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Speaker 1: He's the Drive with Dale Lolly and Matt Williamson on

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Speaker 1: Gold SNR Steelers Nation Radio.

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

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Speaker 2: and it is game week. Man, go man, let's steal it.

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Speaker 3: Go here.

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Speaker 4: We are still opening nights, you know, prepping for the

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Speaker 4: Niners from Steelers. I hope everyone had a lovely Labor

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Speaker 4: Day weekend. And now it's time to get serious, man.

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Speaker 2: Real serious, and things are getting serious when the Steelers

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Speaker 2: are talking about the forty nine Ers. Mike Tomlin holding

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Speaker 2: his first press conference of the regular season today.

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Speaker 3: It is the regular season.

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Speaker 2: It is the regular season talking about you know. He

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Speaker 2: was asked about how do you prepare with what's happening

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Speaker 2: with Nick Bo, So he said, we have to prepare

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Speaker 2: like he's going to play.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. I think that's the only way to do it.

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Speaker 4: And what do you think, I mean, even if he

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Speaker 4: signs while we're on the air, can't imagine he's a

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Speaker 4: super high snapcount guy.

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Speaker 3: No, I'd say it by a year, I guess.

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Speaker 2: But I mean if he signs today, they would essentially

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Speaker 2: have three practices get on an airplane and fly here.

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Speaker 2: If he signs tomorrow, then it's down to two practices.

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Speaker 2: You know that this is how this this is gonna

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Speaker 2: go now. And so you know, from what I've heard,

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Speaker 2: it's not close.

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Speaker 4: I've heard it's not close. Yeah, and the Bosa family

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Speaker 4: has played hardball in the past. You know, Joey was

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Speaker 4: not just gonna take what the Chargers gave him. And

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Speaker 4: you know, Dad was an NFL player, Like they've been

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Speaker 4: around the block. They're not going to just lay down

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Speaker 4: and take, you know, whatever the team offers. I don't

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Speaker 4: know who the agent is, but I don't think it

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Speaker 4: is close. So I'm not implying he's not in shape.

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Speaker 4: I'm sure he works out every day and is in

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Speaker 4: tremendous shape, but he hasn't played football in a long time.

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Speaker 4: There's a different world.

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Speaker 2: They haven't seen him. He has been holding out basically

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Speaker 2: since July twenty fifth. They also have a new defensive coordinator.

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Speaker 3: This I was gonna say there is a new defensive coordinator.

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Speaker 3: I don't know.

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Speaker 4: I'm sure he could figure out what's going on. I mean,

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Speaker 4: third and eight, go get the guy and pick it's.

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Speaker 2: A safety missing.

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Speaker 4: I think his position's pretty easy for plug and play,

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Speaker 4: at least on pass rushing downs.

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Speaker 3: But I'm sure there's some new things involved.

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Speaker 2: Which you're probably not doing a lot of games with him.

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Speaker 3: I would think you're not running any.

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Speaker 2: Stunts and things that, wow, this is this new stunt

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Speaker 2: we worked on. You're not picking it up in.

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Speaker 4: Any game where he hasn't blind up next to Hardgrave

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Speaker 4: or Yeah. I mean, I mean it's small things. I

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Speaker 4: mean he'll get it. I mean he's a phenomenal player,

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Speaker 4: he'll get it. I mean TJ signed.

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Speaker 2: The he signed on Friday before they went to Buffalo,

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Speaker 2: but it was like different. He had been with the

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Speaker 4: Entire That's a good point. He was there at camp.

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Speaker 4: He was going in the outside linebacker meeting rooms and

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Speaker 4: all those things too. And it wasn't a new defensive coordinator.

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Speaker 4: But it's still I'm sure both will be fine. But

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Speaker 4: the chances of him playing every snap I think are

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Speaker 4: very slow or even ninety percent, like a normal number

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Speaker 4: of snaps. I bet it is a very slim chance,

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Speaker 4: and he may not be there at all. I'm starting

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Speaker 4: to believe that that's a real possibility.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, as this goes along, I'm just looking up his

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Speaker 2: snap counts here as we as we get to this,

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Speaker 2: how many snaps he played last year, I would bet

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Speaker 2: it's it was probably well over And they're a team

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Speaker 3: They have a lot of defensive lineman.

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Speaker 2: But you're not rotating in for the defensive player of

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Speaker 4: No, he's he's just like what guys. I mean, he's

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Speaker 4: splits when he's on and off the field, but they're drastic, just.

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Speaker 2: Like what they are five and ten.

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Speaker 3: I would say when you tested me that the other day.

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Speaker 2: He played seventy four percent of the defensive snaps last

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Speaker 2: year he played and they missed a.

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Speaker 3: Game, so they missed a game.

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Speaker 2: Of the year before that, he played seventy eight percent

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Speaker 4: So he's not a ninety percent snap guy to begin with, right,

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Speaker 4: which is on by design. They have a lot of

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Speaker 4: those guys. Drake Jackson was their first pick a year ago.

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Speaker 4: He's in a step up. But they're a very good defense.

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Speaker 4: I mean, if you dig in the numbers, you dig

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Speaker 4: into tape, it's a great defense.

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Speaker 3: But I think.

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Speaker 4: You know, their sack numbers were good, not great, but

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Speaker 4: he was almost all of them from the outside.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, like they're he was almost half their sex. He

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Speaker 3: was like half their sacks.

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Speaker 4: Him and Garrett ate up so much of their percentage

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Speaker 4: of sacks that they're noticeably different without them. And I

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Speaker 4: what the what they did when he was on the

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Speaker 4: field versus not, And it's TJ watt esk. I mean,

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Speaker 4: they're drastically different. The one thing I do remember, not

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Speaker 4: remembering the percentage, but the you know how the new

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Speaker 4: term is pressures, Yeah, which isn't exactly set in stone,

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Speaker 4: but the snaps he was not on the field for

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Speaker 4: last year, Like you said, there was twenty six percent

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Speaker 4: of them. Their pressure weight rate would have been last

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Speaker 4: I mean that's a big deal. I mean he's has

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Speaker 4: the watt like impact.

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Speaker 2: Well, this is a team that Steelers don't typically see.

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Speaker 2: A lot of the Steeler fans probably aren't super you

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Speaker 2: know who the stars.

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Speaker 3: Are and the stars are stars.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, let's go let's go over their line up here

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Speaker 2: real quick. So wide receiver, it's Brandon Ayuk, Deebo Samuels,

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Speaker 3: He does returning and so does play some steps.

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Speaker 2: And they have Ronnie Bell. That's their five receivers.

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Speaker 4: I think McCleod played four hundred snaps last year.

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Speaker 2: Played, yeah, significant amount of snaps.

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Speaker 3: They don't go three wide often. I mean they have.

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Speaker 4: They've trod out the same five skill position guys, probably

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Speaker 4: more than anyone in the league. And I think those

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Speaker 2: The offensive line, Trent Williams at left tackle, Aaron.

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Speaker 4: Banks eighty five or six maybe, yeah, Aaron Banks at

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Speaker 2: He was a second round pick in twenty twenty one,

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Speaker 4: I mean it's Trent and Williams and the Pips. Really

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Speaker 4: that's who that is. I know that they're pretty high

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Speaker 4: on Burford. None of those guys are brand named dudes.

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Speaker 4: I don't think any of them would start for the Steelers.

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Speaker 4: I mean they're not bad players, but I mean they

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Speaker 4: can put it in perspective. Trent Williams is the best

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Speaker 4: offensive lineman on the planet right now, but he does

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Speaker 4: miss time, you know, and he is up in age.

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Speaker 4: I assume he'll get high Smith all day long on

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Speaker 4: Hayward et cetera, I think is a big problem for

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Speaker 2: Would you run some games on that side to see.

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Speaker 4: Maybe because they are very young and you know, just

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Speaker 2: Being we want Trent Williams blocking.

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Speaker 4: Nobody, and you could even do over low Blitzz the

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Speaker 3: Make him pick, you pick and choose.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, I think Williams will win a very

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Speaker 4: very high percentage of his matchups, as he does every week,

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Speaker 4: no matter who it is. But man, I mean those

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Speaker 4: I think every one of them at a disadvantage.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. TJ. Watt against Colton mckivock's right. I mean that's

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Speaker 2: that's not even rough. Yeah, that's a middleweight fighting a heavyweight.

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Speaker 4: Same with Cam wherever. They just want to line him

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Speaker 2: Quarterback Brock Party, I think that to me. Look, I

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Speaker 2: get it. Brock Purty did well last year.

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Speaker 3: He did.

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Speaker 2: I think the Steelers have an advantage here.

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Speaker 3: I do too.

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Speaker 4: I'm not a Party believer. I do give him credit

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Speaker 4: that he played well. He had a good six games

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Speaker 4: make him the starter and move on from Lance and

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Speaker 4: all that stuff. But a couple of things that didn't

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Speaker 4: his arm is average on a good day, and that's.

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Speaker 2: His downfield passing stats were awful last awful.

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Speaker 4: Right, it's all over the middle. It's all after the catch.

