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Speaker 1: and Goal Steelers Nation Radio. Welcome back on Dale Ally

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Speaker 1: here with Matt Williamson and Matt. Russell Wilson signed a

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Speaker 1: new UH deal that runs him through eight It's a

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Speaker 1: five year extension worth two hundred and forty five million

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Speaker 1: dollars with a hundred and sixty five million fully guaranteed UH.

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Speaker 1: That puts him at forty nine million dollars per year

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Speaker 1: on the five year extension. That's right behind Aaron Rodgers

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Speaker 1: at fifty point three, just ahead of Kyler Murray at

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Speaker 1: forty six point one. UM, so he is now making

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Speaker 1: more money than DeShawn Watson. And I think it's less

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Speaker 1: guaranteed than Watson. Yes, well, yeah, Watson was fully guaranteed. UM,

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Speaker 1: I just look at this. He's never played a down

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Speaker 1: for your team. You're paying Russell Wilson for what he

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Speaker 1: did for Seattle, right as opposed to what he's going

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Speaker 1: to do for you. And the last year and a

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Speaker 1: half haven't been super great by Wilson either. UM. Part

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Speaker 1: of it, I understand, First of all, you didn't have

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Speaker 1: known they just sold the team, so they kind of

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Speaker 1: had the clear things with you. You don't just make

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Speaker 1: this deal without checking the ownership. Russ. We're gonna get

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Speaker 1: you a new contract, but the teams for sale. But yeah,

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Speaker 1: we're gonna sell the team first. So I'm sure that's

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Speaker 1: why it didn't happen a little while back. And I

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Speaker 1: assume that this was always in the cards. When they

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Speaker 1: made the trade, they knew it was coming. Of course,

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Speaker 1: that's not a surprise. And I get that whoever the

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Speaker 1: next best tight end is is going to be the

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Speaker 1: highest paid tight end. Whoever the next edge rusher is

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Speaker 1: going to get me more than Watt, and James got

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Speaker 1: more than Minca, you know. I mean, I get all

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Speaker 1: those things. But the quarterback position is escalated ridiculously quickly.

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Speaker 1: I mean, receivers and quarterbacks in the last year or

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Speaker 1: two have gone crazy, which I get. And by this

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Speaker 1: sounds of this Wilson deal. They'll probably restructure it three

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Speaker 1: times over the course of it. And you know, his

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Speaker 1: age thirty ninety one season, well he even see the money,

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Speaker 1: who knows, you know, but we'll see the money that's

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Speaker 1: in his bank. But he'll be fine in the meantime,

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Speaker 1: making forty nine a year, you know, in a huge

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Speaker 1: signing bonus yeah. The uh yeah. Titans also reworked Derrick

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Speaker 1: Henry's contract. I didn't see that, giving him a two

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Speaker 1: million dollar race that puts him not fourteen million dollars

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Speaker 1: per year. I would hesitate on that one. I mean

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Speaker 1: he didn't. Yeah. They also lost Landry today Dry and

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Speaker 1: practice yesterday to a torn a c l. That's a big,

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Speaker 1: big loss for a big, big loss to them. I'll

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Speaker 1: talk about Henry in a second, but for people don't

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Speaker 1: know who Landry is, he's Bud the PRIs book end,

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Speaker 1: and he's a lot different than Bud. He's a real

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Speaker 1: lean I don't wanna call him a finesse player, but

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Speaker 1: much more so than Bud's powers. And it's a good

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Speaker 1: compliment to him. He's really the better of the two.

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Speaker 1: They just gave him a big contract after a big season,

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Speaker 1: and their defensive front looked really, really good with him.

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Speaker 1: So that's a massive loss. I think their offense is

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Speaker 1: bound to take a big step backwards. Um. I was

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Speaker 1: on a podcast today and they asked me what a

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Speaker 1: step backwards, and I said, Tennessee were not even knowing

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Speaker 1: about the Landry injury and you know, re upping or extending.

