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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: Welcome back. I'm Dale LOLLI he is Matt Williamson, and

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Speaker 2: it is time for the Fantasy Football Focus. And if

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Speaker 2: you played our DFS stack this week, you're probably pretty

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Speaker 2: happy about that. Well, depending on the tournament that you

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Speaker 2: got into. But we scored one hundred and sixty one

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Speaker 2: point three points. I didn't realize that the tournament that

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Speaker 2: we played, we only played the Sunday games. Oh really, okay,

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Speaker 2: we didn't include the Monday night game. But we won.

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Speaker 2: That's all that matters. We had Derek Carr in the

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Speaker 2: starting lineup at just fifty three hundred dollars. We get

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Speaker 2: eighteen points six points out of him.

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Speaker 3: Played pretty well, got better as the game went on too.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he had well three hundred and five passing yards.

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Speaker 2: They got weapons.

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Speaker 3: I like their weapons. Yeah, they didn't run the ball

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Speaker 3: very well, but I like their weapons. He played well.

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Speaker 3: What's one of our games.

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Speaker 2: We had Bijon Robinson going for twenty point three points

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Speaker 2: and that was despite Tyler Algierre showing up in that game.

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Speaker 3: He looks like he's gonna be the goal line back

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Speaker 3: and out rushed Bijon Bijeon looked phenomenal. And I think

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Speaker 3: he has six catches.

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Speaker 2: He did score, he had fifty six rushing yards. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: I mean he got yearly, he got used. We had JK.

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Speaker 2: Dobbins in the lineup that didn't work out, but he

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Speaker 2: still had eleven point seven points before he left the game,

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Speaker 2: did get into the end zone. Fifteen receiving yards, twenty

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Speaker 2: two rushing yards. That was mostly in the first half,

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Speaker 2: and then he left soon thereafter.

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Speaker 3: The season's over. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: We had Chris Olave stacked with Derek Carr. Yeah, and

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Speaker 2: well that worked out. Eight catches for one hundred and

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Speaker 2: twelve yards, didn't get in the end zone. That went

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Speaker 2: to Shaheed the long touchdown.

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Speaker 3: The but no, I think is gonna have a really

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Speaker 3: good year and that's going to be sort of the

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Speaker 3: norm for him. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Michael Thomas showed up in that game too.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I think he's startable next week by

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Speaker 3: you know, see how see what it goes.

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Speaker 2: Calvin Ridley, thank you very much.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, eight for one oh one and a touchdown could

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Speaker 2: have been could have been more I don't know if

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Speaker 2: he caught a ball after like the first drive of

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Speaker 2: the third quarter, like that was most of that was

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Speaker 2: in the first half.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, he looks like a dominant player once again.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we did have George Pickens in the lineup at

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Speaker 2: five thousand dollars. That didn't work out so well. He

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Speaker 2: had eight point six, so he didn't kill us, but

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Speaker 2: he didn't you know, he missed the one touchdown catching

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Speaker 2: at the one throw in the end zone, didn't get

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Speaker 2: his didn't get his feet down in bounds.

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Speaker 3: But another phenomenal body contortion catch. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Uh, Hayden Hurst a tight end only three point three. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: he was only three thousand dollars. Well, we got fifteen

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Speaker 2: point one points out of him.

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Speaker 3: Nice.

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Speaker 2: Five catches for forty one yards in a touchdown.

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Speaker 3: Pretty much what we were hoping. Yeah, you take that

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Speaker 3: obviously a touch that some of these tight ends are

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Speaker 3: very touchdown dependent, but in fact you have five catches.

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Speaker 2: Especially in this week, given all the tight ends that

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Speaker 2: were out, that was a heck of a bargain.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, think about it. I mean Kelsey was out, got

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Speaker 3: and out. I mean, yeah, Kittle didn't do a lot.

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Speaker 2: Uh, Aaron Jones was our flex. We spent up for

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Speaker 2: that sixty three hundred bucks and that paid off in

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Speaker 2: a big way. He had twenty six point seven points.

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Speaker 3: Even though he got hurt too late.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he was great in that game. Yeah, he had

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Speaker 2: eighty six receiving yards on just two catches, forty one

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Speaker 3: He was phenomenal and then pulled up with a hamstring

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Speaker 2: And then the Commander's defense as ex expected, only twenty

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Speaker 2: eight hundred bucks, sixty nine point five percent ownership.

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Speaker 3: Wow, that's you ever see for any play.

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Speaker 2: For a defense. Oh yeah, but eleven points and they didn't.

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Speaker 2: The thing is they weren't great. They they gave up six.

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Speaker 3: Game was a lot more competitive than Yeah, the originally thought.

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Speaker 2: They gave up sixteen points. They did have three sacks

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Speaker 2: to fumble recoveries, but it wasn't like dominant dominant. But

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Speaker 2: it's good enough to get you eleven.

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Speaker 3: Get you eleven. Yeah. The fact that they were so

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Speaker 3: heavily owned, we didn't benefit a ton from it, but

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Speaker 3: we got our money's worth.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean if we maybe, if we out of

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Speaker 2: the Ravens, we had got more points five point by

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Speaker 2: a point or two. But they were more expensive.

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Speaker 3: They were more expensive. Yeah, I was trying to think

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Speaker 3: there was like three defenses. I thought we liked maybe

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Speaker 3: Jacksonville was one.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and they didn't play right. Yeah, looking here at

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Speaker 2: the lineup that won this little.

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Speaker 3: Uh dolphin receiver and quarterback, you think.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that was another stack here Tua what quarterback at

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Speaker 2: sixty seven hundred had thirty two point one they? Oh,

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Speaker 2: this was heavy on the and the Chargers in the

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Speaker 2: Charge game because he had two with thirty two points.

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Speaker 3: It's amazing he only got thirty two points for that game.

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Speaker 2: He was only owned in three point five percent of leagues.

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Speaker 3: Played really well.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think he only had one touchdown.

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Speaker 3: Though, right, Tyreek had two?

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Speaker 2: Oh no, ye had three. I'm sorry I hit he

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Speaker 2: doesn't run at all. Yeah, Austin Ekeler at eighty four

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Speaker 2: hundred and twenty nine point four points least one touchdown, Yeah,

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Speaker 2: one hundred rushing yards, they were several receiving yards. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: just killer Miles involved. Yeah, Miles Sanders, he was fine.

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Speaker 2: Fifty six hundred points got you a twelve point eight

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Speaker 2: Tyreek fifty one point three percent ownership.

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Speaker 3: Wow, fifty percent ownership.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, eleven catches to fifteen a touchdown or two receiving

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Speaker 2: touchdowns forty seven and a half points. Jacobe Myers only

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Speaker 3: That offense was pretty decent. He actually got hurt at

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Speaker 3: one point too. He took a real shot in the

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Speaker 2: Now they only won that game seventeen sixty.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but I didn't think Jimmy played bad.

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Speaker 2: I yuk oh. That was another one eight for one

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Speaker 2: twenty nine and two touchdowns. That was thirty five point

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Speaker 2: nine points. Juwan Johnson at thirty nine hundred, he was

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Speaker 2: one of those tight ends we talked about.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, cheap.

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Speaker 2: He had three for thirty six.

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Speaker 2: Van Jefferson that was a dart throw. At forty seven hundred,

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Speaker 2: he had four catches for twenty four yards. I wonder

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Speaker 2: what would have cost, Yeah, probably not much. It would

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Speaker 2: be much cheaper, right, Yeah, and then the Washington defense

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Speaker 3: The a good team that's not a powerhouse. I mean,

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Speaker 3: the Dolphin connection is obviously giant in that.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but finding those games, I think the key there

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Speaker 2: is finding those games that you think are going to

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Speaker 2: go back and forth like it or be high scoring. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: and certainly with three guys that were in that Miami

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Speaker 2: and Chargers game, certainly didn't hurt.

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Speaker 3: And Herbert wasn't bad. But the Dolphins couldn't stop the

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Speaker 3: run at all. I mean, the Chargers ran all.

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Speaker 2: Over the problem. Don't give me this Christian Wilkins stuff anymore,

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Speaker 3: The opposite was true for the Chargers. I mean, Miami

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Speaker 3: obviously threw all over them. I Waddle had a couple

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Speaker 3: of big plays too, and you know, so interesting game.

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Speaker 3: Those teams always seem to play interesting games, going back

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Speaker 3: to Dragon Kellen Winslow off the field in nineteen eighty

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Speaker 3: one or whatever.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, looking here at this week's top performers, you had

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Speaker 2: two with four un sixty six passing yards. Kirk Cousins

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Speaker 3: They couldn't run the ball at all either.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Stafford at three point thirty four, which was great, Yeah,

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Speaker 2: he really did. Mac Jones had three sixteen, but he

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Speaker 2: only averaged five point eight yards per attempt. That was

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Speaker 2: more about going out there and throwing at fifty four times.