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Speaker 4: They've led the league and after the catchyards for five

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Speaker 4: he orchestrates that well. But if you're going to make

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Speaker 4: comebacks and things like that that's not his game.

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Speaker 2: That was before.

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Speaker 4: It can't be better now, I mean it can't be

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Speaker 4: And then the other thing is he was very lucky.

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Speaker 4: Like one of the problems coming out of college is

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Speaker 4: he put the ball in harm's way a lot.

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Speaker 3: He's a risk taker.

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Speaker 4: Everyone thinks he's just a paint by numbers, do what

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Speaker 4: Shanahan says, you know, like a robot. But he will

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Speaker 4: playmake and he didn't get bitten for a lot of

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Speaker 4: his mistakes last year, and he will, I mean, he'll

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Speaker 4: probably make fewer of them, just like Kenny will. But

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Speaker 4: he's not for me.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you got then Kittle, Charlie Warner, rosta Willie at

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Speaker 2: tight end. It's really it's Kittle who's also dealing with

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Speaker 3: He's the other one that could miss.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I could miss his game. I love Kittle, Yeah,

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Speaker 2: I mean the health is an issue. Health is always

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Speaker 4: He's awesome after the catch, he's an aggressive blocker.

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Speaker 3: That love is it.

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Speaker 4: I mean all around tight end. I think he's the

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Speaker 4: best in the league. I mean, if if you call

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Speaker 4: Kelsey really just a receiver, he's perfect for what they do.

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Speaker 4: But he's fighting something right, and I forget what it is,

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Speaker 4: which is not good, not good, right.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, then you get McCaffrey, Elijah Mitchell, running back, Jordan Masonry,

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Speaker 4: Use Check played more snaps than any fullback in the league.

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Speaker 4: Well maybe Recard there, but they're they're both. When I

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Speaker 2: Yeah. I think you know again, when you take Bosa

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Speaker 3: Game plan, defensive game plan.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, this could be a highlight day for Minca without question.

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Speaker 4: So I think that Menca might do a lot of stuff.

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Speaker 4: Okay, there you go. I mean he's he's also your

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think so as well. And you let your

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Speaker 3: That he's getting off the ball.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but you got to make them hold the football.

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Speaker 3: Yes, I want him holding the ball as long as possible.

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Speaker 3: I can sleep at night though with that, you know.

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Speaker 2: You know, the Steelers did a pretty good job by that,

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Speaker 4: It's not like when they played Hurts or Josh Allen

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Speaker 2: Yeah, the Steelers lost that in twenty four to twenty.

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Speaker 3: That's the last time they played, right, Yeah, go after.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, don't allow Shanahan to dictate to you what you

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Speaker 2: To try to get the lead.

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Speaker 2: Welcome back. I am Dale Lolly. He is Matt Williamson,

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Speaker 2: and this is the Drive on Steelers Nation Radio. We

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Speaker 2: are the this is where you come to get to

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Speaker 2: this spot the games news. This is the place to be. Uh.

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Speaker 2: And well, we've gone over these a couple of times

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Speaker 2: over the offseason, Matt, but this be this would be

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Speaker 2: the initial power rankings for NFL dot Com going into

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Speaker 2: the twenty twenty. Yeah, so this there's just there's some

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Speaker 2: movement actually here today there should be and Eric ad

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Speaker 2: Hoolme doing these again. He did the last one for

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Speaker 2: the Friday. Looks like he's gonna take this over. At

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Speaker 2: thirty two. He has the Cardinals, and I think that's

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Speaker 2: a clear cut. Like I drafted Washington's defense in our

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Speaker 2: fantasy league.

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Speaker 3: I did. I picked him up in another league because

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Speaker 3: they played the Cardinals in Week one.

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Speaker 4: I might just try to stream that all year long.

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Speaker 4: You and I be fighting for the word. Who the

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Speaker 4: Cardinals got this week?

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Speaker 2: They're gonna awful.

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Speaker 3: They're gonna be awful.

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Speaker 4: I mean they're Hey, I'm rooting for Josh Dobbs, and

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Speaker 4: I think they brought him in there as a culture guy.

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Speaker 3: You know, maybe he's gonna be the mentor for Caleb Williams.

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Speaker 4: He's bigger two weeks, he's been there two weeks, and

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Speaker 4: frankly he's not a starter.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: I like their quarterback situations laugh atrocious, laughable, right, Like.

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Speaker 2: My Like, I saw a betting line that you could

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Speaker 2: you could get the Cardinals at plus two twenty to

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Speaker 2: have the lowest win totals in the league dish plus money.

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Speaker 3: You would think that'd be more than two to one.

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Speaker 4: I mean, there's you're fighting thirty one. Other team can

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Speaker 4: get it, but you're really you're really only fighting.

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Speaker 3: Like eight other teams.

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Speaker 2: That's a solid cycle.

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Speaker 3: The Billy can't get that. No Engles can't get that.

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Speaker 3: You know.

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Speaker 2: Uh at thirty one the Houston Texans.

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Speaker 4: I think it's gonna be a long year for Stroud,

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Speaker 4: but I think that they are improving. I was about

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Speaker 4: to ask you who would you put thirty one. I'm

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Speaker 4: fine with Houston. I think there's probably five teams you

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Speaker 4: could put there. When it's all said and done. I'd

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Speaker 4: bet they don't pick second overall, though, I bet they

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Speaker 4: pick eighth or seven.

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Speaker 2: Well, then might pick second order. Don't they have do

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Speaker 2: they trade away to picks they traded away.

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Speaker 3: They don't have theirs?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they trade there.

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Speaker 4: In this case, Arizona would pick one and two. They

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Speaker 4: would love that about that, Like we'll tay Caleb Williams

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Speaker 4: and Marvin Harrison Junior.

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Speaker 3: Like okay, if.

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Speaker 2: They If the Cardinals don't have the the number one

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Speaker 2: overall pick this year, it's because this team that number

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Speaker 2: thirty does. He's moved them down two spots to the

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Speaker 2: Rams are mine, and they get they play each other twice.

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Speaker 4: That's gonna be very important for the Caleb Williams Bowl.

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Speaker 4: I don't think when Cooper.

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Speaker 2: That's going to be a stink off. That's what that's

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Speaker 2: gonna be.

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Speaker 4: Oh man, I would put the Rams at two at

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Speaker 4: thirty one, like I bet Houston Picks has a better

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Speaker 4: a later draft position than the Rams.

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Speaker 2: And as bad as the Rams are, Arizona's worse, noticeably worse.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, noticeably worse.

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Speaker 4: I mean, so the thing about the Rams is, this

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Speaker 4: isn't what power ranks are about. You're talking about who who,

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Speaker 4: how good you are? Right now? They already have this

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Speaker 4: one injury. If it gets where it starts lingering, how

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Speaker 4: long is Donald Donald or Donald and Stafford gonna dress

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Speaker 4: without cup? You know, and you're losing games left and right.

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Speaker 4: That's what happened last year. Yeah, you could have stinker

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Speaker 4: City before long.

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Speaker 2: At twenty nine, down two spots Indianapolis.

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Speaker 4: I guess I might put the Raiders right in that neighborhood. No,

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Speaker 4: Taylor hurts, Yeah it does. I mean, considering the way

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Speaker 4: they're built, there's not a lot of backs that would

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Speaker 4: be like, man, I should move them down noticeably in

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Speaker 4: the power ranks. But they're gonna run the ball and

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Speaker 4: run the ball and run the ball, you know, and

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Speaker 4: the dudes run the ball or like what Dean Jackson,

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Speaker 4: I mean, like they're pretty strong and drop off from

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Speaker 4: Jonathan Taylor.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, at twenty eight, up two spots. Somebody had

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Speaker 2: to move up with those teams moving down Tampa Bay.

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Speaker 4: I'm a little higher on them than I was two

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Speaker 4: months ago, just because I do think Evans, Godwin Wurfs.

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Speaker 2: They that different though than the Rams.

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Speaker 3: I think they have more of those guys.

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Speaker 2: They have more of those guys, but there there's there's

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Speaker 2: those those star players.

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Speaker 4: But they have a lot fewer guys I've never heard

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Speaker 4: of too. Yeah, I mean the Rams have a lot

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Speaker 4: of dudes that no one's ever heard of. Some of

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Speaker 4: them might be good, that's the thing. Yeah, if you

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Speaker 4: can if three out of ten of the no name

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Speaker 4: dudes turned into keeper as well.

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Speaker 2: The thing is, I know Baker Mayfield isn't good, I know,

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Speaker 2: which is a problem, but.

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Speaker 3: He's a lot better than like what the Cardinals were

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Speaker 3: trotting adults.

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Speaker 2: But he's not better than Stafford.

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Speaker 3: No, no, no, he's not.

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Speaker 2: At twenty seven up two spots.

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Speaker 3: The Raiders offense will be good for now.

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Speaker 2: Another one of those teams that have some. You know,

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Speaker 2: you've you've got Davonte Adams, you know you got Josh Jacobs,

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Speaker 2: you got Max Cross.

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Speaker 3: Rosby, Colton Miller. Yeah right, they got they got some.

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Speaker 2: Just not enough of those guys. There's no middle class.

