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

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Speaker 1: Gold Steelers Nation Radio.

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Speaker 2: Welcome back. I am Dale LOLLI he is the Matt

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Speaker 2: Williamson and Matt It's time for the Fantasy Football Focus.

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Speaker 2: We'll go around in the league. Here who's practicing, who

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Speaker 2: is not practicing? On Wednesday?

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Speaker 3: Here is jump ahead hit real quick though. We got

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Speaker 3: a chan now on Ir Jefferson just went to Ir Richardson.

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Speaker 3: But I say Richardson and his does not look like

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Speaker 3: four weeks.

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Speaker 2: They're saying it could be as long as eight.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, So those guys are out out out out there.

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Speaker 3: They're not gonna be questionable, doubtful. They are not on

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Speaker 3: their roster anymore correct, and I might be missing them on.

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Speaker 2: Darius Slay did not practice Wednesday for the Eagles. He

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Speaker 2: was have never lost to the New York Jets. They're

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Speaker 2: twelve and oh in their history against the Jets.

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Speaker 3: Yea, their secondary hasn't been great though it's not been No,

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Speaker 3: their safeties are not happy with the.

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Speaker 2: Run has been right pretty good?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, but I mean just in turn of just

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Speaker 3: the Eagles in the side note, you mentioned their secondary.

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Speaker 2: Uh, Jacoby Myers has a wrist injury that had him

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Speaker 2: limited in Wednesday's practice.

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Speaker 3: It's funny to me the huge story that people keep

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Speaker 3: bringing up because the Patriots are playing the Raiders, how

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Speaker 3: could we possibly let Jakobe Meyers leave? And they have

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Speaker 3: good points. I mean like, if you're not paid Juju

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Speaker 3: and Parker and.

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Speaker 2: Correct, you could have just kept Jakobe Myers.

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Speaker 3: And then you have a good point. Though maybe people

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Speaker 3: don't want to play in New England. There's something to

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Speaker 3: that to a player that would rather go to Vegas

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Speaker 3: with his buddy McDaniel. You know.

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Speaker 2: Uh, DeVante Adams with the shoulder did not.

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Speaker 3: Practice on the last three or four weeks that he's

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Speaker 3: been on.

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Speaker 2: He's been dealing the list.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it hasn't slowed him down.

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Speaker 2: But uh, people are all fired up about Jeff Wilson.

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Speaker 3: Junior this week, right because the chan's gone.

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Speaker 2: He was limited in Wednesday's practice. There's no there's no

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Speaker 2: guarantee that he gets act debated before that. Sundays thought.

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Speaker 3: Actually, he's still.

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Speaker 2: On the twenty one day He's in his twenty one

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Speaker 2: day window.

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Speaker 3: Okay, I picked him up to day in our league

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Speaker 3: you know, I don't even think he's good.

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Speaker 2: No, I don't think he is either. Again, there's no

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Speaker 2: guarantee that that he is going to play.

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Speaker 3: So is achimed still on the team. Yeah, okay, I

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Speaker 3: mean considering he might be the guy. Yeah, they consider

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Speaker 3: owning him. I want the top two Dolphins backs. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: and Mostar. It's gonna they're playing Carolina this week. What

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Speaker 3: do you think they might score seventy again? They might

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Speaker 3: score seventy again, and frankly it might be.

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Speaker 2: It might be in the the final like quarter and

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Speaker 2: a half. Some dude you've never heard of. Yeah, they

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Speaker 2: caught up off their practice squad out there running the

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Speaker 3: I doesn't say, because if they're up twenty eight to nothing,

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Speaker 3: they're twenty eight to three at the half. Considering Mostart's

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Speaker 3: injury career, I'm hiding his helmet. Yeah, yeah, he's not

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Speaker 3: long for this world anymore.

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Speaker 2: Well, the problem is is Jeff Wilson Junior hasn't He's

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Speaker 2: got no carries. Are they going to run him out

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Speaker 2: there twenty times in the second half? Probably not?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, So maybe Auchmed is the FS steel something like that.

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Speaker 3: At least O'Connors the other ones also on injury reserve.

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Speaker 2: Jordan Addison, with an ankle, was limited in Wednesday's practice.

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Speaker 3: I think people are way too excited about him as

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Speaker 2: Sudden Now you're going to be the number one, You're

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Speaker 3: Like. He doesn't handle press coverage real well. He gets

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Speaker 3: pushed around as he did at pitt in USC but

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Speaker 3: he has more this year. I mean he's fine. He

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Speaker 3: starred him. But don't think your fantasy woes or.

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Speaker 2: Getting justin Jefferson here close.

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Speaker 3: I mean, nobody gets doubled more than Jefferson.

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Speaker 2: Uh. Juju Smith Schuster with a concussion, did not practice

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Speaker 2: on Wednesday. He's not fantasy relevant at all.

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Speaker 3: It's amazing.

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Speaker 2: I mean he's just complete. His career has just spo

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Speaker 2: It was like every year got worse. Yeah, every year

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Speaker 2: it's got worse.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I can't remember his Steeler career. Was year two

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Greg Dulcic with the hamstring in the league. Oh,

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Speaker 2: Uh. Greg Dulcich is questionable for Week six against the

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Speaker 2: chief They could use him back.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we talked about Mems.

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Speaker 2: Fantasy football could use a nice talented I just.

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Speaker 3: Get the impression Denver is going to play all their

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Speaker 3: young guys that they would like Dulcic and Mems and

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Speaker 3: Thursday night against the Chiefs. He's probably not gonna play.

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Speaker 2: Frank Clark will be missing from that game because he's ill.

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Speaker 3: They have a couple of defenders that maybe he watched

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Speaker 2: Of the Broncos tape. How about this for the Bengals.

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Speaker 2: Should be a woozier.

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Speaker 3: Broncos defenders keep falling ill after team meeting.

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Speaker 2: Uh, should be a woozier with a back. Did not

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Speaker 2: practice on Wednesday. Yeah, they're playing Seattle this week. Okay,

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Speaker 2: I mean he probably needs your cornerbacks against Seattle.

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Speaker 3: Coming off of bye. Arrested Metcalf, Lockett Smith, and yeah,

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Speaker 2: T Higgins was limited and practice on Wednesday. He was

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Speaker 2: limited all last week with that rib injury.

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Speaker 3: He's a broken rib.

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Speaker 2: One other thing for the for the Broncos, Javonte Williams

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Speaker 3: Oh really, yea, So maybe McLaughlin's days are numbered. I

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Speaker 3: bet that's a three headed backfield a year and people

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Speaker 2: Uh. For the Texans, Laramie Tunsell did not practice on

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Speaker 3: Do you think Williams is startable?

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Speaker 2: A flex Laramie Tunsell, so that could be a note

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Speaker 2: for them. He's got a knee issue. Yeah. Juwan Johnson

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Speaker 2: They don't use them.

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Speaker 3: They don't use them. It's been a weird couple weeks

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Speaker 3: with them with cars injury and beaten the Patriots by

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Speaker 2: Well, this might explain some of the issues with the

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Speaker 3: It's been two weeks with him too. They haven't pushed him,

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Speaker 2: He kills you.

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Speaker 3: I hate toes with.

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Speaker 2: Like you got lucky if if you played him last

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Speaker 3: Pass much of the year you've been waiting for the touchdown.

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Speaker 2: But I know, for example, in our league, you're you

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Speaker 2: have a Lave and Devonte Smith. Yes, if a Lave

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Speaker 2: of here are three catches out of your top two receivers.

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Speaker 3: Really good football players, but them they're also both very young.

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Speaker 2: This is good news for you though. Derek Carr with

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Speaker 3: You would hope that they're starting to run a normal

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Speaker 3: off throw the ball down the field. I mean, hey,

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Speaker 3: another one they just ran the ball because pat Patriots

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Speaker 2: Tampa Bay's coming off their bye week.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, they're a sneaky group.

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Speaker 2: Mike Evans did not practice on Wednesday because of that

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Speaker 3: Everyone just assumes will be fine.

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Speaker 2: And that's not a good sign. Yeah, that's not a

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Speaker 2: good sign. Jadavian Clowney illness did not practice today. He's

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Speaker 2: I don't know. Uh Odell Beckham was limited today for the.

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Speaker 3: Ravens fantasy wise, it doesn't matter. He's meaningless at this point.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Uh. Barkley with that ankle injury, was once again

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Speaker 2: limited every week.

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Speaker 3: Seems the same. That was your first round pick in

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Speaker 3: our league.

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Speaker 2: I mean it's it's a lot of people's first round pick,

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Speaker 2: and it's it's been brutal yea, Like he's been limited

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Speaker 2: every practice for the last two weeks, has.

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Speaker 3: Day every time like maybe tomorrow, maybe tomorrow, And then

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Speaker 2: They keeps saying Barkley's trending in the right direction? Is

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Speaker 2: he or is he stuck on? Is he sissphist rolling

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Speaker 2: the ball, roll the roll the rock up the mountain

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Speaker 2: and roll it back down at the end of the week.

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Speaker 2: I don't know. It feels like uh Zay Flowers with

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Speaker 3: Yeah, keep an eye on that. I don't think that's nothing.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Charles Cross for the Seahawks, he returned to practice

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Speaker 2: on Wednesdays. That's good news for them. They play the

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Speaker 2: Bengals this week. Who gets some Trey Hendrickson.

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Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, uh uh.

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Speaker 2: Travis Homer the hamstring for the Chicago Bears did not

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Speaker 3: Kind of matters because Herbert's out, but I think it's

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Speaker 2: Also because Roshawn Johnson remains in concussion protocol.

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Speaker 3: Okay, as he should, as he should, but that doesn't

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Speaker 3: mean he's going to be back this week.

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Speaker 2: No. No, I mean Travis Homer if he were practicing

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Speaker 2: right now, people, are you know again, Davante Foreman, Homer's

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Speaker 3: Homer could be the one this week, could be and

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Speaker 3: he certainly would be the passing down back. There's no

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Speaker 2: Herbert, and well they throw the ball a good amount.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Uh. Jamal Adams for the Seahawks has cleared cleared concussion

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Speaker 2: protocol in time to play the Bengals this week. That's

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Speaker 3: Yeah. I mean is he worth two first round picks?

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Speaker 2: No?

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Speaker 3: No? Is he an overrated player? Yes, but you'd rather

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Speaker 3: have him out there than not your paying on your top.

