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

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Speaker 1: Gold Steelers Nation Radio.

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Speaker 2: And welcome back. I am Dale LOLLI he is the

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Speaker 2: Matt Williamson and this is the top of our number

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Speaker 2: two and Stomp the Fantasy Football Focus and Matt Yeah,

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Speaker 2: let people down again back to back weeks here. Now,

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Speaker 2: I will say this, I played my own lineup this week.

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Speaker 2: I used a couple of the guys that we had

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Speaker 2: in our lineup.

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Speaker 3: That was kind of your building your foundation.

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Speaker 2: And not so much my foundation. I'm like, yeah, I

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Speaker 2: like that play. I like that play, and I went

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Speaker 2: with some other guys. But Kyler Murray yuck. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: I thought he was in for a yuck, huge game.

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Speaker 3: And Cardinals offense in general not real impressive.

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Speaker 2: No, Naujee Harris didn't have the game that we thought

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Speaker 2: he was gonna have.

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Speaker 3: Part. Receiving helped a little bit, but yeah, not a

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Speaker 3: lot of productions.

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Speaker 2: I'll shore Kyler Murray. Yeah, well so you got that

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Speaker 2: going for you, cam Akers yuck.

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Speaker 3: Brutal.

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Speaker 2: They're run games really bad, right, they don't throw them

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Speaker 2: the football.

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Speaker 3: Then they don't throw the football. Yeah, too big a deal.

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Speaker 2: Marvin Harrison Junior was okay apparently though a lot of

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Speaker 2: people agreed with us on Naugey Harris. I might add

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Speaker 2: he ate a forty four point five percent.

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Speaker 3: It's a lot.

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Speaker 2: That's a high ownership there.

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Speaker 3: Colts didn't get run all over. I give him credit out.

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Speaker 2: George Pickens was a good call. He ended up with

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Speaker 2: the twenty point three points. You know that helped uh

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Speaker 2: Darnell Mooney three for fifty six. So he didn't kill us,

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Speaker 2: but he didn't get us.

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Speaker 3: He was cheap and probably about worth of money. But

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Speaker 3: that's not great. We don't get any value out of it.

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Speaker 2: Rock Bowers yuck, Yeah, real yuck yuck.

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Speaker 3: That one shocked me. And you know, stacking's great, and

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Speaker 3: I understand that they're the people that do this for

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Speaker 3: a living. They're big on stacking. But if it doesn't work,

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Speaker 3: you're doomed. I mean the Keller Murray Harrison thing, Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Just kills you. Brian Robin, good call, twenty good point three.

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Speaker 2: We probably should have gone heavy on the Washington side

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Speaker 2: of this whole thing.

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Speaker 3: Now, they had a lot of rushing yards. He's catching

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Speaker 3: it's a good rock.

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Speaker 2: They blew the Cardinals out, blew them out.

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Speaker 3: It wasn't even close.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. And then the Texas defense when only got two

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Speaker 2: points out of them at home against Jacksonville.

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Speaker 3: Again, don't underestimate a desperate NFL team. I mean, I

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Speaker 3: think the Colts kind of fit that narrative a little bit.

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Speaker 3: Jacksonville absolutely did. They didn't win Carolina with you know,

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Speaker 3: the new quarterback Dalton Dalton a week ago. These teams

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Speaker 3: that are bad are going to put everything into it

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Speaker 3: and not the other team doesn't. But there is a

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Speaker 3: level they don't want to be.

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Speaker 2: They don't want to be thinking of where they're going

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Speaker 2: on vacation when November rolls around, especially if you had

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Speaker 3: Jackson was a perfect example, like are they a good team?

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Speaker 1: No?

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Speaker 3: But they gave everything and almost battled a good team.

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Speaker 2: You know. Uh, here's the lineup. I started the finished

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Speaker 2: in the money c J. Stroud twenty six and a

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Speaker 2: half points, Zach Moss seventeen point eight points.

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Speaker 3: Okay, I did.

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Speaker 2: Start Nauji Harris. He had fifty five percent ownership in

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Speaker 2: this league. Wow. So everybody was on Naujy Harris, Marvin

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Speaker 2: Harrison fifteen point five, Nico Collins thirty. There was the

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Speaker 2: stat thirty six point one, uh sixty five percent ownership,

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Speaker 2: though the thing was though only three point five percent.

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Speaker 2: People started C J.

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Speaker 3: Stroud Huh okay, So I.

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Speaker 2: Doubled up on that and you really hit that hard up.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, definite work out.

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Speaker 2: Well, I did start Mooney, I started, and we initially

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Speaker 2: We had Pat Firemouth, Yeah we did.

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Speaker 3: If you remember then we were a little too Steeler

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Speaker 2: Sixteen point seven points. If we had if we just

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Speaker 2: stuck with Firemouth, we finished in the money.

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Speaker 3: Makes sense and we'd have been better off, and we

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Speaker 2: Would have had more money to spend somewhere else. I

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Speaker 2: Nico Collins stack was huge, a big, a good one.

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Speaker 3: So if we were redrafting right now, how many receivers

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Speaker 3: do you take over Nico?

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Speaker 2: Not many?

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Speaker 2: I mean his stock keeps going with the injury now,

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Speaker 2: in uh with the Chiefs, right right? Rice, Rice being

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Speaker 2: out of the equation, like there aren't many like.

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Speaker 3: I don't have Nico than Tyreek. Yeah yeah, I mean

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Speaker 3: so he's really really valuable.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely looking at this week's top performers, so I at

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Speaker 2: least have the money for us. We didn't lose money

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Speaker 2: this week because I want online so that that's that's

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Speaker 2: why I do two of them just.

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Speaker 3: In case, holding up my end of the bargain.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you got to do better.

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Speaker 2: So we had four three hundred yard passers this week

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Speaker 2: in the league, Okay, Jordan Love three eighty nine, four touchdowns,

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Speaker 2: three interceptions. It started rough, Yeah, it took him a

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Speaker 2: him back. They had a chance to win that game.

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I mean they were not an easy team

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Speaker 3: to come back. Hardly practiced all week, didn't play before that,

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Speaker 3: and then they started to get together and you know,

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Speaker 3: Reid's emerging as their number one. Watson got hurt. I

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Speaker 3: wouldn't be worried about packer stuff.

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Speaker 2: No, And I think from here on out you can

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Speaker 2: start love and feel good.

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Speaker 3: Very good about it. Yeah, probably a top ten guy.

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Speaker 2: Baker Mayfield three forty seven and two touchdowns against that

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Speaker 2: Philadelphia defense blew them out.

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Speaker 3: They blew him out, and Mayfield's playing really well. I

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Speaker 3: don't think it's fluky. It's two years in a row

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Speaker 3: now that he's playing above average quarterback play.

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Speaker 2: Stroud had three forty five and two touchdowns.

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Speaker 3: He's definitely not any of their problem.

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Speaker 2: And then Justin Fields three twelve and a touchdown, also

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Speaker 2: ran for two scores. Yeah, so big week from him.

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Speaker 2: Fifty yards rushing too.

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Speaker 3: I had him and.

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Speaker 3: And I picked the right guy.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I have Love and Fields nice. When Love

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Speaker 2: are where I makes sense. I'm gonna ride this out

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Speaker 3: And if chance Fields gets benched, then you're still fine.

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Speaker 2: I still have love, right, So that works. Timelines brock

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Speaker 2: Purdy to eighty eight and a touchdown. They blew Blue

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Speaker 2: New England. They did. Defense is not as good as

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Speaker 2: people think.

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Speaker 3: No, and the offense is horrible and set just gets

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Speaker 2: Uh. Daniel Jones just missed to eighty one in that game.

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Speaker 3: Sam Donald irrelevant though, Yeah, goes to wandel and neighbors.

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Speaker 2: But he runs Sam Donald two seventy five and three touchdowns.

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Speaker 2: That's that's kind of leasing the touchdowns every week. If

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Speaker 2: you got Justin Jefferson, you're loving that Donald or.

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Speaker 3: Something like this. Absolutely, Hawkinson might be back, Addison's back, They're.

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Speaker 2: In good shape. Then there's a big drop off after that.

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Speaker 2: The next closest guy was Mahomes with two forty five

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Speaker 3: Did you ever consider not playing Mahomes?

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Speaker 2: You almost were reaching Rice, You're gonna play it, But yeah,

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Speaker 2: he's not fantasy wise or real world has not been

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Speaker 2: great right now. Yeah, Unfortunately for me this week, Matt,

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Speaker 2: looking at the leading rushers, there were five one hundred

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Speaker 2: yard rushing games. I got Derrick Henry this week in

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Speaker 2: our league. Ooh, I was up twenty seven points, twenty

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Speaker 2: seven going into last night's game. He had Derrick Henry.

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Speaker 2: He is well in tonight's games he is Derrick Henry

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Speaker 2: and Jamison Williams. I had to pull Chris o Lave

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Speaker 2: started Jackson Smith and jig But but I'm up twenty seven points.

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Speaker 3: You're thinking Williams and Smith and Jigbo more or less

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Speaker 2: I'll probably come out a little bit on the better

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Speaker 2: end of that.

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Speaker 3: Just don't get more than twenty seven points. Henry, and

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Speaker 3: I'm feeling kind of comfortable.

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Speaker 2: And he goes eighty seven yards untouched on the first play.

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Speaker 3: Of the game and finds the enzone a couple times.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they're throwing in balls. Yeah, short, short passing touchdowns

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Speaker 2: to Derrick Henry.

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Speaker 3: How many backs would you take over him right now?

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Speaker 3: I wouldn't take Breece, No, Breess. Hall's kind of a problem.

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Speaker 3: I don't think i'd take Bijeon. You're not taking McCaffrey.

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Speaker 3: Definitely taking McCaffrey. I mean it's I'm taking Saquan over him. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: that's about it. But it's drying up pretty quick.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, he just killed me last night.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, killed me.

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Speaker 2: Now I'm down seventeen points going into this game. I

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Speaker 2: need Jackson Smith.

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Speaker 3: And Jay gossible, but he might need like two touchdowns.

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Speaker 2: He needs to score twice. Yeah, yeah, which is possible

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Speaker 2: because Detroit's slot has been an issue this year. You

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Speaker 2: just need Jmo not to do anything in a nice,

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Speaker 2: high scoring game. Yeah, but it's where it runs the

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Speaker 2: ball and Seattle throws it. That's what I need.

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Speaker 3: That's what you name.

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Speaker 2: Yes, Jordan Mason twenty four for one twenty three in

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Speaker 2: a touchdown. This is the week we didn't start Jordan

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Speaker 2: Mason on our fantasy team and he goes or our dfs.

