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Speaker 1: At least. He's the Drive with Dale Lolly and Matt

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Speaker 1: Nation Radio. Welcome to the Drive. I'm Dale Lolly here

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Speaker 1: with Matt Williamson, Matt um. In an earlier show, we

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Speaker 1: mentioned that Mike Clay put out and Mike is an

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Speaker 1: NFL analyst. Uh yeah, he does a great word for ESPN.

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Speaker 1: A fantasy guy, but a lot more of that. Really smart.

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Speaker 1: He's actually from the the wrong end of the state

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Speaker 1: over there in the Philly area. He put out a

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Speaker 1: pre free agency n f L unit grades. Unrestricted free

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Speaker 1: agents are removed, but restricted free agents and exclusive right

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Speaker 1: free agents are included in that. Yeah, those guys always

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Speaker 1: come back. Uh so his number one team in terms

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Speaker 1: this as their entire roster degree folks. You can find

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Speaker 1: us on his twitter feed. Dale is retweeted it. I've

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Speaker 1: retweeted it. It's pretty great. It's great. It's a little

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Speaker 1: chart here, a little spreadsheet that lays it out really well.

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Speaker 1: His number one team is the Packers offensively and defensively

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Speaker 1: has them. Offensively they grade out at number two. Defensively

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Speaker 1: they grade at number four. Real quick, I think we

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Speaker 1: I think this is interesting and I'm curious where these

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Speaker 1: came from. If you look at the spreadsheet, he values

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Speaker 1: different positions more than others, Like quarterback. It's of the

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Speaker 1: total grade correct, which should yeah right, we're running back.

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Speaker 1: It's I mean so that that obviously is helping the

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Speaker 1: for free agency, but they have the MVP a quarterback, right,

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Speaker 1: so they get a three point nine grade at quarterback.

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Speaker 1: And so even though they're running back grade is point six,

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Speaker 1: that the way at quarterback much much much better. Uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, so you look at their roster. Uh there Uh,

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Speaker 1: and he has these green color coded. If you're in green,

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Speaker 1: green is good, white is average, and red is below average.

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Speaker 1: And there's like a pink that's in between and a

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Speaker 1: light green. Right. Uh, So the Packers are above average

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Speaker 1: at quarterback, below average at running back, slightly above average

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Speaker 1: above average. Uh. The edge rushers are are above average. Yeah. Um,

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Speaker 1: linebackers are poor m hm. That's actually their worst ranking

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Speaker 1: in any position, cornerbacks are above average, and the safeties

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Speaker 1: savage and yeah, it's a good group. Um. And those

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Speaker 1: five defensive categories, there's not one that super outweighs the others.

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Speaker 1: Linebackers the lightest and safety, yeah, but it's not like quarterback.

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Speaker 1: the number two teams, the Chiefs. The Chiefs come in,

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Speaker 1: they have the second rated offense and they have the

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Speaker 1: highest quarterback grade or they have the first, the top

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Speaker 1: rated offense, but he has them as the ninth rated defense.

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Speaker 1: But they're below average at edge, and they're below average

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Speaker 1: but they're below on the cap situations. Both these teams

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Speaker 1: in at three high on quarterback. Yeah there again, much

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Speaker 1: not guys that have produced. What's funny. I don't really

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Speaker 1: look at like their advanced metrics and yards for play

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Speaker 1: plays and you know, which is great. That's great if

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Speaker 1: you if you get it, but you can't count on

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Speaker 1: a year to year and their team will look a

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Speaker 1: lot better. I mean, they're gonna have two first round

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Speaker 1: picks and some free agents and stuff. But I don't

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Speaker 1: week and in turnover difference, you know, But my, my,

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Speaker 1: my whole point where this whole thing is like the

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Speaker 1: people talking about the Steelers, well, the Steelers can't possibly

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Speaker 1: contend next year ninth best roster in the league. I mean,

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Speaker 1: that's what they have. This that's not according to you

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Speaker 1: and me. That's a guy who studies the entire league

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Speaker 1: very analytically based, according to the analytics, and that's with

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Speaker 1: an offensive line that has nobody signed right now. That's

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Speaker 1: not gonna look like that when a month from now

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Speaker 1: and all these teams will only get better. I mean

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Speaker 1: from here it's only yeah, the teams. There will be

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Speaker 1: free agents signed, and there will be people drafted. Right

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Speaker 1: There's two points in the season that I think are funny.