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Speaker 2: Do talk to you guys, And I don't want to

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Speaker 2: say he's their best pass rusher now. A couple of

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Speaker 2: years ago he was.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Travis Kelcey listed officially as questionable, but at least, you know,

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Speaker 2: that stuff, sometimes it's a low ankle sprain. Okay, I'm fine.

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Speaker 2: They tape it up. They they just throw the tape

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Speaker 2: on over the shoe.

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Speaker 3: You get out of the game, maybe even gets a

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Speaker 3: And yeah, and they're playing Denver.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Darren Waller is dealing with a groin injury.

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Speaker 3: Said, you're gonna warm up to him a little more.

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Speaker 2: Seid he expects to play on Sunday against the Bill.

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Speaker 2: That's a sneaky one. That Bill's defense now missing, now missing.

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Speaker 3: Matt Mulano Jones wanted to be Betterdy Lineman, he's out.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean just atm just ran nuts against them.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Milano. If this was Bill's Nation Radio, who would

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Speaker 3: I mean he runs the whole defense, right, he's the guy. Yeah. Uh.

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Speaker 3: I assume that's coming, yeah.

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Speaker 2: I mean he carried the ball six times last week. Yes,

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Speaker 3: I guess if you're a tailor owner, do you start him?

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Speaker 2: I think I think you'd rather start Taylor? Me too,

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Speaker 2: they find some kind of role for him. Taylor's not

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Speaker 3: So there's a lot of carries to go round.

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Speaker 2: I mean, if they get twenty five to thirty carries

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Speaker 3: I mean it's much different in style of play. Couldn't

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Speaker 3: in a chan like both you know, yeah, there's enough

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Speaker 2: I mean, I think moss is a flex play. I

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Speaker 2: wouldn't want to have to, but we're coming. I mean

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Speaker 3: I mean there're gonna be weeks where you're gonna look

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Speaker 3: like touches this week, like thirty thirty touches.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean they were running, they were giving him

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Speaker 2: touches left in his life. Let's just keep giving it

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a tough one though, because Taylor's giving thirteen million.

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Speaker 3: Years's gonna play.

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Speaker 2: But he had six carries last week, and you know,

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Speaker 2: do you do you feel comfortable because ramping him up

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Speaker 2: might mean twelve carries this week.

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Speaker 3: It might Yeah, it could be twenty, could be ten

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Speaker 3: on first and ten first snap of the game. I

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Speaker 3: assume Taylor will be out there, I would assume, So

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Speaker 3: I don't know who was out there this week.

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Speaker 2: I would assume it was Moss, so he.

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Speaker 3: Played way more. I assume it was. But I don't

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know. That's that's a that's a tough one.

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Speaker 3: There's a tough one. You don't mind having owning either player? No,

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Speaker 3: like you wish the other one wasn't there.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Like, if you're the Taylor owner, do you also

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Speaker 2: want to own Moss?

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Speaker 3: You want mosket trade?

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Speaker 2: I mean, it's a straight handcuff right now, it's.

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Speaker 3: A straight handcuff. But unless it's a time share, unless

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Speaker 3: my time share it was a handcuff last.

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Speaker 2: Week, it was not.

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Speaker 3: It's Harry uh to lean towards playing both.

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Speaker 2: This week, Yeah, not as my RB one or anything like.

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Speaker 3: I would just depends.

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Speaker 2: It'd be great. I mean, if if you've made it

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Speaker 2: this far with Taylor, you can afford probably to play

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Speaker 2: him as a flex play and hope, but.

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Speaker 3: You're probably mad at him too, without a doubt.

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Speaker 2: Definitely start off, so you've basically eaten five weeks of him,

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Speaker 3: And then you're like, boy, he signed a huge contract.

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Speaker 3: It was worth the weight. And then he got three

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Speaker 3: points and then this week he goes up to six.

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Speaker 2: Yeah great, oh great, fantastic. Yeah, here comes Moss. They're

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Speaker 2: down the goal line. They give him most carry. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: trailing Barks with the knee. Did not practice on Wednesday.

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Speaker 2: They play the Ravens this week.

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Speaker 3: They could use him, they could use them, but boy,

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Speaker 3: he's out of sight, out of mind for fantasy, at

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Speaker 3: least until further notice.

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Speaker 2: Tank Dell with a concussion will not practice on Wednesday.

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Speaker 3: Doesn't look good.

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Speaker 2: Jamiir Gibbs with the hamstring did not practice on Wednesday.

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Speaker 3: Fire at Montgomery.

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Speaker 2: I firing up Montgomery no matter what. But yeah, I

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Speaker 3: I think he gets more catches with Gibbs ot of

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Speaker 3: I don't know what to do with them. I assume

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Speaker 3: Saint Brown's gonna come back, and maybe we'll tell U

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Speaker 3: get rammed up more Jamison like Taylor. Yeah, Yeah, what's

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Speaker 3: that leave for Gibbs.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Amon Ross Brown is every week. Saint Brown did

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Speaker 2: this is again the Salvon Achmed news here. He had

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Speaker 2: a grin injury. He returned to practice on Wednesday.

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Speaker 3: He might be the sneakiest one.

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Speaker 2: That might be the sneaky one that all of a

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Speaker 2: sudden you look up and there's Salvon Ahmed getting fourteen

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Speaker 2: carries in the second half against Carolina, and you're going

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Speaker 2: nobody has him.

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Speaker 3: I mean, like in my other league, I have two

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Speaker 3: quarterbacks I like more than Kenny Pickett. I min when

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Speaker 3: I start Kenny Pickett, I'm probably never gonna start them.

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Speaker 3: Maybe I should just pick up Akmed, you know what

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Speaker 3: I mean, just stash them and so somebody doesn't.

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Speaker 2: You know the Vikings who put Justin Jefferson on IR

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Speaker 2: they had three they had the four receivers on their

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Speaker 2: four in their active roster. Well, they signed the kil

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Speaker 2: Harry to their active roster to replace Justin Jefferson. That's

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Speaker 2: a good one for one.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, first round picks.

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Speaker 2: They both first round picks.

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Speaker 3: That's about all they have in common. I guess it's

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Speaker 3: Harry's last chance. And yeah, if you're him, you're like, well,

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Speaker 3: at least I got a shot. But I don't even

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Speaker 3: consider him, folks.

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Speaker 2: This is this is what I've never seen before in

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Speaker 2: an injury list. David and Joku not practicing on Wednesday.

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Speaker 2: The reason burns the face. Yeah, now that's a five.

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Speaker 3: Poor guy. I mean, I guess it was pretty bad

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Speaker 3: and had extensive like when he came to the stadium

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Speaker 3: last week, he.

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Speaker 2: Was like a Jason vorheas master.

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Speaker 3: And they could hardly over get a helmet on.

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Speaker 2: Or Michael Myers.

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Speaker 3: I guess, yeah, yeah, yeah, he played. I don't think

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Speaker 3: he can practice.

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Speaker 2: He's not been good this year.

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Speaker 3: No, no, he's not been Fantasy relevant, ends to disappointed.

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Speaker 3: Burns the face, Yeah that's a bad one.

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Speaker 1: Uh.

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Speaker 2: Dalton Kincaid with a concussion limited and Wednesday's practice.

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Speaker 3: Was he concussed overseas. Yeah, don't look good.

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Speaker 2: That's tough.

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Speaker 3: Knox might be a sneaky DFS, he's boring.

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Speaker 2: But Miles with a foot not practicing on Wednesday. They said,

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Speaker 2: I don't worry about the foot, It's fine. He was

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Speaker 2: in a walking boot after the game. This is something

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Speaker 3: It's the same thing and he just keeps reaggravating.

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Speaker 2: Apparently. Dawson Knox, the afore mentioned Dawson Knox with the

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Speaker 3: Getting all banged off defense, especially.

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Speaker 2: Uh, Deshaun Watson with that shoulder did not practice on Wednesday.

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Speaker 2: I don't think they're going to start PJ Walker this week. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: they've they've already announced it. If Yeah, they're not going

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Speaker 2: with the kid again during Thompson Robinson, They'll go with PJ. Walker.

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Speaker 2: That's good. That could be ugly, ugly ugly, Like even

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Speaker 2: if Watson plays at this point, he hasn't thrown a

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Speaker 3: Month again, another long layoff for Watson, and they're going

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Speaker 3: to lose the way I think, Yeah, I don't know

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Speaker 3: that i'd rush him back if I'm pleaving.

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Speaker 2: No, I mean you might as well if you take

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Speaker 3: And boy, that's tough.

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Speaker 2: He's throwing PJ Walker to the Lions.

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Speaker 3: So who did Who's Miami playing again this week? Uh?

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Speaker 2: Carolina Carolina.

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Speaker 3: There might be two games that are fifty point margins

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Speaker 3: of victory. Yeah, there's two blowouts. I don't know how

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Speaker 3: many points i'd need to take the Browns or Carolina.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Uh.

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Speaker 2: Miles Sanders with the shoulder injury, not practicing on Wednesday.

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Speaker 3: You were talking about who but yes, rev them up.

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Speaker 3: I mean I think he's.

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Speaker 2: He's getting more carries now than Miles Sanders says.

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Speaker 3: I didn't quite know that yesterday at this time. But

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Speaker 3: they may like him better when they're both healthy.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and he catches, he catches the ball he does.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, maybe be better if he was on a better offense,

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Speaker 3: but so what he.

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Speaker 2: Plays, he plays, he's going to get touches. Daniel Jones

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Speaker 2: not practicing on Wednesday. They said they're calling it a back.

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Speaker 2: It's actually a neck. I guess maybe it's the back

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Speaker 2: of the neck.

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Speaker 3: Okay, but ugly, I wouldn't want to be a back

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Speaker 3: or neck injury. You behind that line?

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Speaker 2: No, Uh, Bill Belichick said mac Jones will start in

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Speaker 2: Week six against the Raiders because what else are they

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Speaker 3: It's that bad. Zappie's not an option, No, Zappi he's

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Speaker 3: not good roster.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they cut him if they if they liked him

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Speaker 2: so much, they wouldn't have cut him at the end

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Speaker 2: of training camp. Yeah, it's uh, the athletic This this

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Speaker 2: is not really necessarily fantasy news, but the athletics. Jeff

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Speaker 2: how reports Patriots owner Robert Kraft has grown frustrated, if

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Speaker 2: not downright angry over the team struggles.

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Speaker 3: We heard him.

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Speaker 2: We were talking about that at the at the the

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Speaker 2: stories about this, that he wouldn't necessarily give Bill Belichick

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Speaker 3: I get it's Belichick. Yeah. And they're a little spoiled

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Speaker 3: up there. I mean, they have a lot of success,

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Speaker 3: but they're bad.