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Speaker 3: He's pretty consistent all in all.

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Speaker 2: Though, James Connor eighteen for one oh four in a touchdown.

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Speaker 3: They never throwed the back though, Yeah, I think that's

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Speaker 3: just one thing of note.

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Speaker 2: They did not throw the backs. And then the Cuba

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Speaker 2: Hubbard had eighteen for one oh four in a touchdown

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Speaker 3: Is I'm in on Cuba? Yeah, Brooks is looming. Who

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Speaker 3: cares about that jump off that bridge when you come

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Speaker 3: to it.

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Speaker 2: But the Carolina offense doesn't pay football in a year, right,

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Speaker 2: you know they're gonna bring back slow Yeah, you know,

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Speaker 2: but Juba ride him and ride him and start him.

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Speaker 2: And then Brian Robinson was the fifth with twenty one

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Speaker 3: In a touchdown. So starting to become a believer too.

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Speaker 2: Kyraen Williams just missed with nineteen for ninety four in

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Speaker 2: a touchdown against the Bears.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, there's rams have some problems.

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Speaker 2: DeAndre Swift on the other side of that, sixteen for

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Speaker 2: ninety three in a touchdown. I think he caught like

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and they ran the ball well for the first

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Speaker 2: They ran them all so poorly before this week. Aaron

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Speaker 2: I mean, he's another part of that really good Viking

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Speaker 3: Had like a seventy yard or he broke free.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well it was fifty eight, but on his other

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Speaker 3: that's the thing. They want Bigsby to get involved, so

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Speaker 3: he should be in every league. I don't know that

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Speaker 3: I'd just start them all sudden.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, just looking here. Chase Brown got fifteen for eighty

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and he looks like he's got a little more juice.

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Speaker 2: But it looks like Moss is the receiving back, right.

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Speaker 3: think they didn't get fifty to fifty. Yeah, if it's

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Speaker 2: Javonte Williams showed some signs of life with sixteen for

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Speaker 3: In typical Broncos fashion, he's running a lot of routes

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Speaker 2: Down too, So that's a good sign for Ady. Got

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Speaker 2: hurt right away, he did, Yeah, and he was starting

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Speaker 3: He was slash.

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Speaker 2: In fact, I think they had to fly him back separately.

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Speaker 2: It was a back injury. Yeah, he had to fly

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Speaker 2: back commercial. Uh Kareem Hunt had fourteen for sixty nine.

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Speaker 3: So I started steel in one of my leagues. He

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Speaker 3: fumbles right off the bat and then you never heard

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Speaker 3: You know, this is how good It's going to be

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Speaker 2: How good it was for Washington. Jeremy McNichols had eight

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Speaker 2: carries for sixty eight yards and two touchdowns. No, nobody

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Speaker 2: had him on their fantasy rush. Those are meaningless points, and.

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Speaker 3: I wouldn't be too excited to go get him either.

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Speaker 2: I think, Yeah, Chila will be back and Jeremy McNichols

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Speaker 3: Brother could be, But that offense is doing amazing things.

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Speaker 3: They punted once yesterday.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Alexander Madison had five for sixty against the Browns defense.

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Speaker 2: The Brown's defense, it was one hundred and fifty rushing

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Speaker 3: He won of the worst rushing attacks.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, here I saw this that today going into that game. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: I think I think they gave up one hundred and

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Speaker 3: That doesn'surprise me. It was the worst rushing attack in

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Speaker 3: the whole league. Yeah, I'm about a big Madison fan,

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Speaker 3: but he might be better than the mere White.

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Speaker 2: He might be.

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Speaker 3: It might be definitely woricing.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we were right on with the Tyler Algierre had

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Speaker 2: eight for sixty. We talked about it last week on

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Speaker 2: Bijeon cropped up on the injury record. I'm like, I bet,

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Speaker 2: don't be surprised if Algier ends up with more carries

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Speaker 2: than him, which I think he did its eight to seven.

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Speaker 2: Bijean was the receiving back. Sure, but Algaierre is good.

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Speaker 3: He's good, that's the thing. Arthur Smith doesn't know what

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Speaker 3: he's doing, isn't well. He's got a good player. Give

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Speaker 2: Yeah, cam Akers thirteen for fifty three. They can't get

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Speaker 2: the other guys back soon.

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Speaker 3: Enough, and they haven't run the ball well all year

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Speaker 3: either or last year. I'm sure Mixing is going to

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Speaker 3: be back sooner or later too.

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Speaker 2: Trey Benson got nine for fifty yesterday.

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Speaker 3: Did Yeah, I didn't even notice, But that's intriguing. We

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Speaker 3: know Connor's injury history.

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Speaker 2: And Bucky Irving he got ten carries and Rashab White

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Speaker 2: but Irving got the touchdown run. Yeah. I think he's

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Speaker 2: slowly stealing the job. Yeah, he's a better running back.

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Speaker 3: He's a better running back.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Looking at the receivers this week again, only five

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Speaker 2: one hundred yard receivers, passing yards are down, all those,

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Speaker 2: all these the draft receiver early because there's team this year, right, right,

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Speaker 2: It's not been the case.

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Speaker 3: This year, no, although the backs haven't been great. Either

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Speaker 3: you drafted or.

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Speaker 2: Yeah you almost. It's almost a crapshoot this year from

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Speaker 2: coming out of if you were in a redraft league,

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Speaker 2: like you had to get pretty lucky.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you're pretty lucky. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Uh So Nico Collins twelve for one to fifty one

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Speaker 2: in a touchdown, that's legit.

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Speaker 3: I mean, a big time guy.

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Speaker 2: Jayden Reids seven for one thirty nine in the touchdow.

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Speaker 3: I think he's emerging as the one. That's pretty clear,

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Speaker 3: especially if if Watson's gonna miss time, which I think

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Speaker 2: Malik Neighbors had twelve for one to fifteen but didn't.

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Speaker 3: Score, but you're thrilled with them. I mean, targets are monsters.

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Speaker 2: Uh Pickings seven for one thirteen but didn't score, dropped

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Speaker 3: But anyone could have seen that coming. I mean, that's

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Speaker 2: And then Michael Pittman six for one thirteen but didn't score.

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Speaker 2: If Laco's quarterback Pittman wore get him back on the sudden.

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Speaker 2: Now he's never been his fault. No, he's back to

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Speaker 2: being a relevant guy. Yeah, ceedee lamb. Who the Steelers

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Speaker 2: will see this week? Seven for ninety eight in a touchdown,

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Speaker 2: A long one. Mike Evans had eight for ninety four

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Speaker 2: in a touchdown. Travis Kelsey sighting seven for eighty nine.

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Speaker 2: That's gonna come. That's gonna be back now, it's gonna

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Speaker 2: be she rice out. They run the same routes. I

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Speaker 2: just don't know that he can withstand it for the

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Speaker 2: rest of the season, you know, I can the rigors

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Speaker 2: of this of the season be a problem for Kelsey,

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Speaker 2: But he's gonna be called upon much more now. Juwan

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Speaker 2: Jennings didn't have the week that he did last week,

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Speaker 2: but he did catch three for eighty eight.

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Speaker 3: And Taysom Hill got hurt. Yeah. I mean, I know

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Speaker 3: that they're not direct replacements, but they're.

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Speaker 2: Both Jawan Jennings with the forty nine.

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Speaker 3: Oh I was thinking the other the tight end. Okay, yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 3: I'm sorry. I'm still not hind in Jennings.

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Speaker 2: Chris Olave after cropping up on the injury report, and

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Speaker 2: getting pulled out of my line up at eight for

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Speaker 2: eighty seven. That would have put me up like half

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Speaker 2: a point in my league going into tonight.

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Speaker 3: And I think he's a wide receiver to all day long.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Brian Thomas Junior at six for eighty six in

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Speaker 2: a touchdown.

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Speaker 3: Is he startable?

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Speaker 2: Now?

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Speaker 3: There was some beech stuff.

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Speaker 2: Too that they trust necessarily. Yeah, Lawrence wasn't great again.

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Speaker 2: Here's a name for you, olamade Zach Hayas had six

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Speaker 2: for eighty five in that game from Washington.

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Speaker 3: They need people, but I'm not there yet.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm not there yet either. Justin Jefferson six for

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Speaker 2: eighty five and a touchdown. Jamar Chase three for eighty

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Speaker 2: five and a touchdown. Not a big, big game for.

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Speaker 3: Him, but hiremendous play.

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Speaker 2: Raschichia heat at eight for eighty three. That's not a Rahi,

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Speaker 2: that's not his kind of game. No, he's I would

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Speaker 2: start him every week in fantasy. Yeah, I mean he's

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Speaker 2: gonna do that in between getting the big ones. He's

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Speaker 2: definitely fantasy relevant. Deontay Johnson did it again this week,

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Speaker 2: seven for eighty three and a touchdown.

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Speaker 3: And the target share keeps going up.

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Speaker 2: With Dalton.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, as it should.

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Speaker 2: Josh Downs burned the Steelers eight for eighty two for

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Speaker 2: me than Pittman. I think down a really good because

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Speaker 2: every time they needed he had, he converted four of

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Speaker 2: a chain mover man. Yeah, no, I wish he was

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Speaker 2: a Steeler. I like downs a lot two two at

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Speaker 2: Well at four for eighty two and.

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Speaker 3: They're throwing to at Well and Robinson. Yeah, that's a

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Speaker 3: tough one to figure out.

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Speaker 2: Here's what we need to talk about. Justice Hill had

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Speaker 2: six for seventy eight and a touchdown. He's more than

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Speaker 2: just a handcuff Derrick Henry.

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Speaker 3: He's a situational important player probably should be in every

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Speaker 2: He used him as a third down back even Yeah,

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Speaker 2: they're not really even throwing the receivers at Henry has

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Speaker 2: a couple of you know, longer runs. They put Justice

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Speaker 2: Hill in and to carry because they just want to

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Speaker 2: run the football. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and he would be the direct handcuff.

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Speaker 2: On Tavian Wicks five for seventy eight and two touchdowns.

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Speaker 3: I'm interested. I mean, especially if Watson guitar.

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Speaker 2: Did you just cut him in our league?

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Speaker 3: I did? I forget who I picked up Hopkins?

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Speaker 2: I think, yeah, I mean I'd rather have Hopkins, but yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 2: I was just like he was one of my sleepers

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Speaker 2: in the in the preseason.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: What do you think of Xavier Worthies situation? Now? He

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Speaker 2: had three for seventy three in a touchdown.