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Speaker 3: They have no middle class, that's right.

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Speaker 4: They really need two or three years of second and

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Speaker 4: third round picks being quality starter types.

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Speaker 3: And I don't think Jimmy will lasts two months.

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Speaker 4: No, you know, no, I'm sure. I bet eight O'Connell

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Speaker 4: plays eight games.

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Speaker 2: At twenty six down a spot. The Chicago Bears.

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Speaker 3: I think this is the neighborhood.

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Speaker 4: I mean, I know a lot of people are thinking

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Speaker 4: dark horse playoff team, even a Fields, who both of

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Speaker 4: us are believers in. Still, even if he takes a

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Speaker 4: almost hurts step forward, their defense is nothing like the Eagles,

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Speaker 4: you know what I mean, Their defenses.

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Speaker 2: It's just not the surrounding cash just isn't isn't great.

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Speaker 4: It's so much better than it's been for him, at

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Speaker 4: least on offense, they have a line in a running game,

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Speaker 4: and you know, decent receivers, but the defenses idious.

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Speaker 2: At twenty five up a spot. And this was before

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Speaker 2: the news came out about Brian Burns the Carolina Panthers.

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Speaker 3: What is exact news on Burns? Is he now holding out?

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Speaker 2: Looks like he is now holding out?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, because I thought they were close to a

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Speaker 4: contract months ago and then they weren't and.

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Speaker 2: He walked away and they said, yeah, okay, we don't

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Speaker 2: get this thing done.

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Speaker 4: I'm walking And their defense could be decent, but it's

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Speaker 4: not to the Bosa level we talked about last segment,

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Speaker 4: but he's by far their best guy. I think it's

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Speaker 4: gonna be a long ear on offense.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, there's the offensive skill position pieces are junk, the bad.

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Speaker 4: Line has been playing really bad, and you're right, I

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Speaker 4: mean the pass catchers are brutal, like if feelings you're

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Speaker 4: leading receiver.

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Speaker 2: At twenty four down four spots. Eric Hadaholme finally starting

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Speaker 2: to catch on here the New England Patriots rightfully, so

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Speaker 2: I think they're going to be awful.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean Juju Henry Parker, like those would be

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Speaker 4: your leading pass catchers. They actually I didn't realize this

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Speaker 4: till this morning. They're shuffling their own linemen all over.

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Speaker 2: They kept eleven offensive linemen on their final rush, so

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Speaker 2: they kept two running backs, one quarterback.

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Speaker 4: One quarterback, and they just traded for lineman Lake. Usually

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Speaker 4: you can at least count on the line to be solid.

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Speaker 4: They're not all big name guys, but they're moving dudes around.

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Speaker 4: I think Riley reef on Or they were counting on

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Speaker 4: him as either starting right tackle or guard. Like it's

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Speaker 4: still really uncertain.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's good. I think it's gonna be bad.

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Speaker 3: I think it's gonna be bad.

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Speaker 2: At twenty three up a spot Washington, I'm fine with that.

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Speaker 3: I think that's their neighborhood. I don't love that coaching staff.

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Speaker 4: I mean, I don't know if they'll get the most

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Speaker 4: out of that group, but I think how it might

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Speaker 4: be what you.

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Speaker 2: Think is gonna happen with Washington. You know the Paul

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Speaker 2: of Daniel Schnyder had over that. Yeah, franchise, it's gone,

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Speaker 2: like they sold out their opener.

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Speaker 3: Did that. That's great to.

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Speaker 2: Hear, you know, and and we're like plenty of time

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Speaker 2: to spare. They opened against the Cardinals. Oh well, right,

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Speaker 2: I mean and then they play Denver like nice.

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Speaker 3: That's a great way to get the stink out of

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Speaker 3: the building.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, I think I just think they'll have a little

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Speaker 2: pep in their steps.

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Speaker 3: I'm sure they will. I still bet there's some stink

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Speaker 3: in the building though.

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Speaker 2: Probably, you know, probably, but if you're Ron Rivera, you

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Speaker 2: got to feel like the weight of the world's lifted

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Speaker 2: off your shoulders.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but I also he was I think this could

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Speaker 3: be his last year there too, probably, you know, it's

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Speaker 3: a good chance. It's a dirty work. I don't dislike

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Speaker 3: where they're at, though they got guys too. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Uh, at twenty two up a spot Tennessee.

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Speaker 3: I'd probably have them lower.

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Speaker 2: That's this is about where they belong to. In that

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Speaker 2: twenty to twenty five range.

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Speaker 3: You'll win two or three that I don't think they

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Speaker 3: would have.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, they're ahead of the Patriots now that

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Speaker 2: they were before.

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Speaker 4: I would have Washington ahead of Tennessee. I don't know

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Speaker 4: about New England versus Tennessee. Tannehill's a professional quarterback.

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Speaker 3: He is.

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Speaker 2: And they got Jeffrey Simmons and they get some, they

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Speaker 2: get some.

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Speaker 3: I mean, Henry still is hard to put on the ground.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, I mean, who's a better quarterback right now,

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Speaker 4: Mac Jones or Tannehill. Tannehill has gone backwards a little lately. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 4: but they're the same, I guess.

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Speaker 2: In that neighborhood. Yeah yeah, uh at twenty one up

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Speaker 2: a spot Green Bay. I know you disagree with that one.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, I'm not in love with them, but

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Speaker 4: they were might pick to win the division. Love and

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Speaker 4: Picket are my two young quarterbacks that I'm pretty confident in.

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Speaker 3: I mean, I'm not saying they're Goicket. I love Picket.

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Speaker 3: There you go.

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Speaker 4: I think they'll be better than that. But I mean,

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Speaker 4: if you're power ranking, what are they right now? I

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Speaker 4: don't know what Musgrave and Red and it's very young.

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Speaker 2: They're kind of in the spot right now where the

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Speaker 2: Steelers were.

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Speaker 3: Last year, right, I think that's similar.

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Speaker 2: They get the only two starters on offense were over

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Speaker 2: twenty seven or Buck Tiari and Aaron Jones.

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Speaker 4: I'm almost certain they'll be the youngest offense in the league. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: and even with those two. So yeah, And I know

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Speaker 4: I'm a bigger Christian Watson fan than you, but I

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Speaker 4: read today if you look at his college and NFL

661
00:28:39,760 --> 00:28:43,520
Speaker 4: receptions over a five year stretch, He's caught like eighty balls.

662
00:28:43,680 --> 00:28:45,440
Speaker 3: And he's their number one receiver, you know what I mean.

663
00:28:45,480 --> 00:28:46,920
Speaker 3: Like he's not even a high volume guy.

664
00:28:48,080 --> 00:28:52,239
Speaker 2: A twenty up a spot Denver, I'd be lower on them.

665
00:28:52,280 --> 00:28:53,280
Speaker 2: I'd be lower on Denver.

666
00:28:53,400 --> 00:28:53,680
Speaker 3: Yeah.

667
00:28:53,760 --> 00:28:56,520
Speaker 4: Yeah, I have great respect for Peyton. I think the

668
00:28:56,560 --> 00:28:57,840
Speaker 4: stink of the building thing is.

669
00:28:58,520 --> 00:29:00,960
Speaker 2: I think he's trying to pound the square peg into

670
00:29:01,000 --> 00:29:02,719
Speaker 2: a round hole, though to a certain degree.

671
00:29:02,880 --> 00:29:08,400
Speaker 4: And I bet Wilson. What will Wilson rank quarterback wise

672
00:29:08,440 --> 00:29:10,600
Speaker 4: at the end of the season, Like, I don't think

673
00:29:10,640 --> 00:29:12,120
Speaker 4: it'll be twenty eight if it's.

674
00:29:12,240 --> 00:29:15,320
Speaker 2: If it's fifteen or sixteen, it was a successful.

675
00:29:14,920 --> 00:29:15,840
Speaker 3: That's what I was about say.

676
00:29:16,120 --> 00:29:18,920
Speaker 4: I think it'll be dead middle, which is a big

677
00:29:19,000 --> 00:29:21,160
Speaker 4: jump up, but still not worth of investments.

678
00:29:21,200 --> 00:29:22,000
Speaker 2: Awful last year.

679
00:29:22,240 --> 00:29:24,760
Speaker 4: The thing that people maybe I'm just missing the boat.

680
00:29:25,160 --> 00:29:27,000
Speaker 4: Everyone talks about like, well, we know their defense is

681
00:29:27,040 --> 00:29:29,000
Speaker 4: gonna be really good, do we do we? I mean

682
00:29:29,040 --> 00:29:33,080
Speaker 4: I like certain I like Simmons. They who the edge

683
00:29:33,120 --> 00:29:36,280
Speaker 4: rushers now? Yeh like von Miller and Chubb anymore. It's

684
00:29:36,280 --> 00:29:38,600
Speaker 4: a bunch of y But yeah, I mean even Jones

685
00:29:38,680 --> 00:29:40,720
Speaker 4: left the d tackle it'll be okay.

686
00:29:40,760 --> 00:29:42,160
Speaker 3: I don't think it'll be a great defense.

687
00:29:42,440 --> 00:29:45,120
Speaker 2: At nineteen down the spot, the Giants.

