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Speaker 1: Your tunes about Drive on Home of the Black and

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Speaker 1: Goal Steelers Nation Radio. Welcome back to drive here on

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Speaker 1: Steelers Nation Radio. I am Dale Lally. He is Matt

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Speaker 1: Williamson and it is power ranking to day here on

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Speaker 1: if we, of course use the NFL dot Com Power rankings,

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Speaker 1: those done by Dan Hansas and uh no change this week.

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Speaker 1: Matt at number thirty two. Oh, I think they're gonna

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Speaker 1: be last and maybe not win another game. Yeah, the

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Speaker 1: one eight in one Houston Texans they are at this point?

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Speaker 1: Are they a lock for the number one overall pick?

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Speaker 1: I feel like it's gotten to that point that they

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Speaker 1: really don't do anything well. They're not particularly talented. I mean,

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Speaker 1: the quarterbacks not the answer. There's not much going on

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Speaker 1: positive to be actually pulling the quarterback down to go

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Speaker 1: with what Jared Allen Oh really yeah wow? Yeah. Well,

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Speaker 1: they were outgained. They played Washington last week. They were

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Speaker 1: outgained to forty six to five in the first half.

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Speaker 1: In the first half when you script things and the five,

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Speaker 1: the five five, they can't stop. They're on pace this

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Speaker 1: year to allow three thousands of rushing yards. I mean,

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Speaker 1: that's the thing. What happened if Derrick Henry gets the

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Speaker 1: two thousand yards this year, he has the Houston Texans

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Speaker 1: to thank for it. Yeah, it might be five. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I mean that's just a fatal flaw that you can't overcome.

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Speaker 1: If I can't stop the run, there's gonna hand off

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Speaker 1: over and over and over, and we're gonna be in

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Speaker 1: the Fiel forever. And put it this way, they're allowing

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Speaker 1: more than two hundred rushing yards per game. The Steelers

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Speaker 1: were last in the league last year at forty six

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Speaker 1: point one. Everybody in Pittsburgh knows how bad the run

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Speaker 1: defense here was last year. This is exponentially that's ridiculous. Wow. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: And they need everything, yeah, everything, And it's been like

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Speaker 1: that for three years. Yeah. Yeah. You know last year

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Speaker 1: they took the tactic of hey, we're gonna go sign

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Speaker 1: all these veteran guys, and it wasn't this bad. This

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Speaker 1: year they said, oh, you know, we're just gonna let

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Speaker 1: let those guys go. And I really stink, well, you know, comtat.

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Speaker 1: I mean, at least they have the Brown's first round

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Speaker 1: pick two, so you have two d picks. But man,

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Speaker 1: I mean, who's the core players right now? Yeah, Laramy

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Speaker 1: Tunsil and yeah about it. By the time pierces, you know,

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Speaker 1: by the time they're good, Pierce will be running to

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Speaker 1: the ground. And he was bad last week. I mean

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Speaker 1: they just nothing. Yeah, he did absolutely nothing in that game.

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Speaker 1: Thirty one the Carolina Panthers holding steady. Did you hear

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Speaker 1: they just announced are going to Donald or any of

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Speaker 1: that matters? Steelers play them in a few weeks. Yeah, yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean they're just that game. I watched some of

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Speaker 1: that game on Sunday against the Ravens in the press

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Speaker 1: box and oh my god, like that game was zero

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Speaker 1: zero for the longest time. Then it was three three

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Speaker 1: for the longest time, and the Ravens finally scored ten

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Speaker 1: points in the fourth quarter to put the Panthers out

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Speaker 1: of their misery. But not a good outing by either

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Speaker 1: team really, it was just offense. Not the finest moment

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Speaker 1: for the Ravens either. No, No, they were bad. I'm

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Speaker 1: curious where Baltimore comes in here, because I would drop

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Speaker 1: them significantly from where I had them a week or

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Speaker 1: two ago. Yeah, it was pretty bad. And thirty holding

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Speaker 1: steady the Denver Broncos good. They're that bad. They are

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Speaker 1: that bad. I'm sitting there looking at the standings and

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Speaker 1: curious trying to guess who's gonna be next because I

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Speaker 1: don't want to cheat. I don't know if they're worse

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Speaker 1: than the Rams. Yeah, how you can make that argument

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Speaker 1: certain that now at least Denver has a defense, That's

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Speaker 1: what I mean, at least they times they've got something

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Speaker 1: that they can hang their head on. Their offense is

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Speaker 1: atrocious though. People complaining about the Steelers offense, I need

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Speaker 1: to take a look at that Denver offense. I mean

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Speaker 1: it's not really watchable. The Calina those are, yeah, they

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Speaker 1: I mean first downs are major accomplishments. Stop the game

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Speaker 1: and give the coordinator the ball after each first time. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: where to go? At twenty nine down a spot Jacksonville,

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Speaker 1: Well I will take them over the Rams. Mean Jacksonville

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Speaker 1: at least plays close games. Jacksonville is plus eleven and

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Speaker 1: point differential. They lose those games, but they they lose

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Speaker 1: close games. They're still learning a lot. I'm not saying

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Speaker 1: they're a top fifteen. Here's the thing about the Jaguars.