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Speaker 3: It improves, but they're really different players. Yeah, but it improves.

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Speaker 2: I mean, Mahome's going to throw the ball somewhere.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean he's gonna catch more passes.

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Speaker 2: As I mentioned, Swift had seven for seventy two in

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Speaker 2: that game as a receiver. But he dumped Swift right now.

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Speaker 2: If you owned him, I would try to trade him. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: he's a tough guy owned, Yeah, I would try to

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Speaker 2: trade him. Jerry Judy has six for seventy two. He's

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Speaker 2: probably available in a lot of leagues.

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Speaker 3: Their offense isn't great, but they need guys. Okay, I

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Speaker 3: mean he's orderline starter though.

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Speaker 2: Jordan Addison had three for seventy two in a touchdown.

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Speaker 3: One.

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Speaker 2: Dell Robinson, probably available in a lot of leagues, had

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Speaker 2: eleven for seventy one. He's there. Josh Downs he's their

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Speaker 2: chain movee oh totally.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and they'll end up in the end zone here

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Speaker 3: and there. Not a ton of touchdowns, but BPR league,

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Speaker 3: he's really valuable.

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Speaker 2: I only had a Lab Mconkee game this week, Matt

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Speaker 2: five for sixty seven and a touchdown.

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Speaker 3: I'm expecting more of the same. Yeah, I mean, we

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Speaker 3: both really liked him coming out, and he's starting to acclimate.

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Speaker 3: And I don't think Quintin Johnston is a major barrier

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Speaker 2: Like that, even Palmer, you know. Yeah, right, See. I

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Speaker 2: think by the time the season's it's all saiding down,

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Speaker 2: mcconky ends up being the Chargers leading receivers.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think so. I think so. It's trending that way.

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Speaker 2: Mike Williams had four for sixty seven yesterday and that

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Speaker 3: Game certain gave Wilson all he could handle.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and they're gonna they have to expect that. They

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Speaker 3: Mike Williams is a key component for them. He needs

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Speaker 3: to be a producer. Yeah, but he's capable.

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Speaker 2: You worried about some of these big time players that

445
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Speaker 2: aren't showing up on these lists, such as such as

446
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Speaker 2: Andrews yoh yeah, because he's not playing any snaps such

447
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Speaker 2: as Bryce Hall not quite yet.

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Speaker 3: I mean like I wouldn't take him second overall or

449
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Speaker 3: anything again, but I'm not getting out yet.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: The thing is Allen's cutting into his stuff though too.

452
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Speaker 3: Allen's actually looking better than him.

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Speaker 2: The Dolphins receivers are not well, that's the problem. There's

454
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Speaker 2: nothing you can do about it. There's nothing to do

455
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Speaker 2: about it, right.

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Speaker 3: I own Waddle in both my leagues, and he's a

457
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Speaker 3: borderline starter to me at best. And now now Hills

458
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Speaker 3: like a wide receiver. Two.

459
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Speaker 2: There's some there's some troubling situations across the league that.

460
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Speaker 3: There are, and just passings down like what tight ends

461
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Speaker 3: do you trust?

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Speaker 2: Well, I was gonna say brock Bauers before the last

463
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Speaker 2: the last two weeks.

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Speaker 3: Of nothing good. I don't trust Pits. Yeah, I guess

465
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Speaker 3: Goddard sort.

466
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Speaker 2: Of in the grand scheme of things, Pat Fryarmouth is

467
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Speaker 2: turned in beads. He's turning into one of the more

468
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Speaker 2: there's not a high ceiling, no, but there's a floor

469
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Speaker 2: that's higher than a lot of other guys. For he's

470
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Speaker 2: getting four catches every week.

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Speaker 3: I say he's the only tight end has four catches

472
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Speaker 3: are more every week this year, So at least there's consistency.

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Speaker 2: Right. They're throwing him the football, and you're going to

474
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Speaker 2: have games like yesterday where he gets a touchdown cat

475
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Speaker 2: or something longer down the field. And in today's NFL

476
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Speaker 2: tight end situations, given what else is out there, it's

477
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Speaker 2: not bad.

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Speaker 3: Kelsey gets a spike. Yeah, for sure. McBride is probably

479
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Speaker 3: the best guy, and he's been he got hurt, but

480
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Speaker 3: I would still value him pretty high.

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Speaker 2: What do you think it, Kincaid, it's starting to he's

482
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Speaker 2: starting to get more of the looks that we thought

483
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Speaker 2: he would get going into.

484
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Speaker 3: The manufacturer stuff for him. Yeah, so I would buy

485
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Speaker 3: on him, and I think that's still going to be

486
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Speaker 3: there for Bowers. I think that was a tough matchup

487
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Speaker 3: with with the last two weeks.

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Speaker 2: Really think that was always to begin with. Yeah, the

489
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Speaker 2: Andrews thing is it's I mean, I can explain it.

490
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Speaker 2: I don't know why they're doing it.

491
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Speaker 3: I mean they just want big people on the field.

492
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Speaker 2: I think they need some pass catchers on the field.

493
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Speaker 3: And I don't know that he's the same with the

494
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Speaker 3: car accident, those things too, plus likely he's looming as well.

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Speaker 3: How often are they both on the field together? The

496
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Speaker 3: guy though he is zero, Yeah.

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Speaker 2: In two weeks in a row. I think he has

498
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Speaker 2: one drop. The only ball I think thrown to him.

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Speaker 3: I think it's one target and he drowned. I don't know.

500
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Speaker 3: You texted me, you're joking, But is he he's is

501
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Speaker 3: he cutable? Maybe?

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Speaker 2: Maybe?

503
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Speaker 3: Maybe?

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Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, there's somebody sole sitting out there, Yeah,

505
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Speaker 2: that you.

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Speaker 3: Can just got hurt too. Tight end like, I don't

507
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Speaker 3: know if there's twelve that you trust right now.

508
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Speaker 2: That's part of the problem right now, it's a tight

509
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Speaker 2: end position. It's a mess.

510
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Speaker 3: When's Ingram do back?

511
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Speaker 2: I think that could be that could be coming this week.

512
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Speaker 3: That wouldn't be bad. Yeah, I might make it. Hawkinson's

513
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Speaker 3: still out there, Hawkinson's looming. Yeah, I wouldn't rush to

514
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Speaker 3: start him when he comes back, But I think who

515
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Speaker 3: else there's a pick from not much, not a lot,

516
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Speaker 3: not buying cole Comett and I mean Kittle's still fine. Yeah,

517
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Speaker 3: not a good spot, not.

518
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Speaker 2: A good spot of but we're overdue for a break.

519
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Speaker 2: We'll get to that now. He is the Matt Williamson.

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Speaker 2: I am Dale Lolly. You're listening to the Drive here

521
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Speaker 2: in the Steelers Audio Network. Matt and I'll be back

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Speaker 2: with more right after this.

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Speaker 1: This is the Drive with Dale Lolly and Matt Williamson

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Speaker 1: on your twenty four to seven home of the Black

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Speaker 1: and Gold SNR Steelers Nation Radio.

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Speaker 2: And welcome back. I am Dale Lolly. He is the

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Speaker 2: Matt Williamson and Matt. At three and one, the Steelers

528
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Speaker 2: still lead their division and that's noteworthy. We're a quarter

529
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Speaker 2: of the way more or less through the season here.

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Speaker 2: Looking at NFL dot Com here, Jeff Chaheta, who's one

531
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Speaker 2: of their columnists, went through and identified something for each

532
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Speaker 2: of the division leaders at this point and what they

533
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Speaker 2: need could be their achilles heel.

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Speaker 3: Okay, so I thought we go with that.

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Speaker 2: We'll save the Steelers for last talk a lot, but

536
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Speaker 2: Steelers for the Buffalo Bills. As we saw last night,

537
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Speaker 2: their run defense is bad.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and it was first time that you know, backup

539
00:23:14,800 --> 00:23:19,760
Speaker 3: linebackers and borderline safeties and things like that were exposed.

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Speaker 2: And they live in Nickel and I say the same

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Speaker 2: problem the Steelers had in the game against Indianapolis. Indianapolis

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Speaker 2: got the Steelers to start the game in their nickel

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Speaker 2: and then went with with some speed, you know, hurry

544
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Speaker 2: up to keep the nickel on the field, so you

545
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Speaker 2: just keep running against.

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Speaker 3: It against the lighter front. If I'm the Raven or

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Speaker 3: if I'm the Bills, I think I'd rather play the

548
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Speaker 3: Chiefs than the Ravens.

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Speaker 2: In the player.

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Speaker 3: Yes, it's just a bad matchup. Too much beef.

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Speaker 2: Could be the same situation when the Steelers geared up

552
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Speaker 2: in twenty seventeen saying, we got to beat the We

553
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Speaker 2: got to figure out a way to beat the Patriots.

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Speaker 2: So we got to get lighter at the second level.

555
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Speaker 2: We got to have got more speed at the second level.

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Speaker 2: And you lose some of that physicality and here come

557
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Speaker 2: the Jaguars and they run the ball down your throat.

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Speaker 3: And even the strength of the Bills defense is Rousseau

559
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Speaker 3: and von Miller and these upfield.

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Speaker 2: That doesn't you.

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Speaker 3: Want to mush rush Jackson? Right, you know, like it's

562
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Speaker 3: not giving escape lanes, no, right, right right?

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Speaker 2: Their defense does not want to play the rave. It

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Speaker 2: makes me wonder if the Steelers are a bad matchup

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Speaker 2: for the Bills.

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Speaker 3: Could be, could be. I mean, they'redn't play somewhat similar manner,

567
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Speaker 3: a lot of tight ends on the field, beef, a

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Speaker 3: quarterback that can run.

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Speaker 2: Power back like typically for most teams, if you put

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Speaker 2: twelve personnel or thirteen personnel in the field, most teams

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Speaker 2: weren't aren't going to stay nickel against that.

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Speaker 3: I don't know if they will. I assume they will.

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Speaker 3: They definitely will against twelve. I don't know if they

574
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Speaker 3: will with thirteen or not. But that's not what they

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Speaker 3: want to do at all. Plus they don't have a

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Speaker 3: corner for pickings.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and their linebackers are all smaller, lighter guys.

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Speaker 3: They are, and they're kind of backup ish right now too.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, so you know that's not the ideal

580
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Speaker 2: matchup for them. They're not built to play that way.

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Speaker 3: The offense has gotten a lot more physical, but the

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Speaker 3: defense hasn't.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and that was that was a problem last night

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Speaker 2: for them, Houston. Their problem. Their problem is their offensive consistency.

