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Speaker 1: Casey situation is sort of like the Tennessee and Buffalo one.

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Speaker 1: But your point, what's the chances B enemy day Ball

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Speaker 1: and Smith. I'll get a job so many only so

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Speaker 1: many jobs out there, and one's gonna get filled in

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Speaker 1: Jacksonville probably today. Um, And really that one being b

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Speaker 1: enemies not maybe as attractive as being the offensive coordinator

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Speaker 1: here with a defensive minded head coach, you know, you

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Speaker 1: would be the in charge of the You're in charge

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Speaker 1: of the offense, you know, Tom Mike tom is gonna

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Speaker 1: you know, handle the defense. You're running the offense. Now

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Speaker 1: he has a hand in everything. Obviously he's dead coach,

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Speaker 1: but you're you're the offensive guy. And you had a

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Speaker 1: great point too off the air that whether it's this

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Speaker 1: offseason or not, when you sit down with these guys

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Speaker 1: and you convince them to come to Pittsburgh, we want

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Speaker 1: you to be extremely instrumental in picking the next quarterback.

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Speaker 1: What are we looking for? And really maybe even make

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Speaker 1: that higher before the offensive line coach. Do we want

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Speaker 1: three or fifty pound lineman and we're just gonna bully everybody?

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Speaker 1: Or do we want two ninety pound lineman that can run?

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Speaker 1: And what is our offensive? Is our quarterback going to

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Speaker 1: be a dropback guy? How fast he has to go

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Speaker 1: through his reads? Is he gonna be Lamar Jackson? You

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Speaker 1: know right? What do you want to do? You know right?

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Speaker 1: It's gonna be different. And that's also why I looked

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Speaker 1: at those I mean, you're looking at a guy who's

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Speaker 1: you know, who coached uh In in Tennessee. With that offense,

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Speaker 1: obviously they've found their quarterback, um, you know, through different means,

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Speaker 1: but you know, but they got the most out of

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Speaker 1: that guy compared to Word, absolutely, But Dorsey has been there,

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Speaker 1: you know, you know since they brought in Josh Allen

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Speaker 1: and you're getting cough who has been you know, instrumental

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Speaker 1: with with Mahomes. How do you guys identify those guys?

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Speaker 1: You know, right? How did they traded up to get home?

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Speaker 1: How did you get and the Steelers like, you know,

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Speaker 1: that's the thing about it. The Steelers brought my Homes

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Speaker 1: in for one of their pre drafts them. Yeah, that's

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Speaker 1: the that's the thing about how come you didn't get

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Speaker 1: Like you can love a guy doesn't mean you're gonna

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Speaker 1: get him, or that you're in the market that particularly year.

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Speaker 1: He may be the highest graded quarterback you've ever graded,

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Speaker 1: but it's not your year for a quarterback or you're

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Speaker 1: picking thirty. Yeah, that's just how it works out. But yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean you want to you want to pick the

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Speaker 1: brains of those guys and say, Okay, what were you

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Speaker 1: looking for or what what attracted you to these guys

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Speaker 1: in particular or you know what you know those kind

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Speaker 1: of what was the thought process when you identify Alan

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Speaker 1: and Mahomes? And now obviously I looked at people might say,

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Speaker 1: well you didn't have any any anybody from the the

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Speaker 1: Ravens or Brown staff song. I was actually kicking that around,

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Speaker 1: like I wouldn't mind stealing somebody from them. But the

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Speaker 1: Ravens is so unique and they're probably not They may

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Speaker 1: not let you, they may not play that game, right.

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Speaker 1: I guess that's probably true too. The other thing, you

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Speaker 1: kind of have people from this tree. But when a

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Speaker 1: couple body of mines asked who would you what would

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Speaker 1: you be looking for the offense coordinator? My short answer,

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Speaker 1: and I was half joking, it was just pluck someone

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Speaker 1: off a Shanahan treet like everybody else does, and run

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Speaker 1: what they do, you know, and it's probably ten names.

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Speaker 1: You know, whoever the number two guys in Green Bay

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Speaker 1: right now? Or who's Shanahan's right hand man and um

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Speaker 1: San Francisco fran or who's mcveigh's number one guy. You know,

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Speaker 1: It's not that strategies weren't sweeping the league well with

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Speaker 1: with McVeigh. The problem is everybody and hit McVeigh staff

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Speaker 1: was like twenty yeah, and they're all gonna be young guy.

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Speaker 1: You know, the people I'm defining will all be young

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Speaker 1: guys are gonna be younger than Kyle and McVeigh and

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Speaker 1: uh La Floor and these other young guys. But I mean,

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Speaker 1: that's that's a strategy a lot of the league has taken.

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Speaker 1: Just give me someone from that tree. And that doesn't

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Speaker 1: always I means to be the right guy. It has

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Speaker 1: to be the right guy who don't It can't just

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Speaker 1: be anybody absolute um, But yeah, I mean, I so

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Speaker 1: I think this is a chance for the Steelers. Um

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Speaker 1: to your point about the having a hand. Yes, yes,

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Speaker 1: you want this coordinator in place for one, and that

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Speaker 1: may or may not include Ben Roethlisberger, But it's also

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Speaker 1: a higher form beyond that, like, Okay, how do you

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Speaker 1: this guy is going to help you transition from you

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Speaker 1: know this to that? Yeah? Absolutely, this is a totally

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Speaker 1: different conversation. I know you don't even know the answer,

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Speaker 1: but I've got people are begging, does Featner being let

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Speaker 1: go imply that Ben is not going to come back?

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Speaker 1: I bet we don't know that answer, or I don't

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Speaker 1: know that there's any into it. I mean, it's it's

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Speaker 1: the same question that people were asking, well, if mar

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Speaker 1: Keyes Pouncey doesn't come back, does that mean Ben doesn't

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Speaker 1: come back? Because they always said they wanted to play

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Speaker 1: as long as the other one did. If those two

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Speaker 1: dope come back, does that influence Ben not too? Or

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Speaker 1: do we already know that Ben's gonna Does he already

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Speaker 1: know he's not gonna come back? I mean that he said,

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Speaker 1: he said all along that he intends to come back

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Speaker 1: and play out his contract, So you know it would

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Speaker 1: be it would be a change of course if Ben

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Speaker 1: Roethlisberger then decides that he's not coming back, right, because

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Speaker 1: every time he's been asked that, he says, my full

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Speaker 1: intentions are to play play out my contract. Yes, and

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Speaker 1: not to sound course. But I could see the Steelers

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Speaker 1: taken either approach to of boy, we really want Ben

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Speaker 1: back for one more year, or Ben, we suggest you

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Speaker 1: go on through life's work. I mean, I could see

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Speaker 1: if if the all sides to this, if they if

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Speaker 1: they really truly thought that Mason Rudolph was a potential starter,

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Speaker 1: then yes, but you don't have that guy in your roster.

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Speaker 1: You don't know the guy ross. You go look at

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Speaker 1: that mean right, and there's no there's no worse position

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Speaker 1: to be in in the NFL than to not have

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Speaker 1: a starting quarterback on your roster. Oh I know, I know,

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Speaker 1: but part of me thinks I would be intrigued what

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Speaker 1: this team looks like with a very different offensive system,

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Speaker 1: the combination of Rudolph, Rookie, Brissett's Donald at best. See,

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Speaker 1: I don't knowles you can afford those guys, because if

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Speaker 1: you're gonna do if you're gonna go down that road,

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Speaker 1: then you just pay Roethlisberger the nineteen million dollars. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: but I'm giving money to Bud. But I don't know

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Speaker 1: if you're gonna be able to do that much because

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Speaker 1: Brissette's gonna cost money. Donald's gonna cost you know those

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Speaker 1: Donald Darnald not as much, but you're gonna have to

547
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Speaker 1: trade picks to get him. He's gonna yeah, right right,

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Speaker 1: it's gonna cross you cost you draft capital, so to

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Speaker 1: to go down that road. If I'm gonna do that

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Speaker 1: and I'm gonna give up draft capital for Sam Donald,

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Speaker 1: maybe I'd just move up and get a guy that

552
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Speaker 1: I like. You know that, But that doesn't help you.

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Speaker 1: That doesn't help you address your offensive line needs, or

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Speaker 1: your inside linebacker need, or any of that the other

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Speaker 1: stuff that you want to do with or without Ben.

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Speaker 1: I think there'll be more needs than there are resources. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you're gonna have to see I and I think that

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Speaker 1: Ben gives you the best chance to win, and they

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Speaker 1: get also gives you the opportunity because you know, if

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Speaker 1: some of these guys leave, let's say Bud leaves, USU

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Speaker 1: leaves some of these and they get they're gonna get

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Speaker 1: big contracts. Oh yeah, yeah, you're gonna get compensatory picks

563
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Speaker 1: in return for those that are likely going to be

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Speaker 1: third round picks. And you can trade those picks. Now

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Speaker 1: you have the ammo to move up and go get

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Speaker 1: your quarterback next year. Yeah, I mean, I think that

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Speaker 1: they will know that they got pretty good draft capital

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Speaker 1: here for these next two drafts. Whether that means we'll move,

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Speaker 1: We'll give you our second in two thousand twenty two

570
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Speaker 1: for Darnald or you know whatever. I mean, at least

571
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Speaker 1: you can factor those things in. I mean, I'm spitballing totally.

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Speaker 1: I mean. The other thing I don't like about for

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Speaker 1: waiting for for a guy like Donald is, yeah, you

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Speaker 1: get him in one relatively cheaply, but then you gotta

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Speaker 1: pay him. But you got you got a year of

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Speaker 1: knowing who he is. You got a year. But are

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Speaker 1: you trading a second round pick for a year of

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Speaker 1: a guy I'm not with the option to buy. But

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Speaker 1: I'm not doing that. If I'm gonna go, if I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna go, if I'm not going with her for a

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Speaker 1: young quarterback, I want to get that four years of

582
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Speaker 1: cheap young quarterback play. That's very attractive, very attractive. I mean,

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Speaker 1: you could franchise him because if you go, if you

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Speaker 1: do it that way, it's easy, then now you have

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Speaker 1: no issues paying T J. Watt and make of Fitzpatrick

586
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Speaker 1: and now it's easy. Or move up to eighteen and

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Speaker 1: get him, and whether he's good or not, who knows,

588
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Speaker 1: but you're your your roster or your CAP's gonna be

589
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Speaker 1: very happy about it, and you can build You can

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Speaker 1: build a nice roster around that young quarterback while he

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Speaker 1: is still young. I mean, I don't think this year

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Speaker 1: they could afford to give up their first and second

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Speaker 1: to move up to sixteen or seventeen to get a quarterback,

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Speaker 1: because I don't know that you could wait till the

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Speaker 1: third round to a second need who's blocking for him

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Speaker 1: right who they get handed to or you know what

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Speaker 1: I mean. Um, I mean, there's something, there's somebody that

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Speaker 1: my head is spinning because all the names you mentioned

599
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Speaker 1: and all these different things, and I would bet that

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Speaker 1: Ben is the quarterback and they worry about this next year.

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Speaker 1: But if Ben decides to hang it up, what's higher

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Speaker 1: called well and trade for Stafford. I'd give a first

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Speaker 1: round pick for that. Yeah. I mean again, it's similar

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Speaker 1: money for what he counts on the books. It's not

605
00:31:34,280 --> 00:31:37,240
Speaker 1: too bad. I mean, I think he's a better player

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Speaker 1: than Ben. I think that'd have been in better shape

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Speaker 1: with Ben or with Stafford than Ben this year especially,

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Speaker 1: And there's some stuff floating around it. That's somebody texted

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Speaker 1: me last night, one of my friends, and said, hey,

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Speaker 1: would they trade for DeShawn Watson? You would have to.

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Speaker 1: First of all, we haven't had this conversation, but I

612
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Speaker 1: have on the podcast along. You have to give up.

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Speaker 1: You have to give up like three first round picks

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Speaker 1: for Deshaun Watson. I think it's four unless you pick

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Speaker 1: like in the top five, right, and then you have

616
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Speaker 1: to pay and not it's only I think it's like

617
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Speaker 1: four million next year, but then it jumps to thirty

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Speaker 1: five million dollars. I should say he's worth it. But

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Speaker 1: you don't have any first round picks, right, so now

620
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Speaker 1: you're in the same situation and Houston is in with

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Speaker 1: him where you can't put anything around him because he

622
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Speaker 1: gave up everything to get him. Yeah, we were playing

623
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Speaker 1: this game on my podcast about Okay, Matt, you're the

624
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Speaker 1: GM of Houston and he would throw out a team.

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Speaker 1: What are you asking? You know, like the easiest one

626
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Speaker 1: is Miami. I'm like, okay, I want to I want

627
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Speaker 1: the third pick in the draft. I want your other

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Speaker 1: first rounder and something else. You know, you could come

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Speaker 1: to the table with me with that. But if it's

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Speaker 1: a team like we did the Patriots, it would be

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Speaker 1: similar to Steelers. I went four first because they're not

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Speaker 1: gonna be in the top five. You know, I don't

633
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Speaker 1: want stid him, I don't want Rudolph. You know, Like,

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Speaker 1: if you're gonna give me T J. Watt and to first,

635
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Speaker 1: I'll listen, you know, like we're you know with San Francisco,

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Speaker 1: Like give me Bosa, Jimmy and the first and I'll

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Speaker 1: think about it. Stafford, I just looked your Stafford would

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Speaker 1: actually cost you more money this year than Ben because

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Speaker 1: he's not nine and a half million dollars in salary,

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Speaker 1: but he's also got a ten million dollar roster bonus,

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Speaker 1: and he's got a five hundred thousand dollar workout bonus,

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Speaker 1: and now you're twenty million dollars to pay off your quarterbacks.

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Speaker 1: That's actually more money. Basically a wash, but a little more,

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Speaker 1: a little bit more a deal too. And I think

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Speaker 1: he costs you a first round pick. And that's that's

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Speaker 1: the problem. Now you don't have a first round pick,

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Speaker 1: right I mean, is it worth doing that when you

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Speaker 1: we just live with Ben for you know, this next year,

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Speaker 1: and that move would be not pushing Ben out? Is

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Speaker 1: if he decided to retire and you wanted to run

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Speaker 1: it back with an established Stafford is also going to

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Speaker 1: be thirty three years old next year. I mean, you're

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Speaker 1: gonna give up a third first round pick for a

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Speaker 1: guy who's gonna be he maybe only he plays two

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Speaker 1: more years, three more years. So I don't know if

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Speaker 1: I would have He's got he's got a lot of

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Speaker 1: wear and tear on his body. He broke his back

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Speaker 1: twice twice, and he used to be quote injury. But

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Speaker 1: if like I were the Niners, I'd give up my

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Speaker 1: first round pick for Stafford right now, or the Colts,

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Speaker 1: I mean the Steelers on that same tier of trying

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Speaker 1: to win. Now, I mean case I think you are.

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Speaker 1: I think you are if Thatstisburg comes back, right, I

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Speaker 1: don't know that that's the case. If if Roethlisberger doesn't

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Speaker 1: come back, Now you're in a rebuild, although they won't

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Speaker 1: use the you know that word or use that word,

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Speaker 1: but it'll be a step back at your cap in

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Speaker 1: line right now. That's interesting. I didn't mean to go

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Speaker 1: down the replacing Ben rabbit hole because the coordinator talks

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Speaker 1: good enough as it is. But I do think some

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Speaker 1: people are out there going well, I Pialacey retires and

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Speaker 1: eating and retires. Does that mean? Does that is that telling?

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Speaker 1: Is that a precursor? Does Ben already know? Does you

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Speaker 1: know that this is happening? I don't know. I don't know.

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Speaker 1: I think you just sit down with the Roethlisberg and say, hey, look,

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Speaker 1: this is this is what it is. We had to

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Speaker 1: make a move here, and you know, are you in

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Speaker 1: or are you out? Yeah? And you know we needed

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00:34:52,719 --> 00:34:56,200
Speaker 1: these are things that needed to happen, and so you

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Speaker 1: know that. I would hire a coordinator though, and I

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Speaker 1: think you kind of staying along the same lines, kind

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Speaker 1: of like the Hatley higher was all for bad. Right,

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Speaker 1: this next guy is not all for bad, not all

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Speaker 1: from the next guy. Yeah, this is this is about

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Speaker 1: the future. And then now a guy who's is a

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Speaker 1: good you know, knows what he's doing, can get you

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Speaker 1: through this next season maybe you know, maybe some tweaks

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Speaker 1: to the offense, maybe you improved it. First of all,

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Speaker 1: you got to improve the running game. You have to

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Speaker 1: improve the running you know, it's it was thirty one,

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Speaker 1: thirtieth and thirty second under Featre. That's not you know

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Speaker 1: when when the owner comes out, when when Art Rooney

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Speaker 1: the second comes out and says, we need to run

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Speaker 1: the ball better, and then you finished thirty second, That

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Speaker 1: ain't getting done. There's no way you can bring that

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Speaker 1: guy back. Told you what need to give it to

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Speaker 1: you didn't get Not only did you not give it

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Speaker 1: to me, he got worse. It got worse and you

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Speaker 1: couldn't get We couldn't go for it on third and one,

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Speaker 1: fourth and one. You know, we know physicality, you couldn't

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00:35:49,760 --> 00:35:54,919
Speaker 1: close teams out right, right, So that's that's that's job one. Yes,

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Speaker 1: can you get the running game? Can you at least

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Speaker 1: improve the running game? The sixteenth in the league or

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Speaker 1: somewhere in that make it adequate. And if that happens,

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Speaker 1: Roethlisberger is a lot better off, without question, without questions.