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Speaker 1: If the opponents scores seventeen that week, they scored sixteen.

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Speaker 1: If the opinion scores twenty seven, they scored twenty six,

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Speaker 1: like they don't know how to win. No, they don't

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Speaker 1: know how to win. I mean they've got some young

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Speaker 1: least know how to win. Well. The Rams, speaking of

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Speaker 1: the Devil, are down two spots. I didn't know if

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Speaker 1: they'd be that harsh on the Rams, but that's the

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Speaker 1: type of team they are right now. Yeah, you're talking

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Speaker 1: about the Rams in in Denver. We're both top ten

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Speaker 1: teams in these rankings when the season started. Oh yeah,

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Speaker 1: easily remember a team easily the two most disappointing teams

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Speaker 1: in the league. Yes, I can't remember a Super Bowl

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Speaker 1: champ being this bad the year after with the same

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Speaker 1: you know, core group of thought that right at the

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Speaker 1: team the Steelers will see this week, the Indianapolis Colts.

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Speaker 1: They've played okay the last couple of weeks, though, I mean,

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Speaker 1: I don't think the Steelers are going to roll all

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Speaker 1: over these guys. No, I don't heard that their defense

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Speaker 1: is had that discussion with Tim Ben's on on Sunday,

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Speaker 1: and of course the culture winning at that time, and Benjamin,

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Speaker 1: they're beating the Eagles right now. I'm like, let's let's

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Speaker 1: talk after the game. Is over. Um, you know, defensively,

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Speaker 1: there hasn't been the issue. The defense is No, all

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Speaker 1: season long, hasn't been the issue. Turnovers we're the issue

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Speaker 1: for them. And I don't know that they cannot turn

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Speaker 1: the football. I don't know that Matt Ryan could not

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Speaker 1: turn the football over against the Pittsburgh Steelers. Yeah, especially

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Speaker 1: him getting hit and absorbing punishment. A team that stops

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Speaker 1: the run, you know, you can run on the Eagles,

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Speaker 1: and they did run on the Eagles. That's how they

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Speaker 1: got their lead. Taylor ran the ball well early in

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Speaker 1: of a sudden, for whatever reason, the Colts just kind

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Speaker 1: of went away from it. Yes, I think, I think. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Bryan's a very limited passer at this point too. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: he's a sitting duck back there. Yeah too at the

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Speaker 1: Las Vegas Raiders up three spots. That's where they belong though,

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Speaker 1: I mean, lost a lot of close games early. Don't

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Speaker 1: really have a lot of talent, especially on defense. The

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Speaker 1: offense is really just two guys, Adams and Jacobs. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean that's it. If you can stop those two guys,

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Speaker 1: or even stopped one of them, Um, they're in trouble.

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Speaker 1: Mm hmm. No, I think that's a proper spot for them,

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Speaker 1: and I still think the Jags are as good as

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Speaker 1: any one of these teams. Holding steady the Pittsburgh Steelers, Well,

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Speaker 1: let's see who's next. But I think I would have

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Speaker 1: It doesn't work this way, but I think the Steelers

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Speaker 1: deserved to go up after last week. I thought that

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Speaker 1: much better team, and you know, we're very competitive in it.

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Speaker 1: I mean they could, they could have won that football game.

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Speaker 1: I'm but they could. Yeah, I'm gonna have since you

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Speaker 1: pretty high if I were to do them at two

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Speaker 1: holding steady the Cleveland Browns. Oh, I like the Steel's

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Speaker 1: chances against the Browns. Brown's gotta smoked in that game. Yes,

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Speaker 1: they had a lead early and then they forgot that

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Speaker 1: they have Nick they forgot. Yeah, their defense is horrific too.

