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Speaker 1: Is the Drive with Dale Lolly and Matt Williamson on

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Speaker 1: Home of the Black and Gold Steelers Nation Radio. Welcome

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Speaker 1: back to the Drive. I'm Dale Lolly here with Matt Williamson.

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Speaker 1: The Steelers practicing today on Thursday over at the Rooney

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Speaker 1: uh U PMC Rooney Sports Complex and Ben Roethlisberger a

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Speaker 1: limited participant today, Joe Hayden a limited participant today. Robert

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Speaker 1: Spellane went from limited to full participant. Alex Highsmith went

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Speaker 1: from limited to a full participants in the trend here,

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Speaker 1: uh T J. Watt went from limited to a full participant. Uh.

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Speaker 1: Zack Banner did not participate. He's dealing with a knee issue. UM.

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Speaker 1: Carlos Davis full participant for the second consecutive day. Kevin

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Speaker 1: Rader went from limited to did not practice with a

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Speaker 1: hip injury. Probably won't be dressed. Uh. And then I

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Speaker 1: Isaiah Bugs with an ankle, went from full participant at

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Speaker 1: the d MPH. Really okay, well in those situations a

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Speaker 1: little hairy still, I guess well, maybe there's a little

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Speaker 1: getting We're getting a little more clarity there. Yeah, maybe

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Speaker 1: you're right. So, but Adams is on COVID. Adams is

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Speaker 1: on the COVID list and he probably won't well yet.

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Speaker 1: We uh get some new news here from the NFL

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Speaker 1: that the NFL has changed changes codes today. Yeah. Uh,

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Speaker 1: the NFL and NFL p A agreed on updated COVID

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Speaker 1: nineteen protocols. We're still calling it should be we should

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Speaker 1: be at up to COVID twenty one now, aren't we.

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Speaker 1: I'm just saying, I see what you're saying. Okay, Um.

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Speaker 1: Throughout the pandemic, we have continuously evolved our protocols to

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Speaker 1: meet our goal of advancing the safety of players, coaches,

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Speaker 1: and staff. The change, like, I really care about the staff.

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Speaker 1: The change that we're making today aim to address the

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Speaker 1: increasing cases in the in the advent of the omicron variant.

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Speaker 1: It sounds like a good movie. Effective. Immediately, all clubs

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Speaker 1: will implement preventative measures that have proven effective masking regardless

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Speaker 1: of vaccination status, remote or outdoor meetings like that's going

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Speaker 1: to happen in the North Northeast and over the next

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Speaker 1: you're gonna have an outdoor meeting. Yeah, eliminating in person

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Speaker 1: meals so they now can't feed the players on on

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Speaker 1: site and no outside visitors while on team travel. Also,

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Speaker 1: we will continue to. We will continue to strongly encourage

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Speaker 1: booster shots is the most effective protection. Finally, and based

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Speaker 1: on any shots right some don't have any. Finally, and

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Speaker 1: based on expert advice, we will just return to participation

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Speaker 1: requirements for those who have recovered from COVID nineteen. All

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Speaker 1: of these changes are grounded in our data and science

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Speaker 1: backed approach, with safety our number one goal for the

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Speaker 1: entire NFL community. The notable part of that is that

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Speaker 1: UM individual players right now, if they tell if they're

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Speaker 1: asymptomatic UM, they can return as soon as the day

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Speaker 1: after the initial positive test if they test negative. So

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Speaker 1: this takes the the false positive off the table. That

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Speaker 1: is a great example recently for Monday night, so he

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Speaker 1: could have played Tuesday, right, he just couldn't play Monday

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Speaker 1: night because he day, But if it had been the

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Speaker 1: day before, he potentially play. UM. That's good because I mean,

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Speaker 1: the false positives are just a terrible side effect of

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Speaker 1: and I don't know the everything about this, obviously I'm

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Speaker 1: I'm not feeling any symptoms. Right yesterday I was at

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Speaker 1: the team facility today, I show up and they test

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Speaker 1: didn't have the Irish yesterday. I mean, did you just

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Speaker 1: know maybe, I mean there's something, there's a gestation. These things,

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Speaker 1: you know, it's like they don't just you. You're exposed

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Speaker 1: You're you're automatically COVID positible. No, there's a there's a

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Speaker 1: window symptoms and all that stuff. So you've already been

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Speaker 1: don't want to get it too far down the road.

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Speaker 1: But there was a big announcement today by the NFL.

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Speaker 1: So some of these players who went on the COVID

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Speaker 1: list this week have, under these new updated protocols, have

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Speaker 1: that helps the Browns, it could, you know. I mean,

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Speaker 1: hasn't helped them practice this week. No, no, no, right,

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Speaker 1: crazy how much has come down every day this week

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Speaker 1: would think, I said, I sent this to you last night.

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Speaker 1: not the moral of the story here. We'll get the

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Speaker 1: for them because they they not have to start wondering

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Speaker 1: We're gonna start case. There was a lot of people

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Speaker 1: no doubt, no doubt. It's interesting, it's really interesting. Um

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Speaker 1: and if anybody can get to tenants seven tenant, you

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Speaker 1: get to ten wins, you're gonna win a division. Yeats

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Speaker 1: nine and a half could win the division. Dealers at

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Speaker 1: nine and a half, because since he's the team to beat,

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Speaker 1: I think so too the Denver. Now it gets interesting.

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Speaker 1: Steelers beat the Titans and they lose the Denver on Monday,

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Speaker 1: I might say the steel is a team to beat.

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Speaker 1: as well. But it's not it's it's just not over.

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Speaker 1: It's just it's far from it. And you can. I'm

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Speaker 1: sure there's out there, the people out there going. Guys,

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Speaker 1: half of the Viking plant? Yeah? I absolutely did. I was.

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Speaker 1: It was in the house. It was miserable, but it

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Speaker 1: that's the team distinct against you know what I mean

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Speaker 1: of the last five, Losing that one hurts you the least. Well,

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Speaker 1: I guess it doesn't matter because of the tie. You know,

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Speaker 1: losing the Tennessee's really time could come out to a tiebreaker.

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Speaker 1: But if you lose the Tennessee then you have to

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Speaker 1: beat Kansas City in Kansas c right right again, they're

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Speaker 1: gonna win three out of four. Yeah, just find a way,

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Speaker 1: just find a way. We're gonna take a break. He

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Speaker 1: is Matt Williamson. I'm dale Lelli. You're listening to the

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Speaker 1: drive here on Steelers Nation Radio. When we come back,

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Speaker 1: it's time for the Fantasy Football Focus. We will do

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