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Speaker 1: I mean, you've got to give him some kind of

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Speaker 1: running game. You can't expect him. Again, we talked about

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Speaker 1: this yesterday. You can't expect Ben Roethlisberger at this age

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Speaker 1: to go out there and throw the ball six hundred

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Speaker 1: fifty times. That's just that's not fair to him. It's

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Speaker 1: not fair to him. And that's that's the exact opposite

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Speaker 1: of what New Orleans is done with Drew breesun the

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Speaker 1: ball like the third highest percentage. Yeah right, he went

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Speaker 1: from throwing the ball six hundred times a year to

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Speaker 1: throwing it five hundred times a year, and he got

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Speaker 1: and less was more, less was better. Oh yeah, he

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Speaker 1: wouldn't be able to hold up, you know. So to me,

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Speaker 1: I want to see, you know, if you bring in

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Speaker 1: a you know you you, let's say you and just

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Speaker 1: improve the running game again the sixteenth in the league.

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Speaker 1: Everyone with listening should take that at this point. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you give Roethlisberger a running game that can put up

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Speaker 1: a hundred fifteen yards every game? What it all? What

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Speaker 1: makes people defend the pass so much different? Too, he's

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Speaker 1: a different quarterback by a thousand. He may be able

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Speaker 1: to play it. If that's the case, maybe maybe you

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Speaker 1: get through that seat next season. Roethlisberg says, Hey, I

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Speaker 1: like to wear the way this is going. I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: play two more years. I mean, I mean Terrell Davis Elway, Uh,

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Speaker 1: similarities are obvious. I mean he used to bring it

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Speaker 1: up a Levy on Bell all the time. You're gonna

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Speaker 1: be my my Trrell Davis. Well, then he left, and

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Speaker 1: you know it kind of was for a while. Ran

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Speaker 1: he was great. I mean that offense was pretty strong.

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Speaker 1: So you know, I think if you give Roethlisberger a

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Speaker 1: running game, then maybe he could be your quarterback till

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Speaker 1: he's forty two. Who the hell knows? I mean, who knows, um,

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Speaker 1: But we don't know. And you get some rumblings here

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Speaker 1: and there is how many times is a run call?

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Speaker 1: Did he switches to a pass? That's what we don't know.

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Speaker 1: He deserves all the freedom in the world. He's not

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Speaker 1: a rookie. But if he's constantly checking the pass and

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Speaker 1: that's on him, or but if he's looking beside him

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00:37:54,640 --> 00:37:56,520
Speaker 1: and going, okay, I got Benny snow in here. Right now,

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Speaker 1: we were not running the ball. Like I know, Ben's

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Speaker 1: a good quarterback and has been a great quarterback. I

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00:38:02,280 --> 00:38:04,799
Speaker 1: don't know he's a good play caller. Despite all this,

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Speaker 1: he drew it up in the sand, and you know,

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Speaker 1: maybe he's a tremendous play caller and Fetner isn't or

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Speaker 1: you know, you hear these rumblings. I didn't quite buy that,

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Speaker 1: you know, but I would like to know. And that

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Speaker 1: goes back to two thousand and eighteen too. How many

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Speaker 1: times are you you know, like Marino was always guilty

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Speaker 1: of this. I'm not running and I'm daddy Marine. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'm a quarterback. Quarterback wants to throw the football, right,

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Speaker 1: I mean what would those Marino team has been with

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00:38:29,480 --> 00:38:31,880
Speaker 1: a good running game and Allen's you know, but sometimes

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00:38:31,920 --> 00:38:33,640
Speaker 1: that's on the quarterback. A lot of times it's on

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00:38:33,640 --> 00:38:36,799
Speaker 1: the quarterback because quarterbacks want to throw the football. I mean,

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Speaker 1: that's what they want to do, that's what they're right.

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Speaker 1: When it goes back to the Antonio Brown argument, I

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Speaker 1: don't want to drag us out because we gotta take

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Speaker 1: a break. But you know when when Antonio Brown was

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Speaker 1: complaining about not getting the football, it was because he

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Speaker 1: thought that he was the best guy in the field

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Speaker 1: and he could do something to make changed the game.

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Speaker 1: And a lot of times he was not wrong. You know,

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Speaker 1: if you're the best guy, you want the ball in

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Speaker 1: your hands. You know, the difference between being selfish, which

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Speaker 1: I'm not saying Antonio wasn't selfish. Most receivers are, and

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00:39:04,080 --> 00:39:06,799
Speaker 1: he's obviously an odd case. But sometimes it's like, I'm

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Speaker 1: your best three point shooter when the game's on the line,

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00:39:09,120 --> 00:39:11,040
Speaker 1: I should be shooting the ball, not the center, you know,

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Speaker 1: from three point range. You know, let me get to

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Speaker 1: let meet you know, that's what I'm here. To break

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Speaker 1: this guy down, and I'll take it to the hoop

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Speaker 1: and score isolate me. I'm gonna take the hoop, right

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Speaker 1: So anyways, he is Matt Williams and I'm Dale Lelly.

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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Drive here on Steelers Nation Radio.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna take a break. Maybe we'll change things up

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Speaker 1: a little bit here and talk about something else when

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Speaker 1: we come back. We'll do that right after this your

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Speaker 1: tunes about Drive on Home of the Black and Goal

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Speaker 1: Steelers Nation Radio. Welcome back. I'm Dale Ally here with

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Speaker 1: Matt Williamson and Matt um you know a lot of

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Speaker 1: people were looking at who the Steelers that we're gonna

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Speaker 1: stick on the same subject. Let's just finish the hour

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Speaker 1: here with it. But you know, I'm hearing a lot

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Speaker 1: of it. What about Doug Peterson and what about Anthony Lynn?

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Speaker 1: And what about who's the other one that I'm I'm

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Speaker 1: missing here recently fired? Oh Adam Gaze. You want anything

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Speaker 1: to do with those guys, not so much. I don't.

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Speaker 1: I'm not coaching if i'm them, I'm getting I'm getting

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Speaker 1: paid like eight million dollars or whatever they're making to

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Speaker 1: sit at home for year. Hell yeah, I just dealt

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Speaker 1: with the whole season of this COVID stuff as the

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00:41:05,560 --> 00:41:09,320
Speaker 1: head coach of a football team. I'm gonna take a

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Speaker 1: year off and decompress a little bit, spend some time

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Speaker 1: with my family, because you don't get to do that

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Speaker 1: when you're a head coach or in the COVID situation. Right,

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Speaker 1: And I'm making I'm making a lot of money doing that.

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00:41:21,200 --> 00:41:23,680
Speaker 1: I'm not interested in coaching this year. That's how you

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00:41:23,719 --> 00:41:25,399
Speaker 1: and I look at it. I mean they may not.

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00:41:25,560 --> 00:41:27,360
Speaker 1: I mean some of these guys are so addicted to it.

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00:41:27,360 --> 00:41:29,879
Speaker 1: He can't live without it. For a year. But man,

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Speaker 1: I don't love any of those names. I don't either.

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Speaker 1: That's the other, you know, that's you know, Anthony Lynn

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Speaker 1: has been an offensive coordinator one year in his entire career.

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Speaker 1: He's a running backs coach slash leader of men type guy,

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Speaker 1: not an XS and nose dude. Peterson is the one

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Speaker 1: of the three that I would be sort of attracted to,

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Speaker 1: but his offenses went down the you know, so that

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Speaker 1: to me, it looks more like Frank Reich was the guy.

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Speaker 1: It looks very obvious like that who had his fingers

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Speaker 1: on on the pulse of the team, cases the disaster

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00:42:00,719 --> 00:42:03,560
Speaker 1: everywhere he's been Oh yeah, I mean look at Tannehill

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Speaker 1: with him without gays, you know, for example, for example,

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Speaker 1: for example, look at Sam Donald with what happened, He's

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Speaker 1: gotten worse. That's one of the appeals to me with

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Speaker 1: Donald is give him, you know, a different coordinator in

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Speaker 1: a different system. He may be a totally different guy.

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Speaker 1: Or Adam Gayson trade for Sam Donald, like he's gonna

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Speaker 1: be kidding, I'm going to Pittsburgh. Oh they just hired

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Speaker 1: I don't Oh no, I don't think. I don't think

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Speaker 1: they're gonna the Jets are gonna move on from Donald.

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Speaker 1: I don't either, And I told you my mcshae theory.

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Speaker 1: And I was listening to uh mcshaye podcast ESPN today,

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Speaker 1: and I think he's right about Fields that Fields. Keiper

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Speaker 1: even suggested Field should go back next year because he's

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Speaker 1: just but he's not going to of course, but he's

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Speaker 1: gonna need some time. Um. And I don't know that

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Speaker 1: Wilson's worth the second pick in the draft, like just

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Speaker 1: their tone and knowing how they're they're doubt in. I

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Speaker 1: don't think that they think that the Jets will take

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Speaker 1: a quarterback at two, which means you're to keep Donald. Well,

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Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, you obviously like Donald enough to draft

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Speaker 1: him where he drafted him. A lot of people had him.

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Speaker 1: Is the number one quarterback in that draft? Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: mean a lot. And I'm sure if they're looking at

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Speaker 1: this sivery one okay, so Mahomes is or if you

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Speaker 1: look at that draft class. While Jackson's HiT's hit, Mayfield

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00:43:23,160 --> 00:43:28,200
Speaker 1: has been you know, he's been fine. Rosen's the bus. Well,

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00:43:28,200 --> 00:43:30,720
Speaker 1: maybe our guys just needs, you know, extra year, another

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Speaker 1: year here, a fresh set up on those guys, so fast,

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Speaker 1: fresh set. He's younger than Joe Burrow. You have to

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00:43:36,520 --> 00:43:38,960
Speaker 1: do is look at the Tanney Hill situation, right right,

847
00:43:39,040 --> 00:43:41,080
Speaker 1: right right. You know, Miami gives up on him and

848
00:43:41,080 --> 00:43:43,120
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, he's he's a franchise quarterback in

849
00:43:43,160 --> 00:43:46,920
Speaker 1: Tennessee house. How stupid is Miami. Look Todd sitting there

850
00:43:46,920 --> 00:43:49,680
Speaker 1: talking about today, like, well too, They'll take Panna Swol

851
00:43:49,760 --> 00:43:51,160
Speaker 1: and give him the best set of tackles in the

852
00:43:51,239 --> 00:43:53,560
Speaker 1: league for the next ten years. Or they'll take the

853
00:43:53,600 --> 00:43:59,840
Speaker 1: Bama receiver Smith and okay, yeah, yeah, right, and you

854
00:43:59,840 --> 00:44:01,799
Speaker 1: can do that with him, and you could take you

855
00:44:01,800 --> 00:44:03,879
Speaker 1: could go wide receiver in the first round and you're

856
00:44:03,880 --> 00:44:06,840
Speaker 1: gonna have a high second round pick Seattle. And they

857
00:44:06,840 --> 00:44:08,560
Speaker 1: also have Seattle's pick in the first round, so they

858
00:44:08,600 --> 00:44:10,400
Speaker 1: could they could and they have cast face. Yeah, they

859
00:44:10,440 --> 00:44:14,040
Speaker 1: could sign Allen Robinson right and draft now you know,

860
00:44:14,080 --> 00:44:17,520
Speaker 1: now you've given the yes. I think that's problem. I

861
00:44:17,560 --> 00:44:20,680
Speaker 1: mean that's what Buffalo did with Alan absolutely, you know,

862
00:44:20,719 --> 00:44:22,640
Speaker 1: build the offensive line. Now we're gonna go get him

863
00:44:22,640 --> 00:44:24,800
Speaker 1: some offensive pieces. Oh, we can make a trade for

864
00:44:24,800 --> 00:44:27,279
Speaker 1: for stuff on Diggs. Right, Amazing how that worked for him.

865
00:44:27,640 --> 00:44:30,720
Speaker 1: And what's interesting about the Bills all their draft picks

866
00:44:31,120 --> 00:44:33,799
Speaker 1: pretty much are on defense. They've built the defense through

867
00:44:33,840 --> 00:44:37,120
Speaker 1: the draft. The offense besides Alan and the running backs.

868
00:44:37,120 --> 00:44:39,600
Speaker 1: But let's get veterans. You know, we're gonna get bringing

869
00:44:39,600 --> 00:44:41,960
Speaker 1: a lot of offensive you know, older offensive lineman Cole

870
00:44:42,000 --> 00:44:45,560
Speaker 1: Beasley's John Brown digs guys who will make his life

871
00:44:45,600 --> 00:44:49,040
Speaker 1: easier exactly exactly, And that's what you have to to me.

872
00:44:49,200 --> 00:44:51,520
Speaker 1: That's what you do with a young quarterback early in

873
00:44:51,520 --> 00:44:54,359
Speaker 1: his career. You get him guys that make his job

874
00:44:54,400 --> 00:44:58,840
Speaker 1: easy when he becomes a stud if if he becomes

875
00:44:58,840 --> 00:45:02,080
Speaker 1: a stud now you yeah, you let him make the

876
00:45:02,080 --> 00:45:05,000
Speaker 1: people around him better. At the end of his career,

877
00:45:05,200 --> 00:45:08,600
Speaker 1: you make you go back to making his life easier again. Yeah,

878
00:45:08,640 --> 00:45:10,160
Speaker 1: it's kind of like all of us, you know, Like

879
00:45:10,320 --> 00:45:12,160
Speaker 1: when I'm a baby, you need to take care of me. Right,

880
00:45:12,239 --> 00:45:13,839
Speaker 1: when I'm in my prime, I'll take care of you.

881
00:45:13,920 --> 00:45:16,239
Speaker 1: Now I'm an old man, you gotta change my diapers again. Right,

882
00:45:17,800 --> 00:45:20,839
Speaker 1: But that's how, that's how, if you're doing it right.

883
00:45:21,239 --> 00:45:25,920
Speaker 1: Like I respect the offense that Denver's built, and I'm

884
00:45:25,960 --> 00:45:27,600
Speaker 1: not a big Drew Lock fan no matter where he was,

885
00:45:27,680 --> 00:45:31,160
Speaker 1: but they're all young, you know, like that they kind

886
00:45:31,200 --> 00:45:33,880
Speaker 1: of did it wrong. I mean they're all too young together,

887
00:45:34,040 --> 00:45:37,359
Speaker 1: you know. I mean that that's a problem for me. Yeah,

888
00:45:37,440 --> 00:45:39,879
Speaker 1: and the coaching staff converence. And maybe that doesn't work

889
00:45:39,880 --> 00:45:42,560
Speaker 1: out for them. Uh, but you see they plugged in

890
00:45:42,600 --> 00:45:46,320
Speaker 1: a rivers with those young guys or you know, somebody

891
00:45:46,360 --> 00:45:49,640
Speaker 1: like that. That might be the move. Yeah, um yeah,

892
00:45:49,760 --> 00:45:52,520
Speaker 1: just I mean you could look at that that formula

893
00:45:52,600 --> 00:45:55,040
Speaker 1: working time and again you know you just mentioned the

894
00:45:55,080 --> 00:45:57,239
Speaker 1: ailway stuff in the previous segment. Well, they built, they

895
00:45:57,239 --> 00:45:59,440
Speaker 1: gave at the end of his career. Hey, here's here's

896
00:45:59,440 --> 00:46:02,040
Speaker 1: a great running back for you. Here's the you know

897
00:46:02,200 --> 00:46:05,480
Speaker 1: what do the Tampa's doing, JB and Gronk And you

898
00:46:05,520 --> 00:46:08,200
Speaker 1: know they haven't been able to acquire enough targets for

899
00:46:08,800 --> 00:46:11,680
Speaker 1: that's whatever you want to make life easier for you.