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Speaker 3: He threw a pick six too.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you had Derek Carr the only other passer over

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Speaker 2: three hundred passing yards. This week wasn't a.

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Speaker 3: Lot of No, that wasn't a lot of fireworks outside

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Speaker 2: Yeah, the leading rushers, you had only three guys over

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Speaker 2: one hundred rushing goods. Christian McCaffrey, Austin Ekeler, Nick Chubb.

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Speaker 3: Okay, they're the probably the best three backs in the league.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, just outside of that, Josh Kelly sixteen for ninety one.

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Speaker 3: They Chargers just cashed him.

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Speaker 2: You he bind in the Josh Kelly.

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Speaker 3: No, but he'll be a hot waiver wire pickup. I

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Speaker 3: mean we could talk waiver wire stuff.

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Speaker 2: I mean, if something happened to ak Kilar, it's.

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Speaker 3: A clear two man without a clear two for three

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Speaker 2: Years or whatever, and he did score a touchdown.

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Speaker 3: He scored, and he's the banger. He might be aj Dillon.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Travis atn at eighteen seventy seven, Algier, we talked

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Speaker 2: about fifteen for seventy five. That's a that's a thing.

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Speaker 3: It's a thing. And Ritter was horrendous in the game.

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Speaker 3: I think Pitts had two catches, London had zero.

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Speaker 2: London had like seven targets and no catches.

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Speaker 3: No catches, I mean all those completions.

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Speaker 2: I heard today John about Pitts. The trouble troubling thing

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Speaker 2: is somebody said today I was listening to some fantasy radio.

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Speaker 2: They said, the problem is that they were in eleven

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Speaker 2: personnel like thirteen times in the game.

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Speaker 3: And he was on the field.

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Speaker 2: He was he was only on the field for like

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Speaker 2: three of those.

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Speaker 3: I know, I saw that too. They're how to say it,

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Speaker 3: I mean, they run so much that they always won

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Speaker 3: a blocking tight end in the field and sometimes he's

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Speaker 3: on the field right now.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he was like fifty. Yeah, that's troubling.

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Speaker 3: That's a real worry.

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Speaker 2: The David Montgomery.

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Speaker 3: Thing is not.

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Speaker 2: People are just killing Matt Campbell over what's you know?

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Speaker 2: Why do you while you're running David Montgomery twenty one times? Again,

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Speaker 2: we talked. We talked about that, you know, because everybody

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Speaker 2: drafted Gibbs Gibbs early. He's more of a he's more

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Speaker 2: at N. Yeah, he's more at M than he is

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Speaker 2: the banger receiver.

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Speaker 3: He's not a pass protector.

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Speaker 2: He's yeah, he's replacing DeAndre Swift, who wasn't a full

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Speaker 2: time runner with them.

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Speaker 3: No Montgomery's to do the dirty work.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't understand why people are surprised by that.

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Speaker 3: No, I mean, Gibbs might his production might spike in

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Speaker 3: terms of more catches. He might.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he might get He's going to get more as

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Speaker 2: the season goes on. But Montgomery's not going away.

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Speaker 3: No, I mean Gibbs his first game ever. Montgomery's going

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Speaker 3: to be more of the foundational dude though.

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Speaker 2: Tony Pollard only he had scored twice, but at fourteen

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Speaker 2: for seventy.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, they didn't have to.

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Speaker 2: They didn't have to do much with him.

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Speaker 3: Their offense felt like they were just going to the motions,

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Speaker 2: Kenneth Walker had twelve for sixty four.

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Speaker 2: He was fine.

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Speaker 3: Struggled. Yeah, he didn't play great either.

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Speaker 2: Derrick Henry fifteen for sixty three. Is surprised. It was

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Speaker 3: There was a few instances first and ten. Henry's on

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know if that's Tannehill played bad, really bad, Yeah.

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Speaker 2: James Connor had fourteen for sixty two. So if you,

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Speaker 2: I mean, if you drafted James Corner, that's what he's

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Speaker 3: Do that all the time.

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Speaker 2: How about this Chooba Hubbard nine for sixty.

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Speaker 3: He must have broke one. That's he's fast.

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Speaker 3: Lead back, but Tuba is a clear too.

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Speaker 3: He should probably be in every league. Yeah, he's a

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Speaker 2: Brian Robinson got almost all the run.

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Speaker 2: Now that was some of that was gamespt when they're behind,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Kenneth game well, fourteen for fifty four, and he

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Speaker 3: Penny hardly played swift hardly played.

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Speaker 2: Javonte Williams had thirteen for fifty two pe Ryan. I

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Speaker 3: Yeah, he's not out there to be a decoy or

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Speaker 2: Or do any of that stuff. He's out there to

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Speaker 3: And maybe his season gets better as it goes on,

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Speaker 2: How about the Kieran Williams stuff.

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Speaker 3: He looks better of the two. Yeah, I mean he's

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Speaker 3: a better receiver than akers. They played quite well. I

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Speaker 3: the top of waiver wires.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he had fifteen for fifty two. The long run

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Speaker 3: No, he doesn't, Andy small r a good receiver other

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and I mean it goes a long way. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: just that. That's about it in terms of the running

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Speaker 2: fifteen targets, hit, fifteen targets. He had ten catches for

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Speaker 2: one nineteen two twenty yard catches. Tyreek had eleven for

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Speaker 2: two fifteen. He had five twenty plus yard catches, one

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Speaker 2: forty plus yard catch. I mean he had on his

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, a remarkable game, a remarkable player. He's

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Speaker 2: But Nikua is somebody that, oh I would pick him up.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Fifteen targets, Yeah right.

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Speaker 3: They're manufacturing big slot targets for it.

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Speaker 2: And the thing is, I don't know that he goes

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Speaker 3: No, they need everyone they can get, right.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Zay Flowers led that Baltimore.

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Speaker 3: He was probably their best off defensive player.

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Speaker 2: He had nine catches. It was only seventy eight yards

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Speaker 2: on ten targets. Again, that's what, that's what. That's why

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Speaker 2: I can't buy into him being a true number one

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Speaker 3: It is right now, and it might be for the

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Speaker 2: That might be what he does this season. You know,

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Speaker 2: Justin Jefferson did. Justin Jefferson. He had nine for one

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and they can't run it all and they're going

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Speaker 3: to keep throwing, and yeah, Jefferson should be first pick overall,

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Speaker 2: Jacoby Myers with a nine for eighty one and two touchdowns, Now,

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Speaker 2: you're not going to count on getting two touchdowns out

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Speaker 2: of Jakobe Myers every week. But he did have ten targets.

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Speaker 3: And the head coach and quarterback are Patriot people. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: Now, he does have the concussion that he suffered in

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Speaker 2: a big hit. I mentioned Dayuk if you're listening, sure, yeah,

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Speaker 3: Night him over family.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so that's not a surprise therej.

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Speaker 3: He was a talk of their training camp too.

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Speaker 2: TJ. Hawkinson had eight catches on nine targets. Sounds great

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Speaker 3: I think he did much. I didn't realizee A eight

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Speaker 3: catch thirty five yards. Wow, man, I don't know what

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Speaker 3: his usage was. I'm sure he was out there a lot.

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Speaker 3: They paid him, but I wouldn't be worried about that.

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Speaker 3: But really bad tight end week though, Yeah, like wer

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Speaker 2: We mentioned a Lave eight for one to twelve that

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Speaker 2: was on ten targets. Michael Pittman eight for ninety seven

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Speaker 2: on eleven targets. He scored. I think that was more

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Speaker 2: of Jacksonville's defense playing poorly.

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Speaker 3: Pittman had a pretty long catch and run it was.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it was a wide receiver screen that he took

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Speaker 3: I really liked the player, but it's not an ideal situation.

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Speaker 2: We mentioned Calvin Ridley, he had eleven targets in that game,

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Speaker 3: Him in a lave to me. Are really real? Are

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Speaker 2: Aj Brown seven for seventy nine on ten targets.

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Speaker 3: That's just that their passing game didn't didn't do much. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: they scored on defense and that game was very close.

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Speaker 2: DeAndre Hopkins had thirteen targets in that game. Yeah, but

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Speaker 2: seven catches for sixty five yards. I think you might

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Speaker 3: That whole offense was a little, I mean not surprisingly.

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Speaker 3: Their O lines bad. Tannehill played bad. Chake got a

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Speaker 3: zero even though he was like super wide open downfield

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Speaker 3: I guess Hopkins of course is the one, But I

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Speaker 2: No, No, I'd try to trade him now. Yeah, seven

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Speaker 2: for you know he got, he got thirteen targets, he's.