688
00:29:45,600 --> 00:29:46,720
Speaker 3: I think that's properly ranked.

689
00:29:46,760 --> 00:29:48,160
Speaker 2: I think that's where the Giants belong.

690
00:29:48,280 --> 00:29:50,080
Speaker 4: Yeah, last couple of teams you mentioned, I would have

691
00:29:50,080 --> 00:29:52,840
Speaker 4: the Giants slightly above. Yeah, I'm fine with that. I

692
00:29:52,840 --> 00:29:55,760
Speaker 4: don't love Daniel Jones, but he's hard to play against.

693
00:29:55,920 --> 00:30:00,240
Speaker 2: At eighteen down five spots the Cleveland Brown.

694
00:30:00,560 --> 00:30:03,800
Speaker 3: Good good, This is where they belong. That's where they belong.

695
00:30:03,880 --> 00:30:06,880
Speaker 3: I think their league average until proven different.

696
00:30:07,040 --> 00:30:10,440
Speaker 2: I keep seeing this stuff where in all these projections,

697
00:30:10,680 --> 00:30:13,600
Speaker 2: the Browns have a top ten lineup.

698
00:30:14,280 --> 00:30:16,520
Speaker 3: Do they I don't know about that. I don't know

699
00:30:16,520 --> 00:30:16,880
Speaker 3: about that.

700
00:30:17,080 --> 00:30:18,120
Speaker 2: I don't know that they do.

701
00:30:19,200 --> 00:30:22,480
Speaker 4: I'm such a dork. I've started my Brown stat pack already.

702
00:30:23,360 --> 00:30:24,600
Speaker 2: It's gonna make a quick turnaround.

703
00:30:24,640 --> 00:30:27,760
Speaker 4: Yeah, oh you know, I know who's coming. I mean,

704
00:30:27,800 --> 00:30:29,800
Speaker 4: some of the things about that team are crazy. I

705
00:30:29,800 --> 00:30:33,320
Speaker 4: mean their often I think Watson is only like an

706
00:30:33,360 --> 00:30:36,120
Speaker 4: eighteen million dollar cap hit this year, and their offense

707
00:30:36,240 --> 00:30:39,080
Speaker 4: is still by far the most expensive in the league.

708
00:30:39,120 --> 00:30:41,600
Speaker 2: I think that line's expensive. They're playing Amari Cooper a

709
00:30:41,680 --> 00:30:42,520
Speaker 2: gajillion dollars.

710
00:30:42,520 --> 00:30:44,960
Speaker 4: The running backs are second most expensive and the Joku's

711
00:30:44,960 --> 00:30:47,400
Speaker 4: like sixth, you know, like everybody else expensive.

712
00:30:47,840 --> 00:30:50,600
Speaker 3: And then he's sixty million for the next three years.

713
00:30:50,760 --> 00:30:56,520
Speaker 2: Yeah, as is Miles Garrett. They just renegotiated his deals.

714
00:30:56,560 --> 00:30:59,400
Speaker 2: Want to create space. Like they're they're they're I mean,

715
00:30:59,440 --> 00:31:01,440
Speaker 2: they're in into win it this year, but they better

716
00:31:01,520 --> 00:31:03,480
Speaker 2: and they're eighteenth in these rankings.

717
00:31:03,120 --> 00:31:06,480
Speaker 4: Right, it's I do think Watson will be better than

718
00:31:06,600 --> 00:31:07,000
Speaker 4: last year.

719
00:31:07,000 --> 00:31:09,720
Speaker 3: Well, I mean we've had he was like the worst

720
00:31:09,760 --> 00:31:10,080
Speaker 3: kind of lea.

721
00:31:10,160 --> 00:31:13,600
Speaker 2: We've had this discussion. Can he be Jacobe Brissett? Good?

722
00:31:14,560 --> 00:31:17,080
Speaker 2: Brissette was not bad last year. Brissette was a top

723
00:31:17,440 --> 00:31:19,800
Speaker 2: twelve quarterback when he played.

724
00:31:19,880 --> 00:31:20,040
Speaker 3: Yeah.

725
00:31:20,160 --> 00:31:22,800
Speaker 4: See, I think it's a different discussion than Wilson. Like Wilson,

726
00:31:22,840 --> 00:31:25,120
Speaker 4: we both said, I think he'll end up like fifteen

727
00:31:25,200 --> 00:31:28,200
Speaker 4: or sixteen. I think Watson will end up like four

728
00:31:28,360 --> 00:31:31,560
Speaker 4: or twenty. I don't think he'll be fifteen or sixteen,

729
00:31:31,600 --> 00:31:32,200
Speaker 4: you know what I mean.

730
00:31:32,440 --> 00:31:37,520
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's seventeen. The Atlanta Falcons. You taking the Falcons

731
00:31:37,520 --> 00:31:38,200
Speaker 2: over the Browns?

732
00:31:38,600 --> 00:31:40,560
Speaker 3: Not quite, but I'm a Falcons.

733
00:31:40,560 --> 00:31:42,080
Speaker 2: I think they could be a playoff team though.

734
00:31:42,400 --> 00:31:44,160
Speaker 4: Oh I'm picking them for the playoffs. Yeah, a lot

735
00:31:44,160 --> 00:31:46,240
Speaker 4: of its because their schedules really easy. But I think

736
00:31:46,240 --> 00:31:48,160
Speaker 4: that offense is pretty good. I mean they're gonna run

737
00:31:48,160 --> 00:31:50,440
Speaker 4: the ball. Well, I'm still not out.

738
00:31:50,360 --> 00:31:52,920
Speaker 2: Of the woods on Ritterer though, Yeah, that's the problem. Yeah,

739
00:31:53,040 --> 00:31:56,000
Speaker 2: it's sixteen down a spot the Saints.

740
00:31:57,320 --> 00:31:59,080
Speaker 3: I'm cool with that. I mean every time we bring

741
00:31:59,120 --> 00:31:59,360
Speaker 3: them up.

742
00:31:59,400 --> 00:32:02,160
Speaker 4: I think they're a league average team that should win

743
00:32:02,200 --> 00:32:03,160
Speaker 4: their bad bad debate.

744
00:32:03,240 --> 00:32:04,280
Speaker 2: They should win that division.

745
00:32:04,920 --> 00:32:08,560
Speaker 4: Do you think cars twelve to fifteen that's all said

746
00:32:08,600 --> 00:32:11,280
Speaker 4: and done. Yeah, I did too feel that.

747
00:32:11,520 --> 00:32:17,440
Speaker 2: Yeah, right at fifteen up a spot, Minnesota, they would.

748
00:32:17,240 --> 00:32:19,920
Speaker 4: Be lower than the last few teams for me. But

749
00:32:20,440 --> 00:32:23,440
Speaker 4: their offense is better than maybe any offense we've mentioned.

750
00:32:23,480 --> 00:32:24,320
Speaker 2: They can score.

751
00:32:24,400 --> 00:32:26,560
Speaker 4: They can score, yeah, and that's what you want. I mean,

752
00:32:27,280 --> 00:32:30,000
Speaker 4: they can throw the ball and if you got a

753
00:32:30,000 --> 00:32:32,800
Speaker 4: big time passing game, that's step one.

754
00:32:33,760 --> 00:32:37,520
Speaker 2: At fourteen, up five spots the Pittsburgh Steelers.

755
00:32:37,960 --> 00:32:39,960
Speaker 3: I like that they're trending up. I think they've earned that.

756
00:32:40,400 --> 00:32:42,400
Speaker 2: They essentially traded spots with Cleveland.

757
00:32:43,040 --> 00:32:45,760
Speaker 4: Okay, I mean I think they're a better football team

758
00:32:45,760 --> 00:32:46,640
Speaker 4: than the Browns right now.

759
00:32:46,760 --> 00:32:47,280
Speaker 2: I did too.

760
00:32:47,400 --> 00:32:49,160
Speaker 3: Yeah, I know, any problem with that ranking I'll see

761
00:32:49,160 --> 00:32:49,920
Speaker 3: who's right above them.

762
00:32:49,920 --> 00:32:51,640
Speaker 2: But what he says here, I'm starting to wonder if

763
00:32:51,640 --> 00:32:55,320
Speaker 2: this is too low. Yeah, the Steelers were hot down

764
00:32:55,360 --> 00:32:58,040
Speaker 2: the stretch last season, winning seven to the last nine,

765
00:32:58,240 --> 00:33:01,200
Speaker 2: including four straight at the end, and all they did

766
00:33:01,240 --> 00:33:03,480
Speaker 2: in the preseason was blow towards their three opponents. The

767
00:33:03,520 --> 00:33:05,880
Speaker 2: latter must be weighed carefully, but it's hard not to

768
00:33:05,880 --> 00:33:08,520
Speaker 2: see how fluid and explosive the first team offense looked

769
00:33:08,680 --> 00:33:12,320
Speaker 2: five touchdowns in five drives. The AFC North should be

770
00:33:12,320 --> 00:33:13,960
Speaker 2: one of the best divisions, and the forty nine Ers

771
00:33:13,960 --> 00:33:16,440
Speaker 2: will be a stiff Week one test, but the schedule

772
00:33:16,600 --> 00:33:19,600
Speaker 2: really does lay out nicely for Pittsburgh. All this depends

773
00:33:19,840 --> 00:33:22,280
Speaker 2: on Kenny Pickett making a year two jump. Also, the

774
00:33:22,280 --> 00:33:25,040
Speaker 2: defense needs to give up fewer big plays, but most

775
00:33:25,320 --> 00:33:27,200
Speaker 2: arrows appear to point upward.