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Speaker 1: Is I always talk about the second the draft is

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Speaker 1: over until you kick off your preseason is the land

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Speaker 1: of eternal optimism. Everybody from last year coming back off injuries. Great,

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Speaker 1: Our new coach is the savior. This guy we draft,

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Speaker 1: it's awesome. You know. That's when everyone thinks their teams

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Speaker 1: way better than they are. Right now is what everyone

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Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, we're gonna lose these guys. We lost

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Speaker 1: all these dudes, you know, And because all you're gonna

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Speaker 1: do between now and when the draft is over, is

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Speaker 1: add people. I mean basically, I mean there's some more

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Speaker 1: cap casualties coming across the league, of course, but for

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Speaker 1: the most starting in a week and a half or so,

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Speaker 1: And you know, now you're gonna add the windows and

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Speaker 1: the fun things, you know what I mean, You're gonna

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Speaker 1: add to right right right, But your point, the structure

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Speaker 1: of the Steelers right now ain't so bad. This is

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Speaker 1: why you don't blow it up right right right. But

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Speaker 1: when running back to your biggest need, you can get

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Speaker 1: running back, you know what I mean? Yeah, So, I

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Speaker 1: mean it's it's not the you know, when you look

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Speaker 1: at what they need, Okay, they need a center, Well

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Speaker 1: this don't cost much, No, they don't have they don't

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Speaker 1: have to cost an armond leg need a running back,

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Speaker 1: they're dirt cheap, dirt cheap. A tight end, a second

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Speaker 1: tight end. For what they're gonna ask of that player

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Speaker 1: that's a retread blocker, better high character dude. And then

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Speaker 1: and then the big ticket item is is getting yourself

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Speaker 1: a slot corner were a tackle, you know, I mean, yeah,

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Speaker 1: but you can do that in the draft, and you

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Speaker 1: don't have to spend it do it. No. What's interesting

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Speaker 1: to me is I would think a year from now,

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Speaker 1: they'll probably be the lowest and league at quarterback. I mean,

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Speaker 1: if Ben's announced his retirement, Rudolph a free agent, unless

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Speaker 1: they've made some kind of you know, right at this point,

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Speaker 1: I mean, unless they made it move already. But the

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Speaker 1: rest of the stuff could look really really good, right,

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Speaker 1: It's not. It's not gonna be. There won't be any

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Speaker 1: areas I don't believe in the red other than quarterback, right,

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Speaker 1: I mean, maybe they they're running back they missed on

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Speaker 1: or something, or you know, they didn't end up with

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Speaker 1: one of the guys, so what you get running back?

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Speaker 1: You know, but the line probably looks better. The receivers

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Speaker 1: are probably the same, defense is similar, and you've got

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Speaker 1: all these resources and you've got tons of caps based

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Speaker 1: on all kinds of draft picks. Right. So yeah, But anyways,

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Speaker 1: that that was from Mike Clay of ESPN. You you

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Speaker 1: can check that out at that at Mike Clay NFL

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Speaker 1: on Twitter that that chart is available on there. But

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Speaker 1: that's gonna do it for this show. So for my partner,

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Speaker 1: Matt Williamson for Jacob rec Here on site keeping us

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Speaker 1: on the air. I'm Dale Lally and we want to

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Speaker 1: thank you for listening to this edition of the Drive

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Speaker 1: on Steelers Nation Radio