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Speaker 1: Is 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 Lolly here with Matt Williamson.

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Speaker 1: It's a Tuesday. That means we heard from Mike Tomlin.

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Speaker 1: But yesterday Matt, whilst we were on the air, yes

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Speaker 1: Chase Claypool did an interview. Now earlier in the day.

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Speaker 1: I think I'll layout the time. I think I mentioned

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Speaker 1: this on yesterday's show, Make of Fitzpatrick. We just gotten

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Speaker 1: done with the Zoom Call and we did the show

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Speaker 1: yesterday with Make of Fitzpatrick and he was asked, you know,

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Speaker 1: what do the Steelers need to do differently or is

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Speaker 1: there something you can do differently in practice? And he said, well,

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Speaker 1: you know, we could uh speed things up a little bit,

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Speaker 1: pick up the pace a little bit in our walkthroughs.

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Speaker 1: Is for people who don't know, the Steelers do a

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Speaker 1: walk through typically in the morning to kind of go

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Speaker 1: over what they're at. The plays are going to go

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Speaker 1: over and practice and then they'll run them at four

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Speaker 1: you know, more close to full speed later dogging and

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Speaker 1: stuff in the walkthrough. But you know, right, so he said,

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Speaker 1: we could pick up the pace a little bit and

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Speaker 1: our walk through potentially and you know, maybe the the

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Speaker 1: guys that we could get more more snaps in practice.

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Speaker 1: Maybe fair enough A logical answer to nice logical answer

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Speaker 1: from from a very logical guy, very professional way of

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Speaker 1: looking at it. And then later in the day Chase

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Speaker 1: Claypool was asked the same thing and said, well, you know,

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Speaker 1: it's it practices. Uh, you know we could we could

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Speaker 1: make it more exciting. We could start playing music and practice.

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Speaker 1: You can have some music during practice and we don't

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Speaker 1: have any music during practice. Um yeah, yeah, um. So

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Speaker 1: Cam Hayward was asked about that this morning on the

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Speaker 1: DV Morning Show, and of course he's one of the

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Speaker 1: team captains. Here's what Cam Hayward had to say about

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Speaker 1: Chase Claypool's wanting music during practice. I hope he was kidding,

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Speaker 1: because as soon as he said it, I was literally

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Speaker 1: about to rip the speaker out. That is not what

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Speaker 1: we need right now is an X and its execution.

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Speaker 1: So I'll leave it at that. But I think he

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Speaker 1: was kidding, and um, you know he was not kidding.

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Speaker 1: There's no way. I don't. I don't think he was kim.

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Speaker 1: I don't think he's kidding. Well, then he's gonna be

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Speaker 1: in a shock because there's not gonna be anything played

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Speaker 1: during practice. Yeah, there was that. And then Mike Tomlin

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Speaker 1: was asked about that today. Uh, and he said, well,

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Speaker 1: clay Pool plays wide out and I'll let him do that.

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Speaker 1: I'll formulate the practice approach. And I think that division

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Speaker 1: of labor is pretty appropriate. I hadn't heard the tom

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Speaker 1: Un quote, but that's great and it sounds exactly like

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Speaker 1: coach d you know, I mean that this isn't college football. No,

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Speaker 1: this is not you know, they want to and I

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Speaker 1: Friday Night lights the practices because the pit practice at

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Speaker 1: the same facility and they're doing college music plays the

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Speaker 1: entire practice. Whatever. I get it. That's this is your

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Speaker 1: freaking job. You're getting paid a lot of money, being

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Speaker 1: paid substantial amount of money to go out there and perform.

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Speaker 1: And oh, by the way, Chase Claypool, you lead the

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Speaker 1: NFL in penalties at the wide receiver position with nine.

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Speaker 1: The next closest guy has five. You have nine. Nine.

