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Speaker 1: Black and Gold Steelers Nation Radio.

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Speaker 2: And we are back I and Dale Lolly. He is

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Speaker 2: the Matt Williamson and this is our number two that

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Speaker 2: drive here on the Steelers Audio Network. It is the

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Speaker 2: time of the show where we do our DFS lineup.

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Speaker 2: And somebody in the comments yes and yesterday show, don't

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Speaker 2: listen to these guys on dfs. They're they're not going

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Speaker 2: to win you big money. We've never claimed you're trying

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Speaker 2: to win big money on a big money so much

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Speaker 2: you bet. We don't have the algorithm here that that

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Speaker 2: some of the others, and we're not doing We're doing

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Speaker 2: this as we've said all along, to win fifty to

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Speaker 2: fifty double ups. And if you're making a bet on

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Speaker 2: a on a Sunday, Saturday, whatever game, you're gonna pay

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Speaker 2: the juice. So whatever bet you make, you're not going

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Speaker 2: to get a double. Your money kind of kind of

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Speaker 2: sits you.

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Speaker 3: If you get twenty bucks on, you'llet twenty bucks back.

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Speaker 2: You'll get twenty backs. You don't win forty.

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Speaker 3: It's not how it works. The palaces in Vegas.

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Speaker 2: We're just and this gives us a way of people

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Speaker 2: who again, maybe you don't like the DA maybe not

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Speaker 2: fancy people, right, maybe you're not fantasy people. But it

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Speaker 2: gives us another way to look at all of the games.

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Speaker 2: And that's the big thing here is that we're doing here.

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Speaker 2: And there's only six games this week. We're gonna look

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Speaker 2: at these lineups and we're gonna tell you who we

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Speaker 2: think is going to do well and who's not going

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Speaker 2: to do well. And that might give you an idea

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Speaker 2: who's going to win those games?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, And it's your account, and I know you

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Speaker 3: don't put a huge amount of dollars on it, and

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Speaker 3: we're doing it for the show, right, and if you

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Speaker 3: guys want to put five zeros on the end of it,

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Speaker 3: we're giving you.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we're gonna go through everything. You know, we had

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Speaker 2: a rough stretch, you know, earlier in the season where

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Speaker 2: we went a few weeks without winning, but by and large,

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Speaker 2: we win more than we lose.

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Speaker 3: And so I'm promising you. But this isn't your hirement account.

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Speaker 2: Only, it's we're only doing it for fun, my job

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Speaker 2: to make your money.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, looking at this weekend's defense.

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Speaker 2: We kind of rolled through these earlier in the week

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Speaker 2: so we have.

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Speaker 3: A better and tight ends are kind of tricky.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, So the Ravens are thirty seven hundred, Bills are

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Speaker 2: thirty five hundred, Eagles thirty three hundred, the Chargers thirty

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Speaker 2: Rams twenty nine hundred, the Commanders are twenty eight hundred,

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Speaker 2: the Texans are twenty seven hundred, the Packers are twenty

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Speaker 2: six hundred, Broncos twenty four hundred, Steelers twenty two hundred.

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Speaker 3: I want nothing to do with the defenses in Washington Tampa,

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Speaker 3: which is a precursor for where I do want to

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Speaker 3: invest in that.

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Speaker 2: And when you're looking at defensive folks, weather matters. Weather's big,

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Speaker 2: Weather's huge.

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Speaker 3: Part of me just wants to take the Steelers because

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Speaker 3: they're the cheapest, and they take the gallaway, they're gonna

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Speaker 3: get some think it's gonna be super high scoring game. Either.

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Speaker 2: What's the weather. I know we are snow expected during

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Speaker 2: the day if you're looking just here what they're saying

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Speaker 2: on this No snow it eight o'clock. The weather is

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Speaker 2: clear by eight o'clock. But it's gonna be chilli. It's

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Speaker 3: Eight o'clock in Baltimore in mid Jay on the on

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Speaker 3: the Inner Harbor, Yeah, yeah, is there any they're jumping

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Speaker 3: out at you? I don't see Chargers Houston being high.

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Speaker 2: School actually, like the two of the cheaper. I like

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Speaker 2: the Broncos. I like the Steelers, Like the Broncos. I

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Speaker 2: don't mind playing the Texans. No, at twenty seven hundred dollars,

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Speaker 2: they're going to get sacks, they're gonna get It's a

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Speaker 2: good defense. Yeah, it's a good defense. The Vikings at

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Speaker 2: Stafford will maneuver against the blitzes and things that they're

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Speaker 2: I don't mind the Packers either at twenty six hundred.

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Speaker 2: I know they're not They're not going to get a

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Speaker 3: They'd be My least favorite of this are the are

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Speaker 2: The Eagles going to come out and throw the ball

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Speaker 2: over the yard? But Jalen Hurts coming.

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Speaker 3: Back off the Jarry Alexander's playing I'm not saying we

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Speaker 3: and Smith have big days. By the way, Hurst just

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Speaker 2: I don't think they throw the ball all over the

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Speaker 3: No, I don't think he'll throw at forty times.

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Speaker 2: Eagles have also lost. I think they've lost their last

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Speaker 2: three wild card weekend games.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, they might. Now, I like Denver Houston Chargers Steelers.

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Speaker 3: You just want to go check the cheapest, cheap boy Steelers.

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Speaker 2: Is gonna get some points. Yeah, I don't expect this

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Speaker 2: does Vegas. I mean it's a what forty three and

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Speaker 3: Tight ends kind of tricky. I think it's another place

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Speaker 2: Mark Andrews is forty seven hundred, because nobody's real expensive.

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Speaker 3: That's the other thing. There's not the tough guy.

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Speaker 2: Friar Mooth is forty four hundred.

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Speaker 3: sneaky cheapoint.

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Speaker 2: Zach Ertz is forty three hundred. T. J. Hawkinson is

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Speaker 2: forty two hundred. Well, they're all kind of cheapish because

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Speaker 2: you don't have the six thousand dollars player there. Hawkinson

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Speaker 2: forty two hundred, Oughten is forty one hundred, he has

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Speaker 2: no injury designation. Dalton Kinkaid four thousand, Dallas Goddard thirty

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Speaker 2: thirty six hundred, will Disley thirty four hundred, Tyler Higbee

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you made a face at Disley, which I understand.

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Speaker 2: Because they're down on They're down on options in.

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Speaker 3: The middle of the field's kind of weak for Houston.

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Speaker 3: The ones I liked were a little pricier than that

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Speaker 3: motions last week to get it to get his feet wet. Yeah, Hawkinson,

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Speaker 3: I know he hasn't been great lately, but thirty great.

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Speaker 2: They're thirtieth against opposing tigers.

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Speaker 3: Are they really? Yeah? For that that league I'm in

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Speaker 3: that you pick one that you can only use one week.

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Speaker 3: I picked Hawkinson this week. Just no, I used Firemouth actually,

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Speaker 3: there was one other tight end right in that Hawkinson

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Speaker 2: Urtz at forty three hundred isn't bad. But you're not

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Speaker 2: going to get any yack. No, but they're twenty they're

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Speaker 3: Really, Yeah, he was a little more expensive I thought

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you just want to go with Hawkinson. Forty two

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I know his numbers haven't been great lately, but

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Speaker 3: they're thirtiething is supposing Titans. Yeah, I think he's a

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Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, let's look at the quarterbacks. Josh Allen

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Speaker 2: eighty two hundred, Lamar Jackson eight thousand.

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Speaker 3: She ain't playing up for either one of those.

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Speaker 2: No, Jade and Daniels seventy five hundred.

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Speaker 3: That was my pick for my the league.

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Speaker 2: That's attractive. Yeah, Herts is seventy three hundred. Mayfield is

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Speaker 3: That's attractive. I don't want Hurt to take a shot

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Speaker 3: to the head in the first quarter. That's the Yeah,

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Speaker 2: You got Sam Darnold at sixty five hundred, Uh, Bo

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Speaker 2: Nicks at sixty three hundred, Justin Herbert six thousand, Jordan

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Speaker 3: Strangles really stands out.

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Speaker 2: Stroud is fifty five hundred, Russell Wilson is fifty three hundred,

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Speaker 3: People don't play. Yeah, I think you pay up for Daniels,

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Speaker 3: and that wasn't that much of a payout.

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Speaker 2: It's not that much of a pay If I were

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Speaker 3: I would say Herbert would be my paydown. But I

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Speaker 3: do like Stafford.

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Speaker 2: Stafford fifty seven hundred.

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Speaker 3: He's got all those guys, He's got all those guys.

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Speaker 2: They're rested, they're going to be indoors. Yeah, yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 2: I think get a game.

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Speaker 3: The game got moved.

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Speaker 2: That game is gonna have some track track meet type.

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Speaker 3: Okay, your call. If you're gonna do Stafford, and if

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Speaker 3: we have money, we pay back up for Daniels. I

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Speaker 2: Maybe you go Stafford and stack him with two with Puko.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, he was a guy I grabbed in that league too,

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Speaker 2: Think he could go nuts.

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Speaker 3: Yes, I'm a big believer.

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Speaker 2: Because again I think that game could be start there.

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Speaker 2: Let's start there. I think that gets us. Now we

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Speaker 2: can average sixty three hundred, No, it'll be top five ish,

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Speaker 2: But running back Saque is eighty five hundred, Derrick Henry

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Speaker 2: Kien Williams seventy four hundred, Joe Mixon seventy two hundred,

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Speaker 2: Bucky Irving, I'll.

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Speaker 3: Say they better say Bucky Irving the name pretty quick.