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Speaker 2: The Colts are signing Anthony Miller off their practice squad.

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Speaker 3: Good for him. I've always for him.

446
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, good guy. I liked him when he was here.

447
00:19:02,160 --> 00:19:04,600
Speaker 3: Yeah. You got to talk to stick somewhere.

448
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Speaker 2: Yeah.

449
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Speaker 3: Uh.

450
00:19:06,359 --> 00:19:09,639
Speaker 2: The Colts also signed Kellen Mond to their practice squad,

451
00:19:09,680 --> 00:19:11,879
Speaker 2: so don't get too excited about that. That's but he

452
00:19:12,000 --> 00:19:15,080
Speaker 2: might be rich Yeah, that's the fallout from not having Richardson.

453
00:19:15,080 --> 00:19:18,359
Speaker 2: I don't know who there two is now with they

454
00:19:18,359 --> 00:19:20,320
Speaker 2: had to have three right, unless they're going to bring

455
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Speaker 2: I guess.

456
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Speaker 3: They still have Voluk, They're still yeah, you know he's

457
00:19:23,040 --> 00:19:26,040
Speaker 3: not good, No, but he's a scrambler type. Yeah. So

458
00:19:26,880 --> 00:19:30,120
Speaker 3: they actually run Minshew a little more than other teams did. Yeah,

459
00:19:30,440 --> 00:19:34,080
Speaker 3: not these Richardson of course, but minshe's not bad or

460
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Speaker 3: the worst fantasy it's a.

461
00:19:35,359 --> 00:19:37,920
Speaker 2: Lot of short passes, quick passes. Yeah, that's why Josh

462
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Speaker 2: Downs is the games that Minshew is is played in,

463
00:19:42,119 --> 00:19:43,280
Speaker 2: Josh Downs is blown up.

464
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Speaker 3: Yeah, he's a true slot rookie if people don't know.

465
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Speaker 2: Ye. Luckily, I couldn't believe nobody grabbed him. I was picking,

466
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Speaker 2: like I have one of the later waiver picks this week,

467
00:19:51,280 --> 00:19:53,320
Speaker 2: and I got Josh Downs. I'm like, wow, Yeah, I

468
00:19:53,320 --> 00:19:56,280
Speaker 2: thought he was my number one pick to pick up

469
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Speaker 2: this week, and I thought I won't get him.

470
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Speaker 3: Yeah.

471
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I had like five of them in there that

472
00:20:01,080 --> 00:20:01,840
Speaker 2: obviously loved.

473
00:20:01,680 --> 00:20:03,080
Speaker 3: Them coming out of school. He felt too much in

474
00:20:03,080 --> 00:20:05,399
Speaker 3: that draft too, Yeah, fell draft. So No, he's a

475
00:20:05,400 --> 00:20:05,840
Speaker 3: good player.

476
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Speaker 2: Uh, that's gonna do it for the fantasy football focus.

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Speaker 2: am Dale, Wallie and Matt. The trade deadline coming up here,

491
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Speaker 2: coming up here at the end of October. October thirty

492
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Speaker 2: first is the deadline. We've already seen some trades made,

493
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Speaker 2: though I think a lot Usually you don't, you know,

494
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Speaker 2: it used to never happen in.

495
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Speaker 3: The NFL, So I got a weird theory on that. Okay,

496
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Speaker 3: I might be bonkers on this, but those in charge

497
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Speaker 3: of trades now gms across the league. They grew up

498
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Speaker 3: playing Madden in fantasy football, and they had the Internet

499
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Speaker 3: you know what I mean, Like, I think that the

500
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Speaker 3: world's just a little different now.

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Speaker 2: I think some of it also might be because of

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Speaker 2: the salary cap and not.

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Speaker 3: Too and I think the league is promoting.

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Speaker 2: It league trades. Yeah, it gets people talking. But there's

505
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Speaker 2: also you know, in the in the pre salary cap years,

506
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Speaker 2: your lineup was your lineup from year to year nineteen

507
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Speaker 2: ninety three, that basically all changed, like you could start

508
00:22:00,720 --> 00:22:03,680
Speaker 2: signing guys and do free agency. People didn't go nuts

509
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Speaker 2: about with it because they're rarely we rarely change anything.

510
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Speaker 2: But now we've seen the last few years here more

511
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Speaker 2: teams giving out two and you know, one or two

512
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Speaker 2: year contracts to guys.

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Speaker 3: More guys at the market, so more guys at the market.

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Speaker 2: So you're I think, I think coaching staffs have gotten

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Speaker 2: more adjusted or more accustomed to getting guys on a

516
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Speaker 2: moving train.

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Speaker 3: Sure, like I always made you used to hate to

518
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Speaker 3: do that.

519
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Speaker 2: All it's our guys, and this you know, he's been

520
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Speaker 2: in the system for four years, and.

521
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Speaker 3: Like this is the extreme example, but it applies to

522
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Speaker 3: this team obviously. Like I always think, if I am

523
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Speaker 3: the nineteen seventy eight Steelers first round pick, you know,

524
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Speaker 3: you're a first round pick, I might have to wait

525
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Speaker 3: three years to play, you know, or if I'm seventy

526
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Speaker 3: six or seventy seven, where they're just where where am

527
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Speaker 3: I going to get a spot here? Yeah? It's not

528
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Speaker 3: like there's even a nickel package back then to get in,

529
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Speaker 3: you know, Like they don't even rotate the lineman.

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Speaker 2: Like playing two receivers, like.

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Speaker 3: Like two receivers. There's eleven starters and maybe a twelve

532
00:23:03,040 --> 00:23:05,280
Speaker 3: guy might get in there once in a while, but

533
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Speaker 3: it's not gonna be me. Yeah, who am I going

534
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Speaker 3: to beat out on that team?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? So with that in mind, Kevin peterra or Patrick,

536
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Speaker 2: i should.

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Speaker 3: Say, or the sixty six Green Bay Packers for pick

538
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Speaker 3: great fantastic.

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Speaker 2: Kevin Patrick on NFL dot com has some uh notable

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Speaker 2: players who should be moved before the league's October thirty

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Speaker 2: first deadline.

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Speaker 3: Well, we laid it out on Power Ranks Day yesterday.

543
00:23:30,280 --> 00:23:32,960
Speaker 3: Go check it out if you want. But there's six

544
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Speaker 3: teams that have no chance. Yeah, I mean they have

545
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Speaker 3: no chance.

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Speaker 2: Some of those are in a rebuilding mode, yes, some

547
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Speaker 2: of those. Some of those are in rebuilding and don't

548
00:23:40,800 --> 00:23:45,479
Speaker 2: know it yet. The Patriots and yeah, you know, some

549
00:23:45,560 --> 00:23:48,320
Speaker 2: of them are just playing god awful and you know, like.

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Speaker 3: The Bears, Vikings are a tough one.

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Speaker 2: Now, yeah, the Vikings are in a tough situation. Now

552
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Speaker 2: do they rebuild it or do they you know, or

553
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Speaker 2: do they you know, tear it down? Or they do

554
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Speaker 2: they you know, continue on here.

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Speaker 3: But even saw trade yesterday, I mean Van Jefferson, it's

556
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Speaker 3: not a huge one, but Van Jefferson goes down to Atlanta.

557
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Speaker 3: You know you swapped, but hey, you know, the.

558
00:24:08,240 --> 00:24:11,359
Speaker 2: Chase Claypool trade is basically the same trade.

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Speaker 3: The same trade, like pretty much has given up not much,

560
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Speaker 3: but you know you're taking going.

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Speaker 2: Right, Hey, we want to get this guy this this, But.

562
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Speaker 3: I think there could be some names that move. Yeah,

563
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Speaker 3: I'm curious what patrack has will say. I haven't given

564
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Speaker 3: a lot of thought.

565
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Speaker 2: But so he's got Kirk Cousins leading the list here.

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Speaker 3: Okay, So if I trade for Kirk Cousins, I have

567
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Speaker 3: to pay his paragraph five the rest of the year,

568
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Speaker 3: which is substantial, but it's not insane. I mean, you're

569
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Speaker 3: done with the signing bonuses and stuff.

570
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Speaker 2: But he's quarterback. How long is how long does it

571
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Speaker 2: take him to get up to speed?

572
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Speaker 3: Right?

573
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Speaker 2: To learn your offense. Yes, you can dumb things down

574
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Speaker 2: for like, let's say he goes. Let's say that. Let's

575
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Speaker 2: say the Jets the Jets.

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Speaker 3: I mean, say then, who would be the team? I

577
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Speaker 3: mean the Jets are the one everyone links to.

578
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Speaker 2: The problem is the Jets on him draft picks because

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Speaker 2: they get what are again trade? Do they already traded

580
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Speaker 2: their second roun pick Sestion's.

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Speaker 3: Gone, Yeah, I don't think you give up a first

582
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Speaker 3: for them.

583
00:25:02,880 --> 00:25:04,359
Speaker 2: You're not going to give up a first.

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Speaker 3: Especially if Rogers claims to be coming back.

585
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Speaker 2: Are the Vikings who don't have they don't have a

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Speaker 2: quarterback of the future on their roster. It's the thing

587
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Speaker 2: they're going to trade Kirk Cousins for a third.

588
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Speaker 3: No, probably not maybe a third in a second the

589
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Speaker 3: next year or something.

590
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Speaker 2: Because that doesn't help you get your quarterback next year.

591
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Speaker 3: Because not to mention, if I'm the Jets and all

592
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Speaker 3: I have to do is give up a third for

593
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Speaker 3: Cousins and pay him, you know, just his Monday paycheck,

594
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Speaker 3: he's gonna hit the up mark. Gone a third for

595
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Speaker 3: him anyways, right, I.

596
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Speaker 2: Mean, yeah, I'm gonna get a three. I'm gonna get it.

597
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Speaker 2: I might get two threes.

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Speaker 3: You know, I'm just talking about comp picks.

599
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Speaker 2: That's what I'm saying. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you know, right

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Speaker 2: if he.

601
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Speaker 3: Gets signed that much, signed for fifty million dollars, right,

602
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Speaker 3: and I'm going.

603
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Speaker 2: To get a three, So it's got to be better

604
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Speaker 2: than a three.

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Speaker 3: Better three. And I understand what the Vikings are doing.

606
00:25:47,160 --> 00:25:49,760
Speaker 3: They're trying to, you know, that fine line of we

607
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Speaker 3: won thirteen games last year, but we know we're not

608
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Speaker 3: a thirteen win team, but we don't want to tank.