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Speaker 1: You had two big drops on Sunday. Uh. That's just

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Speaker 1: a lot of inconsistency to his game. That's called being

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Speaker 1: a little tone deaf. Needs music to pick up. If

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Speaker 1: you get his tone right, go put music on when

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Speaker 1: you work out at home or go for a jog

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Speaker 1: or whatever. But this is a professional sports franchise that

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Speaker 1: is trying to communicate and not talk over whatever it

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Speaker 1: is you want to listen to, you know, and it's

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Speaker 1: not here for fun or get a little more excitement

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Speaker 1: on the field for practice. You should be able to

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Speaker 1: generate that yourself. You know, if Mike Tomlin had a

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Speaker 1: sense of humor about this, uh, he would have music

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Speaker 1: on for tomorrow's practice. But it would be like Mozart

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Speaker 1: or something is March of Death or some sort or something. Yeah, right,

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Speaker 1: it's a little death metal, right exactly. Make it like

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Speaker 1: a you know, or the most annoying old school country

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Speaker 1: Conway twitty stuff. You could find the Baby Shark song

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Speaker 1: you know, if you want to act like a child,

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Speaker 1: right right, this is what exactly? Yeah, I mean, the

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Speaker 1: a five game winning streak and you're the best team

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Speaker 1: in the league, everyone chuckles about it. I mean, it's

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Speaker 1: it's a major league fungus on your shower shoes. If

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Speaker 1: you're if you're twenty game winner, you think you're colorful.

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Speaker 1: Otherwise you're a slam You know. Here's the problem with

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Speaker 1: Hayward was then asked about it. Tomlin Is then asked

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Speaker 1: I don't want to say. It's a diss a distraction.

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Speaker 1: It's just a stupid, stupid that you said, right right,

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Speaker 1: I mean, especially after the game you and the whole

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Speaker 1: team just had. You were embarrassed, and the probably the

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Speaker 1: biggest game of the year, you know. And see where

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Speaker 1: the Bengals practice. It's right across the street from their

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Speaker 1: right below that. There's no indoor facility. Uh, you know,

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Speaker 1: they got cars screaming by constantly, probably beating the horns

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Speaker 1: and all kinds of stuff. In music, Yeah, I'm sure

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Speaker 1: playing music, Come on, man, Yeah, that's better, be better,

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Speaker 1: be better than that. That's and what's funny is we

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Speaker 1: were talking about Claypool yesterday and I mentioned I wrote

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Speaker 1: an article and I said, he flashed some things in

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Speaker 1: this game. You know, there was a little if you

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Speaker 1: squint for some positives. I almost didn't put his name

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Speaker 1: in there, but then I followed it up by saying,

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Speaker 1: there's still way too much inconsistency in The word I

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Speaker 1: used was immaturity to his game. You know, on the field,

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Speaker 1: I mean he's not a real developed route runner. His

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Speaker 1: effort can go up and down, you know. I mean

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Speaker 1: the penalties that you mentioned. He needs to play big

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Speaker 1: all the time. Penalties in eleven games that's hard to

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Speaker 1: that leads the team, by the way, I can't even

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Speaker 1: picture all of them. I mean, wide receiver penalties aren't

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Speaker 1: it most certainly is not. And you know, in terms

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Speaker 1: of the music stuff, the Steelers have a long tradition,

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Speaker 1: like they don't even typically play music in the locker room.

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Speaker 1: You're gonna say, isn't that a thing? Yeah? I can

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Speaker 1: remember somebody who was the Cam Thomas, remember Cam Thomas,

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Speaker 1: defensive lineman, big nose tackle charters. Just to play a

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Speaker 1: joke on him one day, um, he brought some he

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Speaker 1: one of the other veterans kind of looked, hey, you

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Speaker 1: need hey, put us put some tunes on, and he

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Speaker 1: did it, and he saw Roethlisberger was sitting in his

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Speaker 1: now did more than that, apparently went and got a

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Speaker 1: baseball beat. Yeah, they just don't do that. So we're

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Speaker 1: here for a professional, right, We're here for to do

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Speaker 1: a job. We're not dancing then you know, having a

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Speaker 1: and all that kind of stuff. And then you know, yesterday,

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Speaker 1: t J. Watt now too, So I mean there's more

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Speaker 1: a lot of news out of the building the last

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Speaker 1: day or two. Yeah, and so we'll see if what's

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Speaker 1: It has a spot negative twice in a twenty four,

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Speaker 1: the same thing they went through with Ben Roethlisberger. There's

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Speaker 1: potential there that he could. You know, Roethlisberger's early in

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Speaker 1: the week. Roethlisberger test depositive on a Saturday. Remember he

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Speaker 1: missed the game the next day obvious of course, right,

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Speaker 1: he still has a chance or he tested positive from

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Speaker 1: Sunday's right, and we found out the results on him,

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Speaker 1: right maybe Okay, sous they need him? Yeah, I thought