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Speaker 2: Seven thousand, uh, James Cook sixty seven hundred, JK. Dobbins

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Speaker 2: sixty two hundred, Aarondgable, Yeah, Aaron Jones is questionable as well.

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Speaker 2: He is six thousand. Brian Robinson is fifty eight hundred,

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Speaker 2: Jalen Warren fifty two hundred.

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Speaker 3: They allow a lot of production to receiving backs.

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Speaker 2: Javonte Williams is fifty one hundred, Rashad White five thousand,

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Speaker 2: Naujee Harris five thousand, Emmanuel Wilson forty nine hundred, Julia

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Speaker 2: McLaughlin forty nine hundred. Akers is forty eight hundred and ekelars.

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Speaker 3: Forty one hundred.

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Speaker 2: If I'm gonna pay down for for Ekeler McLaughlin, I

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Speaker 2: think I might want McLaughlan Buffalo's twenty ninth against opposing

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Speaker 3: And if it turns into a blowout, he's gonna catch

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Speaker 3: a lot of pass Yeah, Tampa's eighth, like you're running,

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Speaker 3: You're running into videvea.

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Speaker 2: Oh, I know, I don't like that.

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Speaker 3: I do think Echolar did the Goddard thing where he

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Speaker 3: just kind of played the address rehearsal. I get it,

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Speaker 3: and I'm a big Brian Robinson fan. Bucky Irving was

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Speaker 3: one that was not a paydown for right and Jalen Warren.

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Speaker 3: I think Warren catches five balls.

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Speaker 2: He's Warren better in this game than McLachlin or Ekolar.

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Speaker 3: Oh, I think so.

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Speaker 2: But he's pricier a little bit, not a great deal

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Speaker 2: like three hundred. He's three hundred dollars more than McLachlin.

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Speaker 3: I think he's a tear above those guys.

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Speaker 2: Okay, so you want to go Bucky Irving and Jalen Warren.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Okay, qualms with that, But I bet Washington's pretty

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they're like middle of the better. Yeah, that makes

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Speaker 2: Uh, wide receiver Justin Jefferson is eighty one hundred, Mike

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Speaker 2: Evans seventy nine hundred. Doesn't he's gonna get latim work. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 2: Nico Collins seventy eight hundred, Puka Nakua seventy six hundred. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: He's gonna be a first round pick in every fancy

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Speaker 2: They kind of manufacture stuff for him like they did

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Speaker 2: AJ brown Is seventy five hundred, Lad McConkie sixty eight hundred,

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Speaker 2: Courtland Sutton.

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Speaker 3: He avoid Stingley a fair amount.

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Speaker 2: Sixty six hundred, four Sutton sixty five hundred for Terry McLaurin.

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Speaker 3: I don't mind that.

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Speaker 2: Cooper cupp Is sixty four hundred, George Pickens sixty three hundred.

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Speaker 3: You can convince me on that one.

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Speaker 2: We have three spots open. We got six thousand dollars

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Speaker 2: Jayden Reid fifty five hundred, Romeo Dobbs fifty four hundred,

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Speaker 3: What do you think certain will do?

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Speaker 2: We won't go to the slot with Shakir.

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Speaker 2: So maybe you put him may they probably just play sides.

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Speaker 3: Maybe I've heard a lot of buzz about Amari Cooper's

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Speaker 2: Cooper's forty nine hundred.

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Speaker 3: Kind of appealing.

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Speaker 2: Bateman is five thousand.

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Speaker 3: I don't really do it. Bateman.

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Speaker 2: Marvin mims Is fifty one hundreds has been really good lately.

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Speaker 2: half against the Chargers, six against Indianapolis, and twenty two

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Speaker 3: They throw him bubbles, they get him involved.

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Speaker 2: I don't have a problem. I mean that allows us cheap, right,

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Speaker 2: if we go with him he is fifty one hundred.

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Speaker 3: That allows us to really budget.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, or we use him in the in the flex whatever.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't care where he ends either way. I

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Speaker 2: Zikaias is forty four hundred.

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Speaker 3: I think he's clearly the two as well, and he

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Speaker 3: But we could we go real cheap of those guys.

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Speaker 3: We could get a big dog.

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Speaker 2: I think McConkie is interesting.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I prefer the other two over mconkey. But I

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Speaker 3: can't hear you. Well, if we put Pickens and McLaurin in,

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Speaker 2: Okay, let's see what it looks like McLaurin and Pickens,

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Speaker 2: we'd have fifty three hundred left and that would get

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Speaker 2: us Khalil Shakir, Jalen McMillan, Javonte Williams, Marvin Mims at

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Speaker 3: I think mems the best of those.

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Speaker 3: Worth bumping up from the Steeler d.

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Speaker 2: Well, we have Jalen Warren and George Pickens in our lineup?

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Speaker 2: Do we want to be that? And the Steelers defense?

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Speaker 2: We won't be that? Steeler centric not ideally? Which one

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Speaker 3: Who's two hundred bucks more than Pickens?

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Speaker 2: Two hundred dollars more than Pickens would get you two?

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Speaker 3: Cooper cup I don't want both there. Yeah, we've already

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Speaker 3: got much rather, I'm kind of married.

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Speaker 2: Okay, two hundred dollars more than Jalen Warren doesn't get

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Speaker 2: you anybody more than two hundred more than the Steelers

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Speaker 3: I guess it's better. I mean, if that's last resort.

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Speaker 2: They just don't get sacked. They're not going to get sacks.

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Speaker 2: Necessarily Josh All, it does not take Sax. Yeah, I

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Speaker 2: might rather Steeler.

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Speaker 3: D I think so too, But we think that's a

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I'm just looking here. What else we can

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Speaker 3: How about this move? What if we take out Warren

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Speaker 3: put in McLaughlin do you like? Okay? And then who's cheaper?

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Speaker 3: Who's that gives us more to spend to move up

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Speaker 2: Now we have five hundred dollars to move up. Let

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Speaker 2: me see, let me see what that gets us from Mims. Okay, yeah,

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Speaker 2: that could be a right, it gets us Jaden Reid,

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Speaker 2: Romeo Dobs Kalio secure, Jalen Warren.

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Speaker 3: I'd rather Warren the Mems.

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Speaker 2: He's gonna okay, And we still turn four hundred dollars left.

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Speaker 3: If we do that, who's four hundred more than Pickens,

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Speaker 3: want to stick with Mems.

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Speaker 2: Four hundred more than Pickens, we'll get you to Courtland Sutton?

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Speaker 3: Good, but what Mams Sutton?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Now we're now we're loading up on the Denver things.

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Speaker 2: So put Pickens back in and to four hundred more

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Speaker 2: You love that one? What about doesn't Daniels four hundred

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Speaker 2: more than Hawkins Hawkinson gets you? Ertz or Friarmouth That

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Speaker 3: Any youth doesn't get you?

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Speaker 2: About four hundred more than Stafford, that's some ascot does

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Speaker 2: get me to Daniels? That gets us to Herbert?

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Speaker 3: Or do you like the hookup?

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Speaker 2: How about four hundred more than Bucky Irving?

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Speaker 3: How about or four and more than McLaurin.

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Speaker 2: Four hundred more than McLaurin should get you, That gets

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Speaker 2: you lab mconkey.

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Speaker 3: Who would rather have Bucks D's rough? Bucks d is rough?

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Speaker 2: Houston's twentieth against opposing wide receivers too. They're not great,

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Speaker 2: And I don't think Stingley will follow him.

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Speaker 3: No, but I don't think i'd move off McLaurin for him.

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Speaker 2: Mconkie in his last four game, their last five games

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Speaker 2: sixteen point five, twenty nine point four, fourteen point seven,

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Speaker 2: sixteen point eight, twenty three point seven.

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Speaker 3: Consistency's pretty awesome.

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Speaker 2: Pretty good. McLaurin in the last five games.

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Speaker 3: We played full time last week? I don't know.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, twenty point two one point five against Atlanta on

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Speaker 2: seven targets it won cats for five yards seventeen against Philadelphia,

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Speaker 3: How crazy would it be to try to get both

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Speaker 2: Take pickens out.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and go cheap at flex.

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Speaker 2: Let me see what let me see what that looks

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Speaker 2: let me take the flex out?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, Can we find a cheap flex to make

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Speaker 2: And we go McLaurin at the wide receiver spot. That

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Speaker 2: flex Javonte Williams, Marvin Mims, Mems works out great, There

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Speaker 2: you go fifty one hundred dollars.

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Speaker 3: Okay, it's a good puzzle.

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Speaker 2: Okay. Uh So that does give us Julia McLaughlin and

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Speaker 3: No, No, that's I don't think they can shut out. No,

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Speaker 3: I don't either, right, I don't either and those are

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Speaker 2: Touch, guys, we pivoted from having three Steelers in our

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Speaker 3: I don't think either one of us is gonna pick

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Speaker 3: that game to be forty to thirty eight. No, no,

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Speaker 2: So what we have is Matthew Stafford at fifty seven

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Speaker 3: Very good group.

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Speaker 2: Uh at the wide receiver position, t J. Hawkinson at

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Speaker 3: Sign me up.

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Speaker 2: There we go walking in the bus.

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Speaker 3: Spare right.

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Speaker 2: No, that was dead even, perfect way to put together

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Speaker 2: There we go. That's what we got this weekend. Folks.

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Speaker 2: I'll pivot to pivot to Wilson, who has done nothing

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Speaker 2: it's often another position that you have to steal somebody from.