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Speaker 3: Accord. You think the quarterback in the passing game is consistent,

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Speaker 3: I just think the run game is. It was bad

587
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Speaker 3: last week, though it wasn't great last week.

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Speaker 2: They had trouble last week again because they can't run

589
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Speaker 2: that they don't have any balances, and a.

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Speaker 3: Lot of it just comes down to early down consistency

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Speaker 3: for them. They're in third and longs too much and

592
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Speaker 3: Stroud makes up for it a lot, and their receivers

593
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Speaker 3: are great, but it'd be nice to be you know,

594
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Speaker 3: third and two, second and two.

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Speaker 2: They don't get in a lot of those situations. Now,

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Speaker 2: Mixing had one hundred and fifty nine rushing yards in

597
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Speaker 2: the first two weeks. Does it give you a better

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Speaker 2: Does it make you feel better about mix And I

599
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Speaker 2: know you've been down on this.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it was better than I thought. Yeah, I mean, frankly,

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Speaker 3: a lot of those backs Kamara mix And started the

602
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Speaker 3: season much better than I expected.

603
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Speaker 2: But part of the problem they get they end up

604
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Speaker 2: getting nicked up.

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Speaker 3: They get nicked up, and they're older and they want

606
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Speaker 3: to wear and tearing their body and they're not the

607
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Speaker 3: same player in week ten as they are week two.

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Speaker 2: The Texans also have twenty three penalties the last two games,

609
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Speaker 2: and this is becoming a league wide.

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Speaker 3: It's a problem.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, the penalties are just out of control.

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Speaker 3: They're too much.

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Speaker 2: I mean we've got officials just taking over games. I

614
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Speaker 2: know some of it too, though, is just bad offensive execution.

615
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Speaker 2: There's some of that like jump off side chest. Yesterday

616
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Speaker 2: had five false starts, all right, because because of Aaron

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Speaker 2: Rodgers cadence. Yeah, like your offensive line, you practice this

618
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Speaker 2: all week long, you know what Aaron Rodgers cadence is. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: I don't care if you're a new guy in the

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Speaker 2: lineup or not.

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Speaker 3: You can't blame the ref for throwing the flag when

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Speaker 3: you jump up when you're right. There's a lot of

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Speaker 3: pretty snap stuff on offense too, that's a problem.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. So and Houston's defense isn't quite as good as

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Speaker 2: what we thought it was going to be.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it's good, not great. Yeah, you know,

627
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Speaker 3: like I'm an Anderson and Hunter fans.

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Speaker 2: It's been a couple of weeks now where they've gotten

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Speaker 2: it's okay?

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Speaker 3: Yeah right the Chiefs, the Chiefs and Texans have been

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Speaker 3: a little under whelming for me. Yeah, I mean for

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Speaker 3: what expectations are.

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Speaker 2: Chehitah's biggest challenge for the Chiefs is rejiggering Patrick Mahomes

634
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Speaker 2: supporting cast No Hollywood Brown, no Pacheco. Now you lose

635
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Speaker 2: or she Rice like that's a lot. That's a lot,

636
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Speaker 2: because you want Kelsey to be on a pitch count.

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00:27:18,760 --> 00:27:21,400
Speaker 2: This would be like the Steelers now losing a rookie.

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00:27:21,560 --> 00:27:25,119
Speaker 2: This would be the Steelers losing Pickens Naujie Harris and

639
00:27:26,160 --> 00:27:26,760
Speaker 2: and also.

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00:27:26,880 --> 00:27:29,360
Speaker 3: Yeah something like that or somebody important.

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Speaker 2: Yeah right, And you know, Calvin Austin, you don't want

642
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Speaker 2: your workhorses to be the rookie speedster and the old

643
00:27:37,440 --> 00:27:40,160
Speaker 2: guy that's yeah, you're trying to save. Yeah, so it's

644
00:27:40,240 --> 00:27:42,240
Speaker 2: it's gonna be a problem and these aren't going to

645
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Speaker 2: get better. It looks like Rahie Rice is done for

646
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Speaker 2: the year, but check Go's he's going to be out

647
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Speaker 2: at least eight weeks total. They could be a trade

648
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Speaker 2: for receiver team. Yeah, absolutely, Hollywood Brown's done for the year.

649
00:27:51,480 --> 00:27:53,960
Speaker 2: Like all the moves that they made, I mean, they're

650
00:27:53,960 --> 00:27:55,400
Speaker 2: gonna be counting on juju now.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, is see fantasy relevant Maybe maybe? I mean I

652
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Speaker 3: want to see it a little bit that he.

653
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Speaker 2: Can open, right, I know, but they scheme him up,

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Speaker 2: yeah they will.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, he's not what he used.

656
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Speaker 2: To be for Washington, the surprising Washington Commanders leading the

657
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Speaker 2: the NFC East uh Defense.

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Speaker 3: It's the whole defense.

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Speaker 2: It's atrocious.

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Speaker 3: It was better against the Cardinals and they got.

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Speaker 2: How much of that do you think was Kingsbury just

662
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Speaker 2: completely knowing? I think there's a lot of that is

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Speaker 2: what Kyler doesn't do well.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and he there's a book on Kyler and nobody

665
00:28:32,640 --> 00:28:35,240
Speaker 3: would know it better. But they got like Jazzer Newton

666
00:28:35,359 --> 00:28:39,040
Speaker 3: back in and the d tackles are actually something. But

667
00:28:39,080 --> 00:28:40,000
Speaker 3: it's a bad defense.

668
00:28:40,000 --> 00:28:42,320
Speaker 2: It's a bad, bad defense, especially in the back end.

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Speaker 3: Can they win that division? No, I don't think so.

670
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Speaker 3: I don't think so. I think the Eagles and Cowboys

671
00:28:47,000 --> 00:28:49,000
Speaker 3: will get past them sooner than later.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they're playing a little over their heads, right, yeah, yeah,

673
00:28:51,400 --> 00:28:52,120
Speaker 2: it's great story.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. I heard someone say they're this year's Texans. Hmmm,

675
00:28:57,240 --> 00:28:59,640
Speaker 3: good young quarterback, the second over or you know, I

676
00:28:59,760 --> 00:29:02,800
Speaker 3: pick second overall pick but about.

677
00:29:02,600 --> 00:29:04,480
Speaker 2: That, you know, let's look it out over our skis. Yeah.

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00:29:04,560 --> 00:29:05,560
Speaker 3: Yeah.

679
00:29:05,600 --> 00:29:09,280
Speaker 2: The Vikings now at four and oh lead the NFC

680
00:29:09,360 --> 00:29:10,760
Speaker 2: North by a couple of games.

681
00:29:11,040 --> 00:29:11,680
Speaker 3: What's theirs?

682
00:29:12,560 --> 00:29:14,440
Speaker 2: Or actually lead by one game over Detroit.

683
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Speaker 3: Well that head to.

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Speaker 2: Head degree right the cornerback position. Okay, they're kind of

685
00:29:20,880 --> 00:29:23,040
Speaker 2: scheming and up right, now that's why they They're blitzing

686
00:29:23,080 --> 00:29:26,680
Speaker 2: like crazy. They signed Stefan Gilmour during training camp and

687
00:29:26,720 --> 00:29:29,280
Speaker 2: immediately made him a starter. He's thirty two years old,

688
00:29:29,600 --> 00:29:32,880
Speaker 2: maybe thirty three. On the other side is Byron Murphy,

689
00:29:33,320 --> 00:29:35,800
Speaker 2: and the Packers just went after him and after him

690
00:29:35,800 --> 00:29:38,520
Speaker 2: and after him. Now he had an interception and broke

691
00:29:38,600 --> 00:29:41,680
Speaker 2: up a couple of passes. But yeah, they had no

692
00:29:41,760 --> 00:29:45,280
Speaker 2: trouble coming back because the first round.

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Speaker 3: Pick next year might be a corner. Yeah, I mean,

694
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Speaker 3: especially because he wants to blitz and leave them on islands.

695
00:29:50,600 --> 00:29:53,360
Speaker 3: And boy, he's doing some funky stuff that helps them too.

696
00:29:53,480 --> 00:29:55,720
Speaker 3: But that's a good one. I mean, that would worry me.

697
00:29:56,160 --> 00:29:59,240
Speaker 2: I've been streaming defenses as you know, all season long. Yeah, yeah,

698
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Speaker 2: I picked them up this week. I might just keep them.

699
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Speaker 3: Oh, I think it's one of the best defense in

700
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Speaker 3: the league. Yeah.

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00:30:04,920 --> 00:30:07,360
Speaker 2: They get sacks, they get sacks, they get turnovers, they

702
00:30:07,400 --> 00:30:11,360
Speaker 2: confused quarterbacks. Yeah, I would keep them. Tampa Bay leading

703
00:30:11,400 --> 00:30:17,640
Speaker 2: the NFC South. The biggest challenge is the schedule. Really Yeah,

704
00:30:17,920 --> 00:30:20,680
Speaker 2: I don't think they're running games particularly good either. In

705
00:30:20,720 --> 00:30:23,480
Speaker 2: the coming weeks, they have road divisional games against the

706
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Speaker 2: Falcons and the Saints team chasing them. Yeah, and then

707
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Speaker 2: three games against the Ravens, the Chiefs, and the forty

708
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Speaker 2: nine ers.

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Speaker 3: No, I guess that's a good one though. The divisional

710
00:30:35,680 --> 00:30:37,800
Speaker 3: games would be so important in that division. Yeah, I

711
00:30:37,800 --> 00:30:40,520
Speaker 3: mean that that Atlanta squeaking one out there with a

712
00:30:40,600 --> 00:30:44,360
Speaker 3: late kick, and didn't you know Saints haven't allowed a

713
00:30:44,400 --> 00:30:46,840
Speaker 3: touchdown in two weeks and lost lost, you know.

714
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll say this what Tampa. They already do have

715
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Speaker 2: wins over Detroit, in Detroit.

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Speaker 3: In Philadelphia, Philadelphia, two good wins, big good conference wins.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, So I'm impressed with them. Yeah, they're playing well. Yeah,

718
00:31:02,120 --> 00:31:06,480
Speaker 2: and right now the Seahawks are the leaders in the

719
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Speaker 2: NFC West. Yeah, we'll see them tonight. So he didn't

720
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Speaker 2: get really give any analysis of that, but to me,

721
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Speaker 2: their biggest their biggest flaw right now.

722
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Speaker 3: I'm not sold on the line.

723
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Speaker 2: I'm not sold on the line. And I don't know.

