1 00:00:04,320 --> 00:00:07,800 Speaker 1: He's the Drive with Dale Lolly and Matt Williamson on 2 00:00:07,840 --> 00:00:10,000 Speaker 1: your twenty four to seven home of the Black and 3 00:00:10,039 --> 00:00:15,800 Speaker 1: Gold Steelers Nation Radio, and. 4 00:00:15,960 --> 00:00:18,840 Speaker 2: We are back. I'm Dale Lolly, he is the Matt 5 00:00:18,880 --> 00:00:21,880 Speaker 2: Williamson and Matt it's our number two of the Drive. 6 00:00:21,920 --> 00:00:22,120 Speaker 3: Here. 7 00:00:22,880 --> 00:00:25,759 Speaker 2: I'm for a little fantasy football focus. All right, let's 8 00:00:25,800 --> 00:00:27,680 Speaker 2: go through our last for the last. 9 00:00:27,440 --> 00:00:29,040 Speaker 3: Draft tomorrow night. Wow. 10 00:00:29,200 --> 00:00:31,920 Speaker 2: Yeah, so you're gonna want to hear this because for 11 00:00:31,960 --> 00:00:34,160 Speaker 2: the last time the show, we're gonna get through somebody's top. 12 00:00:34,800 --> 00:00:35,839 Speaker 2: We'll see how many we get through. 13 00:00:35,960 --> 00:00:39,400 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah. This is Evans. Yep, Evan Silva's top 14 00:00:39,400 --> 00:00:41,640 Speaker 3: one fifty establish a run does really good work. 15 00:00:41,760 --> 00:00:44,479 Speaker 2: This is as updated as you can possibly get. 16 00:00:44,640 --> 00:00:46,000 Speaker 3: It came up this morning, so. 17 00:00:47,479 --> 00:00:50,159 Speaker 2: A last minute little primer here for you. He is 18 00:00:50,280 --> 00:00:56,320 Speaker 2: Christian McCaffrey Number one. Does the Trent Williams stuff scare you? 19 00:00:56,520 --> 00:00:58,840 Speaker 3: And the calf injury and the calf. 20 00:00:58,800 --> 00:01:00,800 Speaker 2: Injury, I'm not so commanded they've done anything in a 21 00:01:00,840 --> 00:01:02,080 Speaker 2: month that should be fine. 22 00:01:02,240 --> 00:01:05,679 Speaker 3: Of course they're keeping on my eyes. But what the 23 00:01:05,720 --> 00:01:08,560 Speaker 3: Trump Williams stuff worries me? The overall vibes worry me. 24 00:01:09,280 --> 00:01:11,600 Speaker 3: I wish Iyuk was on the team makes his life easier. 25 00:01:12,200 --> 00:01:14,320 Speaker 3: But what worries me more? And I still would take 26 00:01:14,360 --> 00:01:18,360 Speaker 3: him first overall. Don't get me wrong. All the backs 27 00:01:18,360 --> 00:01:21,360 Speaker 3: in his class are declining. Is he that much more 28 00:01:21,400 --> 00:01:25,920 Speaker 3: special than Kamara and those guys? Maybe? I mean he's 29 00:01:25,920 --> 00:01:29,480 Speaker 3: showing no decline. But if I'm using first overall pick, 30 00:01:30,000 --> 00:01:32,800 Speaker 3: I don't love that. I have any concerns. Let's put 31 00:01:32,840 --> 00:01:34,040 Speaker 3: it this way. I'm still doing it. 32 00:01:34,080 --> 00:01:36,080 Speaker 2: You have the number two overall pick and our draft. 33 00:01:36,240 --> 00:01:41,880 Speaker 3: I hope, I hopeever's listening doesn't take them number one, 34 00:01:42,080 --> 00:01:44,319 Speaker 3: but I understand if you didn't. I mean, Ceedee Lamb's 35 00:01:44,400 --> 00:01:46,280 Speaker 3: much safer or whoever. 36 00:01:46,240 --> 00:01:48,600 Speaker 2: Ceedee Lamb's number two, Tyree Kill three. 37 00:01:50,280 --> 00:01:51,800 Speaker 3: And I do have number two in that league, and 38 00:01:51,800 --> 00:01:55,160 Speaker 3: I'm I've kicked around Hill versus Lamb forever. I think 39 00:01:55,160 --> 00:01:55,800 Speaker 3: that's a tough one. 40 00:01:56,200 --> 00:01:59,440 Speaker 2: Jeon Robinson four pre Stall five. 41 00:02:00,520 --> 00:02:02,640 Speaker 3: Do you have a preference on those two? To me? 42 00:02:02,680 --> 00:02:04,720 Speaker 3: They're almost identical, same with Lamb. 43 00:02:04,920 --> 00:02:09,200 Speaker 2: Yeah, I really don't. 44 00:02:09,360 --> 00:02:11,280 Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't. Really, I'm be thrilled with either. I 45 00:02:11,320 --> 00:02:13,120 Speaker 3: wouldn't want to make the pick. I'd rather pick five 46 00:02:13,160 --> 00:02:13,480 Speaker 3: and get one. 47 00:02:13,600 --> 00:02:16,160 Speaker 2: The only thing I will say, is that Tyler Algier 48 00:02:16,360 --> 00:02:18,840 Speaker 2: is still there for Robinson? Does he vulture away any 49 00:02:19,919 --> 00:02:24,000 Speaker 2: touches sore Hall, I'm not concerned about. 50 00:02:24,240 --> 00:02:28,200 Speaker 3: Yeah, there's there's buzz about Allen from and there's guys 51 00:02:28,200 --> 00:02:31,960 Speaker 3: are they're not close? Yeah, no, Algiers at least established. 52 00:02:32,200 --> 00:02:34,880 Speaker 3: So he's been a thousand yard back in I think 53 00:02:34,919 --> 00:02:39,639 Speaker 3: Bijeon only had two carries inside the five. Yeah, that 54 00:02:40,080 --> 00:02:42,560 Speaker 3: is probably good at it, you know, but I also 55 00:02:42,600 --> 00:02:44,519 Speaker 3: think Bijean's a little more talented. I mean, he was 56 00:02:44,520 --> 00:02:46,040 Speaker 3: the eighth pick in the draft. Pries Sall is an 57 00:02:46,040 --> 00:02:49,280 Speaker 3: early second. Yeah, but they're both really really good. Yeah. 58 00:02:50,000 --> 00:02:52,400 Speaker 2: Uh six. He is a mon Ross Saint Brown, ahead 59 00:02:52,400 --> 00:02:54,079 Speaker 2: of Justin Jefferson and Jamar Chase. 60 00:02:54,480 --> 00:02:56,520 Speaker 3: I get that. I get it. I get it too. 61 00:02:56,680 --> 00:02:58,680 Speaker 3: I originally didn't think he was in that class, but 62 00:02:59,400 --> 00:03:01,680 Speaker 3: he is so safe over the. 63 00:03:01,680 --> 00:03:04,360 Speaker 2: Last thirty eight regular season games, I bet these numbers 64 00:03:04,400 --> 00:03:08,160 Speaker 2: are awesome. A mon Ross Saint Brown is averaged seven 65 00:03:08,200 --> 00:03:09,120 Speaker 2: point three catches. 66 00:03:09,560 --> 00:03:11,600 Speaker 3: Wow, that's a heck of a floor. That's a heck 67 00:03:11,600 --> 00:03:14,040 Speaker 3: of floor. He played through a lot of injuries. He 68 00:03:14,120 --> 00:03:15,200 Speaker 3: is tough as all day. 69 00:03:15,080 --> 00:03:17,560 Speaker 2: Long, and they play fifteen games in domes. 70 00:03:17,600 --> 00:03:20,239 Speaker 3: This year, and he's definitely gonna lead the team and 71 00:03:20,360 --> 00:03:21,399 Speaker 3: targets by old mine. 72 00:03:21,480 --> 00:03:25,280 Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, with the other two guys, Jefferson and 73 00:03:25,360 --> 00:03:29,040 Speaker 2: jeff he has Jefferson next then Chase. I get it 74 00:03:29,440 --> 00:03:31,640 Speaker 2: because some of the stuff going on with those guys. 75 00:03:32,480 --> 00:03:35,880 Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I wish Chase was in camp. I mean, 76 00:03:37,160 --> 00:03:38,760 Speaker 3: could he pull a hamstering the first time he gets 77 00:03:38,760 --> 00:03:39,920 Speaker 3: out there? You know what I mean? That type of 78 00:03:39,920 --> 00:03:42,480 Speaker 3: stuff happens a lot. I would I mean still if 79 00:03:42,520 --> 00:03:44,640 Speaker 3: I was picking seven and I ended up with Jefferson 80 00:03:44,720 --> 00:03:47,720 Speaker 3: or Chase, I'm sorry that. Yeah, I don't want to 81 00:03:47,720 --> 00:03:48,119 Speaker 3: pick eight. 82 00:03:49,440 --> 00:03:51,400 Speaker 2: Yeah, you're gonna get whatever, guys. 83 00:03:51,600 --> 00:03:53,560 Speaker 3: Anyone you haven't mentioned it. I'm curious who his number 84 00:03:53,560 --> 00:03:53,880 Speaker 3: eight is. 85 00:03:54,120 --> 00:03:55,000 Speaker 2: Well, Chase is eight. 86 00:03:56,120 --> 00:03:58,040 Speaker 3: Oh, then I don't want to pick nine. Nine. 87 00:03:58,480 --> 00:04:00,840 Speaker 2: Yeah, he has a ja round at nine. I think 88 00:04:00,880 --> 00:04:03,760 Speaker 2: there's a definite I think there's a line of delineation 89 00:04:03,880 --> 00:04:04,840 Speaker 2: there between. 90 00:04:04,720 --> 00:04:07,240 Speaker 3: Hal and they're not bad. I mean, I just think 91 00:04:07,280 --> 00:04:10,760 Speaker 3: that there's eight really happy, really good start my team 92 00:04:10,800 --> 00:04:14,080 Speaker 3: with type guys. I would go between Garrett Wilson and 93 00:04:14,120 --> 00:04:17,520 Speaker 3: AJ Brown as my next receiver, and I think i'd 94 00:04:17,520 --> 00:04:20,880 Speaker 3: take them over any running back. But I won one 95 00:04:20,880 --> 00:04:22,520 Speaker 3: of those eight. Here's the thing. 96 00:04:22,880 --> 00:04:26,240 Speaker 2: So if you're going to take Garrett Wilson in that 97 00:04:26,480 --> 00:04:30,160 Speaker 2: at eight, you think the Jets offense is going to 98 00:04:30,200 --> 00:04:33,000 Speaker 2: be good enough to sustain two top eight. 99 00:04:32,800 --> 00:04:34,239 Speaker 3: Players, know, that's crazy. 100 00:04:34,480 --> 00:04:36,960 Speaker 2: I mean it's or nine players even. 101 00:04:37,200 --> 00:04:41,520 Speaker 3: Yeah. Right, they kind of did last year though not, 102 00:04:41,600 --> 00:04:44,559 Speaker 3: I mean not top nine players. Not. It wasn't. It wasn't. 103 00:04:44,600 --> 00:04:48,680 Speaker 3: That was a stud in the second half. And Wilson 104 00:04:48,760 --> 00:04:49,359 Speaker 3: wasn't bad. 105 00:04:49,600 --> 00:04:52,719 Speaker 2: It wasn't bad. I actually drafted Wilson last year and 106 00:04:52,760 --> 00:04:56,800 Speaker 2: traded him away. Yeah, I remember that because there were like, 107 00:04:57,040 --> 00:04:58,960 Speaker 2: but there were games, there were like it's. 108 00:04:58,760 --> 00:05:01,760 Speaker 3: It's just it was. I mean, it's a really bad offense. Yeah, 109 00:05:01,839 --> 00:05:05,720 Speaker 3: I mean really back then mine was bad. Right, It's 110 00:05:05,720 --> 00:05:09,800 Speaker 3: probably the worst offensive league. Yeah. I don't love that part. 111 00:05:10,080 --> 00:05:12,120 Speaker 3: You know, the chances of any offense, even if it's 112 00:05:12,120 --> 00:05:15,919 Speaker 3: the Niners or Chiefs, sustaining two guys a top five 113 00:05:16,279 --> 00:05:19,120 Speaker 3: running back and wide receiver and fantasy difficult to do. 114 00:05:19,240 --> 00:05:21,640 Speaker 3: It's hard to do. It's not a quarterback in the receiver. Yeah. 115 00:05:22,520 --> 00:05:26,080 Speaker 2: Uh, Jamier gives it ten. I think he's my next 116 00:05:26,120 --> 00:05:28,799 Speaker 2: back to Devin a Chan at eleven. 