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

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

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Speaker 1: and Gold Steelers Nation Radio.

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

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Speaker 2: the Matt Williamson and Matt it's Friday.

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Speaker 3: It is right kind of miserable out there. But that's

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Speaker 3: all right, that's you know what I want it to

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Speaker 3: be miserable for the Arizona.

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Speaker 2: If you're looking out, what would be favorable to the

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Speaker 2: to the home team this weekend? A nice miserable weather

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Speaker 2: game for the team coming from Phoenix.

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Speaker 3: Yes, wouldn't be the worst thing. Little bit of a

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Speaker 3: culture shock, a terrible idea. Yeah, any little advantage matters,

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Speaker 3: no doubt about it.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, the Steelers hosting the Arizona Cardinals at one

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Speaker 2: o'clock on Sunday at Akrasure Stadium. Steelers coming in at

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Speaker 2: seven and four, of course, the Cardinals coming in two

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Speaker 2: and ten. And Matt, you put out last four games the.

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Speaker 3: The Yeah, I did EPA of the last four games,

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Speaker 3: just so every Thursday might pursue and I do a

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Speaker 3: show with Merril Hodge and it's kind of common knowledge,

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Speaker 3: but Meryl just happened to bring it up last night

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Speaker 3: that you know you're not gonna if the Steelers are

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Speaker 3: preparing for the Cardinals. Really, what coaches watch are the

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Speaker 3: last four games most of all. I mean maybe there

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Speaker 3: was a flee flicker back in Week two that you

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Speaker 3: put in the back of your mind or whatever. But

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Speaker 3: every team is drastically different than they were at the

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Speaker 3: beginning of the season. So some season long stats, some

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Speaker 3: season long tendencies, especially with a team like Arizona. I mean,

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Speaker 3: Kyler Murray wasn't even in the pictures.

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Speaker 2: Trying to fit in that same because they've changed offensive.

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Speaker 3: Coordinators right right, and they've evolved like all teams or

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Speaker 3: you know the in.

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Speaker 2: Long stretches where you didn't have Cam Hayward, or you

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Speaker 2: didn't have DeAndre Johnson, you didn't have Pat fryarn with,

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Speaker 2: you didn't have make a Fit Patrick.

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Speaker 3: So I just went to the EPA site and I

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Speaker 3: sorted it by the last four weeks and there's a

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Speaker 3: diagram there, a graph of you know, this is their

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Speaker 3: offensive prowess, this is their defensive prowess, and you want

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Speaker 3: to be in the top right. That means you're the

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Speaker 3: best at both and San Franz stands way above everybody

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Speaker 3: else in the top right. And I thought of this

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Speaker 3: because people were asking why are the Niners favored in Philly. Well,

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Speaker 3: because they're playing better than everybody in the league right now.

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Speaker 3: I mean, the only offense ahead of them going into

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Speaker 3: this week is Dallas. They played last night, so that's

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Speaker 3: subject to change. But the offense defense combination is super

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Speaker 3: far to the right. Well, there's four teams that are

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Speaker 3: super far to the bottom left and not where you

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Speaker 3: want to be at, not where you want to be at.

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Speaker 3: I mean, they're clustered very distinctly together. And it's both

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Speaker 3: New York teams. It's the Cardinals and it's the Panthers

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Speaker 3: that are playing quite bad on defense, quite bad on offense.

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Speaker 3: And I think that stands out. Part of this is

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Speaker 3: because I wanted to start studying and the Patriots just

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Speaker 3: a little on a short week two. At least New

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Speaker 3: England's playing quality defense and running the ball their passing games, thinks,

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Speaker 3: but they have one big fatal flaw where those other four,

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Speaker 3: including Arizona, are kind of bad at everything. Yeah, I

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Speaker 3: mean they stand out that way. But by the way,

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Speaker 3: the Steelers are in that.

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Speaker 2: Top right quadrants where you want to be at.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean there's some teams that might chock you,

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Speaker 3: like in the Denver, Green Bay as well as Dallas,

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Speaker 3: San Franz, Baltimore, the teams you'd expect that are doing

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Speaker 3: very well in both offense and defense in that top

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Speaker 3: right quadrant. So I think it's a pretty good reflection

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Speaker 3: of where these teams are at lately.

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Speaker 2: So if the Steelers come out and dominates a big

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Speaker 2: big word. Yeah, yeah, it's a big word. Let's say

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Speaker 2: they control the game, they control this game like they

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Speaker 2: did last week against the Bengals and win it a

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Speaker 2: little bit more convincingly. That's my expectation that that's mine

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Speaker 2: as well. Do you factor in who they've played or

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Speaker 2: you just say no, they're starting to turn things around.

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Speaker 3: No, I mean I should have mentioned that too. But

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Speaker 3: the CPA factors in your level of opponents as well,

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Speaker 3: much like DVOA, they're very very similar. We reference DVA more,

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Speaker 3: but no, I mean I think you do. I mean

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Speaker 3: last night was a great example. We were texting a little,

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Speaker 3: but we've talked about this week after week. Miami and

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Speaker 3: Dallas to me really stand out as teams that beat

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Speaker 3: really bad teams and don't have signature wins, you know,

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Speaker 3: I mean, especially Miami. I think Dallas did some good

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Speaker 3: things against a quality opponent last night that might be

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Speaker 3: a playoff team, but might not.

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Speaker 2: It might.

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Speaker 3: I mean the way the Rams and Packers are playing too.

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Speaker 2: Let's talk about that real, real fast here.

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Speaker 3: So Cowboys this season, right, and they lost the Cardinals.

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Speaker 2: Beat they beat the Giants forty to nothing. That's where

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Speaker 2: I was going to go at it. Yeah, beat the

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Speaker 2: Giants forty to nothing. They beat the Jets thirty to ten.

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Speaker 2: They lost the Cardinals twenty eight to sixteen.

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Speaker 3: The most surprising game of the year.

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Speaker 2: Beat the Patriots thirty eight to three. Lost to the

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Speaker 2: forty nine Ers forty two to ten.

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Speaker 3: So before that Niners game, they're all the bad teams

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Speaker 2: Yeah, edge the Chargers twenty to seventeen. That doesn't I mean, Okay,

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Speaker 3: Right at the time, it looked better than it does now.

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Speaker 2: Beat the Rams without Stafford, by the way, that was

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Speaker 2: Stafford forty three to twenty. Give them twenty points to

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Speaker 2: a non Stafford team. Lost to the Eagles twenty eight

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Speaker 2: twenty three, beat the Giants forty seven to nineteen. Beat

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Speaker 2: the Panthers thirty three to ten, beat the Commanders forty

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Speaker 2: five to ten, and edge the Seahawks last night forty

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Speaker 2: one thirty five. I don't know if they're a good

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Speaker 3: Yeah, good. I do know they're a good team.

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Speaker 2: They're not a great team.

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Speaker 3: I think you said it well when we were texting

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Speaker 3: back and forth. They're not at the Eagles Niners level.

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Speaker 2: I mean, and I would suggest that if they played me,

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Speaker 2: if they played in the AFC where they had to

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Speaker 2: play more other good teams, yes they would have more

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Speaker 2: losses than what they do.

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Speaker 3: I agree with that as well.

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Speaker 2: I mean played the garbage of the league about five

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Speaker 2: games in there that are again more than that the

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Speaker 2: two New York teams, I mean, the teams we've mentioned.

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Speaker 3: They're horrible right now to.

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Speaker 2: New York teams to start the season. Then they played

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Speaker 2: the Cardinals. They should have been three. They lost the Cardinals.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and we didn't even mention they played the Patriots.

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Speaker 2: Right. Do you want to talk about how all the

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Speaker 2: garbage team you can't get any easier schedule. So when

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Speaker 2: people talk about the Steelers schedule right now, oh look,

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Speaker 2: I'm just playing nobody. Take a look at Dallas's schedule.

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Speaker 2: Tell me who they've played and who they've beaten.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, last night's our best win. Yeah, I mean it

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Speaker 3: really is that Seattle? Yeah, in a game down to

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Speaker 3: the wire. Pretty equal? Yeah, pretty equal. I mean two

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Speaker 3: hundred and fifty seven yards of penalty. It was awful.

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Speaker 2: The NFL has to do something that has to change

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Speaker 2: it amazing. You can't have your standalone game any games really,

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Speaker 2: but your standalone game can't be two hundred and sixty yards.

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Speaker 3: You might have lost the borderline fan if you know

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Speaker 3: that only watches the standalone games and the flags and

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Speaker 3: the commentator Al Michael's.

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Speaker 2: Is like, you know, like, just don't blame me.

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Speaker 3: I don't blame He's hundreercent right. I mean it's funny

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Speaker 3: to me that all the headlines were puntless game. You know,

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Speaker 3: it's one of the only in history. I'm like, well,

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Speaker 3: how many first downs were given because of penalty? See?

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Speaker 3: You know, I mean they were all offensive.

