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Speaker 1: Welcome back. I'm Dale Ali. He is Matt Williamson and

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Speaker 1: this is to drive on Steelers Nation Radio. It's a Monday,

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Speaker 1: and as that is the case. Here on ESPN, Dan

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Speaker 1: Graziano has his Week three overreactions. Okay, let's go through

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Speaker 1: these a little bit here. These are kind of interesting. So,

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Speaker 1: with their win over the Bills on Sunda, are the

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Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins now the favorites in the a f C East.

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Speaker 1: I don't think so. That was just a one game

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Speaker 1: at home. The heat had so much, so much. I mean,

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Speaker 1: the snap counts in that game are remarkable. I mean,

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Speaker 1: if you told me the Bills ran, I think it

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Speaker 1: was and Alan, Miami ran thirty nine and they lost,

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Speaker 1: Like holy smokes. I mean they ran fifty three plays

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Speaker 1: in the second half and scored three second half points.

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Speaker 1: It was just sort of a unique unicorn kind of game. Him,

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Speaker 1: I think Miami is better, you know, they're better, and

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Speaker 1: I thought there, for real, I have a lot of

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Speaker 1: respect for what they're doing there, but they the favorite. No,

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Speaker 1: I can't do that you mentioned last segment. I mean,

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Speaker 1: where's the run game? You know? Yeah, and two is

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Speaker 1: now dealing with a back injury. That was weird. Um,

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Speaker 1: isn't that like kind of made up? It looked like

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Speaker 1: it was a head injury. It sure did, and they said, no, no,

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Speaker 1: it is a back. He got cleared. He's and he

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Speaker 1: even came back and and said it. But the league's

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Speaker 1: looking into yeah, we shall see Um, but he wasn't.

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Speaker 1: He's okay, yeah, Um, And Graziano agrees. He says that's

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Speaker 1: an overreaction. It's one game. It's one game in September.

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Speaker 1: Are they again? Are they better? Yes? Oh yeah, I

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Speaker 1: think they're a contender. Um, but they have to go

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Speaker 1: play uh Cincinnati this week on a short week, and

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Speaker 1: since yeah, that would be a nice barter for both

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Speaker 1: those teams. Yeah. Now if they go, if they go

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Speaker 1: into Cincinnati and beat the Bengals, if they whip the Bengals, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'll be like wow, okay, but doing doing that on

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Speaker 1: a short week is not gonna be It's not gonna

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Speaker 1: be easy. And I think the Bengals are you know,

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Speaker 1: where are they exactly? I'm starting to think they're turning

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Speaker 1: the corner. I mean, maybe Star has got them at

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Speaker 1: the right time, but the Bengals a line still a problem.

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Speaker 1: It's a problem. Yeah. His next one, Jalen Hurts is

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Speaker 1: the m v P front runner, well front runner. I

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Speaker 1: would have said Alan, but they just lost, not that

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Speaker 1: Alan played poor. I don't don't look at that as

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Speaker 1: much as um. I mean, I think Lamar's plays. Lamar

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Speaker 1: is doing more right than Hurts, Like Hurts his Lamar

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Speaker 1: light exactly. Yeah, and Lamar has had a better year probably,

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Speaker 1: But if his teams three you know, and they you know,

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Speaker 1: are a one seed front runner, I think he's a

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Speaker 1: little easier path in the NFC, just in terms of

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Speaker 1: it being somewhat of a team award. But if let's

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Speaker 1: say the Packers when the you know, when the Central

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Speaker 1: and they go thirteen or fourteen three, Let's say they

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Speaker 1: go thirteen and four this year, right, I mean Rogers

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Speaker 1: is playing with a bunch of slappy's, right. I think

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Speaker 1: I picked my homes to be the m v P

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Speaker 1: kind of for that reason too. He's not played well.

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Speaker 1: He's been fine, but he's not been tremendous. I mean

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Speaker 1: most of his stats were built in that first games

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Speaker 1: the Cardinals. Yeah, I don't know. If you had to

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Speaker 1: award and m v P right the second, I guess

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Speaker 1: i'd give it the Hurts but I don't know that

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Speaker 1: he's the most valuable player on the planet. Would they

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Speaker 1: be two and one with Minshew? They might be threehew.

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Speaker 1: I mean give them what their defense has done. I

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Speaker 1: mean that nine sacks yesterday and they run the ball. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean they're a good team. I'm not taking any

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Speaker 1: away from him, but they've got you know, they went

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Speaker 1: out and you know, it's interesting. I don't know who

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Speaker 1: else it could be. I mean, there's no running back,

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Speaker 1: blowing up, there's no receiver cop kind of they don't

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Speaker 1: win the word anyway. It's interesting though to me that

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Speaker 1: the two teams that went out and made the moves

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Speaker 1: them are off the hot starts. Oh. I think about

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Speaker 1: the one that they're They're the one that didn't work

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Speaker 1: out right. Um. I do think there's really something to

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Speaker 1: be said for getting Alan his digs, getting to his tyree,

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Speaker 1: you know what I mean. And car is a little

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Speaker 1: he was in his formidable years. You know. Yeah, uh,

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Speaker 1: the next one, the Raiders season is over. We kind

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Speaker 1: if it's a Raider, especially because the division. Like I

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Speaker 1: still think the Raiders are better team than the Titans,

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Speaker 1: um but everybody else losing yesterday didn't hurt them though.