776
00:33:27,680 --> 00:33:30,280
Speaker 3: One of the better write ups I've heard, he's been

777
00:33:30,280 --> 00:33:31,000
Speaker 3: listening to the drive.

778
00:33:31,280 --> 00:33:33,920
Speaker 2: We've been saying this the entire offseason, like, how are

779
00:33:33,960 --> 00:33:37,680
Speaker 2: people like everybody's on Detroit lookout Detroit finished last season?

780
00:33:38,880 --> 00:33:40,080
Speaker 2: The Steelers did the same.

781
00:33:39,880 --> 00:33:42,000
Speaker 4: Thing, and everyone just assumes, Oh, they have a brutal

782
00:33:42,000 --> 00:33:43,840
Speaker 4: schedule there in the AFC North, not.

783
00:33:43,960 --> 00:33:44,920
Speaker 3: So bad not so bad.

784
00:33:45,600 --> 00:33:47,680
Speaker 2: We'll get to that in the next segment. But when

785
00:33:47,680 --> 00:33:51,680
Speaker 2: we talked to a little DVOA. But at thirteen up

786
00:33:51,760 --> 00:33:53,320
Speaker 2: one spot the Seattle Seahawks.

787
00:33:54,040 --> 00:33:56,520
Speaker 3: I respect the Seahawks. I would have the Steelers ahead

788
00:33:56,560 --> 00:33:57,800
Speaker 3: of Seattle.

789
00:33:58,560 --> 00:34:01,360
Speaker 4: Miami and the raven of teams I know are coming up,

790
00:34:01,360 --> 00:34:03,320
Speaker 4: but I understand why people are hiring the Ravens, and

791
00:34:03,880 --> 00:34:05,480
Speaker 4: I think we're ahead of the Carve on that one too,

792
00:34:05,520 --> 00:34:06,120
Speaker 4: But we'll see.

793
00:34:06,440 --> 00:34:07,720
Speaker 2: At twelve are the Chargers.

794
00:34:08,080 --> 00:34:10,839
Speaker 4: I'm a Chargers believer. I think Herbert might be MVP

795
00:34:10,920 --> 00:34:14,120
Speaker 4: this year. Every year, every year, right, every year, and

796
00:34:14,320 --> 00:34:16,799
Speaker 4: he'll screw it up. But I think Herbert could win

797
00:34:16,880 --> 00:34:17,520
Speaker 4: MVP this year.

798
00:34:17,719 --> 00:34:19,040
Speaker 2: At eleven are the Lions.

799
00:34:19,600 --> 00:34:21,040
Speaker 3: That's way too high for None.

800
00:34:20,920 --> 00:34:22,600
Speaker 2: Of these teams have changed here though thus.

801
00:34:22,480 --> 00:34:24,000
Speaker 3: Far, so like I think the Saints might be better

802
00:34:24,000 --> 00:34:24,520
Speaker 3: than the Lions.

803
00:34:24,880 --> 00:34:26,440
Speaker 2: I think the Steelers are better than the Lions.

804
00:34:26,480 --> 00:34:29,719
Speaker 3: I'm certain of that. Yeah. Yeah.

805
00:34:29,840 --> 00:34:32,280
Speaker 2: At ten, down two spots the Jets.

806
00:34:33,320 --> 00:34:34,320
Speaker 3: I think they're pretty strong.

807
00:34:34,840 --> 00:34:38,760
Speaker 4: I'm actually I have not seen the latest whatever show's

808
00:34:39,080 --> 00:34:41,400
Speaker 4: coming on the HBO show. I think it's on the

809
00:34:41,520 --> 00:34:44,239
Speaker 4: night Hard Knocks, And that's not the only reason I'm,

810
00:34:44,440 --> 00:34:46,160
Speaker 4: you know, drinking the kool aid on the Jets.

811
00:34:46,160 --> 00:34:49,120
Speaker 3: I think they have a great defense, enough skill.

812
00:34:49,480 --> 00:34:53,000
Speaker 2: I mean, as he mentions here, though they face the Bills, Cowboys, Chiefs,

813
00:34:53,000 --> 00:34:55,920
Speaker 2: and Eagles prior to their Week seven by that's like

814
00:34:55,960 --> 00:34:57,560
Speaker 2: the Steelers schedule from last year.

815
00:34:57,640 --> 00:34:58,560
Speaker 3: It's the worst thing league.

816
00:34:58,680 --> 00:34:59,680
Speaker 2: I mean, that's awful.

817
00:34:59,719 --> 00:35:02,240
Speaker 4: I mean, but he's I assume he's doing power rankings

818
00:35:02,239 --> 00:35:05,120
Speaker 4: this way, he's not guessing your win loss records.

819
00:35:05,160 --> 00:35:06,279
Speaker 3: Is how good are you right now?

820
00:35:08,040 --> 00:35:11,400
Speaker 4: I think they could be a much better team than

821
00:35:11,440 --> 00:35:12,680
Speaker 4: their record indicates.

822
00:35:13,080 --> 00:35:14,560
Speaker 3: It's just an awful slate for them.

823
00:35:14,880 --> 00:35:16,680
Speaker 2: At nine up a spot Jacksonville.

824
00:35:16,719 --> 00:35:19,040
Speaker 4: It's a little rich for me too with their defense.

825
00:35:19,560 --> 00:35:22,319
Speaker 4: Little rich out of the Jets over them. Steelers versus

826
00:35:22,360 --> 00:35:23,200
Speaker 4: Jags is a conversation.

827
00:35:23,239 --> 00:35:24,840
Speaker 2: It's then on the offensive line.

828
00:35:25,400 --> 00:35:29,600
Speaker 4: Especially with the suspension backset or the secondary's week.

829
00:35:29,960 --> 00:35:34,239
Speaker 2: At eight up a spot, Miami, I get it. What

830
00:35:34,320 --> 00:35:38,279
Speaker 2: are you moving Miami up a spot? Like the last

831
00:35:38,280 --> 00:35:41,440
Speaker 2: time he did this, they didn't have Jalen Ramsey. They

832
00:35:41,480 --> 00:35:42,959
Speaker 2: had Ramsey. Now they don't.

833
00:35:43,120 --> 00:35:46,680
Speaker 4: Okay, now this doesn't matter for how good are you?

834
00:35:46,760 --> 00:35:50,000
Speaker 4: Right to second? I just think their offense is incredibly

835
00:35:50,040 --> 00:35:54,560
Speaker 4: fragile like their four most important guys are two Armstead,

836
00:35:54,760 --> 00:35:58,640
Speaker 4: both of whom miss consistent time, and of course Tyreek

837
00:35:58,680 --> 00:36:01,440
Speaker 4: and Waddle. If either one of those two stubs a

838
00:36:01,480 --> 00:36:03,600
Speaker 4: toe like they don't have a third receiver, they'll have

839
00:36:03,640 --> 00:36:05,840
Speaker 4: a tight end. They don't have a back, that's a

840
00:36:05,840 --> 00:36:06,560
Speaker 4: game changer.

841
00:36:07,080 --> 00:36:08,280
Speaker 3: I think they're a weapon away.

842
00:36:09,040 --> 00:36:10,400
Speaker 2: At seven, the Ravens.

843
00:36:11,160 --> 00:36:14,240
Speaker 3: That's way too rich for me, but I understand the respect.

844
00:36:15,880 --> 00:36:22,120
Speaker 2: At six are the Cowboys. At five down a spot Cincinnati.

845
00:36:21,920 --> 00:36:24,080
Speaker 3: I guess Burrow things lingering a little bit.

846
00:36:24,280 --> 00:36:26,680
Speaker 2: Yeah, and still no extension for Joe Burrow.

847
00:36:27,080 --> 00:36:28,839
Speaker 3: No wonder when that's coming.

848
00:36:29,360 --> 00:36:32,399
Speaker 2: At four down a spot, San Francisco.

849
00:36:33,320 --> 00:36:36,399
Speaker 4: If you're putting Bosa in the equation, it goes from

850
00:36:36,440 --> 00:36:38,480
Speaker 4: a top five D to the fifteenth best D.

851
00:36:38,840 --> 00:36:40,400
Speaker 2: Right, it makes a difference.

852
00:36:40,400 --> 00:36:40,840
Speaker 3: It does.

853
00:36:41,960 --> 00:36:44,000
Speaker 2: At three up two spots Buffalo.

854
00:36:45,560 --> 00:36:48,279
Speaker 4: I think I'm all in on the Bills this year.

855
00:36:48,800 --> 00:36:50,839
Speaker 4: I'm not saying they'd be one for me, but they

856
00:36:50,840 --> 00:36:53,040
Speaker 4: were my Super Bowl pick, semi reluctantly.