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Speaker 2: Every time the ball was in here you're waiting for

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Speaker 2: the flag to come out.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, And frankly, I think it might take something like

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Speaker 3: that for the Cardinals to win here on Sunday. I

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Speaker 3: mean if it's a and I don't think it was

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Speaker 3: an equalizer in this game because last night, because both

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Speaker 3: teams got hit equally. But if there's two hundred and

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Speaker 3: fifty yards and penalties, it's a coin flip in this league,

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Speaker 3: who wins, you know. I mean, it's just such an equal.

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Speaker 2: And realistically, officials could throw a flag on every single play.

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Speaker 2: It's it's what.

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Speaker 3: Are you willing to what's your threshold?

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Speaker 2: You know what's threshold? Yeah? Yeah, and last night there

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Speaker 2: was no threshold, Like what are you doing? Nobody wants

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Speaker 2: to see a flag fest?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and everyone of course did show replay off and

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Speaker 3: you'd be like, maybe it's a flag, but I wouldn't

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Speaker 3: have thrown it. I mean, it wasn't one, right, I

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Speaker 3: mean a hold on the backside of a run or

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Speaker 3: a wide receiver on the left side when you're running right, like,

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Speaker 3: just let that stuff go. I mean, come on, I

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Speaker 3: don't know.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, good term, good term, but anyway, I mean, what

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Speaker 2: the Cowboys have faced this year is there's not a

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Speaker 2: shred of difference. Actually, the Steelers have played a more

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Speaker 2: difficult schedule by far.

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Speaker 3: No question, I mean, no no doubt about it. I mean,

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Speaker 3: especially in terms of not facing the total cupcakes of

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Speaker 3: England's really trending that way too. Maybe even Washington are

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Speaker 3: the true cupcakes of the league, five or six of them. Well,

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Speaker 3: they're all on there with them, are on there twice

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Speaker 3: if you count Washington Giants in Washington.

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Speaker 2: I meant they get Eagles Cowboys next week.

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Speaker 3: Great game. Yeah they win that one. I might change

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Speaker 3: my opinion.

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Speaker 2: Cowboys at Bills, Cowboys at Dolphins, Lions at Cowboys, Cowboys

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Speaker 2: at Commanders. So the next four weeks for the Cowboys.

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Speaker 3: Are yeah, say starting last night, yeah, and into the playoffs.

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Speaker 3: I mean, would.

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Speaker 2: People feel differently about this Steelers team? This is kind

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Speaker 2: of where I was going with if they had started

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Speaker 2: off their schedule like the Browns did with Cincinnati when

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Speaker 2: Joe Burrows obviously hampered. Then you play Arizona, then you

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Speaker 2: play uh, you know, Tennessee.

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Speaker 3: Then you certainly is not the Niners.

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Speaker 2: You know, all of a sudden, you're looking up in

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Speaker 2: there five and oh, well you know, they haven't beaten

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Speaker 2: a That's what people will be saying. They haven't beaten anybody.

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Speaker 2: Nobody's saying that about the Cowboys except us.

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Speaker 3: Right here, Miami's even stronger. Yeah, I mean, like, I

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Speaker 3: don't know who's better between the Dolphins and Cowboy.

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Speaker 2: Miami strength of strength of victory this season.

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Speaker 3: And they have unbelievable still not correcting itself. It's still

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Speaker 3: going down that same road. I mean, it's rough, and

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Speaker 3: I do think to your point, like if Dallas were

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Speaker 3: in the AFC or AFC North or AFC East or

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Speaker 3: something like that, they'd probably be right around where Miami is.

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Speaker 2: The last night improved Dallas's strength of victory to three

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Speaker 2: ninety four.

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Speaker 3: Wow. Wow. So that means folks, in case you don't

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Speaker 3: enough follow him, I'm not trying to talk down to you,

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Speaker 3: but if they're of all the teams they've beaten, their

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Speaker 3: combined record is thirty nine percent they've won, it's the

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Speaker 3: same thing in Miami's is way lower.

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Speaker 2: Right. Oh no, I'm sorry. The strength of victory is

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Speaker 2: three thirty. It's even worse and worse their strength their

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Speaker 2: schedule is three ninety four. Okay, their strength of victory

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Speaker 2: The strength of there's not a team in the NFC

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Speaker 3: Even maybe like the Eagles aren't over at five hundred. No,

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Speaker 3: Of victory three eleven. Three eleven's up from like twenty

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Speaker 2: The Steeler five sixty one.

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Speaker 3: What's their strength to victory?

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Speaker 2: They're at five oh six right now?

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Speaker 2: I mean, it doesn't work that way, right, five sixty one.

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Speaker 3: That makes sense. I was about to ask, is any

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Speaker 2: Now. That will change after this week when the Steelers

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Speaker 3: But strength the victory doesn't change if you lose.

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Speaker 3: Nobody's denying that.

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Speaker 2: Nobody's denying it, right, But I don't know about the

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Speaker 3: You know, I mean some of these teams you just

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Speaker 2: But I don't know that Dallas is markedly better than

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Speaker 3: Yeah, no, I hear you.

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Speaker 2: I hear it because they don't play. They don't. If

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Speaker 3: I think they're starting to prove it. Maybe itune will

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Speaker 2: It is kind of weird, though, for Miami to be

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Speaker 3: They're the one that stands out or all have.

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Speaker 2: A strength of schedule above five hundred, and they're sitting

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Speaker 2: I don't. I know they have to. I know they

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I knew those were two. I mean, it seems

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Speaker 2: To Commanders, Titans, Jets, Cowboys, Ravens, Bills. No, it's really

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Speaker 3: Or but they should be have three wins when they

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Speaker 3: Yeah, the last three games might be ugly though. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: they could limp into the playoffs, who knows. Or they

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Speaker 2: Well, that's what you know. Looking at the Steelers here,

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Speaker 2: you're looking to build some confident. Let's talk about that

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Speaker 2: when we come back in the next segment. Building the

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Speaker 2: confidence h he has Matt Williamson. I am Dale Lolly.

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

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Speaker 2: Welcome back. I'm Dale Lallie. He is Matt Williamson. You're

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Speaker 2: listening to the Driver on Steelers Nation Radio and Matt

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Speaker 2: Eddie Falk. We're talking to the media yesterday, Steel's new

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Speaker 2: offensive coordinator I was talking about the game against the

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Speaker 2: Cincinnati Bengals. He said that was a good first step.

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Speaker 2: He said. The next step is obviously scoring more points.

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Speaker 3: Sure, sure, said.

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Speaker 2: But one of the things that having some success last week,

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Speaker 2: hook in and get guys to buy in and be like, Okay,

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Speaker 3: That makes sense. I mean, what if it was a disaster.

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Speaker 3: I mean, like, boy, it'd be hard to Oh. Man,

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Speaker 3: I we're on the right track. I mean, all these

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Speaker 3: it's easy to buy in. We're you know, and we've

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Speaker 3: Now take it the next step.

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Speaker 2: Yeah right, Now, go out and score those twenty eight

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Speaker 2: Yeah right, So be a little better in the red zone.

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Speaker 2: So the Steelers this season are ten of twenty three

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Speaker 3: This is one of my most vine boggling stats you've

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Speaker 3: not a ton of red zone trips.

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Speaker 2: Early in the season, they weren't getting into the red zone.

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Speaker 2: They were skipping over the red zone. Yes, they were

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Speaker 2: getting a lot of chunk play touchdowns, which is fine.

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Speaker 2: You're allowed to do that.

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Speaker 3: You're allowed to do that. I think they have the

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Speaker 2: So yeah, it's they've done that. The Cardinals.

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Speaker 3: Did you say twenty three They've been ten of twenty three. Yes,

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Speaker 2: The Cardinals this season have allowed thirty two touchdowns in

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Speaker 3: In twelve games, right, I mean, that's unbelievable. I mean

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Speaker 2: I mean Cardinals also give up big chunk plays.

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Speaker 2: They've given up more touchdowns than the Steelers have red

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, do you know, I'm sure it's the

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Speaker 2: I think it. Yeah, I think it's not particularly.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm sure it's not particularly close. I mean the

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Speaker 2: They're not the worst team in terms of percentage.

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Speaker 3: I know that.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's just so you would think to our point, well,

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Speaker 2: They should get some red zone working this week.

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Speaker 2: So I mean, and you look at who they've played. No,

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Speaker 2: They've played Washington in Week one, Washington was still kind

438
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Speaker 2: of trying to figure things out.

439
00:19:44,840 --> 00:19:47,720
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, Anyways, Sam Howel is a new starter, new

440
00:19:47,800 --> 00:19:48,720
Speaker 3: defensive coordinator.

441
00:19:48,920 --> 00:19:51,080
Speaker 2: Right, they give up thirty one to the Giants in

442
00:19:51,119 --> 00:19:51,560
Speaker 2: week two?

443
00:19:51,800 --> 00:19:53,080
Speaker 3: How many they give up to Washington?

444
00:19:53,160 --> 00:19:56,760
Speaker 2: Twenty? Okay, thirty one to the Giants. They beat the Cowboys,

445
00:19:56,800 --> 00:19:58,600
Speaker 2: they give up sixteen. They had four hundred yards of

446
00:19:58,600 --> 00:20:00,520
Speaker 2: offense in that game against the Cowboys, but gave up

447
00:20:00,560 --> 00:20:03,960
Speaker 2: for sixteen. The Cowboys just turned Now, they only turned

448
00:20:03,960 --> 00:20:06,720
Speaker 2: the ball over once, but wasn't it was only played

449
00:20:07,640 --> 00:20:11,239
Speaker 2: San Francisco at almost four hundred yards offense against them.