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Speaker 1: Henry scares me because I don't know if he's long

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Speaker 1: for this world. I don't know either. He's a freaking

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Speaker 1: all but man, uh, Matt. Looking here on NFL dot com,

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Speaker 1: they have the their analysts are picking the playoff field. Okay,

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Speaker 1: participating in list of Judy Batista, I like Jeremy Bergmann,

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Speaker 1: Ali Bompieri, Tom Blair, brook Sury Sarasino, Jeffrey A. Da

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Speaker 1: Eric Head, Home, Genero Felice, Marcus Grant, D'Angelo Hall, Dan

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Speaker 1: Chad Reuter, Greg Rosenthal, Mark Ross, Mark Sessler, Nick Shook,

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Speaker 1: Matt Smith, Ladani and Thomas and Jim Frudter, Kurt Warner

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Speaker 1: and Lance Zero Line, A lot of people, A lot

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Speaker 1: of people. Yeah, there's some familiar names there. The Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I don't know them all. Um. Look, going through this year, uh,

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Speaker 1: unanimous selection, the Bills win the a f C East

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Speaker 1: unanimous doesn't surprise me. I I think that they're clearly

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Speaker 1: figuring out who's two. I'm leaning towards Miami. Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: the pregame show with Tim Ben's and my bet last week, um,

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Speaker 1: because we could look at anything a preseason or a

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Speaker 1: I'm like, who should I put ahead of the Browns

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Speaker 1: I'm really down. There were four teams that didn't have

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Speaker 1: a player in the top one players on ESPN, the ESPM,

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Speaker 1: the Patriots. I think it was the Patriots. Maybe Houston

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Speaker 1: fifteen voters took the Ravens, ten took the Bengals because

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Speaker 1: there's ti voters. Okay, nobody took the Steelers or Browns.

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Speaker 1: I get that. I mean I've said this a few times.

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Speaker 1: I am projecting the division to go Baltimore since the

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Speaker 1: I might trust Baltimore more in terms of dealing with success, coaching,

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Speaker 1: all those things. Um, I got to think that there's

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Speaker 1: a better chance that they have good, you know, good

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Speaker 1: gets no, it hasn't. And I was talking to Tim

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Speaker 1: ben'z today He's like, yeah, but it seems like the

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Speaker 1: their sports science background, or who they draft. I don't know. Uh,

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Speaker 1: looking at the a f C South, the shock you

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Speaker 1: no one picked the Steelers. No, not really no, I

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Speaker 1: mean there's twenty five of them, there's not two or fifty,

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Speaker 1: only because it paid plus seven fifty or something like that.

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Speaker 1: that was a knock on Tennessee is why I did it.

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Speaker 1: You know, a f C West. I'm curious how this

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Speaker 1: divvy's up. Twelve voters took the Chiefs, eleven voters took

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Speaker 1: I'm a little shocked more votes didn't go to Denver.

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Speaker 1: hasn't had a winning record or made the playoffs since

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Speaker 1: two thousand fifteen. There's there's this this well, they're just

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Speaker 1: a quarterback away, Like I think there's more. They're more

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Speaker 1: don't know that you just plug in a good quarterback

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Speaker 1: I mean I think there a playoff contender. Chiefs in

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Speaker 1: the Charge and saying that division is berutal right, if like,

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Speaker 1: then I would say, yeah, yeah, I would probably pick

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Speaker 1: them to win the division. I mean, I'm picking the

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Speaker 1: above average organization. And that's not a ring endorsement. If

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Speaker 1: the Steelers when the a f C South this year,

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Speaker 1: and I think I had the Cults at like thirteen. Yeah, yeah, right.

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Speaker 1: I think it's definitely a conversation. Uh, the a f

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Speaker 1: eleven people that voted for the Chargers to win, I

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Speaker 1: thought the Chiefs, the Chiefs will get in as well.

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Speaker 1: Actually they had thirteen total votes. Just yeah, the thirteen

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Speaker 1: Everybody thinks the Chiefs are gonna make the playoffs. They

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Speaker 1: just don't know if they're all. I wonder if the

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Speaker 1: better way of doing that would be. Okay, tell me

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Speaker 1: all your division winners and I'll tell you who won. Now,

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Speaker 1: who are your three wild cards? If thieves guys go in?

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Speaker 1: So you know, division winners don't get The Bengals got

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Speaker 1: twelve votes, The Ravens got eight votes. None of that

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Speaker 1: I'm surprised that the Titans. Well, I'm kind of impressed

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Speaker 1: I was kind of on an island there. Well, I mean,

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Speaker 1: taking any away from the Steelers. I mean the Steelers, Raiders, Eagles,

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Speaker 1: I don't see seven teams. Like Tim and I had

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Speaker 1: he still thinks that, well, there's a good chance that

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Speaker 1: all three wild Guard teams will come out of the West.

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Speaker 1: I'm like, I don't see that happening. It's hard. It's

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Speaker 1: it could balance out. But then that's three losses right

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