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Speaker 3: The number one. He's sell that.

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Speaker 2: DeVante Smith seven catches on ten targets, only forty seven yards.

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Speaker 2: He did score though, which kind of saved today. How

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Speaker 3: Devonte for these passing games, we remember.

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Speaker 2: Vante Adams got nine targets. Remember Jacoby Myers got ten,

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Speaker 2: DeVante Adams six for sixty six.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I'm not super worried.

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Speaker 2: Is this gonna be a trendo where Jacoby Myers is

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Speaker 3: That, but I bet they're far and away the top two.

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Speaker 3: And then we may have undersld Myers. Yeah, I don't

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Speaker 2: Adams Keenan Allen had six for seventy six on nine targets.

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Speaker 2: I'm surprised it was only nine, to be honest with.

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Speaker 3: They ran them all a lot.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, two two out well, six for one to nineteen

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Speaker 3: He's unbelievably fast. He's got all kinds of opportunity right now.

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Speaker 3: It's probably gonna be his best game of the year.

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Speaker 2: I would think. But he's he's definitely not going anywhere

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Speaker 2: with the cup comes back. No, No, because they played

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Speaker 3: It was Jefferson and Nico.

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Speaker 2: Calvin, Austin making listener. He had six catches on six

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Speaker 2: targets to lead to Steelers only thirty seven yards, but

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Speaker 2: he was used and Robinson.

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Speaker 3: I mean, if Deontay misses time, Austin and Robinson are

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Speaker 2: Yeah, at least should be on your radar, if not

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Speaker 3: DFS.

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Speaker 2: Kendrick Bourne looks like the number one in New England.

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Speaker 2: He got eleven targets in that game, six for sixty four,

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Speaker 3: I always thought he was kind of given a raw

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Speaker 3: they need guys like him. I mean he's good with

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Speaker 3: targets on a bad passing game. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Nico Collins had eleven targets, got six for eighty. That's promising.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think that's true.

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Speaker 2: Zach Ertz got ten targets, six for twenty one.

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Speaker 3: Six. Yeah, another bad tight end.

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Speaker 2: Day, not going his long He had six for twenty

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Speaker 2: one with a long catch of six yards six. That's

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Speaker 3: There around fall down. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Mike Evans got ten targets, six for sixty six in

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Speaker 3: Their offense was pretty good.

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Speaker 2: It wasn't bad.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean Vikings, he's pretty good Viking.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Rashawn Johnson had seven targets in that game. He

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Speaker 3: It looks like he's gonna have he can have a role,

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Speaker 3: definitely a third down roll. Yea. And I like Herbert,

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Speaker 3: but I thought Johnson looked good.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Ramondre Stevenson also got six targets. He had six

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Speaker 3: They kind of shoved the Ezekiel all at down your

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Speaker 2: Just he did fumble, I believe which you get you no, oh,

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Speaker 3: I don't know. I have no hesitation with Stevenson. Looked

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we kind of brushed over the quarterbacks here, but uh,

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Speaker 2: Jordan Love looked.

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Speaker 3: Fine good, yeah, yeah, fine.

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Speaker 2: Anthony Richardson ran like we expected him too.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and he looked like he belonged.

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Speaker 2: He didn't get banged up at the end of that game.

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Speaker 3: I think he took a big hit late. Yeah yeah, And.

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Speaker 2: That's going to be the danger with him. I don't

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Speaker 3: the field, you're not far the best.

447
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Speaker 2: Yeah, so you know, protect yourself.

448
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Speaker 3: That's a big thing, I know.

449
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Speaker 2: But other than that, I mean the quarterback you know,

450
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Speaker 2: when when Patrick Mahomes starts for two twenty six. Like,

451
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Speaker 2: you know, it wasn't a great one.

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Speaker 3: There's a lot of good guys going tonight too, but still,

453
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Speaker 3: I mean, it was not a stellar fantasy week.

454
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Speaker 2: I didn't see anybody when Jordan Love might be on waiver.

455
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Speaker 3: Wires right now, he's worth picking up.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, maybe Derek car didn't get drafted.

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Speaker 3: Possibly possibly, you know, trying to think what other quarterbacks

458
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Speaker 3: are relevant that way?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I mean, I'm just you know, if you

460
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Speaker 2: look at the star running you know, the stars, Trevor

461
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Speaker 2: Lawrence two forty one and two touches, that's fine.

462
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Speaker 3: Sure, Burrow was awful.

463
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Speaker 2: Herbert Mahomes. Uh, these guys are all down justin fields,

464
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Speaker 2: they're all down the list of guys who had.

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Speaker 3: The big action and super high even though he won barely.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they barely threw to throw. Yeah, he actually threw

467
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Speaker 2: for the fewish yards here, one hundred.

468
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Speaker 3: And forty three, one hundred and forty three.

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Speaker 2: Like you drafted Dak Prescott as your number one quarterback,

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Speaker 2: You're not happy right now. Lamar's they won. Lamar's at

471
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Speaker 2: one sixty nine. Deshaun Watson is at one fifty four.

472
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Speaker 2: Jalen Hurts at one seventy. This is not what you

473
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Speaker 2: drafted these guys for.

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Speaker 3: Fields wasn't tremendously Yeah, I'm trying to think some of

475
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Speaker 3: the how Herbert was fine but not great. We'll see tonight.

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Speaker 3: I mean everyone starting Allen of course and Rogers is.

477
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Speaker 2: It's a good week. You know when when Tua, Kirk, Cousins,

478
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Speaker 2: Matthew Stafford, Mac Jones Derek Carr are the only four

479
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Speaker 2: guys over three hundred yards.

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Speaker 3: And very few people started most of those.

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Speaker 2: Guys, it's a it's a good reminder. Maybe maybe the

482
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Speaker 2: things are the wheels are turning back here. Don't draft quarterback.

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Speaker 3: Early maybe maybe, I mean, no, this is this is

484
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Speaker 3: it's a long season.

485
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Speaker 2: Don't panic about that.

486
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Speaker 3: But I just thought, I mean, Alan might put up

487
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Speaker 3: fifty points tonight.

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Speaker 2: Who knows, Yeah, well, I mean that would be didn't Yeah.

489
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Speaker 3: Lamar didn't. I mean, they're really highly drafted guys didn't

490
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Speaker 3: come through it.

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Speaker 2: They didn't put up those kind of numbers in Week one.

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Speaker 2: Keep an eye on that, see if that becomes a trend.

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Speaker 3: I mean, I know the league does not want scoring

494
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Speaker 3: to be down again, but it was a little low

495
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Speaker 3: and there was some weather, you know, across across the league.

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Speaker 2: Football weather's going to happen, gonna happen. Yeah, absolutely, Uh

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Speaker 2: he is Matt Williamson. I am Dale, Allie. That was

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Speaker 2: the fantasy football focus. Hopefully your team got off to

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Speaker 2: a good start, Matt, and nice. Teams in our league

500
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Speaker 2: are both headed towards one to.

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Speaker 3: Oh even though I was about to say that, I

502
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Speaker 3: mean two leagues. Didn't score one hundred points in either,

503
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Speaker 3: but I'll probably want to know after both. I mean

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Speaker 3: it was you have to go crazy this week to

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Speaker 3: when you're fans.

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Speaker 2: I'm well over one hundred points, all right, Yeah, I

507
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Speaker 2: can't remember who. I have to double check that because

508
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Speaker 2: I think I had that went off. I can't remember.

509
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Speaker 2: I should know. Oh kay, Calvin Ridley, who did well, Yeah,

510
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Speaker 2: didn't do much for me, but Dated Montgomery was fine.

511
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Speaker 2: Lawrence was fine.

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Speaker 3: It was okay, yeah, yeah.

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Speaker 2: The Commander's defense, Jake Elliott was I tried to get

514
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Speaker 2: rid of the kickers in our league and nobody wanted

515
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Speaker 2: to do it. So, okay, my kicker is going to

516
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Speaker 2: go out there and put up a big game. How

517
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Speaker 2: about that.

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Speaker 3: I'm always voting against And he.

519
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Speaker 2: Was a I drafted him after everybody else, like guys

520
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Speaker 2: were drafting kickers in the eighth round, in the ninth round, crazy,

521
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Speaker 2: like he's a kicker. Take a kicker from a good offense.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. I took dick Er the kicker and he was fine.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so that's what you do. Anyways, let's take a break.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: He is Matt Williams and I am Dale Lollie. You're

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Speaker 2: listening to the Drive here on Steelers Nation Radio. We'll

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Speaker 2: be back with more right after this.

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

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

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Speaker 1: Gold Steelers Nation Radio.