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Speaker 1: he was pretty much a shell of himself in this

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Speaker 1: the other things he's dealing with as well. I mean,

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Speaker 1: he didn't look like himself. I mean it was his

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Speaker 1: worst game that I can remember. But I'll still take

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Speaker 1: my chances with him with a supposed without him. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I also actually pressed with Taco either against Lamar Jackson

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Speaker 1: right right, and also just the knowledge of playing against

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Speaker 1: him so many times. Yeah, for sure. Uh. Now, Mike

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Speaker 1: Tomlin did say it reiterated what he said after the

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Speaker 1: many Spain is out, so put putting Splain in for Bush,

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Speaker 1: which would be I think everybody's well, just do that. Well,

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Speaker 1: that's not happening. He's he's got a knee injury. Quick question.

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Speaker 1: Did Bush get benched briefly because Slain he played nine

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Speaker 1: got benched after the after being offside on the opening

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Speaker 1: was your turn from touchdown. But you think he would have.

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Speaker 1: If Flane stayed healthy, you think he would have outsnapped Bush.

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Speaker 1: He had nine snaps at that point. Well that's what

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Speaker 1: Bush back in the game after that, Well, that's what

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Speaker 1: I mean. If Blane would have stayed healthy. You don't

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Speaker 1: think he would have been knocked off Bush as the

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Speaker 1: top dog there. You think that's just a situation, not

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Speaker 1: during that game, but maybe moving forward. Okay, okay, okay, okay,

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Speaker 1: I mean that might have been a che didn't get

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Speaker 1: Then Bush went back in after that. That's how I

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Speaker 1: I'm down on James Washington. I know he's not a starter.

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Speaker 1: Anthony Miller is kind of exciting to me. You. I mean,

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Speaker 1: he's a guy liked back in Chicago. He's had kind

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Speaker 1: of a rocky road. We even talked about him much

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Speaker 1: that's one I would consider. Um Banner, I think is

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Speaker 1: then he's come back and he's been pretty good. So

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Speaker 1: he doesn't look like a weak spot. He would be

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Speaker 1: But I think that's more due to injury. And I

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Speaker 1: oh yeah, without question if if they If Lamar plays

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Speaker 1: We'll see this. Uh you know how this goes is

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Speaker 1: night game. Trying to think who if who if anyone

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Speaker 1: from what I remember. Tavis Murray is back. Um, I

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Speaker 1: don't know of any major injuries, and I'm looking at

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Speaker 1: was one name I'm can't I'm not sure it played

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Speaker 1: against That's not a bad thing. He's always one like

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Speaker 1: him to be on the field, right. Myles Boykin was out.

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Speaker 1: Marcys Brown was questionable for the play. Did play? Klaas

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Speaker 1: Campbell came out of he didn't play. He was a

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Speaker 1: Devin Duverne, Uh, he would feel like knee and chess.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, Um McCary who he just mentioned that an ankle.

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Speaker 1: He didn't practice until Friday and then played. Um Ricard

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Speaker 1: limited all last Weeker did not practice, It was limited

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Speaker 1: heal though they played like Campbell might have. I mean,

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Speaker 1: how many times is how many times he's been concussed

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Speaker 1: in his career? I have no idea. Been around a

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Speaker 1: And the more you have, the more you have, the

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Speaker 1: interesting to see what their injury report looks like. I

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Speaker 1: know everyone's well. The Ravens are all banged up and

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Speaker 1: they're finding ways to win. Okay, I don't know that

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Speaker 1: they've been really hit hard. Super Super had hit hard

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Speaker 1: before the season starts, but they had then had time

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Speaker 1: to adjust to it. Yeah, exactly. I mean Stanley is

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Speaker 1: a big injury that they've had to overcome, and Peters

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Speaker 1: and they've gone through running backs of course, you know,

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Speaker 1: but they've been hit super hard during the season, so

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Speaker 1: and he was gonna take a break. He is Matt

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Speaker 1: Williams and I'm Dale Lally. You're listening to the drive

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Speaker 1: here on Steelers Nation Radio. We might even play some

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Speaker 1: music during the breaks. Would say, maybe we should just

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Speaker 1: play some tunes. We'll do that now when we come

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Speaker 1: back and start for the power rankings. We'll do that

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Speaker 1: when we come back. Right after this, you were listening

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