609
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Speaker 3: But they should have had a third round pick. There

610
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Speaker 3: should be a Will Levis.

611
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Speaker 2: There should be somebody there who, you know, potentially I.

612
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Speaker 3: Know, I'm just supposed to be that guy, but he

613
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Speaker 3: didn't trade for trade lance. Yeah, and give somebody that

614
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Speaker 3: has at least upside, you know.

615
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know. You know, the landing spots just aren't.

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Speaker 3: Who wants them? I mean, would you want them if

617
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Speaker 3: you're the Patriots and sign them? They like they have

618
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Speaker 3: a ton of cap space.

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Speaker 2: Like if you're if you were the Colts and you

620
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Speaker 2: didn't have Gardner Minshew right now, perhaps.

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Speaker 3: Then you would then you would entertain that Yeah, perhaps,

622
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Speaker 3: I mean, but.

623
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Speaker 2: You do have Gardner Minshew now so you're you know,

624
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Speaker 2: you're not in that situation. Would the Patriots do it? Maybe,

625
00:26:31,840 --> 00:26:34,480
Speaker 2: but they're not like they're out of it.

626
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Speaker 3: Too, see, but I would do it. I brought up

627
00:26:36,720 --> 00:26:41,200
Speaker 3: the Patriots just because Mac Jones, isn't it. I trade

628
00:26:41,200 --> 00:26:44,119
Speaker 3: for cousins and don't rent them. I extend them, and

629
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Speaker 3: he's my starter for this year and two more.

630
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Speaker 2: But the problem is he wins you. Maybe he wins

631
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Speaker 2: you two or three more games that you wouldn't have one,

632
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Speaker 2: and therefore you get a lesser draft pick out of it.

633
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Speaker 2: And I would just run ride this year out.

634
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Speaker 3: I'd rather try to get trade May right, you know

635
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Speaker 3: what I mean. They're bad enough.

636
00:27:01,560 --> 00:27:04,159
Speaker 2: They're bad enough that they're in that conversation.

637
00:27:04,200 --> 00:27:06,159
Speaker 3: But they had the cap space to do it going forward.

638
00:27:06,280 --> 00:27:07,680
Speaker 3: I wouldn't take that approach.

639
00:27:07,400 --> 00:27:08,800
Speaker 2: So you can then just do it next. You know,

640
00:27:09,400 --> 00:27:11,720
Speaker 2: Let's say they end up winning four games and it's

641
00:27:11,760 --> 00:27:13,760
Speaker 2: not enough to Okay, now you can do that.

642
00:27:13,960 --> 00:27:17,639
Speaker 3: How about this one, Atlanta, because they're not gonna be

643
00:27:17,720 --> 00:27:21,439
Speaker 3: the Drake may badness. Ritter played well this week, but

644
00:27:21,520 --> 00:27:23,719
Speaker 3: I don't think they need a running quarterback. If they

645
00:27:23,760 --> 00:27:26,879
Speaker 3: had a true quarterback back there that offense would be

646
00:27:26,960 --> 00:27:27,360
Speaker 3: really good.

647
00:27:27,520 --> 00:27:29,159
Speaker 2: They get to make a trade for Tanny Hill.

648
00:27:29,800 --> 00:27:31,480
Speaker 3: Cousins though, But yeah, I get.

649
00:27:31,280 --> 00:27:34,520
Speaker 2: It because it's just Tannehill's But Tannyhill played with Arthur Smith.

650
00:27:34,640 --> 00:27:38,040
Speaker 2: Now that's the other thing that's about that is if

651
00:27:38,160 --> 00:27:41,040
Speaker 2: if the they did make a trade for Tanny Hill,

652
00:27:41,720 --> 00:27:44,840
Speaker 2: they don't have to change anything. He already knows the offense.

653
00:27:44,920 --> 00:27:47,080
Speaker 3: Yeah, but they're both free agents after the year two.

654
00:27:48,240 --> 00:27:50,040
Speaker 3: I just don't see a lot of landing spots for Cousins.

655
00:27:50,080 --> 00:27:52,600
Speaker 2: I don't either. Yeah, Danielle Hunter.

656
00:27:52,480 --> 00:27:54,160
Speaker 3: Almost need another quarterback injury.

657
00:27:54,320 --> 00:27:56,520
Speaker 2: Yeah, Danielle Hunter's the next guy in the list. Now

658
00:27:56,560 --> 00:27:58,280
Speaker 2: there could be a market for him. He redid his

659
00:27:58,400 --> 00:28:03,000
Speaker 2: contract before the season, and and it's a pretty significant

660
00:28:03,080 --> 00:28:03,320
Speaker 2: I think.

661
00:28:03,720 --> 00:28:04,960
Speaker 3: But you don't pay the signing bonus.

662
00:28:05,160 --> 00:28:05,520
Speaker 2: You don't.

663
00:28:05,640 --> 00:28:07,479
Speaker 3: I mean, I don't know what it's structured at.

664
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Speaker 2: I don't know what it is either. But he got

665
00:28:09,080 --> 00:28:12,080
Speaker 2: more money out of them, I assume that, you know.

666
00:28:12,440 --> 00:28:16,199
Speaker 3: But teams never give someone a huge extension and trade them, right,

667
00:28:16,600 --> 00:28:18,320
Speaker 3: you know. I mean it's you would have traded him

668
00:28:18,320 --> 00:28:18,919
Speaker 3: before the extension.

669
00:28:18,920 --> 00:28:21,080
Speaker 2: I mean, it just it was just more money this year.

670
00:28:21,480 --> 00:28:24,920
Speaker 2: But they could have just traded him when he was

671
00:28:24,960 --> 00:28:25,440
Speaker 2: sitting out.

672
00:28:26,280 --> 00:28:27,920
Speaker 3: He still has a lot of value and if they've

673
00:28:27,960 --> 00:28:31,360
Speaker 3: decided to rebuild, that's one of your chips you could

674
00:28:31,480 --> 00:28:31,840
Speaker 3: trade in.

675
00:28:32,480 --> 00:28:37,560
Speaker 2: Uh, Brian Burns with the Carolina Panthers. Yeah, they screwed

676
00:28:37,640 --> 00:28:42,080
Speaker 2: that up when Chicago said, we'll take DJ Moore or

677
00:28:42,120 --> 00:28:46,200
Speaker 2: Brian Burns in your first in your first round draft picked, Okay,

678
00:28:46,280 --> 00:28:48,720
Speaker 2: we'll take Brian burn mak it Brian Burns.

679
00:28:48,520 --> 00:28:51,800
Speaker 3: And the rumor before the Rams offered him to first

680
00:28:52,720 --> 00:28:55,400
Speaker 3: in the off season for him or he's really good.

681
00:28:56,800 --> 00:28:57,840
Speaker 3: You need to fix the offense.

682
00:28:58,080 --> 00:29:00,640
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I mean you've got to rookie. You've got

683
00:29:00,680 --> 00:29:02,720
Speaker 2: a rookie quarterback here. How could you How could you

684
00:29:02,840 --> 00:29:06,160
Speaker 2: go into this season with the ghost of Adam Thielen.

685
00:29:06,200 --> 00:29:08,440
Speaker 3: Who's catching a million balls and doing his part, but.

686
00:29:09,000 --> 00:29:11,160
Speaker 2: For no yards. It's not enough to know, it's not

687
00:29:11,320 --> 00:29:11,960
Speaker 2: beat anybody.

688
00:29:12,120 --> 00:29:12,800
Speaker 3: No, it's not enough.

689
00:29:13,560 --> 00:29:14,719
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's just crazy.

690
00:29:14,960 --> 00:29:16,920
Speaker 3: A lot of people would want Burns, the whole.

691
00:29:17,280 --> 00:29:19,560
Speaker 2: Bunch of Denver Broncos.

692
00:29:19,200 --> 00:29:20,440
Speaker 3: On this side. There should be everyone.

693
00:29:20,560 --> 00:29:24,280
Speaker 2: See they're one of these teams that they're rebuilding. They

694
00:29:24,400 --> 00:29:24,920
Speaker 2: just don't know it.

695
00:29:25,720 --> 00:29:27,680
Speaker 3: And I think Peyton doesn't want anybody else. I think

696
00:29:27,720 --> 00:29:31,680
Speaker 3: he's I don't say an egomaniac, but he's a bizarre

697
00:29:32,160 --> 00:29:33,120
Speaker 3: I want my guys.

698
00:29:33,840 --> 00:29:36,200
Speaker 2: Have had Sean five years from now, you might be good.

699
00:29:36,240 --> 00:29:39,280
Speaker 2: If you survive. Oh yeah, you get new ownership out

700
00:29:39,280 --> 00:29:41,920
Speaker 2: there that you know, Hey, this isn't what we bought

701
00:29:41,960 --> 00:29:42,480
Speaker 2: this team for.

702
00:29:42,880 --> 00:29:46,160
Speaker 3: And they gave him a ridiculous contract. He's save. Wilson

703
00:29:46,240 --> 00:29:49,040
Speaker 3: and Peyton are going to be there.

704
00:29:49,120 --> 00:29:51,920
Speaker 2: The Broncos have not made the playoffs since twenty fifteen.

705
00:29:52,600 --> 00:29:56,720
Speaker 2: I've mentioned that before on the show, The Broncos. The Broncos,

706
00:29:57,720 --> 00:30:00,640
Speaker 2: one of the yeah, one of the org oranizations that

707
00:30:00,720 --> 00:30:03,840
Speaker 2: had long been one of the cornerstones of the AFC.

708
00:30:04,120 --> 00:30:06,640
Speaker 3: Has not made the play of fifteen all that good stuff.

709
00:30:06,800 --> 00:30:09,160
Speaker 2: L Wait, you know, not made the playoffs.

710
00:30:09,720 --> 00:30:14,680
Speaker 3: Who are the guys Garrett Bowles absolutely, Frank Clark absolutely,

711
00:30:15,240 --> 00:30:20,000
Speaker 3: Kareem Jackson Yeah, I mean old defender guy yeah, Defenders Yeah.

712
00:30:19,960 --> 00:30:21,320
Speaker 2: Jerry Judy and Courtland Sutton.

713
00:30:21,680 --> 00:30:21,880
Speaker 3: Yeah.

