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

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Speaker 1: Home of the Black and Gold Steelers Nation Radio. Welcome

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Speaker 1: to the Drive. I'm Dale Ally here with Matt Williamson.

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Speaker 1: It's a Thursday here in Pittsburgh. Steelers just finishing up

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Speaker 1: their Thursday practice a little bit ago. And uh, well

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Speaker 1: you got the injury report here. Deante Deante Johnson back

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Speaker 1: a full participant today after being limited yesterday with the

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Speaker 1: hip issue. Uh. They also got Levi Wallace in a

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Speaker 1: limited fashion. He's dealing with the concussion, but he is

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Speaker 1: part at least out there practicing. It's a good sign. Uh.

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Speaker 1: Terrell Edmonds a full participant. He should be back this

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Speaker 1: week from the concussion. Uh. They also yesterday we announced

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Speaker 1: when we did the show that Pat Farnmouth did not practice.

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Speaker 1: He was Actually they corrected that later to say that

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Speaker 1: he was limited. Uh. He was limited again today. But

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Speaker 1: again that's a step in the right direction. Yeah. Um,

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Speaker 1: you still have to get cleared by the independent neurologist.

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Speaker 1: But at least you know that part of that practice session,

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Speaker 1: or at least some physical activity is part of working

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Speaker 1: your way back to playing. Um Cam Sutton with the

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Speaker 1: hamstring did not practice. The color Weatherspoon with the hamstring

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Speaker 1: did not practice. We'll see what happens with those guys tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: They did this last week with Sutton and he got

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Speaker 1: a limited in on on Friday and then ended up playing.

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Speaker 1: So we'll see if he's able to do that again

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Speaker 1: this week. The question for you on Sutton, I mean

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Speaker 1: everyone raves about how football intelligence he is. Yeah, do

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Speaker 1: you think when in doubt that guy might not need

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Speaker 1: to practice will be fine? Yeah? Yeah, I think he's

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Speaker 1: one of those guys. Yeah, yeah, yeah, um make I

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Speaker 1: Fitzpatrick did not practice with the knee injury. Same thing

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Speaker 1: for Menca. He can go all we can not practice

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Speaker 1: and and still be ready to go morning Montrevious Adams

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Speaker 1: with the hip, was a full participant today. Umson Cole,

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Speaker 1: though still with that foot injury, did not practice. He

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Speaker 1: was in a walking boot on Monday. He's got a

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Speaker 1: tough assignment. He's got a tough assignment. Maybe they feel like,

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Speaker 1: you know, hey, we're gonna sit you this week and

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Speaker 1: maybe and I assume it would be Hosts not Green. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean yeah, he has to sigment too though. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's a but I mean, as Mike Tomlin said, you know,

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Speaker 1: blocking Vidave is a four hands job. Yeah, I guess

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Speaker 1: that's true. I mean, if you're gonna double him all

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Speaker 1: day and make no bones about it, you might as

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Speaker 1: well put the healthy guy over. Yeah, and then Larry

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Speaker 1: Ogan job, he still at the back, did not practice.

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Speaker 1: We'll see where that goes. I assumed that would open

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Speaker 1: the door for louder Milk to at least get a hat.

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Speaker 1: At least get a hat. Yeah. The Buccaneers are not

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Speaker 1: without some injuries of their own. No, it's a long list,

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Speaker 1: right cameraon break with a concussion or tight end. He

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Speaker 1: was a full participant today. He still has to be cleared.

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Speaker 1: Jalen Darden, Uh, he is a tooth. He's a tooth tooth.

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Speaker 1: He but he was a full But he didn't practice, Yester.

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Speaker 1: He did practice today, but he got the nose the

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Speaker 1: other day. Uh. Some man and knows. Yeah. Carlton Davis

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Speaker 1: with the hip was a participant, but Mike Edmund Edwards

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Speaker 1: one of their safeties as an elbow, he was limited.

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Speaker 1: Russell Gage not a big name guy, but he never

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Speaker 1: leaves the field. Right, He's missed like one snap all year. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Russell Gage with the ankle was a limited participant. William

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Speaker 1: Golston did not practice. He's one of their starting Chris

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Speaker 1: Goblin with the hip and knee, did not participate for

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Speaker 1: second day in or. They Tho said his rest hip

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Speaker 1: needing rest. But he didn't practice yesterday and he'd been

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Speaker 1: playing much in the second half of the Sunday game. Either,

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Speaker 1: it makes you think he aggravated something. A. Keen Hicks,

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Speaker 1: the big defensive tackle he signed from the Bears, did

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Speaker 1: not practice. He didn't practice sestor either. He's got a

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Speaker 1: foot um, so that's that's trending in the wrong direction

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Speaker 1: for him. Yeah, he's a big space eater. I mean

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Speaker 1: that's kind of defense tackles day like he's the nomen

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Speaker 1: con replacement. Hold everybody else up while the blitzers come.

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Speaker 1: Just be big and powerful you uh. Julio Jones did

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Speaker 1: practice for the second day. At that's he's their nickel.

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Speaker 1: He's the nickel when he plays all the time. He's

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Speaker 1: a good player. Karl and the Cebe was back. He

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Speaker 1: was ill yesterday. Full participant Brashad Perriman assumed he would

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Speaker 1: take Goldson spot. If you know, they're kind of the same,

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Speaker 1: big base power end guy h Brashad Perriman with a

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Speaker 1: Logan Ryan with the foot injury, did not practice. Starting corner, right, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean, so you know there's a start they listen

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Speaker 1: of those like CAZy types. Yeah, right. And then Donovan Smith,

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Speaker 1: their left tackle with an elbow injury, was limited again today.