450
00:20:11,280 --> 00:20:15,280
Speaker 2: The Bengals in Week five, three hundred eighty yards of

451
00:20:15,280 --> 00:20:19,159
Speaker 2: offense the Rams in Week six twenty six points, three

452
00:20:19,240 --> 00:20:21,280
Speaker 2: hundred and eighty two yards of offense. I mean, it's

453
00:20:21,320 --> 00:20:24,680
Speaker 2: been pretty darn consistent, really consistent. Like the teams. They

454
00:20:24,680 --> 00:20:29,159
Speaker 2: gave up three eighteen to Seattle in Week seven, they

455
00:20:29,200 --> 00:20:33,200
Speaker 2: lost that game twenty to ten. They gave up thirty

456
00:20:33,240 --> 00:20:36,359
Speaker 2: one points two and they turned the ball over twice.

457
00:20:36,400 --> 00:20:38,160
Speaker 2: I think there was a defensive touchdown there as well.

458
00:20:38,320 --> 00:20:40,240
Speaker 2: Two hundred and sixty eight yards to the Ravens. The

459
00:20:40,320 --> 00:20:43,920
Speaker 2: Ravens really just kind of yeah, they were three to

460
00:20:43,960 --> 00:20:47,960
Speaker 2: twenty six to the Browns in the twenty seven nothing

461
00:20:48,000 --> 00:20:49,800
Speaker 2: lost the brown They didn't Browns didn't have to do

462
00:20:49,840 --> 00:20:52,840
Speaker 2: anything because now the Cardinals controlled the fifty eight yards

463
00:20:52,840 --> 00:20:55,680
Speaker 2: of offense in that game, they gave up two fifty

464
00:20:55,680 --> 00:20:57,280
Speaker 2: four to the Falcons, but then they're right back at

465
00:20:57,320 --> 00:20:59,440
Speaker 2: at four nineteen to the Texans, four to fifty seven

466
00:20:59,440 --> 00:21:00,000
Speaker 2: to the Rams.

467
00:21:00,240 --> 00:21:02,200
Speaker 3: The last couple of weeks have been just embarrassing, to

468
00:21:02,400 --> 00:21:02,760
Speaker 3: be honest with.

469
00:21:02,840 --> 00:21:05,359
Speaker 2: So that four game stretch that you're looking at for

470
00:21:05,400 --> 00:21:08,800
Speaker 2: them includes two good defensive games.

471
00:21:09,280 --> 00:21:13,000
Speaker 3: Going all right, yeah, man, it's it's really rough. So

472
00:21:13,080 --> 00:21:16,480
Speaker 3: what I didn't know it's a suspicion, But Mike Pursuda

473
00:21:16,560 --> 00:21:19,480
Speaker 3: had some numbers that were really mind boggling to last

474
00:21:19,560 --> 00:21:22,399
Speaker 3: night about how injured this team has been too. Like,

475
00:21:22,960 --> 00:21:24,639
Speaker 3: I think we all looked at their roster when the

476
00:21:24,640 --> 00:21:26,480
Speaker 3: season started and said, they have a really good chance

477
00:21:26,520 --> 00:21:29,040
Speaker 3: to pick first overall. You know, I mean, semi by design.

478
00:21:29,119 --> 00:21:31,800
Speaker 3: They know they're in bad but I hadn't realized how

479
00:21:31,840 --> 00:21:34,680
Speaker 3: injured they've been because a lot of their guys are

480
00:21:34,680 --> 00:21:36,960
Speaker 3: no name players. It's not like these stars are going

481
00:21:36,960 --> 00:21:39,680
Speaker 3: out left and right too, So they're on third string

482
00:21:39,760 --> 00:21:42,720
Speaker 3: defensive backs and linebackers and stuff, and their first string

483
00:21:42,760 --> 00:21:46,639
Speaker 3: guys weren't good. And again, I mean there's they have

484
00:21:46,720 --> 00:21:48,479
Speaker 3: plenty of dudes that are going to be active this

485
00:21:48,520 --> 00:21:50,400
Speaker 3: week that might not be employed next.

486
00:21:50,280 --> 00:21:51,480
Speaker 2: That aren't NFL players.

487
00:21:51,520 --> 00:21:53,520
Speaker 3: Yeah, yea yeah, yeah yeah, especially on defense.

488
00:21:53,560 --> 00:21:54,879
Speaker 2: They might be XFL players.

489
00:21:55,000 --> 00:21:56,920
Speaker 3: Yeah exactly. They'll be in a training camp fighting for

490
00:21:57,840 --> 00:21:58,960
Speaker 3: NFL players next year.

491
00:22:00,040 --> 00:22:00,440
Speaker 2: Yeah.

492
00:22:00,720 --> 00:22:04,119
Speaker 3: So, I mean, let's say, you know, you mentioned all

493
00:22:04,160 --> 00:22:07,439
Speaker 3: those yardage that they've allowed. Let's say the Steelers have

494
00:22:07,920 --> 00:22:11,080
Speaker 3: two hundred and eighty yards of offense, win the game

495
00:22:11,880 --> 00:22:15,240
Speaker 3: seventeen to three, are basically in control the whole time.

496
00:22:15,800 --> 00:22:18,400
Speaker 3: Should we be critical and say they should have had

497
00:22:18,400 --> 00:22:20,960
Speaker 3: more yardage? They should, you know, it depends, you know,

498
00:22:21,080 --> 00:22:22,040
Speaker 3: are running for four yards?

499
00:22:22,080 --> 00:22:25,480
Speaker 2: Are they playing this in a driving rainstorm? Things like

500
00:22:25,520 --> 00:22:28,199
Speaker 2: that matter because there is some you know, possibility of rain.

501
00:22:29,160 --> 00:22:30,560
Speaker 2: If they just had to come out and run the

502
00:22:30,560 --> 00:22:32,719
Speaker 2: ball fifty times in this game, I wouldn't be critical

503
00:22:32,720 --> 00:22:34,120
Speaker 2: of that, That's what I mean. I think that might

504
00:22:34,160 --> 00:22:34,760
Speaker 2: be the case.

505
00:22:35,000 --> 00:22:38,320
Speaker 3: I mean, like, if you don't turn it over and

506
00:22:38,400 --> 00:22:41,320
Speaker 3: Kenny isn't and you just hand it off over and

507
00:22:41,359 --> 00:22:43,480
Speaker 3: over and over and maybe mixing a shot here and there.

508
00:22:43,520 --> 00:22:45,200
Speaker 3: I'm not saying you don't throw ever, but if you,

509
00:22:46,160 --> 00:22:48,119
Speaker 3: I wouldn't be shocked if two thirds of their play

510
00:22:48,119 --> 00:22:49,040
Speaker 3: calling is runs.

511
00:22:49,240 --> 00:22:51,119
Speaker 2: Yeah, because you should be able to do that all

512
00:22:51,200 --> 00:22:51,520
Speaker 2: day long.

513
00:22:51,520 --> 00:22:53,000
Speaker 3: Again, you should be able to do that, especially if

514
00:22:53,000 --> 00:22:55,399
Speaker 3: they don't crowd the box and keep too high and

515
00:22:55,440 --> 00:22:58,640
Speaker 3: they they're detackles are no name dudes too, I mean,

516
00:22:58,680 --> 00:22:59,040
Speaker 3: and they.

517
00:22:58,920 --> 00:23:01,080
Speaker 2: Have very few of them on that's right, they don't

518
00:23:01,119 --> 00:23:01,440
Speaker 2: have any.

519
00:23:01,600 --> 00:23:03,320
Speaker 3: They don't even have it. They can't even keep those

520
00:23:03,359 --> 00:23:06,080
Speaker 3: guys around. I mean, it's a rare.

521
00:23:06,359 --> 00:23:09,320
Speaker 2: It won't surprise me if in the second half of

522
00:23:09,359 --> 00:23:11,520
Speaker 2: this game you want to talk about Nauseie Harris being

523
00:23:12,320 --> 00:23:16,159
Speaker 2: a guy that wears people down. He started, he's starting

524
00:23:16,160 --> 00:23:18,560
Speaker 2: to rip off ten fifteen to twenty yard games on

525
00:23:18,600 --> 00:23:19,640
Speaker 2: a regular basis.

526
00:23:19,720 --> 00:23:21,639
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean you may even have like McFarlane in

527
00:23:21,680 --> 00:23:24,679
Speaker 3: the game. Yeah, I mean I know that that seems crazy.

528
00:23:24,880 --> 00:23:27,200
Speaker 3: I think, boy, this Steeler offense can just put it

529
00:23:27,200 --> 00:23:28,600
Speaker 3: in cruise control at the end of the see the

530
00:23:28,720 --> 00:23:31,639
Speaker 3: end of the game against anybody. But I would not

531
00:23:31,720 --> 00:23:32,960
Speaker 3: be shocked if it goes that way.