714
00:30:22,080 --> 00:30:24,120
Speaker 2: The one guy who is not mentioned on there is

715
00:30:24,160 --> 00:30:25,920
Speaker 2: the one, of course, the one guy that you you

716
00:30:26,040 --> 00:30:30,240
Speaker 2: meant I am in I It would take two first

717
00:30:30,320 --> 00:30:32,440
Speaker 2: round draft picks for me to trade Patrick's certain.

718
00:30:32,640 --> 00:30:34,480
Speaker 3: If you're if you're Denver. If I'm den me too,

719
00:30:34,600 --> 00:30:36,520
Speaker 3: me too. But I thought that was Meca. I mean

720
00:30:36,560 --> 00:30:40,840
Speaker 3: sometimes he's organizations. And I don't know this, but I

721
00:30:41,000 --> 00:30:43,760
Speaker 3: wonder Garrett Bowles flat I said, I'm sick of playing

722
00:30:43,800 --> 00:30:46,160
Speaker 3: here because all we do is lose. Yeah, Like, are

723
00:30:46,200 --> 00:30:49,680
Speaker 3: all the competitive dudes like Mica when he was in Miami,

724
00:30:49,840 --> 00:30:52,400
Speaker 3: Like I just went out of here. I mean, if

725
00:30:52,440 --> 00:30:54,680
Speaker 3: you're the organization, you might have to take eighty cents

726
00:30:54,720 --> 00:30:56,800
Speaker 3: on the dollar for those guys.

727
00:30:57,160 --> 00:30:59,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, but I wouldn't move certain's aw Stone is rookie.

728
00:31:00,200 --> 00:31:00,920
Speaker 2: I don't know I think.

729
00:31:01,320 --> 00:31:02,960
Speaker 3: I mean, i'd give the Steelers first round pick for

730
00:31:03,040 --> 00:31:04,000
Speaker 3: him in a second right now.

731
00:31:04,120 --> 00:31:05,880
Speaker 2: Yeah, I hear you, but I would not take that

732
00:31:05,920 --> 00:31:07,360
Speaker 2: if I just don't see them doing that.

733
00:31:07,920 --> 00:31:10,240
Speaker 3: He's the best corner the league on a rookie contract. Yeah,

734
00:31:11,360 --> 00:31:14,760
Speaker 3: those guys immensely valuable. Yeah, yeah, I'd consider two two's

735
00:31:14,920 --> 00:31:15,720
Speaker 3: or two ones.

736
00:31:16,880 --> 00:31:21,200
Speaker 2: For the Jets. Nicole Hardman, I know you hate No.

737
00:31:21,400 --> 00:31:23,480
Speaker 3: That just came out today that he hasn't fit in

738
00:31:23,640 --> 00:31:25,440
Speaker 3: and there's even talks about him going back to Kansas

739
00:31:25,440 --> 00:31:29,520
Speaker 3: City and Carl Lawson that guess first round edge Rusher

740
00:31:29,560 --> 00:31:33,320
Speaker 3: and McDonald Carl Lawson was inactive for the last game. Yeah,

741
00:31:34,040 --> 00:31:36,160
Speaker 3: it was good when he played for the Jets or

742
00:31:36,240 --> 00:31:39,000
Speaker 3: for the Bengals, he was outstanding. He was outstanding. He

743
00:31:39,040 --> 00:31:41,320
Speaker 3: had a couple of good stints in New York too.

744
00:31:41,680 --> 00:31:41,880
Speaker 2: Yeah.

745
00:31:42,200 --> 00:31:43,600
Speaker 3: The web Rushers, though Burns.

746
00:31:43,960 --> 00:31:49,800
Speaker 2: You know our man money renfro Well.

747
00:31:49,840 --> 00:31:50,720
Speaker 3: The money is the problem.

748
00:31:50,800 --> 00:31:53,480
Speaker 2: The money is the issue. But they signed him to

749
00:31:53,560 --> 00:31:54,560
Speaker 2: that money and then they don't.

750
00:31:54,440 --> 00:31:57,520
Speaker 3: Play him real quick. On Denver, Justin Simmons is a

751
00:31:57,560 --> 00:31:59,840
Speaker 3: guy they should trade. Yeah, I mean you could get

752
00:31:59,880 --> 00:32:00,640
Speaker 3: us maybe a two for.

753
00:32:00,720 --> 00:32:03,240
Speaker 2: Him, maybe a three, depends on the contract.

754
00:32:03,640 --> 00:32:06,000
Speaker 3: The contract's rough, and I would consider him for the

755
00:32:06,000 --> 00:32:08,480
Speaker 3: Steelers as well. That he's a really really good player.

756
00:32:09,120 --> 00:32:10,600
Speaker 3: But that's something I mean, they don't at.

757
00:32:10,840 --> 00:32:13,240
Speaker 2: He's on a four year, sixty one million dollar contract.

758
00:32:13,240 --> 00:32:15,280
Speaker 2: He's on the high suit. The base here the base

759
00:32:15,360 --> 00:32:17,200
Speaker 2: this year, he can't trade for me. The base is

760
00:32:17,240 --> 00:32:19,760
Speaker 2: fourteen to four. The base in twenty twenty four is

761
00:32:19,800 --> 00:32:23,120
Speaker 2: fourteen to five. So basically, to rent him the rest

762
00:32:23,120 --> 00:32:24,960
Speaker 2: of the season is going to cost you just a

763
00:32:25,160 --> 00:32:28,160
Speaker 2: tad under a million dollars a week. I no, he's

764
00:32:28,240 --> 00:32:29,320
Speaker 2: up after twenty twenty four.

765
00:32:29,480 --> 00:32:31,200
Speaker 3: Okay, Yeah, So I want him. If I'm giving them

766
00:32:31,200 --> 00:32:32,280
Speaker 3: a pick, I don't want to rent him.

767
00:32:32,560 --> 00:32:35,360
Speaker 2: That's but at the same time, he'll also be thirty

768
00:32:35,400 --> 00:32:36,720
Speaker 2: one next year, and.

769
00:32:36,760 --> 00:32:38,800
Speaker 3: It's a lot of money tied in Minca and Simmons.

770
00:32:39,240 --> 00:32:41,120
Speaker 3: It's a lot like it's a third round pick I'm

771
00:32:41,120 --> 00:32:41,760
Speaker 3: giving up for him.

772
00:32:42,080 --> 00:32:45,880
Speaker 2: He might be a five. No, I'm based on that

773
00:32:46,040 --> 00:32:49,440
Speaker 2: salary unless you get unless Denver, unless you get Denver

774
00:32:49,560 --> 00:32:52,080
Speaker 2: to eat some of the salary possible.

775
00:32:52,320 --> 00:32:53,440
Speaker 3: If i'm them, though, I got to.

776
00:32:53,440 --> 00:32:55,959
Speaker 2: Trade him, which would mean for what that would mean

777
00:32:56,000 --> 00:32:58,760
Speaker 2: would be they turn a bunch of that salary into

778
00:32:58,760 --> 00:33:01,160
Speaker 2: signing bonus, they pay him as he's walking out the door.

779
00:33:02,760 --> 00:33:07,560
Speaker 3: I'm interested. Yeah, And that's a going rate for number

780
00:33:07,600 --> 00:33:09,040
Speaker 3: one safety and can make.

781
00:33:08,960 --> 00:33:12,560
Speaker 2: A year about about yeah, about to say.

782
00:33:12,400 --> 00:33:13,400
Speaker 3: Buyers in that neighborhood.

783
00:33:13,480 --> 00:33:16,760
Speaker 2: Yeah, those guys, right, but fourteen to four you know again,

784
00:33:16,800 --> 00:33:19,160
Speaker 2: you're basically talking about running him for about eight hundred

785
00:33:19,160 --> 00:33:21,440
Speaker 2: thousand dollars a week the rest of the year and

786
00:33:21,560 --> 00:33:23,200
Speaker 2: next year and then next year.

787
00:33:23,280 --> 00:33:25,400
Speaker 3: Yeah. So it's not gonna want him for the rest

788
00:33:25,400 --> 00:33:25,680
Speaker 3: of the year.

789
00:33:25,680 --> 00:33:28,520
Speaker 2: I won him for two Yeah, uh renfro.

790
00:33:29,760 --> 00:33:31,000
Speaker 3: He's gonna signed a bad deal.

791
00:33:31,120 --> 00:33:34,440
Speaker 2: He's got an eleven zero point one five to three

792
00:33:34,600 --> 00:33:37,240
Speaker 2: million dollar base salary next year. He's get ten point

793
00:33:37,280 --> 00:33:40,040
Speaker 2: eight two million dollars fully guaranteed this year. It's a

794
00:33:40,080 --> 00:33:40,760
Speaker 2: bad contract.

795
00:33:40,840 --> 00:33:44,720
Speaker 3: Bad contract. It's not his fault. Yeah, you would. You

796
00:33:44,760 --> 00:33:47,440
Speaker 3: would think that he's perfect for the New England. You

797
00:33:47,440 --> 00:33:50,600
Speaker 3: would thinking game. But now Myers is there and they

798
00:33:50,640 --> 00:33:52,640
Speaker 3: don't seem to like him. They sign him a bad deal.

799
00:33:52,680 --> 00:33:54,800
Speaker 3: It's not his fault. Yeah, they would have to eat

800
00:33:55,120 --> 00:33:56,120
Speaker 3: some of that money to move him.

801
00:33:56,480 --> 00:34:01,080
Speaker 2: Uh, Marquise Brown with a maybe could he be on

802
00:34:01,160 --> 00:34:01,880
Speaker 2: the move again.

803
00:34:02,760 --> 00:34:05,360
Speaker 3: Maybe he's like the new Brandon Cooks where people give

804
00:34:05,400 --> 00:34:06,200
Speaker 3: stuff up for him.

805
00:34:06,280 --> 00:34:10,839
Speaker 2: But well, remember they went and got him because he's good.

806
00:34:10,880 --> 00:34:12,840
Speaker 2: Buddies with the quarterback, right I think so?

807
00:34:12,960 --> 00:34:13,880
Speaker 3: Yeah, they were about it.

808
00:34:13,920 --> 00:34:15,760
Speaker 2: They were in Oklahoma together. I don't know if Kyler's

809
00:34:15,960 --> 00:34:19,320
Speaker 2: be So are you punting? You almost have to the

810
00:34:19,640 --> 00:34:21,960
Speaker 2: money that you would lose on getting rid of Kyler.

811
00:34:23,080 --> 00:34:25,160
Speaker 2: My god, Oh that's you want to talk about a

812
00:34:25,200 --> 00:34:25,960
Speaker 2: bad contract.