900
00:46:11,719 --> 00:46:14,399
Speaker 1: That's why he wanted out of New England. They didn't

901
00:46:14,440 --> 00:46:16,520
Speaker 1: do anything. They gave him no weapons. They expected him

902
00:46:16,560 --> 00:46:19,360
Speaker 1: to continue to carry the load and he just wasn't capable.

903
00:46:19,360 --> 00:46:21,400
Speaker 1: And now and he could for so many years and

904
00:46:21,440 --> 00:46:23,640
Speaker 1: then it's time you need to help me. Finally gonna

905
00:46:23,680 --> 00:46:25,800
Speaker 1: get me some guys. Yeah, he's smart enough to realize

906
00:46:25,840 --> 00:46:27,480
Speaker 1: it and get out and go somewhere where they did.

907
00:46:27,520 --> 00:46:29,920
Speaker 1: And it's pretty obvious now, I mean that's exactly what happened.

908
00:46:31,120 --> 00:46:33,560
Speaker 1: And now they have no quarterback in they have no weapons,

909
00:46:34,080 --> 00:46:38,080
Speaker 1: right nothing, they start over interesting. Yeah, and he was

910
00:46:38,080 --> 00:46:40,200
Speaker 1: we're gonna take another break. He is Matt Williams and

911
00:46:40,200 --> 00:46:42,239
Speaker 1: I'm Dale Lilly. When we come back, it's time for

912
00:46:42,320 --> 00:46:46,200
Speaker 1: us to draft our DFS lineup for the Saturday Sunday games.

913
00:46:46,239 --> 00:46:53,840
Speaker 1: All right, when we'll get to that. Right after this,

914
00:46:54,160 --> 00:46:58,960
Speaker 1: he's The Drive with Dale Lolly and Matt Williamson, home

915
00:46:59,040 --> 00:47:02,440
Speaker 1: of the Black and Goal s N Steelers Nation Radio.

916
00:47:29,680 --> 00:47:32,239
Speaker 1: We're back from Dale Lolly here with Matt Williamson. It's

917
00:47:32,280 --> 00:47:35,200
Speaker 1: time for the Fantasy Football Focus, and today we're going

918
00:47:35,200 --> 00:47:39,880
Speaker 1: to do our lineup DFS line up on Draft Kings. Um,

919
00:47:39,960 --> 00:47:41,839
Speaker 1: let's start with the d We talked about that, Yes,

920
00:47:41,880 --> 00:47:43,440
Speaker 1: we did talk about that yesterday. So we'll go to

921
00:47:43,480 --> 00:47:47,480
Speaker 1: the defense. We got fifty dollars to spend. Uh, we're

922
00:47:47,520 --> 00:47:51,120
Speaker 1: doing the classics. We've got nine players to draft. A quarterback,

923
00:47:51,200 --> 00:47:54,240
Speaker 1: two running backs, three wide receivers, a tight end, a flex,

924
00:47:54,280 --> 00:47:59,919
Speaker 1: and a defense no kicker. And the defense is this week. Uh,

925
00:48:00,040 --> 00:48:02,319
Speaker 1: we talked about this yesterday. It's rough to me, it's

926
00:48:02,320 --> 00:48:04,960
Speaker 1: Green Bay or bust and unless they're way more than

927
00:48:05,000 --> 00:48:08,120
Speaker 1: everybody else, because all the other ones have really difficult

928
00:48:08,200 --> 00:48:11,440
Speaker 1: matchups and Green Bay and Buffalo at least could have

929
00:48:11,440 --> 00:48:14,239
Speaker 1: weather on their side. Now, golf is starting, golf is

930
00:48:14,280 --> 00:48:17,800
Speaker 1: starting in practice yesterday. But he can't be and he

931
00:48:17,840 --> 00:48:20,000
Speaker 1: wasn't playing well before he get hurt. Right, that's the

932
00:48:20,000 --> 00:48:22,239
Speaker 1: other part of the equation. I just think all ram

933
00:48:22,280 --> 00:48:26,799
Speaker 1: games take the under. They're they're thirty what second, just

934
00:48:26,840 --> 00:48:29,200
Speaker 1: for second is thirty six? Is that's the chief Definitely

935
00:48:29,400 --> 00:48:33,479
Speaker 1: the last places the Browns. I don't blame him. Yeah,

936
00:48:34,239 --> 00:48:35,759
Speaker 1: So okay, we're gonna put that. We're gonna put the

937
00:48:35,760 --> 00:48:37,520
Speaker 1: Packers in there is our defense. We're gonna start with

938
00:48:37,560 --> 00:48:40,640
Speaker 1: our defense first. Now that leaves us forty six thousand

939
00:48:40,719 --> 00:48:43,160
Speaker 1: one dollars. That's an average of fifty seven hundred and

940
00:48:43,239 --> 00:48:46,719
Speaker 1: change for the rest of our line seven and change. Okay, Now,

941
00:48:47,320 --> 00:48:50,719
Speaker 1: let's go tight end next, because that's another spot where

942
00:48:50,719 --> 00:48:52,279
Speaker 1: we can either we can save money or we can

943
00:48:52,280 --> 00:48:56,600
Speaker 1: pay up. Because it's Kelsey. At is that about as

944
00:48:56,640 --> 00:48:59,760
Speaker 1: much as you ever see for a tight end um? Yeah?

945
00:49:00,000 --> 00:49:03,960
Speaker 1: Probably it's Kelsey though. Yeah, Andrews is at five thousand

946
00:49:03,960 --> 00:49:08,960
Speaker 1: tonyans at. After that, it's you're you're really scratching, You're

947
00:49:08,960 --> 00:49:12,759
Speaker 1: you're hoping. Part of me wants to let's say, do Kelsey,

948
00:49:12,880 --> 00:49:15,799
Speaker 1: But we just bought the most expensive car the first

949
00:49:15,800 --> 00:49:17,440
Speaker 1: two lots we went. You can do that if you

950
00:49:17,440 --> 00:49:20,400
Speaker 1: think you can get a value at some other positions.

951
00:49:20,520 --> 00:49:23,120
Speaker 1: I think I get some value. Let's let's put Kelsey

952
00:49:23,160 --> 00:49:26,439
Speaker 1: in there. Okay, that leaves us an average of fifty

953
00:49:26,719 --> 00:49:29,600
Speaker 1: hundred now to spend on the rest of our all right,

954
00:49:30,080 --> 00:49:32,280
Speaker 1: you want to do a quarterback. Let's do a quarterback next.

955
00:49:32,600 --> 00:49:34,600
Speaker 1: So we got Kelsey in there. I think we should

956
00:49:34,600 --> 00:49:36,720
Speaker 1: try to be cheap. Do we want to stack mahomes

957
00:49:36,719 --> 00:49:40,120
Speaker 1: with Kelsey? Yeah, but he's eight thousand dollars, he's gonna

958
00:49:40,120 --> 00:49:42,680
Speaker 1: be number one. He's number one. Lamar Jackson's number two

959
00:49:42,680 --> 00:49:46,439
Speaker 1: at seventy UND. I actually prefer Alan to Jack Josh

960
00:49:46,520 --> 00:49:52,680
Speaker 1: Allen is se Aaron Rodgers is. I don't like that one. Okay,

961
00:49:52,719 --> 00:49:54,680
Speaker 1: I think the rams D is really good. Tom Brady,

962
00:49:54,719 --> 00:49:59,880
Speaker 1: it's I don't love that defense. How about breeze it

963
00:50:00,000 --> 00:50:03,120
Speaker 1: fifty six D? I don't like that either. Okay, Mayfield

964
00:50:03,120 --> 00:50:06,200
Speaker 1: A kind of like that one. Okay, I'm thinking that's

965
00:50:06,200 --> 00:50:08,000
Speaker 1: because I just think they're gonna be catching up and

966
00:50:08,040 --> 00:50:10,800
Speaker 1: he's gonna that There's been a lot of points in

967
00:50:10,800 --> 00:50:12,480
Speaker 1: that game that would put us under back under on

968
00:50:12,480 --> 00:50:14,239
Speaker 1: our target again, and I figured that's the way to do.

969
00:50:14,360 --> 00:50:17,160
Speaker 1: Do we want to go that route? I do. I'd

970
00:50:17,200 --> 00:50:19,040
Speaker 1: love to do my homes and because they may just

971
00:50:19,080 --> 00:50:20,640
Speaker 1: come on and try to run the football, and well

972
00:50:20,680 --> 00:50:23,399
Speaker 1: they will try, and but I just think the second

973
00:50:23,440 --> 00:50:27,680
Speaker 1: half will be about Baker. Okay, So that then leaves

974
00:50:27,719 --> 00:50:31,200
Speaker 1: us thirty three dollars for six spots to do for

975
00:50:31,280 --> 00:50:36,120
Speaker 1: six spots. Yeah, okay, so that's an average off per

976
00:50:36,200 --> 00:50:38,960
Speaker 1: spot and good running back. Running back, you have Alvin

977
00:50:39,000 --> 00:50:43,719
Speaker 1: Kamar at you have Aaron Jones hundred, Nick Chubb at

978
00:50:43,719 --> 00:50:48,439
Speaker 1: sixty six, d J. K. Dobbins at six thousand, Cam

979
00:50:48,480 --> 00:50:51,520
Speaker 1: Acres at fifty seven hundred. Yeah, he's going in the

980
00:50:51,560 --> 00:50:55,560
Speaker 1: lineup that fits our budget. I think the rams D

981
00:50:55,680 --> 00:50:58,520
Speaker 1: will be able to allow them to keep using Acre. Yeah.

982
00:50:58,560 --> 00:51:01,120
Speaker 1: Clyde Edwards Hilaire is fifth the five hundred. Do we

983
00:51:01,160 --> 00:51:06,800
Speaker 1: know he's playing? He's questionable. Ronald Jones is again question

984
00:51:07,560 --> 00:51:13,520
Speaker 1: Levi on Bell at fifty mm hmm, Leonard Fournet, not

985
00:51:13,600 --> 00:51:18,719
Speaker 1: with Jones, Liman Kareem Hunt hundred fourth quarter cop. That's

986
00:51:18,760 --> 00:51:21,160
Speaker 1: kind of a stack. It's kind of a stack because

987
00:51:21,200 --> 00:51:22,879
Speaker 1: he plays on passing downs. I do you think they're

988
00:51:22,880 --> 00:51:25,440
Speaker 1: gonna get blown out? I think they're gonna be behind.

989
00:51:26,000 --> 00:51:28,239
Speaker 1: He's in. He plays on third down situation. He was

990
00:51:28,800 --> 00:51:32,400
Speaker 1: the more valuable guy last week. He scored twice against

991
00:51:32,440 --> 00:51:35,680
Speaker 1: the Steelers. They'll lean on Chobb earlier, but I don't

992
00:51:35,719 --> 00:51:37,480
Speaker 1: know how long you can stick with that. Yeah, Now

993
00:51:37,520 --> 00:51:40,040
Speaker 1: you've also got Devin Singletary. At was the one I

994
00:51:40,040 --> 00:51:42,120
Speaker 1: was gonna bring up because I don't think he's very good.

995
00:51:42,239 --> 00:51:44,839
Speaker 1: I don't love the player. But Zack Moss is out,

996
00:51:45,280 --> 00:51:47,919
Speaker 1: and I'm sure they'll do some empty stuff where there's

997
00:51:47,960 --> 00:51:49,440
Speaker 1: not a running back on the field. They do a

998
00:51:49,440 --> 00:51:52,399
Speaker 1: lot of that, But he's a running back. Yeah, he's

999
00:51:52,400 --> 00:51:56,600
Speaker 1: gonna get He's get the ball a dozen touches, fifteen touches, right.

1000
00:51:57,719 --> 00:51:59,520
Speaker 1: I think he's cheap. I think he would make sense

1001
00:51:59,520 --> 00:52:01,640
Speaker 1: to me. We're you know, we could we could put

1002
00:52:01,680 --> 00:52:03,640
Speaker 1: one in the in our starting lineup and one in

1003
00:52:03,680 --> 00:52:06,319
Speaker 1: the flex and then we've saved a lot of money

1004
00:52:06,320 --> 00:52:09,279
Speaker 1: because they're now we can spend the rest of it

1005
00:52:09,320 --> 00:52:12,120
Speaker 1: on wide receiver. That's what I'm thinking. Depencil those two.

1006
00:52:12,360 --> 00:52:15,120
Speaker 1: Let's put acres or let's put hunger. We got acres

1007
00:52:15,160 --> 00:52:17,640
Speaker 1: at one running back position, hunt at the other, and

1008
00:52:17,680 --> 00:52:21,759
Speaker 1: then we'll go with the flex position. Singletary. Give me

1009
00:52:21,760 --> 00:52:23,520
Speaker 1: a couple of names after Singletary, if you would, that

1010
00:52:23,560 --> 00:52:26,480
Speaker 1: are cheaper. If this is the case somebody doesn't do,

1011
00:52:26,840 --> 00:52:31,040
Speaker 1: you're probably not gonna love this because Murray, it's uh

1012
00:52:31,200 --> 00:52:37,240
Speaker 1: what Jamal Williams uh Thompson from Kansas City, Tavis Murray,

1013
00:52:37,280 --> 00:52:42,200
Speaker 1: Gus Edwards. Um, I mean Edwards plays a fair amount

1014
00:52:42,239 --> 00:52:47,680
Speaker 1: since Ingram doesn't anymore. But I'd rather Singletary with the Rams. Um.

1015
00:52:47,800 --> 00:52:50,239
Speaker 1: You don't want to double stack the Rams running backs. Yeah,

1016
00:52:50,480 --> 00:52:53,040
Speaker 1: but I'm I'm cool with what we got. Yeah, alright,

1017
00:52:53,200 --> 00:52:55,360
Speaker 1: did we have a good buck to spend on two receivers?

1018
00:52:56,360 --> 00:52:59,240
Speaker 1: We will have? Yeah, let me let me put already.

1019
00:53:00,120 --> 00:53:02,280
Speaker 1: Let me get Singletary in there in the flex at.

1020
00:53:02,880 --> 00:53:05,800
Speaker 1: That leaves us with eighteen thousand that spent on three receivers.

1021
00:53:05,840 --> 00:53:08,400
Speaker 1: It's an average of six thousand. R U P. J.

1022
00:53:08,560 --> 00:53:11,200
Speaker 1: Math Yes, yes, all right. So the top guy is

1023
00:53:11,239 --> 00:53:14,000
Speaker 1: Davante Adams are. Don't like that. I don't like that.