532
00:23:33,040 --> 00:23:34,720
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think they're going to push them around.

533
00:23:34,840 --> 00:23:36,320
Speaker 3: I think they will too. I think they will too.

534
00:23:36,320 --> 00:23:38,120
Speaker 3: I mean, just the way these two teams are trending

535
00:23:38,280 --> 00:23:40,159
Speaker 3: and how far they are down a depth chart that

536
00:23:40,280 --> 00:23:43,719
Speaker 3: was bad to start with, you know, road trip, all

537
00:23:43,760 --> 00:23:46,119
Speaker 3: that stuff just doesn't set up well for Arizona.

538
00:23:46,280 --> 00:23:49,280
Speaker 2: At the same time, if you're Mike Tomlin, you're in

539
00:23:49,320 --> 00:23:53,639
Speaker 2: these team meetings and you are driving the point. Hey, look, guys,

540
00:23:53,720 --> 00:23:56,600
Speaker 2: this is a team that beat the Cowboys. Yeah.

541
00:23:56,680 --> 00:23:59,960
Speaker 3: Yeah, and the offense is scary. I mean everyone knows

542
00:24:00,080 --> 00:24:03,200
Speaker 3: Kyler Murray's a playmaker, and they've played against Marky's Brown

543
00:24:03,280 --> 00:24:07,360
Speaker 3: and those type of dudes. But and I would think

544
00:24:07,440 --> 00:24:11,240
Speaker 3: the Steelers offense in those meeting rooms. Should never take

545
00:24:11,280 --> 00:24:12,159
Speaker 3: anybody for granted.

546
00:24:12,160 --> 00:24:16,000
Speaker 2: No, but I do think that there's some validity here

547
00:24:16,080 --> 00:24:20,879
Speaker 2: to what Faulkner said about getting guys to buy in. Now,

548
00:24:20,920 --> 00:24:22,760
Speaker 2: if you go out and you have a big game here,

549
00:24:24,040 --> 00:24:26,720
Speaker 2: I don't care who you're playing against. Now, you know

550
00:24:26,840 --> 00:24:29,000
Speaker 2: next week when you're playing you know, when you're playing

551
00:24:29,600 --> 00:24:34,000
Speaker 2: New England, You're okay. Now we kind of know we're

552
00:24:34,040 --> 00:24:37,760
Speaker 2: forming that identity here. We know this stuff works. We've

553
00:24:37,800 --> 00:24:40,679
Speaker 2: we've posted two big offensive games in a row, and

554
00:24:41,200 --> 00:24:42,960
Speaker 2: you know, so you start the offense is starting to

555
00:24:42,960 --> 00:24:45,760
Speaker 2: feel a little bit better about itself as you head

556
00:24:45,760 --> 00:24:47,359
Speaker 2: into the most important stretch of the season.

557
00:24:47,440 --> 00:24:51,800
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, and into the playoffs hopefully. I would be

558
00:24:51,840 --> 00:24:55,080
Speaker 3: shocked though, if inside the building they don't already think

559
00:24:55,080 --> 00:24:57,240
Speaker 3: the running games there you know, Oh they do. Yeah,

560
00:24:57,440 --> 00:25:00,359
Speaker 3: the running game is something we can count on every week,

561
00:25:00,560 --> 00:25:02,919
Speaker 3: and it's gonna be something we can lean on. I mean,

562
00:25:02,960 --> 00:25:06,920
Speaker 3: I think that's very real. The passing game is still growing.

563
00:25:07,440 --> 00:25:12,119
Speaker 2: Yeah, I would agree with that. I know there are

564
00:25:12,240 --> 00:25:14,200
Speaker 2: things I think that they'll be able to do this week,

565
00:25:14,240 --> 00:25:17,280
Speaker 2: Like I you mentioned the cover four stuff. Yeah, I

566
00:25:17,280 --> 00:25:18,760
Speaker 2: think Deontay Johnson.

567
00:25:18,440 --> 00:25:21,080
Speaker 3: Feasts this week if they want, if they want to

568
00:25:21,080 --> 00:25:23,160
Speaker 3: do it, I think him and Pickens can destroy these

569
00:25:23,200 --> 00:25:27,280
Speaker 3: guys on the outside, but especially Deontay. I mean, I

570
00:25:27,320 --> 00:25:28,960
Speaker 3: don't think it's gonna be a huge Firemoth game.

571
00:25:29,040 --> 00:25:29,239
Speaker 2: You know.

572
00:25:29,280 --> 00:25:31,800
Speaker 3: We we did that video the other day and it

573
00:25:31,920 --> 00:25:34,159
Speaker 3: was like fifty five and a half Friarmouth yards and

574
00:25:34,160 --> 00:25:35,280
Speaker 3: the three of us all went under.

575
00:25:36,000 --> 00:25:37,320
Speaker 2: Not because we don't like fire movie.

576
00:25:37,320 --> 00:25:38,600
Speaker 3: I just don't think that's the game plan this week.

577
00:25:38,640 --> 00:25:40,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, I just don't. Yeah, I don't know that that's

578
00:25:40,200 --> 00:25:42,760
Speaker 2: going to be the case because teams haven't really tried

579
00:25:42,760 --> 00:25:45,160
Speaker 2: to attack them. I know, Higbee had two touchdown catches

580
00:25:45,240 --> 00:25:48,040
Speaker 2: last week. That just goes to show you. I mean,

581
00:25:48,080 --> 00:25:50,560
Speaker 2: you get into the red zone against these guys and

582
00:25:50,640 --> 00:25:51,520
Speaker 2: everything's open.

583
00:25:51,680 --> 00:25:54,320
Speaker 3: They're gonna have a real hard time covering the outside receivers. Yeah,

584
00:25:54,359 --> 00:25:55,080
Speaker 3: I mean they just are.

585
00:25:55,160 --> 00:25:57,120
Speaker 2: And they know that. So they're they know that yeah,

586
00:25:57,119 --> 00:25:58,879
Speaker 2: and that you know, so it's easy to run against

587
00:25:58,880 --> 00:26:02,399
Speaker 2: them because they're playing a lot of two deep too high.

588
00:26:02,480 --> 00:26:04,200
Speaker 3: Yeah, they just kind of concede it. I mean, they

589
00:26:04,440 --> 00:26:06,639
Speaker 3: they don't have any cards in their hands. Ah cards,

590
00:26:08,320 --> 00:26:11,960
Speaker 3: Look at that. Accidents happened, Yeah, so.

591
00:26:13,440 --> 00:26:16,760
Speaker 2: You know again, I you'd like to think that you

592
00:26:16,760 --> 00:26:20,239
Speaker 2: should win this game. Yeah, the Steelers have been very

593
00:26:20,320 --> 00:26:24,240
Speaker 2: good against the bad opponents on their schedule.

594
00:26:24,960 --> 00:26:27,240
Speaker 3: They've yeah, I've heard some oh this is a Tomlin

595
00:26:27,320 --> 00:26:31,120
Speaker 3: letdown game. When I think that's a mate.

596
00:26:30,960 --> 00:26:32,639
Speaker 2: Up, that's aw minute.

597
00:26:32,720 --> 00:26:32,960
Speaker 3: Yeah.

598
00:26:33,040 --> 00:26:35,600
Speaker 2: Yeah, they had some quote unquote letdown. They lost to

599
00:26:35,640 --> 00:26:38,919
Speaker 2: some teams that had bad records in like twenty twelve,

600
00:26:38,920 --> 00:26:41,959
Speaker 2: twenty thirteen. Guess what, folks, The Steelers weren't a very

601
00:26:42,000 --> 00:26:45,959
Speaker 2: good team in twenty twelve, twenty thirteen, even twenty fourteen,

602
00:26:46,080 --> 00:26:48,960
Speaker 2: they weren't a good team. They were replacing all the

603
00:26:49,000 --> 00:26:52,080
Speaker 2: guys that they had lost, Yeah, from those Super Bowl teams.

604
00:26:52,600 --> 00:26:55,680
Speaker 3: Yeah, and no, by the way, teams will go seventeen

605
00:26:55,720 --> 00:26:58,520
Speaker 3: to Oh, Dallas lost to this team. We think Dallas

606
00:26:58,600 --> 00:27:01,640
Speaker 3: is above average team. The Niners have losses this year,

607
00:27:01,800 --> 00:27:04,960
Speaker 3: you know, I mean, like, you don't beat everybody. It's

608
00:27:04,960 --> 00:27:06,960
Speaker 3: just I don't know, it makes me crazy. Yeah, so

609
00:27:07,520 --> 00:27:09,840
Speaker 3: I just I'll be mad. Well, let's see how the

610
00:27:09,880 --> 00:27:15,000
Speaker 3: game goes. But if the Steelers don't win enough on Monday, Oh,

611
00:27:15,040 --> 00:27:17,119
Speaker 3: they should have beat him by fifty. What's wrong? They

612
00:27:17,200 --> 00:27:18,320
Speaker 3: only won by eighteen?

613
00:27:18,520 --> 00:27:18,720
Speaker 2: You know.