117 00:05:29,080 --> 00:05:31,120 Speaker 3: Oh, I didn't I haven't looked at the city. I 118 00:05:31,160 --> 00:05:32,640 Speaker 3: just saidn't, but I didn't look at it. I can't 119 00:05:32,680 --> 00:05:33,039 Speaker 3: go there. 120 00:05:33,120 --> 00:05:36,080 Speaker 2: I mean, that's a little rich, but eleven eleven take 121 00:05:36,160 --> 00:05:41,360 Speaker 2: him in the first round RB five, Yeah, that's very rich, 122 00:05:41,440 --> 00:05:44,520 Speaker 2: but I'm a believer. I wouldn't have him that high. 123 00:05:44,880 --> 00:05:47,400 Speaker 2: Chris Olave at twelve, okay. 124 00:05:47,480 --> 00:05:49,480 Speaker 3: Their on line worries me though, and car is not 125 00:05:49,520 --> 00:05:53,080 Speaker 3: a big risk taker, but not much target competition, and 126 00:05:53,080 --> 00:05:53,760 Speaker 3: he's really good. 127 00:05:54,080 --> 00:05:56,080 Speaker 2: Garrett Wilson at thirteen. 128 00:05:56,160 --> 00:06:00,359 Speaker 3: I would clearly rather have Wilson Nico Collins at fourteen. 129 00:06:01,120 --> 00:06:03,640 Speaker 3: I keep scooching him up just a little, just a little. 130 00:06:03,640 --> 00:06:06,039 Speaker 2: It's wide receiver nine, though I know he's not in 131 00:06:06,080 --> 00:06:07,360 Speaker 2: my top ten receivers. 132 00:06:07,360 --> 00:06:11,360 Speaker 3: He's like eleven Ish Puka Naku at fifteen. I keep 133 00:06:11,360 --> 00:06:13,640 Speaker 3: moving him down, Yeah, moving cup up. 134 00:06:14,760 --> 00:06:20,320 Speaker 2: That's wide receiver ten. Molak Neighbors, I'm okay with that 135 00:06:20,440 --> 00:06:23,239 Speaker 2: at wide receiver or at sixteen. 136 00:06:22,920 --> 00:06:24,680 Speaker 3: I think I still have Harrison over neighbors. 137 00:06:25,240 --> 00:06:29,200 Speaker 2: Marrison is at seventeen. Okay, that's really difficult to put 138 00:06:29,279 --> 00:06:31,520 Speaker 2: rookie wide receivers as your wide receiver. 139 00:06:31,560 --> 00:06:36,119 Speaker 3: Eleven and twelve, like rookie running backs, are much easier. Yeah, 140 00:06:36,120 --> 00:06:38,480 Speaker 3: you know, and there's the competition isn't as strong. You know, 141 00:06:38,480 --> 00:06:41,560 Speaker 3: they're gonna get the ball void. Those two I think 142 00:06:41,560 --> 00:06:45,360 Speaker 3: are special players. Seventeen A London. 143 00:06:45,160 --> 00:06:47,599 Speaker 2: Up there yet No eighteen is Cooper Cup. 144 00:06:49,120 --> 00:06:51,000 Speaker 3: Nakua and Cupp are both not going to hit that 145 00:06:51,120 --> 00:06:52,680 Speaker 3: at that Yeah. 146 00:06:52,200 --> 00:06:54,839 Speaker 2: No way, both being basically wide receiver ones. 147 00:06:55,000 --> 00:06:58,880 Speaker 3: Yeah. They both might be two slash threes, one of 148 00:06:58,920 --> 00:07:00,719 Speaker 3: them might not run away from the other, but they're 149 00:07:00,720 --> 00:07:01,800 Speaker 3: not going to both hit at once. 150 00:07:02,839 --> 00:07:04,440 Speaker 2: DJ Moore at nineteen. 151 00:07:06,000 --> 00:07:07,520 Speaker 3: I never seemed to end up with them, and I 152 00:07:07,520 --> 00:07:10,200 Speaker 3: don't exactly know why, And I think part of it's 153 00:07:10,200 --> 00:07:13,800 Speaker 3: because another rookie of Dounesay really excites me, and I 154 00:07:13,840 --> 00:07:16,160 Speaker 3: think he's his Doomsay's rule is going to grow and grow. 155 00:07:16,240 --> 00:07:19,200 Speaker 3: So I have not had any Allen, but I still 156 00:07:19,240 --> 00:07:21,600 Speaker 3: think wards are one. No matter what what you think 157 00:07:21,600 --> 00:07:24,840 Speaker 3: of a Doonesay. Yeah, Drake London at twenty. 158 00:07:25,880 --> 00:07:28,800 Speaker 2: I have him hiring that. I have him him and 159 00:07:28,840 --> 00:07:30,920 Speaker 2: A Lave. I go back and forth on we obviously 160 00:07:30,960 --> 00:07:34,640 Speaker 2: differ on that quite a bit. Jayalen Wattle at twenty one. 161 00:07:34,840 --> 00:07:36,320 Speaker 3: I also have him noticeably higher. 162 00:07:37,600 --> 00:07:42,360 Speaker 2: Kien Williams at twenty two. I think he's like my 163 00:07:43,120 --> 00:07:46,320 Speaker 2: that's RB six, he's my nine or ten. Him and 164 00:07:46,320 --> 00:07:49,640 Speaker 2: Pacheco are similar to me. But rather if Henry, I 165 00:07:49,640 --> 00:07:52,480 Speaker 2: think pacheck Go's value took a hit. 166 00:07:53,360 --> 00:07:54,840 Speaker 3: I do two. Yesterday I do too. 167 00:07:55,480 --> 00:07:58,880 Speaker 2: People are overreacting to the Karen Williams punt returning stuff. 168 00:07:59,000 --> 00:07:59,960 Speaker 2: He did it last year. 169 00:08:00,240 --> 00:08:01,920 Speaker 3: Yeah, you said that yesterday. I didn't know any of 170 00:08:01,960 --> 00:08:03,920 Speaker 3: that stuff it. I'll tell you to be spot dude. 171 00:08:03,960 --> 00:08:04,520 Speaker 3: You I don't care. 172 00:08:04,600 --> 00:08:07,480 Speaker 2: You know how many punt returns the Rams had last 173 00:08:07,560 --> 00:08:09,360 Speaker 2: year where they actually returned. 174 00:08:09,040 --> 00:08:11,440 Speaker 3: The ball, no clue fifteen. 175 00:08:11,880 --> 00:08:14,200 Speaker 2: Really, they just had their guys go back there and 176 00:08:14,240 --> 00:08:14,600 Speaker 2: catch it. 177 00:08:15,000 --> 00:08:18,200 Speaker 3: They're such a weird organization and I kind of respect it. 178 00:08:18,240 --> 00:08:20,160 Speaker 3: You know, they went ten years that first round pick. Yeah, 179 00:08:20,160 --> 00:08:21,960 Speaker 3: they don't send their scouts to the combine, you know, 180 00:08:22,080 --> 00:08:25,200 Speaker 3: like they don't even play anybody in the preseason. They 181 00:08:25,280 --> 00:08:27,920 Speaker 3: must be a lot more analytically inclined than we think 182 00:08:28,360 --> 00:08:29,880 Speaker 3: they prayed with something. Punt returns matter. 183 00:08:29,960 --> 00:08:32,040 Speaker 2: Those seven yards that you're gonna get on the punk, right, 184 00:08:32,240 --> 00:08:33,040 Speaker 2: don't matter. 185 00:08:32,800 --> 00:08:35,040 Speaker 3: That in the one touchdown a year or every other year, 186 00:08:35,120 --> 00:08:37,520 Speaker 3: go back and catch the ball. Just don't screw out, 187 00:08:37,559 --> 00:08:39,560 Speaker 3: don't fumble it because I'm going to use another roster 188 00:08:39,640 --> 00:08:43,400 Speaker 3: spot on a developmental tackle. Yeah, I understand it. That 189 00:08:43,440 --> 00:08:43,880 Speaker 3: makes sense. 190 00:08:43,920 --> 00:08:47,000 Speaker 2: So I think people are overreacting to Kyron Williams punt 191 00:08:47,000 --> 00:08:47,520 Speaker 2: return stuff. 192 00:08:47,600 --> 00:08:49,960 Speaker 3: Yeah, because all the fantasy stuff I've been asked since then. 193 00:08:50,040 --> 00:08:52,960 Speaker 3: Are we got to put Blake Korham up because they 194 00:08:52,960 --> 00:08:55,080 Speaker 3: don't like Karon Williams anymore? Like I don't think one 195 00:08:55,200 --> 00:08:56,440 Speaker 3: is they even to do the other. First of all, 196 00:08:56,520 --> 00:08:58,000 Speaker 3: I just don't like the fact that he's going to 197 00:08:58,080 --> 00:09:03,200 Speaker 3: get blasted, but not if he's not he's yeah, yeah, yeah, 198 00:09:03,480 --> 00:09:04,120 Speaker 3: that's interesting. 199 00:09:04,400 --> 00:09:06,840 Speaker 2: DeVante Adams twenty. 200 00:09:06,559 --> 00:09:10,199 Speaker 3: Three still pretty low. I go back and forth on 201 00:09:10,280 --> 00:09:12,760 Speaker 3: him because I love him as a player, and Minshew 202 00:09:12,800 --> 00:09:15,120 Speaker 3: will feed his number one like Pittman to no end. 203 00:09:15,720 --> 00:09:17,000 Speaker 3: I just wonder if they're going to be a really 204 00:09:17,040 --> 00:09:19,480 Speaker 3: terrible team. That might not be a bad thing. It 205 00:09:19,520 --> 00:09:21,800 Speaker 3: might not be bad. Yeah might. If they can't get 206 00:09:21,840 --> 00:09:24,559 Speaker 3: first down, it's bad. But if they're garbage timing it 207 00:09:24,640 --> 00:09:27,280 Speaker 3: up to DeVante Adams, it's good. He might get traded too, 208 00:09:28,000 --> 00:09:29,600 Speaker 3: which I don't know think that's good, that's good or bad. 209 00:09:29,760 --> 00:09:31,280 Speaker 2: Davonte Smith at twenty four. 210 00:09:32,080 --> 00:09:33,240 Speaker 3: I think he's super safe. 211 00:09:34,880 --> 00:09:36,520 Speaker 2: Rashi Rice at twenty five. 212 00:09:37,480 --> 00:09:41,679 Speaker 3: I'm there with that too. I'm buying Chiefs. 213 00:09:43,120 --> 00:09:44,640 Speaker 2: Josh Jacobs at twenty six. 214 00:09:45,240 --> 00:09:48,599 Speaker 3: It's pretty low. Oh no, not in the running back market. No, 215 00:09:48,800 --> 00:09:51,800 Speaker 3: it's ahead of Henry's. Yeah, I think he's like my. 216 00:09:51,840 --> 00:09:55,600 Speaker 2: Nine Jonathan Taylor all the way down twenty seven. 217 00:09:55,559 --> 00:09:59,680 Speaker 3: Really low. The logic is Richardson's not gonna throw it 218 00:09:59,679 --> 00:10:01,479 Speaker 3: to him, He's gonna steal all his touchdowns. 219 00:10:02,840 --> 00:10:05,000 Speaker 2: Sakwan Barkley all the way down at twenty eight. 