857
00:36:53,840 --> 00:36:57,040
Speaker 2: At two is Philadelphia and then one Kansas City. Although

858
00:36:57,400 --> 00:36:59,040
Speaker 2: the Travis Kelcey News, if.

859
00:36:59,000 --> 00:37:01,279
Speaker 3: You don't have Chris Jones, Kelsey you're not one.

860
00:37:01,520 --> 00:37:02,200
Speaker 2: You're not one.

861
00:37:02,280 --> 00:37:02,520
Speaker 3: Yeah.

862
00:37:02,760 --> 00:37:05,200
Speaker 2: Now, we don't know how long Travis Kelsey will be out.

863
00:37:05,480 --> 00:37:08,960
Speaker 2: I think he definitely misses Thursday, Thursday's game. Again, they

864
00:37:08,960 --> 00:37:10,880
Speaker 2: played two days from now and he hyper extended his

865
00:37:10,960 --> 00:37:11,520
Speaker 2: knee today.

866
00:37:11,600 --> 00:37:14,160
Speaker 3: No, it was today, right, Yeah, the news game out today.

867
00:37:13,920 --> 00:37:16,800
Speaker 2: Their final practice for the regular before the regular season.

868
00:37:16,960 --> 00:37:19,080
Speaker 2: If they played Sunday, he would have a chance.

869
00:37:19,000 --> 00:37:19,399
Speaker 3: A chance.

870
00:37:19,640 --> 00:37:22,080
Speaker 2: But you're gonna play. You're gonna play the Lions without

871
00:37:22,200 --> 00:37:26,160
Speaker 2: your two players who went to Yeah and Stars, and

872
00:37:26,200 --> 00:37:27,520
Speaker 2: you're gonna be playing without two of them.

873
00:37:27,560 --> 00:37:29,719
Speaker 4: They're probably in the top twenty. I mean, right, we

874
00:37:29,760 --> 00:37:32,399
Speaker 4: know that guy's won. Kelsey's the top tight end. Jones

875
00:37:32,440 --> 00:37:34,319
Speaker 4: is probably the best defensive tackle in the league last year.

876
00:37:34,360 --> 00:37:36,000
Speaker 4: They have other dudes, they have a running game, and

877
00:37:36,040 --> 00:37:40,000
Speaker 4: they have you know, no line man. I mean, if

878
00:37:40,200 --> 00:37:42,920
Speaker 4: if by chance they don't have Kelsey and Jones for

879
00:37:42,960 --> 00:37:44,920
Speaker 4: an extended stretch, I'm not saying they're gonna be out

880
00:37:44,920 --> 00:37:45,279
Speaker 4: all year.

881
00:37:46,400 --> 00:37:48,680
Speaker 3: If they if Mames gets them to eleven or twelve wins,

882
00:37:49,239 --> 00:37:50,640
Speaker 3: I mean, that's a remarkable.

883
00:37:50,719 --> 00:37:52,759
Speaker 2: The problem for them is if you know, again, we

884
00:37:52,800 --> 00:37:55,919
Speaker 2: don't know what the extent of Kelsey's hyper extended knee

885
00:37:56,000 --> 00:37:57,600
Speaker 2: is but what happens a lot of times when you

886
00:37:57,680 --> 00:38:00,239
Speaker 2: hyper extending the Yeah, you don't tear anything, but end

887
00:38:00,280 --> 00:38:02,799
Speaker 2: up with little bone bruise in there. Oh that's very

888
00:38:02,800 --> 00:38:03,960
Speaker 2: painful and can take a while.

889
00:38:04,360 --> 00:38:04,560
Speaker 3: Last.

890
00:38:04,640 --> 00:38:05,759
Speaker 2: Yeah, it takes a while to heal.

891
00:38:06,480 --> 00:38:09,359
Speaker 4: So I'm unfortunately for them. Well, I'll just say if

892
00:38:09,360 --> 00:38:11,520
Speaker 4: he plays thursday's got a long week. But I dot

893
00:38:11,600 --> 00:38:13,439
Speaker 4: he plays Thursday. Yeah, I don't think he does either.

894
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Speaker 2: But that is Eric at Holmes NFL Rankings there start

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Speaker 2: take a break here when we come back and we'll

898
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Speaker 2: talk a little DVOA with you.

899
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Speaker 3: Matt Nice. I'm into it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Aaron Shatts has his new dv OA out there

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Speaker 2: I'm Matt Aaron shats on FTN Fantasy now.

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Speaker 3: As opposed to it is dead, it is gone.

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Speaker 2: It is a former website to exist, and paying your

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Speaker 2: employees is helpful, you know. Get in my former parrot,

912
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Speaker 2: a former parrot.

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Speaker 3: Uh.

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Speaker 2: Anyways, so he took all his stuff to a new site.

915
00:39:22,800 --> 00:39:23,200
Speaker 3: New site.

916
00:39:23,360 --> 00:39:27,399
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, d v o A is out there now.

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Speaker 2: And I was looking at it today. Obviously it's preseason stuff,

918
00:39:31,800 --> 00:39:34,200
Speaker 2: but I found this little stat, these.

919
00:39:34,080 --> 00:39:36,239
Speaker 3: Little two stats actually nuggets that.

920
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Speaker 2: Cut my interest. So I'm looking here at offensive schedule,

921
00:39:45,080 --> 00:39:49,239
Speaker 2: upcoming schedule, upcoming schedule. These would be the schedules that

922
00:39:49,360 --> 00:39:53,319
Speaker 2: have the easiest slate of defenses that they face this year.

923
00:39:54,880 --> 00:39:57,040
Speaker 2: Number one, the Pittsburgh.

924
00:39:56,640 --> 00:39:59,800
Speaker 3: Steelers Number one. How about that? Now the Browns are second,

925
00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:02,560
Speaker 3: which makes sense they have similar play similar teams, right, But.

926
00:40:03,560 --> 00:40:07,960
Speaker 2: The Steelers number one in terms of offenses that are

927
00:40:08,040 --> 00:40:11,160
Speaker 2: defenses that they play against this year for the whole season.

928
00:40:11,400 --> 00:40:12,200
Speaker 3: Totally adds up.

929
00:40:12,280 --> 00:40:14,520
Speaker 4: I mean, just scanning the league off the top of

930
00:40:14,520 --> 00:40:17,600
Speaker 4: my head, I don't think the Ravens are as daunting

931
00:40:17,600 --> 00:40:20,080
Speaker 4: of a defense as they used to be. No Browns

932
00:40:20,080 --> 00:40:23,040
Speaker 4: looks better, Bengals looks good, but I don't think either

933
00:40:23,080 --> 00:40:26,680
Speaker 4: one of those is a great defense. Of course, that's

934
00:40:26,680 --> 00:40:31,880
Speaker 4: not even accounting for maybe a Bosa less Niner defense.

935
00:40:32,000 --> 00:40:35,920
Speaker 4: So you know, one of the toughest ones on your slate,

936
00:40:36,000 --> 00:40:39,040
Speaker 4: you're at least getting your worst guy. They're potentially their

937
00:40:39,040 --> 00:40:41,560
Speaker 4: best guy, not in the equation. And then there's the

938
00:40:41,640 --> 00:40:45,480
Speaker 4: Raiders and Cardinals and like some junk junk junk AFC

939
00:40:45,560 --> 00:40:48,399
Speaker 4: South you know, you know, there's not Tennessee is good.

940
00:40:48,719 --> 00:40:50,520
Speaker 2: I bring this up because if you look at it

941
00:40:50,800 --> 00:40:53,799
Speaker 2: from the defensive side of things, offenses that you face

942
00:40:53,880 --> 00:40:55,719
Speaker 2: this year, the Steelers are.

943
00:40:55,640 --> 00:40:57,840
Speaker 3: Second there, second easiest, so they get.

944
00:40:57,680 --> 00:41:02,600
Speaker 2: The first easiest offensive schedule and the second easiest defensive schedule.

945
00:41:03,120 --> 00:41:06,040
Speaker 2: And people haven't put these numbers to put two and

946
00:41:06,080 --> 00:41:08,320
Speaker 2: two together with this yet. I know we've been talking

947
00:41:08,360 --> 00:41:10,399
Speaker 2: about this all off season.

948
00:41:10,120 --> 00:41:11,759
Speaker 4: So as the schedule came out, we started breaking these

949
00:41:11,800 --> 00:41:16,080
Speaker 4: things down. That'sot that great. And even the quarterbacks they face, yes,

950
00:41:16,120 --> 00:41:20,160
Speaker 4: the division quarterbacks are really good, but besides Lawrence, who

951
00:41:20,200 --> 00:41:22,719
Speaker 4: else even a Tier one guy.

952
00:41:22,520 --> 00:41:26,280
Speaker 2: You know, Smith is the next best guy again.

953
00:41:26,440 --> 00:41:27,440
Speaker 3: Is not great.