614
00:27:19,920 --> 00:27:21,359
Speaker 3: I mean, if you control the whole thing and the

615
00:27:21,400 --> 00:27:22,600
Speaker 3: game is never in doubt.

616
00:27:22,520 --> 00:27:24,679
Speaker 2: It would be nice to have one where it doesn't

617
00:27:24,680 --> 00:27:27,240
Speaker 2: come down to is Bob LABRIELI said yesterday, where you're

618
00:27:27,520 --> 00:27:29,840
Speaker 2: the final possession, you're like, oh, this could still go

619
00:27:29,880 --> 00:27:30,320
Speaker 2: either way.

620
00:27:31,040 --> 00:27:32,320
Speaker 3: I think that's a good way of looking at it.

621
00:27:32,359 --> 00:27:35,639
Speaker 3: If this one gets to that point, that's kind of

622
00:27:35,680 --> 00:27:36,160
Speaker 3: a failure.

623
00:27:36,359 --> 00:27:39,320
Speaker 2: Really. The Bengals game never really got there. The Steelers

624
00:27:39,320 --> 00:27:42,520
Speaker 2: were up to scores, the Bengals kick a field goal

625
00:27:42,560 --> 00:27:44,160
Speaker 2: to make it a one score game, and the Steelers

626
00:27:44,200 --> 00:27:44,919
Speaker 2: ran out the clock.

627
00:27:45,320 --> 00:27:47,160
Speaker 3: The only time I was really worried about the Steelers

628
00:27:47,160 --> 00:27:49,880
Speaker 3: losing was the back to back plays the Johnson touchdown.

629
00:27:50,040 --> 00:27:52,240
Speaker 3: Warren Fumble was like, Oh.

630
00:27:52,200 --> 00:27:54,040
Speaker 2: That's the kind of thing that you can't have happened

631
00:27:54,040 --> 00:27:54,720
Speaker 2: in a game like.

632
00:27:54,680 --> 00:27:57,119
Speaker 3: That, right, right right, I mean where you gave you

633
00:27:57,160 --> 00:27:59,880
Speaker 3: took points off the board. Yeah, you know, really consecutive play.

634
00:28:00,359 --> 00:28:02,399
Speaker 2: Yeah, don't do that. Don't turn the ball over and

635
00:28:02,400 --> 00:28:04,480
Speaker 2: they've been pretty good about that. That was a turnover. Yeah,

636
00:28:04,640 --> 00:28:07,640
Speaker 2: don't have a bunch of penalties that give them free

637
00:28:07,720 --> 00:28:10,399
Speaker 2: yardage and you should be.

638
00:28:10,400 --> 00:28:13,360
Speaker 3: Okay, Yeah, make your kicks and you know, because the defense.

639
00:28:14,240 --> 00:28:17,040
Speaker 2: It's one of the most underreported stories in the league

640
00:28:17,119 --> 00:28:20,600
Speaker 2: right now because the overall numbers aren't great. The Steelers

641
00:28:20,680 --> 00:28:22,320
Speaker 2: defense is playing lights out right now.

642
00:28:22,880 --> 00:28:26,600
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, I mean the last seven games has been ridiculous.

643
00:28:26,760 --> 00:28:29,720
Speaker 3: Nobody's running on them at all. Back to the conversation

644
00:28:29,800 --> 00:28:31,639
Speaker 3: they had to start to show. I mean, if you

645
00:28:31,720 --> 00:28:35,239
Speaker 3: look at recent history, not September, you know, or you know,

646
00:28:35,320 --> 00:28:39,080
Speaker 3: three months ago, their defense is five ish, you know,

647
00:28:39,400 --> 00:28:39,920
Speaker 3: give or take.

648
00:28:40,040 --> 00:28:42,920
Speaker 2: Nobody's given the twenty five yards that they allowed on

649
00:28:43,160 --> 00:28:45,920
Speaker 2: Sunday to the Bengals, that's the low mark for the

650
00:28:45,960 --> 00:28:47,800
Speaker 2: season for any parties.

651
00:28:47,680 --> 00:28:49,640
Speaker 3: The other day. That's it doesn't shock me, but I

652
00:28:49,680 --> 00:28:52,040
Speaker 3: mean twenty five I meant impressive.

653
00:28:52,120 --> 00:28:55,720
Speaker 2: They just completely got the Bengals to give up running

654
00:28:55,720 --> 00:28:58,000
Speaker 2: the football with their backup quarterback in the game, with

655
00:28:58,040 --> 00:29:00,080
Speaker 2: their backup quarterback in the game.

656
00:29:00,160 --> 00:29:03,880
Speaker 3: And even accounting for the entire season, only the Steelers

657
00:29:03,880 --> 00:29:06,640
Speaker 3: and Niners are in the top five in points allowed

658
00:29:07,040 --> 00:29:10,040
Speaker 3: and takeaways, which if I take two categories to be

659
00:29:10,040 --> 00:29:12,880
Speaker 3: a top league, of definitely take points allowed, and then

660
00:29:12,880 --> 00:29:13,880
Speaker 3: I'd probably take takeaways.

661
00:29:13,920 --> 00:29:16,600
Speaker 2: Yeah, points allows the best way. I don't care about

662
00:29:16,600 --> 00:29:19,400
Speaker 2: the yards. I don't care about its empty calories.

663
00:29:19,480 --> 00:29:21,760
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, the yardages. It's the dumbest way.

664
00:29:21,800 --> 00:29:23,840
Speaker 2: It's this thing that like people were arguing, Yeah, the

665
00:29:23,880 --> 00:29:25,840
Speaker 2: Steelers had four hundred and twenty two yards of offer

666
00:29:25,880 --> 00:29:27,800
Speaker 2: four and twenty one yards of offensively, but they still

667
00:29:27,800 --> 00:29:31,120
Speaker 2: only scored sixteen points. Okay, then why doesn't that work

668
00:29:31,160 --> 00:29:33,600
Speaker 2: them for the Steelers defense? Yeah, you're talking about that.

669
00:29:33,800 --> 00:29:35,760
Speaker 2: It both ways play well, they gave up four hundred

670
00:29:35,840 --> 00:29:38,240
Speaker 2: yards in that game, but they gave up sixteen points.

671
00:29:38,280 --> 00:29:41,360
Speaker 3: No, they scored them right. Yeah. I mean again, as

672
00:29:41,400 --> 00:29:43,120
Speaker 3: you often say, the goal here is to win the

673
00:29:43,160 --> 00:29:44,960
Speaker 3: game and score outscore the opponent.

674
00:29:45,360 --> 00:29:46,720
Speaker 2: Remembers. You play to win the game.

675
00:29:46,800 --> 00:29:48,480
Speaker 3: Yeah, still have pretty well.

676
00:29:48,920 --> 00:29:51,040
Speaker 2: Find a way to win. That's all that matters. He

677
00:29:51,200 --> 00:29:54,160
Speaker 2: is Matt Williamson. I am Dale Lallie. You're listening to

678
00:29:54,280 --> 00:29:57,280
Speaker 2: the Drive here on Steelers Nation Radio. And we come back.

679
00:29:57,280 --> 00:30:00,520
Speaker 2: We have that injury report from the Arizona Car. It

680
00:30:00,600 --> 00:30:04,800
Speaker 2: is ugly, really ugly, ugly, ugly ugly. We'll get to

681
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Speaker 2: that when we come back right after this.

682
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691
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Speaker 2: if you were if you were going to go buy

692
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Speaker 2: your son, who's.

693
00:30:46,880 --> 00:30:49,160
Speaker 3: In his teens now seventeen, so, yeah.

694
00:30:48,920 --> 00:30:51,640
Speaker 2: He's in that age of jersey wearing. Who who would

695
00:30:51,640 --> 00:30:52,840
Speaker 2: you get him a jersey off right now?

696
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Speaker 3: Hmm? I'd probably. I respect Hayward, you.

697
00:30:59,080 --> 00:31:00,920
Speaker 2: Know that one's like that one's going to hold up

698
00:31:00,960 --> 00:31:01,400
Speaker 2: over time.

699
00:31:01,680 --> 00:31:04,000
Speaker 3: Yeah, not to mention, even if when.

700
00:31:03,840 --> 00:31:06,400
Speaker 2: Cam retires, there'll still be people wearing Hayward jerseys.

701
00:31:06,440 --> 00:31:09,760
Speaker 3: So young. Michael Williamson, for whatever reason, is an Ohio

702
00:31:09,760 --> 00:31:12,240
Speaker 3: State fan. I don't know how that happened. It happened

703
00:31:12,240 --> 00:31:13,960
Speaker 3: when he was like four or five years old. They

704
00:31:14,000 --> 00:31:14,600
Speaker 3: just latched on.

705
00:31:14,800 --> 00:31:16,480
Speaker 2: He like the Lakers and Yankees too.