1024
00:53:14,040 --> 00:53:16,799
Speaker 1: With Ramsey in town, Tyreek Hill is eight thousand. I

1025
00:53:16,840 --> 00:53:21,920
Speaker 1: don't dislike that at all. Stefon dig fine, but that's

1026
00:53:21,920 --> 00:53:24,080
Speaker 1: a good secondary. It's not as easy as matchup. How

1027
00:53:24,120 --> 00:53:29,440
Speaker 1: about Michael Thomas at decent that's a nice price. You're

1028
00:53:29,440 --> 00:53:31,640
Speaker 1: not gonna get Michael Thomas much cheaper than that, Right,

1029
00:53:31,640 --> 00:53:33,239
Speaker 1: that's about the best we ever get him. I would

1030
00:53:33,239 --> 00:53:37,120
Speaker 1: imagine Mike Evans at stud because Lattimore owns them. It's

1031
00:53:37,160 --> 00:53:40,439
Speaker 1: just a I would consider the other two though from Tampa. Yeah,

1032
00:53:40,520 --> 00:53:44,000
Speaker 1: well you got Chris Gobwin at sixty one. Okay, you've

1033
00:53:44,040 --> 00:53:47,440
Speaker 1: got Robert Woods are not with They may not throw

1034
00:53:48,200 --> 00:53:52,759
Speaker 1: Jarvis Landry at that was stack with Mayfield and Hunt

1035
00:53:52,880 --> 00:53:55,279
Speaker 1: kind of not bad, but I think I would I

1036
00:53:55,280 --> 00:53:58,280
Speaker 1: would rather have a B who's cheaper, a bift hundred,

1037
00:53:58,480 --> 00:54:00,279
Speaker 1: kind of like a B at that price. Yeah, Cooper

1038
00:54:00,320 --> 00:54:04,400
Speaker 1: Cup is fifty three hundred, questionable though, Marquis Brown fifty

1039
00:54:04,440 --> 00:54:07,279
Speaker 1: two d. I don't dislike it. I mean, he's boom

1040
00:54:07,360 --> 00:54:09,080
Speaker 1: or bust, and I know he's been in your doghouse

1041
00:54:09,120 --> 00:54:11,560
Speaker 1: this year, but they throw him a lot. Uh. Cole

1042
00:54:11,640 --> 00:54:19,239
Speaker 1: Beasley ist mm hmm. Sammy Watkins don't love it. John

1043
00:54:19,280 --> 00:54:25,760
Speaker 1: Brown at fort hundred burn, how about Emmanuel Sanders at

1044
00:54:26,600 --> 00:54:30,799
Speaker 1: it's not awful. Um, you get Robinson from Kansas City

1045
00:54:30,800 --> 00:54:34,080
Speaker 1: at fort hundred, Richard Higgins at forty one, it's a

1046
00:54:34,080 --> 00:54:38,440
Speaker 1: good price for him. UM Davis from Buffalo at four thousand,

1047
00:54:38,719 --> 00:54:43,200
Speaker 1: it's pretty low down the list. Lazard at isn't bad. Yeah,

1048
00:54:43,480 --> 00:54:49,560
Speaker 1: let me look at Lazard's stats here recently. Um, two receivers. Well,

1049
00:54:49,560 --> 00:54:53,240
Speaker 1: here's the problem. The last two games of the season. Uh,

1050
00:54:53,280 --> 00:54:56,520
Speaker 1: we're actually his last four games three for nineteen, six

1051
00:54:56,560 --> 00:55:00,000
Speaker 1: for fifty six, two for four and to four I'm sorry,

1052
00:55:00,080 --> 00:55:03,400
Speaker 1: five for fifty six. Uh, two for fourteen, two for

1053
00:55:03,520 --> 00:55:08,319
Speaker 1: seventeen tons of good. Yeah, I'm not. That's still more

1054
00:55:08,320 --> 00:55:10,960
Speaker 1: than what John Brown did for us. Well, all right,

1055
00:55:11,040 --> 00:55:13,840
Speaker 1: but that's not the production we're looking about. Scantling the

1056
00:55:13,880 --> 00:55:17,520
Speaker 1: last four games, you're looking at two eight seven and

1057
00:55:17,560 --> 00:55:22,160
Speaker 1: a touchdown. Yeah, uh no catches on one target against Carolina,

1058
00:55:22,280 --> 00:55:24,880
Speaker 1: Against Detroit it was six for eight five in a touchdown,

1059
00:55:25,520 --> 00:55:29,440
Speaker 1: and against Philadelphia was uh no catches on two targets.

1060
00:55:29,480 --> 00:55:31,279
Speaker 1: So it's been hit and miss. They've been running the

1061
00:55:31,320 --> 00:55:33,200
Speaker 1: ball at times where they're going on here. They've been

1062
00:55:33,239 --> 00:55:35,520
Speaker 1: beating up bad teams and running the ball with Dylan

1063
00:55:35,560 --> 00:55:38,280
Speaker 1: in the snow and those type of games. Now, Higgins

1064
00:55:38,360 --> 00:55:41,000
Speaker 1: in this last game was targeted seven times against the Steelers,

1065
00:55:41,040 --> 00:55:46,520
Speaker 1: had two catches. He's not two catches for twenty eight yards.

1066
00:55:46,560 --> 00:55:49,960
Speaker 1: He against the Steelers the last in the regular season finale,

1067
00:55:50,080 --> 00:55:53,120
Speaker 1: three h three targets, two catches for fifty five, four

1068
00:55:53,200 --> 00:55:57,000
Speaker 1: for seventy six, six for sixty eight and touchdown against Baltimore. Okay,

1069
00:55:57,840 --> 00:56:00,440
Speaker 1: let's do this exercise. Lets see if you're cool with it. Okay,

1070
00:56:00,719 --> 00:56:04,560
Speaker 1: if you put Tyreeke and a B in the line up, Okay,

1071
00:56:05,120 --> 00:56:08,480
Speaker 1: but we got left. Uh that was just one starter

1072
00:56:08,600 --> 00:56:12,120
Speaker 1: to pick. That leaves us? And what's that get us? Roughly?

1073
00:56:12,280 --> 00:56:19,680
Speaker 1: John Brown is the tom or you get Emmanuel Sanders. Yeah,

1074
00:56:19,880 --> 00:56:24,320
Speaker 1: Emmanuel Sanders game log he had against Chicago in the

1075
00:56:24,440 --> 00:56:28,239
Speaker 1: in the finale two catches on three targets for three yards.

1076
00:56:29,360 --> 00:56:32,680
Speaker 1: But the game before that against Carolina nine catches for

1077
00:56:32,719 --> 00:56:36,120
Speaker 1: sixty three and a touchdown. Take that the game in

1078
00:56:36,200 --> 00:56:41,760
Speaker 1: week sixteen against Minnesota four catches for eighty three against

1079
00:56:41,840 --> 00:56:45,799
Speaker 1: Kansas City and week fifteen was four for seventy six. Okay,

1080
00:56:45,880 --> 00:56:48,480
Speaker 1: here's my question to you. Then I think we'd agree

1081
00:56:48,560 --> 00:56:51,560
Speaker 1: he would be our pick for our remaining money. But

1082
00:56:51,640 --> 00:56:57,640
Speaker 1: would you rather have Manny Sanders and Tyreek or Michael

1083
00:56:57,680 --> 00:57:04,319
Speaker 1: Thomas and question Mark? Well, let's see you um, Let's

1084
00:57:04,360 --> 00:57:06,480
Speaker 1: take because that was a nice bargain on Thomas. Let's

1085
00:57:06,480 --> 00:57:08,680
Speaker 1: take Thomas. Let's take a Tyreek out of the lineup,

1086
00:57:08,680 --> 00:57:12,279
Speaker 1: put Thomas in. That leaves us and then our top

1087
00:57:12,320 --> 00:57:16,320
Speaker 1: targets are Robert Woods, Jarvis Landry, Cooper, Cup, Marquise Brown.

1088
00:57:18,320 --> 00:57:23,320
Speaker 1: I might like that better. We already have Kelsey. What

1089
00:57:23,440 --> 00:57:25,240
Speaker 1: if we go cheap on that and then instead of

1090
00:57:25,280 --> 00:57:29,280
Speaker 1: going with Mayfield, we go with my homes and not

1091
00:57:29,640 --> 00:57:35,120
Speaker 1: use use Thomas and Sanders and bump up to my home.

1092
00:57:35,200 --> 00:57:37,440
Speaker 1: Let's see if we can do that that leaves us

1093
00:57:37,560 --> 00:57:41,720
Speaker 1: with Let's see if we take Mayfield out of line up,

1094
00:57:41,760 --> 00:57:44,120
Speaker 1: that does not get us enough money. We need another

1095
00:57:44,880 --> 00:57:49,240
Speaker 1: dollars to get to my homes. So if I gave

1096
00:57:49,320 --> 00:57:52,240
Speaker 1: you of those names you mentioned, I kind of like

1097
00:57:52,320 --> 00:57:54,760
Speaker 1: Marky's Brown better than the two Rams. I wish Cup

1098
00:57:54,920 --> 00:57:58,840
Speaker 1: was healthy. Would you rather have Thomas and Brown or

1099
00:57:59,120 --> 00:58:03,160
Speaker 1: Sanders and Hill, Thomas and Brown or Sanders and Hill.

1100
00:58:05,560 --> 00:58:09,280
Speaker 1: Hm hmm. I think there'll be a lot of points

1101
00:58:09,320 --> 00:58:11,920
Speaker 1: in Buffalo. I think Sanders. I think Sanders and Hill.

1102
00:58:12,960 --> 00:58:16,360
Speaker 1: Tyreek could blow up. I mean, yeah, I have no

1103
00:58:16,440 --> 00:58:18,400
Speaker 1: problem with that. I think they're pretty equal. I think

1104
00:58:18,440 --> 00:58:21,680
Speaker 1: Sanders is unlikely to do poorly. I think you'll blow

1105
00:58:21,800 --> 00:58:23,800
Speaker 1: up one way or the other. We're taking one of

1106
00:58:23,880 --> 00:58:27,720
Speaker 1: the Saints receivers, and I think I think Sanders is

1107
00:58:27,960 --> 00:58:31,520
Speaker 1: a clear double yeah, right right right right where tyreeks

1108
00:58:31,600 --> 00:58:34,480
Speaker 1: where Tyreek could be your grand slam, like three grand slams,

1109
00:58:34,920 --> 00:58:38,040
Speaker 1: right and works. Yeah, and you've also got Kelsey, So

1110
00:58:38,120 --> 00:58:40,919
Speaker 1: you've essentially got the entire Kansas City passing game, which

1111
00:58:40,920 --> 00:58:42,960
Speaker 1: I'm fine with. That's a good one to have. It's

1112
00:58:43,000 --> 00:58:46,480
Speaker 1: not about one to have one of the two. One

1113
00:58:46,520 --> 00:58:48,760
Speaker 1: of the two is catching multiple touchdown passes this week.

1114
00:58:49,080 --> 00:58:52,680
Speaker 1: I doubt it's Sammy Watkins and DeMarcus Robinson and right, yeah,

1115
00:58:52,880 --> 00:58:55,840
Speaker 1: I'm cool with that. Let's do Tyreek and Okay, we're

1116
00:58:55,840 --> 00:58:58,800
Speaker 1: gonna take him out. We get said, okay, so like

1117
00:58:58,920 --> 00:59:02,000
Speaker 1: Manny over John Brown. I think so that gives us,

1118
00:59:02,120 --> 00:59:04,560
Speaker 1: that gives us we're still have a hundred dollars left

1119
00:59:04,640 --> 00:59:08,320
Speaker 1: over again, So the our lineup would then be Mayfield

1120
00:59:08,440 --> 00:59:12,680
Speaker 1: at quarterback, Cam Akers at running back, Kareem Hunt at

1121
00:59:12,680 --> 00:59:18,040
Speaker 1: the other running back position, Tyreek Hill, Cool Antonio Brown,

1122
00:59:18,880 --> 00:59:24,760
Speaker 1: Emmanuel Sanders, Travis Kelsey. That's the beauty of it, Devin

1123
00:59:25,160 --> 00:59:28,320
Speaker 1: Devin Singletary at running back and the Packers defense. I

1124
00:59:28,400 --> 00:59:31,800
Speaker 1: kind of look at Singletary and Sanders as there are

1125
00:59:31,920 --> 00:59:34,040
Speaker 1: single maybe they turn into a dolt. Let's take a look.

1126
00:59:34,040 --> 00:59:37,800
Speaker 1: If we take Singletary out of the lineup, we could, Yeah,

1127
00:59:37,840 --> 00:59:39,960
Speaker 1: we could take what other see if what we can

1128
00:59:40,000 --> 00:59:42,880
Speaker 1: spend there, so you get John Brown. Real quick question,

1129
00:59:42,920 --> 00:59:45,240
Speaker 1: there's not a quarterback. It's only a hundred more than Mayfield.

1130
00:59:45,280 --> 00:59:47,640
Speaker 1: I don't believe that there is a little bit down

1131
00:59:47,680 --> 00:59:51,200
Speaker 1: behind us. Now if we go if we go really cheap,

1132
00:59:51,440 --> 00:59:54,040
Speaker 1: well that would be really super cheap it flex we

1133
00:59:54,080 --> 00:59:57,320
Speaker 1: could get my homes. M hmm. I think we have

1134
00:59:57,440 --> 00:59:59,120
Speaker 1: enough of the casey path. Let me see what if

1135
00:59:59,160 --> 01:00:00,920
Speaker 1: we If we do that, what that leads us is

1136
01:00:00,960 --> 01:00:03,120
Speaker 1: the flex position. If there's a nineteen there's no nineteen

1137
01:00:03,160 --> 01:00:06,800
Speaker 1: hundred dollar players, so we definitely we have to go

1138
01:00:06,880 --> 01:00:12,920
Speaker 1: really cheap somewhere else. So uh at quarterback, Yeah, Mayfield

1139
01:00:13,000 --> 01:00:16,400
Speaker 1: is fifty three, Drew Brees is fifty six. I just

1140
01:00:16,480 --> 01:00:18,959
Speaker 1: wonder if there's one one bump up maybe, But okay,

1141
01:00:19,000 --> 01:00:22,640
Speaker 1: if we take Singletary, oh the flex that leads somebody

1142
01:00:22,640 --> 01:00:26,880
Speaker 1: a hundred bucks more than him, John Brown is, I

1143
01:00:26,920 --> 01:00:30,000
Speaker 1: don't love that. Singletary is forty five. Singletary is not

1144
01:00:30,000 --> 01:00:34,919
Speaker 1: getting zero. Um. Jamal Williams at I think I'm happy

1145
01:00:34,960 --> 01:00:39,320
Speaker 1: with Singletary. Yeah, I'm just looking here, Robinson, Gus Edwards,

1146
01:00:41,160 --> 01:00:44,200
Speaker 1: maybe Edwards, maybe Edwards, but I'd rather have the guy

1147
01:00:44,240 --> 01:00:47,320
Speaker 1: who's not sharing any carries with anybody else. Singletary doesn't

1148
01:00:47,360 --> 01:00:50,360
Speaker 1: catch the ball much, but Edwards doesn't at all. Yeah.

1149
01:00:50,960 --> 01:00:53,280
Speaker 1: And if you look at singles, you look at singletaries

1150
01:00:53,320 --> 01:00:56,200
Speaker 1: game logs here over the last over the last month.

1151
01:00:56,320 --> 01:00:58,960
Speaker 1: Last week against Indianapolis, you only had three carries for

1152
01:00:59,400 --> 01:01:03,400
Speaker 1: one yards, Yeah, but he had three catches for twenty

1153
01:01:03,480 --> 01:01:08,000
Speaker 1: three yards. Against Miami he had three carries for seven yards,

1154
01:01:08,080 --> 01:01:11,240
Speaker 1: one catch for six there, but they were that was

1155
01:01:11,280 --> 01:01:14,640
Speaker 1: just a complete blowout, right, they didn't play in the Stars.

1156
01:01:15,040 --> 01:01:17,280
Speaker 1: Against New England in week sixteen, it was ten carries

1157
01:01:17,320 --> 01:01:20,680
Speaker 1: for thirty six yards, two catches for sixteen And I

1158
01:01:20,720 --> 01:01:22,919
Speaker 1: don't love him. But I just think his situation is good.

1159
01:01:23,160 --> 01:01:26,120
Speaker 1: Against Denver in week fifteen, it was eight for sixty

1160
01:01:26,160 --> 01:01:28,360
Speaker 1: eight with a touchdown, three catches for sixteen yards. He's

1161
01:01:28,360 --> 01:01:29,960
Speaker 1: actually caught the ball a little bit more, and that's

1162
01:01:30,000 --> 01:01:32,120
Speaker 1: the most encouraging. If we if he gets three catches

1163
01:01:32,200 --> 01:01:35,400
Speaker 1: for us, we're fine. Yeah, he's gonna get He's gonna

1164
01:01:35,400 --> 01:01:37,120
Speaker 1: get you ten points. That's what you're looking for out

1165
01:01:37,120 --> 01:01:38,600
Speaker 1: of there. You hope that the rest of your line up.

1166
01:01:38,640 --> 01:01:41,920
Speaker 1: You know, if if Kelsey, if Kelsey and Hill and

1167
01:01:42,000 --> 01:01:45,000
Speaker 1: Acres hit like you think they're going to, then you

1168
01:01:45,120 --> 01:01:47,480
Speaker 1: take that ten points out of right, right, right? If

1169
01:01:47,480 --> 01:01:49,800
Speaker 1: you get ten out of Sanders, ten out of Singletary,

1170
01:01:50,800 --> 01:01:52,760
Speaker 1: I think you're you'd take that right. And if he

1171
01:01:52,800 --> 01:01:56,280
Speaker 1: falls into the end zone all the better, well of course, yeah, absolutely,

1172
01:01:56,440 --> 01:01:58,760
Speaker 1: or you know, get you know, I would think if

1173
01:01:58,800 --> 01:02:00,960
Speaker 1: I'm Baltimore, I'm loading up to stop. I don't want

1174
01:02:01,040 --> 01:02:04,600
Speaker 1: Josh Allen running the football. No, I want Devin Singletary

1175
01:02:04,680 --> 01:02:07,320
Speaker 1: running the football, agreed. And I think they're gonna hit

1176
01:02:07,960 --> 01:02:10,320
Speaker 1: and blitz him a lot. And it probably takes some

1177
01:02:10,360 --> 01:02:12,560
Speaker 1: steel attack to explay a lot of man to demand coverage,

1178
01:02:13,000 --> 01:02:16,320
Speaker 1: and really those those Ravens linebackers aren't so great in coverage, right,

1179
01:02:16,400 --> 01:02:19,080
Speaker 1: that's the thing you can take advantage of. Slow down

1180
01:02:19,120 --> 01:02:21,040
Speaker 1: the blitz. What you do We then look at Dawson

1181
01:02:21,160 --> 01:02:23,960
Speaker 1: Knocks at tight end. I thought about it. Of the

1182
01:02:24,000 --> 01:02:26,560
Speaker 1: guys we didn't mention, of the super cheap guys, he

1183
01:02:26,640 --> 01:02:28,640
Speaker 1: would be my pick because then we could spend up

1184
01:02:28,840 --> 01:02:32,040
Speaker 1: at the wide receiver position. Yeah, but I like Kelsey

1185
01:02:34,680 --> 01:02:36,960
Speaker 1: from But if Knox catches five passes for fifty eight

1186
01:02:37,040 --> 01:02:40,040
Speaker 1: yards and gets in the end zone, yeah, and you

1187
01:02:40,080 --> 01:02:42,600
Speaker 1: also get you also then get Michael Thomas instead of

1188
01:02:43,400 --> 01:02:48,360
Speaker 1: Emmanuel Sanders. Yeah, I mean that's a question Thomas and

1189
01:02:50,480 --> 01:02:55,400
Speaker 1: Knox versus Kelsey and Sanders. I think I still want Kelsey.