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Speaker 1: Well that the Broncos are the only one that won.

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Speaker 1: They did win, so there's still only two games at

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Speaker 1: the first place in that division, but they get a

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Speaker 1: playoff teams in that division. I was talking about this

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Speaker 1: this morning, so I just went and looked at their

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Speaker 1: schedule real quick. They played Denver k C by If

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Speaker 1: by chance they can win the next two, you hurt

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Speaker 1: the division, then their seasons. They don't see that happening. So,

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Speaker 1: I mean, they didn't quite leave town after that loss,

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Speaker 1: to two division foes. But I think it's pretty darn

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Speaker 1: close to be in It's yeah, it's I mean, you

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Speaker 1: three you're probably not looking at wild card, That's what

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Speaker 1: I mean, right, Yeah, I mean it's like fourth in

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Speaker 1: that division. Yeah, it doesn't look good, like Denver doesn't

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Speaker 1: look good. At least they have two wins already, right

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Speaker 1: that's you know, it's like Chicago has two wins right now.

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Speaker 1: If the Raiders played the Bears right now, their favorite

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Speaker 1: for sure, nine times out of ten they beat them, right,

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Speaker 1: you know they have They're the only team that's owing

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Speaker 1: three in the whole league. It's amazing. Yeah, it's a

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Speaker 1: I don't think they I didn't think they were good

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Speaker 1: coming into I thought they were the last place team

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Speaker 1: you're really dug into a deep and well time to

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Speaker 1: do this. They're almost exactly like they were last year,

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Speaker 1: you know, they're only like minus thirteen or something like

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Speaker 1: that in scoring differential were last year they were like

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Speaker 1: minus fifty. And it's just sometimes it's like the game

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Speaker 1: inches or whatever bounces you get. The next one is

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Speaker 1: Doug Peterson is going to win Coach of the Year.

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Speaker 1: I think he has to get that vote. I mean,

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Speaker 1: considering what Lawrence and that team looked like last year. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Joe average coach would be better than what they had

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Speaker 1: last year. But now everyone's I think they're the best

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Speaker 1: team in that division. They could be an overreaction team.

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Speaker 1: Don't get me wrong. I mean, I'm not saying they're

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Speaker 1: the Chargers. I understand. You know, we talked about it

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Speaker 1: last week that you know, there's no true home field

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Speaker 1: which is a long flight. Now this week we'll find

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Speaker 1: out a little bit more about them. They gotta come

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Speaker 1: back east again. I'm trying to think of who they

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Speaker 1: of who they play. They gotta they have a tough

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Speaker 1: Let men look that up. Yeah, while you were, I mean,

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Speaker 1: if they can hang around with the Chargers, I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: be real impressed. And I said the same thing about Miami.

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Speaker 1: If you can hang around with the Bills, great, That

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Speaker 1: that's that's a tough you go West Coast them back

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Speaker 1: But they've been good on both lines of scrimmage. To me,

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Speaker 1: the preseason that their their front line is good. There's

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Speaker 1: a bunch of veloci raptors are all first, you know,

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Speaker 1: the first early in the draft. The year after year,

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Speaker 1: you're gonna get some dudes. Yeah, and that's kind of

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Speaker 1: what's happened. There's running the ball. Well, Lawrence looks great,

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Speaker 1: and the money they spent on Christian Kirk, well they're

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Speaker 1: throwing them the football. Yeah, right exactly. Yeah, they're good,

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Speaker 1: like I think they're good. Yeah, I think they are too. Um,

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Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers has a better chance to reach the super

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Speaker 1: I don't think it's here all the other line injuries.

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Speaker 1: And we kind of said that in the in training

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Speaker 1: camp when they started having those line injuries and thought, yeah,

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Speaker 1: not doubting Brady ever. I think Rogers is the better

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Speaker 1: building enough for trying to move guys around. They get

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Speaker 1: out today and they're complaining about well the clock on

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Speaker 1: he's got outside leverage. Boom. He'll hit that every time

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Speaker 1: and he loves it. Come after me because, um, here's

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Speaker 1: a here's how I would phrase that. And would you

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Speaker 1: rather have in the NFC to represent to go to

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Speaker 1: the Super Bowl. I'll give you the Rams, Bucks and

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Speaker 1: Packers or everybody else. I take everybody else right now.

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