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Speaker 3: It's it's always hard on like Danny Smith, you know.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, those last those guys who are on your inactive list,

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Speaker 3: safeties and linebackers like crazy. Yeah, what doesn't mean you

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00:20:31,640 --> 00:20:35,760
Speaker 3: cut Minka right, You're still waiting for those dudes to

441
00:20:35,760 --> 00:20:37,520
Speaker 3: come back. But we need a safety to get.

442
00:20:37,440 --> 00:20:39,800
Speaker 2: And so somebody in another position, who's.

443
00:20:39,640 --> 00:20:42,200
Speaker 3: Last receiver or something like that, or ends up.

444
00:20:42,160 --> 00:20:44,800
Speaker 2: Being the one who bites the bullet on that situation.

445
00:20:44,920 --> 00:20:46,439
Speaker 2: It's not pretty, it's not ideal.

446
00:20:46,480 --> 00:20:49,399
Speaker 3: The other choice was louder Milk or whatever I'm missinking of.

447
00:20:49,440 --> 00:20:51,040
Speaker 3: Like who else could even been up for it? There's

448
00:20:51,040 --> 00:20:51,480
Speaker 3: not many.

449
00:20:51,600 --> 00:20:55,760
Speaker 2: But you don't necessarily cut a guy to elevate another

450
00:20:55,840 --> 00:20:59,640
Speaker 2: guy at one for one. It's not a one for one,

451
00:21:00,320 --> 00:21:01,720
Speaker 2: or he'd be ahead of one. The depth start already,

452
00:21:01,800 --> 00:21:05,280
Speaker 2: and there's a difference between cutting a guy for somebody

453
00:21:05,320 --> 00:21:08,480
Speaker 2: that you absolutely have to have to have enough guys

454
00:21:08,480 --> 00:21:09,440
Speaker 2: to play at a position.

455
00:21:09,840 --> 00:21:12,440
Speaker 3: Like if a guard gets hurt, we don't have a guard, right, Yeah,

456
00:21:12,440 --> 00:21:14,600
Speaker 3: I said Cam hayword to play guard. That's not good.

457
00:21:14,680 --> 00:21:16,920
Speaker 2: Right, one of your tight ends is playing Darnel Washington

458
00:21:16,960 --> 00:21:18,720
Speaker 2: is now playing tackle and the guard kicks it. No,

459
00:21:18,840 --> 00:21:19,560
Speaker 2: that's not ideal.

460
00:21:20,000 --> 00:21:20,520
Speaker 3: Then you lose.

461
00:21:20,720 --> 00:21:22,480
Speaker 2: Yeah, but you're not going to do that for a

462
00:21:22,600 --> 00:21:27,639
Speaker 2: guy in you know and Frankly Miller's fifth receiver. Yeah,

463
00:21:27,680 --> 00:21:29,520
Speaker 2: he's the number five receiver, right.

464
00:21:29,840 --> 00:21:32,600
Speaker 3: The chance you can survive not having him there on game.

465
00:21:32,520 --> 00:21:35,200
Speaker 2: Day, yeah, as opposed to you know, Roman Wilson, who's

466
00:21:35,240 --> 00:21:38,720
Speaker 2: played five NFL snaps. There's no track record there. It's

467
00:21:38,760 --> 00:21:41,080
Speaker 2: not like you're bringing back if Cole Holcomb. If they

468
00:21:41,119 --> 00:21:43,800
Speaker 2: needed a linebacker this week, they would have brought Cole

469
00:21:43,840 --> 00:21:44,480
Speaker 2: Holcomb back.

470
00:21:44,680 --> 00:21:45,440
Speaker 3: Yeah.

471
00:21:45,240 --> 00:21:47,000
Speaker 2: Yeah, but you have a track record. But you know

472
00:21:47,000 --> 00:21:49,600
Speaker 2: what you're going to get in cutting Peyton Wilson. They

473
00:21:49,640 --> 00:21:51,919
Speaker 2: might have cut a safety. Yeah, it wouldn't have been

474
00:21:51,960 --> 00:21:52,320
Speaker 2: a lineback.

475
00:21:52,359 --> 00:21:54,400
Speaker 3: Probably wouldn't even been Mark Robinson because he's a key

476
00:21:54,480 --> 00:21:57,160
Speaker 3: special teamer, Right, that's just the way that works. Maybe

477
00:21:57,160 --> 00:22:00,800
Speaker 3: would be alignment if they were Richard oh Liman. Yeah. Anyways, Yeah,

478
00:22:00,920 --> 00:22:03,320
Speaker 3: it's getting to need an emergency holder. Well, somebody else

479
00:22:03,359 --> 00:22:04,760
Speaker 3: is gonna to do somebody else is gonna have to

480
00:22:04,800 --> 00:22:06,360
Speaker 3: do it. Yeah.

481
00:22:06,720 --> 00:22:10,679
Speaker 2: Looking at this week's games, the first game on Saturday, interesting,

482
00:22:10,680 --> 00:22:13,280
Speaker 2: as I mentioned yesterday that all the AFC games are first,

483
00:22:13,359 --> 00:22:14,760
Speaker 2: yeah and then always off.

484
00:22:14,800 --> 00:22:16,399
Speaker 3: Yeah, they're lead off Ricky Anderson.

485
00:22:16,480 --> 00:22:18,439
Speaker 2: Yeah, just not as good, but.

486
00:22:19,200 --> 00:22:19,600
Speaker 3: Not as good.

487
00:22:19,680 --> 00:22:20,320
Speaker 2: Yeah.

488
00:22:20,119 --> 00:22:20,199
Speaker 3: Uh.

489
00:22:20,359 --> 00:22:23,480
Speaker 2: The fifth seeded Chargers are at the four seeded Texans.

490
00:22:24,280 --> 00:22:24,680
Speaker 3: Uh.

491
00:22:24,920 --> 00:22:28,159
Speaker 2: The Chargers favored by three, the over under forty two

492
00:22:28,200 --> 00:22:29,320
Speaker 2: and a half in this game.

493
00:22:29,760 --> 00:22:32,919
Speaker 3: I'm not anticipating a ton of points. I do have

494
00:22:32,920 --> 00:22:36,000
Speaker 3: a lot of respect for Houston's defense, but nineteen interceptions

495
00:22:36,000 --> 00:22:38,119
Speaker 3: this year. They yeah, I mean their second most in

496
00:22:38,119 --> 00:22:41,680
Speaker 3: the orders. Their dns or strong. I'm sure Harbaugh's gonna

497
00:22:41,680 --> 00:22:44,480
Speaker 3: try to attack the middle of that defense, Okay, but

498
00:22:44,520 --> 00:22:48,080
Speaker 3: they don't. They're not super loaded at guard to guard

499
00:22:48,400 --> 00:22:51,920
Speaker 3: or the running backs are pretty average. Their weapons aren't great.

500
00:22:52,080 --> 00:22:56,280
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean the Chargers wide receivers are a little

501
00:22:56,320 --> 00:22:59,240
Speaker 2: banged up. All that we like like Mconkey, Yes, because

502
00:22:59,280 --> 00:23:01,320
Speaker 2: again I think it's away from Stingley in the in

503
00:23:01,359 --> 00:23:01,840
Speaker 2: the slot.

504
00:23:02,440 --> 00:23:04,520
Speaker 3: But I also think that man, they're gonna have a

505
00:23:04,520 --> 00:23:07,560
Speaker 3: hard time block in the Chargers and they have a

506
00:23:07,600 --> 00:23:10,200
Speaker 3: lot of problems on offense, and I don't think Stroud's

507
00:23:10,200 --> 00:23:13,159
Speaker 3: one of them, but he's suffering because of it. I

508
00:23:13,200 --> 00:23:15,240
Speaker 3: think I'll take the Chargers, but I don't feel real

509
00:23:15,280 --> 00:23:17,560
Speaker 3: strong about this one since number is a good one.

510
00:23:17,600 --> 00:23:20,760
Speaker 2: Since Week nine, when they lost Stefan Dicks with the

511
00:23:20,800 --> 00:23:26,440
Speaker 2: torn ACL, the Texans ranked twenty seventh in offensive EPA

512
00:23:26,520 --> 00:23:29,080
Speaker 2: per play. Then they lost Tank Dell.

513
00:23:29,160 --> 00:23:30,400
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm say it's only gotten worse.

514
00:23:30,400 --> 00:23:33,600
Speaker 2: It's only gotten worse. They run the ball year, They're

515
00:23:33,600 --> 00:23:36,840
Speaker 2: gonna probably end up having to use Deontay Johnson In

516
00:23:36,880 --> 00:23:37,880
Speaker 2: this game, it's.

517
00:23:37,680 --> 00:23:42,280
Speaker 3: Gonna be Mechigan Johnson and Hodgepodge. Yeah, I mean a

518
00:23:42,320 --> 00:23:46,359
Speaker 3: hodgepodge of nothingness. And like, I love Nico, but how

519
00:23:46,400 --> 00:23:49,719
Speaker 3: much tension he's gonna get a lot? Yeah, I mean

520
00:23:49,800 --> 00:23:51,200
Speaker 3: he's gonna be doubled all the time.

521
00:23:51,480 --> 00:23:54,800
Speaker 2: But that was the for people wondering. That was what

522
00:23:54,960 --> 00:23:59,080
Speaker 2: Boston Dennis acretly said about the Pirates lineup a couple

523
00:23:59,119 --> 00:24:02,440
Speaker 2: of years ago. They were throwing a hodgepodge of nothingness

524
00:24:02,440 --> 00:24:04,119
Speaker 2: out on the field. Well that's kind of where the

525
00:24:04,119 --> 00:24:06,040
Speaker 2: Texans are at right now with their wide receiver bit.