220 00:10:05,640 --> 00:10:08,559 Speaker 3: Similar. I mean, if Hurts doesn't dump it to him 221 00:10:08,559 --> 00:10:10,959 Speaker 3: when things get bad, if Richardson doesn't dump it to 222 00:10:11,040 --> 00:10:14,240 Speaker 3: him three seconds in and they decide to run instead, 223 00:10:15,080 --> 00:10:19,240 Speaker 3: and they're your goal line back the quarterbacks doesn't leave 224 00:10:19,280 --> 00:10:19,640 Speaker 3: you much. 225 00:10:20,840 --> 00:10:22,160 Speaker 2: Derrick Henry at twenty nine. 226 00:10:22,880 --> 00:10:25,160 Speaker 3: I think he's a score million touchdowns. 227 00:10:25,600 --> 00:10:26,720 Speaker 2: Mike Evans at thirty. 228 00:10:27,559 --> 00:10:29,720 Speaker 3: I'd be pretty happy taking Mike Evans right around there. 229 00:10:30,440 --> 00:10:32,840 Speaker 3: He didn't do anything wrong and he's good. 230 00:10:33,440 --> 00:10:38,400 Speaker 2: Thirty one is Travis atn that's RB eleven. I don't 231 00:10:38,440 --> 00:10:40,560 Speaker 2: love Travis ATM, but you give him to me at 232 00:10:40,559 --> 00:10:41,040 Speaker 2: thirty one? 233 00:10:41,200 --> 00:10:45,240 Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, volume decent offense. I'm not sure who would 234 00:10:45,280 --> 00:10:47,760 Speaker 3: have listed I'd have ahead of him though, or behind. 235 00:10:47,480 --> 00:10:51,480 Speaker 2: Him thirty two and thirty three, or Deebo Samuel and 236 00:10:51,520 --> 00:10:52,360 Speaker 2: Brandon Ayuk. 237 00:10:52,800 --> 00:10:56,600 Speaker 3: Yeah, I'd probably just pass on both at that price. 238 00:10:57,080 --> 00:11:03,320 Speaker 3: Thirty four, but checko, kay, would you rather Pachecko or atn. 239 00:11:06,960 --> 00:11:10,520 Speaker 2: With the smag A p Ryan ad probably ATM. 240 00:11:10,160 --> 00:11:12,840 Speaker 3: I mean that might be thirty catches Pacheco doesn't get. Yeah, 241 00:11:12,880 --> 00:11:15,240 Speaker 3: I assume p Ryan's going to be the McKinnon. Yeah, 242 00:11:15,280 --> 00:11:17,160 Speaker 3: that's what I've been loved about Pacheco this year is 243 00:11:17,240 --> 00:11:21,720 Speaker 3: McKinnon's not back. He's gonna be overleaved Field now probably 244 00:11:21,720 --> 00:11:23,960 Speaker 3: wasn't gonna play eighty five percent of snaps anyway, you know, 245 00:11:24,640 --> 00:11:27,160 Speaker 3: on a great offense, and now it's definitely not gonna happen. 246 00:11:28,160 --> 00:11:29,880 Speaker 2: Thirty five Kenneth Walker. 247 00:11:30,400 --> 00:11:33,000 Speaker 3: I'm cool with that. It's a little high, but I'm 248 00:11:33,040 --> 00:11:33,640 Speaker 3: cool with that too. 249 00:11:33,880 --> 00:11:36,600 Speaker 2: Thirty six stuff on Diggs, I'm not cool with that. 250 00:11:36,600 --> 00:11:39,400 Speaker 2: That's whyde receiver twenty three. Yeah, yeah, I'd rather Dell 251 00:11:39,760 --> 00:11:41,560 Speaker 2: Well tank Dell's next at thirty seven. 252 00:11:42,240 --> 00:11:43,920 Speaker 3: There's no way they support all three of those. 253 00:11:44,160 --> 00:11:46,600 Speaker 2: Yeah, three receivers in your top twenty. 254 00:11:46,400 --> 00:11:49,320 Speaker 3: Four, right, Yeah, I mean, there's definitely some debo. Iux 255 00:11:49,360 --> 00:11:51,280 Speaker 3: they're gonna run the ball some o they're gonna run 256 00:11:51,280 --> 00:11:51,640 Speaker 3: ball a lot. 257 00:11:51,720 --> 00:11:59,000 Speaker 2: Yeah. Dk metcalf is thirty eight, Yeah. Sam Laporter at 258 00:11:59,000 --> 00:12:00,600 Speaker 2: thirty nine one. 259 00:12:00,679 --> 00:12:03,160 Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know problem with that as being tight 260 00:12:03,240 --> 00:12:03,559 Speaker 3: end one. 261 00:12:03,800 --> 00:12:05,719 Speaker 2: Josh Allen at forty. 262 00:12:05,880 --> 00:12:07,880 Speaker 3: Yeah, if you were to take one of those two, 263 00:12:07,920 --> 00:12:11,560 Speaker 3: who would you take if you were to break the 264 00:12:11,600 --> 00:12:13,880 Speaker 3: ice on quarterback or tight end. I'm not to do either. 265 00:12:13,880 --> 00:12:17,200 Speaker 3: I'm not doing either. I'm not gonna be the guys either. Yeah. 266 00:12:17,320 --> 00:12:20,400 Speaker 2: Jalen Hurts at forty one. Travis Kelcey at forty two. 267 00:12:21,120 --> 00:12:24,839 Speaker 3: Kay, there's conversation for all those guys to be back 268 00:12:24,920 --> 00:12:25,240 Speaker 3: and next. 269 00:12:25,880 --> 00:12:27,679 Speaker 2: Lamar Jackson at forty three. 270 00:12:28,520 --> 00:12:30,480 Speaker 3: Doesn't run as much as he used to or score 271 00:12:30,520 --> 00:12:32,079 Speaker 3: as many touchdowns on the ground. 272 00:12:33,080 --> 00:12:34,719 Speaker 2: Forty four is Patrick Mahomes. 273 00:12:35,240 --> 00:12:36,480 Speaker 3: I think he's up for a huge year. 274 00:12:38,679 --> 00:12:42,160 Speaker 2: Forty five Michael Pittman A little early for me for me. 275 00:12:42,440 --> 00:12:44,520 Speaker 3: Yeah, loved them last year. I traded him in all 276 00:12:44,520 --> 00:12:47,480 Speaker 3: my Dynasty leagues. I just think that his situation has 277 00:12:47,480 --> 00:12:48,600 Speaker 3: gotten worse for Fantasy. 278 00:12:49,600 --> 00:12:56,080 Speaker 2: Forty six is Christian Kirk Solid. Forty seven Amari Cooper. 279 00:12:57,280 --> 00:12:59,960 Speaker 3: Guys that aren't real flashy, but they're solid every year. 280 00:13:03,360 --> 00:13:04,640 Speaker 2: T Higgins at forty eight. 281 00:13:06,240 --> 00:13:08,679 Speaker 3: Does the chase stuff help you with Higgins at all? 282 00:13:09,920 --> 00:13:12,400 Speaker 3: Maybe a spot. It might break a tie with Amari 283 00:13:12,440 --> 00:13:14,360 Speaker 3: Cooper for me, but I'm not going to be like man, 284 00:13:14,360 --> 00:13:15,400 Speaker 3: he's gonna be the one now. 285 00:13:15,520 --> 00:13:19,400 Speaker 2: In four NFL seasons, T Higgins has never gone over 286 00:13:19,440 --> 00:13:23,800 Speaker 2: eleven hundred receiving yards or seven touchdowns. 287 00:13:25,320 --> 00:13:27,520 Speaker 3: I was about to say, which I still believe, but 288 00:13:27,559 --> 00:13:30,040 Speaker 3: I'm shocked by those numbers a little bit that we 289 00:13:30,040 --> 00:13:31,280 Speaker 3: all have a little bit of a bad taste in 290 00:13:31,280 --> 00:13:33,840 Speaker 3: our mouth. And Higgins because he wasn't healthy all year. Yeah, 291 00:13:33,840 --> 00:13:35,440 Speaker 3: I mean it was an ugly year on tape for 292 00:13:35,520 --> 00:13:35,920 Speaker 3: him too. 293 00:13:37,760 --> 00:13:39,640 Speaker 2: Forty nine Alvin Kamara. 294 00:13:40,160 --> 00:13:43,360 Speaker 3: Should catch a lot of balls, But AREB fourteen not 295 00:13:43,360 --> 00:13:44,240 Speaker 3: for me? Not for me? 296 00:13:45,240 --> 00:13:48,280 Speaker 2: Fifty Mark Andrews. 297 00:13:47,800 --> 00:13:48,920 Speaker 3: I get it, Yeah, he's my three. 298 00:13:50,160 --> 00:13:53,880 Speaker 2: Fifty one z A Flowers that's wide receiver thirty. 299 00:13:53,960 --> 00:13:57,800 Speaker 3: That's really early too. I head of pickins. I have 300 00:13:57,840 --> 00:13:58,439 Speaker 3: a problem with. 301 00:13:59,040 --> 00:14:03,439 Speaker 2: Fifty two Joe Mixon. That's RB fifteen. So you're telling 302 00:14:03,480 --> 00:14:07,840 Speaker 2: me the Houston Texans offense is going to be so good, right, 303 00:14:07,960 --> 00:14:11,360 Speaker 2: It's going to support four or five players in the top. 304 00:14:11,720 --> 00:14:14,840 Speaker 3: I'm curious where he has Stroud because like, if Stroud's 305 00:14:14,840 --> 00:14:16,680 Speaker 3: coming up soon on his list, that means he's got 306 00:14:16,679 --> 00:14:19,600 Speaker 3: to throw like forty five touchdowns. I mean really, I 307 00:14:19,600 --> 00:14:23,280 Speaker 3: mean the support because he's not gonna run. I have 308 00:14:23,320 --> 00:14:27,000 Speaker 3: a problem with that neighborhood of running backs too. Kamara 309 00:14:27,240 --> 00:14:31,080 Speaker 3: Mixon that age. I mean like I might rather take 310 00:14:31,120 --> 00:14:35,280 Speaker 3: Connor three years, three rounds later, who's the exact same age. Yeah, 311 00:14:35,320 --> 00:14:36,560 Speaker 3: he could be just as good as them. 312 00:14:37,440 --> 00:14:42,000 Speaker 2: Fifty three Tray McBride, okay. Fifty four Dalton Concave. 313 00:14:42,160 --> 00:14:44,240 Speaker 3: Kaid McBride to me or right next to each other. 314 00:14:45,400 --> 00:14:47,120 Speaker 2: Fifty five XAVI, You're Worthy. 315 00:14:47,920 --> 00:14:50,000 Speaker 3: Seems a little rich. I mean it had a Pittman 316 00:14:50,160 --> 00:14:51,920 Speaker 3: or Pickins. 317 00:14:51,520 --> 00:14:54,320 Speaker 2: Yeah, man hes Ait Terry McLaurin, Yeah yeah, and guys 318 00:14:54,320 --> 00:14:54,840 Speaker 2: like guys. 319 00:14:54,680 --> 00:14:56,920 Speaker 3: That you're established. I keep moving Worthy up, but I 320 00:14:56,920 --> 00:14:59,520 Speaker 3: don't he's not Neighbors or Harrison. 321 00:15:00,080 --> 00:15:05,480 Speaker 2: Fifty six were shod White, that's RB sixteen. I don't 322 00:15:05,520 --> 00:15:08,000 Speaker 2: feel throw the backs as much. Running game should be 323 00:15:08,000 --> 00:15:11,800 Speaker 2: a little better. Fifty seven Terry McLaurin. 324 00:15:12,000 --> 00:15:15,480 Speaker 3: Follid is your wide receiver? Three you're probably pretty happy. 325 00:15:15,800 --> 00:15:21,040 Speaker 2: Fifty eight is Anthony Richardson, Okay, that's QB five. 326 00:15:21,920 --> 00:15:24,960 Speaker 3: I have him ahead of like the Borough Stroud tier. 327 00:15:26,400 --> 00:15:28,200 Speaker 3: I might still have him ahead of Lamar. I have 328 00:15:28,240 --> 00:15:29,280 Speaker 3: him high Mahomes though. 329 00:15:30,120 --> 00:15:36,360 Speaker 2: Fifty nine is George Kittle, Yeah, Kittle or Pitts. I'd 330 00:15:36,440 --> 00:15:37,040 Speaker 2: rather have Pits. 331 00:15:37,160 --> 00:15:38,960 Speaker 3: I have Pits one spot ahead of him, Yeah, and 332 00:15:39,000 --> 00:15:40,760 Speaker 3: then Ingram who's behind both. 333 00:15:41,440 --> 00:15:42,960 Speaker 2: Sixty is David Montgomery. 