813
00:34:27,200 --> 00:34:29,520
Speaker 3: Oh, it's brutal like But I could see Kyle if

814
00:34:29,520 --> 00:34:33,600
Speaker 3: they end up with a quarterback worthy pick a top

815
00:34:33,719 --> 00:34:36,000
Speaker 3: three pick, which they have a great chance to with

816
00:34:36,120 --> 00:34:39,640
Speaker 3: the two picks they own Arizona. I think you have

817
00:34:39,800 --> 00:34:43,280
Speaker 3: to move on for Murray. But whoever inherits that contract

818
00:34:43,560 --> 00:34:44,320
Speaker 3: is in trouble.

819
00:34:44,640 --> 00:34:45,360
Speaker 2: Kyler Murray.

820
00:34:45,719 --> 00:34:47,120
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's unbelievable if.

821
00:34:47,000 --> 00:34:50,080
Speaker 2: They get rid of him after this season. Eighty one

822
00:34:50,160 --> 00:34:52,280
Speaker 2: point five million dollars in dead cap space.

823
00:34:52,600 --> 00:34:55,680
Speaker 3: Wow, I mean that's awful.

824
00:34:56,200 --> 00:34:58,400
Speaker 2: Even if you split that, if if you make it

825
00:34:58,760 --> 00:35:02,240
Speaker 2: a post June first cut, it's still forty million dollars

826
00:35:02,360 --> 00:35:03,120
Speaker 2: against your cap.

827
00:35:03,520 --> 00:35:06,000
Speaker 3: The thing about it with them, though they don't have

828
00:35:07,040 --> 00:35:09,000
Speaker 3: Justin Jefferson coming up for a call, they don't maybe

829
00:35:09,000 --> 00:35:11,160
Speaker 3: be good to give it to. They could use it

830
00:35:11,200 --> 00:35:15,239
Speaker 3: outside the organization, of course, But like, if you're Minnesota,

831
00:35:16,200 --> 00:35:18,799
Speaker 3: would you consider giving a second round pick for Kyler Murray?

832
00:35:18,920 --> 00:35:21,120
Speaker 2: I mean you've you've been paying all this money to

833
00:35:21,200 --> 00:35:22,240
Speaker 2: Kirk Cousins.

834
00:35:22,719 --> 00:35:25,120
Speaker 3: Or Tampa or I don't know. He's to be a

835
00:35:25,120 --> 00:35:25,840
Speaker 3: starter somewhere.

836
00:35:26,040 --> 00:35:27,480
Speaker 2: Yeah. I don't love the player.

837
00:35:27,800 --> 00:35:30,880
Speaker 3: I don't either, Yeah right, I hate the contract.

838
00:35:31,520 --> 00:35:37,440
Speaker 2: These are two interesting ones the Bears, Jalen Johnson and

839
00:35:37,560 --> 00:35:38,280
Speaker 2: Darnell Mooney.

840
00:35:38,640 --> 00:35:39,919
Speaker 3: I thought Mooney might be on the list.

841
00:35:40,719 --> 00:35:43,160
Speaker 2: Jalen Johnson is a good on the corner.

842
00:35:43,320 --> 00:35:44,919
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, why is he on the list.

843
00:35:44,960 --> 00:35:46,759
Speaker 2: I don't know why he's on the list. I mean

844
00:35:46,840 --> 00:35:49,040
Speaker 2: maybe they think that. I don't know what year is

845
00:35:49,080 --> 00:35:50,840
Speaker 2: he in his he's in the final year of his contract.

846
00:35:51,040 --> 00:35:51,800
Speaker 3: He already I thought he was.

847
00:35:52,480 --> 00:35:55,880
Speaker 2: Okay, I'm interested, Yeah, right, I'm interested.

848
00:35:55,960 --> 00:35:57,799
Speaker 3: It'd be an upgrade for the Steelers. Probably wouldn't cost

849
00:35:57,840 --> 00:36:00,080
Speaker 3: you a lot. You could if it works out, you

850
00:36:00,080 --> 00:36:03,080
Speaker 3: could talk contract with him absolutely, you know, right, doesn't

851
00:36:03,080 --> 00:36:06,000
Speaker 3: mean he has to leave. Yeah, I might just snoop

852
00:36:06,000 --> 00:36:07,600
Speaker 3: around him little more. I wish I knew a little

853
00:36:07,600 --> 00:36:08,920
Speaker 3: bit more about him off the top of my head.

854
00:36:09,000 --> 00:36:10,880
Speaker 2: Yeah, that one, that one would that one of interest

855
00:36:10,880 --> 00:36:13,200
Speaker 2: to me. Yeah, Like he's just on a bad team.

856
00:36:13,280 --> 00:36:15,439
Speaker 3: He's on a bad team, bad defense, no pass rush.

857
00:36:15,680 --> 00:36:19,000
Speaker 2: Yeah. Uh. And then the final one on here, Well,

858
00:36:19,040 --> 00:36:19,799
Speaker 2: there's a couple more here.

859
00:36:19,960 --> 00:36:23,480
Speaker 3: Chase Young could happen. Yeah, I mean, let me pick

860
00:36:23,520 --> 00:36:25,400
Speaker 3: up a fifth year option. Probably not gonna sign him.

861
00:36:25,400 --> 00:36:27,680
Speaker 3: They have so much invested in the line. He just

862
00:36:28,480 --> 00:36:29,960
Speaker 3: I mean, I don't want for Steelers, but yeah, I

863
00:36:30,000 --> 00:36:32,279
Speaker 3: could see him move. Yeah, if you're the Ravens, would

864
00:36:32,280 --> 00:36:32,400
Speaker 3: you be.

865
00:36:32,480 --> 00:36:34,680
Speaker 2: Sure the Ravens, it would be one be interesting. They

866
00:36:34,719 --> 00:36:36,080
Speaker 2: have no pass rush yeah.

867
00:36:36,480 --> 00:36:38,200
Speaker 3: I mean even a team like the Bears that isn't

868
00:36:38,280 --> 00:36:40,759
Speaker 3: going anywhere, trade for him. You got a ton of

869
00:36:40,840 --> 00:36:42,640
Speaker 3: cap space, extend them, just kill a need.

870
00:36:42,880 --> 00:36:45,000
Speaker 2: Their problem is they just did that with Chase Claypool

871
00:36:45,040 --> 00:36:49,560
Speaker 2: and it burned them. And that's probably you probably at

872
00:36:49,600 --> 00:36:50,520
Speaker 2: least giving up a second.

873
00:36:50,640 --> 00:36:52,440
Speaker 3: It's probably a second. You can't give up your first if.

874
00:36:52,400 --> 00:36:55,520
Speaker 2: You're chgo no no no, uh. The final one on

875
00:36:55,600 --> 00:37:01,240
Speaker 2: here Kendrick Bourne, Hunter Henry and Juju Smith Schuster Yuck, yuck, yuck.

876
00:37:01,520 --> 00:37:04,440
Speaker 3: I kind of like Henry. I mean, I think he's

877
00:37:04,440 --> 00:37:06,480
Speaker 3: a better Austin Hooper. I mean, I don't think he's.

878
00:37:06,360 --> 00:37:08,839
Speaker 2: Gron Yeah, but he's making too much money.

879
00:37:09,040 --> 00:37:09,799
Speaker 3: He's making money.

880
00:37:10,000 --> 00:37:13,600
Speaker 2: I mean again, Hunter Henry, you're looking at a I

881
00:37:13,680 --> 00:37:16,200
Speaker 2: mean they don't they overpaid to get him.

882
00:37:17,960 --> 00:37:18,560
Speaker 3: For what he is.

883
00:37:18,680 --> 00:37:20,399
Speaker 2: I mean, I don't know what's his base this year?

884
00:37:20,480 --> 00:37:25,919
Speaker 2: His base? Interesting, his base is nine point five millions

885
00:37:25,960 --> 00:37:26,720
Speaker 2: for Hunter Henry.

886
00:37:26,840 --> 00:37:28,440
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I think that was a year like

887
00:37:28,560 --> 00:37:31,920
Speaker 3: Jesse James made like six and Tyler Kraft.

888
00:37:32,160 --> 00:37:34,400
Speaker 2: Just because everybody else is doing doesn't your mom ever

889
00:37:34,440 --> 00:37:36,360
Speaker 2: tell you that just everybody else is jumping off the

890
00:37:36,360 --> 00:37:37,600
Speaker 2: bridge doesn't mean you have to.

891
00:37:37,960 --> 00:37:40,520
Speaker 3: But in the in the tight end world, there's a

892
00:37:40,600 --> 00:37:41,839
Speaker 3: lot of dudes making over ten.

893
00:37:42,920 --> 00:37:45,239
Speaker 2: I mean, that's all right, Hunter, Henry shouldn't be one

894
00:37:45,280 --> 00:37:45,480
Speaker 2: of them.

895
00:37:45,680 --> 00:37:47,760
Speaker 3: I could see teams being interested in him, like, actually,

896
00:37:48,000 --> 00:37:52,000
Speaker 3: I guess for him or you know, seven chould you.

897
00:37:52,080 --> 00:37:54,040
Speaker 2: I don't even know if he get that at this point,

898
00:37:54,400 --> 00:37:57,399
Speaker 2: he's he's he's always banged up, does.

899
00:37:57,560 --> 00:37:59,719
Speaker 3: Man coverage and doesn't make a difference. Yeah, Henry's doing

900
00:37:59,760 --> 00:38:01,840
Speaker 3: one that listen or the Patriots.

901
00:38:01,440 --> 00:38:03,040
Speaker 2: It has valued Yeah, I agree.

902
00:38:03,400 --> 00:38:05,080
Speaker 3: I just it's a bad contract.

903
00:38:05,120 --> 00:38:07,120
Speaker 2: Wouldn't fit here and it's a bad contract.

904
00:38:07,200 --> 00:38:10,880
Speaker 3: And if I'm mister Kraft, I'm saying that off season

905
00:38:11,640 --> 00:38:14,080
Speaker 3: or the John, we had all this cap space just

906
00:38:14,200 --> 00:38:15,040
Speaker 3: like this upcoming one.

907
00:38:15,080 --> 00:38:17,360
Speaker 2: Yeah, because you've told me we had. We had to

908
00:38:17,360 --> 00:38:19,240
Speaker 2: get rid of Tom to create all this cap space.