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Speaker 2: Welcome back. I'm Dale Lolli. He is Matt Williamson. This

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Speaker 2: is the Drive on Steelers Nation Radio. And shockingly enough, Matt,

533
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Speaker 2: the Chris Jones holdout is over.

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Speaker 3: How about that? Yeah, lose a game, not look great

535
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Speaker 3: on national TV. Everyone men's fences. I'm sure Chris is

536
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Speaker 3: tired of not getting that game check, as well as

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Speaker 3: fifty thousand dollars a day that he's going to owe

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Speaker 3: all through camp too. So he's short a couple of bucks.

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Speaker 3: But I think he's probably pretty happy now.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's just a one year deal though.

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Speaker 3: So really yeah, okay, one of your extension on top

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Speaker 3: of this one. I assume yes, he was due to

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Speaker 3: be up after this.

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Speaker 2: Year one year deal to end the hold out. I

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Speaker 2: guess they're they're saying, you know, if you're the chief,

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Speaker 2: you're like, hey, we're going to give you this money now.

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Speaker 2: They probably gave him enough money to take care of it,

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Speaker 2: the fines and everything to fit it under the cap,

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Speaker 2: and then they said we'll talk about it again after

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Speaker 2: the season's over.

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Speaker 3: That's what happened, Josh Jacobs, That's what happened to Barkley. Yeh,

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Speaker 3: it's kind of just we kind of agree to disagree.

553
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Speaker 3: Let's just make everyone happy to look a little better.

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Speaker 3: You get an extra million or something up front, and

555
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Speaker 3: you can invest it and get interest on it, and

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Speaker 3: you know, let's go play football.

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Speaker 2: Well what this does though, And I mentioned this to

558
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Speaker 2: you when we were texting back and forth Thursday night,

559
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Speaker 2: and you texted me that they, oh, they need to

560
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Speaker 2: get you know, talk talk to the Buccaneers about Mike Evans.

561
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Speaker 2: Mike Evans making thirteen million dollars this year base salary.

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Speaker 2: The only way that they could have gotten a Mike

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Speaker 2: Evans is if the holdout continued for Chris Jones, because

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Speaker 2: now his money doesn't every time he misses a game,

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Speaker 2: that money goes back on your cap.

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Speaker 3: Oh you add a million to Canah or whatever it is.

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Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, now that that's out the window.

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Speaker 3: You'd have to restructure. So I know they're up against it.

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Speaker 3: I mean, it pulls something like that off, you know,

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Speaker 3: the restructure Mahomes or somebody.

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Speaker 2: But well, the problem is with Mahomes for them is

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Speaker 2: that because of the way that that contract was structured,

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Speaker 2: they really can't. There's not a lot of wiggle room.

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Speaker 3: There there just I know, he signed like a ten

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Speaker 3: year deal. I just assumed with such a long deal

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Speaker 3: you'll go to the bank of the home several times

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Speaker 3: or in that stretch.

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Speaker 2: And it's a ten year for four hundred and fifty

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Speaker 2: million dollars deal.

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Speaker 3: Which is turning into a bargain by the way.

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Speaker 2: Oh, it's absolutely a bargain. Like this year, mahomes base

582
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Speaker 2: salary is only five point five million. So you're not restructured.

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Speaker 2: I mean, you're not going to restructure a whole lot

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Speaker 2: of that.

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Speaker 3: Like, there's not that.

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Speaker 2: Much there's you know, there's not a squeeze there. Yeah,

587
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Speaker 2: there's not much there to do next year, his base

588
00:25:05,440 --> 00:25:08,280
Speaker 2: salary two point five million. Really the year after that

589
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Speaker 2: two point five million.

590
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Speaker 3: Like it's set up to win, now, right, it's.

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Speaker 2: Set up to so A lot of times you see

592
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Speaker 2: some of these big contracts that are handed out, most

593
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Speaker 2: of the money will be in base salary because that's

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Speaker 2: no guaranteed. And then when you restructure the contract, you turn,

595
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Speaker 2: you take that that base salary and you say, okay,

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Speaker 2: we're gonna give you this seventeen million dollar check now

597
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Speaker 2: if you're eighteen million, yeah, and we'll push that money

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Speaker 2: down into next year.

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Speaker 3: Well, they can't do that, you know, Like Ryan Tannehill's

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Speaker 3: make it is a big cap hit this year. The

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Speaker 3: Titans could have went to him in the off season,

602
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Speaker 3: and here's the key if they thought he was the

603
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Speaker 3: long term answer and said we'll move this money around,

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Speaker 3: go sign Nuke and somebody else bull for you and

605
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Speaker 3: lower your cap hit. Instead, they said, let's just bite

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Speaker 3: the bullet. Pay your salary this year because we don't

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Speaker 3: want you to be here much longer.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, the draft, the guy you know, looking at Mahomes

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Speaker 2: cap hit this year, it's only thirty nine six, which

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Speaker 2: is great. Yeah, next year it jumps to forty six,

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Speaker 2: basically forty six to seven. But again, his base salary

612
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Speaker 2: is only two point five million because they gave him

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Speaker 2: a big signing bonus when he signed that thing, instead

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Speaker 2: of turning, instead of doing what the Steelers do with

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Speaker 2: these and say, Okay, we're gonna give you a four year,

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Speaker 2: eighty million dollar deal. Uh, but it's a twenty million

617
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Speaker 2: dollars signing bonus. So sixty million of that is your

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Speaker 2: is your is your base salary? And then we can

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Speaker 2: we can you know, if we need to create money,

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Speaker 2: we can create money down the road.

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Speaker 3: They could go to Hayward or watch yeah those guys

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Speaker 3: and make more money.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean they just it doesn't They can't really

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Speaker 2: do that with the Chiefs until after twenty twenty six.

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Speaker 2: And even then his base salary jumps up.

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Speaker 3: To ten million.

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Speaker 2: That's still not that much wiggle It's it's not enough

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Speaker 2: wiggle room to say, Okay, we're gonna we're gonna we're

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Speaker 2: gonna create nine million dollars in cap space by moving

630
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Speaker 2: some and it's not even really nine million, it's like eight.

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Speaker 3: And meanwhile, for Mahomes he got a huge signing bonus

632
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Speaker 3: check that he invests in turn.

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Speaker 2: Off sitting in the bank right now, and yeah.

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Speaker 3: Turn into more and more. So in terms of what

635
00:27:12,240 --> 00:27:16,080
Speaker 3: he makes ap y, it's not that great, right, Yeah,

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Speaker 3: especially by today's quarterback standard.

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00:27:17,880 --> 00:27:21,320
Speaker 2: Yeah, by today's deals, nothing at all. So, you know,

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Speaker 2: does he come back after this year Let's say they

639
00:27:23,640 --> 00:27:24,960
Speaker 2: go to the good Let's say they go back to

640
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Speaker 2: the Super bowlgain, he goes, Hey, we're paying all these

641
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Speaker 2: other guys, how about me?

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Speaker 3: They could go and fifteen.

643
00:27:30,160 --> 00:27:33,000
Speaker 2: Now he's got he's got commercials and things of that nature.

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00:27:33,040 --> 00:27:34,760
Speaker 2: That's where that stuff comes into play. I have no

645
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Speaker 2: idea how much money Patrick Mahomes actually takes home every year.

646
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Speaker 2: I'm sure it's probably over one hundred million dollars.

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Speaker 3: I mean, of course he's fine, but he's underpaid by

648
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Speaker 3: NFL standard, right, Kelsey's even worse. Yeah, I mean, if

649
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Speaker 3: you talk about just receivers, I mean, yes, he's got

650
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Speaker 3: a high tight end contract, but if you compare him

651
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Speaker 3: to you know, the other stars, the best pass catchers

652
00:27:54,640 --> 00:27:57,040
Speaker 3: in the league, he's vastly underpaid. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: We mentioned those Steeler injuries, the Ravens. Today's John Harbaugh

654
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Speaker 2: saying they're not going to add a running back after

655
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Speaker 2: losing JK. Dobbins. I don't think they can. I don't

656
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Speaker 2: think they can afford.

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Speaker 3: It, to be quite, you can't. I don't know what

658
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Speaker 3: kind of deals they could restructure. Maybe a guy like

659
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Speaker 3: Stanley Off off my head, But.

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Speaker 2: But do you want to Yeah, do you want to

661
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Speaker 2: do that?

662
00:28:17,760 --> 00:28:19,359
Speaker 3: Do you want to be linked to him much longer?

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Speaker 3: Odell's only a one year deal.

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00:28:21,520 --> 00:28:24,080
Speaker 2: Their estimated cap space according to spot rack right now

665
00:28:24,160 --> 00:28:27,040
Speaker 2: is four point five million. Okay, they would have to

666
00:28:27,080 --> 00:28:28,920
Speaker 2: move some stuff around to make that work.