334 00:15:43,840 --> 00:15:44,880 Speaker 3: I'll take that all day long. 335 00:15:45,120 --> 00:15:49,720 Speaker 2: Yeah, he's a score sixty one James Cook, he's not 336 00:15:49,800 --> 00:15:52,800 Speaker 2: going to score sixty two Aaron Jones. 337 00:15:53,400 --> 00:15:54,960 Speaker 3: I think that's too cheap on Jones too. 338 00:15:56,840 --> 00:16:01,320 Speaker 2: Sixty three Naujee Harris, the first Steeler mentioned. 339 00:16:02,040 --> 00:16:03,800 Speaker 3: I saw it. I was listening to podcasts with Evan 340 00:16:03,800 --> 00:16:06,120 Speaker 3: in a week or two ago, saying how he keeps 341 00:16:06,200 --> 00:16:09,240 Speaker 3: moving nausea up like he must have started low on 342 00:16:09,320 --> 00:16:13,080 Speaker 3: him and just keeps moving. Mind. Let's RB twenty. Yeah, 343 00:16:13,200 --> 00:16:15,400 Speaker 3: there's a handful of a couple that they mentioned. I 344 00:16:15,400 --> 00:16:17,360 Speaker 3: would rather have nausey then. Uh. 345 00:16:17,400 --> 00:16:22,480 Speaker 2: Sixty four is DeAndre Swift, He's not for me. Sixty 346 00:16:22,600 --> 00:16:25,080 Speaker 2: five is Deontay Johnson. 347 00:16:26,240 --> 00:16:28,800 Speaker 3: I'll think it was my receiver three in that neighborhood 348 00:16:29,040 --> 00:16:29,520 Speaker 3: that's fine. 349 00:16:30,840 --> 00:16:32,960 Speaker 2: Sixty six Weremandre Stevenson. 350 00:16:34,080 --> 00:16:35,880 Speaker 3: I started with him high and I just keep moving 351 00:16:35,920 --> 00:16:37,880 Speaker 3: him down. Yeah. I just think it is going to 352 00:16:37,920 --> 00:16:39,560 Speaker 3: be junk. Yeah, I just think there'll be three and 353 00:16:39,640 --> 00:16:40,240 Speaker 3: out a lot. 354 00:16:41,080 --> 00:16:43,160 Speaker 2: Sixty seven is Jackson Smith and Jigba. 355 00:16:44,320 --> 00:16:47,320 Speaker 3: Okay, now we're starting to prognosticate a little bit, you know, 356 00:16:47,360 --> 00:16:50,800 Speaker 3: on the Worthies and Smith and Jigbos and the dunes 357 00:16:50,800 --> 00:16:51,760 Speaker 3: a types, you know. 358 00:16:53,400 --> 00:16:57,600 Speaker 2: Sixty eight is Calvin Ridley. That's wide receiver thirty five. 359 00:16:58,440 --> 00:17:00,440 Speaker 3: I don't ever end up with any of the Titans, 360 00:17:00,520 --> 00:17:04,639 Speaker 3: but I don't know why, because I like Spears, Ridley 361 00:17:04,640 --> 00:17:07,960 Speaker 3: and Hopkins go pretty late for considering their background. But 362 00:17:08,040 --> 00:17:09,920 Speaker 3: I don't love them. They're both a little older than 363 00:17:10,000 --> 00:17:13,840 Speaker 3: I like. Paullard's a little older than I like. I 364 00:17:13,880 --> 00:17:15,200 Speaker 3: don't know, I feel like I don't have a great 365 00:17:15,200 --> 00:17:16,120 Speaker 3: beat on the Titans. 366 00:17:16,400 --> 00:17:22,240 Speaker 2: For Fantasy sixty nine is George Pickens finally, wide receiver 367 00:17:22,320 --> 00:17:25,200 Speaker 2: thirty say about them, he said, new offensive coordinator Arthur 368 00:17:25,240 --> 00:17:28,800 Speaker 2: Smith can be death Noell for wide receiver production. It 369 00:17:28,840 --> 00:17:33,760 Speaker 2: wasn't really for Drake London the quarterback play. 370 00:17:35,040 --> 00:17:36,600 Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, yeah, So. 371 00:17:38,160 --> 00:17:40,560 Speaker 2: Drake Glendon had one hundred and nineteen targets. 372 00:17:41,280 --> 00:17:46,000 Speaker 3: They just sailed over his head a bunch. Yeah. Who 373 00:17:46,040 --> 00:17:50,600 Speaker 3: to blame, I guess is a good question. So there 374 00:17:51,320 --> 00:17:54,679 Speaker 3: the five years that Smith has coordinated a team, he 375 00:17:54,800 --> 00:17:57,480 Speaker 3: doesn't have a wide receiver that has like Fantasy one 376 00:17:57,600 --> 00:18:02,439 Speaker 3: or two numbers. But there's reasons behind it too, you know, 377 00:18:02,520 --> 00:18:05,760 Speaker 3: like London would have with Cousins probably as his quarterback 378 00:18:05,840 --> 00:18:07,480 Speaker 3: last year, you know what I mean, like the ball 379 00:18:07,560 --> 00:18:08,280 Speaker 3: went his way. 380 00:18:08,480 --> 00:18:12,240 Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean Brown put up wide receiver. 381 00:18:13,520 --> 00:18:17,000 Speaker 3: I think he blew up after no. No, they one 382 00:18:17,119 --> 00:18:21,320 Speaker 3: year overlap, had two years two years overlap, okay, and 383 00:18:21,400 --> 00:18:23,919 Speaker 3: then you got traded the year after that. Yeah, okay, 384 00:18:25,080 --> 00:18:29,360 Speaker 3: I mean he was double check what Brown did with Smith, 385 00:18:29,600 --> 00:18:31,840 Speaker 3: I can tell you. I mean aj Brown. I don't 386 00:18:31,840 --> 00:18:33,680 Speaker 3: think his final numbers at the end of the year 387 00:18:33,680 --> 00:18:35,520 Speaker 3: were that great his first two seasons, but he was 388 00:18:35,520 --> 00:18:38,320 Speaker 3: a rookie one of those. Yeah, yeah, yeah. 389 00:18:38,359 --> 00:18:42,320 Speaker 2: His first season fifty two for one thousand and fifty 390 00:18:42,359 --> 00:18:44,440 Speaker 2: one and. 391 00:18:44,920 --> 00:18:47,520 Speaker 3: Eight touchdowns as a rookie. As a rookie. 392 00:18:48,000 --> 00:18:52,199 Speaker 2: The next season, then twenty twenty, it was seventy for 393 00:18:52,520 --> 00:18:55,040 Speaker 2: one thousand and seventy five and eleven touchdowns. 394 00:18:55,480 --> 00:18:59,280 Speaker 3: Okay, I think that one thousands, which was the bigger number, 395 00:19:00,280 --> 00:19:01,000 Speaker 3: one thousand and seven. 396 00:19:01,119 --> 00:19:03,679 Speaker 2: Second year. Second year. That was year two with Arthur Smith. 397 00:19:04,000 --> 00:19:06,080 Speaker 2: That's what I read was his eleven scores. 398 00:19:06,280 --> 00:19:09,359 Speaker 3: That's the most receiving yards anyone's had in the last 399 00:19:09,440 --> 00:19:13,679 Speaker 3: five years at the receiver position with Smith. Doesn't mean 400 00:19:13,720 --> 00:19:16,439 Speaker 3: Pickens can't go past it, right, you know, I mean 401 00:19:16,440 --> 00:19:18,280 Speaker 3: it doesn't seem like a huge number when you say 402 00:19:18,280 --> 00:19:22,600 Speaker 3: that that way that the most yardage and Arthur Smith's 403 00:19:22,640 --> 00:19:28,040 Speaker 3: receivers had is ten to seventy five. But London probably 404 00:19:28,200 --> 00:19:31,440 Speaker 3: was surpassed that last year, you know what I mean, Right, So. 405 00:19:31,560 --> 00:19:33,239 Speaker 2: I don't get overly concerned with that. 406 00:19:34,080 --> 00:19:34,960 Speaker 3: No, no, no, no. 407 00:19:36,800 --> 00:19:41,200 Speaker 2: James Connor at seventy Javonte Williams at seventy one. 408 00:19:41,400 --> 00:19:42,800 Speaker 3: I may end up with one of those two. By 409 00:19:42,800 --> 00:19:45,000 Speaker 3: the way, I think they're kind of cheap, you know, 410 00:19:45,080 --> 00:19:46,720 Speaker 3: like if you wait, wait, wait, I think I can 411 00:19:46,760 --> 00:19:49,080 Speaker 3: live with them and hope I get half a season 412 00:19:49,119 --> 00:19:49,480 Speaker 3: at them. 413 00:19:49,520 --> 00:19:52,840 Speaker 2: Tony Pollard is seventy two, Jayden Reid at seventy three. 414 00:19:53,040 --> 00:19:54,480 Speaker 3: I don't think I'll take a Packer receiver. 415 00:19:55,080 --> 00:19:59,840 Speaker 2: DeAndre Hopkins is seventy four. Keenan Allen seventy five, just 416 00:20:00,000 --> 00:20:01,399 Speaker 2: looking through here because we got to get to a 417 00:20:01,400 --> 00:20:06,080 Speaker 2: break here. Uh, where does where's Warren at? Jalen Warren 418 00:20:06,160 --> 00:20:08,640 Speaker 2: goes all the way down at ninety three? 419 00:20:09,640 --> 00:20:11,760 Speaker 3: Okay, I would take them to that price. Oh my god. 420 00:20:11,880 --> 00:20:16,600 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, he's suffered a multi week hamstring injury. Well yeah, three. 421 00:20:16,520 --> 00:20:20,720 Speaker 3: Multi weeks ago, three weeks ago. Yeah, M. 422 00:20:23,560 --> 00:20:25,080 Speaker 2: Not seeing Uh let's see here. 423 00:20:25,160 --> 00:20:27,320 Speaker 3: I bet our local leagues won't bite on this, but 424 00:20:27,520 --> 00:20:30,480 Speaker 3: some of our listeners that aren't Pittsburgh leagues might think, Oh, 425 00:20:30,520 --> 00:20:31,720 Speaker 3: Warren's gonna be out a couple of weeks. 426 00:20:31,920 --> 00:20:33,880 Speaker 2: Yeah, don't don't fall for that. Jump on that, Yeah, 427 00:20:33,920 --> 00:20:38,560 Speaker 2: don't fall for that. M not seeing any more Steelers. 428 00:20:39,200 --> 00:20:41,600 Speaker 2: Wuld be the next one, and he's probably going to 429 00:20:41,640 --> 00:20:42,280 Speaker 2: be lower. 430 00:20:42,040 --> 00:20:44,280 Speaker 3: Than he's probably tight end twelve. 431 00:20:44,359 --> 00:20:47,480 Speaker 2: Yeah, and these are only the top one fifty, So okay, 432 00:20:47,720 --> 00:20:49,280 Speaker 2: not in that all right? 433 00:20:49,600 --> 00:20:51,960 Speaker 3: I get it. Too low on pickings though, too. 434 00:20:51,840 --> 00:20:55,840 Speaker 2: Low on pickings when you see low on Warren. 435 00:20:55,960 --> 00:21:00,600 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I think Evan's getting misinformation on Warren. Yeah, pickens. 436 00:21:00,640 --> 00:21:03,320 Speaker 3: When you said Davante Smith's name, that was like fifteen 437 00:21:03,320 --> 00:21:06,040 Speaker 3: minutes ago. Yeah, I was to say, I keep going 438 00:21:06,200 --> 00:21:08,960 Speaker 3: back and forth between Pickens and Davante. You know, Yeah, 439 00:21:09,080 --> 00:21:12,040 Speaker 3: that was They're like nineteen and twenty on my receiver 440 00:21:12,160 --> 00:21:13,680 Speaker 3: or something like that, nineteen to nineteen. 