1190
01:02:56,520 --> 01:02:58,160
Speaker 1: I do like the Knox call, though I was thinking

1191
01:02:58,160 --> 01:03:00,760
Speaker 1: about him. Yeah, because that's where you this is the

1192
01:03:00,840 --> 01:03:02,800
Speaker 1: thing here you want because what you want to do

1193
01:03:03,000 --> 01:03:07,840
Speaker 1: here is not get the chalky picks because unless unless

1194
01:03:07,840 --> 01:03:10,280
Speaker 1: those guys go off. If tyreek Kill goes off and

1195
01:03:10,320 --> 01:03:13,400
Speaker 1: you have them in your lineup, fantastic. If he doesn't,

1196
01:03:14,320 --> 01:03:15,800
Speaker 1: well you're you're in the same boat that the other

1197
01:03:16,320 --> 01:03:18,160
Speaker 1: percent of the people. Because there's only there's only four

1198
01:03:18,200 --> 01:03:21,240
Speaker 1: games this weekend, so the I The idea is to

1199
01:03:21,280 --> 01:03:23,280
Speaker 1: pick guys who aren't who are going to go off,

1200
01:03:23,360 --> 01:03:26,760
Speaker 1: but aren't necessarily going to be in everybody's lineup if

1201
01:03:26,800 --> 01:03:29,240
Speaker 1: you're certainly qualified. So I think we got I think

1202
01:03:29,280 --> 01:03:33,000
Speaker 1: we got that with Mayfield. Yes, I think we probably

1203
01:03:33,080 --> 01:03:38,000
Speaker 1: have that with Singletary. We probably have that with Emmanuel Sanders.

1204
01:03:38,200 --> 01:03:39,920
Speaker 1: We got some guys here that aren't going to be

1205
01:03:40,000 --> 01:03:42,320
Speaker 1: super chucky, but we have Kelsey's gonna be in a

1206
01:03:42,360 --> 01:03:44,200
Speaker 1: lot of lineups. Hill is gonna be in a lot

1207
01:03:44,240 --> 01:03:46,120
Speaker 1: of lineups. Acres is going to be in a lot

1208
01:03:46,160 --> 01:03:49,720
Speaker 1: of lineups. He's a good value and people know him. Um,

1209
01:03:50,040 --> 01:03:53,960
Speaker 1: when when you initially started giving me the tight end values,

1210
01:03:54,640 --> 01:03:59,960
Speaker 1: I thought Kelsey or and Knocks would do you think

1211
01:04:00,000 --> 01:04:02,760
Speaker 1: Tanyan could be a guy there too, Because if if

1212
01:04:02,840 --> 01:04:05,840
Speaker 1: Adams is taken out of the equation we just rattled

1213
01:04:05,880 --> 01:04:11,240
Speaker 1: off the lazard, Tanyan is really the number two target there,

1214
01:04:11,320 --> 01:04:13,880
Speaker 1: especially in the red zone. It kind of is. I

1215
01:04:13,920 --> 01:04:16,520
Speaker 1: don't Kelsey's hard for me to ignore against those Brown

1216
01:04:16,600 --> 01:04:21,240
Speaker 1: safety's I know and their linebackers. You know again, you

1217
01:04:21,280 --> 01:04:24,800
Speaker 1: look at seven here's his last four games, eight catches

1218
01:04:24,840 --> 01:04:26,840
Speaker 1: for one thirty six eight catches for one, and he

1219
01:04:26,920 --> 01:04:28,720
Speaker 1: scored every one of the it's every week for eight

1220
01:04:28,760 --> 01:04:30,800
Speaker 1: catches for one, thirty six, eight for sixty eight and

1221
01:04:30,880 --> 01:04:33,960
Speaker 1: a score and seven and a score. I mean, it

1222
01:04:34,040 --> 01:04:37,280
Speaker 1: just scores every week, scores every week. Because there's gonna

1223
01:04:37,280 --> 01:04:40,240
Speaker 1: be my homes. If we're gonna have to beat teams

1224
01:04:40,280 --> 01:04:42,280
Speaker 1: that have my homes, we're gonna have to have Tyreek

1225
01:04:42,320 --> 01:04:44,840
Speaker 1: and Kelsey. Yeah, you know what I mean, because there's

1226
01:04:44,840 --> 01:04:46,560
Speaker 1: only a lot of people playing my homes because you

1227
01:04:46,600 --> 01:04:49,400
Speaker 1: only get four points for a touchdown pass, so you

1228
01:04:49,480 --> 01:04:52,520
Speaker 1: need you need Mayfield to throw for like at least

1229
01:04:53,800 --> 01:04:59,280
Speaker 1: to fifty and a couple of touchdowns run for. Yeah.

1230
01:04:59,800 --> 01:05:02,240
Speaker 1: He he's not going to be Mahomes. No, but you're

1231
01:05:02,240 --> 01:05:03,640
Speaker 1: not paying for my homes. You get you know that

1232
01:05:03,720 --> 01:05:07,160
Speaker 1: allows you to get and Kelsey and Hill. Yeah, I

1233
01:05:07,200 --> 01:05:10,160
Speaker 1: think got one Kelsey more than I like the Knox call.

1234
01:05:10,360 --> 01:05:13,520
Speaker 1: And it's worth exploring. Michael Thomas. I'm not sure it's

1235
01:05:13,560 --> 01:05:15,760
Speaker 1: the same as he last year, Michael Thomas, but he

1236
01:05:15,840 --> 01:05:20,320
Speaker 1: still gets peppered with targets. Yes, yes, And there's no

1237
01:05:20,440 --> 01:05:24,040
Speaker 1: Devon White in the middle of the field. And I

1238
01:05:24,080 --> 01:05:27,040
Speaker 1: think he's back in practicing all right, so that's our

1239
01:05:27,240 --> 01:05:28,600
Speaker 1: our line up. Then we're gonna go with this. I'm

1240
01:05:28,600 --> 01:05:31,240
Speaker 1: gonna enter this. It's Baker Mayfield a quarterback for fifty

1241
01:05:31,320 --> 01:05:34,200
Speaker 1: three hundred, Cam Makers at running back for fifty seven

1242
01:05:35,080 --> 01:05:39,040
Speaker 1: Kareem Hunt at running back for hundred uh Tyreek Hill

1243
01:05:39,600 --> 01:05:43,160
Speaker 1: at wide receiver for eight thousand, Antonio Brown at wide

1244
01:05:43,200 --> 01:05:46,440
Speaker 1: receiver for fifty four hundred, Emmanuel Sanders at wide receiver

1245
01:05:46,560 --> 01:05:50,480
Speaker 1: fort hundred, Travis Kelsey at tight end for seventy eight hundred,

1246
01:05:50,520 --> 01:05:54,440
Speaker 1: Devon Singletary at running back for and the Packers d

1247
01:05:55,080 --> 01:05:59,080
Speaker 1: attund That leaves us with a hundred dollars to spend. Boy,

1248
01:05:59,320 --> 01:06:01,320
Speaker 1: wish we had that under dollars, but we don't. We're

1249
01:06:01,320 --> 01:06:03,800
Speaker 1: gonna enter that. We're getting into a five dollar contest

1250
01:06:03,880 --> 01:06:06,960
Speaker 1: here on DraftKings. Hopefully we at least double our money.

1251
01:06:07,720 --> 01:06:10,600
Speaker 1: Here's a crazy idea. If you had a hundred dollars

1252
01:06:10,680 --> 01:06:13,600
Speaker 1: left to spend, they should give you a point. If

1253
01:06:13,600 --> 01:06:15,439
Speaker 1: you have two hundred dollars, let's spend, you get two points.

1254
01:06:15,560 --> 01:06:17,760
Speaker 1: They should but they don't. They don't do that. And

1255
01:06:17,840 --> 01:06:20,640
Speaker 1: I'm hitting enter it now. We are in. We are

1256
01:06:20,880 --> 01:06:24,040
Speaker 1: locked in, baby, locked in. Congratulations, you're in we're in

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Speaker 1: the seventy five dollar. How do it's a single entry.

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Speaker 1: That's the only ten of that's all I play on draftings,

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Speaker 1: single entries. I don't want to get into that. They

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Speaker 1: have somewhere you can enter twenty different lineups frea person.

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Speaker 1: That's just that's ridiculous. Give me one lineup. I'll go

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Speaker 1: with that. I'm sure there's mathematicians and professionals that do

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Speaker 1: that and laid all while. Oh yeah, I just want

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Speaker 1: to root for the guys I picked. Yeah, you know,

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Speaker 1: and I've done okay this year. Yeah, I've good more

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Speaker 1: than triple actually more than quadrupled my money for the year.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, why not. But we're experts, so why why

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Speaker 1: should Yeah? Yeah, Anyways, he is Matt Williamson, I'm Dale Lilly.

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Speaker 1: That's the uh, that is our fantasy football focus. We're

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Speaker 1: gonna take your break. When we come back, we'll talk

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Speaker 1: more Steelers right after this your tunes about drive on

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Speaker 1: Home of the Black and Goal Steelers Nation Radio. Welcome back.

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Speaker 1: I'm Dale Lolly here with Matt Williamson and uh some

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Speaker 1: Steelers news and no. Chair of the Steelers signed third

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Speaker 1: team players to reserve future contracts. These are essentially just

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Speaker 1: these are guys. Yeah, this is what happens. You signed

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Speaker 1: the guys on your practice squad. There'll be a camp

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Speaker 1: next year. There'll be a camp next year. Those guy

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Speaker 1: guys are Anthony Johnson, UH wide receiver Anthony Johnson, wide receiver,

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Speaker 1: Cody White, tight end Kevin Raider, offensive tackle Anthony Coyle.

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01:08:11,840 --> 01:08:13,959
Speaker 1: Raider and Coyle spent some time on the active roster

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01:08:14,080 --> 01:08:18,439
Speaker 1: this year. Offensive tackle Brandon Walton, UH safety John Battle,

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01:08:18,600 --> 01:08:21,160
Speaker 1: linebacker to Gray Scales, who also spent some time on

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Speaker 1: the active roster this year. UH defensive tackle DeMarcus Christmas,

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Speaker 1: defensive end Calvin Taylor, punter Cordless weightman who was on

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Speaker 1: the practice squad all year that was a long snapper,

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01:08:32,960 --> 01:08:35,800
Speaker 1: Christian Kunz has been around for a while now, UM

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Speaker 1: offensive tackle John Leglue, and I wonder if he sticks

1289
01:08:39,200 --> 01:08:43,759
Speaker 1: to defenders like the leglu and then cornerback Trevor Williams.

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01:08:44,240 --> 01:08:47,960
Speaker 1: Eleven of those guys of the thirteen UH ended the

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01:08:48,000 --> 01:08:50,320
Speaker 1: season on the Steelers practice squad. Yeah, so you're familiar

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01:08:50,360 --> 01:08:51,800
Speaker 1: with them, you bring on the camp and you know

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01:08:52,400 --> 01:08:54,640
Speaker 1: they don't count, don't hurt your cap or anything or

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01:08:54,640 --> 01:08:57,040
Speaker 1: at the moment and any of those names jump out

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01:08:57,080 --> 01:08:59,479
Speaker 1: at you, I mean not really for me, well raiders

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01:08:59,560 --> 01:09:02,280
Speaker 1: that this is the guy that is the most interesting,

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01:09:02,400 --> 01:09:06,400
Speaker 1: like Coil year, Yeah, I think I think he has

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Speaker 1: a shot, pending on what they do in the off season.

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Speaker 1: I think, you know, perhaps Coil has that chance to

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Speaker 1: be that guy who makes yeah, the develop developmental tackle

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Speaker 1: who takes that step for you. And uh, I'd love

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01:09:18,080 --> 01:09:20,960
Speaker 1: a guy like Christmas to be your sixth defensive and

1303
01:09:21,000 --> 01:09:23,720
Speaker 1: the other guy to keep an eye on his cordless weightman. Yeah,

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01:09:24,080 --> 01:09:26,800
Speaker 1: a chance to be your putter next year, because yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean, is he you know, has he gotten better?

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Speaker 1: Is he? You know? He's not bad? I mean I

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01:09:34,120 --> 01:09:36,280
Speaker 1: watched him punt all year long, because that's all he

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01:09:36,360 --> 01:09:39,400
Speaker 1: did all year long, wash standard punt and work with

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01:09:39,479 --> 01:09:42,760
Speaker 1: the Danny Smith and you know, trying to kind of

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Speaker 1: as a developmental guy. I'm sure they were looking at Yeah,

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01:09:46,800 --> 01:09:49,360
Speaker 1: I mean they you know, they cut Jordan Burry at

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01:09:49,400 --> 01:09:52,839
Speaker 1: the end of the preseason to go ahead and sign um.

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01:09:54,439 --> 01:09:57,840
Speaker 1: I can't I think of his name though. Yeah, and

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01:09:57,880 --> 01:10:00,800
Speaker 1: then and then they got very back after bar failed

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01:10:01,200 --> 01:10:07,680
Speaker 1: bombed out but quit specialist quick um. But they kept

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01:10:07,720 --> 01:10:09,920
Speaker 1: waiting around all season. A part of that was because

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Speaker 1: of the COVID situation. Didn't want to have a guy

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Speaker 1: ready and just in case. Yeah, that's why I was

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01:10:13,840 --> 01:10:15,600
Speaker 1: a little shocked that they But the other part of

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01:10:15,640 --> 01:10:18,080
Speaker 1: the reason for that was because you're looking down the line.

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01:10:18,439 --> 01:10:21,719
Speaker 1: Obviously they liked this guy that they think, hey, maybe

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01:10:21,760 --> 01:10:23,600
Speaker 1: he could be, you know, the punter next year. I

1323
01:10:23,640 --> 01:10:25,320
Speaker 1: don't know what they're paying Barry off the top of

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01:10:25,360 --> 01:10:27,080
Speaker 1: my head with the new contract. I mean, I know

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01:10:27,160 --> 01:10:29,160
Speaker 1: he was a little pricey the first time around. It

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01:10:29,240 --> 01:10:32,240
Speaker 1: was not it was nine hundred thousand dollars bring him back. Yeah,

1327
01:10:32,600 --> 01:10:34,599
Speaker 1: but they obviously didn't think he's one of the best

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Speaker 1: punters in the league. You know, they let him go

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01:10:36,760 --> 01:10:38,920
Speaker 1: just a couple of months ago. So yeah, that'd be interesting.

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01:10:39,240 --> 01:10:40,920
Speaker 1: So that's something to keep an eye on with that.

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01:10:41,640 --> 01:10:45,120
Speaker 1: Jerry Doulak also recorded sorry punters too long snappers, but

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Speaker 1: no other kickers. Obviously no other kickers um. Jerry Doulak

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Speaker 1: also reporting that the UH Steelers UH senior defensive assistant

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01:10:55,080 --> 01:10:59,519
Speaker 1: UH secondary coach Terrell Austin uh interviewing for the defensive

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01:10:59,520 --> 01:11:04,240
Speaker 1: coordinator position in Tennessee. I don't love that. Yeah, it

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Speaker 1: sounds like Canada's interviewing in Miami. Well, I don't know

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01:11:07,640 --> 01:11:10,000
Speaker 1: he's interviewing, and I think I think he set out

1338
01:11:10,040 --> 01:11:13,840
Speaker 1: some feelers. I think that's his m o. Um, you know,

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01:11:14,840 --> 01:11:17,120
Speaker 1: spend a years somewhere and then go somewhere else. I mean,

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Speaker 1: especially after letting go of Bradley, I would not want

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01:11:19,200 --> 01:11:21,120
Speaker 1: to lose Austin. Yeah, that would that would be a

1342
01:11:21,160 --> 01:11:24,840
Speaker 1: double Emmy there. Yeah. So you know, if you're the Steelers, um,

1343
01:11:25,880 --> 01:11:29,800
Speaker 1: you can stop that, right, But you know, somebody else's job.