724
00:31:20,320 --> 00:31:24,080
Speaker 2: The defense is good good, Yeah, I mean I do

725
00:31:24,120 --> 00:31:26,040
Speaker 2: think he's a really good defensive coach and they have

726
00:31:26,120 --> 00:31:28,400
Speaker 2: some pieces and it's better than last year. If they

727
00:31:28,400 --> 00:31:31,840
Speaker 2: haven't beaten anybody anybody, Right, we'll see what tonight looks like. Yeah,

728
00:31:31,880 --> 00:31:34,160
Speaker 2: it's gonna be a different challenge tonight against the Lions.

729
00:31:34,240 --> 00:31:38,320
Speaker 3: It is I don't think is playing. I don't think

730
00:31:38,440 --> 00:31:41,160
Speaker 3: Murphy's playing. They have a couple of defensive injuries. Yeah,

731
00:31:41,200 --> 00:31:43,200
Speaker 3: so we'll see. We'll see if they can block up

732
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Speaker 3: Detroit's front. As for the Steelers, Shihitah thinks their biggest

733
00:31:48,560 --> 00:31:52,200
Speaker 3: challenge is the rest of the AFC North. Now when

734
00:31:52,240 --> 00:31:55,240
Speaker 3: you say the rest of the three, yeah, I'm in

735
00:31:55,280 --> 00:31:57,720
Speaker 3: Cleveland in that at all, because they're a mess. They're

736
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Speaker 3: a mess. The Ravens are scary. Yeah, the Ravens are

737
00:32:03,080 --> 00:32:05,520
Speaker 3: a good team that are figuring things out that were

738
00:32:05,520 --> 00:32:09,560
Speaker 3: really good last year, and they got a quarterback. Bengals

739
00:32:09,640 --> 00:32:12,040
Speaker 3: offense is scary. They got a quarterback, they got it

740
00:32:12,080 --> 00:32:16,160
Speaker 3: all figured out. The other three units though, both sides

741
00:32:16,200 --> 00:32:18,880
Speaker 3: of the ball in Cleveland, especially the offense and the

742
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Speaker 3: Bengals defense, I don't think they I don't think the

743
00:32:24,200 --> 00:32:26,640
Speaker 3: Browns offense or Bengals defense gets better. I think their

744
00:32:26,680 --> 00:32:32,120
Speaker 3: problems all year. Now, I'm with you, like, it wouldn't

745
00:32:32,120 --> 00:32:35,560
Speaker 3: shock me if the Browns at best win one division game.

746
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Speaker 2: At best, you know, you just don't want it to

747
00:32:37,920 --> 00:32:40,280
Speaker 2: be against you only do that team, you would.

748
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Speaker 3: They knock off the Ravens or something, you know what

749
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Speaker 3: I mean, that'd be great series. Are gonna win three?

750
00:32:44,760 --> 00:32:47,760
Speaker 2: Yeah, here's the thing when he says the rest of

751
00:32:47,800 --> 00:32:50,800
Speaker 2: the AFC North Steelers went five and one in the

752
00:32:50,800 --> 00:32:53,120
Speaker 2: division last year. They've won seven of the eight last

753
00:32:53,160 --> 00:32:56,960
Speaker 2: eight matchups against the Ravens. They match up well against Baltimore.

754
00:32:57,080 --> 00:33:00,320
Speaker 2: They do, they do. Now, Derrick Henry's a different animal.

755
00:33:00,320 --> 00:33:04,560
Speaker 2: There's wars fans or buts about that. But I do

756
00:33:04,600 --> 00:33:08,840
Speaker 2: think that they have you know, I'll take TJ. Wat

757
00:33:08,840 --> 00:33:11,440
Speaker 2: against Roger Rosengarten. Oh yeah, yeah all day long.

758
00:33:11,520 --> 00:33:13,720
Speaker 3: No, hang it. I mean, I don't care who's on

759
00:33:13,760 --> 00:33:14,880
Speaker 3: the field and who's HRD for that game.

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00:33:14,920 --> 00:33:16,840
Speaker 2: We know it's going to be a seventeen sixteen game

761
00:33:16,920 --> 00:33:19,560
Speaker 2: or seventeen thirteen or something along those lines, because both

762
00:33:19,640 --> 00:33:22,080
Speaker 2: head coaches are going to be it that way, and.

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Speaker 3: They're both gonna be healthy for that game. You know

764
00:33:23,760 --> 00:33:25,240
Speaker 3: they're both gonna I know who's gonna be on the

765
00:33:25,240 --> 00:33:27,880
Speaker 3: sidelines for that game, which means I'm taking the under.

766
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Speaker 2: And it's just how they play. It becomes a self

767
00:33:31,920 --> 00:33:36,240
Speaker 2: fulfilling prophecy Every year when the Steelers play the Ravens, well,

768
00:33:36,240 --> 00:33:37,680
Speaker 2: this is going to be a close, tight game and they'll

769
00:33:37,640 --> 00:33:40,600
Speaker 2: probably be decide within three points. Both guys say it

770
00:33:41,080 --> 00:33:42,720
Speaker 2: and they speak it into existence.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. And if your biggest concern is the division, well

772
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Speaker 3: you're winning the division as we speak. Yeah, I might

773
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Speaker 3: saying I predicted Steelers to win the division. I probably

774
00:33:53,520 --> 00:33:55,440
Speaker 3: would pick the Ravens right now. You know, I think

775
00:33:55,480 --> 00:33:57,320
Speaker 3: they're probably the best team. They would probably have them

776
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Speaker 3: highest of my power rank if we were to rank

777
00:33:59,200 --> 00:34:01,920
Speaker 3: the division. But I think I take the Steelers second.

778
00:34:02,320 --> 00:34:04,880
Speaker 3: I like their chances. They got two game lead on

779
00:34:04,920 --> 00:34:06,800
Speaker 3: the Bengals. I like their chances to end up ahead

780
00:34:06,800 --> 00:34:07,360
Speaker 3: of the Bengals.

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00:34:07,520 --> 00:34:08,319
Speaker 2: Yeah, I do too.

782
00:34:08,400 --> 00:34:09,439
Speaker 3: I know who were picking last.

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Speaker 2: I think Cincinnati's got some fatal flaws.

784
00:34:12,400 --> 00:34:13,719
Speaker 3: Yeah, they absolutely do.

785
00:34:14,080 --> 00:34:16,279
Speaker 2: There's gonna be a lot of shootouts, yeah, and you're

786
00:34:16,280 --> 00:34:18,480
Speaker 2: not always gonna win those. Now, I still don't think

787
00:34:18,480 --> 00:34:21,040
Speaker 2: Burrows Burrow mm hmmm.

788
00:34:21,680 --> 00:34:23,640
Speaker 3: I think he's good. He's getting back into shape, but

789
00:34:23,680 --> 00:34:25,200
Speaker 3: I don't think he's a dominant player.

790
00:34:25,000 --> 00:34:27,360
Speaker 2: Right yew, I don't know that. Maybe again, that wrist

791
00:34:27,400 --> 00:34:30,320
Speaker 2: injury that he suffered, it's on you throw a hand.

792
00:34:30,200 --> 00:34:31,440
Speaker 3: And you just have to throw a lot to keep

793
00:34:31,440 --> 00:34:34,239
Speaker 3: his team in games, and he'd probably be fine. I mean,

794
00:34:34,280 --> 00:34:35,640
Speaker 3: they're gonna win games.

795
00:34:35,719 --> 00:34:39,360
Speaker 2: Yeah, but I still like the Steelers chances to at

796
00:34:39,440 --> 00:34:40,880
Speaker 2: least finish second in this division.

797
00:34:41,840 --> 00:34:44,000
Speaker 3: I'm not even sure since A makes the playoffs. Yeah,

798
00:34:44,160 --> 00:34:46,879
Speaker 3: I mean the right, right, they had a long way

799
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Speaker 3: to go.

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00:34:47,160 --> 00:34:48,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, they gotta climb out of it now. The schedule

801
00:34:49,320 --> 00:34:51,160
Speaker 2: over the next couple weeks up. But although we thought

802
00:34:51,239 --> 00:34:54,600
Speaker 2: Washington would be as.

803
00:34:53,640 --> 00:34:56,000
Speaker 3: Easy one, right, they don't look easy at the moment.

804
00:34:56,120 --> 00:34:58,839
Speaker 2: It's hard to play against at least, you know so,

805
00:34:59,080 --> 00:35:01,320
Speaker 2: and this is a team that lost to the Patriots

806
00:35:01,360 --> 00:35:01,640
Speaker 2: at home.

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00:35:01,719 --> 00:35:04,600
Speaker 3: I think since he gets Baltimore real soon next week,

808
00:35:04,880 --> 00:35:06,640
Speaker 3: I think it's the next week, I know. Yeah, they

809
00:35:06,680 --> 00:35:08,719
Speaker 3: better win that one. Yeah, if you lose that one,

810
00:35:08,760 --> 00:35:10,520
Speaker 3: all of a sudden, you're behind it one and four

811
00:35:10,600 --> 00:35:13,040
Speaker 3: and yeah, but the division loss, yeah, not looking good.

812
00:35:13,200 --> 00:35:15,440
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, So that'll be an interesting one. That'll be

813
00:35:15,440 --> 00:35:17,279
Speaker 2: one we'll talk about as the week goes on here

814
00:35:17,400 --> 00:35:19,719
Speaker 2: along with the Steelers and Cowboys will sure of course

815
00:35:19,760 --> 00:35:21,920
Speaker 2: talk about that one as well. But let's get to

816
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Speaker 2: a break. He is the Matt Williamson. I am Dale, Lolly,

817
00:35:25,120 --> 00:35:27,600
Speaker 2: you're listening to the Drive here on the Steelers Audio Network.

818
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Speaker 2: Matt and now give her final thoughts on what happened

819
00:35:30,840 --> 00:35:33,560
Speaker 2: on Sunday in Indianapolis, and then we'll turn the page

820
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Speaker 2: and move on to Dallas for the rest of this week.

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Speaker 3: Right after this.

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Speaker 1: This is the Drive with Dale Lolly and Matt Williamson

823
00:35:45,600 --> 00:35:47,799
Speaker 1: on your twenty four to seven home of the Black

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Speaker 1: and Gold Steelers Nation Radio.

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Speaker 2: Welcome back. I'm Dale Lolli he is the Matt Williamson

826
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Speaker 2: and we're just talking about the the joys of Wisconsin

827
00:36:01,480 --> 00:36:03,600
Speaker 2: and we saw a lot of Wisconsin players on the

828
00:36:03,600 --> 00:36:06,640
Speaker 2: field on Sunday met in the Steelers twenty seven to

829
00:36:06,680 --> 00:36:07,600
Speaker 2: twenty four loss.