954
00:41:28,160 --> 00:41:32,239
Speaker 4: That's interesting, you know, because I forget where they ended up,

955
00:41:32,320 --> 00:41:34,680
Speaker 4: but I did it for my stat pack here. If

956
00:41:34,680 --> 00:41:39,120
Speaker 4: you look just at DVOA last year, they basically played

957
00:41:39,120 --> 00:41:41,560
Speaker 4: the hardest schedule in the league, and both sides of

958
00:41:41,600 --> 00:41:44,640
Speaker 4: the ball, they were on the opposite end of that spectrum.

959
00:41:44,960 --> 00:41:46,800
Speaker 4: And folks, if you don't think that matters your nuts,

960
00:41:47,080 --> 00:41:50,200
Speaker 4: I mean yeah, And last year is like this year is,

961
00:41:50,239 --> 00:41:54,360
Speaker 4: of course, is subject to change. I mean, Deshaun Watson

962
00:41:54,360 --> 00:41:55,840
Speaker 4: could get hurt this week and you don't even play it,

963
00:41:55,840 --> 00:41:57,360
Speaker 4: you know, I mean, like things are going to happen

964
00:41:57,840 --> 00:42:03,239
Speaker 4: to change the outlook. Last year's is how everything ended up.

965
00:42:03,360 --> 00:42:05,480
Speaker 4: You know, the Steelers ended up with like the hardest

966
00:42:05,480 --> 00:42:08,160
Speaker 4: schedule on both sides of the ball, give or take,

967
00:42:08,239 --> 00:42:11,960
Speaker 4: you know, two three right in that neighborhood. So I

968
00:42:12,040 --> 00:42:14,160
Speaker 4: understand that the schedule last year was easier in the

969
00:42:14,160 --> 00:42:17,320
Speaker 4: second half than the first half. But it wasn't a cakewalk.

970
00:42:17,680 --> 00:42:19,560
Speaker 4: I mean, it wasn't like they were playing the Cardinals

971
00:42:19,600 --> 00:42:21,919
Speaker 4: in Houston every week at the end of last year either.

972
00:42:22,040 --> 00:42:23,920
Speaker 4: And when you look at the entire body of work,

973
00:42:24,320 --> 00:42:28,640
Speaker 4: it's pretty impressive considering the level of opponents they had

974
00:42:28,680 --> 00:42:30,719
Speaker 4: to play against. And on the flip side and This

975
00:42:30,760 --> 00:42:33,560
Speaker 4: doesn't mean that they were fluke. The Niners had a

976
00:42:33,719 --> 00:42:36,160
Speaker 4: crazy easy schedule last year. So like a lot of

977
00:42:36,160 --> 00:42:38,080
Speaker 4: the numbers from last year, you at least have to

978
00:42:38,120 --> 00:42:40,560
Speaker 4: remember you played easier guys than we did.

979
00:42:40,760 --> 00:42:44,359
Speaker 2: Yeah. If you look at the Steelers schedule from last year,

980
00:42:44,360 --> 00:42:45,160
Speaker 2: this again.

981
00:42:45,000 --> 00:42:47,560
Speaker 3: According to DVOA final ranks.

982
00:42:47,440 --> 00:42:50,440
Speaker 2: The hardest in the league at six point five percent.

983
00:42:51,640 --> 00:42:53,840
Speaker 2: The Jets were second at five point nine percent, the

984
00:42:54,120 --> 00:42:56,839
Speaker 2: Bend the Bengals at four point seven. Like you see

985
00:42:56,840 --> 00:42:59,200
Speaker 2: the drop off there? You know again, these are they

986
00:42:59,320 --> 00:43:02,840
Speaker 2: They played fully the same teams as each other, but

987
00:43:02,840 --> 00:43:06,239
Speaker 2: there were some differences there, and those differences were significant.

988
00:43:06,600 --> 00:43:09,560
Speaker 2: The Browns, by the way, had the fifth easiest schedule

989
00:43:09,719 --> 00:43:13,640
Speaker 2: or fifth hardest schedule. Yeah, and the Ravens had the

990
00:43:13,680 --> 00:43:15,719
Speaker 2: easiest schedule in the division. Well, I think you can

991
00:43:15,760 --> 00:43:16,680
Speaker 2: flip that this year.

992
00:43:17,120 --> 00:43:19,800
Speaker 3: I think so too. The best, no question.

993
00:43:20,000 --> 00:43:24,960
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm not a Watson apologist with the Browns, but

994
00:43:25,040 --> 00:43:27,000
Speaker 4: again I did do a little bit of homework on him,

995
00:43:27,080 --> 00:43:30,239
Speaker 4: and frankly, he was awful as a starting quarterback there.

996
00:43:30,280 --> 00:43:33,560
Speaker 4: Everything was much worse with their offense, but I guess

997
00:43:33,880 --> 00:43:37,160
Speaker 4: his stretch was all their hardest games they played in

998
00:43:37,280 --> 00:43:39,120
Speaker 4: extreme wind and bad weather.

999
00:43:40,520 --> 00:43:42,359
Speaker 2: He still looked like garbage. He still look he looked

1000
00:43:42,400 --> 00:43:46,000
Speaker 2: like garbage against the Steelers in the final game last year, garbage.

1001
00:43:46,280 --> 00:43:48,520
Speaker 2: The Steelers won that going away twenty eight to fourteen.

1002
00:43:49,560 --> 00:43:53,080
Speaker 2: No again again, they could have sacked him fifteen times

1003
00:43:53,080 --> 00:43:53,520
Speaker 2: in that game.

1004
00:43:53,640 --> 00:43:55,759
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's another thing he's been doing, is he holds

1005
00:43:55,760 --> 00:43:58,239
Speaker 4: the ball still a very long time, and it's bad

1006
00:43:58,360 --> 00:43:59,000
Speaker 4: late in the down.

1007
00:43:59,080 --> 00:44:01,439
Speaker 2: But we'll talk Browns and that was you know, people

1008
00:44:01,560 --> 00:44:03,080
Speaker 2: kept saying, well, it's just gonna take him a while

1009
00:44:03,120 --> 00:44:04,239
Speaker 2: to get his footing under him.

1010
00:44:04,239 --> 00:44:04,400
Speaker 3: You know.

1011
00:44:04,920 --> 00:44:06,799
Speaker 2: That was their last game of the season, and he

1012
00:44:06,840 --> 00:44:07,560
Speaker 2: looked like garbage.

1013
00:44:07,640 --> 00:44:09,880
Speaker 3: It was horrible. Yeah, Well, like each game was a

1014
00:44:09,880 --> 00:44:12,319
Speaker 3: little better than the last. No, No, because I saw

1015
00:44:12,360 --> 00:44:13,000
Speaker 3: some of that too.

1016
00:44:13,040 --> 00:44:15,320
Speaker 2: Well, he could play better as it went along. Really,

1017
00:44:16,000 --> 00:44:17,680
Speaker 2: I didn't think so, because he looked like he looked

1018
00:44:17,680 --> 00:44:19,760
Speaker 2: at his worst in that final game against the Steelers.

1019
00:44:20,000 --> 00:44:22,440
Speaker 3: He looked pretty bad. I mean, they beat him up,

1020
00:44:22,480 --> 00:44:23,319
Speaker 3: They did beat him up.

1021
00:44:23,320 --> 00:44:25,960
Speaker 4: So but no, I think that stuff really matters. I mean,

1022
00:44:26,080 --> 00:44:30,480
Speaker 4: especially again, last year's is done. This year's is really promising.

1023
00:44:31,320 --> 00:44:33,080
Speaker 3: I think the Steelers are set up great this year.

1024
00:44:33,440 --> 00:44:38,480
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean again, when you have the easiest offensive

1025
00:44:38,480 --> 00:44:40,560
Speaker 2: schedule and the number two defensive skal, how does this?

1026
00:44:40,719 --> 00:44:43,000
Speaker 2: How do people not I just don't get how they're

1027
00:44:43,000 --> 00:44:45,960
Speaker 2: not seeing this, this molding and this melting here. Yeah,

1028
00:44:46,080 --> 00:44:48,799
Speaker 2: you play six games within your division, but that's only

1029
00:44:48,880 --> 00:44:50,880
Speaker 2: thirty five percent of your schedule.

1030
00:44:51,200 --> 00:44:54,040
Speaker 4: I'm gonna do a little pet project tonight and just

1031
00:44:54,200 --> 00:44:59,040
Speaker 4: cut and paste the upcoming offenses upcoming defenses from DVOA

1032
00:44:59,600 --> 00:45:01,600
Speaker 4: and just look, are there any other teams out there

1033
00:45:01,600 --> 00:45:02,920
Speaker 4: that are really extreme?

1034
00:45:03,160 --> 00:45:04,000
Speaker 3: Like the Steelers.

1035
00:45:04,800 --> 00:45:07,520
Speaker 4: Wow, they play the thirtieth best defense and the thirty

1036
00:45:07,560 --> 00:45:10,040
Speaker 4: first best offense, Like, maybe they're not gonna win as

1037
00:45:10,080 --> 00:45:13,120
Speaker 4: many games as we thought, or vice versa. You know, like, man,

1038
00:45:13,160 --> 00:45:16,279
Speaker 4: they played unbelievably easy slate of offenses. But you know,

1039
00:45:16,920 --> 00:45:20,000
Speaker 4: I'm on top of strength of schedule overall, but I'm

1040
00:45:20,040 --> 00:45:22,600
Speaker 4: not in terms of broking it down to offense to defense.