909
00:38:19,680 --> 00:38:21,080
Speaker 3: And this is what you did with what you bought

910
00:38:21,120 --> 00:38:23,320
Speaker 3: with it, and we're gonna do the same. Were chopping

911
00:38:23,320 --> 00:38:25,320
Speaker 3: down the same aisle this upcoming year because I'm not

912
00:38:25,480 --> 00:38:26,480
Speaker 3: I don't like that out.

913
00:38:26,280 --> 00:38:29,600
Speaker 2: At all, and I was stunk that I didn't like anything.

914
00:38:29,360 --> 00:38:31,200
Speaker 3: Down there was all rotten food. Right.

915
00:38:33,640 --> 00:38:36,560
Speaker 2: Anyways, we're overdue for a break here. He is Matt Williamson.

916
00:38:36,640 --> 00:38:38,759
Speaker 2: I am Dale Lolly. You're listening to the Drive here

917
00:38:38,800 --> 00:38:41,440
Speaker 2: on Steelers Nation Radio. We'll be back to finish up

918
00:38:41,480 --> 00:38:42,800
Speaker 2: the show right after this.

919
00:38:47,000 --> 00:38:50,360
Speaker 1: He's the Drive with Dale Lolly and Matt Williamson on

920
00:38:50,480 --> 00:38:52,600
Speaker 1: your twenty four to seven home of the Black and

921
00:38:52,680 --> 00:38:55,400
Speaker 1: Gold Steelers Nation Radio.

922
00:39:00,360 --> 00:39:03,640
Speaker 2: Welcome back. I'm Dale Alie. He is the Matt Williamson

923
00:39:03,719 --> 00:39:08,320
Speaker 2: and Matt Steelers On a bye week, the offensive assistance

924
00:39:08,560 --> 00:39:10,919
Speaker 2: spoke today players were off.

925
00:39:14,360 --> 00:39:15,520
Speaker 3: Oh no, they got the day off. They got the

926
00:39:15,600 --> 00:39:17,760
Speaker 3: day off today. I get my days confused on bye weeks.

927
00:39:18,800 --> 00:39:22,480
Speaker 2: And you know, one of the interesting dynamics of this,

928
00:39:22,719 --> 00:39:25,400
Speaker 2: this this whole thing thus far, it's just again. I

929
00:39:25,880 --> 00:39:28,200
Speaker 2: can't get past the fact that the Steelers are sitting

930
00:39:28,200 --> 00:39:29,719
Speaker 2: here at three and two. They were two and six

931
00:39:30,719 --> 00:39:31,640
Speaker 2: last year at their bye.

932
00:39:32,160 --> 00:39:34,040
Speaker 3: It really feels like last year's bye, and.

933
00:39:34,120 --> 00:39:37,759
Speaker 2: People are people are acting like this is last year's bye.

934
00:39:38,520 --> 00:39:40,600
Speaker 3: They were in a lot worse shape when they oh

935
00:39:40,680 --> 00:39:41,120
Speaker 3: my god.

936
00:39:41,000 --> 00:39:43,400
Speaker 2: They were left for dead, really really bad team. They

937
00:39:43,440 --> 00:39:45,719
Speaker 2: were left for dead like when we were when we

938
00:39:45,840 --> 00:39:49,120
Speaker 2: talk power rankings on Tuesday, they were they were thirtieth

939
00:39:49,239 --> 00:39:51,840
Speaker 2: and twenty seven twenty eight down in that range.

940
00:39:51,920 --> 00:39:55,319
Speaker 3: Yeah, I losing bad and showing little signs of hope

941
00:39:55,360 --> 00:39:58,080
Speaker 3: at that point, and this rookie quarterback ever gonna make

942
00:39:58,160 --> 00:40:01,640
Speaker 3: it and you know, can't walked aside. You couldn't blame

943
00:40:02,320 --> 00:40:04,719
Speaker 3: five injuries. Yeah, and of course what was a big deal.

944
00:40:04,880 --> 00:40:07,520
Speaker 2: But part of the issue might be it's just just

945
00:40:07,719 --> 00:40:10,000
Speaker 2: just a little theory of mine, is it. When the

946
00:40:10,040 --> 00:40:12,319
Speaker 2: Steelers lose, they lose bad.

947
00:40:13,000 --> 00:40:15,960
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, like, yes, they're three and two, but

948
00:40:16,080 --> 00:40:19,120
Speaker 3: they're negative point differential by a lot because.

949
00:40:18,920 --> 00:40:20,719
Speaker 2: They've gotten blown out in two of their games and

950
00:40:20,760 --> 00:40:21,120
Speaker 2: they've won.

951
00:40:21,239 --> 00:40:22,000
Speaker 3: That doesn't sit well.

952
00:40:22,040 --> 00:40:24,560
Speaker 2: They've won the three close ones, right, There's an arc.

953
00:40:24,480 --> 00:40:26,719
Speaker 3: To winning close games, folks. But I get it. I mean,

954
00:40:26,760 --> 00:40:28,120
Speaker 3: getting blown out is hard.

955
00:40:28,480 --> 00:40:31,120
Speaker 2: It sucks. It sucks. There's no offens or butts about it.

956
00:40:31,200 --> 00:40:34,479
Speaker 2: I mean, coming out of that Houston game, I mean again,

957
00:40:34,600 --> 00:40:37,440
Speaker 2: I'm as positive as as as anybody out there.

958
00:40:37,719 --> 00:40:38,080
Speaker 3: It was hard.

959
00:40:38,120 --> 00:40:39,839
Speaker 2: It was tough to be positive after that game.

960
00:40:39,920 --> 00:40:42,839
Speaker 3: Yeah, And we know how blowouts work in this league too, though.

961
00:40:42,880 --> 00:40:45,560
Speaker 3: I mean sometimes the fourth quarter doesn't even matter, you know,

962
00:40:45,560 --> 00:40:48,239
Speaker 3: I mean, like, yeah, Thenververse Miami when they win by

963
00:40:48,320 --> 00:40:51,799
Speaker 3: seventy or whatever, or the Dallas game, Cooper rushes out

964
00:40:51,840 --> 00:40:54,080
Speaker 3: there and you know, I mean, yeah, I mean sometimes

965
00:40:54,120 --> 00:40:56,440
Speaker 3: in the league, the game's over before you know it,

966
00:40:56,560 --> 00:40:58,400
Speaker 3: and some of the numbers get skewed.

967
00:40:58,480 --> 00:40:59,960
Speaker 2: But well, that was one of the things I look

968
00:41:00,520 --> 00:41:05,359
Speaker 2: in that Houston game when that fourth down play, when

969
00:41:05,360 --> 00:41:06,960
Speaker 2: they missed on the fourth down play, which was late

970
00:41:07,000 --> 00:41:09,279
Speaker 2: in the third quarter, like three minutes left or whatever

971
00:41:09,320 --> 00:41:12,880
Speaker 2: it was, it was sixteen to six. Yeah, right, it's

972
00:41:12,920 --> 00:41:14,960
Speaker 2: not over at that That wasn't It wasn't a blowout

973
00:41:14,960 --> 00:41:17,920
Speaker 2: at that point. It only became a blowout after Picktt

974
00:41:17,920 --> 00:41:20,520
Speaker 2: got hurt and the defense, the defense gives up two

975
00:41:20,560 --> 00:41:23,760
Speaker 2: touchdowns at that point, they'd only given up one touchdown

976
00:41:23,920 --> 00:41:24,399
Speaker 2: in that game.

977
00:41:24,480 --> 00:41:25,600
Speaker 3: The Niner game was different.

978
00:41:25,760 --> 00:41:27,680
Speaker 2: Yeah, the Niner game was completely different.

979
00:41:27,680 --> 00:41:30,920
Speaker 3: Buzzz Yeah, chopped up. Yeah, now, I hear you. I

980
00:41:31,080 --> 00:41:35,880
Speaker 3: also think, I know this off season, before the twenty

981
00:41:36,040 --> 00:41:40,400
Speaker 3: twenty three season, there was way more Steeler fan optimism

982
00:41:40,600 --> 00:41:42,840
Speaker 3: yeah than the other one. Everyone's like, wow, that's Ben's

983
00:41:42,920 --> 00:41:43,319
Speaker 3: last year.

984
00:41:43,480 --> 00:41:44,839
Speaker 2: H were transitioning from Ben.

985
00:41:45,440 --> 00:41:47,799
Speaker 3: We've had a pretty good people don't look at it.

986
00:41:48,000 --> 00:41:52,160
Speaker 2: Like transitioning from a Pro Bowl All Pro Hall of

987
00:41:52,280 --> 00:41:54,840
Speaker 2: Fame quarterback is not a one year transition.

988
00:41:55,440 --> 00:41:57,440
Speaker 3: He's been there what eighteen years? Yeah, I mean if

989
00:41:57,480 --> 00:42:00,320
Speaker 3: he wasn't the player he was last year, that he

990
00:42:00,520 --> 00:42:03,680
Speaker 3: was in his tenth year, it's still you do things

991
00:42:03,680 --> 00:42:04,239
Speaker 3: a certain way.

992
00:42:04,320 --> 00:42:07,920
Speaker 2: This is actually still you're still in that transition period here.

993
00:42:08,280 --> 00:42:11,120
Speaker 3: But I'm guilty of this too. I expect I had

994
00:42:11,200 --> 00:42:15,040
Speaker 3: higher expectations on opening day for the twenty twenty three

995
00:42:15,080 --> 00:42:16,640
Speaker 3: season than I did on opening day for the two

996
00:42:16,640 --> 00:42:17,520
Speaker 3: thousand and two season.

997
00:42:17,680 --> 00:42:21,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, no doubt, no doubt. But yeah, those those expectations.

998
00:42:21,640 --> 00:42:24,040
Speaker 2: I haven't changed my expectations for this team at all.

999
00:42:24,160 --> 00:42:25,640
Speaker 2: I still think this is a team that can win

1000
00:42:25,680 --> 00:42:26,360
Speaker 2: eleven games.

1001
00:42:26,920 --> 00:42:30,719
Speaker 3: Too. There's offensive things that need to get fixed, and

1002
00:42:30,840 --> 00:42:33,560
Speaker 3: I really am concerned about the corner situation.

1003
00:42:34,080 --> 00:42:36,880
Speaker 2: But that's not as bad as a look around. I

1004
00:42:36,920 --> 00:42:39,080
Speaker 2: look around at the rest of the league when we

1005
00:42:39,160 --> 00:42:40,800
Speaker 2: go to it, and there's a lot Like when we

1006
00:42:40,920 --> 00:42:42,880
Speaker 2: talk about those power rankings, you're like, oh, there's six

1007
00:42:42,960 --> 00:42:45,200
Speaker 2: good teams out there. Yeah, that's really about it. And

1008
00:42:46,160 --> 00:42:47,799
Speaker 2: you start looking at those other teams, you go, well,

1009
00:42:47,800 --> 00:42:50,000
Speaker 2: that team, yeah, yeah, you know.