526
00:24:06,119 --> 00:24:07,520
Speaker 3: It was supposed to be the strength of the team.

527
00:24:07,880 --> 00:24:08,280
Speaker 3: Take you.

528
00:24:08,600 --> 00:24:10,960
Speaker 2: You've got a great one in Nico Collins.

529
00:24:11,040 --> 00:24:13,080
Speaker 3: Yes, he's gonna have to be a dominant player in

530
00:24:13,080 --> 00:24:15,520
Speaker 3: this game. Yeah. I don't think Carball's gonna let that slide.

531
00:24:15,720 --> 00:24:16,880
Speaker 2: No, who you got?

532
00:24:17,760 --> 00:24:18,040
Speaker 3: I like?

533
00:24:18,160 --> 00:24:20,399
Speaker 2: I like the Chargers just much the same way I

534
00:24:20,400 --> 00:24:21,840
Speaker 2: would have liked the Steelers going there.

535
00:24:21,960 --> 00:24:24,280
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, I think Houston's the weakest playoff team. Yeah,

536
00:24:24,320 --> 00:24:25,440
Speaker 3: you have some fatal flaws.

537
00:24:25,560 --> 00:24:28,120
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I think they lose that one. Moving on

538
00:24:28,240 --> 00:24:31,679
Speaker 2: to the Sunday games, you got the seventh seeded Broncos

539
00:24:31,800 --> 00:24:35,159
Speaker 2: at the number two Bills Buffalo favored by eight, the

540
00:24:35,200 --> 00:24:37,520
Speaker 2: over under forty seven and a half.

541
00:24:38,119 --> 00:24:42,040
Speaker 3: I like the points. I still think Buffalo wins. I

542
00:24:42,080 --> 00:24:45,040
Speaker 3: wish Denver's running game was better, but they are a

543
00:24:45,080 --> 00:24:49,400
Speaker 3: physical line and they'll move people, and I think their

544
00:24:49,440 --> 00:24:52,159
Speaker 3: weapons have come along. I don't love betting on a

545
00:24:52,240 --> 00:24:53,719
Speaker 3: rookie Quarterbrookie.

546
00:24:53,400 --> 00:24:57,520
Speaker 2: A rookie quarterback in the NFL making his first playoff start,

547
00:24:58,240 --> 00:25:01,320
Speaker 2: has not won since twenty fifteen. They're like zero and five,

548
00:25:01,560 --> 00:25:02,200
Speaker 2: But the fact.

549
00:25:02,040 --> 00:25:04,160
Speaker 3: That it's over a touchdown is enough for me because

550
00:25:04,160 --> 00:25:05,560
Speaker 3: I think Denvers d is really good.

551
00:25:06,359 --> 00:25:10,359
Speaker 2: It is if if the Broncos could do what the

552
00:25:10,400 --> 00:25:14,600
Speaker 2: Bills defense struggles to stop, which is the running game better.

553
00:25:15,200 --> 00:25:18,320
Speaker 2: They're not a good running team. They're not They're not

554
00:25:18,359 --> 00:25:19,880
Speaker 2: even a volume running team.

555
00:25:20,040 --> 00:25:23,600
Speaker 3: So everyone on the planet that does mock drafts has

556
00:25:23,800 --> 00:25:27,000
Speaker 3: genet from Boise State going to Denver or going to Dallas.

557
00:25:27,359 --> 00:25:29,320
Speaker 3: I think Denver should be honest, like that's.

558
00:25:29,240 --> 00:25:31,240
Speaker 2: What they don't get it. The kids from North Carolina

559
00:25:31,280 --> 00:25:32,639
Speaker 2: would be would be great too.

560
00:25:32,680 --> 00:25:35,120
Speaker 3: He's a good player as well, a bigger physical Teohm

561
00:25:35,119 --> 00:25:38,119
Speaker 3: Payton type in Pittsburgh. He would He's a really good player,

562
00:25:38,200 --> 00:25:40,520
Speaker 3: but I would be anxious to get it back if

563
00:25:40,520 --> 00:25:40,960
Speaker 3: I were them.

564
00:25:41,119 --> 00:25:45,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, they that's what they need. And I love Javonte

565
00:25:45,119 --> 00:25:47,399
Speaker 2: Williams coming out, but he's not the same player. The

566
00:25:47,440 --> 00:25:51,000
Speaker 2: injury has robbed him of the what the great thing

567
00:25:51,000 --> 00:25:55,680
Speaker 2: that he had coming in was his contact balance in hisicality.

568
00:25:55,680 --> 00:25:58,439
Speaker 2: He just doesn't have that anym No, he didn't have

569
00:25:58,440 --> 00:25:59,240
Speaker 2: any bursts at all.

570
00:25:59,280 --> 00:26:01,000
Speaker 3: Now he's gonna be free agent after the year, and

571
00:26:01,080 --> 00:26:03,159
Speaker 3: I think his contract will tell you all you need. No,

572
00:26:03,280 --> 00:26:04,720
Speaker 3: it's not going to be pretty. I don't know it'd

573
00:26:04,760 --> 00:26:06,720
Speaker 3: be like Dobbins, but it'll be low.

574
00:26:07,000 --> 00:26:09,800
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, for sure. But I like the Bills to

575
00:26:09,840 --> 00:26:13,440
Speaker 2: win that one outright. And I think if I had

576
00:26:13,520 --> 00:26:17,919
Speaker 2: to pick a winner or pick the number, I think.

577
00:26:17,760 --> 00:26:20,040
Speaker 3: I'd take Buffalo. Would you I would? I went over

578
00:26:20,080 --> 00:26:22,520
Speaker 3: the over a touchdown. What are we hearing about weather

579
00:26:22,560 --> 00:26:24,639
Speaker 3: in Buffalo? I'm sure be something. There'll be something.

580
00:26:24,720 --> 00:26:28,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, but I just go back to the rookie

581
00:26:29,000 --> 00:26:32,440
Speaker 2: quarterback thing. And I understand Buffalo or you know that

582
00:26:32,840 --> 00:26:37,880
Speaker 2: the the Denver defense is good, I don't know that's

583
00:26:37,920 --> 00:26:43,360
Speaker 2: going to carry them past a lot. Yeah, you got

584
00:26:43,400 --> 00:26:47,120
Speaker 2: the seventh seeded Packers at the number two seeded Eagles

585
00:26:47,400 --> 00:26:49,680
Speaker 2: Philadelphia favored by four and a half, the over under

586
00:26:49,800 --> 00:26:51,960
Speaker 2: forty five and a half. These two teams met in

587
00:26:52,040 --> 00:26:54,680
Speaker 2: Week one in Rio de Janeiro, and I believe that.

588
00:26:54,760 --> 00:26:56,679
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I believe that was a thirty three to

589
00:26:56,680 --> 00:26:59,040
Speaker 2: twenty nine game. Something weird. It was a weird scored

590
00:26:59,080 --> 00:27:01,000
Speaker 2: game in that game. Yeah, that was.

591
00:27:01,080 --> 00:27:02,639
Speaker 3: What'd you say? Spread in this one is four and

592
00:27:02,680 --> 00:27:05,760
Speaker 3: a half. Hurts has been cleared. I assume Love is

593
00:27:05,760 --> 00:27:09,440
Speaker 3: going to play. I don't think Jerry Alexander's will play.

594
00:27:09,440 --> 00:27:10,120
Speaker 3: I know WAT team.

595
00:27:10,200 --> 00:27:12,919
Speaker 2: Jerry Alexander hasn't played in months. I don't even think

596
00:27:12,920 --> 00:27:14,240
Speaker 2: he's an NFL player at this point.

597
00:27:14,280 --> 00:27:17,600
Speaker 3: Yeah. I worry about their corner situation against Brown and

598
00:27:17,640 --> 00:27:20,119
Speaker 3: Smith and Goddard. I don't know if they'll throw the

599
00:27:20,119 --> 00:27:22,520
Speaker 3: ball a ton, but they have so many weapons. I

600
00:27:22,520 --> 00:27:25,880
Speaker 3: think the Eagles kind of roll them. I'll take the points,

601
00:27:26,040 --> 00:27:28,879
Speaker 3: really I will. Again, as I mentioned, the Eagles have

602
00:27:29,000 --> 00:27:33,560
Speaker 3: lost outright their last three wild card games, including last

603
00:27:33,640 --> 00:27:37,640
Speaker 3: year to Tampa Bay. Yeah, and there's an old axiom

604
00:27:37,680 --> 00:27:41,040
Speaker 3: in when you're looking at the point spreads, never bet

605
00:27:41,080 --> 00:27:43,640
Speaker 3: on a quarterback coming back. Can cuss quarterback coming back

606
00:27:43,640 --> 00:27:46,719
Speaker 3: in his first game back. Little foggy, Little foggy, and

607
00:27:46,720 --> 00:27:49,680
Speaker 3: that also it doesn't take into account guys who missed

608
00:27:49,720 --> 00:27:52,320
Speaker 3: multiple weeks, which is what hate hurts. Yeah, it could

609
00:27:52,320 --> 00:27:54,040
Speaker 3: take him a little while to warm up to this one.

610
00:27:55,080 --> 00:27:58,080
Speaker 3: And I understand they have Saquon Barkley and that helps line.

611
00:27:58,280 --> 00:28:02,480
Speaker 3: That helps you kind of alleviate some of that quick decisions.

612
00:28:02,520 --> 00:28:07,359
Speaker 2: Yeah, the Eagles want to throw early to run late.