667
00:28:29,000 --> 00:28:31,840
Speaker 3: They signed a big deal, yeah, mhm.

668
00:28:32,560 --> 00:28:36,360
Speaker 2: And they had they already had they could under They

669
00:28:36,359 --> 00:28:39,200
Speaker 2: had to restructure some stuff just to get under that count.

670
00:28:39,320 --> 00:28:41,880
Speaker 2: That's why didn't. Yeah, they made some moves just to

671
00:28:41,880 --> 00:28:43,680
Speaker 2: get under the cap, just so they'd have the four

672
00:28:43,680 --> 00:28:46,600
Speaker 2: point five million going into the season, like they That's

673
00:28:46,640 --> 00:28:48,880
Speaker 2: why they weren't in the market when you know the

674
00:28:49,160 --> 00:28:55,120
Speaker 2: Steelers or you know after the first even a lot

675
00:28:55,120 --> 00:28:56,840
Speaker 2: of the latest round the cuts at the end of

676
00:28:56,840 --> 00:29:00,000
Speaker 2: the training camp, a guy like King, Yeah, they weren't.

677
00:29:00,040 --> 00:29:01,600
Speaker 2: They weren't in the market for that because they couldn't

678
00:29:01,600 --> 00:29:01,880
Speaker 2: afford it.

679
00:29:01,920 --> 00:29:04,000
Speaker 3: Couldn't afford him. Yeah, they're up against it. And right

680
00:29:04,040 --> 00:29:05,800
Speaker 3: now the Browns have a lot of money, but then

681
00:29:05,840 --> 00:29:06,800
Speaker 3: next year they're going to be.

682
00:29:06,920 --> 00:29:08,360
Speaker 2: Well I'm sure. I'm sure they want to take a

683
00:29:08,360 --> 00:29:09,680
Speaker 2: lot of that money and roll it over in the

684
00:29:09,760 --> 00:29:12,920
Speaker 2: next year as much as possible, just because now you're

685
00:29:12,920 --> 00:29:14,920
Speaker 2: looking at this going, Okay, is Jack Conklin going to

686
00:29:14,960 --> 00:29:15,920
Speaker 2: be in our long term plans?

687
00:29:16,040 --> 00:29:18,280
Speaker 3: No? Yeah, I thought he would be a cap cut

688
00:29:18,440 --> 00:29:18,800
Speaker 3: either way.

689
00:29:18,920 --> 00:29:19,520
Speaker 2: Now he definitely.

690
00:29:20,400 --> 00:29:22,880
Speaker 3: Now he's in, specially if Jones plays reasonably well. Yeah.

691
00:29:23,960 --> 00:29:25,719
Speaker 3: And the Bagels out to be tight too after the

692
00:29:25,720 --> 00:29:29,160
Speaker 3: Borough deal, right, I want to I don't know how

693
00:29:29,160 --> 00:29:29,760
Speaker 3: that affected that.

694
00:29:29,800 --> 00:29:31,600
Speaker 2: I haven't seen how the breakdown on that, I.

695
00:29:31,560 --> 00:29:33,680
Speaker 3: Mean, but I'm sure they're not real fluid.

696
00:29:36,840 --> 00:29:43,080
Speaker 2: We mentioned the Conklin injury. Uh, Eagles took some Yeah,

697
00:29:43,280 --> 00:29:44,960
Speaker 2: the linebacker, uh.

698
00:29:44,840 --> 00:29:45,320
Speaker 3: Kobe Dean.

699
00:29:45,520 --> 00:29:47,080
Speaker 2: N Kobe Dean is out a few weeks.

700
00:29:47,640 --> 00:29:50,400
Speaker 3: Yeah, Okay, they were already finished that position they were

701
00:29:50,480 --> 00:29:52,400
Speaker 3: that was a problem area. It's going to be uh,

702
00:29:52,480 --> 00:29:54,200
Speaker 3: Zach Cunningham, I guess will be the main guy.

703
00:29:54,320 --> 00:29:56,280
Speaker 2: Yeah, according to uh, just run through some of these

704
00:29:56,280 --> 00:29:59,920
Speaker 2: injuries here, I'd like to hear. According to uh the Falcon.

705
00:30:00,240 --> 00:30:03,680
Speaker 2: Cordero Patterson trending in the right direction according to Arthur Smith.

706
00:30:03,720 --> 00:30:05,720
Speaker 2: What that means, we'll see what he was inactive for

707
00:30:05,720 --> 00:30:08,640
Speaker 2: the open. Jeff Akuda also trending in the right direction.

708
00:30:08,720 --> 00:30:14,680
Speaker 2: He missed week one for that. Yeah, they this Raven's

709
00:30:14,720 --> 00:30:18,880
Speaker 2: injury list. JK. Dobbins done for the year. Ronnie Stanley

710
00:30:18,920 --> 00:30:22,360
Speaker 2: considered week to week, Tyler Linderbaum week to week. Marlon

711
00:30:22,440 --> 00:30:24,440
Speaker 2: Humphrey has a shot to play this week against the

712
00:30:24,480 --> 00:30:27,520
Speaker 2: Bengals after missing week one. A shot does not tell

713
00:30:27,560 --> 00:30:30,960
Speaker 2: me that, Yeah, and then Marcus Williams with the pictorial

714
00:30:31,360 --> 00:30:34,160
Speaker 2: muscle injury out for a while, but isn't considered season

715
00:30:34,240 --> 00:30:38,560
Speaker 2: ending out for like it's you're probably talking at least

716
00:30:38,600 --> 00:30:41,120
Speaker 2: a six week injury there. That's last year.

717
00:30:41,160 --> 00:30:43,200
Speaker 3: I don't say high end starters, but those guys are

718
00:30:43,240 --> 00:30:45,920
Speaker 3: all quality start, key starters. Yeah.

719
00:30:46,440 --> 00:30:48,240
Speaker 2: If they have to play the Bengals this week without

720
00:30:48,320 --> 00:30:52,400
Speaker 2: Ronnie Stanley and without Tyler Linderbaum.

721
00:30:51,280 --> 00:30:53,440
Speaker 3: That could be a long day for their offense. Oh yeah, yeah.

722
00:30:56,400 --> 00:30:56,640
Speaker 3: J C.

723
00:30:56,840 --> 00:31:01,000
Speaker 2: Horn with the hamstring injury for the Carolina Panthers. That's

724
00:31:01,040 --> 00:31:03,239
Speaker 2: that's been an ongoing issue with him since he came

725
00:31:03,280 --> 00:31:04,120
Speaker 2: into the league.

726
00:31:04,160 --> 00:31:05,640
Speaker 3: He's a really good player when he's out there, but

727
00:31:05,680 --> 00:31:06,640
Speaker 3: it's not enough. Yeah.

728
00:31:06,680 --> 00:31:10,120
Speaker 2: They did sign Chris Warmly to their practice Yeah, so

729
00:31:10,280 --> 00:31:16,520
Speaker 2: good for him. Ye, good, good guy. Looks like for

730
00:31:16,600 --> 00:31:20,000
Speaker 2: the Bengals, Joseph Asaiu mis Week one doing an ankle injury.

731
00:31:20,040 --> 00:31:24,360
Speaker 2: His day to day according to Zach Taylor, rotation guy

732
00:31:24,400 --> 00:31:28,160
Speaker 2: for them. Yeah, Greg Dolci set to have an m

733
00:31:28,320 --> 00:31:31,880
Speaker 2: r I. I thought that was on his leg today.

734
00:31:33,040 --> 00:31:36,080
Speaker 2: We'll see how that turns out. And then safety Cadence

735
00:31:36,080 --> 00:31:37,920
Speaker 2: Sterns expected to be out for the rest of the

736
00:31:37,960 --> 00:31:41,760
Speaker 2: season with the torn Patel attendon he suffered. Yeah, that's

737
00:31:41,760 --> 00:31:42,520
Speaker 2: a big blow for.

738
00:31:42,480 --> 00:31:44,280
Speaker 3: Their defense as well.

739
00:31:44,800 --> 00:31:48,400
Speaker 2: Aaron Jones still being evaluated for that hamstring injury. According

740
00:31:48,400 --> 00:31:52,840
Speaker 2: to Matt Lafleur, Yeah, they were, they were courage He

741
00:31:52,880 --> 00:31:55,360
Speaker 2: was able to run off the field after the win. That,

742
00:31:55,840 --> 00:31:57,760
Speaker 2: you know, at least they didn't have to.

743
00:31:58,200 --> 00:32:02,040
Speaker 3: Go through the Yeah, through the tunnel. Then the party lot.

