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

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Speaker 1: your home of the Black and Gold Steelers Nation Radio.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back. I am Dale, Alli, he is Matt Williamson

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Speaker 1: and Matt. Typically, when you get to this point in

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Speaker 1: the season, it starts to become a battle of attrition

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Speaker 1: in terms of injuries and things of that nature in

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Speaker 1: the NFL. And of course, the Steelers did not escape

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Speaker 1: Sunday's game unscathed against the Bengals. Mason Cole leaves with

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Speaker 1: a what's being described as a midfoot injury. Um, we'll

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Speaker 1: see how the Steeler center plays out. He's been dealing

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Speaker 1: with the ankle slash foot issue over the course of

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Speaker 1: the season. They also lost Jaylen Warren in that game

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Speaker 1: to a hamstring. Uh. And then of course, uh, who

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Speaker 1: am I missing here? Uh? Yeah, Myles Boykin also left

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Speaker 1: the game early as and you would think, oh, well,

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Speaker 1: it's just you know, those those three guys, Uh, you know,

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Speaker 1: the Bengals obviously we're do you know without some guys themselves.

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Speaker 1: Us Losing a guy like Mason Cole though in game

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Speaker 1: is a big deal. It is. Yeah. First off, I

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Speaker 1: want to just touch briefly on the other two because

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Speaker 1: we I've really and I'm sure a lot of people

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Speaker 1: have been really focusing on what are they gonna do

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Speaker 1: with their fifth skill position? Guy post Claypool and my hunches.

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Speaker 1: Boykin's in the mix, you know, like Simson general Showski

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Speaker 1: played thirty one snaps and last week Boykin played like

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Speaker 1: fifteen or so, which is most So I don't think

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Speaker 1: he can be just discredited as he's only a special teamer.

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Speaker 1: I think he's sort of auditioning as well. We know

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Speaker 1: Warren has been a good layer, um, but Nausea handled

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Speaker 1: the major role. You can pick that. Yeah, yeah, you know,

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Speaker 1: because of the style that Nausey is. But I I mean,

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Speaker 1: I'm not a huge better or anything. But I bet

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Speaker 1: a million bucks if you bet against every team that

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Speaker 1: lost a starting center, you know, either the week before

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Speaker 1: their game or during their game they lose. I mean,

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Speaker 1: just starting center's responsibilities, more than just blocking the guy

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Speaker 1: you could never put a number on. But it hurts

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Speaker 1: the team dramatically. Yeah, and that's I mean, that's no

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Speaker 1: knock on J. C. Hass an Hour. But Mason Cole

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Speaker 1: has played well, obviously, the Steelers are are starting a

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Speaker 1: rookie quarterback, Mason Cole makes a lot of the line

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Speaker 1: calls in the middle, Uh, you know, with the rookie

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Speaker 1: quarterback out there, and and he would even if Ben

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Speaker 1: veteran quarterback like Roethlisberger out there, they do that in

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Speaker 1: conjunction with each other, sliding protections and things of that nature.

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Speaker 1: In this situation, Uh, you know, Coals making probably the

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Speaker 1: calls in those in those kind of situations, right, I mean,

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Speaker 1: I promise you, And I'm sure Kenny would be the

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Speaker 1: first to admit this that Kenny leans on Coal more

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Speaker 1: than Ben would lean on Coal. I mean Coal would

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Speaker 1: lean on Ben or you know what I mean, Like

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Speaker 1: pick it needs a veteran center out there, Like if

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Speaker 1: that was a first round pick center and pick it

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Speaker 1: it would probably be a disaster with calls because their rookies. Absolutely. Um,

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Speaker 1: So we'll see, you know how Mason Cole is. Uh, well,

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Speaker 1: we'll see how he's progressing here as the week goes on.

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Speaker 1: They do get an extra day this week since the

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Speaker 1: game is on Monday. As I mentioned before, he's been

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Speaker 1: give him credit. He's battled through it well and is

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Speaker 1: played well enough. I mean he's not pounced to your

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Speaker 1: He was in a walking boot. But again that's nothing new.

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Speaker 1: some other major injuries around the league right now. Uh.

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Speaker 1: The Ravens once again, UM lose Ronnie Stanley. Uh that's

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Speaker 1: like that hampers the team a lot, well, no doubt. Uh.

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Speaker 1: the Browns and this looks like it's a multiple week injury.

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Speaker 1: and now they lost. Yeah, and then of course there's

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Speaker 1: some other injuries. It looks like, well, we don't have

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Speaker 1: with with Cayle Pitts, because well, the Steelers won't see

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Speaker 1: It looks like an m c L tear for him. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: And I mean we've talked about him in the third

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Speaker 1: of a no fault of his own, um, vastly underused,

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Speaker 1: In a way, it's kind of merciful that we don't

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Speaker 1: one doesn't involve a Steeler, a player that the Steelers

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Speaker 1: the Steelers though. I mean, I think right now the

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Speaker 1: right now, the Steelers would have eight, thirty three and

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Speaker 1: the second round picks seem to be where you can

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Speaker 1: first round. It doesn't seem No, you're right, and we

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Speaker 1: draft season this comes up over and over that you know,

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Speaker 1: it seems pretty clear. I mean, I don't think the

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Speaker 1: one of the fifteen players in this draft, not that.

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Speaker 1: That's the first rounder every year, But every year there's fifteen, eighteen, twelve, whatever.

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Speaker 1: so it does you know, I know people are shopping

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Speaker 1: but you're not bargain bin shopping Hills. Yeah, Hills isn't around.

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Speaker 1: You're not shopping at Hills now. Now you're shopping at

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Speaker 1: Macy's exactly. There's nicer things and you can afford it.

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Speaker 1: lot of people looking at this this team and saying, well,

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Speaker 1: put it this way. I don't think this team has

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Speaker 1: It's not. Um. You know, we didn't know what Ogan

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Speaker 1: Jobi was. I think we now we have a much

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Speaker 1: better idea of that. It's not bad. Miles Jack looks

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Speaker 1: right right, So I know I look at those things

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Speaker 1: and I say, okay, I can narrow things down. Right now,

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Speaker 1: we sit here on November one and say those three

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