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00:36:07,880 --> 00:36:10,879
Speaker 3: You're the good Wisconsin observation in your ten thoughts with

831
00:36:10,960 --> 00:36:13,799
Speaker 3: the the young center not having to deal with the

832
00:36:13,840 --> 00:36:14,959
Speaker 3: nose tackle early on.

833
00:36:15,680 --> 00:36:18,440
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that was definitely a plan. You know,

834
00:36:18,480 --> 00:36:21,160
Speaker 2: they they wanted to get the Steelers in their nickel defense,

835
00:36:21,280 --> 00:36:25,520
Speaker 2: they being the the the Colts. And then you know

836
00:36:25,560 --> 00:36:28,400
Speaker 2: you saw some design runs from Richardson because you're lighter

837
00:36:28,640 --> 00:36:30,880
Speaker 2: in the box, You're leaving the middle open and.

838
00:36:31,160 --> 00:36:34,360
Speaker 3: Queen Specialty either now come up and slam a center

839
00:36:34,440 --> 00:36:38,320
Speaker 3: and you know, deal with a big power back or power.

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00:36:38,360 --> 00:36:40,239
Speaker 2: The other part of that equation is, you know, makea

841
00:36:40,280 --> 00:36:42,440
Speaker 2: Fitzpatrick's going to be deep. He was deep in this

842
00:36:42,480 --> 00:36:44,080
Speaker 2: game because they didn't want to go give up the

843
00:36:44,080 --> 00:36:46,759
Speaker 2: big play. I think that was the whole reason for

844
00:36:46,880 --> 00:36:48,640
Speaker 2: the Colts to come out and throw that deep pass

845
00:36:48,840 --> 00:36:51,240
Speaker 2: the first play of the game. Those are scripts, yeah, yeah,

846
00:36:51,600 --> 00:36:53,680
Speaker 2: and okay, let's take this shot down the field. We're

847
00:36:53,680 --> 00:36:55,560
Speaker 2: going to loosen these guys up, and then we're going

848
00:36:55,600 --> 00:36:57,480
Speaker 2: to run the ball. And that's exactly what they did.

849
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Speaker 3: And then they adjusted. Though I'm in a steel D

850
00:36:59,280 --> 00:37:01,480
Speaker 3: I thought you can say it was a bad day

851
00:37:01,560 --> 00:37:03,600
Speaker 3: of the Steeler d and by their standards it was,

852
00:37:03,960 --> 00:37:06,000
Speaker 3: and by the first couple of drives it was horrendous.

853
00:37:06,040 --> 00:37:09,080
Speaker 3: It was a bad standard, ye for any defense. But

854
00:37:09,400 --> 00:37:10,200
Speaker 3: after that it wasn't bad.

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00:37:10,239 --> 00:37:12,400
Speaker 2: One hundred and fifty yards I think in the first quarter,

856
00:37:13,800 --> 00:37:16,800
Speaker 2: and I think it was like two forty three or

857
00:37:16,840 --> 00:37:19,200
Speaker 2: something like that in the first half, and I'm giving

858
00:37:19,280 --> 00:37:21,640
Speaker 2: up three forty yeah, So I mean the second half

859
00:37:21,760 --> 00:37:23,280
Speaker 2: was more of what we had seen it.

860
00:37:22,960 --> 00:37:23,839
Speaker 3: It wasn't that far.

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00:37:23,960 --> 00:37:25,640
Speaker 2: They got the three announce that they needed in the

862
00:37:25,680 --> 00:37:26,600
Speaker 2: third quarter.

863
00:37:26,600 --> 00:37:28,879
Speaker 3: And Jonathan Taylor wasn't that big of a factor. You'd

864
00:37:28,880 --> 00:37:31,359
Speaker 3: think he's wearing you down and they're having these good

865
00:37:31,440 --> 00:37:33,320
Speaker 3: drives and he's just start getting chunk runs in the

866
00:37:33,400 --> 00:37:34,120
Speaker 3: second half.

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Speaker 2: I didn't see that. I mean, yeah, I'm not super

868
00:37:37,280 --> 00:37:38,240
Speaker 2: worried about the defense.

869
00:37:38,960 --> 00:37:39,959
Speaker 3: Oh what happened to TJ.

870
00:37:40,080 --> 00:37:40,799
Speaker 2: Watt?

871
00:37:41,000 --> 00:37:42,839
Speaker 3: He was getting a lot of attention, got a lot

872
00:37:42,880 --> 00:37:44,960
Speaker 3: of attention. Raydan Smith's a good player. He got held

873
00:37:45,000 --> 00:37:46,960
Speaker 3: quite a bit. They got held quite a bit. There

874
00:37:47,000 --> 00:37:48,880
Speaker 3: was one Wolf was losing his mind on where they

875
00:37:48,960 --> 00:37:51,000
Speaker 3: left Smith and him alone, and I think there was

876
00:37:51,040 --> 00:37:55,919
Speaker 3: a big play and he just got wrapped up and.

877
00:37:55,480 --> 00:37:58,440
Speaker 2: Arms around the waist and Watts were running by him,

878
00:37:58,440 --> 00:38:00,080
Speaker 2: and it's like, come on, you got to call.

879
00:38:00,080 --> 00:38:03,120
Speaker 3: You got the real blatant ones. But don't worry about

880
00:38:03,160 --> 00:38:06,160
Speaker 3: DJ anyone just because he didn't have two sacks and

881
00:38:06,320 --> 00:38:07,600
Speaker 3: a ton of big plays.

882
00:38:07,640 --> 00:38:10,000
Speaker 2: I mean, if the referees are going to let you

883
00:38:10,200 --> 00:38:11,800
Speaker 2: get away with that kind of stuff, team, that's what

884
00:38:11,840 --> 00:38:14,280
Speaker 2: teams are gonna do. We're just gonna do it because

885
00:38:14,520 --> 00:38:17,799
Speaker 2: that's that's my big fear. It's better than allowing your

886
00:38:17,840 --> 00:38:19,440
Speaker 2: quarterback to get killed exactly.

887
00:38:19,520 --> 00:38:22,520
Speaker 3: But deep down, I mean bigger picture thinking I know

888
00:38:22,560 --> 00:38:26,160
Speaker 3: the league wants scoring to go up. They want fantasy numbers,

889
00:38:26,200 --> 00:38:30,120
Speaker 3: they want overs, they want quarterbacks to be superstars. They

890
00:38:30,120 --> 00:38:33,200
Speaker 3: don't want Bosa and Parsons and Crosby and you know,

891
00:38:33,280 --> 00:38:35,239
Speaker 3: Watt to be the best players in the league. And

892
00:38:35,760 --> 00:38:38,839
Speaker 3: if holding becomes more and more legal, which I think

893
00:38:38,880 --> 00:38:41,640
Speaker 3: it will, because if all the pre snap penalties are

894
00:38:41,680 --> 00:38:43,760
Speaker 3: going to be still in existence, and they want penalties

895
00:38:43,760 --> 00:38:46,600
Speaker 3: to come down, casual viewer hates the penalties. Everybody hates

896
00:38:46,600 --> 00:38:47,000
Speaker 3: the penalty.

897
00:38:47,080 --> 00:38:48,280
Speaker 2: Everybody hates the penalties.

898
00:38:48,280 --> 00:38:50,160
Speaker 3: But if you're gonna, like to Drake, that could hurt

899
00:38:50,160 --> 00:38:53,200
Speaker 3: the Steelers. I mean, if the more holding becomes legal,

900
00:38:53,239 --> 00:38:54,840
Speaker 3: the more it hurts the Steelers as much as anything

901
00:38:54,880 --> 00:38:55,320
Speaker 3: in the league.

902
00:38:55,400 --> 00:38:58,160
Speaker 2: Yeah, now that being said, I thought I thought Cam

903
00:38:58,200 --> 00:39:01,720
Speaker 2: Hayward more than held his own against Quentin Nelson.

904
00:39:03,920 --> 00:39:04,560
Speaker 3: He's really good.

905
00:39:04,640 --> 00:39:07,359
Speaker 2: I thought Ogan Job played well again, But a lot

906
00:39:07,400 --> 00:39:10,160
Speaker 2: of most of the run stuff that that they did

907
00:39:10,280 --> 00:39:12,600
Speaker 2: hit the Colts was kind of on the edges a

908
00:39:12,640 --> 00:39:17,480
Speaker 2: little bit more, and you know you're going to see

909
00:39:17,480 --> 00:39:18,879
Speaker 2: more of that. You're going to try to get guys

910
00:39:18,880 --> 00:39:20,840
Speaker 2: out on the edge because you can't run up the

911
00:39:20,840 --> 00:39:21,200
Speaker 2: middle on.

912
00:39:21,200 --> 00:39:23,640
Speaker 3: This defense as much especially when they're in their basery

913
00:39:23,640 --> 00:39:27,160
Speaker 3: four and you know that that that too, I don't

914
00:39:27,200 --> 00:39:29,920
Speaker 3: have a lot of defensive concerns. Yeah, it'd been nice

915
00:39:29,960 --> 00:39:32,360
Speaker 3: sev high Smith, not that her big played bad and

916
00:39:31,960 --> 00:39:34,000
Speaker 3: he made a big play as he always does.

917
00:39:34,160 --> 00:39:35,960
Speaker 2: Flacco made some throws that were.

918
00:39:35,880 --> 00:39:38,200
Speaker 3: Just that's a huge key to me. Sometimes he's got

919
00:39:38,200 --> 00:39:40,520
Speaker 3: to tip your hat. I mean, third and seven.

920
00:39:40,360 --> 00:39:43,080
Speaker 2: Coverage was not bad, not bad, and he read them

921
00:39:43,360 --> 00:39:44,520
Speaker 2: really tight windows.

922
00:39:45,080 --> 00:39:47,120
Speaker 3: I hesitate to bring this stat up because I've never

923
00:39:47,160 --> 00:39:49,880
Speaker 3: heard it, but I've never heard of it until this morning.

924
00:39:49,920 --> 00:39:52,440
Speaker 3: But I was listening to a podcast. It said on

925
00:39:52,600 --> 00:39:56,640
Speaker 3: next Gen Stats, they have this stat of what percentage

926
00:39:56,640 --> 00:40:00,759
Speaker 3: of your completions were deemed open and his was the

927
00:40:00,800 --> 00:40:04,280
Speaker 3: lowest in the league. So he's throwing the covered guys. Yeah,

928
00:40:04,320 --> 00:40:06,840
Speaker 3: but he made it happen. You know, it's great.