744
00:32:02,200 --> 00:32:05,960
Speaker 2: Kway Walker in concussion protocol for the Packers. He touched

745
00:32:06,000 --> 00:32:09,880
Speaker 2: on too, right, Yeah, that was did he get hurt

746
00:32:09,880 --> 00:32:12,040
Speaker 2: on that play? He kind of dove into the end

747
00:32:12,120 --> 00:32:15,120
Speaker 2: zone and they saw the highlights of that. H Jaln

748
00:32:15,240 --> 00:32:18,280
Speaker 2: Petray with the Texans released from the hospital after suffering

749
00:32:18,320 --> 00:32:20,280
Speaker 2: a bruised lung against the Ravens.

750
00:32:20,440 --> 00:32:22,320
Speaker 3: I knew there was something with him. I didn't like

751
00:32:22,400 --> 00:32:23,440
Speaker 3: go to the hospital stuff.

752
00:32:23,760 --> 00:32:27,640
Speaker 2: That's yeah. Yeah, that's a huge, huge player for them.

753
00:32:27,680 --> 00:32:29,480
Speaker 2: I mean he's kind of the key to their defense.

754
00:32:29,600 --> 00:32:31,440
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, it's really smart, versatile.

755
00:32:32,440 --> 00:32:35,520
Speaker 2: Anthony Richardson has a knee and ankle soreness, but he

756
00:32:35,520 --> 00:32:37,160
Speaker 2: could have gone back into the game for the last

757
00:32:37,160 --> 00:32:40,360
Speaker 2: two plays, but we kept out for precautionary reason. According

758
00:32:40,400 --> 00:32:43,520
Speaker 2: to Shane Stikeen, uh Evan Hall for them could miss

759
00:32:43,520 --> 00:32:44,480
Speaker 2: some time with a knee injury.

760
00:32:44,480 --> 00:32:47,360
Speaker 3: Though I kind of liked dev Yeah, well, none of

761
00:32:47,400 --> 00:32:48,160
Speaker 3: their backs were great.

762
00:32:48,760 --> 00:32:53,959
Speaker 2: Yeah. Brandon Schurf suffered an ankle sprain for the Jaguars

763
00:32:53,960 --> 00:32:54,920
Speaker 2: and to win over the Colts.

764
00:32:55,120 --> 00:32:56,560
Speaker 3: Too much shuffle on there.

765
00:32:56,720 --> 00:32:59,720
Speaker 2: Yeah, Tyler Shatley would be the starter if Shurf isn't

766
00:32:59,760 --> 00:33:03,240
Speaker 2: able to play. They're paying Shurf a lot of and

767
00:33:03,280 --> 00:33:06,760
Speaker 2: the left tackles already out. Yeah, that could be an

768
00:33:06,800 --> 00:33:11,680
Speaker 2: issue around Accordney to Andy Reid, Travis Kelsey's knee injury

769
00:33:11,760 --> 00:33:15,040
Speaker 2: is progressing, but he offered no further update on that

770
00:33:15,160 --> 00:33:18,680
Speaker 2: on Monday. Boers can be painful.

771
00:33:18,520 --> 00:33:20,280
Speaker 3: I say, I don't think he's guaranteed to be back

772
00:33:20,320 --> 00:33:20,720
Speaker 3: next week.

773
00:33:20,840 --> 00:33:22,920
Speaker 2: No, there's nothing. I mean as those can linger for.

774
00:33:23,000 --> 00:33:25,160
Speaker 2: I think who wasn't had a bone bruise last year

775
00:33:25,200 --> 00:33:28,080
Speaker 2: and ended up missing two or three weeks because of it.

776
00:33:28,120 --> 00:33:29,520
Speaker 2: I can't it was some I think it was a

777
00:33:29,520 --> 00:33:32,040
Speaker 2: wide receiver and that's the that's the thing.

778
00:33:32,120 --> 00:33:34,400
Speaker 3: Like, it doesn't sound as bad as it is from

779
00:33:34,400 --> 00:33:34,960
Speaker 3: what I've been told.

780
00:33:35,120 --> 00:33:35,640
Speaker 2: Very painful.

781
00:33:36,000 --> 00:33:36,800
Speaker 3: It's very painful.

782
00:33:37,200 --> 00:33:41,440
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, Jacobe Myers remains in concussion protocol. According to

783
00:33:41,520 --> 00:33:46,520
Speaker 2: Josh McDaniels. Yeah, he just got crushed. I would expect

784
00:33:46,520 --> 00:33:51,360
Speaker 2: to find to come out of that. I think, yeah, big, big, fine. Uh.

785
00:33:51,520 --> 00:33:54,320
Speaker 2: The Vikings got banged up here, especially in their offensive line.

786
00:33:54,360 --> 00:33:57,240
Speaker 2: Garrett Bradberry with a back is day to day after

787
00:33:57,320 --> 00:34:01,400
Speaker 2: leaving Sunday's loss to the Buccaneers to Christian Darisaw with

788
00:34:01,440 --> 00:34:03,320
Speaker 2: an ankle is day to day as well. It's a

789
00:34:03,400 --> 00:34:07,880
Speaker 2: back for Garrett Bradbury and an ankle for Christian Darisaw.

790
00:34:07,920 --> 00:34:09,960
Speaker 2: That's one of the one of the strengths of their

791
00:34:10,000 --> 00:34:12,279
Speaker 2: team is their offensive line, and those might be the

792
00:34:12,280 --> 00:34:13,040
Speaker 2: two best guys.

793
00:34:13,120 --> 00:34:15,960
Speaker 3: Yeah, those two, Yeah, they're really the three best. And

794
00:34:16,000 --> 00:34:17,640
Speaker 3: they didn't have any running games past week.

795
00:34:17,760 --> 00:34:20,680
Speaker 2: Yeah. Marcus Davenport, who was inactive for Week one with

796
00:34:20,719 --> 00:34:22,000
Speaker 2: an ankle injury, is day to day.

797
00:34:22,040 --> 00:34:25,120
Speaker 3: According to O'Connell, they invested I'm ready.

798
00:34:26,040 --> 00:34:26,239
Speaker 1: Uh.

799
00:34:26,280 --> 00:34:29,400
Speaker 2: Peyton Turner likely to have surgery on his turf toe injury.

800
00:34:29,440 --> 00:34:31,959
Speaker 2: According to Dennis Allen with the Saints.

801
00:34:31,760 --> 00:34:33,839
Speaker 3: It's another first round pick that just has never been

802
00:34:33,880 --> 00:34:36,480
Speaker 3: on the field or career has just gone nowhere.

803
00:34:36,600 --> 00:34:41,400
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know they didn't. They haven't had many picks.

804
00:34:41,680 --> 00:34:43,480
Speaker 3: And for a first round or not to work out

805
00:34:43,640 --> 00:34:45,799
Speaker 3: oversize the end, the kind guys they like, and he

806
00:34:45,920 --> 00:34:49,839
Speaker 3: just hasn't met a chance to do anything. Yeah, I think. Yeah.

807
00:34:49,960 --> 00:34:53,000
Speaker 2: Giants place kicker Graham Gano had X rays after getting

808
00:34:53,000 --> 00:34:55,400
Speaker 2: spiked in the calf, but the team isn't considering getting

809
00:34:55,400 --> 00:34:57,560
Speaker 2: another kicker at this point. Well, you have to score

810
00:34:57,600 --> 00:34:59,920
Speaker 2: some points to actually need your kid. You only get

811
00:34:59,920 --> 00:35:00,880
Speaker 2: the kick once.

812
00:35:01,560 --> 00:35:05,560
Speaker 3: Just a kick. Na.

813
00:35:05,600 --> 00:35:08,879
Speaker 2: Kobe Deans, as I said, expected to miss multiple weeks

814
00:35:08,880 --> 00:35:11,400
Speaker 2: with a foot injury, suffered and Sundays went over New England.

815
00:35:11,400 --> 00:35:13,719
Speaker 2: According to Dean Rapaport.

816
00:35:13,760 --> 00:35:15,759
Speaker 3: He hasn't been great, but they're counting on him. Yeah,

817
00:35:15,800 --> 00:35:18,120
Speaker 3: he was like the Green Dot every down guy. You know.

818
00:35:18,160 --> 00:35:21,800
Speaker 3: They brought in Jack and Cunningham because they weren't.

819
00:35:21,560 --> 00:35:23,360
Speaker 2: Happy with their linebacker, and then Jack retired.

820
00:35:23,880 --> 00:35:25,920
Speaker 3: Cunningham still there, but I mean he was on the

821
00:35:25,920 --> 00:35:26,919
Speaker 3: street for a while. Yeah.