1041
00:45:22,640 --> 00:45:24,440
Speaker 3: I might fiddle with that in a little spreadsheet to night.

1042
00:45:24,520 --> 00:45:27,239
Speaker 2: I'm just looking here at the bottom ten teams in

1043
00:45:27,360 --> 00:45:31,360
Speaker 2: DVA upcoming schedule. This this is for the season. This

1044
00:45:31,440 --> 00:45:33,800
Speaker 2: is the preseason DVOA rankings.

1045
00:45:34,080 --> 00:45:36,399
Speaker 3: Oh okay, okay, so where they're ranked right now?

1046
00:45:36,480 --> 00:45:42,040
Speaker 2: Yes, the culture last Okay, they are minus twenty nine

1047
00:45:42,040 --> 00:45:45,560
Speaker 2: point three, by the way, really, Then you have the

1048
00:45:45,600 --> 00:45:47,439
Speaker 2: Texans at minus twenty eight point four.

1049
00:45:47,640 --> 00:45:51,080
Speaker 4: So real quick, this isn't their preseason performance. This is

1050
00:45:50,800 --> 00:45:54,640
Speaker 4: this is a projection projection yea, how okay, all their

1051
00:45:54,640 --> 00:45:56,600
Speaker 4: win totals and all that stuff that they factor in.

1052
00:45:56,760 --> 00:46:00,320
Speaker 2: Then you have the Bears, okay, minus twenty seven point three.

1053
00:46:00,640 --> 00:46:02,640
Speaker 2: Then the Cardinals at minus twenty point three.

1054
00:46:03,120 --> 00:46:03,920
Speaker 3: Pretty kind to them.

1055
00:46:04,040 --> 00:46:07,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, the Vikings at minus fifteen point two.

1056
00:46:07,480 --> 00:46:11,480
Speaker 4: I think the Vikings were like twenty eighth last year. Yeah,

1057
00:46:11,520 --> 00:46:12,279
Speaker 4: and they weren't wrong.

1058
00:46:13,719 --> 00:46:16,439
Speaker 2: The Rams are twenty seventh and minus thirteen point three.

1059
00:46:17,760 --> 00:46:19,960
Speaker 2: Then you have the Broncos at minus thirteen point two,

1060
00:46:20,120 --> 00:46:23,160
Speaker 2: the Panthers at minus eleven point eight, the Titans at

1061
00:46:23,160 --> 00:46:27,360
Speaker 2: minus nine point eight, at twenty four at twenty three

1062
00:46:27,520 --> 00:46:31,120
Speaker 2: are the I can't read it who that is. Might

1063
00:46:31,200 --> 00:46:34,080
Speaker 2: looks like it might be the Giants. Yeah, that's the

1064
00:46:34,120 --> 00:46:37,560
Speaker 2: Giants at minus nine point six, and then Washington at

1065
00:46:37,600 --> 00:46:38,760
Speaker 2: minus seven point five.

1066
00:46:39,160 --> 00:46:40,960
Speaker 3: Handful of those teams that are on the Steel schedule,

1067
00:46:40,960 --> 00:46:41,680
Speaker 3: as you would say.

1068
00:46:41,560 --> 00:46:46,719
Speaker 2: The Colts, the Texans, the Cardinals, the Rams, the Titans.

1069
00:46:46,840 --> 00:46:49,960
Speaker 2: That's five games, right, there against the bottom the bottom

1070
00:46:50,080 --> 00:46:51,520
Speaker 2: ten teams in the league.

1071
00:46:51,400 --> 00:46:53,920
Speaker 4: Or even rewind the last segment, they were all bottom

1072
00:46:53,960 --> 00:46:55,799
Speaker 4: five to eight power rank.

1073
00:46:55,880 --> 00:46:56,440
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know what.

1074
00:46:56,560 --> 00:46:58,600
Speaker 4: Any way you want to look at it, and one

1075
00:46:58,600 --> 00:46:59,800
Speaker 4: of those teams will surprise.

1076
00:47:00,040 --> 00:47:01,920
Speaker 3: I mean, someone will all kick their coverage this year

1077
00:47:02,000 --> 00:47:03,680
Speaker 3: and you get them nine or something.

1078
00:47:03,800 --> 00:47:06,200
Speaker 2: But then you look at it. The Raiders are twenty first,

1079
00:47:06,239 --> 00:47:08,000
Speaker 2: so they just missed the list.

1080
00:47:08,719 --> 00:47:09,239
Speaker 3: They're rough.

1081
00:47:09,360 --> 00:47:11,480
Speaker 2: Yeah, get the Jets at twenty.

1082
00:47:11,800 --> 00:47:14,359
Speaker 3: Right, well, they don't love about the Jets.

1083
00:47:14,120 --> 00:47:17,000
Speaker 2: The Falcons and Saints. Then you get the Chargers, the

1084
00:47:17,000 --> 00:47:19,760
Speaker 2: Patriots who are on the schedule. I think they stink,

1085
00:47:20,280 --> 00:47:22,880
Speaker 2: the Packers who are on the schedule, and then Tampa Baby.

1086
00:47:23,000 --> 00:47:24,399
Speaker 2: The Steelers are thirteenth on here.

1087
00:47:24,800 --> 00:47:26,319
Speaker 3: There's a thirteenth on there, and just.

1088
00:47:26,280 --> 00:47:32,640
Speaker 2: Ahead of them are the Jaguars, the Seahawks, and the Browns.

1089
00:47:33,480 --> 00:47:35,279
Speaker 3: Okay, I mean, I think that's the neighborhood they're in

1090
00:47:35,360 --> 00:47:35,759
Speaker 3: right now.

1091
00:47:36,000 --> 00:47:38,200
Speaker 2: The thing that gets me here though, is the Browns

1092
00:47:38,200 --> 00:47:41,880
Speaker 2: are five plus five point five, ok so they're on

1093
00:47:41,920 --> 00:47:44,120
Speaker 2: the positive side of it. So the Seahawks are plus

1094
00:47:44,200 --> 00:47:46,839
Speaker 2: five point one, the Jaguars are plus two point nine,

1095
00:47:46,880 --> 00:47:48,319
Speaker 2: the Steelers are plus two point zero.

1096
00:47:49,200 --> 00:47:51,000
Speaker 4: I don't see that big of the screpancy, but yeah,

1097
00:47:51,000 --> 00:47:53,360
Speaker 4: that's a pretty the Browns and Steelers, but like that

1098
00:47:53,680 --> 00:47:54,520
Speaker 4: is a pretty big jump.

1099
00:47:54,719 --> 00:47:58,360
Speaker 2: The Bills are the total DVAS thirty eight point nine percent.

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Speaker 2: They won, they're number one.

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Speaker 3: I know they're really high on the Cowboys this year too.

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Speaker 3: Are they super high?

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Speaker 2: They are? The Cowboys come in at seventh, at sixteen.

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Speaker 4: Point zh okay, I've just heard an interview with the

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Speaker 4: Shats saying we DVA loves the Cowboys this year.

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Speaker 2: The discrepancy here, I think with the with what DVOA

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Speaker 2: has here. The offense comes in at seventeenth for the Steelers, I.

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Speaker 3: Can understand that.

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Speaker 4: I mean, if you're projecting forward, you may have some optimism,

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Speaker 4: but there's a lot of great offenses out there too.

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Speaker 2: The defense comes in at twelfth. I think the defense

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Speaker 2: far outperforms twelfth.

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Speaker 4: I would think. But that's not a terrible number, not

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Speaker 4: a terrible jumping off point. I do remember last year

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Speaker 4: their special teams was like twenty seven or twenty.

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Speaker 2: Eight, Yeah, it was twenty. They they get nothing out

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Speaker 2: of their return.

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Speaker 3: Game at all, which't and they missed a bunch of

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Speaker 3: field goals.

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Speaker 4: They missed a bunch field goals, right right, So I

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Speaker 4: think at least it used to be. I don't know

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Speaker 4: if he's changed it over the years, but they take

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Speaker 4: a pie, cut it into eight slices. More of the

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Speaker 4: slices are offense, three year defense. One is special teams

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Speaker 4: in terms of how they wait things. Yeah, I'm pretty

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Speaker 4: sure that's how they still do it.

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Speaker 2: So I just thought that was interesting. That is that,

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Speaker 2: you know, the Steelers have that kind of discrepancy.

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Speaker 4: The schedule from your tars bonkers. It's amazing, amazing, like

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Speaker 4: it can't be any starter.

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Speaker 2: No, I think the Steelers are a better football team

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Speaker 2: this year, playing a much easier schedule.

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Speaker 4: Yes, and they're more experienced in quarterbacks in the second

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Speaker 4: year and all those things too, So that's gigantic.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he is Matt Williamson. I am Dale, Lolly. You're

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Speaker 2: listening to the drive here on Steelers Nation Radio. We're

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Speaker 2: gonna take a break. We'll be back with our number

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Speaker 2: two right after this