706
00:31:16,480 --> 00:31:19,200
Speaker 3: Nah, he just I don't know why. It's the Buckeyes

707
00:31:19,240 --> 00:31:21,160
Speaker 3: but he's always been into him. His heart broke over

708
00:31:21,240 --> 00:31:24,280
Speaker 3: the loss this weekend. And when he was in grade school,

709
00:31:24,320 --> 00:31:27,480
Speaker 3: he was like second third grade, he did a big

710
00:31:27,480 --> 00:31:30,720
Speaker 3: report on the Hayward house. So that adds up, and

711
00:31:30,800 --> 00:31:32,400
Speaker 3: so there's a couple of layers to that. But even

712
00:31:32,440 --> 00:31:34,240
Speaker 3: if it was no, if it's my daughter who doesn't

713
00:31:34,240 --> 00:31:36,000
Speaker 3: even know any of them, are Cam Hayward.

714
00:31:36,080 --> 00:31:38,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, Cam's an all time great, all time great. Yeah, absolutely,

715
00:31:39,000 --> 00:31:42,320
Speaker 2: I mean it's it's not easy to say that about

716
00:31:42,760 --> 00:31:45,520
Speaker 2: somebody on the Steelers rock current Steeler. I mean, he's

717
00:31:45,560 --> 00:31:46,360
Speaker 2: an all time great.

718
00:31:46,680 --> 00:31:47,440
Speaker 3: What will we too?

719
00:31:47,560 --> 00:31:52,040
Speaker 2: What is? Yeah, Hayward needs one more sack now to

720
00:31:52,120 --> 00:31:54,440
Speaker 2: pass James Harrison in the second place on the team's

721
00:31:54,440 --> 00:31:57,920
Speaker 2: all time sack list. He might get it this week too. Yeah.

722
00:31:57,480 --> 00:31:59,200
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's going to end up too.

723
00:31:59,360 --> 00:32:03,000
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's got gonna catch one no One going the

724
00:32:03,080 --> 00:32:04,800
Speaker 2: end of the season. That's over now.

725
00:32:05,040 --> 00:32:07,440
Speaker 3: So real side note on this too, Like when my

726
00:32:07,440 --> 00:32:09,240
Speaker 3: son was young, he was like six or seven, and

727
00:32:09,360 --> 00:32:11,840
Speaker 3: my aunts bought him a fathead you know those huge

728
00:32:11,920 --> 00:32:14,400
Speaker 3: lafe side things you put over your bed. Giants sticking

729
00:32:14,480 --> 00:32:17,120
Speaker 3: on the wall of any penguin he wanted, And I

730
00:32:17,160 --> 00:32:19,040
Speaker 3: forget who he picked, but I'm like, that guy's gonna

731
00:32:19,040 --> 00:32:21,240
Speaker 3: be gone in two years, dude, take Sid or somebody

732
00:32:22,000 --> 00:32:23,880
Speaker 3: said we had to peel it off and it's gone.

733
00:32:24,040 --> 00:32:26,160
Speaker 3: I forget who he even took, but like, be smart

734
00:32:26,160 --> 00:32:27,760
Speaker 3: about it. You know, these guys are sticking around forever.

735
00:32:28,760 --> 00:32:31,440
Speaker 2: So yeah, think about that if you're getting your going

736
00:32:31,480 --> 00:32:34,800
Speaker 2: to shop dot Steelers dot com for Christmas presents. Uh,

737
00:32:34,880 --> 00:32:36,200
Speaker 2: Mink is not going anywhere.

738
00:32:36,560 --> 00:32:37,560
Speaker 3: He's an all time great too.

739
00:32:37,720 --> 00:32:42,160
Speaker 2: Yeah. Watch, there's some great players on this roster right.

740
00:32:42,000 --> 00:32:44,400
Speaker 3: Now, and there's some rookies that'd be fun to throw

741
00:32:44,440 --> 00:32:46,120
Speaker 3: on your back to because it probably as many of them.

742
00:32:46,680 --> 00:32:49,080
Speaker 2: You could do Porter. You could do Porter either way

743
00:32:49,280 --> 00:32:52,320
Speaker 2: mm hm, because he could be paying homage to Joey

744
00:32:52,440 --> 00:32:54,680
Speaker 2: or Yeah.

745
00:32:55,120 --> 00:32:58,520
Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely so. Funny Jersey story. When I was a kid,

746
00:32:59,080 --> 00:33:01,120
Speaker 3: I went to a game at the Three Rivers, I assume,

747
00:33:01,920 --> 00:33:04,720
Speaker 3: and it was the year or two after Barry Foster

748
00:33:05,200 --> 00:33:07,480
Speaker 3: was gone. Okay, so the people in front of me

749
00:33:07,600 --> 00:33:12,880
Speaker 3: had a Foster twenty nine, right, he was Foster twenty

750
00:33:12,960 --> 00:33:15,520
Speaker 3: nine Jersey, but he wasn't on the team anymore, and

751
00:33:15,520 --> 00:33:17,480
Speaker 3: they had a defensive back who were twenty nine that

752
00:33:17,600 --> 00:33:19,040
Speaker 3: was Fuller Randy Fuller.

753
00:33:19,440 --> 00:33:22,720
Speaker 2: Sandy Fuller got them to the Super Bowl in ninety five.

754
00:33:22,960 --> 00:33:25,680
Speaker 3: So whoever was in front of me took black electrical

755
00:33:25,760 --> 00:33:29,680
Speaker 3: tape and turned the foster into Fuller. I was like,

756
00:33:29,720 --> 00:33:34,240
Speaker 3: that is ingenious, good work, good work.

757
00:33:34,680 --> 00:33:39,160
Speaker 2: Yeah. So uh looking at the Arizona Cardinals.

758
00:33:39,320 --> 00:33:41,120
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, this is not great right.

759
00:33:42,880 --> 00:33:43,120
Speaker 2: Out.

760
00:33:43,240 --> 00:33:44,800
Speaker 3: And remember they have a buy next week, so it

761
00:33:44,880 --> 00:33:46,560
Speaker 3: went in doubt. They may sit some of these dudes.

762
00:33:46,840 --> 00:33:54,000
Speaker 2: Cornerback Antonio Hamilton out, cornerback Starling Thomas out.

763
00:33:54,520 --> 00:33:56,080
Speaker 3: These guys are in the mix. I know people think

764
00:33:56,080 --> 00:33:58,560
Speaker 3: they're oh, they must have been bottom line special teamers. Like, no,

765
00:33:58,680 --> 00:33:59,400
Speaker 3: they play.

766
00:33:59,480 --> 00:34:03,200
Speaker 2: Offensive lineman Elijah Wilkinson who was limited all week long.

767
00:34:03,560 --> 00:34:05,680
Speaker 3: Out not a starter, not a starter.

768
00:34:06,240 --> 00:34:08,960
Speaker 2: Wide receiver Michael Wilson out.

769
00:34:08,760 --> 00:34:10,960
Speaker 3: As a good young player. That's somebody they want to

770
00:34:10,960 --> 00:34:12,480
Speaker 3: get reps and play with Kyler.

771
00:34:12,560 --> 00:34:17,240
Speaker 2: These guys are all questionable. That would be Marquise Brown

772
00:34:18,239 --> 00:34:21,200
Speaker 2: with the heel. He didn't practice all week long. He's

773
00:34:21,239 --> 00:34:24,520
Speaker 2: one of their best three players. Four players didn't practice today,

774
00:34:24,920 --> 00:34:31,960
Speaker 2: so that's not good. Joey Blunt safety questionable, Trey McBride questionable.

775
00:34:32,600 --> 00:34:34,120
Speaker 3: McBride and Brown are big.

776
00:34:34,239 --> 00:34:38,879
Speaker 2: Zach Paskell didn't practice all week, questionable.

777
00:34:38,560 --> 00:34:39,600
Speaker 3: Does the catch passes?

778
00:34:39,719 --> 00:34:40,279
Speaker 2: I don't know.

779
00:34:40,400 --> 00:34:45,000
Speaker 3: I mean it's like, yeah, Dorch and Rondel Moore and

780
00:34:45,360 --> 00:34:46,040
Speaker 3: backup tight.

781
00:34:45,960 --> 00:34:50,200
Speaker 2: End, defensive lineman Kevin Strong questionable. Remember they only have

782
00:34:50,360 --> 00:34:54,319
Speaker 2: four three und their defensive rosters. That's one of them.

783
00:34:54,920 --> 00:34:58,640
Speaker 2: And then safety Jayalen Thompson questionable.

784
00:34:58,680 --> 00:35:01,279
Speaker 3: Five to seven players, right, he's one of the two

785
00:35:01,400 --> 00:35:04,400
Speaker 3: deep high guys with Buddha Baker. It's awful.

786
00:35:04,960 --> 00:35:07,680
Speaker 2: I mean, I mean if half of those questionable guys

787
00:35:07,680 --> 00:35:10,560
Speaker 2: don't play with which either Brown or McBride. Question was

788
00:35:10,600 --> 00:35:12,359
Speaker 2: supposed to be like fifty to fifty.

789
00:35:13,360 --> 00:35:17,200
Speaker 3: Ish, Yeah, like like I'm not pull back the curtain.