929
00:40:06,600 --> 00:40:09,600
Speaker 2: Work sometimes that that happens, and you know, you tip

930
00:40:09,640 --> 00:40:15,040
Speaker 2: your hat. Somebody on the YouTube last week on our

931
00:40:15,080 --> 00:40:17,640
Speaker 2: comments did ask, you know, are the Steelers preparing, you know,

932
00:40:17,680 --> 00:40:19,359
Speaker 2: for Flacco in case he has to come in as

933
00:40:19,360 --> 00:40:22,320
Speaker 2: the backup. I'm like, you don't necessarily prepare for the backup.

934
00:40:22,400 --> 00:40:24,960
Speaker 2: You know who the backup is they're very familiar with. Yeah,

935
00:40:24,960 --> 00:40:27,880
Speaker 2: well Tomlin's very familiar with. Yeah, you know, and so

936
00:40:27,960 --> 00:40:29,640
Speaker 2: I said, yeah, you know who the backup is, but

937
00:40:29,680 --> 00:40:32,120
Speaker 2: you don't prepare for the backup. No, I mean, there's

938
00:40:32,200 --> 00:40:33,160
Speaker 2: it's a two way street.

939
00:40:33,280 --> 00:40:37,960
Speaker 3: I mean, how many snaps did Flacco get in practice

940
00:40:38,680 --> 00:40:41,279
Speaker 3: for the Colts. Probably very few. But that's one of

941
00:40:41,280 --> 00:40:43,960
Speaker 3: the beauties of having that old ben around the block.

942
00:40:44,120 --> 00:40:46,319
Speaker 3: Doesn't need a lot of reps, definitely doesn't need any

943
00:40:46,360 --> 00:40:49,600
Speaker 3: mental reps. And then they scrap their playbook and then

944
00:40:49,600 --> 00:40:52,920
Speaker 3: the Steelers scrap their playbook. But you didn't prepare for

945
00:40:52,960 --> 00:40:55,040
Speaker 3: the quick hitting Pittman down stuff.

946
00:40:55,080 --> 00:40:58,240
Speaker 2: He was twelve for twelve. This from my next gen stats. Yeah,

947
00:40:58,280 --> 00:41:00,880
Speaker 2: twelve for tel twelve on past is from zero to

948
00:41:00,960 --> 00:41:03,200
Speaker 2: nine yards for one hundred nine yards and two touchdowns.

949
00:41:03,719 --> 00:41:05,879
Speaker 3: Crisp fall out on time.

950
00:41:05,960 --> 00:41:09,880
Speaker 2: That would not have happened if Anthony richardson quarterback. They changed.

951
00:41:10,400 --> 00:41:13,080
Speaker 2: We talked about it, and again people asked about this. Well,

952
00:41:13,120 --> 00:41:15,040
Speaker 2: you said that, you know, they can't run their offense

953
00:41:15,080 --> 00:41:17,920
Speaker 2: if Flacco is a quarterback, they can't run the same

954
00:41:18,600 --> 00:41:20,920
Speaker 2: offense that they run. It's not you didn't see designed

955
00:41:21,000 --> 00:41:24,359
Speaker 2: runs for Joe Flacco. I guarantee you all all week

956
00:41:24,440 --> 00:41:27,520
Speaker 2: long in the preparation leading up to this game, they

957
00:41:27,560 --> 00:41:31,240
Speaker 2: had a lot of designed Anthony Richardson runs in their offense.

958
00:41:31,280 --> 00:41:33,160
Speaker 2: We saw it early in the game on the first drive,

959
00:41:33,400 --> 00:41:35,560
Speaker 2: more than in the first three games. Draws and things

960
00:41:35,560 --> 00:41:37,640
Speaker 2: of that nature with the quarterback. You're not going to

961
00:41:37,680 --> 00:41:38,360
Speaker 2: do that with Flacco.

962
00:41:38,600 --> 00:41:41,040
Speaker 3: No, But their offensive staff and their head coach is

963
00:41:41,040 --> 00:41:41,960
Speaker 3: an offensive guy.

964
00:41:41,840 --> 00:41:44,040
Speaker 2: They get paid, knows all this stuff too.

965
00:41:43,840 --> 00:41:46,359
Speaker 3: And has a different chapter for the backup. I mean,

966
00:41:46,440 --> 00:41:50,320
Speaker 3: their their play style is more different than any starter

967
00:41:50,400 --> 00:41:53,600
Speaker 3: backup maybe in the league, and that can be an advantage.

968
00:41:53,640 --> 00:41:56,160
Speaker 3: I mean, especially for a really smart, offensive minded guy

969
00:41:56,239 --> 00:41:58,520
Speaker 3: that says, when we go to Joe and you know

970
00:41:58,600 --> 00:42:01,040
Speaker 3: your starter is very injury prone. You know when we

971
00:42:01,080 --> 00:42:03,439
Speaker 3: go to Joe, balls gonna come out quick, and we're

972
00:42:03,440 --> 00:42:06,800
Speaker 3: gonna throw a lot of one to ten yard Chris

973
00:42:06,880 --> 00:42:09,000
Speaker 3: passes to some sharp breaking receivers.

974
00:42:09,040 --> 00:42:11,839
Speaker 2: I like their receivers, and you're gonna matriculate the ball

975
00:42:11,840 --> 00:42:13,520
Speaker 2: down the field a little bit more than you would

976
00:42:13,800 --> 00:42:17,319
Speaker 2: with with Richardson, who was overly reliant on the hitting,

977
00:42:17,360 --> 00:42:18,080
Speaker 2: the big the.

978
00:42:18,040 --> 00:42:21,680
Speaker 3: Big play or legs or improv or whatever. You know, right,

979
00:42:21,800 --> 00:42:24,200
Speaker 3: So they're very, very different. And the more I think

980
00:42:24,239 --> 00:42:28,759
Speaker 3: it through, and it's not assuasion situation, it's that does

981
00:42:28,800 --> 00:42:31,280
Speaker 3: favor the Colts more than I think the Steelers because

982
00:42:31,920 --> 00:42:36,240
Speaker 3: the Colts have all off season to have a Flacco package.

983
00:42:36,760 --> 00:42:41,880
Speaker 3: The Steelers have the week of preparing for Richardson and

984
00:42:41,960 --> 00:42:44,640
Speaker 3: on the side, maybe there's something they know who the

985
00:42:44,640 --> 00:42:47,719
Speaker 3: back happens. We know it's gonna be a much different game,

986
00:42:48,160 --> 00:42:49,720
Speaker 3: But you didn't practice against Flacco.

987
00:42:49,960 --> 00:42:54,280
Speaker 2: Yeah, when we talk about Flacco not being the ideal

988
00:42:54,400 --> 00:43:01,640
Speaker 2: back up for Richardson, it's more of long term, right right, Like, Okay,

989
00:43:01,640 --> 00:43:03,839
Speaker 2: so flaccoes your backup in Richardson's out in the next

990
00:43:03,840 --> 00:43:05,520
Speaker 2: six weeks and I'm not saying that's the case. He

991
00:43:05,600 --> 00:43:07,719
Speaker 2: might be back this week. Well, now you do have

992
00:43:07,760 --> 00:43:11,759
Speaker 2: to change how you perform offensively. It changes schematically.

993
00:43:12,080 --> 00:43:15,720
Speaker 3: Minshew wasn't either. Yeah, every team views that differently. Someone

994
00:43:15,760 --> 00:43:18,440
Speaker 3: wants a totally different backup. Some of them just want

995
00:43:18,480 --> 00:43:22,120
Speaker 3: a veteran leader that's gonna teach the young guy the

996
00:43:22,120 --> 00:43:24,399
Speaker 3: ways of the NFL and things of that nature. Even

997
00:43:24,440 --> 00:43:27,799
Speaker 3: if there's play styles not at all similar. Someone a

998
00:43:27,840 --> 00:43:29,960
Speaker 3: carbon copy like I do not want to change our

999
00:43:29,960 --> 00:43:32,560
Speaker 3: playbook one bit. If the good if the starter goes down,

1000
00:43:32,640 --> 00:43:34,799
Speaker 3: you know, we might trink it a little bit, but

1001
00:43:34,800 --> 00:43:36,000
Speaker 3: we don't play it in the same stock.

1002
00:43:36,120 --> 00:43:38,840
Speaker 2: It's the you know what the Ravens when Tyler Huntley's

1003
00:43:38,840 --> 00:43:41,200
Speaker 2: are back up exactly. He's very similar to Lamar. You

1004
00:43:41,239 --> 00:43:42,640
Speaker 2: don't have to change anything in your play.

1005
00:43:42,480 --> 00:43:44,399
Speaker 3: But it's the Miller lite version. Yeah, we're still gonna

1006
00:43:44,440 --> 00:43:46,160
Speaker 3: run it, but it's Mick ultra version. You know, they're

1007
00:43:46,200 --> 00:43:49,239
Speaker 3: still gonna do the same stuff. Colts apparently don't agree

1008
00:43:49,640 --> 00:43:50,920
Speaker 3: because they're in the last two that they went out

1009
00:43:50,920 --> 00:43:52,440
Speaker 3: and paid money to Minshew and Flacco.

1010
00:43:53,440 --> 00:43:56,000
Speaker 2: Uh. But overall, Matt, I'm kind of with you. I'm

1011
00:43:56,000 --> 00:44:00,960
Speaker 2: not I'm not down on the Steelers or this loss.

1012
00:44:01,120 --> 00:44:03,239
Speaker 2: You weren't a as I said in the open, You're

1013
00:44:03,280 --> 00:44:06,080
Speaker 2: not gonna win them all. It's very difficult to win

1014
00:44:06,120 --> 00:44:08,719
Speaker 2: on the road in the NFL. To win three in

1015
00:44:08,760 --> 00:44:11,680
Speaker 2: a row on the road in the NFL would have

1016
00:44:11,719 --> 00:44:13,600
Speaker 2: been a kind of historic thing in team history. It's

1017
00:44:13,600 --> 00:44:18,240
Speaker 2: only happened a few times. But you showed some things

1018
00:44:18,280 --> 00:44:21,840
Speaker 2: in this game that you hadn't shown in several years.

1019
00:44:21,960 --> 00:44:23,480
Speaker 3: Positively, the ability.