1344
01:11:30,560 --> 01:11:33,840
Speaker 1: We know how that works. I guess you consider it.

1345
01:11:34,520 --> 01:11:35,880
Speaker 1: I mean, if he says, hey, I got a dofer

1346
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Speaker 1: on the table, I'm gonna go take the job in Tennessee,

1347
01:11:38,880 --> 01:11:41,960
Speaker 1: try to build a pass rush. If you know the Titans,

1348
01:11:42,000 --> 01:11:43,240
Speaker 1: you get the word pass rush in the league. You

1349
01:11:43,280 --> 01:11:44,160
Speaker 1: might as we look at the team of the best

1350
01:11:44,160 --> 01:11:45,920
Speaker 1: pass rush in the league. Yeah, you want to find

1351
01:11:45,960 --> 01:11:48,599
Speaker 1: out again, maybe it's a situation where hey, these guys

1352
01:11:48,960 --> 01:11:51,360
Speaker 1: rush the passer. Well, you know, Tarall Austin, you've been

1353
01:11:51,400 --> 01:11:54,680
Speaker 1: there for two years, not bringing TJ with you. What

1354
01:11:54,760 --> 01:11:56,400
Speaker 1: do we need to do here? Right? At least help

1355
01:11:56,479 --> 01:11:58,519
Speaker 1: us out right? I mean that's our biggest weakness and

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01:11:59,320 --> 01:12:01,240
Speaker 1: can you help us with blitz schemes, Are you know,

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01:12:01,320 --> 01:12:03,760
Speaker 1: coverage behind the stuff, and yeah, yeah, that makes sense.

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01:12:03,880 --> 01:12:06,479
Speaker 1: They actually got some pressure last week. They did that

1359
01:12:06,600 --> 01:12:10,640
Speaker 1: was surprising and a little worrisome if I was the

1360
01:12:11,240 --> 01:12:13,960
Speaker 1: Birdies a little bit, like I was wondering is their past.

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Speaker 1: We know their protection is not great, but he was

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Speaker 1: sacked I think four times, not that many attempts. It's

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Speaker 1: it's it's I think it's you know, I think it's

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Speaker 1: a problem for Baltimore. I don't think they protected quarterback

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Speaker 1: real well. There's they're they're run. They're a run blocking line,

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Speaker 1: and they don't gotten better. They don't move real well.

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01:12:31,400 --> 01:12:34,599
Speaker 1: And Stanley did, Yeah they did right, But the rest

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01:12:34,640 --> 01:12:37,000
Speaker 1: of them are big amber down hill guys. Yeah, so

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Speaker 1: that's gonna be something that we'll keep an eye on

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Speaker 1: this weekend with Buffalo and in Baltimore. Buffalo doesn't have

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Speaker 1: a stud pass rusher, but they have a pretty good

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Speaker 1: pass rush and in terms of they have a bunch

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Speaker 1: of guys across the board, yeah, uses decent and they

1374
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Speaker 1: got you know, Oliver's first round pick, and but they

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01:12:52,240 --> 01:12:54,360
Speaker 1: don't have a stud. Yeah, I think they will get

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01:12:54,400 --> 01:12:57,040
Speaker 1: some pressure on Lamar in this game, and I do too. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: And I think they'll do well against their receivers, but

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01:12:59,560 --> 01:13:03,240
Speaker 1: they're run offense isn't great, which obviously isn't what you want. Um.

1379
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Speaker 1: But Baltimore is such a different run game than most

1380
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Speaker 1: because it's all both of those teams. The quarterback is

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Speaker 1: the main running guy. You know. The running it's weird, yes,

1382
01:13:17,320 --> 01:13:19,640
Speaker 1: in a very different ways. It's almost high schoolish. And

1383
01:13:19,960 --> 01:13:23,120
Speaker 1: one of the reasons the Bills aren't great against the

1384
01:13:23,240 --> 01:13:26,080
Speaker 1: run is the Rams are like this, the Packers are

1385
01:13:26,120 --> 01:13:28,280
Speaker 1: like this. They won't dedicate an extra guy in the box.

1386
01:13:28,520 --> 01:13:30,320
Speaker 1: In a way, they're kind of begging you to run.

1387
01:13:30,479 --> 01:13:32,280
Speaker 1: And which is an analytical view of it all, like

1388
01:13:32,680 --> 01:13:34,919
Speaker 1: if you're gonna get the cloud of dust, fine, you're

1389
01:13:34,920 --> 01:13:37,000
Speaker 1: not going to keep up with Josh Allen and folks.

1390
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Speaker 1: So we're not gonna We're not gonna dedicate ourselves too.

1391
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Speaker 1: But they're also not great tacklers. They've bench a lot

1392
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Speaker 1: of tackles this here, which that would worry. That's a problem. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I you know, as I was watching the game last weeks,

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01:13:48,840 --> 01:13:50,880
Speaker 1: I was watching the Bills game, Um, and they did

1395
01:13:51,000 --> 01:13:53,960
Speaker 1: they weren't running the backs. Really it was almost it

1396
01:13:54,000 --> 01:13:56,479
Speaker 1: was almost all Josh Allen is their running game, and

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Speaker 1: they were still running him in the fourth quarter when

1398
01:13:58,360 --> 01:14:00,280
Speaker 1: they had a double digit lead, And I'm like, is

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Speaker 1: that really the smartest thing to do? Yeah, I don't

1400
01:14:02,320 --> 01:14:04,920
Speaker 1: think so either. Yea, At some points you need to

1401
01:14:04,920 --> 01:14:07,599
Speaker 1: be able to line up and run the football as

1402
01:14:07,640 --> 01:14:10,559
Speaker 1: opposed to have yeah, as opposed to having your quarterback

1403
01:14:10,600 --> 01:14:12,040
Speaker 1: go out there, and you know, because you kind of

1404
01:14:12,120 --> 01:14:14,000
Speaker 1: need that guy. You need that guy. I mean, if

1405
01:14:14,040 --> 01:14:16,000
Speaker 1: it's a super Bowl, it's the playoffs. And actually that's

1406
01:14:16,000 --> 01:14:18,760
Speaker 1: a little bit different than the game's on the line, um,

1407
01:14:19,280 --> 01:14:21,559
Speaker 1: because that that's spread that they come out with them,

1408
01:14:21,560 --> 01:14:24,639
Speaker 1: and they come with four receivers Dawson, Knox and Alan

1409
01:14:25,439 --> 01:14:28,799
Speaker 1: that's hard to combat. You know. Nobody has four corners

1410
01:14:29,080 --> 01:14:32,080
Speaker 1: and the safety can cover knocks, you know, and he's

1411
01:14:32,120 --> 01:14:34,120
Speaker 1: your running back, and you still have to honor the

1412
01:14:34,200 --> 01:14:36,240
Speaker 1: run game. But I don't do it with the thirteen

1413
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Speaker 1: point lead in the fourth quarter. Quarter, you know, six

1414
01:14:39,280 --> 01:14:42,680
Speaker 1: minutes left, I'm not running him into the line like that. Um.

1415
01:14:42,800 --> 01:14:45,640
Speaker 1: And he does exactly slide and got a bound. I

1416
01:14:45,640 --> 01:14:48,559
Speaker 1: think to play in question. I think I actually texted

1417
01:14:48,600 --> 01:14:52,240
Speaker 1: you he got bent over backwards at the line of scrimmage. Yeah,

1418
01:14:52,240 --> 01:14:55,360
Speaker 1: it was kind of ugly. Yeah, I'm like, you don't

1419
01:14:55,360 --> 01:14:58,599
Speaker 1: need that. Um, well, he's been good though. A couple

1420
01:14:58,600 --> 01:14:59,920
Speaker 1: of notes on him too, which I think in that

1421
01:15:00,040 --> 01:15:05,040
Speaker 1: game we fund he has much better numbers against pressure

1422
01:15:05,720 --> 01:15:08,960
Speaker 1: and man coverage than not, you know what I mean, Like,

1423
01:15:09,520 --> 01:15:12,519
Speaker 1: those are two spots he really excels. But I bet

1424
01:15:12,600 --> 01:15:15,880
Speaker 1: they blitz him still like crazy, and that's what they do. Yeah,

1425
01:15:16,160 --> 01:15:19,160
Speaker 1: And that first half first the Steelers comes to mind

1426
01:15:19,240 --> 01:15:21,200
Speaker 1: where I took him while to get his bearings and

1427
01:15:21,240 --> 01:15:22,679
Speaker 1: he was under a lot of heat, but he stood

1428
01:15:22,720 --> 01:15:25,000
Speaker 1: in there. But what if he doesn't right, what if

1429
01:15:25,040 --> 01:15:27,320
Speaker 1: he makes you know, a critical mission, throws a pick

1430
01:15:27,360 --> 01:15:29,160
Speaker 1: six or something like that, and now you've played in

1431
01:15:29,200 --> 01:15:31,800
Speaker 1: the Baltimore's hands. That's what That's what Baltimore hopes, that's

1432
01:15:32,360 --> 01:15:34,080
Speaker 1: what they're set up to do. Hey, we're gonna go

1433
01:15:34,120 --> 01:15:36,400
Speaker 1: We're gonna come out, we're gonna pressure you, you're gonna

1434
01:15:36,439 --> 01:15:39,000
Speaker 1: make a mistake, we're gonna get up fourteen nothing, and

1435
01:15:39,000 --> 01:15:41,320
Speaker 1: then we're gonna run the ball like crazy. And if

1436
01:15:41,360 --> 01:15:43,320
Speaker 1: they win, I bet that's how it goes. And people

1437
01:15:43,320 --> 01:15:45,960
Speaker 1: will be like, oh, Alan's overrated. No, probably a tough,

1438
01:15:46,080 --> 01:15:48,920
Speaker 1: tough chore, especially if they're if he's in you know,

1439
01:15:49,200 --> 01:15:52,200
Speaker 1: empty without any help and they're bringing five man pressures

1440
01:15:52,240 --> 01:15:54,960
Speaker 1: with only five blockers and six man pressures because they'll

1441
01:15:54,960 --> 01:15:57,200
Speaker 1: be very aggressive. I can kind of like to watch

1442
01:15:57,280 --> 01:15:59,599
Speaker 1: that chess match from Buffalo is the Ball. Yeah, it's

1443
01:15:59,600 --> 01:16:01,560
Speaker 1: gonna be in interesting the other games. Of course, that

1444
01:16:01,680 --> 01:16:05,160
Speaker 1: Kansas City in Cleveland, I think that's just a mismatch.

1445
01:16:06,040 --> 01:16:08,680
Speaker 1: I mean to me, if Nick Chubb is the m

1446
01:16:08,760 --> 01:16:11,280
Speaker 1: v P of that game, they'll be in it. They

1447
01:16:11,320 --> 01:16:14,360
Speaker 1: won't win it, I don't know, don't win. I don't

1448
01:16:14,360 --> 01:16:16,120
Speaker 1: know that. I don't know that Kansas City's gonna hand

1449
01:16:16,160 --> 01:16:20,200
Speaker 1: them five turnovers, no chance. Yeah, the coverage people didn't

1450
01:16:20,200 --> 01:16:23,439
Speaker 1: get any better for Cleveland exception award being added. Yes,

1451
01:16:23,560 --> 01:16:26,680
Speaker 1: and of course Kansas City also rested and ready for

1452
01:16:26,760 --> 01:16:29,200
Speaker 1: this game. Uh. One thing I heard today too that

1453
01:16:29,280 --> 01:16:32,120
Speaker 1: we have a betting guy on Thursdays and he they

1454
01:16:32,160 --> 01:16:36,080
Speaker 1: did some homework that teams that rest their starters in

1455
01:16:36,200 --> 01:16:41,360
Speaker 1: week seventeen and then have a bye usually struggle, especially

1456
01:16:41,400 --> 01:16:44,280
Speaker 1: early in the game that's too much rest reads known

1457
01:16:44,360 --> 01:16:46,080
Speaker 1: as like the Master of the Bye week and all

1458
01:16:46,160 --> 01:16:48,559
Speaker 1: that but that's a long time. It is a long time.

1459
01:16:49,680 --> 01:16:52,120
Speaker 1: But can Cleveland take advantage of that? That's the they

1460
01:16:52,200 --> 01:16:53,920
Speaker 1: have to get up early. Just I mean, that's a

1461
01:16:53,960 --> 01:16:56,720
Speaker 1: scripts everybody, especially good teams. Yeah, they I mean they

1462
01:16:56,800 --> 01:16:58,800
Speaker 1: want to just run the football and not make Baker

1463
01:16:58,840 --> 01:17:01,519
Speaker 1: throw the ball time. This is not a game where

1464
01:17:01,560 --> 01:17:03,240
Speaker 1: he's gonna get away with throwing not throwing the ball.

1465
01:17:03,320 --> 01:17:06,320
Speaker 1: That's why we put him in our DFS line. Yeah,

1466
01:17:06,680 --> 01:17:08,800
Speaker 1: he's gonna have to even if this game is closed. Yea,

1467
01:17:09,439 --> 01:17:12,240
Speaker 1: at some point Kansas City, Kansas City's gonna get it going.

1468
01:17:12,720 --> 01:17:14,559
Speaker 1: Even if you saw it in the Super Bowl last

1469
01:17:14,640 --> 01:17:19,000
Speaker 1: year and the third quarter, in the fourth quarter much

1470
01:17:19,080 --> 01:17:20,960
Speaker 1: better d than the rounds and all of a sudden boom,

1471
01:17:21,479 --> 01:17:23,960
Speaker 1: it just you know, the floodgates open and they score

1472
01:17:24,000 --> 01:17:26,600
Speaker 1: three touchdowns in seven minutes and you're like, what the

1473
01:17:26,640 --> 01:17:29,160
Speaker 1: hell has just happened? They they're very capable and they

1474
01:17:29,200 --> 01:17:31,000
Speaker 1: often do it, you know, right, Yeah, if you're gonna

1475
01:17:31,040 --> 01:17:34,320
Speaker 1: beat them, you can't just run the football and you know,

1476
01:17:34,400 --> 01:17:36,360
Speaker 1: try to sit on the lead. That that doesn't work,

1477
01:17:36,479 --> 01:17:38,600
Speaker 1: you know. And I also think that overrated theme is

1478
01:17:39,320 --> 01:17:41,280
Speaker 1: we're gonna run the football and keep my Homes on

1479
01:17:41,360 --> 01:17:44,000
Speaker 1: the sidelines. Well, he's still gonna come back off. I mean,

1480
01:17:44,080 --> 01:17:46,760
Speaker 1: like whether you punt, kick a field goal, or turn

1481
01:17:46,840 --> 01:17:49,840
Speaker 1: it over score a touchdown. You maybe, you know, cut

1482
01:17:49,880 --> 01:17:54,320
Speaker 1: them down to ten possessions instead of thirteen. Maybe maybe

1483
01:17:54,439 --> 01:17:57,200
Speaker 1: if you he saw last week for the Browns against

1484
01:17:57,240 --> 01:18:00,559
Speaker 1: the Steelers, like they're up twenty eight points, it's there.

1485
01:18:00,760 --> 01:18:03,600
Speaker 1: They're up thirty five to ten at a half, and

1486
01:18:03,680 --> 01:18:06,719
Speaker 1: Steelers made that a two score game rather quickly because

1487
01:18:06,880 --> 01:18:08,680
Speaker 1: the Browns tried to They tried to turtle in the

1488
01:18:08,760 --> 01:18:11,320
Speaker 1: third quarter, right right, you know, just we're just gonna

1489
01:18:11,360 --> 01:18:13,640
Speaker 1: control the clock and keep my homes on the sidelines.

1490
01:18:14,000 --> 01:18:15,760
Speaker 1: It doesn't really work. I think that's a bit of

1491
01:18:15,800 --> 01:18:18,240
Speaker 1: a myth. No, you gotta put up thirty five. Yeah,

1492
01:18:18,479 --> 01:18:20,040
Speaker 1: because he's gonna do He's gonna do it. It might

1493
01:18:20,080 --> 01:18:22,439
Speaker 1: take the fourth quarter two explodes, but Andy reads and

1494
01:18:22,520 --> 01:18:24,640
Speaker 1: figured out your defense isn't good enough to do that

1495
01:18:24,760 --> 01:18:27,040
Speaker 1: to him. No, you know, I mean, you know, the

1496
01:18:27,080 --> 01:18:29,320
Speaker 1: Steelers defense couldn't keep them in check for a while.

