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Speaker 1: Your tunes about Drive on Home of the Black and

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Speaker 1: Goal Steelers Nation Radio. Welcome back down Dale, while we're

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Speaker 1: here with Mats Drive on the Steelers Nation Radio and

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Speaker 1: Matt's time for the Fantasy Football Focus. And with all

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Speaker 1: teams now practicing getting ready for a Week one, we

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Speaker 1: get to go around the league and look at who's

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Speaker 1: practicing who's not as we get into week one. Week

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Speaker 1: one I think is the hardest week for injuries without

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Speaker 1: a doubt, you know, because you can't be like, well,

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Speaker 1: I saw him play some last week, or I saw

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Speaker 1: the injury. You know, Godwin and Gallop and guys like that.

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Speaker 1: How far along are they really? You really trust them

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Speaker 1: to check that check that box on Sunday morning. Stop.

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Speaker 1: It's really tough. So let's run through some of the

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Speaker 1: injuries for today. Tray Kuan Smith, Yeah they are. Tray

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Speaker 1: Kuan Smith with the Saints did not practice on Wednesday.

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Speaker 1: He's dealing with a growing That one does not math.

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Speaker 1: Jacobe my Years though with the knee, was limited on Wednesday.

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Speaker 1: That one does matter. Do you think he'll be their

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Speaker 1: leading receiver? I tend to think yes, Yeah, I think

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Speaker 1: I think Mac Jones likes him. Yeah. Um, you know,

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Speaker 1: is he gonna score? Is he gonna score a bunch

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Speaker 1: of touchdowns? No? But you know you Compencili now, Penncylman

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Speaker 1: now for catches. Yeah, maybe a little under a thousand yards,

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Speaker 1: but he is. He was limited limited today. Van Jefferson

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Speaker 1: is out Week one against the Bills. Yeah, that's not

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Speaker 1: a surprise the first. I'm hearing a lot of these,

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Speaker 1: by the way, from Giovanni. Bernard with an ankle Whincher

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Speaker 1: was limited on Wednesday. He's listed his number four on

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Speaker 1: their depth chart. Yeah, we're talking about yesterday. But I

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Speaker 1: don't know that he's necessarily you know that that depth

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Speaker 1: chart necessarily matters because Brady's gonna have situation like where

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Speaker 1: he just says, I want I want Bernard in the

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Speaker 1: game now. Yeah, but I just think that there's a

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Speaker 1: four net Brady bond too, Like, I think that's good

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Speaker 1: news for four net. Like, yeah, I know people are

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Speaker 1: getting say about Rashard White, I'm not sure rookie receiving

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Speaker 1: backs and Brady Meshrol. Yeah, as soon as he doesn't

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Speaker 1: block somebody, Yeah, you know, it doesn't make the right

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Speaker 1: route adjustment or whatever. How about this one, Matt Chase

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Speaker 1: Edmonds with a groin, was limited Wednesday for the Dolphins. Wow.

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Speaker 1: I've been picking him up in all my leagues a

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Speaker 1: little earlier than I probably should. That's interesting. If he

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Speaker 1: doesn't go where he most, its value goes way up,

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Speaker 1: way up this week. And I don't know the nature

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Speaker 1: in Miami. There'suld be cramps. It's a groin that's that's

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Speaker 1: troublesome for a running back. Russell Gauge with the hamstring,

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Speaker 1: was limited in Wednesday's practice for the Buccaneers. His role

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Speaker 1: was anymore, I don't know either, but he's listed ahead

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Speaker 1: of Julio. Julio Jones is listed second team for them.

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Speaker 1: Gauge is listens as this the starting slot. I mean,

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Speaker 1: that's what he was before the Julio signing, and we

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Speaker 1: thought God would be out forever. Gauge was going early

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Speaker 1: in Bestball drafts a month ago, two months ago. I

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Speaker 1: think everybody sees him. I hope he'll just be Antonio Brown.

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Speaker 1: I don't think that's gonna I think he's yeah, you know,

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Speaker 1: and I do know Brady went and made a recommendation

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Speaker 1: to get him. George Kittle injured his growing on Monday,

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Speaker 1: and well he did not practice on Wednesday. I love

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Speaker 1: the player, he's hard to trust many, I mean nature

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Speaker 1: of the way he plays too. They say it could

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Speaker 1: be a game time decision. I guess if he doesn't play,

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Speaker 1: do you say, okay, Deebo Samuel Brandon should get more. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: but I still don't trust their I don't trust their

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Speaker 1: passing offense. Um. I think the bigger dilemmas many people

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Speaker 1: took Kittle in the fourth or fifth round. Maybe he

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Speaker 1: didn't even draft another tight end. You know you're gonna

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Speaker 1: Alberto or somebody will start, you know, if he doesn't go. Yeah. Um.

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Speaker 1: Chris Gobbin with the knee injury was a full participants

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Speaker 1: day's practice. I'd didn't see that coming a month ago.