441 00:21:14,000 --> 00:21:16,879 Speaker 2: I'm hiring those guys. And yeah, anyways, let's get to 442 00:21:16,920 --> 00:21:19,159 Speaker 2: a break. That was Evan Silva's top one. Well we 443 00:21:19,200 --> 00:21:20,080 Speaker 2: get to seventy five. 444 00:21:20,280 --> 00:21:21,360 Speaker 3: I got half of it. Yeah. 445 00:21:21,600 --> 00:21:23,560 Speaker 2: Anyways, Yeah, that's going to do it for the Fantasy 446 00:21:23,560 --> 00:21:24,760 Speaker 2: Football Focus today. 447 00:21:24,880 --> 00:21:26,040 Speaker 3: He is Matt Williamson. 448 00:21:26,119 --> 00:21:28,480 Speaker 2: I am Dale Lolli. You're listening to the Drive here 449 00:21:28,520 --> 00:21:30,640 Speaker 2: on the Steelers Audio Network. We'll be back with more 450 00:21:31,040 --> 00:21:35,119 Speaker 2: right after this. 451 00:21:35,720 --> 00:21:36,160 Speaker 3: At least. 452 00:21:36,240 --> 00:21:39,720 Speaker 1: He's the Drive with Dale Lolly and Matt Williamson on 453 00:21:39,760 --> 00:21:41,959 Speaker 1: your twenty four to seven Home of the Black and 454 00:21:41,960 --> 00:21:44,639 Speaker 1: Gold cast in Steelers Nation Radio. 455 00:21:47,440 --> 00:21:50,560 Speaker 2: Man, Welcome back. I am Dale Lolli. He is Dean, 456 00:21:50,640 --> 00:21:54,840 Speaker 2: Matt Williamson and Matt looking here at the piece on 457 00:21:56,359 --> 00:22:02,240 Speaker 2: NFL dot Com by Dan Graziano. He's predicting some potential 458 00:22:02,280 --> 00:22:06,880 Speaker 2: twenty twenty four surprises for all thirty two teams. Okay, 459 00:22:06,960 --> 00:22:09,440 Speaker 2: I thought we some shot in the dark stuff. I'm sure, yeah, 460 00:22:09,440 --> 00:22:11,480 Speaker 2: I thought we touch on some of these things here. First, 461 00:22:11,520 --> 00:22:14,119 Speaker 2: we'll take a look at the AFC North stuff that 462 00:22:14,160 --> 00:22:17,280 Speaker 2: he has here. Okay, looking at the one he has 463 00:22:17,320 --> 00:22:21,480 Speaker 2: here for the Steelers, don't be surprised. This is how 464 00:22:21,480 --> 00:22:23,320 Speaker 2: he kind of leads into each one of them. Don't 465 00:22:23,320 --> 00:22:29,040 Speaker 2: be surprised. If Nause Harris has fifteen hundred yards from 466 00:22:29,040 --> 00:22:30,080 Speaker 2: scrimmage this season. 467 00:22:30,280 --> 00:22:33,000 Speaker 3: I don't think that's crazy. I don't think it is either, right. 468 00:22:33,359 --> 00:22:36,040 Speaker 3: I mean maybe he's guessing, kind of like the silver stuff, 469 00:22:36,080 --> 00:22:39,560 Speaker 3: that Nause might be the loan back for the first 470 00:22:39,600 --> 00:22:42,240 Speaker 3: two games, which we don't expect to be true. Fifteen 471 00:22:42,320 --> 00:22:44,879 Speaker 3: hundreds a big number. Yeah, we were doing over unders 472 00:22:44,960 --> 00:22:47,960 Speaker 3: yesterday and I think his catches are going to go up. 473 00:22:48,000 --> 00:22:50,440 Speaker 3: I mean, that's an Arthur Smith thing that isn't talked 474 00:22:50,440 --> 00:22:54,119 Speaker 3: about enough is throwing the backs. He's a very capable receiver. 475 00:22:54,160 --> 00:22:57,240 Speaker 3: I think that's been somewhat of an untapped resource and 476 00:22:57,240 --> 00:22:59,399 Speaker 3: it's a small amount in a camp. They don't tackle 477 00:22:59,440 --> 00:23:03,080 Speaker 3: to the ground. He looks better moving than at any 478 00:23:03,119 --> 00:23:05,119 Speaker 3: point in a Steeler career to me, just my my 479 00:23:05,200 --> 00:23:08,959 Speaker 3: scouting eye, watching his explosion, his speed, that type of stuff. 480 00:23:09,880 --> 00:23:12,840 Speaker 3: I don't think you can get there with Warren getting 481 00:23:12,880 --> 00:23:15,119 Speaker 3: his full work. You know, the workload we expect from him. 482 00:23:15,160 --> 00:23:18,600 Speaker 3: That would be an unbelievably productive backfield. But I don't 483 00:23:18,640 --> 00:23:22,080 Speaker 3: think what that what Graziano says there is insanity. 484 00:23:22,760 --> 00:23:24,160 Speaker 2: No, I don't think it is either. And I think 485 00:23:24,200 --> 00:23:28,959 Speaker 2: a lot of people looked at the Steelers not picking 486 00:23:29,040 --> 00:23:30,280 Speaker 2: up his fifty year option. 487 00:23:30,720 --> 00:23:32,440 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, as well they're going. 488 00:23:32,440 --> 00:23:35,120 Speaker 2: To use Warren more and Harris is you know, he's 489 00:23:35,119 --> 00:23:37,240 Speaker 2: on the way out. And no, no, I don't see 490 00:23:37,280 --> 00:23:37,720 Speaker 2: that at all. 491 00:23:37,920 --> 00:23:40,359 Speaker 3: I don't either. I mean, I think Harris has even 492 00:23:40,400 --> 00:23:42,320 Speaker 3: more to play for now, you know what I mean, Like, 493 00:23:42,520 --> 00:23:45,639 Speaker 3: not that his motivation has ever been questioned, but picking 494 00:23:45,680 --> 00:23:48,639 Speaker 3: up fifty year options a lot different. I mean, really, 495 00:23:48,680 --> 00:23:51,240 Speaker 3: franchising him wouldn't be that much different than picking up 496 00:23:51,240 --> 00:23:54,000 Speaker 3: the fifth year option at that position if they so chose, 497 00:23:54,040 --> 00:23:57,119 Speaker 3: I mean, they still have that card in their back pocket. Yeah. 498 00:23:57,119 --> 00:23:59,320 Speaker 2: So I think a lot of people are viewing that 499 00:23:59,720 --> 00:24:02,760 Speaker 2: to me in the wrong light that oh they don't 500 00:24:02,840 --> 00:24:03,920 Speaker 2: like it, they don't like the player. 501 00:24:04,000 --> 00:24:06,080 Speaker 3: That's not the case at all. Yeah, I wouldn't say 502 00:24:06,280 --> 00:24:10,159 Speaker 3: just because A isn't or B isn't true because A 503 00:24:10,440 --> 00:24:12,800 Speaker 3: and that didn't pick up the fifth year options. So 504 00:24:12,960 --> 00:24:16,040 Speaker 3: Warren's role is going to grow. I don't think that's 505 00:24:16,560 --> 00:24:18,760 Speaker 3: I think Tomlin likes how the back rotation is going 506 00:24:18,840 --> 00:24:19,920 Speaker 3: to use exactly as it is. 507 00:24:20,440 --> 00:24:23,080 Speaker 2: Yeah, And I think people are missing the fact that 508 00:24:24,119 --> 00:24:28,800 Speaker 2: Harris had fifteen hundred yards from scrimmage more than fifteen 509 00:24:28,840 --> 00:24:30,160 Speaker 2: hundred yards from scrimmage. 510 00:24:29,840 --> 00:24:32,800 Speaker 3: His rookie year. Yeah, yeah, I mean a lot of catches. 511 00:24:33,760 --> 00:24:35,680 Speaker 3: I do think his role as a receiver will be 512 00:24:35,760 --> 00:24:38,119 Speaker 3: different than that season, But you can throw this guy 513 00:24:38,119 --> 00:24:41,200 Speaker 3: at the ball a lot. There's also, you. 514 00:24:41,119 --> 00:24:44,320 Speaker 2: Know, if he is more efficient as a runner. He 515 00:24:44,359 --> 00:24:46,800 Speaker 2: as four point one yards per carry last. 516 00:24:46,560 --> 00:24:49,240 Speaker 3: Year and he's like three to nine at his career. Yeah, 517 00:24:49,880 --> 00:24:51,600 Speaker 3: I would expect the over on both those. 518 00:24:51,920 --> 00:24:54,399 Speaker 2: If he let's see average is four point three yards 519 00:24:54,400 --> 00:24:56,800 Speaker 2: of carry, they show a lot. It's a big number, 520 00:24:56,840 --> 00:25:00,480 Speaker 2: a big difference, but he gets the same. Let's it 521 00:25:00,480 --> 00:25:02,600 Speaker 2: was two hundred and fifty five carries last year. 522 00:25:02,440 --> 00:25:06,280 Speaker 3: So it's the same usage. Receptions go up by fifteen 523 00:25:06,400 --> 00:25:10,560 Speaker 3: twenty or whatever. Yards per carry go up by a 524 00:25:10,680 --> 00:25:12,840 Speaker 3: quarter of a yard or twenty percent or you know, 525 00:25:12,960 --> 00:25:16,000 Speaker 3: point two something like that, with better blocking, better scheme, 526 00:25:16,920 --> 00:25:20,040 Speaker 3: and he's frankly the slightly better runner than he was. 527 00:25:20,960 --> 00:25:23,040 Speaker 3: Maybe breaks off at a longer one here and there. 528 00:25:23,119 --> 00:25:26,640 Speaker 3: Although his explosive run rates pretty good. Yeah, eighty yards, 529 00:25:26,680 --> 00:25:28,800 Speaker 3: but they're over tens or over fifteens. 530 00:25:29,040 --> 00:25:31,520 Speaker 2: So if he gets two hundred and fifty five rushing 531 00:25:31,520 --> 00:25:36,520 Speaker 2: attempts but averagers four point three yards per carry, okay, 532 00:25:36,800 --> 00:25:39,160 Speaker 2: that's essentially eleven hundred rushing yards. 533 00:25:39,880 --> 00:25:42,400 Speaker 3: Yeah, four and four hundred passing yards is in out 534 00:25:42,400 --> 00:25:43,280 Speaker 3: of the questions. 535 00:25:43,000 --> 00:25:45,600 Speaker 2: Not out of the question because last year he had 536 00:25:46,720 --> 00:25:48,399 Speaker 2: he only had twenty. He had twenty nine catches for 537 00:25:48,400 --> 00:25:49,920 Speaker 2: one hundred and seventy yards. 538 00:25:50,560 --> 00:25:51,960 Speaker 3: Okay, that's gonna go up. 539 00:25:52,320 --> 00:25:54,639 Speaker 2: So let's let's say, let's say it stays static. If 540 00:25:54,640 --> 00:25:57,200 Speaker 2: you had forty one catchers for two twenty nine two 541 00:25:57,320 --> 00:26:01,280 Speaker 2: years ago. Well okay, so let's say he's in that 542 00:26:01,280 --> 00:26:03,800 Speaker 2: two hundred yard range. Well, now you're at thirteen hundred 543 00:26:03,880 --> 00:26:07,600 Speaker 2: yards without doing anything, without doing anything. 544 00:26:07,400 --> 00:26:10,120 Speaker 3: Right, and of course we have to assume health. I mean, 545 00:26:10,320 --> 00:26:11,080 Speaker 3: no one will get there. 546 00:26:11,160 --> 00:26:12,359 Speaker 2: But he's never missed a game. 547 00:26:12,440 --> 00:26:15,160 Speaker 3: He's as durable as any back in the league lately. Yeah, 548 00:26:15,240 --> 00:26:17,119 Speaker 3: you know, knockout whatd of course, it's a position that 549 00:26:17,160 --> 00:26:21,239 Speaker 3: gets beat up, but I wouldn't predict he's gonna get 550 00:26:21,240 --> 00:26:23,919 Speaker 3: to fifteen hundred. Neither is Dan Graziano. But if we're 551 00:26:23,960 --> 00:26:26,840 Speaker 3: going in, don't be surprised. Don't be surprised he could 552 00:26:26,920 --> 00:26:27,280 Speaker 3: get there. 