1497
01:18:29,439 --> 01:18:32,360
Speaker 1: The the Niners almost Yeah, the Rams defense could keep

1498
01:18:32,360 --> 01:18:33,720
Speaker 1: them in check for a while. You're not gonna stop

1499
01:18:33,800 --> 01:18:35,800
Speaker 1: them for an entire game. You know, and in the

1500
01:18:35,840 --> 01:18:39,840
Speaker 1: Super BOWLF you remember Buckner and both are whipping up

1501
01:18:39,920 --> 01:18:42,760
Speaker 1: on the Chiefs offensive line and make him Mahome's life top.

1502
01:18:42,920 --> 01:18:46,599
Speaker 1: You know, Garrett might do that, but not this version

1503
01:18:46,640 --> 01:18:48,559
Speaker 1: of them. No, no, they don't have Sherman and all

1504
01:18:48,600 --> 01:18:51,080
Speaker 1: those guys either, you know, So that one's gonna be interesting.

1505
01:18:51,720 --> 01:18:54,120
Speaker 1: Over in the NFC, I think you have the mismatch

1506
01:18:54,200 --> 01:18:57,920
Speaker 1: of the weekend to me is Rams at Packers. I agree,

1507
01:18:58,600 --> 01:19:01,960
Speaker 1: but I think the Rams, the Rams defense will keep

1508
01:19:02,000 --> 01:19:04,280
Speaker 1: it close. But I don't think they can win that game.

1509
01:19:04,360 --> 01:19:07,680
Speaker 1: I don't think it win it either. But acres in defense,

1510
01:19:08,680 --> 01:19:10,600
Speaker 1: I think makes that thing. I have a lot of

1511
01:19:10,640 --> 01:19:13,960
Speaker 1: respect for that, that coaching staff, the young defensive coordinator McVeigh.

1512
01:19:14,560 --> 01:19:16,760
Speaker 1: I don't have much respect for golf, but I think

1513
01:19:16,800 --> 01:19:19,559
Speaker 1: acres in defense makes that closer than people wanted to think.

1514
01:19:21,479 --> 01:19:24,280
Speaker 1: I still think it's seven to you know, even if

1515
01:19:24,320 --> 01:19:29,720
Speaker 1: it um, it's still I mean, it was not close, No,

1516
01:19:30,720 --> 01:19:34,080
Speaker 1: because Rogers. Rogers will hit some throws. I know. I

1517
01:19:34,120 --> 01:19:36,439
Speaker 1: don't care how much you shut him down or you know,

1518
01:19:36,600 --> 01:19:39,320
Speaker 1: take Tyree, you know, take Davante Adams out of the game.

1519
01:19:40,520 --> 01:19:43,320
Speaker 1: I mean, he's the ultimate of elevating those around him.

1520
01:19:43,439 --> 01:19:47,400
Speaker 1: At this point, I just don't. I think donaldus I

1521
01:19:47,439 --> 01:19:51,479
Speaker 1: know he's Oncent, but Donald that scheme Ramsey on atoms

1522
01:19:51,760 --> 01:19:53,760
Speaker 1: makes things tough on them, It will make things tough.

1523
01:19:53,800 --> 01:19:56,599
Speaker 1: But I don't. I just don't get game or seventeen

1524
01:19:56,640 --> 01:19:59,560
Speaker 1: sixteen game. Um, And then the final one is the

1525
01:20:00,439 --> 01:20:04,599
Speaker 1: third time, third time around for the for the Packer

1526
01:20:04,720 --> 01:20:06,880
Speaker 1: or for the Yes, the Saints in the in the Bucks,

1527
01:20:07,720 --> 01:20:10,600
Speaker 1: and the first two have not been close. No, the

1528
01:20:10,680 --> 01:20:14,439
Speaker 1: last one was really bad. Um. Maybe I'm putting drinking

1529
01:20:14,439 --> 01:20:16,679
Speaker 1: too much. Tom Brady kool aid and they be kool Aid.

1530
01:20:16,760 --> 01:20:18,920
Speaker 1: But I think they've been so much better since their

1531
01:20:18,960 --> 01:20:21,920
Speaker 1: Week thirteen buy, and that this version of the Bucks

1532
01:20:22,040 --> 01:20:24,920
Speaker 1: is the best version we've seen yet. I think they're

1533
01:20:24,960 --> 01:20:28,000
Speaker 1: pulling upset. I don't know. Can they block Cam Jordan?

1534
01:20:28,120 --> 01:20:30,200
Speaker 1: Can they? Can they do this? It won't be easy.

1535
01:20:30,320 --> 01:20:33,240
Speaker 1: I mean, Peyton owns those guys. Peyton's beat up on

1536
01:20:33,280 --> 01:20:36,720
Speaker 1: the Bucks for years. I mean that that. I'm not

1537
01:20:36,800 --> 01:20:38,679
Speaker 1: a big Breeze believer, though I like the way Brady

1538
01:20:38,760 --> 01:20:41,200
Speaker 1: is playing much want to Breeze, Yeah, I mean that's

1539
01:20:41,240 --> 01:20:43,960
Speaker 1: that's the one thing. But I also think that, you know,

1540
01:20:44,040 --> 01:20:47,719
Speaker 1: they've got Kamara back. Um, Devin White helps though Devin

1541
01:20:47,760 --> 01:20:50,760
Speaker 1: White helps there, but I don't think he hasn't been

1542
01:20:50,840 --> 01:20:56,840
Speaker 1: very good. It is not it was earlier and when

1543
01:20:56,880 --> 01:21:00,599
Speaker 1: they again, they look great early against everybody but the Saints.

1544
01:21:01,000 --> 01:21:03,640
Speaker 1: But yeah, yeah, I mean the Saints just tore them up.

1545
01:21:04,160 --> 01:21:06,760
Speaker 1: I mean, Peyton's the ultimate schemer. I don't feel super

1546
01:21:07,000 --> 01:21:08,880
Speaker 1: you know, confident about it. I know they're a dog,

1547
01:21:08,960 --> 01:21:10,439
Speaker 1: but I'm gonna pick the Bucks to win that one.

1548
01:21:10,560 --> 01:21:12,920
Speaker 1: And I think the quarterback advantage. I think their offense

1549
01:21:13,000 --> 01:21:16,280
Speaker 1: is playing better. They throw the ball down field to me.

1550
01:21:16,360 --> 01:21:18,200
Speaker 1: If there's if there's an upset this weekend, I think

1551
01:21:18,240 --> 01:21:21,439
Speaker 1: it's Baltimore over think of that as an upset. I

1552
01:21:21,479 --> 01:21:23,720
Speaker 1: think that's just a total coin flip game. Yeah, I

1553
01:21:23,760 --> 01:21:25,840
Speaker 1: mean it really is. I don't know what the line

1554
01:21:25,880 --> 01:21:27,400
Speaker 1: is on it or whatever, but I don't I haven't

1555
01:21:27,400 --> 01:21:29,439
Speaker 1: even looked like the lines whatever it is. I think

1556
01:21:29,479 --> 01:21:31,920
Speaker 1: that's a total coin flip game. Ye. So, but if

1557
01:21:31,920 --> 01:21:34,000
Speaker 1: you're gonna give me points, I'll take whoever's getting them.

1558
01:21:34,280 --> 01:21:36,800
Speaker 1: I would imagine that. I would imagine its Baltimore at home,

1559
01:21:36,840 --> 01:21:39,599
Speaker 1: and there will be fans, their fans in Kansas city.

1560
01:21:40,680 --> 01:21:43,559
Speaker 1: They're fans in Buffalo. I don't believe there's any fans

1561
01:21:43,600 --> 01:21:45,560
Speaker 1: yet in Green Bay or I don't think we're in

1562
01:21:45,560 --> 01:21:48,280
Speaker 1: New Orleans. And that could play a factor. That could

1563
01:21:48,280 --> 01:21:50,519
Speaker 1: play factor. And I think that was a huge factor

1564
01:21:50,640 --> 01:21:52,519
Speaker 1: last week for the Steelers, the fact that they had

1565
01:21:52,560 --> 01:21:54,559
Speaker 1: nobody in the building. Yeah, I think so too. I mean,

1566
01:21:54,760 --> 01:21:57,160
Speaker 1: you were there, and it's you know, you've mentioned it

1567
01:21:57,200 --> 01:21:59,519
Speaker 1: after the game that maybe things don't get out of

1568
01:21:59,560 --> 01:22:01,240
Speaker 1: hand as it as much, or the Steelers come out

1569
01:22:01,240 --> 01:22:02,880
Speaker 1: with a little more sparky. I mean, we're when the

1570
01:22:03,000 --> 01:22:05,080
Speaker 1: when the tide starts to turn and the crowds wants

1571
01:22:05,080 --> 01:22:07,000
Speaker 1: to get into it. That's what we're talking about. When

1572
01:22:07,240 --> 01:22:09,439
Speaker 1: whenever they were coming back from the Yeah, the pressure,

1573
01:22:09,479 --> 01:22:11,080
Speaker 1: the pressure is now on. You know that the fans

1574
01:22:11,120 --> 01:22:13,760
Speaker 1: are back into it. There. You know, you've cut at

1575
01:22:13,760 --> 01:22:15,840
Speaker 1: the twelve points and here we go and all of

1576
01:22:15,880 --> 01:22:17,640
Speaker 1: a sudden, they can't hear the snap count as well,

1577
01:22:17,680 --> 01:22:20,639
Speaker 1: and here comes t J. Fumble the snap or when

1578
01:22:20,720 --> 01:22:22,760
Speaker 1: you're now you shoot a ball over the quarterback set.

1579
01:22:22,840 --> 01:22:27,360
Speaker 1: There's all that pressure. But yeah, this season, but yeah,

1580
01:22:27,600 --> 01:22:29,439
Speaker 1: give me a fun weekend though, looking forward to it.

1581
01:22:29,720 --> 01:22:31,880
Speaker 1: We'll see how it breaks down, but we're gonna take

1582
01:22:31,880 --> 01:22:34,639
Speaker 1: another break. He is Matt Williamson. I'm Dale Lally. You're

1583
01:22:34,680 --> 01:22:40,160
Speaker 1: listening to the Drive here on Steelers Nation Radio. Your

1584
01:22:40,200 --> 01:22:43,840
Speaker 1: tunes about Drive on Home of the Black and Goal

1585
01:22:44,000 --> 01:23:17,080
Speaker 1: Steelers Nation Radio. Welcome back, um d l Lelly here

1586
01:23:17,200 --> 01:23:21,160
Speaker 1: with Matt Williamson and Matt got to wrap up the

1587
01:23:21,200 --> 01:23:23,200
Speaker 1: show here. It's been quite the day. Yeah, a lot

1588
01:23:23,280 --> 01:23:26,280
Speaker 1: going on and you'd rather you were talking about an

1589
01:23:26,320 --> 01:23:30,800
Speaker 1: upcoming playoff game, but it's still newsworthy and with all

1590
01:23:31,240 --> 01:23:33,599
Speaker 1: respect to those that have left the team and whatnot.

1591
01:23:33,680 --> 01:23:35,560
Speaker 1: I mean, that's a tough life being a coach, but

1592
01:23:35,920 --> 01:23:38,360
Speaker 1: it does bring excitement. You know who's next and what

1593
01:23:38,479 --> 01:23:40,880
Speaker 1: kind of changes will come and what's the logic for

1594
01:23:40,920 --> 01:23:42,840
Speaker 1: bringing this guy in or that guy. So I think

1595
01:23:42,880 --> 01:23:46,160
Speaker 1: that's fun stuff. It is. At the same time, I mean,

1596
01:23:46,280 --> 01:23:49,479
Speaker 1: you know, there's a human element. That's the thing that

1597
01:23:49,640 --> 01:23:53,559
Speaker 1: drives me crazy about this. You know, everybody, fire everybody,

1598
01:23:53,640 --> 01:23:55,160
Speaker 1: get rid of this guy, get rid of that guy.

1599
01:23:55,240 --> 01:23:59,479
Speaker 1: These are people, you know how you know, whatever your

1600
01:23:59,560 --> 01:24:01,200
Speaker 1: job is, you know, what if if people were out

1601
01:24:01,240 --> 01:24:05,080
Speaker 1: there screaming for our jobs constantly stink you need to

1602
01:24:05,120 --> 01:24:07,160
Speaker 1: get rid of them fire them off, like, oh, trust me,

1603
01:24:07,200 --> 01:24:09,479
Speaker 1: I've heard plenty of that over my time doing this

1604
01:24:09,560 --> 01:24:12,040
Speaker 1: for a living, but not like you know, people cheering.

1605
01:24:13,240 --> 01:24:15,360
Speaker 1: They finally get rid of feature. They did this, They

1606
01:24:15,400 --> 01:24:17,960
Speaker 1: did like these are people, yeah, and no one calls

1607
01:24:18,000 --> 01:24:21,559
Speaker 1: them the accountant or roof or network and says, fire

1608
01:24:21,600 --> 01:24:24,600
Speaker 1: all these guys their jokes. Imagine yeah, imagine you know,

1609
01:24:24,640 --> 01:24:27,480
Speaker 1: if you're the people. If you're a counterworker at McDonald's

1610
01:24:27,960 --> 01:24:30,600
Speaker 1: and some customer comes rolling in and and goes to

1611
01:24:30,640 --> 01:24:33,280
Speaker 1: your managers, you need to fire this guy immediately. This

1612
01:24:33,360 --> 01:24:35,840
Speaker 1: guy is a joke actually gonna be you know, it's

1613
01:24:35,960 --> 01:24:38,160
Speaker 1: like it's just you think people aren't trying their hardest,

1614
01:24:38,200 --> 01:24:40,080
Speaker 1: that aren't qualified to get there to begin with. And

1615
01:24:40,680 --> 01:24:43,040
Speaker 1: you know, you and I especially you, at least you

1616
01:24:43,120 --> 01:24:46,080
Speaker 1: get the opportunity to meet these people and you know,

1617
01:24:46,160 --> 01:24:48,360
Speaker 1: interview them, even if it isn't a professional setting, but

1618
01:24:48,479 --> 01:24:50,320
Speaker 1: sometimes we get to know them better. And I've been

1619
01:24:50,320 --> 01:24:52,320
Speaker 1: on staff with these guys, and everybody gets let go

1620
01:24:52,520 --> 01:24:56,200
Speaker 1: and they know that's part of the gig's been here along.

1621
01:24:56,280 --> 01:24:57,760
Speaker 1: All those guys have been here a long time, and

1622
01:24:57,840 --> 01:25:01,920
Speaker 1: that's that beats the over under, you know, But people

1623
01:25:02,240 --> 01:25:05,000
Speaker 1: you know a lot of times I I hear um

1624
01:25:05,479 --> 01:25:08,960
Speaker 1: in my job. Well, you know, if the Steelers have

1625
01:25:09,040 --> 01:25:11,840
Speaker 1: a bad game, it's immediately fire everybody, get rid of

1626
01:25:11,880 --> 01:25:13,519
Speaker 1: them all. Well, first of all, they're not going to

1627
01:25:13,640 --> 01:25:16,240
Speaker 1: do that after a game in the middle of the season.

1628
01:25:16,479 --> 01:25:19,479
Speaker 1: It's one game, right. Secondly, they're not going to do

1629
01:25:19,560 --> 01:25:23,080
Speaker 1: that in the middle of the season. It's never gonna happen.

1630
01:25:23,520 --> 01:25:26,000
Speaker 1: What does that do if you want to see? And

1631
01:25:26,160 --> 01:25:28,000
Speaker 1: so they get mad at well you don't. You didn't

1632
01:25:28,120 --> 01:25:30,439
Speaker 1: you know, you didn't say fire everybody and get rid

1633
01:25:30,439 --> 01:25:33,200
Speaker 1: of this. And that's no. I'm gonna I'm gonna give

1634
01:25:33,240 --> 01:25:36,400
Speaker 1: you some some legit. I'll give that thought after the

1635
01:25:36,439 --> 01:25:39,800
Speaker 1: season is over. And absolutely it was time to move

1636
01:25:39,840 --> 01:25:43,120
Speaker 1: on from Randy Fikner. There was you know, and I

1637
01:25:43,240 --> 01:25:46,960
Speaker 1: like Randy on a personalities a great guy. Um, but

1638
01:25:47,680 --> 01:25:52,000
Speaker 1: you know the time it run his course. Um, you know,

1639
01:25:52,040 --> 01:25:54,439
Speaker 1: I like Todd Haley. Todd Haley was was a good guy.