613
00:28:07,920 --> 00:28:10,800
Speaker 2: They're they're like the most they're the heaviest second half

614
00:28:10,880 --> 00:28:13,360
Speaker 2: run team by far in the league. Oh yeah, yeah,

615
00:28:13,400 --> 00:28:15,760
Speaker 2: like they they only throw the ball like twenty five

616
00:28:15,880 --> 00:28:17,679
Speaker 2: thirty percent of the time in the second half of

617
00:28:17,760 --> 00:28:20,280
Speaker 2: games because they want to throw the ball early and

618
00:28:20,320 --> 00:28:23,720
Speaker 2: they get leads. Yeah, I don't. I think this is

619
00:28:23,720 --> 00:28:25,520
Speaker 2: a closer game. I think the Eagles win it. That's

620
00:28:25,520 --> 00:28:27,399
Speaker 2: a tough place to play. Oh yeah, I'll take I'll

621
00:28:27,440 --> 00:28:28,800
Speaker 2: take the four and a half Eagles.

622
00:28:29,119 --> 00:28:29,520
Speaker 3: Really good.

623
00:28:29,600 --> 00:28:30,680
Speaker 2: It's good, it's really good.

624
00:28:30,720 --> 00:28:34,600
Speaker 3: He's really good. But he's also coming off an injury too.

625
00:28:34,600 --> 00:28:36,320
Speaker 2: Green Bay's defense isn't bad either.

626
00:28:36,200 --> 00:28:38,840
Speaker 3: No, it's not. They rushed past for pretty well. Cooper's

627
00:28:38,840 --> 00:28:40,040
Speaker 3: been really good in Sechona level.

628
00:28:40,920 --> 00:28:44,280
Speaker 2: Uh, you have these six seeded Commanders at the third

629
00:28:44,320 --> 00:28:47,360
Speaker 2: seeded Buccaneers. Tampa Bay favored by three the over under

630
00:28:47,480 --> 00:28:50,960
Speaker 2: fifty and a half. This one, to me might be

631
00:28:51,000 --> 00:28:53,880
Speaker 2: the easiest game of the weekend over over over over

632
00:28:54,080 --> 00:28:56,440
Speaker 2: over over over. And I'll take Tampa Bay at home.

633
00:28:56,520 --> 00:28:58,440
Speaker 3: Me too, Me too. I don't think Washington's ready.

634
00:28:58,520 --> 00:28:59,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, and three points.

635
00:28:59,640 --> 00:29:03,080
Speaker 3: Is Tampa's had a lot of a playoff experience lately.

636
00:29:03,280 --> 00:29:04,760
Speaker 2: You know, they know how to win in these issues.

637
00:29:04,800 --> 00:29:06,480
Speaker 2: They've they've been the giant killer this year.

638
00:29:06,560 --> 00:29:11,160
Speaker 3: Yep, they have no line. I mean, I trust Bakers.

639
00:29:11,200 --> 00:29:12,440
Speaker 3: I don't know about that. I don't know if I

640
00:29:12,520 --> 00:29:17,680
Speaker 3: go that far, but good point. Neither defense is very good. Yeah.

641
00:29:17,760 --> 00:29:19,960
Speaker 3: I just say Washington's playing with house money and they're

642
00:29:20,080 --> 00:29:21,440
Speaker 3: they've screamed one and done to me.

643
00:29:21,680 --> 00:29:24,720
Speaker 2: Yeah, I just think it's it's it's a situation where

644
00:29:24,720 --> 00:29:29,240
Speaker 2: the Buccaneers will be the more potent team.

645
00:29:29,320 --> 00:29:30,840
Speaker 3: I had him, sound great. I think that's one of

646
00:29:30,840 --> 00:29:33,160
Speaker 3: the easiest choices of the week. Yeah, and over over over.

647
00:29:33,480 --> 00:29:36,600
Speaker 2: And then the Monday night game, which has been moved

648
00:29:36,640 --> 00:29:40,400
Speaker 2: to Arizona, the fifth seeded Vikings are at the four

649
00:29:40,480 --> 00:29:42,920
Speaker 2: seeded Rams. The Vikings favored by two and a half,

650
00:29:42,960 --> 00:29:47,600
Speaker 2: the over under forty seven and a half. This is

651
00:29:48,600 --> 00:29:50,640
Speaker 2: maybe the biggest toss up game to me of the week.

652
00:29:51,800 --> 00:29:54,360
Speaker 3: I have such respect for McVeigh and Stafford, and I

653
00:29:54,360 --> 00:29:57,880
Speaker 3: think the week off is really really big. I don't

654
00:29:57,880 --> 00:29:59,800
Speaker 3: know what to think about that. The issue is going

655
00:29:59,840 --> 00:30:00,480
Speaker 3: on their hometown.

656
00:30:00,520 --> 00:30:02,600
Speaker 2: That's the thing. That's the issue that I don't have. Like,

657
00:30:02,640 --> 00:30:05,360
Speaker 2: how many of these guys had to worry about their

658
00:30:05,400 --> 00:30:07,080
Speaker 2: families being moved out of that area.

659
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Speaker 3: And I think everybody knew somebody probably yeah, you know,

660
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Speaker 3: I'm in friends or acquaintances or whatever. I mean, it's

661
00:30:12,440 --> 00:30:15,560
Speaker 3: just bad things happening for football.

662
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Speaker 2: And it doesn't affect Minnesota one way or the other. Like, Okay,

663
00:30:18,160 --> 00:30:20,880
Speaker 2: I still think they're really good, and I think there'll

664
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Speaker 2: be a lot of Vikings fans who just say there.

665
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Speaker 2: There's probably Vikings fans in Phoenix, people who moved to

666
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Speaker 2: Phoenix and get just hey, we're gonna go out and

667
00:30:27,680 --> 00:30:30,320
Speaker 2: watch the Flakes. Ye know it was gonna be here,

668
00:30:30,360 --> 00:30:31,000
Speaker 2: but we're gonna go.

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Speaker 3: I'm gonna take the Vikes. I mean, if if last

670
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Speaker 3: week doesn't happen, this line is bigger. Yeah, And I

671
00:30:37,680 --> 00:30:40,840
Speaker 3: get that last week happened, but Fikes are still pretty good.

672
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Speaker 2: Football over under forty seven and a half is very appealing.

673
00:30:45,400 --> 00:30:46,960
Speaker 2: I think there'll be some points in this game.

674
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Speaker 3: Jefferson. What's their answer for Jefferson Not much?

675
00:30:51,160 --> 00:30:53,640
Speaker 2: Not much. And if that's the case, if you're gonna

676
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Speaker 2: double him, then you got Addison on the other, you

677
00:30:55,560 --> 00:30:57,880
Speaker 2: got Hawkinson who he's like. I think this is up

678
00:30:57,880 --> 00:30:59,600
Speaker 2: and down the field, and I think Stafford I.

679
00:30:59,560 --> 00:31:01,440
Speaker 3: Think both seems to throw. The more I think about it,

680
00:31:01,440 --> 00:31:03,560
Speaker 3: you can keep I think a cup Stafford. I mean,

681
00:31:03,720 --> 00:31:05,600
Speaker 3: we've took a lot of these guys for defense.

682
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Speaker 2: I think Stafford is going to keep up. But I

683
00:31:10,240 --> 00:31:12,240
Speaker 2: think I think I think the Vikings win.

684
00:31:12,560 --> 00:31:14,080
Speaker 3: Yeah, I just think they're better.

685
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Speaker 2: Yeah. So that's where we think everything is at. We've

686
00:31:17,480 --> 00:31:20,480
Speaker 2: got one game left to talk about this week, Matt,

687
00:31:20,600 --> 00:31:22,160
Speaker 2: and that will be the one that's going to be

688
00:31:22,160 --> 00:31:27,320
Speaker 2: played in Baltimore at eight o'clock Saturday night. Be there

689
00:31:27,440 --> 00:31:30,880
Speaker 2: or be square. I will be there on the site

690
00:31:31,200 --> 00:31:33,520
Speaker 2: watching the Steelers and Ravens. Matt and I will let

691
00:31:33,520 --> 00:31:35,880
Speaker 2: you know who we think is going to win that game.

692
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Speaker 3: Right after this.

693
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Speaker 1: Is the drive with Dale, Lolly and Matt Williamson on

694
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Speaker 1: your twenty four to seven Home of the Black and

695
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Speaker 1: Gold Steelers Nation Radio.

696
00:31:55,280 --> 00:31:58,120
Speaker 2: And we are back. I am Dale Lolly. He is

697
00:31:58,240 --> 00:32:02,400
Speaker 2: the Matt Williamson and game we've been talking about all week.

698
00:32:02,520 --> 00:32:06,360
Speaker 2: Matt the six seeded Steelers at the third seeded Ravens

699
00:32:07,160 --> 00:32:11,400
Speaker 2: eight o'clock Saturday, and the game will be locally shown

700
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Speaker 2: on WPXI, nationally on on Prime Video so Amazon Prime.

701
00:32:17,800 --> 00:32:21,400
Speaker 2: So Ravens favored by nine and a half, the over

702
00:32:21,520 --> 00:32:23,440
Speaker 2: under forty three and a half.

703
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Speaker 3: Is the early game on Prime too. I think both

704
00:32:27,160 --> 00:32:27,880
Speaker 3: of them are on Prime.

705
00:32:27,960 --> 00:32:28,880
Speaker 2: Are they both on Prime?

706
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Speaker 3: No?

707
00:32:29,480 --> 00:32:33,080
Speaker 2: Early game of CBS and Mount Plus. So there you go.