553 00:26:27,359 --> 00:26:29,760 Speaker 2: Yeah, so two years ago he had two hundred and 554 00:26:29,760 --> 00:26:33,320 Speaker 2: seventy two carries. Again, if he ever just four point 555 00:26:33,359 --> 00:26:35,639 Speaker 2: three yards of carry, now you're at eleven hundred and 556 00:26:35,680 --> 00:26:37,320 Speaker 2: six eleven hundred and seventy yards. 557 00:26:38,040 --> 00:26:40,399 Speaker 3: So I didn't factor in this math, but I bet 558 00:26:40,440 --> 00:26:44,080 Speaker 3: the Steelers have more carries. He has a team in 559 00:26:44,080 --> 00:26:46,600 Speaker 3: twenty twenty four than they did in twenty twenty three. 560 00:26:47,960 --> 00:26:50,480 Speaker 3: Probably more quarterback carries too, but I bet they have 561 00:26:50,600 --> 00:26:54,000 Speaker 3: more carries, more first downs, you know, things like that. 562 00:26:54,119 --> 00:26:56,399 Speaker 3: You know, there's also a possession. 563 00:26:56,320 --> 00:27:00,760 Speaker 2: As we've seen with some of the running quarterback the 564 00:27:00,840 --> 00:27:03,399 Speaker 2: Ravens being oh yeah, yeah, the perfect example of this. 565 00:27:03,480 --> 00:27:06,639 Speaker 2: When you have a real threat, a real threat in 566 00:27:06,680 --> 00:27:09,719 Speaker 2: the backfield, it slows down the outside linebackers a little bit, 567 00:27:09,760 --> 00:27:12,320 Speaker 2: slows down the inside backers. You average more yards per 568 00:27:12,320 --> 00:27:12,840 Speaker 2: carry yep. 569 00:27:13,400 --> 00:27:16,080 Speaker 3: And that's gonna be doubly true if Field sees any time, 570 00:27:16,160 --> 00:27:19,800 Speaker 3: or if there's a Field's package of any sort, those 571 00:27:19,840 --> 00:27:23,000 Speaker 3: plays where he does hand at the nausey on an 572 00:27:23,000 --> 00:27:23,960 Speaker 3: option or whatever. 573 00:27:24,560 --> 00:27:27,440 Speaker 2: You frozen those outside, you frozen the backers. Yeah, you're 574 00:27:27,480 --> 00:27:28,160 Speaker 2: gonna get more. 575 00:27:28,280 --> 00:27:29,560 Speaker 3: It might be a twenty yard runs to have a 576 00:27:29,560 --> 00:27:31,159 Speaker 3: ten yard run, or a ten yard runs to have 577 00:27:31,200 --> 00:27:34,119 Speaker 3: a two yard run, you know, things of that nature. Yep, 578 00:27:34,560 --> 00:27:37,840 Speaker 3: looking at some of the other AFC North predictions here, 579 00:27:37,920 --> 00:27:42,159 Speaker 3: don't for the Browns. Don't be surprised if Jerry Judy 580 00:27:43,160 --> 00:27:46,520 Speaker 3: leads the Browns and receptions, Wow, that would be surprising. 581 00:27:46,600 --> 00:27:50,040 Speaker 3: That's pretty out there. But really, Cooper is the only 582 00:27:50,080 --> 00:27:53,840 Speaker 3: one really competing with them. I mean, yeah, he's gonna probably. 583 00:27:54,880 --> 00:27:56,880 Speaker 3: I just can't imagine to jok who leading the team 584 00:27:56,920 --> 00:27:59,639 Speaker 3: interception Yeah, I mean if Cooper gots hurt, then Judy 585 00:27:59,680 --> 00:28:04,280 Speaker 3: probably would. If by chance, Judy's better than Amari, I 586 00:28:04,280 --> 00:28:06,399 Speaker 3: don't see. That's the part I have stuck with. 587 00:28:06,600 --> 00:28:10,960 Speaker 2: Yeah, he had fifty four catches last season. He's never 588 00:28:11,000 --> 00:28:14,159 Speaker 2: had more than sixty seven in his career in a season. 589 00:28:14,240 --> 00:28:16,879 Speaker 3: I think he's not a featured player. I think he's 590 00:28:16,920 --> 00:28:18,840 Speaker 3: a jag. Yeah I did too. I was just saying 591 00:28:18,880 --> 00:28:20,480 Speaker 3: I think he's a two, but that was even a 592 00:28:20,480 --> 00:28:23,439 Speaker 3: little kind. I think he's a really good three, really good. 593 00:28:23,280 --> 00:28:29,640 Speaker 2: Three for Cincinnatis. Don't be surprised if the Cincinnati defense 594 00:28:29,720 --> 00:28:31,200 Speaker 2: looks like it's old self again. 595 00:28:32,480 --> 00:28:37,359 Speaker 3: Okay, run defense would worry me up the middle. They 596 00:28:37,440 --> 00:28:40,320 Speaker 3: did bring in some bodies at defensive tackle. Chris Jenkins 597 00:28:40,320 --> 00:28:42,040 Speaker 3: was a player I really liked, but he's a rookie. 598 00:28:42,800 --> 00:28:45,400 Speaker 3: I do trust the defensive coordinator that he's a good 599 00:28:45,440 --> 00:28:48,680 Speaker 3: defensive coordinator. In the last year was a blip. But 600 00:28:48,760 --> 00:28:50,720 Speaker 3: also don't see a lot of star power on that defense. 601 00:28:50,800 --> 00:28:57,640 Speaker 2: Okay, here's the thing. Cincinnati opens a season at home 602 00:28:58,280 --> 00:29:02,200 Speaker 2: against the Patriots. Yeah, the following week they go to 603 00:29:02,200 --> 00:29:03,960 Speaker 2: to Kansas City, so. 604 00:29:03,960 --> 00:29:06,160 Speaker 3: At night and day difference offens. 605 00:29:06,360 --> 00:29:16,360 Speaker 2: Week three, Cincinnati hosts Washington. Week four, Cincinnati's at Carolina. 606 00:29:16,840 --> 00:29:18,960 Speaker 3: Wow. After them. 607 00:29:20,120 --> 00:29:23,080 Speaker 2: The first week into the month into the season, people 608 00:29:23,120 --> 00:29:25,480 Speaker 2: are gonna be talking about that. Wow, the Cincinnati defense 609 00:29:25,520 --> 00:29:26,920 Speaker 2: has really regained its footing. 610 00:29:27,040 --> 00:29:29,440 Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, here's gonna be the headline. Like, since 611 00:29:29,440 --> 00:29:32,480 Speaker 3: the defense has only let up fifty points through four games. 612 00:29:32,520 --> 00:29:34,720 Speaker 2: Thirty of them came against thirty eight of them or. 613 00:29:35,000 --> 00:29:39,160 Speaker 3: Against the Chiefs, Yep, that's quite possible. 614 00:29:40,000 --> 00:29:45,840 Speaker 2: They get the Ravens at home in week five, then 615 00:29:45,880 --> 00:29:47,160 Speaker 2: they travel to the Giants. 616 00:29:47,600 --> 00:29:50,840 Speaker 3: Oh, they get all the easy ones. 617 00:29:50,960 --> 00:29:52,520 Speaker 2: They get some cupcakes, I really do. 618 00:29:52,640 --> 00:29:52,920 Speaker 3: Wow. 619 00:29:53,080 --> 00:29:54,600 Speaker 2: They also host the Raiders. 620 00:29:55,320 --> 00:29:58,400 Speaker 3: Okay, so when we do like these strength of schedule 621 00:29:58,440 --> 00:30:01,120 Speaker 3: stuff in the AFC North, why is so much easier 622 00:30:01,160 --> 00:30:03,480 Speaker 3: than the rest of the y That's why they they 623 00:30:03,560 --> 00:30:04,480 Speaker 3: got all the cupcakes. 624 00:30:04,520 --> 00:30:07,320 Speaker 2: Three of their first four games are against absolute drek, 625 00:30:07,440 --> 00:30:09,560 Speaker 2: maybe the three worst teams in the league. 626 00:30:09,320 --> 00:30:11,560 Speaker 3: And the Raiders Giants aren't far behind. No, I have 627 00:30:11,640 --> 00:30:14,160 Speaker 3: you got five or six teams there? They could be 628 00:30:14,200 --> 00:30:15,920 Speaker 3: in the first overall pick market. Yu. 629 00:30:16,240 --> 00:30:18,680 Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean they have some tough games on this 630 00:30:18,840 --> 00:30:22,200 Speaker 2: of course, of course, but my goodness, Wow, that's a 631 00:30:23,200 --> 00:30:24,680 Speaker 2: favorable start this season. 632 00:30:25,040 --> 00:30:26,840 Speaker 3: The Chiefs game will be the one to watch. Yeah, 633 00:30:26,920 --> 00:30:30,240 Speaker 3: and two of those games are at home. Wow. The 634 00:30:30,280 --> 00:30:32,160 Speaker 3: defense will look better early, it's gonna look. 635 00:30:32,200 --> 00:30:34,000 Speaker 2: Yeah, it's gonna people are going to be talking about 636 00:30:34,000 --> 00:30:37,480 Speaker 2: the Cincinnati defense early in the season, like the fantasy 637 00:30:38,720 --> 00:30:41,320 Speaker 2: Just them in week two, right, Just sit them in 638 00:30:41,360 --> 00:30:43,480 Speaker 2: Week two and keep them for those other terrible games. 639 00:30:43,920 --> 00:30:47,480 Speaker 2: But yeah, that's that's something noteworthy. 640 00:30:48,320 --> 00:30:49,880 Speaker 3: I don't know if they'll be back to where they 641 00:30:49,880 --> 00:30:51,719 Speaker 3: were though, when they were in the Super Bowl. No, 642 00:30:51,760 --> 00:30:55,640 Speaker 3: I don't think that was pretty good defense. For the Ravens. 643 00:30:57,120 --> 00:31:02,120 Speaker 2: Don't be surprised if Isaiah Likely is the Ravens second 644 00:31:02,200 --> 00:31:02,960 Speaker 2: leading receiver. 645 00:31:04,120 --> 00:31:08,040 Speaker 3: H I mean again, he's not saying this is going 646 00:31:08,120 --> 00:31:11,560 Speaker 3: to happen, but Likely is a really good player. I 647 00:31:11,560 --> 00:31:14,080 Speaker 3: would think that they'll live in twelve personnel this year. 648 00:31:14,440 --> 00:31:17,160 Speaker 3: I mean, I think they have to be really concerned 649 00:31:17,200 --> 00:31:19,840 Speaker 3: with getting him on the field, and I don't like 650 00:31:19,880 --> 00:31:20,800 Speaker 3: their receivers other than. 651 00:31:20,760 --> 00:31:23,680 Speaker 2: Say, yeah, the other thing is do you do you 652 00:31:23,800 --> 00:31:25,960 Speaker 2: trust Mark Andrews to stay healthy? 