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Speaker 1: I mean, all the news has been good. Some of

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Speaker 1: these like online doctors, and mostly I kind of trust them.

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Speaker 1: They have kind of said, expect Godwin's first month not

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Speaker 1: good Godwin's not so bad. Are you starting him this week?

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Speaker 1: You trusted enough to start. I mean you probably drafted

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Speaker 1: him as one of your top three receivers or you

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Speaker 1: I'll take the guy who I know is healthy and

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Speaker 1: wonder how much they've were playing possib that um hardball.

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Speaker 1: Wouldn't commit to Dobbin's playing in Week one, but Dobbins

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Speaker 1: Mike Davis and Kenyan Drake split Baltimore's backfield. That's not

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Speaker 1: an awful backfield. I mean they probably aren't. Drake and

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Speaker 1: Davis yeah, I mean they've been around the block. But boy,

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Speaker 1: could have been drafted two rounds too late and all

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Speaker 1: knew that he's totally clean. Um, that one doesn't ring. Uh.

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Speaker 1: Let's see early in the week. Obviously, Sterling Shepherd, with

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Speaker 1: I thought the news was kind of good on him. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: They always pulled a rug out from under you, all

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Speaker 1: those giants gas uh. Todd Boll said the team's tight

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Speaker 1: end production will be made up through running backs and receivers.

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Speaker 1: That's not good news if you drafted Cam Brait Hope

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Speaker 1: hoping he was all of a sudden gonna be gronk. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: really low productive room. Yeah. It's like thirty catches for

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Speaker 1: Cam birth this year, right right, help by guys blocking

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Speaker 1: more more four receiver sets, stuff like that. How about

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Speaker 1: this one. Michael Gallup returned to practice on Wends. I'm

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Speaker 1: a Gallop fan. I think that's great. If they can

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Speaker 1: get him playing even week two, week three, that's a

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Speaker 1: for them. And you know, with James Washington out and

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Speaker 1: very happy to see that. Absolutely. I saw this today too,

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Speaker 1: ideally I think would be Tolbert in the slot, gallop

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Speaker 1: that was interesting. Yeah, Alan Lazard undisclosed, did not practice

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Speaker 1: I mean, he might be fine, but I don't think

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Speaker 1: he's a very good player. Yeah, but he does have

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Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers. You know, we've seen over the years, one

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Speaker 1: I just don't think he's like fourth right now. I know,

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Speaker 1: that your conversation goes back to what I was just saying,

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Speaker 1: Logan Thomas was limited Wednesday's practice. That's actually good news

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Speaker 1: shorter title type of deals, right, I mean he's he's

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Speaker 1: a good player. No, he's a good player. Drake London drafted, yeah, Thomas.

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Speaker 1: Falcon's head coach Arthur Smith said they won't know until

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Speaker 1: the end of the week if Drake London will be

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Speaker 1: able to play in Week one against the same I

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Speaker 1: thought that was a foregone conclusion. But the first preseason game,

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Speaker 1: me super worried about that though. Mike McDaniel said, Jalen Waddle,

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Speaker 1: um time. Montgomery returned to practice on Wednesday for the Patriots, says,

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Speaker 1: of Stevenson stock. You'll like this. Zach Erzer turned to

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Speaker 1: practice Wednesday. Interesting, Yeah, there was league. I'm in with

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Speaker 1: For the first week, the Cardinals signed Trace McSorley to

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Speaker 1: other than that, he's fine. McCoy gets you out of games.

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Speaker 1: That's another situation where the Mason Rudolphs a better back

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Speaker 1: the value of quote McCoy, The been there, done a factor,

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Speaker 1: ut guy and love Colt McCoy, but whatever, that whole organization. Um.

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Speaker 1: Robert Sali said Zach Wilson will miss at least the

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Speaker 1: first four weeks of the season. Today. I don't know

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Speaker 1: if that's fantasy relevant at all. It's very NFL run. Well,

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Speaker 1: it's it's relevant if you own Jets players because Joe

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Speaker 1: Flacco is now the star the first month better, Like

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Speaker 1: if you're Elijah Moore is your third receiver, and we

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Speaker 1: all like Elijah More He's a good player. Sure, are

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Speaker 1: you happy or sad about that news? For a week one?

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Speaker 1: I don't know, all right, I don't know what If

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Speaker 1: you happy or sad about that news? I think I'm

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Speaker 1: sad at least. Want you want to see what Zach

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Speaker 1: Wilson is. Um. Yeah, So there's an argument Flacco is

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Speaker 1: the better player right now. I don't know that any

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Speaker 1: of us know. Ye Eagle's head coach Mike nick Sirian.

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Speaker 1: He said his concern level for Miles Sanders hamstring injury

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Speaker 1: but yeah, I would think Sanders will be all right. Um,

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Speaker 1: the Bill signed Dawson Knocks to a for your contraction

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