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Speaker 3: You're gonna leave it off, Sure, yeah, I'll take it away.

709
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Speaker 2: All right. So we've talked all week long about the

710
00:32:42,840 --> 00:32:45,680
Speaker 2: Zay Flowers issue or the Ravens. I think it's a

711
00:32:45,800 --> 00:32:48,080
Speaker 2: huge factor in this game. I've gone back and forth.

712
00:32:48,360 --> 00:32:50,640
Speaker 2: Well early in the week I felt one way about

713
00:32:50,680 --> 00:32:53,880
Speaker 2: this one. I thought Jay Flowers would find a way

714
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Speaker 2: to No, they just get back into this game.

715
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Speaker 3: I will tell you. On that Thursday night show last night,

716
00:32:59,160 --> 00:33:01,280
Speaker 3: Merril couldn't talk enough about how much that hurts.

717
00:33:01,520 --> 00:33:03,400
Speaker 2: He is a tremend I don't know if I don't

718
00:33:03,400 --> 00:33:08,320
Speaker 2: know if everybody understands how he affects that offense, especially

719
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Speaker 2: with the quick game, and the quick game is huge,

720
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Speaker 2: and I don't know that everybody understands. Like one of

721
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Speaker 2: the things that the Ravens did to the Steelers in

722
00:33:16,080 --> 00:33:20,880
Speaker 2: the second meeting was they manned up and took away

723
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Speaker 2: those quick throws from from my Russell Wilson game because.

724
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Speaker 3: They could because.

725
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Speaker 2: There was no George Pickens. So you're training a queen

726
00:33:30,640 --> 00:33:33,800
Speaker 2: for a queen here exactly, like they don't have their

727
00:33:33,840 --> 00:33:36,840
Speaker 2: guy and you got your guy back. Compared to the last.

728
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Speaker 3: Meeting, they're almost equally important.

729
00:33:38,720 --> 00:33:41,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, Like if if if George Pickens were not playing

730
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Speaker 2: in this game, it would be a massive loss for

731
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Speaker 2: the Steelers as it was as it was during that stretch,

732
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Speaker 2: you know. So I think that's a huge factor in

733
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Speaker 2: this game. I think the Steelers defense being completely healthy

734
00:33:57,160 --> 00:34:01,760
Speaker 2: is another factor. I don't understand the bread is where

735
00:34:01,760 --> 00:34:04,080
Speaker 2: I'm going with this. I don't understand this game being

736
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Speaker 2: a nine and a half point game, because despite what

737
00:34:08,239 --> 00:34:10,879
Speaker 2: the Steelers were missing in that last game, this game

738
00:34:10,920 --> 00:34:15,359
Speaker 2: was seventeen to seventeen in a third quarter, even even

739
00:34:15,360 --> 00:34:18,520
Speaker 2: Stephen and the Steelers would have been ahead had they

740
00:34:18,560 --> 00:34:20,840
Speaker 2: not had the fumble inside the four, and the Ravens

741
00:34:20,880 --> 00:34:24,640
Speaker 2: weren't missing much. The Ravens were missing nothing. The Steelers

742
00:34:24,640 --> 00:34:28,160
Speaker 2: were obviously the much more injured team going into that game.

743
00:34:28,640 --> 00:34:30,440
Speaker 3: They were recently coming off of bye. They were healthy,

744
00:34:30,480 --> 00:34:30,640
Speaker 3: you know.

745
00:34:30,880 --> 00:34:35,440
Speaker 2: Yeah, and then there's the pressure on Lamar Jackson. Jackson's

746
00:34:35,440 --> 00:34:38,839
Speaker 2: two and four in the postseason, six interceptions in six games,

747
00:34:38,880 --> 00:34:45,640
Speaker 2: and he's lost three fumbles in his playoff life. Again,

748
00:34:46,880 --> 00:34:49,560
Speaker 2: can the Steelers win this game? Yes, I think they

749
00:34:49,560 --> 00:34:53,280
Speaker 2: can do to. I don't think it's the monumental task

750
00:34:53,560 --> 00:34:55,960
Speaker 2: that everybody's well again, they're looking at the points break

751
00:34:56,120 --> 00:34:57,600
Speaker 2: nine and a half. Vegas doesn't think they're going to

752
00:34:57,680 --> 00:34:57,880
Speaker 2: win it.

753
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Speaker 3: Yeah, don't even play it, you know right.

754
00:35:00,400 --> 00:35:05,320
Speaker 2: I don't understand that. I think all the pressures on Baltimore.

755
00:35:05,320 --> 00:35:07,200
Speaker 2: They're the team that's supposed to win. They're the team

756
00:35:07,200 --> 00:35:09,080
Speaker 2: that's been, you know, picked by many to go to

757
00:35:09,120 --> 00:35:13,560
Speaker 2: the Super Bowl. Ah, the hell with it, you're doing it.

758
00:35:13,600 --> 00:35:17,200
Speaker 2: I'm doing it. Steelers win twenty to seventeen.

759
00:35:17,960 --> 00:35:20,640
Speaker 3: I have the same score, but not with a Steeler victory.

760
00:35:20,360 --> 00:35:22,440
Speaker 2: I could see it going either way either way.

761
00:35:22,600 --> 00:35:26,520
Speaker 3: What's funny is you know, for DK Sports, I just

762
00:35:26,640 --> 00:35:30,239
Speaker 3: do like three sentences with my prediction, and yesterday morning

763
00:35:30,280 --> 00:35:33,240
Speaker 3: I put it in at twenty four to seventeen. Originally

764
00:35:33,239 --> 00:35:35,280
Speaker 3: I was going to put it at twenty seven to seventeen.

765
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Speaker 3: Now I'm at twenty seventeen. Like I keep coming more

766
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Speaker 3: and more towards.

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Speaker 2: All the outside All the outside factors favor the Steelers, yes,

768
00:35:44,840 --> 00:35:47,560
Speaker 2: all the injury information favors of Steelers.

769
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Speaker 3: And penalties and special teams. In terms of all favors

770
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Speaker 3: of Steelers, Raven Steelers.

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00:35:51,920 --> 00:35:55,280
Speaker 2: Lamar Jackson, history favors of Steelers right, like the pressure

772
00:35:55,360 --> 00:35:55,959
Speaker 2: is on him.

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Speaker 3: I think Russell Wilson's a better player than we've seen.

774
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Speaker 3: I mean, I think his playoff experience is important. I

775
00:36:02,719 --> 00:36:06,680
Speaker 3: think the defense is taking it personally, you know, listening

776
00:36:06,719 --> 00:36:09,319
Speaker 3: to Watt last night on that Thursday show, I'm like,

777
00:36:09,400 --> 00:36:11,000
Speaker 3: this d's going to come to play.

778
00:36:11,719 --> 00:36:16,080
Speaker 2: And I could tell you for you would not have

779
00:36:16,120 --> 00:36:19,120
Speaker 2: been able to tell this week whether the Steelers run

780
00:36:19,200 --> 00:36:22,760
Speaker 2: a twelve game winning streak or a four game losing streak.

781
00:36:22,800 --> 00:36:26,080
Speaker 2: They were as loose as a group as I've seen

782
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Speaker 2: heading into a game this big.

783
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I bet and.

784
00:36:31,120 --> 00:36:33,040
Speaker 2: I just think they feel like and I thought Watt

785
00:36:33,160 --> 00:36:36,120
Speaker 2: was really He's like, look, we we have the group now.

786
00:36:36,520 --> 00:36:38,239
Speaker 2: With the group here, this is the same group that

787
00:36:38,280 --> 00:36:40,399
Speaker 2: went ten and three early, you know, in the first

788
00:36:40,400 --> 00:36:41,160
Speaker 2: thirteen games of.

789
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Speaker 3: The season, one of which was a victory over the Ravens.

790
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Speaker 2: One of which was a victory over the Ravens. Yeah,

791
00:36:46,280 --> 00:36:48,759
Speaker 2: that game was eighteen to sixteen. It really wasn't that

792
00:36:49,040 --> 00:36:51,000
Speaker 2: People look at that go you know, they barely beat

793
00:36:51,040 --> 00:36:53,000
Speaker 2: the Ravens. Game wasn't that close.

794
00:36:53,239 --> 00:36:53,960
Speaker 3: They were the better team.

795
00:36:54,000 --> 00:36:55,480
Speaker 2: They were the better team. They held the ball for

796
00:36:55,760 --> 00:36:58,319
Speaker 2: thirty seven minutes in that game, went up and down

797
00:36:58,360 --> 00:37:01,560
Speaker 2: the field. Yeah, they kicked six few goals, but they

798
00:37:01,600 --> 00:37:04,239
Speaker 2: were in scoring because they had eleven I think eleven

799
00:37:05,440 --> 00:37:08,279
Speaker 2: possessions in that game and scored on six of them.

800
00:37:08,320 --> 00:37:11,520
Speaker 2: And they threw the interception in the end zone on

801
00:37:11,560 --> 00:37:13,840
Speaker 2: the other one. So seven times they got into scoring

802
00:37:13,920 --> 00:37:15,239
Speaker 2: range against that Ravens.

803
00:37:14,960 --> 00:37:17,640
Speaker 3: A goad seven. And they moved the ball.

804
00:37:18,400 --> 00:37:21,960
Speaker 2: Despite only you know, despite what happened down in Baltimore

805
00:37:22,000 --> 00:37:25,359
Speaker 2: the first this the first time around here. They had

806
00:37:25,400 --> 00:37:27,600
Speaker 2: well over three hundred yards of total offense in that game,

807
00:37:28,360 --> 00:37:29,560
Speaker 2: they moved the football.