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Speaker 1: That's a lot. I mean there are four receivers on

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Speaker 1: that list. Uh there are yeah, yeah, I mean Julio,

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Speaker 1: not sure who's worse off. Yeah, and some front line guys,

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Speaker 1: starting left tackle. It's banged up, so it's a it's

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Speaker 1: gonna be interesting. Secondaries could be like um as we

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Speaker 1: often do when the Steelers play a team that they

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Speaker 1: don't play often. Let's go ahead and take a look

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Speaker 1: at the Buccaneers starting depth chart. Here at quarterback and

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Speaker 1: good team, you got Tom Brady at running back, Leonard

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Speaker 1: four Nette, Rashad White, Keyshawn Vaughan, um, who do you

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Speaker 1: give the edge too in that situation, Tampa, I guess

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Speaker 1: we don't even talk about quarterback. But that's kind of

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Speaker 1: not gonna talk about quarterback. One has one start and

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Speaker 1: one has eight hundred only three three. I looked it

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Speaker 1: up today. Okay, before back to the running back, So

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Speaker 1: before the season, I would have taken Steelers. Um, I

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Speaker 1: would rather hand the ball to four Nett than Harris

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Speaker 1: right now though, right now and White is coming on strong.

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Speaker 1: I mean not that he's great. He doesn't get many carries.

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Speaker 1: He's a big receiving back. UM, an interesting player, but

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Speaker 1: he's getting more and more time. Yeah, so he's starting

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Speaker 1: to gain some trust. I'm assuming of TB twelve at wide,

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Speaker 1: see where it's Mike Evans, Russell Gauged, dart End, Godwin,

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Speaker 1: he's not a player either. They have a lot of

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Speaker 1: receivers on the roster, A lot of receivers. Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: think Evans is still the number one if you're ranking

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Speaker 1: all the receivers in this game. Godwin's too. Deonte's three

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Speaker 1: pickings for play pool five, So I think I have

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Speaker 1: to go Tampa. Yeah, it's it's a good group, reasonably close.

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Speaker 1: Yeah close, I mean the distance between I think here's

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Speaker 1: the pickings could be Mike Evans, absolutely, I mean he

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Speaker 1: could have a very similar career with Mike Evans a

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Speaker 1: thousand yards of a year, be a touchdown maker number one. Absolutely.

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Speaker 1: It's just I've seen a lot more Evans just not there.

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Speaker 1: it's it's definitely the Steelers. Uh it left tackle, it's

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Speaker 1: the aforementioned Donovan Smith it left guard, It's Luke Getkey, Uh,

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Speaker 1: it's pretty much because they have Worse. I'll give him

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Speaker 1: the nod, but that entire if people don't know this.

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Speaker 1: The entire interior of their line is ravaged from last year.

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Speaker 1: Who was mar Pet retired? The center Jensen, who was

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Speaker 1: like the highest paid center league got hurt in minicamp

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Speaker 1: I think or trading Camp. He's out for the year.

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Speaker 1: They traded for Mason Um. They drafted Gety, who they

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Speaker 1: that was. Aaron Aaron Stinny and Josh Wells also got

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Speaker 1: hurt for them. Yeah, they're both on I R. Kim

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Speaker 1: Heyward against Luke Gecky right right is a big, big

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Speaker 1: matchup in this game. We did a video today with

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Speaker 1: Arthur Moates and I pretty much said we need Cam

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Speaker 1: Heyward to be the best player in the field, you know,

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Speaker 1: I mean interior pressure is Brady's least favorite thing. I

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Speaker 1: mean again, I don't think he has got like these

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Speaker 1: huge weaknesses at the stage, but their interior is not great.

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Speaker 1: We've seen Cam be good but not the best player

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Speaker 1: if I if I would mess with putting Cam a

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Speaker 1: defensive end in this game. I absolutely would not. I

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Speaker 1: just specially if Vod and Joby doesn't go or Adams

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Speaker 1: what you do. What you do, push that guy into

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Speaker 1: Tom Brady's pocket, and we need you to be phenomenal. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: leave it all out there on this one. And then

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Speaker 1: you know, worse is gonna He's gonna be a handful

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Speaker 1: for who no matter who they put on that six

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Speaker 1: But yeah, you need you need Cam Heyward. It would

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Speaker 1: keep Hanzi from helping double Cam. Yeah, the two of

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Speaker 1: them could impact this game dramatically. Yeah, right. And another

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Speaker 1: key that we mentioned in that video was maybe it's

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Speaker 1: them to run because they're not good at it and

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Speaker 1: even in base personnel, I might have my nickel package

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Speaker 1: defensive tackles. Though there's right stoppers, so I mean, you know,

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Speaker 1: the primarily a three wide receiver team anyways. I mean

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Speaker 1: not going to see a lot of double tight ends,

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Speaker 1: the if I'm the Buccaneers, I want the Steelers and

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Speaker 1: should have phrased it is, if you're gonna get a

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Speaker 1: a lot of dime begging them to run. But I

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Speaker 1: don't know if you have enough to right, you're putting

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Speaker 1: that's great if you're Casey and Spoon and you know,

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Speaker 1: all those guys. Um On the defensive side of things.

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Speaker 1: For the Buccaneers, the aforementioned Hicks, he's questionable for this game.

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Speaker 1: He's your left defensive end. Gholston is the right defensive end.

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Speaker 1: Is that how they list him? Do they listed as

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Speaker 1: a three four? Yes? Okay? Um and then vyas the

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Speaker 1: You know, Um would like to see more at Ogen

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Speaker 1: Jobey to this point. But I don't think he's bad, right,

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