790
00:35:17,200 --> 00:35:19,160
Speaker 3: I'm gonna pick the Steelers to win in our last segment,

791
00:35:19,320 --> 00:35:23,000
Speaker 3: and I'm not super concerned about shot. Yeah shock. Anyone's

792
00:35:23,040 --> 00:35:25,400
Speaker 3: listened for five minutes to probably figure that out. But

793
00:35:25,520 --> 00:35:31,560
Speaker 3: if things go haywire, it's because the combination of Kyler

794
00:35:31,680 --> 00:35:33,799
Speaker 3: McBride and Marquise Brown.

795
00:35:34,280 --> 00:35:36,320
Speaker 2: Did something, did stuff, you know, right.

796
00:35:36,239 --> 00:35:39,240
Speaker 3: Like we're had a high end game and got free

797
00:35:39,480 --> 00:35:42,279
Speaker 3: or you didn't have an answer mcfer McBride if you're

798
00:35:42,280 --> 00:35:44,759
Speaker 3: missing this one of them even I mean iikes.

799
00:35:45,040 --> 00:35:47,000
Speaker 2: Well, as we mentioned, you know, the weather is not

800
00:35:47,040 --> 00:35:49,800
Speaker 2: going to be particularly conducive to a team.

801
00:35:50,320 --> 00:35:52,640
Speaker 3: Think about their d tackles. Now, yeah, if they have

802
00:35:52,760 --> 00:35:56,080
Speaker 3: three active and you just run it up the gut

803
00:35:56,320 --> 00:35:58,520
Speaker 3: a million times in a row, what they're gonna feel

804
00:35:58,520 --> 00:35:59,320
Speaker 3: like in the fourth quarter?

805
00:35:59,400 --> 00:35:59,560
Speaker 2: Right?

806
00:35:59,560 --> 00:36:01,040
Speaker 3: You know they're not great to begin with.

807
00:36:01,120 --> 00:36:04,120
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm done, I'm good. Yeah. Right, it's going to

808
00:36:04,200 --> 00:36:06,759
Speaker 2: be you know, forty high forties. It's kind of be

809
00:36:06,880 --> 00:36:09,279
Speaker 2: kind of wet, sloppy. Yeah, that you know, to me,

810
00:36:09,400 --> 00:36:12,400
Speaker 2: it makes me wonder why, you know, forget sample, Trey

811
00:36:12,480 --> 00:36:15,719
Speaker 2: McBride's dealing with a groin injury, would you risk playing him?

812
00:36:16,040 --> 00:36:19,160
Speaker 3: Get Brown? I think you just sit Yeah, I mean,

813
00:36:19,200 --> 00:36:21,520
Speaker 3: deep down, I don't think they want wins either.

814
00:36:21,880 --> 00:36:22,520
Speaker 2: Well, I think there's that.

815
00:36:22,719 --> 00:36:24,239
Speaker 3: I mean, I mean I do think that's been the

816
00:36:24,239 --> 00:36:27,520
Speaker 3: plan since day one. I mean it's not and by that, folks,

817
00:36:27,520 --> 00:36:27,880
Speaker 3: I don't.

818
00:36:27,840 --> 00:36:29,680
Speaker 2: You'll turn them down because nobody wants to get you know,

819
00:36:29,760 --> 00:36:30,719
Speaker 2: winless or something like.

820
00:36:30,719 --> 00:36:33,800
Speaker 3: That, right, right, But I mean, obviously every the players

821
00:36:33,800 --> 00:36:35,919
Speaker 3: are going to play as hard as they possibly can,

822
00:36:36,040 --> 00:36:38,880
Speaker 3: but organizationally, I don't think they want wins.

823
00:36:39,360 --> 00:36:43,799
Speaker 2: You know, Yeah, this weather forecast for Sunday high of

824
00:36:43,880 --> 00:36:47,959
Speaker 2: fifty five a low of thirty seven, sixty one percent

825
00:36:48,080 --> 00:36:48,600
Speaker 2: chance of rain.

826
00:36:49,280 --> 00:36:53,279
Speaker 3: Speaking of Williamson siblings, my daughter's going to her first

827
00:36:53,320 --> 00:36:56,160
Speaker 3: game ever. I don't think she knows what a first

828
00:36:56,200 --> 00:36:59,000
Speaker 3: down is or can name any stealer. She's just going

829
00:36:59,040 --> 00:36:59,520
Speaker 3: with friends.

830
00:37:00,040 --> 00:37:02,040
Speaker 2: Take notes. I want, I want you. She can tell

831
00:37:02,120 --> 00:37:04,880
Speaker 2: us that on Monday, who are the best players on

832
00:37:04,880 --> 00:37:07,719
Speaker 2: the fe She won't know anything. That's great often use

833
00:37:07,760 --> 00:37:09,560
Speaker 2: that is my daughter will be able to pick out

834
00:37:09,560 --> 00:37:10,400
Speaker 2: who the best players are.

835
00:37:10,480 --> 00:37:12,120
Speaker 3: Yeah, if you go to a Penn game, like sixty

836
00:37:12,160 --> 00:37:14,399
Speaker 3: six is pretty good or forty three with the hair,

837
00:37:14,480 --> 00:37:17,359
Speaker 3: he looks different than everybody else. Right, No, but she's like,

838
00:37:17,640 --> 00:37:19,200
Speaker 3: I think it's going to be cold and wet, and

839
00:37:19,320 --> 00:37:23,239
Speaker 3: like it's Decembersburg.

840
00:37:23,520 --> 00:37:25,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, you've lived here all your life.

841
00:37:25,320 --> 00:37:28,919
Speaker 3: Yes, she's never been to outdoor events. I mean like, yeah,

842
00:37:29,040 --> 00:37:31,520
Speaker 3: it's gonna be an awakening down by the down by

843
00:37:31,600 --> 00:37:35,080
Speaker 3: the river too. And you don't go for the weather

844
00:37:35,200 --> 00:37:37,520
Speaker 3: and the and the get its hand.

845
00:37:37,560 --> 00:37:41,400
Speaker 2: That's why when Dad goes, Dad sits in the press box. Yes, yes,

846
00:37:42,480 --> 00:37:44,359
Speaker 2: I always love that when people ask, oh, you're going

847
00:37:44,360 --> 00:37:48,759
Speaker 2: to a Steeler game where do you sit at where.

848
00:37:48,239 --> 00:37:50,359
Speaker 3: In the press box? And I walk down the hall

849
00:37:50,440 --> 00:37:53,439
Speaker 3: and get food and waters and yeah, yeah, yeah, nice

850
00:37:53,440 --> 00:37:54,080
Speaker 3: and nice.

851
00:37:53,920 --> 00:37:55,799
Speaker 2: And warm, you know most of the time.

852
00:37:55,840 --> 00:37:56,680
Speaker 3: But nice to little see.

853
00:37:56,760 --> 00:37:58,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, although I will say the coldest day that I've

854
00:37:58,960 --> 00:38:02,719
Speaker 2: ever spent in a press box two of them. I've

855
00:38:02,719 --> 00:38:06,319
Speaker 2: had two situations with open air press boxes that were

856
00:38:06,360 --> 00:38:06,880
Speaker 2: just brutal.

857
00:38:07,000 --> 00:38:07,320
Speaker 3: Really.

858
00:38:07,560 --> 00:38:09,640
Speaker 2: One year, I don't wear like long drawns or anything,

859
00:38:10,560 --> 00:38:14,799
Speaker 2: you know, like you're going to business casual work type

860
00:38:14,800 --> 00:38:18,479
Speaker 2: of thing. Philadelphia. One year, for whatever, for some reason,

861
00:38:18,560 --> 00:38:22,320
Speaker 2: had an open air press box in December. It snowed

862
00:38:22,360 --> 00:38:25,000
Speaker 2: like crazy. It was cold as and all they had

863
00:38:25,040 --> 00:38:29,000
Speaker 2: was like a little heater underneath the Yeah, it was freezing.

864
00:38:29,480 --> 00:38:29,800
Speaker 3: Man.

865
00:38:30,000 --> 00:38:32,960
Speaker 2: The other one was in San Diego, real places. We

866
00:38:33,000 --> 00:38:33,480
Speaker 2: were out there.

867
00:38:33,800 --> 00:38:34,600
Speaker 3: I never deal with this.

868
00:38:34,680 --> 00:38:37,480
Speaker 2: We were out there in two thousand, last game of

869
00:38:37,520 --> 00:38:40,759
Speaker 2: the season, open air press box in that place. It

870
00:38:40,840 --> 00:38:45,480
Speaker 2: was like high in the forties, high forties. Everybody out

871
00:38:45,480 --> 00:38:49,160
Speaker 2: there is dressed like eskimos. Oh probably, yeah, we're flying that.

872
00:38:49,200 --> 00:38:53,080
Speaker 2: We we flew into you know, San Diego, and I'm thinking, oh,

873
00:38:53,120 --> 00:38:55,239
Speaker 2: it's gonna be done. Yeah, nice weather out there. I

874
00:38:55,239 --> 00:38:58,799
Speaker 2: didn't bring like a long definitely wear shirt. Yeah, I'm

875
00:38:58,800 --> 00:39:00,400
Speaker 2: wearing a golf shirt. You know, when you get off

876
00:39:00,400 --> 00:39:01,960
Speaker 2: the plane, you walk straight to your car, so you

877
00:39:01,960 --> 00:39:04,480
Speaker 2: don't have you know, my coat's in the car. I'm

878
00:39:04,480 --> 00:39:06,759
Speaker 2: not carrying that on the plane with me. What a

879
00:39:06,800 --> 00:39:07,440
Speaker 2: mistake that way?