808
00:37:30,280 --> 00:37:34,440
Speaker 3: So you mentioned one of my concerns though, time of possession.

809
00:37:34,520 --> 00:37:37,719
Speaker 3: Time of possession, I mean, could the Steelers have thirty

810
00:37:37,800 --> 00:37:40,680
Speaker 3: three times minutes in this game? Yes, but I thought

811
00:37:40,680 --> 00:37:43,399
Speaker 3: they would against the Bengals, you know, like I think

812
00:37:43,440 --> 00:37:43,759
Speaker 3: that's so.

813
00:37:43,960 --> 00:37:46,000
Speaker 2: I just think the game playing against the Bengals was so.

814
00:37:47,080 --> 00:37:50,240
Speaker 3: I hope they can maintain offense, get more first downs,

815
00:37:50,360 --> 00:37:53,160
Speaker 3: run the football for four to six yards of pop.

816
00:37:53,320 --> 00:37:57,600
Speaker 3: You know. That's where I my reservations are. I mean,

817
00:37:57,640 --> 00:37:59,440
Speaker 3: I think the defense is going to keep it close.

818
00:38:00,120 --> 00:38:03,800
Speaker 3: I bet turnover special teams penalties works in your favor.

819
00:38:06,480 --> 00:38:09,239
Speaker 3: There's a lot of cliches in this business, but this

820
00:38:09,320 --> 00:38:11,600
Speaker 3: is a throw the records out type of game. I

821
00:38:11,600 --> 00:38:13,920
Speaker 3: think most of the time people say that you really

822
00:38:14,000 --> 00:38:16,359
Speaker 3: don't you know, just one team probably better than the other.

823
00:38:16,440 --> 00:38:19,000
Speaker 3: But I think in this instance, third meeting in this

824
00:38:19,200 --> 00:38:21,799
Speaker 3: month and it means this much, I think it's gonna

825
00:38:21,800 --> 00:38:25,440
Speaker 3: be a really close game. And by the way I've

826
00:38:25,480 --> 00:38:27,360
Speaker 3: been doing my predictions, if we talked about tomorrow, it

827
00:38:27,440 --> 00:38:31,040
Speaker 3: might be twenty seventeen Steelers. I keep I guess see

828
00:38:31,200 --> 00:38:33,520
Speaker 3: change in every day that I don't think it's going

829
00:38:33,600 --> 00:38:35,040
Speaker 3: to be a ten point win. I don't think they're

830
00:38:35,040 --> 00:38:35,960
Speaker 3: going to cover the spread.

831
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Speaker 2: The Ravens were flagged good. The Ravens were flagged for

832
00:38:39,400 --> 00:38:43,520
Speaker 2: offensive holding twenty nine times during the regular season, the

833
00:38:43,560 --> 00:38:47,359
Speaker 2: third most in the league. They had none in that

834
00:38:47,440 --> 00:38:52,400
Speaker 2: game in Baltimore. Earlier this year, despite running the ball

835
00:38:52,680 --> 00:38:56,600
Speaker 2: a bunch. Yeah, yeah, nobody held for a team that

836
00:38:56,840 --> 00:38:59,359
Speaker 2: was third in the league. They averaged more than they

837
00:38:59,440 --> 00:39:03,279
Speaker 2: averaged more almost two holding penalties per game, but had

838
00:39:03,320 --> 00:39:05,359
Speaker 2: none in that game. Miraculously.

839
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Speaker 3: You're probably aware of this. I wasn't until last night.

840
00:39:07,920 --> 00:39:10,000
Speaker 3: But that's the only good game Derreck Henry's ever had

841
00:39:10,000 --> 00:39:11,000
Speaker 3: in his career against Steelers.

842
00:39:11,040 --> 00:39:12,000
Speaker 2: They've done a good job.

843
00:39:12,480 --> 00:39:15,200
Speaker 3: It's been like six games and he averages like seventy

844
00:39:15,280 --> 00:39:15,960
Speaker 3: yards a game.

845
00:39:16,400 --> 00:39:17,879
Speaker 2: If they want to go in there and shut down

846
00:39:17,920 --> 00:39:21,520
Speaker 2: Derrick Henry, you never again shut down a big one shutdown,

847
00:39:22,040 --> 00:39:24,640
Speaker 2: but for what he usually does, takes over a game.

848
00:39:25,160 --> 00:39:28,160
Speaker 2: You can do that. And now that the Ravens are

849
00:39:28,160 --> 00:39:29,760
Speaker 2: missing their biggest passing.

850
00:39:29,760 --> 00:39:31,000
Speaker 3: That's the thing. I think there'd be a lot of

851
00:39:31,080 --> 00:39:33,440
Speaker 3: run blitzes, a lot of crowd in the line of scrimmage,

852
00:39:33,640 --> 00:39:33,959
Speaker 3: you know.

853
00:39:33,880 --> 00:39:36,759
Speaker 2: And you have guys that can again. Mark Andrews had

854
00:39:36,800 --> 00:39:39,879
Speaker 2: never caught a touchdown pass against the Steelers in ten

855
00:39:39,960 --> 00:39:44,120
Speaker 2: games until the last one. We're missing all those pieces

856
00:39:44,120 --> 00:39:48,319
Speaker 2: on defense. He was on fire that his streak of

857
00:39:48,520 --> 00:39:51,520
Speaker 2: touchdowns included the earlier meeting against the Steelers when he

858
00:39:51,520 --> 00:39:54,239
Speaker 2: didn't score. He had two catches in that game.

859
00:39:55,719 --> 00:39:58,600
Speaker 3: I like Elliott being back in this game a lot man,

860
00:39:58,880 --> 00:40:02,359
Speaker 3: the Queen Elliott thing. I think it's real. I can't

861
00:40:02,360 --> 00:40:02,839
Speaker 3: wait for it.

862
00:40:03,080 --> 00:40:05,440
Speaker 2: I think it's gonna be a great football game. I

863
00:40:05,480 --> 00:40:07,040
Speaker 2: think it can go either way. I think it's much

864
00:40:07,080 --> 00:40:09,960
Speaker 2: closer to a fifty to fifty game than it is

865
00:40:10,280 --> 00:40:12,680
Speaker 2: the Bill. The Ravens are gonna win this ninety five

866
00:40:12,680 --> 00:40:14,640
Speaker 2: percent of the time. I don't see it. The Steelers

867
00:40:14,640 --> 00:40:17,799
Speaker 2: have one for the last five down there, yeah five

868
00:40:17,840 --> 00:40:20,719
Speaker 2: of the last seven five yeah, five, and the last

869
00:40:20,760 --> 00:40:24,439
Speaker 2: seven in Baltimore. They're not going to be intimidated going

870
00:40:24,480 --> 00:40:25,280
Speaker 2: into Baltimore.

871
00:40:25,640 --> 00:40:28,719
Speaker 3: Getting ahead of myself. But if the Ravens squeak this

872
00:40:28,800 --> 00:40:32,560
Speaker 3: one out and the Bills blow out the Broncos, I'm

873
00:40:32,560 --> 00:40:35,359
Speaker 3: gonna pick the Ravens in Baltimore. Oh yeah. In Buffalo, Yeah,

874
00:40:35,400 --> 00:40:38,120
Speaker 3: I mean like it's a bad matchup Buffalo, but this one.

875
00:40:38,400 --> 00:40:40,200
Speaker 3: I mean, I have great respect for the Ravens. They

876
00:40:40,200 --> 00:40:43,120
Speaker 3: could win the whole thing, but this might be other

877
00:40:43,200 --> 00:40:46,160
Speaker 3: than going to Kansas City. It's this is the challenges

878
00:40:46,200 --> 00:40:46,600
Speaker 3: are gonna have.

879
00:40:46,680 --> 00:40:48,200
Speaker 2: I said it earlier in the week. This is this

880
00:40:48,239 --> 00:40:50,239
Speaker 2: is the game when when the when the Ravens won

881
00:40:50,400 --> 00:40:53,400
Speaker 2: and then everything happened and they're like, ugh, Harper Harbor.

882
00:40:53,440 --> 00:40:56,280
Speaker 3: I had to be like, Man, couldn't I get the Texans?

883
00:40:56,360 --> 00:40:58,959
Speaker 3: Or yeah, right, I get my brother, I get Tom?

884
00:40:59,080 --> 00:40:59,920
Speaker 2: Can we have got Denver?

885
00:41:00,280 --> 00:41:00,360
Speaker 3: Right?

886
00:41:00,400 --> 00:41:01,879
Speaker 2: I blew the earlier this year?

887
00:41:01,920 --> 00:41:04,960
Speaker 3: Haven't we earned that? Right? Now? I got this? You know,

888
00:41:05,640 --> 00:41:07,680
Speaker 3: It's bad way to lead off the playoffs for.

889
00:41:07,640 --> 00:41:10,279
Speaker 2: Them all week long thinking about man, Tom was going

890
00:41:10,360 --> 00:41:11,840
Speaker 2: to turn this into a rock fight.

891
00:41:11,800 --> 00:41:13,920
Speaker 3: No question. Yeah, I got the deal with Cam Hayward and

892
00:41:13,920 --> 00:41:15,480
Speaker 3: Watt and all these dudes and people.