653 00:31:26,040 --> 00:31:28,880 Speaker 3: That's as I say, I mean, because Andrews is who 654 00:31:28,920 --> 00:31:31,360 Speaker 3: we would bet to be the number one. Yeah, but 655 00:31:31,440 --> 00:31:34,320 Speaker 3: if he doesn't, it helps Likely's cause you know, so 656 00:31:34,360 --> 00:31:38,480 Speaker 3: that's crazy. I will say, you know, will likely be 657 00:31:38,560 --> 00:31:41,480 Speaker 3: in our fantasy league this year at any point. Yeah, 658 00:31:41,560 --> 00:31:42,640 Speaker 3: I think yes, yeah, yeah. 659 00:31:44,200 --> 00:31:51,800 Speaker 2: So with Andrews out from Week twelve on, Likely had 660 00:31:51,840 --> 00:31:54,240 Speaker 2: twenty one catches for three hundred and twenty two touchdowns 661 00:31:54,280 --> 00:31:57,840 Speaker 2: and five or three and twenty two yards and five touchdowns. 662 00:31:58,600 --> 00:31:59,920 Speaker 2: He went crazy in five games. 663 00:32:00,040 --> 00:32:00,520 Speaker 3: Five games. 664 00:32:00,520 --> 00:32:03,040 Speaker 2: I mean he won't four catches a game. I mean 665 00:32:03,040 --> 00:32:03,400 Speaker 2: it's not. 666 00:32:03,440 --> 00:32:05,960 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I remember a lot of big plays. I 667 00:32:05,960 --> 00:32:08,680 Speaker 3: mean that won't be the pace, but I bet he's 668 00:32:08,720 --> 00:32:11,680 Speaker 3: the top three of the receiving pretty much anyway you 669 00:32:11,680 --> 00:32:12,000 Speaker 3: cut it. 670 00:32:12,280 --> 00:32:15,120 Speaker 2: I mean he's probably a better target than Sean Bateman. 671 00:32:15,280 --> 00:32:17,080 Speaker 3: Yeah, I think he gets more targets and Bateman. It's 672 00:32:17,080 --> 00:32:17,480 Speaker 3: all said and. 673 00:32:17,480 --> 00:32:19,600 Speaker 2: Downe and they don't you know, they're Derrick Henry's not 674 00:32:19,600 --> 00:32:19,840 Speaker 2: going to. 675 00:32:19,840 --> 00:32:20,320 Speaker 3: Be a factor. 676 00:32:20,440 --> 00:32:23,960 Speaker 2: No, no, no, their passing game is not It's okay, 677 00:32:24,080 --> 00:32:25,320 Speaker 2: it's not dynamic. 678 00:32:24,960 --> 00:32:27,080 Speaker 3: Right right right. I mean if your tight ends you're 679 00:32:27,120 --> 00:32:30,120 Speaker 3: number one, great, you better be a great tight end. 680 00:32:30,200 --> 00:32:31,840 Speaker 3: I think Andrews is a really good tight end. 681 00:32:31,840 --> 00:32:35,200 Speaker 2: I've seen a lot of rankings though that ranked Baltimore. 682 00:32:36,280 --> 00:32:39,560 Speaker 2: Baltimore's wide receivers higher than that that of the Steelers. 683 00:32:40,240 --> 00:32:44,080 Speaker 3: Okay, like I'd like to have Bateman, but Bateman's closer 684 00:32:44,120 --> 00:32:48,080 Speaker 3: to Jefferson than he is. Pickings and to take pickens over. 685 00:32:47,920 --> 00:32:51,440 Speaker 2: Flowers, I take pickens over flowers. Yeah, they're different styles. 686 00:32:51,760 --> 00:32:53,960 Speaker 3: I don't like. I mean, Aglars are three. Yeah, I 687 00:32:54,000 --> 00:32:56,200 Speaker 3: mean their their depth is bad. Yeah, I mean not 688 00:32:56,280 --> 00:32:59,040 Speaker 3: the Steelers are loaded. But I'll I'll take my chance 689 00:32:59,080 --> 00:33:00,000 Speaker 3: on Roman Wilson. Yeah. 690 00:33:00,000 --> 00:33:02,160 Speaker 2: I don't have a room. So oh this, you know 691 00:33:02,240 --> 00:33:04,160 Speaker 2: Roman Wilson, That Walker. 692 00:33:03,920 --> 00:33:05,880 Speaker 3: Dude, from North Carolina to me, won't be a very 693 00:33:05,880 --> 00:33:08,880 Speaker 3: good pros a later pick too. Yeah, they're not counting 694 00:33:08,880 --> 00:33:09,120 Speaker 3: on them. 695 00:33:09,520 --> 00:33:11,880 Speaker 2: But yeah, so, I mean they don't have a lot 696 00:33:11,880 --> 00:33:14,080 Speaker 2: of there's no dynamic pass catchers there. 697 00:33:14,080 --> 00:33:15,920 Speaker 3: They're tight ends to get featured. I mean, yeah, I 698 00:33:16,000 --> 00:33:19,000 Speaker 3: think that's the root of this whole prediction, right, I mean, 699 00:33:19,000 --> 00:33:20,480 Speaker 3: they're gonna throw ball in the middle of the field 700 00:33:20,520 --> 00:33:23,880 Speaker 3: like Lamar likes do and they should. Yeah, that's the 701 00:33:23,920 --> 00:33:24,800 Speaker 3: AFC Norse stuff. 702 00:33:24,800 --> 00:33:26,920 Speaker 2: We'll take a look at some of the other condictions, 703 00:33:26,920 --> 00:33:29,080 Speaker 2: see if there's anything crazy on there. 704 00:33:29,120 --> 00:33:31,040 Speaker 3: We do Browns, Yeah, we did the Browns. 705 00:33:31,520 --> 00:33:32,240 Speaker 2: That was Jerry Judy. 706 00:33:32,280 --> 00:33:35,640 Speaker 3: Oh Judy. Yeah, I couldn't remember jud j d Judy. Yeah, 707 00:33:35,720 --> 00:33:36,680 Speaker 3: that's what I agree with. 708 00:33:37,760 --> 00:33:39,840 Speaker 2: Anyways, we're gonna take a break. When we come back, 709 00:33:39,840 --> 00:33:41,760 Speaker 2: we'll look at some of these other predictions that Dan 710 00:33:41,800 --> 00:33:45,560 Speaker 2: Graziano put out there, see if we like any of 711 00:33:45,600 --> 00:33:48,040 Speaker 2: those or we don't. We'll do that right after this. 712 00:33:48,080 --> 00:33:50,320 Speaker 2: He is Matt Williamson. I am Dale Lolly. You're listening 713 00:33:50,320 --> 00:33:52,400 Speaker 2: to the Drive here on the Steelers Audio Network. 714 00:33:56,520 --> 00:33:59,880 Speaker 1: This is the Drive with Dale Lolly and Matt Williamson 715 00:34:00,240 --> 00:34:02,440 Speaker 1: on your twenty four to seven, home of the Black 716 00:34:02,480 --> 00:34:05,360 Speaker 1: and Gold Steelers Nation Radio. 717 00:34:09,160 --> 00:34:12,560 Speaker 2: Welcome back. I am Dale Lolly. He is the Matt 718 00:34:12,600 --> 00:34:15,720 Speaker 2: Williamson and we just took a look at the AFC 719 00:34:15,760 --> 00:34:19,400 Speaker 2: Norse predictions. Here from Dan Graziano, who's that one of 720 00:34:19,400 --> 00:34:21,680 Speaker 2: the NFL insiders on the ESPN. 721 00:34:22,080 --> 00:34:23,800 Speaker 3: I like these pushing the envelope a little. 722 00:34:23,880 --> 00:34:25,360 Speaker 2: Yes, I like this. 723 00:34:25,440 --> 00:34:27,000 Speaker 3: I like out there. 724 00:34:28,000 --> 00:34:29,360 Speaker 2: So we're gonna take a look now at some of 725 00:34:29,400 --> 00:34:31,480 Speaker 2: the the other stuff around the league, or see what 726 00:34:31,600 --> 00:34:35,239 Speaker 2: jumps out at me here. This first one really jumps out. 727 00:34:36,800 --> 00:34:41,480 Speaker 2: Don't be surprised if Dak Prescott actually does get a 728 00:34:41,520 --> 00:34:43,879 Speaker 2: contract extension before the end of the calendar year. 729 00:34:44,400 --> 00:34:47,680 Speaker 3: Wow, what's the end of the year? Okay, I don't 730 00:34:47,680 --> 00:34:51,200 Speaker 3: know what Dallas's policy is in season, but I would 731 00:34:51,239 --> 00:34:54,160 Speaker 3: imagine for the I bet they don't care. Just my hunch, 732 00:34:54,320 --> 00:34:57,520 Speaker 3: you know. Then maybe that happens once we get into 733 00:34:57,560 --> 00:35:01,000 Speaker 3: the year they start winning games. I can't imagine just 734 00:35:01,080 --> 00:35:02,120 Speaker 3: letting him be a free agent. 735 00:35:03,520 --> 00:35:07,200 Speaker 2: But and he points us out, Prescott has an historic 736 00:35:07,320 --> 00:35:10,319 Speaker 2: amount of leverage thanks to a contract that prohibits the 737 00:35:10,320 --> 00:35:13,200 Speaker 2: team from using a franchise or transition tag on him 738 00:35:13,480 --> 00:35:18,239 Speaker 2: after the season. There's also a forty point one dead 739 00:35:18,320 --> 00:35:21,840 Speaker 2: money salary cap hit that Dallas would absorb in twenty 740 00:35:21,880 --> 00:35:23,160 Speaker 2: twenty five if it lets him go. 741 00:35:23,800 --> 00:35:25,680 Speaker 3: Oh, I didn't realize that part of it. So there's 742 00:35:25,719 --> 00:35:26,520 Speaker 3: a negative fact. 743 00:35:26,640 --> 00:35:28,959 Speaker 2: So if he's not their quarterback next year, it cost 744 00:35:29,000 --> 00:35:30,160 Speaker 2: them forty million dollars and. 745 00:35:30,440 --> 00:35:33,000 Speaker 3: A quarterback and they don't have a quarterback. Yeah, yeah, wow. 746 00:35:34,800 --> 00:35:37,160 Speaker 3: I don't know what's a better option for them. I mean, 747 00:35:37,360 --> 00:35:39,680 Speaker 3: he's gonna be probably the highest paid quarterback in the league. 748 00:35:39,680 --> 00:35:41,840 Speaker 3: He's gonna get more than Cousins, you know, for example. 749 00:35:43,120 --> 00:35:44,160 Speaker 3: But I think that's the right move. 750 00:35:44,160 --> 00:35:47,760 Speaker 2: If hear that, Yeah, he said, whatever, whatever happens, expect 751 00:35:47,760 --> 00:35:50,000 Speaker 2: Prescott to become the highest paid player in the league 752 00:35:50,000 --> 00:35:52,520 Speaker 2: at more than fifty five million dollars a year. 753 00:35:52,800 --> 00:35:55,200 Speaker 3: I understand it. That's what the league's at. 754 00:35:55,360 --> 00:35:58,719 Speaker 2: But can Dallas afford to do that. They just gave 755 00:35:58,760 --> 00:36:01,239 Speaker 2: Ceedee Lamb big money. Michah Parsons is going to get 756 00:36:01,280 --> 00:36:01,760 Speaker 2: big money. 757 00:36:01,880 --> 00:36:05,960 Speaker 3: I know, I would have thought two of the three. Yeah, 758 00:36:06,320 --> 00:36:07,719 Speaker 3: I don't know like. 759 00:36:07,719 --> 00:36:10,200 Speaker 2: Trey Lance enough to turn it over to him. 760 00:36:10,840 --> 00:36:15,040 Speaker 3: He threw five picks the last preseason. I mean, he 761 00:36:15,080 --> 00:36:16,960 Speaker 3: has looked close to being ready, and they played him 762 00:36:16,960 --> 00:36:18,719 Speaker 3: a ton of preseason. He does not look close to 763 00:36:18,760 --> 00:36:23,040 Speaker 3: being ready. Yeah, I don't. I kind of thought that. 764 00:36:23,880 --> 00:36:27,040 Speaker 3: I guess I still do that. Dak is the one 765 00:36:27,080 --> 00:36:28,640 Speaker 3: that doesn't come back to the three. 766 00:36:29,680 --> 00:36:31,520 Speaker 2: It's just the biggest it's the biggest price tag. 767 00:36:31,560 --> 00:36:32,640 Speaker 3: It's the biggest price tag. 768 00:36:32,800 --> 00:36:34,480 Speaker 2: But it's also the most important. 