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Speaker 1: It's it's on par with Houston's really mhm. Yeah at

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Speaker 1: twenty three down three spots the Chicago Bears. That's a

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Speaker 1: little nice for Chicago. Steelers are a better team than

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Speaker 1: Chicago right now. I think Cleveland is too, especially Fields

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Speaker 1: is hurt. What I mean, they're talking Trevor Simeon ready

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Speaker 1: to play this week. There was the last four in

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Speaker 1: a row they might not beat. It was Trevor Simmeyon

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Speaker 1: at quarterback. They might lose to the Houston Texans. I mean,

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Speaker 1: didn't you say they right now have the second pick

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Speaker 1: in the draft or yes, I mean they've they've earned it. Absolutely,

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Speaker 1: there'd be five spots lower for me. That that one's

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Speaker 1: way overrated to me. Well, they were too high last

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Speaker 1: week when he had him at twenty um and they're yeah,

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Speaker 1: they're losing these games. He puts him at twenty ato

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Speaker 1: down three spots. This team is horrendous as well. Arizona. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that that defense looked like it did not want to

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Speaker 1: be in that stadium yesterday, not at all. I mean

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Speaker 1: that screams coaching change. Maybe tomorrow, you know what I mean?

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Speaker 1: Like now, guys passing on shots that did knock guys

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Speaker 1: out of bounds and tackle it just it was atrocious

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Speaker 1: in The offense is broken. I'll take the Steelers over

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Speaker 1: those last two teams you mentioned at one up two spots.

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Speaker 1: This Saints. Didn't we just see these guys here two

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Speaker 1: weeks ago? Yeah? Really, I mean they won, but that's

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Speaker 1: not a super beat the Rams. Who you who you

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Speaker 1: have down at the bottom here. The Steelers played a

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Speaker 1: much more competitive game, as did the Browns for that matter.

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Speaker 1: For you know, quarters of that game against against the Bills,

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Speaker 1: Now I understand, you know to me, you know that

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Speaker 1: Bill's game screamed. You know, the Bills were hurrying around

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Speaker 1: get out of of Buffalo, and hey, we're gonna go

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Speaker 1: play a begic a football game, you know, right right,

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Speaker 1: I'm not sure how to even get the airport, but

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Speaker 1: I got to play football game. Yeah. I think that's

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Speaker 1: a little high for the Saints. I think that's really

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Speaker 1: high for the Saints at twenty up two spots the

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Speaker 1: Atlanta Falcons. I was on to say, when's Atlanta'm gonna

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Speaker 1: get mentioned? They're not good at all. They're not good. No,

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Speaker 1: And I don't know how much consideration he puts into this.

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Speaker 1: And I know we have been laughing for twelve weeks

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Speaker 1: now how bad pitts his numbers are. But he gets

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Speaker 1: doubled all the time. Now you just got a lot easier.

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Speaker 1: They got so much easier to play against. Yeah, now

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Speaker 1: you can double London and not worry about the big

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Speaker 1: tight end. Yeah, it's just I don't know they're gonna

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Speaker 1: throw the ball from here on out right. And their defense,

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Speaker 1: I think it's really poor. At nineteen down three spots,

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Speaker 1: the Packers, I think it's fair. Yeah, but it sounded

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Speaker 1: of this. It sounds like I have the Steelers right

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Speaker 1: around twenty then. Yeah, I'm with you. A couple of

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Speaker 1: names of nothing that exciting. No, At eighteen up three spots,

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Speaker 1: they're in a three game winning streaks, Do I get it?

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Speaker 1: The Detroit Lions. Oh, I mean the Lion is better

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Speaker 1: than the Packers. They did beat him a couple of

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Speaker 1: weeks ago. The teams they beat on this three game

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Speaker 1: winning streaks, So I mean, I think winning streaks are important.

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Speaker 1: They're heading in the right direction. Okay, yeah, okay, But

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Speaker 1: defensively they're gonna get trounsed on Thursday night. Oh, I'm

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Speaker 1: sure they're playing. This isn't a real glorious area of

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Speaker 1: the power, right, it is not. You know, none of

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Speaker 1: these teams are super impressive. It's seventeen up a spot

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Speaker 1: coming off a loss. Are the Los Angeles Chargers? They

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Speaker 1: hung around with a really good team. I mean that's

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Speaker 1: that's kind of the Steeler argument. That's kind of the

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Speaker 1: Brown's argument. I think they're better. They are, They're better

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Speaker 1: than this next team. I got a couple of teams

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Speaker 1: are better than they. It's sixteen up a spot Washington.

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Speaker 1: If you look at who Washington has beaten during their

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Speaker 1: little wind, they've beaten nobody this year except for they

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Speaker 1: have a win over green Bay, and we now know

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Speaker 1: that green Bay is not any good. And I was

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Speaker 1: about and they beat the Eagles, which is a division matchup? Yeah, sure,

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Speaker 1: I mean beating the Eagles is great. That was their

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