822
00:35:26,960 --> 00:35:28,640
Speaker 2: The middle of the field could be an issue for

823
00:35:28,760 --> 00:35:33,200
Speaker 2: the Philadelphia Eagles, who also lost James Bradberry, who's in

824
00:35:33,239 --> 00:35:39,640
Speaker 2: concussion protocol. So that is Uh. Devin Witherspoon with the

825
00:35:39,640 --> 00:35:42,640
Speaker 2: hamstring is a good chance at making his NFL debut

826
00:35:42,880 --> 00:35:46,680
Speaker 2: this Sunday in Detroit. We'll see. I mean they need him,

827
00:35:46,960 --> 00:35:48,479
Speaker 2: especially against that Lions team.

828
00:35:48,600 --> 00:35:52,000
Speaker 3: Yeah, Seattle had a tough day. He really didn't look

829
00:35:52,000 --> 00:35:53,880
Speaker 3: good and they like didn't have the ball at all

830
00:35:53,920 --> 00:35:55,960
Speaker 3: in the second half. I mean, I'm a little worried

831
00:35:55,960 --> 00:35:56,560
Speaker 3: about Seattle.

832
00:35:56,680 --> 00:36:02,480
Speaker 2: Yeah, Tampa Bay, Elijah Cansei that calf injury still being evaluated. Uh,

833
00:36:02,560 --> 00:36:04,520
Speaker 2: he was questionable last week. We'll see what it is.

834
00:36:04,560 --> 00:36:07,080
Speaker 2: It's a calf injury I assume similar to what Burrow

835
00:36:07,200 --> 00:36:11,280
Speaker 2: was dealing with. And Burrow said yesterday that he wasn't.

836
00:36:10,880 --> 00:36:13,480
Speaker 3: Oh you know, you could you could see he was

837
00:36:13,719 --> 00:36:14,279
Speaker 3: favoring it.

838
00:36:14,440 --> 00:36:22,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, the Washington Commanders are signing Jamison Crowder to their

839
00:36:22,239 --> 00:36:27,240
Speaker 2: active roster. He was on their practice squad, so obviously

840
00:36:27,239 --> 00:36:27,720
Speaker 2: the three.

841
00:36:27,600 --> 00:36:31,920
Speaker 3: Are pretty set. McLaurin played without issues. Yeah maybe, I mean,

842
00:36:32,160 --> 00:36:33,759
Speaker 3: he's an NFL receiver, he's been on the block.

843
00:36:33,880 --> 00:36:36,400
Speaker 2: I wonder if that somehow is like Crowder would do

844
00:36:36,560 --> 00:36:42,640
Speaker 2: some of the same things that the running back Gibson Gibson. Yeah,

845
00:36:42,760 --> 00:36:44,440
Speaker 2: maybe they're really unhappy with Gibson.

846
00:36:45,040 --> 00:36:47,680
Speaker 3: See this is speculation, but I heard a couple of

847
00:36:47,680 --> 00:36:51,399
Speaker 3: people say, if you're running back, needy, Gibson's an easy

848
00:36:51,440 --> 00:36:53,640
Speaker 3: guy to get because Washington would move on with them

849
00:36:53,960 --> 00:36:57,400
Speaker 3: his contracts up after the season. He's cheap, you know,

850
00:36:57,520 --> 00:37:00,560
Speaker 3: the Colts or Ravens could get him under their cappies

851
00:37:00,600 --> 00:37:02,680
Speaker 3: the league. And I still he's very good.

852
00:37:03,200 --> 00:37:07,440
Speaker 2: That's the problem. Cornerback Kwan Martin is in Koncussia protocol

853
00:37:07,520 --> 00:37:08,640
Speaker 2: for Commanders.

854
00:37:08,719 --> 00:37:12,640
Speaker 3: Yeah, so formerly Tavis.

855
00:37:13,120 --> 00:37:14,960
Speaker 2: He made a lot of plays in the preseason.

856
00:37:14,480 --> 00:37:17,040
Speaker 3: For the Yeah. I like him a lot.

857
00:37:17,120 --> 00:37:18,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, so, I mean, but this is what's going to

858
00:37:19,000 --> 00:37:20,560
Speaker 2: be the problem with him is he throws his body

859
00:37:20,560 --> 00:37:24,319
Speaker 2: around with reckless abandon Yeah, you're not a real big guy,

860
00:37:24,800 --> 00:37:28,480
Speaker 2: but yeah, good, good football players. So we'll see, uh

861
00:37:28,480 --> 00:37:31,759
Speaker 2: but that's the injury rundown going into tonight's games. We'll

862
00:37:31,760 --> 00:37:36,319
Speaker 2: see they certainly did and uh well got a little

863
00:37:36,320 --> 00:37:39,359
Speaker 2: beaten up on the field and then on the scoreboard.

864
00:37:39,440 --> 00:37:42,600
Speaker 2: And in terms of yeah, so this is why you

865
00:37:42,600 --> 00:37:45,440
Speaker 2: had depth. You got to test that depth already. This

866
00:37:45,520 --> 00:37:47,799
Speaker 2: is what Mike Tomlin talked about. You can think you

867
00:37:47,840 --> 00:37:50,719
Speaker 2: have quality depth, but it's going to be tested and

868
00:37:50,760 --> 00:37:51,480
Speaker 2: then you find out.

869
00:37:51,600 --> 00:37:53,960
Speaker 3: And then they've become full time players. It's saying, oh,

870
00:37:54,000 --> 00:37:57,160
Speaker 3: he's a great third edge guy or whatever, and then

871
00:37:57,520 --> 00:37:59,160
Speaker 3: the moment you're out there snaw. Well.

872
00:37:59,160 --> 00:38:00,560
Speaker 2: One of the interesting things as yet. You know, so

873
00:38:00,600 --> 00:38:03,200
Speaker 2: I got when the Steelers and actives were announced before

874
00:38:03,239 --> 00:38:06,480
Speaker 2: the game, somebody immediately tweeted at me and said, why

875
00:38:07,280 --> 00:38:09,840
Speaker 2: isn't our money wats active? Like they were keeping seven

876
00:38:09,880 --> 00:38:11,000
Speaker 2: defensive linemen active.

877
00:38:11,080 --> 00:38:14,400
Speaker 3: He's going to be now, Yeah, I mean, is he tremendous?

878
00:38:14,440 --> 00:38:16,440
Speaker 3: Is he Cam Hayward? Of course not, but he's.

879
00:38:16,600 --> 00:38:19,839
Speaker 2: An NFL player. Yeah, I'm glad you have him. Absolutely,

880
00:38:20,239 --> 00:38:22,880
Speaker 2: We're gonna get to another break. He is Matt Williamson,

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Speaker 2: I am Dale Lollie. We will take a break here.

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Speaker 2: We'll be back to finish up the show 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 Steelers Nation Radio.

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Speaker 2: Welcome back on Dale Lolli. He is Matt Williamson and

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Speaker 2: this is the Drive on Steelers Nation Radio. And Matt,

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Speaker 2: he just mentioned a tweet that you got on Twitter

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Speaker 2: or X or on Twitter.

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Speaker 3: X or x Twitter. People know what I'm talking about.

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Speaker 2: I guess if you call it x twitter that would

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Speaker 2: be actually appropriate. No, but why is nobody calling it

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Speaker 2: that ex Twitter? That seems like the next that seems

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Speaker 2: like the move works on very many levels.

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Speaker 3: It just seems so weird. If it's like I got

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Speaker 3: an X today, Yeah that's that mean? Yeah take that

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Speaker 3: a lot of ways.

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Speaker 2: A lot of different ways. Yeah, so I'm much start

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Speaker 2: calling it ex Twitter.

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Speaker 3: But I'm sure you've gotten similar X tweets? Is this one?

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Speaker 2: And the question was does Matt Cannon that have one

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Speaker 2: more game to uh.

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Speaker 3: Something along his lines? I've gotten many of them, but

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Speaker 3: the paraphrase is, yeah, how much long? What's his over under?

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Speaker 3: About a game left until he gets fired?

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Speaker 2: Like oh boy, Yeah, that's not happening, folks. No, the

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Speaker 2: Steelers do not replace coaches in the middle of a season.

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Speaker 2: It said it last year, I'm gonna say it repeated

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Speaker 2: again this year.

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Speaker 3: Evidence that that that's a trend.

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Speaker 2: Right ever, like it doesn't happen, and so, you know,

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Speaker 2: I think what you want, you know, the forty nine

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Speaker 2: Ers and Steelers. So the Steelers came out first, first

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Speaker 2: play the game was a yard completion over the middle

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Speaker 2: for six six yard game to George Pickens. Then they

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Speaker 2: run the shovel pass to Calvin Austin that goes for

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Speaker 2: no game because it wasn't a loss of one because

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Speaker 2: it wasn't blocked well. And then picking Pickett throws behind

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Speaker 2: the receiver on third down. They forty nine Ers come out,

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Speaker 2: run the same almost the same thing.