1020
00:44:23,080 --> 00:44:25,359
Speaker 2: To come back in those situations. And I don't care

1021
00:44:25,360 --> 00:44:27,640
Speaker 2: if it's if it's Fields or if it's Wilson. You

1022
00:44:27,800 --> 00:44:30,400
Speaker 2: have the ability with this offense and this scheme and

1023
00:44:30,440 --> 00:44:33,080
Speaker 2: the guys that they have to come back in those situations.

1024
00:44:33,080 --> 00:44:35,840
Speaker 3: And in this case, you trusted Fields to do more.

1025
00:44:36,000 --> 00:44:38,480
Speaker 3: Now we need you, I mean, now the Governor's off

1026
00:44:38,560 --> 00:44:40,960
Speaker 3: you need to be put the team on your back,

1027
00:44:41,000 --> 00:44:44,080
Speaker 3: and he showed a lot of those capabilities. I do

1028
00:44:44,200 --> 00:44:47,680
Speaker 3: believe going forward, this will be one of the worst

1029
00:44:47,960 --> 00:44:51,880
Speaker 3: defensive games. Yeah, you know, it wasn't their day and

1030
00:44:51,920 --> 00:44:54,680
Speaker 3: all that stuff, unless they get crushed by injuries and

1031
00:44:54,680 --> 00:44:58,359
Speaker 3: it's not the same squad. And I think a lot

1032
00:44:58,360 --> 00:45:00,120
Speaker 3: of things that went wrong, a.

1033
00:45:00,320 --> 00:45:03,480
Speaker 2: Highly correctable slash fluky, yeah, you know, some self a

1034
00:45:03,520 --> 00:45:05,719
Speaker 2: lot of self inflicted Yeah, yeah, just things that you

1035
00:45:05,719 --> 00:45:08,359
Speaker 2: should you know that hurts any team, Yeah, absolutely, I mean,

1036
00:45:08,400 --> 00:45:08,840
Speaker 2: and that's.

1037
00:45:08,719 --> 00:45:10,760
Speaker 3: Hurt this team anytime we've seen self inflicted.

1038
00:45:10,880 --> 00:45:12,480
Speaker 2: Yeah, you would have liked to have won the game

1039
00:45:12,520 --> 00:45:14,839
Speaker 2: if you're Mike Toman and have those teachable moments come

1040
00:45:15,000 --> 00:45:15,440
Speaker 2: in a win.

1041
00:45:15,719 --> 00:45:17,600
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, what if by chance you get into

1042
00:45:18,080 --> 00:45:20,839
Speaker 3: bas for the send this thing to overtime and man,

1043
00:45:20,880 --> 00:45:22,520
Speaker 3: I can't believe they pulled that one out. As badly

1044
00:45:22,560 --> 00:45:24,120
Speaker 3: as they played, they were pretty close to that.

1045
00:45:24,160 --> 00:45:25,640
Speaker 2: They were close to it. They were close to that.

1046
00:45:25,680 --> 00:45:28,120
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm sitting here and I'm watching this as

1047
00:45:28,120 --> 00:45:30,160
Speaker 2: they got the ball back and and somebody said, boy,

1048
00:45:30,200 --> 00:45:32,239
Speaker 2: they're gonna have enough time to come back and win this,

1049
00:45:32,320 --> 00:45:34,879
Speaker 2: and I'm like, well, let's see here. They just went

1050
00:45:35,120 --> 00:45:40,239
Speaker 2: the seventy yards in two twenty three to score. They

1051
00:45:40,280 --> 00:45:42,560
Speaker 2: have two thirty seven I believe it was at this

1052
00:45:42,600 --> 00:45:44,520
Speaker 2: point to go. It was a little bit longer. And

1053
00:45:44,560 --> 00:45:46,400
Speaker 2: then Fields goes and gets a nine yard run on

1054
00:45:46,480 --> 00:45:48,319
Speaker 2: first down, and it's like, okay, now they've got about

1055
00:45:48,320 --> 00:45:50,359
Speaker 2: seventy yards and it's two twenty three.

1056
00:45:50,480 --> 00:45:53,040
Speaker 3: Yeah, or back where we're at. And they kind of

1057
00:45:53,080 --> 00:45:55,760
Speaker 3: had the defense figured out, and you know, the defense

1058
00:45:55,840 --> 00:45:57,680
Speaker 3: kind of was out of tricks and you kind of

1059
00:45:57,719 --> 00:45:59,760
Speaker 3: knew what they were doing, you know. Yeah, So.

1060
00:46:01,320 --> 00:46:03,480
Speaker 2: I think that's a positive to me. Again, you know,

1061
00:46:04,280 --> 00:46:06,200
Speaker 2: the big thing is is you shouldn't have to get

1062
00:46:06,239 --> 00:46:07,560
Speaker 2: four hundred yards of offense.

1063
00:46:07,880 --> 00:46:09,719
Speaker 3: No, and there's a lot of losses out there with

1064
00:46:09,719 --> 00:46:10,880
Speaker 3: four hundred yards of offense.

1065
00:46:11,040 --> 00:46:12,799
Speaker 2: That was always my argument when people said, well this

1066
00:46:12,840 --> 00:46:15,480
Speaker 2: team hasn't had four hundred yards of offense and you know,

1067
00:46:15,560 --> 00:46:18,719
Speaker 2: three years. I'm like, that doesn't guarantee you a win.

1068
00:46:18,960 --> 00:46:21,439
Speaker 3: No, And we go over the leading passers a lot

1069
00:46:21,480 --> 00:46:24,080
Speaker 3: and you know, fantasy stuff, and there's a lot of

1070
00:46:24,239 --> 00:46:25,840
Speaker 3: ls you know with the guys that there's a.

1071
00:46:25,840 --> 00:46:27,640
Speaker 2: Lot more of the guys who have the one hundred

1072
00:46:27,719 --> 00:46:31,359
Speaker 2: yard rushing games that his team won. Yeah, and there

1073
00:46:31,400 --> 00:46:33,759
Speaker 2: are the three hundred yard passing games in his team. One.

1074
00:46:33,960 --> 00:46:35,960
Speaker 3: Why don't you worried about the run game though, a

1075
00:46:36,000 --> 00:46:36,440
Speaker 3: little bit?

1076
00:46:37,160 --> 00:46:40,279
Speaker 2: Yeah, but you know some of that. I think the

1077
00:46:40,480 --> 00:46:42,760
Speaker 2: line shuffling isn't great. That's not helpful.

1078
00:46:43,000 --> 00:46:43,239
Speaker 3: Yeah.

1079
00:46:44,280 --> 00:46:46,799
Speaker 2: I do think maybe they need to come out and

1080
00:46:47,000 --> 00:46:49,440
Speaker 2: it's something that they did with Ben Roethlisberger early in

1081
00:46:49,480 --> 00:46:51,600
Speaker 2: his career when he was young in two thousand and four,

1082
00:46:52,080 --> 00:46:54,759
Speaker 2: has come out throwing to set up the run. Later.

1083
00:46:54,880 --> 00:46:57,239
Speaker 3: I was thinking that too. They're so run heavy on

1084
00:46:57,360 --> 00:47:00,839
Speaker 3: early down that it might need to rebounaluate a little bit.

1085
00:47:01,040 --> 00:47:04,000
Speaker 3: That I understand the logic behind it. We're gonna pound.

1086
00:47:04,040 --> 00:47:05,800
Speaker 3: We're gonna pound. We don't mind punting. We have a

1087
00:47:05,840 --> 00:47:08,359
Speaker 3: good defense. Nausey's gonna wear you out. Those will turn

1088
00:47:08,400 --> 00:47:12,279
Speaker 3: into runs. Late, but passing on first and ten is

1089
00:47:12,440 --> 00:47:14,560
Speaker 3: much more efficient than running on first and tent just

1090
00:47:14,640 --> 00:47:15,240
Speaker 3: league wide.

1091
00:47:15,360 --> 00:47:17,719
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, and again, teams are attacking the line

1092
00:47:17,719 --> 00:47:20,799
Speaker 2: of scrimmage like crazy. We saw it last week with

1093
00:47:20,840 --> 00:47:23,359
Speaker 2: the Chargers. We saw it again with with with Indianapolis.

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Speaker 2: There the linebackers are just coming downhill.

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Speaker 3: Same with the safeties. Yeah. I don't think you and

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Speaker 3: I talked about this because my mondays are weird and

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Speaker 3: I get redundant with a couple of different shows. I

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Speaker 3: remember talking to Wolf and Rob about it. Certainly when

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Speaker 3: Nausey's in the game, Yeah, you know, like everyone talks about, well,

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Speaker 3: Warren so much more efficient. Look what Cordill Patterson did.

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Speaker 3: But when Nausey's in the game, those lineback and safeties,

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Speaker 3: our first step is forward. Yeah, I mean, just pay

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Speaker 3: attention to it. It's very evident.

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Speaker 2: It's it's definitely there, and it's something and.

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Speaker 3: Maybe more play action with him in the game.

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Speaker 2: You have four games to kind of reassess, and I

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Speaker 2: think a lot of times when when teams are scouting

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Speaker 2: an opponent, they'll look at the last three or four games. Well,

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Speaker 2: now the Steelers have enough games in the Arthur Smith

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Speaker 2: scheme and field. They can do a little self scouting here.

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Speaker 2: Maybe that's something we're running too much on first down.

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Speaker 3: I think that's a legit criticism, but it also I

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Speaker 3: don't think it's a nausey thing. You know, Like getting

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Speaker 3: him involved in the passing game was really nice. Yeah, yeah, right,

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Speaker 3: you know, and everyone's key and run and he's in

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Speaker 3: the game. Well then he breaks off along run, you know,

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Speaker 3: hit a couple of catches, you.

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Speaker 2: Give you a fifty yards pass, get him out on

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Speaker 2: the secondary and let him run some guys over, you know,

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Speaker 2: and then you've got to get him pass the line

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Speaker 2: of scrimmage. That's the Yeah, that's been the big problem.

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Speaker 2: And again the line shuffling is not helpful. Not helpful, right, Matt.

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Speaker 2: That's going to do for the show today. So we

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Speaker 2: will be back tomorrow. We'll start breaking down more of

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Speaker 2: the Cowboys while the Mike Tomlin press conference tomorrow as well,

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Speaker 2: we'll get a little bit more of the clarification on

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Speaker 2: some of the injury stuff. See where that's at. But

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Speaker 2: for my partner Matt Williamson, for Justin Miller here on

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Speaker 2: site keeping us on the air, and for Tyler Wittmeyer

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Speaker 2: making sure our video stays nice and pretty. I am Dale, Lollie.

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Speaker 2: We thank you for listening to this edition of the

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