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Speaker 1: You were tuned about drive Home of the Black and

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Speaker 1: Goal Steelers Nation Radio. Welcome back on Dale Always he

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Speaker 1: is Matt. Last to drive on the steels into real

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Speaker 1: Matt though, Let's roll through everything that is happening this weekend.

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Speaker 1: Of course, we had a game lesson to kick off

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Speaker 1: the season. The Bills take care of the Rams to ten.

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Speaker 1: It was it was ten ten at a half, and

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Speaker 1: the Rams were lucky that it was ten ten at

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Speaker 1: a half to bag Bill turn the ball over a

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Speaker 1: couple of times. They had four turnovers in that game.

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Speaker 1: And still well, the Rams couldn't protect. They had a

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Speaker 1: lot of problem and they couldn't one of them. And

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Speaker 1: they couldn't run the football offensively. They were a mess.

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Speaker 1: I thought the offense was an utter mess except for

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Speaker 1: Cooper Cup. For some reason, Cooper Cup can get open

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Speaker 1: no matter what, it doesn't matter all the time, and

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Speaker 1: he was like their whole offense. They didn't even you know,

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Speaker 1: feature anybody else. They tried to run the ball early.

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Speaker 1: Henderson I guess as a starter now apparently, but this

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Speaker 1: wasn't much bad and he wasn't much better, But I

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Speaker 1: mean he was a better of the two, and at

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Speaker 1: least the average three point six to carry. I mean, yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's true. Allen Robinson was non existent, and I was

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Speaker 1: focused on playing this a little bit. Yeah, I mean

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Speaker 1: he was jogging around a little bit, and they looked tired.

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Speaker 1: On offense. Tyler Higby get eleven targets. I did see

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Speaker 1: that if they were very unproductive targets five catches for

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Speaker 1: thirty nine yards. I thought Stafford played bad. I thought

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Speaker 1: his pocket presence was poor, as mechanics weren't great. O

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Speaker 1: line was bad, but that Bill's front is something. I mean, yeah,

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Speaker 1: not predicting it. Who the heck knows how the other

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Speaker 1: games will go. But it looked like the Rams hadn't

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Speaker 1: played in a while, you know what I mean, It's

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Speaker 1: exactly what it looked like. Um, let's move on to

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Speaker 1: the next slate of games here, Josh Allen's good. Josh

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Speaker 1: Allen still picking too good. Um, Patriots at Dolphins to

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Speaker 1: spread is Miami minus three and a half, the over

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Speaker 1: under forty six and a half. I think the Pats

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Speaker 1: are in trouble. I think the Dolphins beat him here,

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Speaker 1: and no matter what time of year, that's kind of

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Speaker 1: their kryptonite is playing in Miami and let alone September eleven.

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Speaker 1: It's gonna be about eighteen five degrees down. Yeah. I

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Speaker 1: don't like any of the news I've heard out of

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Speaker 1: New England, so they come here next week though. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I think it's a good time to get the patch too.

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Speaker 1: Patriots quarterback Mac Jones lost one season's opening and closing

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Speaker 1: games to the Dolphins. This is this is like their game.

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Speaker 1: You know, the Steelers always open against the balance Browns typically,

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Speaker 1: but this, this is this year is different. Well, the

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Speaker 1: Patriots they always send New England to Miami early in

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Speaker 1: the year. Thanks a lot. I don't care who's playing

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Speaker 1: in Miami Week one. I'm probably taking the out of team. Yeah. Um,

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Speaker 1: both both guys picking on here, both pick wow. Seth

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Speaker 1: Walter picks the Dolphins one to ten. I mean I

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Speaker 1: saw the spread was three and a half and thought

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Speaker 1: it was too small. Yeah, they both picked him the cover.

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Speaker 1: So uh yeah. The Eagles at Lions, Philadelphia favored by

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Speaker 1: four and the over under. That's a tough one for

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Speaker 1: me because I think they're both going to be very physical.

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Speaker 1: Two of the best O lines in the league. I mean,

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Speaker 1: if you're a Lions fan, this has to be the

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Speaker 1: most excited and optimistic you've been in a long time. Like,

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Speaker 1: I'm sure home field advantage will be real. I said

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Speaker 1: the Lions are a lot better, and they probably are.