893
00:41:16,200 --> 00:41:18,680
Speaker 2: People may complain about Tom and turning games like this

894
00:41:18,840 --> 00:41:22,080
Speaker 2: into a rock fight, that's an art. It's an art,

895
00:41:22,360 --> 00:41:24,440
Speaker 2: and he does it because they're good at it, and

896
00:41:24,480 --> 00:41:27,520
Speaker 2: he does it because this is how they've They've won

897
00:41:27,600 --> 00:41:30,000
Speaker 2: so many games against the Ravens. Yeah, yeah, they've won

898
00:41:30,239 --> 00:41:34,680
Speaker 2: some high scoring affairs against the Ravens. But they typically

899
00:41:34,680 --> 00:41:36,520
Speaker 2: turned this game into a rock fight.

900
00:41:36,800 --> 00:41:38,440
Speaker 3: This has been in his prime with a B and

901
00:41:38,560 --> 00:41:41,400
Speaker 3: Lev it's a different strategy, but you still might be

902
00:41:41,400 --> 00:41:46,960
Speaker 3: a rock fighter. Still. We saw that, and of course,

903
00:41:47,480 --> 00:41:49,680
Speaker 3: but yeah, you wouldn't go in there saying let's muddy

904
00:41:49,680 --> 00:41:53,680
Speaker 3: this thing up to no end. And I can't wait.

905
00:41:53,840 --> 00:41:55,319
Speaker 3: I think it's going to be maybe the best game

906
00:41:55,360 --> 00:41:55,880
Speaker 3: of the weekend.

907
00:41:55,960 --> 00:41:59,560
Speaker 2: And you get into the third quarter, in even early

908
00:41:59,560 --> 00:42:02,560
Speaker 2: fourth order of this game, and it's a one score

909
00:42:02,600 --> 00:42:05,279
Speaker 2: game one way or the other, or much tighter than

910
00:42:05,280 --> 00:42:07,160
Speaker 2: the other if it's a tie game, and all again,

911
00:42:07,200 --> 00:42:09,239
Speaker 2: you're putting those thoughts into lamars s head. Oh man,

912
00:42:09,560 --> 00:42:11,080
Speaker 2: if I lose this one, I'm two and five in

913
00:42:11,120 --> 00:42:14,239
Speaker 2: the playoffs and turn it over. Yeah, right, And I

914
00:42:14,320 --> 00:42:14,840
Speaker 2: just think.

915
00:42:14,920 --> 00:42:17,240
Speaker 3: I could see a Raven team pucker or not he talks.

916
00:42:17,040 --> 00:42:18,960
Speaker 2: About, you know, I get too antsy in the playoffs.

917
00:42:18,960 --> 00:42:20,279
Speaker 2: That's not what you want to hear out of your.

918
00:42:20,200 --> 00:42:22,920
Speaker 3: Quarterback, Tucker being like, I better make this kick. You know.

919
00:42:23,040 --> 00:42:27,520
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm the same guy. I just again I was

920
00:42:27,560 --> 00:42:28,880
Speaker 2: back in look.

921
00:42:28,719 --> 00:42:30,279
Speaker 3: Like you are down to the wire and who you're

922
00:42:30,280 --> 00:42:32,200
Speaker 3: gonna pick? Right, I hear?

923
00:42:32,280 --> 00:42:35,600
Speaker 2: Yeah, I almost did it. But couldn't quite pull the trigger.

924
00:42:35,840 --> 00:42:38,000
Speaker 3: But I don't think this is a nine and a

925
00:42:38,040 --> 00:42:41,520
Speaker 3: half point game, No, no, no, I would be surprised.

926
00:42:41,520 --> 00:42:43,640
Speaker 2: I'd be very surprised, very surprised if it's a nine

927
00:42:43,680 --> 00:42:45,600
Speaker 2: and a half point game either way.

928
00:42:46,200 --> 00:42:49,439
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, or a non competitive game would really really

929
00:42:50,040 --> 00:42:52,440
Speaker 3: really surprise me, just because of what the Ravens are

930
00:42:52,480 --> 00:42:54,759
Speaker 3: missing and what the Steelers have available. I also like

931
00:42:54,840 --> 00:42:58,759
Speaker 3: that more of the Zay Flowers effect. Only talked about

932
00:42:58,760 --> 00:43:00,840
Speaker 3: a lot this week that I like that the Steelers

933
00:43:00,840 --> 00:43:03,960
Speaker 3: are gonna have heavy personnel on the field. Preston Smith

934
00:43:04,000 --> 00:43:06,560
Speaker 3: plays a little more, Benton plays a little more. Those

935
00:43:06,560 --> 00:43:09,560
Speaker 3: are good players, right, Those three linebackers are out there

936
00:43:09,600 --> 00:43:10,120
Speaker 3: more than you know.

937
00:43:10,239 --> 00:43:13,560
Speaker 2: Maybe is your extra guy and run around and make

938
00:43:13,560 --> 00:43:13,919
Speaker 2: a play.

939
00:43:14,080 --> 00:43:19,680
Speaker 3: Yeah that means less Beanie and Suton and means more Benton. Yeah,

940
00:43:19,719 --> 00:43:23,520
Speaker 3: absolutely right, yeah, right, absolutely absolutely get my best eleven

941
00:43:23,560 --> 00:43:25,880
Speaker 3: out there, and I think it's a big people. The

942
00:43:25,920 --> 00:43:31,919
Speaker 3: Steelers defensive front is a huge advantage against Baltimore's offensive line. Yes,

943
00:43:32,000 --> 00:43:35,319
Speaker 3: Alex high Smith has shown over the years he can

944
00:43:35,360 --> 00:43:40,280
Speaker 3: beat Ronnie Stanley absolutely, and Ronnie.

945
00:43:39,040 --> 00:43:41,279
Speaker 2: Stanley has played well this year. Yeah, yeah, better than

946
00:43:41,320 --> 00:43:43,920
Speaker 2: he has in previous years, high Smith still beat him

947
00:43:43,920 --> 00:43:45,000
Speaker 2: for stripsack the last game.

948
00:43:45,080 --> 00:43:47,239
Speaker 3: He might be the better player in a vacuum.

949
00:43:48,640 --> 00:43:51,560
Speaker 2: Really good player, yeah, really good player. Let alone some

950
00:43:51,600 --> 00:43:53,399
Speaker 2: of the other matchups that you you now have.

951
00:43:53,400 --> 00:43:57,759
Speaker 3: There too, stripsack or two or base two strip sack.

952
00:43:58,200 --> 00:44:02,080
Speaker 3: Seems like it's not inevident, but quite likely. They do it.

953
00:44:02,160 --> 00:44:04,279
Speaker 2: They do it to Lamar every time they'll play out there.

954
00:44:04,320 --> 00:44:05,640
Speaker 2: Yet every time they play.

955
00:44:05,400 --> 00:44:09,520
Speaker 3: And they know it's going to be absolutely can't wait.

956
00:44:10,200 --> 00:44:12,040
Speaker 2: We'll be back on Monday one way or the other to.

957
00:44:12,320 --> 00:44:14,239
Speaker 3: The pregame show for the first hour. You're doing it

958
00:44:14,440 --> 00:44:17,279
Speaker 3: after that too, the pre pregame show, and then but

959
00:44:17,360 --> 00:44:19,680
Speaker 3: we'll be back Monday to break it down. I'm wrong.

960
00:44:19,880 --> 00:44:22,279
Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll see. We'll see whether we're talking about a

961
00:44:22,320 --> 00:44:24,919
Speaker 2: playoff win, a playoff loss, whether the Steelers are going

962
00:44:24,960 --> 00:44:27,480
Speaker 2: to could be going to Kansas City, could be going

963
00:44:27,480 --> 00:44:29,560
Speaker 2: to Buffalo. Actually, I don't know if they can go

964
00:44:29,600 --> 00:44:34,319
Speaker 2: to Buffalo because that means somebody else behind them. Well,

965
00:44:34,360 --> 00:44:37,000
Speaker 2: I guess they could if everybody know they just still win.

966
00:44:37,320 --> 00:44:38,920
Speaker 2: If Houston wins, they still go.

967
00:44:38,920 --> 00:44:42,040
Speaker 3: To I guess Denver wins, you can't go to Buffalo. Right, Yeah, yeah,

968
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Speaker 3: that's what you're saying. Yeah, so you can't go to

969
00:44:43,760 --> 00:44:46,000
Speaker 3: Buffalo good you have bad memories there anyway.

970
00:44:46,120 --> 00:44:47,800
Speaker 2: Yeah, but you could go to Houston.

971
00:44:48,680 --> 00:44:52,600
Speaker 3: That won't be bad. Take a chance in Kansas City too, Yeah. Right,

972
00:44:52,719 --> 00:44:54,279
Speaker 3: So let's see where We'll see where it goes. It's

973
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Speaker 3: gonna be an interesting weekend. Playoffs, baby playoffs.

974
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Speaker 2: If you can't get fired up about the playoffs, I

975
00:44:59,360 --> 00:45:02,480
Speaker 2: don't care what it's the Ravens, it's raven Steelers. You

976
00:45:02,520 --> 00:45:05,320
Speaker 2: get a third opportunity to watch the Steelers and the

977
00:45:05,400 --> 00:45:09,640
Speaker 2: Ravens play each other. Doesn't get much better, doesn't It

978
00:45:09,719 --> 00:45:13,520
Speaker 2: really doesn't. Well, we're here absolutely uh. Anyways, that's going

979
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Speaker 2: to do it for our shows this week. For my

980
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Speaker 2: partner Matt Williamson, for Justin Miller here on site running

981
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Speaker 2: the Justin Miller Hotline. Would like to thank Missy Matthews

982
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Speaker 2: for dropping by on that as well as she always

983
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984
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985
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Speaker 2: this edition of The Drive on the Steelers Audio Network