1010
00:42:50,200 --> 00:42:52,240
Speaker 3: No, I hear you. I think there's six good teams,

1011
00:42:52,280 --> 00:42:53,799
Speaker 3: and is Dallas one of them even?

1012
00:42:53,880 --> 00:42:56,399
Speaker 2: You know, Yeah, they've gotten blown out a couple of times.

1013
00:42:56,760 --> 00:43:00,120
Speaker 3: Yeah, they've got blown out. I mean they lost the Cardinals. No,

1014
00:43:00,200 --> 00:43:03,240
Speaker 3: I hear you. I mean it's it's a very Steeler

1015
00:43:03,320 --> 00:43:05,839
Speaker 3: centric thing to do, and I respect it. But people

1016
00:43:05,960 --> 00:43:08,560
Speaker 3: concentrate so much on this team, I understand. Yeah, the

1017
00:43:08,600 --> 00:43:10,280
Speaker 3: other thirty one. Boy, this is terrible.

1018
00:43:10,320 --> 00:43:11,920
Speaker 2: This is terrible, And that's what we're here for.

1019
00:43:12,120 --> 00:43:13,400
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean we try to be sort of a

1020
00:43:13,440 --> 00:43:19,320
Speaker 3: buffer there. There's concerns, but there's also attainable answers.

1021
00:43:19,640 --> 00:43:22,719
Speaker 2: Correct, Yeah, I think, And that's what that's what these

1022
00:43:22,800 --> 00:43:26,960
Speaker 2: bye weeks are about, healthier, getting a chance to take

1023
00:43:26,960 --> 00:43:28,880
Speaker 2: a step back, Yeah, and take a look at what

1024
00:43:29,000 --> 00:43:31,520
Speaker 2: you've been doing, who you've been doing it with, and

1025
00:43:31,640 --> 00:43:33,040
Speaker 2: then adjust accordingly.

1026
00:43:33,760 --> 00:43:35,920
Speaker 3: Oh, I have concerns, but I had more concerns at

1027
00:43:35,920 --> 00:43:36,600
Speaker 3: the bye last year.

1028
00:43:36,680 --> 00:43:41,719
Speaker 2: Oh Yeah, Like last year's bye week was like, oh yeah,

1029
00:43:42,120 --> 00:43:45,239
Speaker 2: they might go you know, four and thirteen, And.

1030
00:43:45,320 --> 00:43:48,359
Speaker 3: I feel like maybe I'm overreacting. But the second half

1031
00:43:48,440 --> 00:43:52,120
Speaker 3: of the Bravens game looked like the second half of

1032
00:43:52,200 --> 00:43:52,600
Speaker 3: last year.

1033
00:43:52,680 --> 00:43:54,800
Speaker 2: It was the best half of football that they've played

1034
00:43:54,840 --> 00:43:55,600
Speaker 2: this season.

1035
00:43:55,440 --> 00:43:58,719
Speaker 3: And it was their formula. Yeah, it was physical. Don't

1036
00:43:59,040 --> 00:44:03,000
Speaker 3: don't throw interceptions, run the ball, make some big plays

1037
00:44:03,200 --> 00:44:06,480
Speaker 3: to developing guys, you know, and go into buy with

1038
00:44:06,560 --> 00:44:09,879
Speaker 3: that little bit of momentum and get healthier. And then

1039
00:44:10,040 --> 00:44:12,960
Speaker 3: Cam Hayward's out there, you know, like Deonta and yeah

1040
00:44:13,360 --> 00:44:14,560
Speaker 3: it different, right.

1041
00:44:14,640 --> 00:44:17,040
Speaker 2: Get your offensive line healthy, get James Daniel's back, and

1042
00:44:17,120 --> 00:44:18,920
Speaker 2: see what happens with the rest of this and bing

1043
00:44:19,040 --> 00:44:19,560
Speaker 2: bang boom.

1044
00:44:19,840 --> 00:44:22,279
Speaker 3: Some of these rookies are ready to primetime roles and

1045
00:44:22,320 --> 00:44:22,759
Speaker 3: that type of thing.

1046
00:44:23,040 --> 00:44:26,640
Speaker 2: So when we're sitting here five weeks from now, are

1047
00:44:26,680 --> 00:44:29,439
Speaker 2: we is there a much different feeling about this team?

1048
00:44:30,640 --> 00:44:34,680
Speaker 3: I tend to think so, you know, Like you know,

1049
00:44:34,719 --> 00:44:37,080
Speaker 3: I'm a stats guy. I mean, like going into the

1050
00:44:37,200 --> 00:44:40,719
Speaker 3: bye last year or early in the season, their time

1051
00:44:40,800 --> 00:44:44,800
Speaker 3: of possession was so so bad, you know, and it

1052
00:44:44,920 --> 00:44:46,640
Speaker 3: became one of the best in the league. Like, I

1053
00:44:46,680 --> 00:44:49,479
Speaker 3: don't think people realize how hard it is to crawl

1054
00:44:49,560 --> 00:44:51,880
Speaker 3: out from thirty one to thirty two and get the

1055
00:44:52,080 --> 00:44:56,239
Speaker 3: five just in six games or whatever. Like, I don't

1056
00:44:56,320 --> 00:44:58,480
Speaker 3: know that the offense is going to do that. It

1057
00:44:58,520 --> 00:45:04,600
Speaker 3: would be low and get to average. But I think

1058
00:45:04,680 --> 00:45:08,719
Speaker 3: the optimism of the fans will be higher now then

1059
00:45:08,840 --> 00:45:09,160
Speaker 3: than now.

1060
00:45:09,360 --> 00:45:13,360
Speaker 2: Here's the next five Steelers at Rams, Jaguars at Steelers,

1061
00:45:14,000 --> 00:45:17,440
Speaker 2: Titans at Steelers, Packers at Steelers, Steelers at Browns.

1062
00:45:18,120 --> 00:45:20,480
Speaker 3: Okay, the Rams games harder than it looked when the

1063
00:45:20,480 --> 00:45:22,480
Speaker 3: schedule came out. Yeah, you know, I mean Stafford.

1064
00:45:22,480 --> 00:45:26,160
Speaker 2: The Rams haven't won a game at home this year because, yeah,

1065
00:45:26,160 --> 00:45:27,480
Speaker 2: they have no home field advantage.

1066
00:45:28,960 --> 00:45:30,879
Speaker 3: I do think their depth is starting to get tested

1067
00:45:30,920 --> 00:45:33,160
Speaker 3: a little bit on defense, and they don't have depth.

1068
00:45:33,280 --> 00:45:36,680
Speaker 3: But you know, coming and Stafford, worry.

1069
00:45:36,800 --> 00:45:39,560
Speaker 2: If you go three and two in this five game stretch, Well, no,

1070
00:45:39,640 --> 00:45:42,840
Speaker 2: you're six and four. You're firmly in the middle of

1071
00:45:42,880 --> 00:45:43,359
Speaker 2: this whole thing.

1072
00:45:43,719 --> 00:45:45,960
Speaker 3: Are they real quick? Are they a dog in l A.

1073
00:45:47,600 --> 00:45:49,160
Speaker 2: If the game plays, probably like a pick them.

1074
00:45:49,080 --> 00:45:54,000
Speaker 3: Games close their dog against the Jags if it's played today.

1075
00:45:54,080 --> 00:45:58,080
Speaker 3: If it's played today, what's the third game? Titans here? There?

1076
00:45:58,520 --> 00:46:00,480
Speaker 2: Here Thursday night game?

1077
00:46:01,480 --> 00:46:02,320
Speaker 3: Three point favorite?

1078
00:46:02,520 --> 00:46:05,520
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think so okay, and then Packers here.

1079
00:46:06,640 --> 00:46:09,080
Speaker 3: I think I'd love to play them right now. I

1080
00:46:09,120 --> 00:46:10,400
Speaker 3: would have steel favorite.

1081
00:46:10,280 --> 00:46:13,239
Speaker 2: That's coming off of like a mini buy uh, and

1082
00:46:13,360 --> 00:46:16,800
Speaker 2: then Steelers at Browns. I don't know three point I

1083
00:46:16,800 --> 00:46:18,040
Speaker 2: don't know what the Browns are going to look like

1084
00:46:18,040 --> 00:46:19,399
Speaker 2: at that point, if.

1085
00:46:19,320 --> 00:46:22,560
Speaker 3: The game is played today, Watson's playing, but you probably.

1086
00:46:22,480 --> 00:46:25,320
Speaker 2: He wouldn't be that if they're playing today, the Steelers

1087
00:46:25,320 --> 00:46:26,520
Speaker 2: are three point favorites.

1088
00:46:26,680 --> 00:46:28,560
Speaker 3: Yes, I like his chances to be healthy for that

1089
00:46:28,640 --> 00:46:29,240
Speaker 3: game though.

1090
00:46:29,480 --> 00:46:32,719
Speaker 2: Maybe, but yeah, yes, he doesn't make Yeah, three and

1091
00:46:32,800 --> 00:46:37,160
Speaker 2: two crazy? No, you go four and one now all

1092
00:46:37,160 --> 00:46:38,920
Speaker 2: of a sudden, it's goods crazy talk. But three and

1093
00:46:38,960 --> 00:46:39,640
Speaker 2: two is attainable.

1094
00:46:39,680 --> 00:46:41,440
Speaker 3: But there's no Eagles or Niners in that next time,

1095
00:46:41,800 --> 00:46:41,960
Speaker 3: you know.

1096
00:46:42,360 --> 00:46:45,000
Speaker 2: And then coming out of that Steelers at Bengals, Cardinals

1097
00:46:45,040 --> 00:46:48,400
Speaker 2: at Steelers, Patriots at Steelers, Steelers at Colts.

1098
00:46:48,120 --> 00:46:51,320
Speaker 3: I mean, Patriots and Cardinals could be done.

1099
00:46:51,200 --> 00:46:55,640
Speaker 2: Done oh cook cooked. Anyways, that's going to do it

1100
00:46:55,719 --> 00:46:59,160
Speaker 2: for today's show. So for my partner Matt Williamson, for

1101
00:46:59,320 --> 00:47:03,200
Speaker 2: Justin Miller here keeping us on the air, I am Dale, Allie.

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