:43:59,239 --> 00:44:01,759
Speaker 2: Anyways, he is. Matt Williamson. I am Dale Allie. You're

1018
00:44:01,760 --> 00:44:05,239
Speaker 2: listening to the drive here on Steelers Nation Radio. Matt,

1019
00:44:05,239 --> 00:44:08,480
Speaker 2: when we come back, it is time to set our

1020
00:44:08,560 --> 00:44:11,279
Speaker 2: dfs lineup for the right. We are two and zero

1021
00:44:11,320 --> 00:44:14,279
Speaker 2: getting you in the money, so you might want to

1022
00:44:14,280 --> 00:44:16,880
Speaker 2: play along with what we do here. We'll get to

1023
00:44:16,920 --> 00:44:17,960
Speaker 2: that right after this