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Speaker 1: The Eagles are a lot better in the fourth quarter

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Speaker 1: probably belongs to them. So I'm laying the points in

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Speaker 1: that one. Yeah, I'll take the Eagles in that one

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Speaker 1: I think this could be their year. The Browns are

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Speaker 1: at the Panthers the Baker Mayfield revenge game. I'm shocked

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Speaker 1: that Carolina is not favored by three years there their

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Speaker 1: favored by two. Yeah. The money started to come back

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Speaker 1: in I guess on Carolina, which is not surprising because

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Speaker 1: Jacoby Brissette is fourteen and twenty three and his career

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Speaker 1: say it's gonna be a white horse. It has to

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Speaker 1: put thirty one. That's not the pot in a game.

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Speaker 1: I mean, they may win, but it's thirty nine. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I don't know. If they scored three one points in

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Speaker 1: the first three games, right, they're not gonna be high flying.

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Speaker 1: There would be a slow paced yeah. Uh. Walter picking

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Speaker 1: favored by two and a half, the over under forty four.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna take the points. I don't know who wins,

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Speaker 1: but I think they're like the same tier of teams.

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Speaker 1: The Jaguars have picked number one overall in the last

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Speaker 1: two drafts. Uh. They've started to acquire some talent. Yeah, right,

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Speaker 1: right right. And they turned the ball over twenty nine

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Speaker 1: times last year, which was second most in the NFL.

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Speaker 1: They got outscored by two four points last year, which

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Speaker 1: was the most enfranchise history and the most in the NFL.

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Speaker 1: Never scored more than twenty six points in the game.

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Speaker 1: I think all those things are much better this year,

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Speaker 1: liked what I saw Trevor Lawrence in that game against

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Speaker 1: the Steelers. I like the Jaguars in this one pretty favorably.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I think they might win. But if you're

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Speaker 1: gonna give me points, I'm definitely in on that absolutely. Yeah. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I don't have a lot of faith in both writers

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Speaker 1: picking the Jaguars. Uh New Orleans minus five and a

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Speaker 1: I've been known to do, I'm gonna nerd out on

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Speaker 1: you for here for a minute. It kind of applies

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Speaker 1: that have these crazy stats that Joe Blow is seventeen

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Speaker 1: I thought, I think that one actually matters division games.

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Speaker 1: Week one home dog hit it like, well, that makes

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Speaker 1: all the sense in the world. You know, they're two

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Speaker 1: you're not beat up with you had on in terms

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Speaker 1: of injuries. How about this. Both writers picking the Falcons

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Speaker 1: when those kind of things happen. Though it does Week one,

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Speaker 1: You know what the Saints are gonna do, right, you

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Speaker 1: don't know what Falcons are gonna do. New quarterback um

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Speaker 1: forty Niners at Bears San Francisco favored by six and

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Speaker 1: the Bears d might keep it close. I don't know

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Speaker 1: how that Bears O line blocks that front. You want

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Speaker 1: I guess I'll lay the points. But I could see

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Speaker 1: dominate the game both writers picking is big. Yeah. I

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Speaker 1: think the Bears are a bad team. I do too. Uh.

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Speaker 1: Ravens at Jets Baltimore favored by seven, the over under

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Speaker 1: forty four and a half. The Joe Flacco revenge revenge

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Speaker 1: games and crazy. That line doesn't add up to me.

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Speaker 1: but there might be something I'm missing. John is pretty good. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: John harbos ten and four against the spread in Week one,

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Speaker 1: Indianapolis minus seven and a half, the Overhunders forty five

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Speaker 1: here it is. Here's your over the last ten seasons,

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Speaker 1: home underdogs and divisional games are thirteen two and one

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Speaker 1: I heard it from ESPN, but whatever. Maybe betting world

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Speaker 1: knows all these things. I'm sure they do. Chiefs at

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Speaker 1: but I'm gladly laying the points. Yeah. I think Kansas

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Speaker 1: City puts up a lot of points, and I don't

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Speaker 1: Cliff Kingsbury, the Cardinals are seventeen and seven against the

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Speaker 1: spread in September and October. They always start fast and

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Speaker 1: not a big enough number. For me to take the points.

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Speaker 1: The spread is three and a half for the favor

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Speaker 1: to watch. This game on Fox Tennessee minus five and

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Speaker 1: It's my least favorite game you've mentioned, but I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: bad team. I just wonder if they'll be a bad

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Speaker 1: I'm sure you'll find all kinds of bettings like that. Yeah,

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