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Speaker 3: Who plays basically, they're.

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Speaker 2: Exactly the same. Play a little pass over the little

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Speaker 2: hook over the middle for a five yard game. Then

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Speaker 2: they run their end around it gets three.

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Speaker 3: Then they you know, one's a genius and one's yeah awful,

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Speaker 3: Yeah right exactly. I don't know. I mean, frankly, I

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Speaker 3: am not going to judge middle of the field passing

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Speaker 3: in this game.

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Speaker 2: Nice. We said that last week, any of it like

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Speaker 2: this is.

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Speaker 3: The worst team the league to throw over the middle against,

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Speaker 3: without question. And frankly, I saw a lot of open

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Speaker 3: receivers in that game. Yeah, a lot of open receivers.

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Speaker 3: And to show them up, you know, showing favorites or whatever,

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Speaker 3: Kenny missed him. Kenny didn't play well.

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Speaker 2: He did not play well. The bottom line, he was

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Speaker 2: not the guy. Matt Cannona was not the guy missing receivers,

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Speaker 2: no open receivers by several yards.

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Speaker 3: I mentioned this. I'm working on an article of who

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Speaker 3: played better than you think. All the wide receivers are

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Speaker 3: on the list, basically, I mean especially Deontay he was

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Speaker 3: open like crazy. I thought Austin came in and played well.

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Speaker 3: I thought Robinson did enough, you know, when it was productive.

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Speaker 3: Not on the list is the quarterback.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and when your quarterback plays bad, they're that important. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: that's what happens. You get smoked. Yeah, when your quarterback

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Speaker 2: doesn't play well. You missed a lot of open guys.

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Speaker 2: And there was times where he force balls that he

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Speaker 2: shouldn't have. You know, I will say this, So there

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Speaker 2: were games when Ben Roethlisberger would have a game like this,

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Speaker 2: right every quarterback out. Do you think Joe Burrow's happy

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Speaker 2: with how he played? He was worse?

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Speaker 3: Ye? Of course.

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Speaker 2: They were probably at least six or seven quarterbacks Sunday

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Speaker 2: who were worse than Kenny Pickett.

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Speaker 3: Oh, I think so. I mean, folks, go check my

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Speaker 3: ex twitter feed because I put out I just retweeted something.

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Speaker 3: It was the Everyone's EPA after one game, and at

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Speaker 3: the top of the list was Tua, Jordan Love, Stafford Garoppolo.

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Speaker 3: At the bottom of the list was Burrow, Daniel Jones,

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Speaker 3: Josh Dobbs.

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Speaker 2: You will see a bad, bad game play. Jones was awful.

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Speaker 3: Lawrence and strouder behind Pickett too. Yeah, I didn't think

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Speaker 3: Lawrence was particularly bad. That was kind of shocked that

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Speaker 3: he was twenty seventh out of thirty, But Pickett was

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Speaker 3: twenty fifth out of thirty. I'm a little shocked that

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Speaker 3: he was that high. To be honest, he played a

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Speaker 3: very bad game.

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Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, but I.

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Speaker 3: Was talking about this with somebody else on the air.

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Speaker 3: I'm not that worried. No, I'm not.

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Speaker 2: That's not what That's not what he looked like throughout

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Speaker 2: training camp. That's not what he looked like the in

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Speaker 2: the off season.

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Speaker 3: Not like, boy, he's got all these If it was

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Speaker 3: Anthony Richardson's accuracy and that was his first game, I'd

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Speaker 3: be like, maybe this guy can't complete pass with the NFL.

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Speaker 3: I don't know, but accuracy with Pickett does not worry me,

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Speaker 3: and I think he'll rebound.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Matt, what would your move be to replace Cam

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Speaker 2: Hayward if that turns out to be, let's say a

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Speaker 2: four week thing or a five week thing.

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Speaker 3: First off, I thought le Al flashed despite fighting a

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Speaker 3: bad elbow, and he's been a flash. But I use

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Speaker 3: that word a lot with him, you know, like I

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Speaker 3: want to see consistency, but he does splash here and there. Frankly,

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Speaker 3: I thought louder Milk was really bad, especially in the

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Speaker 3: run game. I thought he was really bad, played high,

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Speaker 3: got pushed around. I would make Benton it's close to

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Speaker 3: in every snap player as I possibly can't. I think

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Speaker 3: he's a star in the making. It's time to get

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Speaker 3: him out there. Unfortunately, sometimes it takes something like this

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Speaker 3: before someone gets the opportunity. And I'm not saying he's

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Speaker 3: gonna Wally Pip, you know, Cam Hayward, but he might

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Speaker 3: Wallypip Adam's and Ogunjobi somebody. He needs to be out

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Speaker 3: there in a lot.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree. I think he needs to to get

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Speaker 2: more playing time. And you know, again again, this is

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Speaker 2: a game against the Browns this week, and they're going

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Speaker 2: to test that run game without cam Ayward.

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Speaker 3: Sure, and their interior line is really good. I mean

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Speaker 3: everyone talks about their guards. I mean, of course that's

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Speaker 3: what they're gonna do. And whether it's even designed wats

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Speaker 3: and runs, still, the foundation of their football team is

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Speaker 3: running the ball and they have a great back that's

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Speaker 3: hard to get on the ground.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely.

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Speaker 3: Now that Benton pushed the pocket well too when he

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Speaker 3: was out.

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Speaker 2: There, Yeah, he did some good things. So I want

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Speaker 2: to see more of that, yeah for sure. And offensively,

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Speaker 2: I think, you know.

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Speaker 3: If Deontay missed his time and Austin's just going to

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Speaker 3: walk right into that role. Yeah, they already told us.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean that that's that's going to be. And

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Speaker 2: I think this week, despite what Cleveland did against Cincinnati

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Speaker 2: last week, you know, they blitzed.

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Speaker 3: A lot, they blitzed a ton.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it was like thirty plus percent of the time.

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Speaker 3: I can find it. But it's Burrow without the numbers.

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Speaker 3: The numbers probably bore people.

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Speaker 2: Typically, he didn't blitz.

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Speaker 3: Burrow was the least blitz quarterback in the whole league

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Speaker 3: last year, and they blitzed them like forty percent of

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Speaker 3: the time, which is like double their usual blitz rates.

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Speaker 3: A new new defensive coordinator. They're just really aggressive, you know.

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Speaker 3: And they smelled blood in the water and they came

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Speaker 3: after him with you know, four or five, five and

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Speaker 3: six blitzer is a lot. Yeah, so I assume he'll

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Speaker 3: do the same to Kenny. Better be ready for it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you gotta be ready for it. That means he'll

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Speaker 2: be getting the ball out quickly, I would think, and

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Speaker 2: you're don't have to block stuff up. We'll see what

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Speaker 2: happens with chukes a quarter fours a week goes on. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: you know, uh, if he can't play, you know, I

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Speaker 2: would suggest the plans Roderi Jones at left tackle and

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Speaker 2: Dan Moore right tackle. I don't love that coming out

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Speaker 2: of the gate this early.

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Speaker 3: No, I don't either against Garrett and yeah, all their dudes,

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Speaker 3: and he was at Arry Smith and you know they're humming.

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Speaker 2: Up the team that's gonna blitz a lot.

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Speaker 3: Like and then you get Crosby the next week. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: I just thought of this too. It's side note. I mean,

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Speaker 3: I think we've brought this up a couple of times.

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Speaker 3: They get Bosa, Garrett Crosby the first three games, but

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Speaker 3: the defense gets McCaffrey and Chubbed like these are the

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Speaker 3: best best guys at their position, then Jacob and then

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Speaker 3: Jacob's right, he was the lead rusher are think in

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Speaker 3: the league last year, right, So this is gonna be

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Speaker 3: interesting challenges from those two positions on both sides of

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Speaker 3: the ball. Three weeks in a row.

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Speaker 2: Gotta score points. Yeah, but the quarterback's gotta play better.

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Speaker 2: And that does not mean that Matt Cannery gets fired.

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Speaker 2: You know, it's on the quarterback. He's got to play better.

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Speaker 2: I expect him to do so, and I expect this

1056
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Speaker 2: offense to look better moving forward.

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Speaker 3: I mean, the whole team, besides Watt didn't play well

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Speaker 3: enough to win. But the quarterback is always be in

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Speaker 3: the spotlight.

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Speaker 2: Pretty high on that list.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and just because we all love him and he's

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Speaker 3: from pitt doesn't mean he gets a pass.

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Speaker 2: No, absolutely not. But that's going to do it for

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Speaker 2: our show today. So for my partner, Matt Williamson, I'm

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Speaker 2: Dale Lallie. We appreciate you listening to this edition of

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Speaker 2: The Drive on Steelers Nation Radio.