880
00:39:07,480 --> 00:39:10,000
Speaker 3: Oh, I bet they're just not being prepared. Yeah, I

881
00:39:10,040 --> 00:39:12,719
Speaker 3: mean that one was. Yeah. Wow, that's crazy that the

882
00:39:12,760 --> 00:39:13,160
Speaker 3: thought that.

883
00:39:13,280 --> 00:39:16,240
Speaker 2: Kind of pre like you couldn't find as much information

884
00:39:16,280 --> 00:39:17,239
Speaker 2: out there as you can now.

885
00:39:17,600 --> 00:39:19,279
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean not everyone had it on their phone.

886
00:39:19,400 --> 00:39:23,000
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is nineteen ninety or nineteen I'm sorry, two thousand,

887
00:39:23,080 --> 00:39:25,799
Speaker 2: Like you know, he's still wasn't the same. It wasn't

888
00:39:25,880 --> 00:39:27,600
Speaker 2: quite the same as it is now. Where I I

889
00:39:27,640 --> 00:39:28,480
Speaker 2: always check your head.

890
00:39:28,520 --> 00:39:29,920
Speaker 3: Now, you wouldn't have left your coat in the car.

891
00:39:30,000 --> 00:39:32,160
Speaker 2: Yeah, I always always checked it. Well, And people like

892
00:39:32,239 --> 00:39:34,600
Speaker 2: somebody said, why do you wear a you know, business

893
00:39:34,680 --> 00:39:36,640
Speaker 2: jagger sports code to the to the games?

894
00:39:37,160 --> 00:39:38,959
Speaker 3: That's why sometimes it's freezing yea.

895
00:39:38,880 --> 00:39:40,279
Speaker 2: Yeah, I can wear the sports coate on the plane.

896
00:39:40,280 --> 00:39:42,000
Speaker 2: I can't wear my heavy jacket on the plane.

897
00:39:42,760 --> 00:39:45,000
Speaker 3: No, that makes sense. So like the Eagles thing, though,

898
00:39:46,280 --> 00:39:49,440
Speaker 3: would they tell the incoming media that it's going to

899
00:39:49,440 --> 00:39:49,759
Speaker 3: be open.

900
00:39:49,920 --> 00:39:52,359
Speaker 2: No, I wouldn't think so. Yeah, like that had no

901
00:39:52,400 --> 00:39:54,399
Speaker 2: idea we were, we might email. They might have put

902
00:39:54,480 --> 00:39:56,120
Speaker 2: us all in the baseball press box. Now as I

903
00:39:56,160 --> 00:39:58,520
Speaker 2: think about, that's why it was open, like their baseball

904
00:39:58,520 --> 00:40:02,560
Speaker 2: press boxes with thanks a lot. Yeah, well that was brutal.

905
00:40:02,800 --> 00:40:04,680
Speaker 3: That's roight. I mean you're and you're there for more

906
00:40:04,680 --> 00:40:05,360
Speaker 3: than three hours?

907
00:40:05,440 --> 00:40:06,640
Speaker 2: Yeah, people sitting.

908
00:40:06,800 --> 00:40:08,840
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean you go well before the game and

909
00:40:08,880 --> 00:40:09,680
Speaker 3: then you work.

910
00:40:10,080 --> 00:40:12,160
Speaker 2: Well after the game. Yeah you're I mean you're there

911
00:40:12,239 --> 00:40:14,720
Speaker 2: for six or seven hours in the freezing cold.

912
00:40:15,480 --> 00:40:17,960
Speaker 3: Wow, that was brutal. I wouldn't think that was San Diego,

913
00:40:18,000 --> 00:40:20,040
Speaker 3: but that adds up not dressed with warm clothes.

914
00:40:20,239 --> 00:40:23,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, so we'll see how the how many Arizona Cardinal

915
00:40:23,960 --> 00:40:28,719
Speaker 2: players have a winter coat? Really think about it?

916
00:40:28,800 --> 00:40:34,080
Speaker 3: I mean again personal experience. We used to recruit pitt Florida,

917
00:40:34,200 --> 00:40:37,920
Speaker 3: especially Miami, very very heavy and when I would go

918
00:40:38,000 --> 00:40:41,840
Speaker 3: pick the kids up and their parents from the airport,

919
00:40:42,120 --> 00:40:45,279
Speaker 3: the majority I mean, and that was December. Yeah, I

920
00:40:45,320 --> 00:40:47,799
Speaker 3: mean they wore their warmest clothes, but we would lend

921
00:40:47,840 --> 00:40:50,759
Speaker 3: them a big pit sideline jacket. Plus they didn't like

922
00:40:50,760 --> 00:40:52,480
Speaker 3: the cold as much or handle the cold as well.

923
00:40:52,520 --> 00:40:54,680
Speaker 3: As we did either, but majority of them did not

924
00:40:54,840 --> 00:40:57,359
Speaker 3: have anything close to the clothes to wear.

925
00:40:57,480 --> 00:40:59,719
Speaker 2: Well, this will be this will be the start of

926
00:40:59,760 --> 00:41:03,800
Speaker 2: some culture shock then for the Cardinals because after playing

927
00:41:03,800 --> 00:41:06,680
Speaker 2: the Steelers this week, then they had their by then

928
00:41:06,680 --> 00:41:09,719
Speaker 2: they get the forty nine ers home. But the December

929
00:41:09,760 --> 00:41:12,759
Speaker 2: twenty fourth, they're at Chicago. Oo.

930
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Speaker 3: I mean these players all didn't grow up in Arizona,

931
00:41:15,560 --> 00:41:18,000
Speaker 3: of course, I mean they I'm sure they played in weather, but.

932
00:41:18,080 --> 00:41:19,560
Speaker 2: Right accustomed to where you're at.

933
00:41:19,680 --> 00:41:23,520
Speaker 3: Yeah, especially when things aren't I mean losses.

934
00:41:23,760 --> 00:41:25,640
Speaker 2: We went to the pull back to curtain. We were

935
00:41:25,640 --> 00:41:28,120
Speaker 2: in Arizona. We were in Phoenix for the owners meetings.

936
00:41:28,200 --> 00:41:30,919
Speaker 2: What was at mayle of last year. We're walking around

937
00:41:30,920 --> 00:41:33,279
Speaker 2: his shorts. There's people out there like had coats on.

938
00:41:33,760 --> 00:41:37,160
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, it's like I felt like seventy or

939
00:41:37,160 --> 00:41:37,799
Speaker 2: eighty for us.

940
00:41:38,000 --> 00:41:41,319
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, it's easily Williamson's story time. But when

941
00:41:41,320 --> 00:41:43,080
Speaker 3: my kids were young, they were like, I don't know,

942
00:41:43,120 --> 00:41:45,040
Speaker 3: eight and six or whatever. We went and visited my

943
00:41:45,040 --> 00:41:50,760
Speaker 3: buddy in Jacksonville and they're all dressed like sweatshirts, cold.

944
00:41:50,960 --> 00:41:52,319
Speaker 2: I mean, I forget what mark it was.

945
00:41:52,880 --> 00:41:54,600
Speaker 3: And they come to see us at the hotel and

946
00:41:54,600 --> 00:41:58,400
Speaker 3: we're in the pool, you know, like they're like dumb Northerners.

947
00:41:58,400 --> 00:42:00,799
Speaker 3: They just think it doesn't matter what the weather is.

948
00:42:00,800 --> 00:42:02,680
Speaker 3: If you go to Florida, you have to swim, and

949
00:42:02,719 --> 00:42:06,239
Speaker 3: you're in the pool and we're all blue freezing, but

950
00:42:06,320 --> 00:42:08,600
Speaker 3: it's a lot warmer. And home always did December whatever.

951
00:42:08,640 --> 00:42:11,000
Speaker 2: White kids are just welled too. Then after playing Chicago,

952
00:42:11,000 --> 00:42:13,920
Speaker 2: they have to go to Philadelphia on December thirty first.

953
00:42:14,160 --> 00:42:15,280
Speaker 3: I don't think they're gonna win again.

954
00:42:16,960 --> 00:42:17,759
Speaker 2: No, I don't think so.

955
00:42:17,880 --> 00:42:20,719
Speaker 3: I mean I think the two winds might be Yeah,

956
00:42:20,719 --> 00:42:22,400
Speaker 3: the high point. I think that's a high point.

957
00:42:22,760 --> 00:42:25,120
Speaker 2: Anyways, So we're going to get to another break. Here

958
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Speaker 2: he is Matt Williamson. I am Dale Lawley. You're listening

959
00:42:27,719 --> 00:42:31,279
Speaker 2: to the drive here on Steelers Nation Radio. We'll be back.

960
00:42:31,360 --> 00:42:33,040
Speaker 2: That's going to do it for our number one. We'll

961
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Speaker 2: be back with our number two right after this.