1640
01:25:55,520 --> 01:25:59,040
Speaker 1: He did some good things here. Um obviously apparently didn't

1641
01:25:59,040 --> 01:26:01,840
Speaker 1: play well with others. It's all part of it, you know. Um,

1642
01:26:03,280 --> 01:26:05,880
Speaker 1: I just you know, there's there's a human element here

1643
01:26:05,920 --> 01:26:10,280
Speaker 1: to all of this that um, you know, I one

1644
01:26:10,400 --> 01:26:13,280
Speaker 1: time in my career have I called for a firing

1645
01:26:14,439 --> 01:26:17,400
Speaker 1: um in that in that situation and then it did

1646
01:26:17,479 --> 01:26:20,960
Speaker 1: not happen. You can face that guy every day, you know,

1647
01:26:21,920 --> 01:26:26,160
Speaker 1: and it can make and you know, there's a difference

1648
01:26:26,200 --> 01:26:29,600
Speaker 1: between being a reporter and being a columnist or a

1649
01:26:29,720 --> 01:26:32,240
Speaker 1: radio show host or whatever that may be. If you're

1650
01:26:32,280 --> 01:26:36,240
Speaker 1: a reporter, you don't necessarily you know, you're not calling

1651
01:26:36,400 --> 01:26:39,679
Speaker 1: for you know, I'm reporting it. When I report after

1652
01:26:39,760 --> 01:26:43,720
Speaker 1: a game, I'm going to tell you what happened and

1653
01:26:43,920 --> 01:26:46,759
Speaker 1: why it happened, or what they're thinking was. People sometimes

1654
01:26:46,840 --> 01:26:49,800
Speaker 1: misconstrue that, well, you're you're standing up with no, I'm not.

1655
01:26:49,880 --> 01:26:52,720
Speaker 1: I'm telling you what they're thinking was on this that

1656
01:26:52,840 --> 01:26:54,400
Speaker 1: you know, why didn't Mike Tom then go for that

1657
01:26:54,439 --> 01:26:56,800
Speaker 1: on fourth and one from forty six? Well, here was

1658
01:26:56,880 --> 01:26:59,760
Speaker 1: just thinking their defense have just gotten two back two

1659
01:26:59,800 --> 01:27:01,679
Speaker 1: back to back three and ounce that took a minute

1660
01:27:01,720 --> 01:27:04,160
Speaker 1: each off the clock and then that sentences, So he

1661
01:27:04,160 --> 01:27:07,439
Speaker 1: should be fired, right, of course, I can't believe you're

1662
01:27:07,479 --> 01:27:09,599
Speaker 1: not hammering him on this. Well, he made a decision

1663
01:27:09,760 --> 01:27:12,200
Speaker 1: in in a split second. His defense had just gotten

1664
01:27:12,280 --> 01:27:15,080
Speaker 1: back to back three and ounce. If that if that

1665
01:27:15,200 --> 01:27:18,639
Speaker 1: pun is down inside to ten. He's getting another three

1666
01:27:18,680 --> 01:27:21,040
Speaker 1: and out because Cleveland's not throwing the ball in that situation,

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01:27:21,160 --> 01:27:25,320
Speaker 1: and so then his logic were going through it. Yeah, um,

1668
01:27:25,720 --> 01:27:27,680
Speaker 1: and the Steelers proved is more than anybody. When you

1669
01:27:27,840 --> 01:27:30,320
Speaker 1: fire somebody, even if it's a coordinator or a running

1670
01:27:30,320 --> 01:27:33,360
Speaker 1: back coach or whatever, there's gonna be a transition period.

1671
01:27:33,400 --> 01:27:35,360
Speaker 1: The new guy that doesn't step in and just taken

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01:27:35,400 --> 01:27:38,080
Speaker 1: all up. And now one of the big, one of

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01:27:38,120 --> 01:27:40,479
Speaker 1: the big, the big storyline of training camp next year's

1674
01:27:40,600 --> 01:27:44,799
Speaker 1: how's how's this offense adjusted? A new offensive coordinator adjusted adjusted?

1675
01:27:45,120 --> 01:27:48,759
Speaker 1: Where where's it better? Necessarily it's hey, Ben, hey Mason,

1676
01:27:49,000 --> 01:27:50,600
Speaker 1: you know if you had a hard time learning this

1677
01:27:50,720 --> 01:27:53,639
Speaker 1: new stuff and what adjustments of he's a new verbage

1678
01:27:54,080 --> 01:27:57,200
Speaker 1: like adjusting like what we're doing and having rolling along.

1679
01:27:57,960 --> 01:28:00,320
Speaker 1: So that's all part of it. And you know the

1680
01:28:00,400 --> 01:28:04,360
Speaker 1: other thing, you know, when you're when you fire somebody

1681
01:28:04,920 --> 01:28:07,840
Speaker 1: in those situations, the same head coach, whatever it may be,

1682
01:28:08,760 --> 01:28:10,479
Speaker 1: you better have a pretty good idea of who you're

1683
01:28:10,479 --> 01:28:13,320
Speaker 1: gonna hire to replace him, right, and it's gonna be

1684
01:28:13,360 --> 01:28:15,719
Speaker 1: an upgrade. You can't just fire somebody just to fire

1685
01:28:15,800 --> 01:28:18,880
Speaker 1: them because you're angry. The Steelers don't do that. They

1686
01:28:18,920 --> 01:28:21,280
Speaker 1: do that, they don't make knee jerk reactions. I mean

1687
01:28:21,360 --> 01:28:24,240
Speaker 1: it's different if it's like, boy, this guy who I've

1688
01:28:24,280 --> 01:28:27,120
Speaker 1: worked with and no extremely well just became on the market.

1689
01:28:27,240 --> 01:28:29,200
Speaker 1: It's a no fault of his own. I want to

1690
01:28:29,200 --> 01:28:31,760
Speaker 1: add him to our staff. And he's a better tight

1691
01:28:31,880 --> 01:28:34,439
Speaker 1: end coach than the guy we had or whatever especial

1692
01:28:34,479 --> 01:28:37,120
Speaker 1: team coach whatever. Well, if we can upgrade, just like

1693
01:28:37,240 --> 01:28:39,679
Speaker 1: any position on the field, if a linebacker comes available,

1694
01:28:39,680 --> 01:28:42,400
Speaker 1: who's better than Vince Williams and you can get him

1695
01:28:42,439 --> 01:28:46,120
Speaker 1: for the same price, do it. Yeah, yeah, I mean

1696
01:28:46,160 --> 01:28:50,040
Speaker 1: that's the idea. Um. You know. But again, the Steelers

1697
01:28:50,040 --> 01:28:53,000
Speaker 1: aren't going to make a knee jerk reaction on anything,

1698
01:28:53,280 --> 01:28:57,280
Speaker 1: especially during the season. That part, that's crazy ridiculous. I mean,

1699
01:28:57,400 --> 01:29:03,640
Speaker 1: how many interim head coaching changes of ever, you know

1700
01:29:03,720 --> 01:29:09,360
Speaker 1: people I've had The people said, well, you know, it

1701
01:29:09,400 --> 01:29:12,160
Speaker 1: worked for in Baltimore. They fired their their offensive coordinator

1702
01:29:12,240 --> 01:29:14,760
Speaker 1: mid season and put Lamar in and they changed their

1703
01:29:14,760 --> 01:29:18,360
Speaker 1: whole game plan and there there. You know, Okay, okay,

1704
01:29:18,800 --> 01:29:20,479
Speaker 1: give me, give me Lamar, give me a once in

1705
01:29:20,520 --> 01:29:23,439
Speaker 1: a lifetime talent at quarterback. I'll you know, and make

1706
01:29:23,520 --> 01:29:26,519
Speaker 1: that change. Yeah, the offense is gonna look different because

1707
01:29:26,520 --> 01:29:28,800
Speaker 1: it's Lamar running the ball sixteen times a game as

1708
01:29:28,800 --> 01:29:32,360
Speaker 1: opposed to Joe Flacco. They couldn't been any different. Best

1709
01:29:32,439 --> 01:29:34,519
Speaker 1: they could have been running. They could be running the

1710
01:29:34,600 --> 01:29:38,640
Speaker 1: same exact offense. And Lamar was gonna look different than

1711
01:29:38,720 --> 01:29:42,160
Speaker 1: Joe Flacco because he's gonna run the ball sixteen times.

1712
01:29:42,200 --> 01:29:44,000
Speaker 1: He's not gonna get sacked like you know, like Joe

1713
01:29:44,080 --> 01:29:46,840
Speaker 1: Flacco's is standing back here like a statue. Yeah, it

1714
01:29:46,880 --> 01:29:51,000
Speaker 1: looks different. I don't know. I like this time of year,

1715
01:29:51,320 --> 01:29:53,280
Speaker 1: it's always one of the most difficult for me to

1716
01:29:53,400 --> 01:29:56,200
Speaker 1: comment on because I don't know the men, you know,

1717
01:29:56,360 --> 01:29:58,719
Speaker 1: I mean, analyzing a head coach is a lot different

1718
01:29:58,720 --> 01:30:00,519
Speaker 1: than analyzing the assistant co coach. I mean you can

1719
01:30:00,560 --> 01:30:02,920
Speaker 1: at least see all their game time decisions, a win

1720
01:30:03,080 --> 01:30:06,200
Speaker 1: loss record, who they influence with the draft, you know,

1721
01:30:06,280 --> 01:30:09,640
Speaker 1: like some of these guys might be the reason that t. J.

1722
01:30:09,760 --> 01:30:12,240
Speaker 1: Watt got here. You know, you know, they watched his

1723
01:30:12,280 --> 01:30:14,200
Speaker 1: tape just like everybody else, gave him the best grade

1724
01:30:14,200 --> 01:30:17,000
Speaker 1: in the room and presented it to the draft you

1725
01:30:17,080 --> 01:30:20,479
Speaker 1: know war room, and wow, you're right, we got to

1726
01:30:20,640 --> 01:30:22,479
Speaker 1: that point Randy Fakner is the guy who went and

1727
01:30:22,520 --> 01:30:26,400
Speaker 1: scout to Antonio Brown. Yeah, okay, example right, I mean

1728
01:30:26,439 --> 01:30:28,479
Speaker 1: if he doesn't be somewhere else or you know what

1729
01:30:28,560 --> 01:30:30,840
Speaker 1: I mean, um that there's a lot of contributions you

1730
01:30:30,840 --> 01:30:34,880
Speaker 1: don't think about. Besides that too, what were his responsibilities

1731
01:30:34,960 --> 01:30:37,120
Speaker 1: leading up the game day? You know, the tight end coach.

1732
01:30:37,520 --> 01:30:40,320
Speaker 1: You know, that's the other part of you know, so

1733
01:30:40,560 --> 01:30:44,120
Speaker 1: much of what the Steelers do offensively and defensively is

1734
01:30:44,439 --> 01:30:48,680
Speaker 1: a collaboration. Uh, you know, the entire staff comes up

1735
01:30:48,720 --> 01:30:52,240
Speaker 1: with the game plan. Now the coordinators decide, you know,

1736
01:30:52,320 --> 01:30:54,280
Speaker 1: what's going to be running what's not. But you know,

1737
01:30:54,400 --> 01:30:56,160
Speaker 1: the other guys and the staff aren't just sitting around

1738
01:30:56,200 --> 01:30:58,720
Speaker 1: going okay, we're gonna do you know, they all break

1739
01:30:58,760 --> 01:31:00,840
Speaker 1: down stuff. Yeah, I mean learned this when you're with

1740
01:31:00,920 --> 01:31:04,519
Speaker 1: the team. Sure, the tight end coaches in a tight

1741
01:31:04,640 --> 01:31:07,160
Speaker 1: end meeting with his tight ends, but they're not there

1742
01:31:07,280 --> 01:31:09,720
Speaker 1: all day. Then they go to an offensive staff room

1743
01:31:09,800 --> 01:31:12,439
Speaker 1: with the other eight or so coaches and they live

1744
01:31:12,479 --> 01:31:15,840
Speaker 1: in there and that door shuts and you don't hear

1745
01:31:15,840 --> 01:31:17,880
Speaker 1: from them for hours and hours and hours. You know,

1746
01:31:18,120 --> 01:31:20,400
Speaker 1: someone brings and throws in a sandwich at them. Sometimes

1747
01:31:20,800 --> 01:31:23,680
Speaker 1: and those guys get close and you know, sitting there

1748
01:31:23,720 --> 01:31:25,920
Speaker 1: in the dark room watching tape, throwing ideas off each

1749
01:31:25,960 --> 01:31:28,479
Speaker 1: other with a big chew in and smelly and you know,

1750
01:31:28,720 --> 01:31:30,840
Speaker 1: like you know, they spent a lot of time in there,

1751
01:31:31,280 --> 01:31:33,519
Speaker 1: and sometimes that tight end coach no one thinks about

1752
01:31:34,400 --> 01:31:35,920
Speaker 1: might hold the biggest stick in the room, you know,

1753
01:31:36,000 --> 01:31:38,120
Speaker 1: like he might be the guy that people respect the most,

1754
01:31:38,280 --> 01:31:41,960
Speaker 1: especially in outside zone game or whatever his specialty is.

1755
01:31:42,000 --> 01:31:43,280
Speaker 1: You know. I mean, that's that's the beauty of it,

1756
01:31:43,360 --> 01:31:46,280
Speaker 1: putting the staff together. Yeah, So we'll see where Mike

1757
01:31:46,360 --> 01:31:49,840
Speaker 1: Tomlin goes with this decision. Obviously it's a big one,

1758
01:31:50,000 --> 01:31:52,840
Speaker 1: as we've talked about throughout the course of the show. Um,

1759
01:31:53,479 --> 01:31:55,800
Speaker 1: lots of stuff to to do, and we'll talk about

1760
01:31:55,880 --> 01:31:58,320
Speaker 1: all of this, I'm sure again tomorrow. We are back

1761
01:31:58,360 --> 01:32:01,479
Speaker 1: again tomorrow and we'll break continue to break all this

1762
01:32:01,560 --> 01:32:05,800
Speaker 1: stuff down and give you the breaking news as it happens, uh, Matt,

1763
01:32:05,840 --> 01:32:07,840
Speaker 1: and I of course we're going to finish off this

1764
01:32:07,920 --> 01:32:10,040
Speaker 1: week doing every day and the next week I believe

1765
01:32:10,040 --> 01:32:11,799
Speaker 1: we're gonna go to a three day a week schedule

1766
01:32:12,600 --> 01:32:15,680
Speaker 1: foreseeable future. But I don't think real real long necessarily, Yeah,

1767
01:32:15,760 --> 01:32:17,720
Speaker 1: maybe through this the super Bowl something like that, and

1768
01:32:17,760 --> 01:32:20,479
Speaker 1: then we'll see where it goes from there. But Wednesday Friday,

1769
01:32:20,560 --> 01:32:23,120
Speaker 1: there will be constant shows here on Steelers Nation Radio,

1770
01:32:23,240 --> 01:32:25,439
Speaker 1: fresh shows every day, whether it be US, whether it

1771
01:32:25,520 --> 01:32:28,519
Speaker 1: be West and Moats, whoever else might be stepping in,

1772
01:32:28,680 --> 01:32:31,320
Speaker 1: but we will be bringing you a fresh show every

1773
01:32:31,439 --> 01:32:33,519
Speaker 1: day because that's what we do. And you can always

1774
01:32:33,560 --> 01:32:35,240
Speaker 1: go free to tweet us to you know, i mean,

1775
01:32:35,600 --> 01:32:38,479
Speaker 1: send us some some information. We typically answer those, Yeah,

1776
01:32:38,560 --> 01:32:41,920
Speaker 1: they try to anyways, That's how that works. But that

1777
01:32:42,120 --> 01:32:44,640
Speaker 1: is going to do it for today's show. So for

1778
01:32:44,840 --> 01:32:47,599
Speaker 1: my partner Matt Williamson, for Jacob here on site keeping

1779
01:32:47,720 --> 01:32:49,960
Speaker 1: us on the air as he has done all year long.

1780
01:32:50,200 --> 01:32:53,320
Speaker 1: He's on a bang up job. Yeah, Jacob's uh been

1781
01:32:53,360 --> 01:32:56,120
Speaker 1: our guy all season. If we want to thank you

1782
01:32:56,240 --> 01:32:59,400
Speaker 1: as well, I'm Dale Ali for listening to this edition

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01:32:59,439 --> 01:33:01,880
Speaker 1: of the Drive on Steelers Nation Radio.