769 00:36:34,080 --> 00:36:35,880 Speaker 3: Position I know. But he's the oldest. 770 00:36:36,080 --> 00:36:37,120 Speaker 2: He has the most leverage. 771 00:36:37,160 --> 00:36:40,200 Speaker 3: Joe too, that's the problem. Yeah, you can't. It's not 772 00:36:40,280 --> 00:36:41,680 Speaker 3: like Chase. If he could just. 773 00:36:41,680 --> 00:36:43,520 Speaker 2: Say then they could make him a big offer and 774 00:36:43,560 --> 00:36:45,520 Speaker 2: he could say, well, I want to see what's on 775 00:36:45,560 --> 00:36:46,200 Speaker 2: the open market. 776 00:36:46,280 --> 00:36:48,239 Speaker 3: Right, he has no urgency what he wrought for me 777 00:36:48,280 --> 00:36:48,799 Speaker 3: fifty five? 778 00:36:48,840 --> 00:36:49,560 Speaker 2: I want sixty. 779 00:36:49,640 --> 00:36:51,640 Speaker 3: That used to be like what if I get hurt? 780 00:36:52,000 --> 00:36:55,720 Speaker 3: Kirk Cousins blue Eye as a Killer got the same contract. 781 00:36:55,920 --> 00:36:59,240 Speaker 2: R Sean Watson hadn't played football in two years. Brown, 782 00:36:59,280 --> 00:37:00,400 Speaker 2: I'm just gonna play, right. 783 00:37:00,440 --> 00:37:02,520 Speaker 3: If you hit the open market, someone's gonna pay you. 784 00:37:02,640 --> 00:37:08,640 Speaker 2: Yeah, don't be surprised if Brian Robinson Junior and Austin 785 00:37:08,680 --> 00:37:12,680 Speaker 2: Ekeler combined to catch more than one hundred passes for Washington. 786 00:37:12,880 --> 00:37:17,760 Speaker 3: HM, HM, euro Lines bad. I don't remember Jayden Daniels 787 00:37:17,800 --> 00:37:19,600 Speaker 3: throwing a lot to running backs though. I mean he 788 00:37:19,640 --> 00:37:22,279 Speaker 3: had two first round receivers, right, That's how it hurts 789 00:37:22,320 --> 00:37:25,120 Speaker 3: that didn't right, But running quarterbacks usually don't. 790 00:37:25,400 --> 00:37:27,880 Speaker 2: Yeah. 791 00:37:28,040 --> 00:37:29,239 Speaker 3: I don't know where he's going with that one. 792 00:37:29,360 --> 00:37:32,239 Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean Eckler is a really good receiver to 793 00:37:32,320 --> 00:37:36,200 Speaker 2: be easy throws, get them up. Don't be surprised if 794 00:37:36,320 --> 00:37:39,279 Speaker 2: this is the year Jamison Williams becomes a star for 795 00:37:39,320 --> 00:37:39,840 Speaker 2: the Lions. 796 00:37:41,360 --> 00:37:44,000 Speaker 3: I'm not there on him. He was. I hesitate to 797 00:37:44,040 --> 00:37:46,239 Speaker 3: say this because it makes me look bad. He was 798 00:37:46,239 --> 00:37:49,480 Speaker 3: my favorite receiver in that draft. Mine too, and he's 799 00:37:49,640 --> 00:37:52,480 Speaker 3: not close to a lave Wilson London. I might have 800 00:37:52,520 --> 00:37:55,040 Speaker 3: had Wilson, ahad him. I can't I hit him number one, 801 00:37:55,080 --> 00:37:56,640 Speaker 3: but it was close, but he was one. 802 00:37:56,640 --> 00:37:59,200 Speaker 2: I had him, and Williams and Wilson were really close. 803 00:37:59,320 --> 00:38:02,760 Speaker 3: I love remember toughness he played on special teams. Yeah, speed, 804 00:38:03,840 --> 00:38:06,640 Speaker 3: He has not impressed me in the league, but buzz 805 00:38:06,719 --> 00:38:07,040 Speaker 3: is good. 806 00:38:09,239 --> 00:38:13,800 Speaker 2: Don't be surprised if Sam Darnald actually plays well. 807 00:38:14,000 --> 00:38:17,360 Speaker 3: I'm actually kind of expecting that. I really wish we 808 00:38:17,400 --> 00:38:21,919 Speaker 3: could have seen him fine well, yeah, okay, I think 809 00:38:21,960 --> 00:38:24,319 Speaker 3: he might. I would write it this way if I 810 00:38:24,440 --> 00:38:28,680 Speaker 3: was Dan Graziano. Don't be surprised if Sam Donald plays 811 00:38:28,719 --> 00:38:31,680 Speaker 3: well enough that another team makes there of them their 812 00:38:31,719 --> 00:38:35,040 Speaker 3: opening day starter next year. Okay, like the Raiders are 813 00:38:35,440 --> 00:38:37,640 Speaker 3: giants or yeah, you know what I mean, Like I 814 00:38:37,680 --> 00:38:38,960 Speaker 3: saw enough in Minnesota. 815 00:38:39,040 --> 00:38:40,480 Speaker 2: He's still only twenty seven years old. 816 00:38:40,560 --> 00:38:44,640 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I mean he's been bad and not accurate enough. 817 00:38:44,760 --> 00:38:48,400 Speaker 3: But boy, those Jets and Panther teams were off on fire, 818 00:38:48,640 --> 00:38:51,600 Speaker 3: you know, right bad, They just burning down the house. 819 00:38:52,800 --> 00:38:56,400 Speaker 2: Don't be surprised if Tyler Algier we talked about him before, 820 00:38:56,560 --> 00:38:59,600 Speaker 2: remains an annoyance to be Jean Robinson fantasy managers. 821 00:39:00,000 --> 00:39:02,640 Speaker 3: Good player, Yeah, I mean, he didn't do anything wrong. 822 00:39:02,719 --> 00:39:06,080 Speaker 3: He's a good player. Like people give Arthur Smith. 823 00:39:05,960 --> 00:39:07,920 Speaker 2: Seventeen hundred rushing yards the last two seasons. 824 00:39:08,040 --> 00:39:09,840 Speaker 3: Yeah right, they give him a hard time because you 825 00:39:09,840 --> 00:39:13,680 Speaker 3: didn't use Beijon enough. But Algiers jumping, you know, not 826 00:39:14,000 --> 00:39:15,200 Speaker 3: four point two of carry too. 827 00:39:15,400 --> 00:39:17,240 Speaker 2: You know, you don't be like having you got Jaleen 828 00:39:17,280 --> 00:39:19,120 Speaker 2: Warren and not using them. Yeah yeah, you know what 829 00:39:19,120 --> 00:39:19,560 Speaker 2: are you doing? 830 00:39:19,640 --> 00:39:21,520 Speaker 3: Yeah? And you're thinking big picture and you don't want 831 00:39:21,520 --> 00:39:25,200 Speaker 3: to overwork your rookie, and you know he could be annoying. 832 00:39:25,320 --> 00:39:26,359 Speaker 3: What if he's a goal line guy. 833 00:39:26,560 --> 00:39:31,080 Speaker 2: Yeah, don't be surprised if the Panthers set a record 834 00:39:31,120 --> 00:39:32,920 Speaker 2: for yards allowed in a single season. 835 00:39:33,000 --> 00:39:37,120 Speaker 3: Yards They might remember they picked up three. 836 00:39:38,560 --> 00:39:42,239 Speaker 2: Four cornerbacks, the best pass roshers in New York. I 837 00:39:42,239 --> 00:39:44,440 Speaker 2: mean who their good defensive players now? They Derrek Brown 838 00:39:44,520 --> 00:39:46,960 Speaker 2: and a bunch of you yuck. They'll get your Davian Clowney. 839 00:39:46,960 --> 00:39:47,399 Speaker 3: What are you talking? 840 00:39:47,440 --> 00:39:49,359 Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I'm sure he'll bring it up to maryl 841 00:39:49,440 --> 00:39:51,440 Speaker 2: next Thursday. I'm sure he'll try as hard on the 842 00:39:51,480 --> 00:39:56,200 Speaker 2: worst team in the league as he did with the Ravens. Uh, 843 00:39:58,600 --> 00:40:01,799 Speaker 2: don't be surprised if if the Rams defense is just 844 00:40:01,920 --> 00:40:04,560 Speaker 2: fine without Aaron Donald. 845 00:40:04,280 --> 00:40:05,840 Speaker 3: I'll be surprised. I'll be shocked. 846 00:40:06,160 --> 00:40:10,120 Speaker 2: They they just trade their inside linebacker to the Titans. 847 00:40:11,520 --> 00:40:15,600 Speaker 3: The national thought that the D line's going to be good, Oh, 848 00:40:15,800 --> 00:40:18,280 Speaker 3: because they drafted these guys in the last two years, 849 00:40:18,719 --> 00:40:20,400 Speaker 3: Like the rookies were good last year. Those two that 850 00:40:20,440 --> 00:40:22,919 Speaker 3: they've both acted and their first two picks were d linemen. 851 00:40:23,920 --> 00:40:27,719 Speaker 3: That's the best DEFENSEI attackle I've ever seen. It matters, man, 852 00:40:28,120 --> 00:40:29,680 Speaker 3: they were good with him out there. 853 00:40:29,520 --> 00:40:31,840 Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, they had there's no pressure on them because 854 00:40:31,840 --> 00:40:33,360 Speaker 2: he took all the pressure off of them. 855 00:40:33,160 --> 00:40:35,040 Speaker 3: And they've added a few pieces. I mean, it's not 856 00:40:35,080 --> 00:40:36,959 Speaker 3: the total no name defense it was a year ago. 857 00:40:37,040 --> 00:40:39,560 Speaker 3: But I don't think it's going to be good. 858 00:40:40,840 --> 00:40:45,000 Speaker 2: Don't be surprised if Trent Williams misses regular season games 859 00:40:45,040 --> 00:40:45,880 Speaker 2: over his contract. 860 00:40:45,880 --> 00:40:48,719 Speaker 3: He seems pretty entrenched. He's he's thirty six years old. 861 00:40:49,000 --> 00:40:50,959 Speaker 3: He's just like, I'm good. I think he's been paying 862 00:40:51,000 --> 00:40:53,440 Speaker 3: fines like crazy and doesn't care. I don't care one bit. 863 00:40:53,520 --> 00:40:56,200 Speaker 3: I got all the money in the world. They need me. 864 00:40:56,280 --> 00:40:59,319 Speaker 2: If he doesn't go back, yeah, does he not have 865 00:40:59,360 --> 00:41:01,879 Speaker 2: to pay the fine? I don't know if he never 866 00:41:01,920 --> 00:41:04,600 Speaker 2: plays another Yeah, what if he just says now I'm retired. 867 00:41:04,640 --> 00:41:06,399 Speaker 3: I'm pretty happy. I'll go to the Hall of Fame five years. 868 00:41:06,440 --> 00:41:07,600 Speaker 3: I'm happy. 869 00:41:09,000 --> 00:41:13,480 Speaker 2: Or it could go really badly for San Francisco and 870 00:41:13,520 --> 00:41:15,319 Speaker 2: then he's got him over a barrel, like, no. 871 00:41:15,280 --> 00:41:17,920 Speaker 3: You need me. It's all good to think it's getting there. 872 00:41:18,000 --> 00:41:26,200 Speaker 2: Yeah, don't be surprised if Jalm Waddle has more catches 873 00:41:26,239 --> 00:41:27,799 Speaker 2: this season than Tyreek Hill. 874 00:41:27,880 --> 00:41:33,360 Speaker 3: Oh, that would surprise me. But Waddle's going to be 875 00:41:33,400 --> 00:41:34,799 Speaker 3: on some of my fantasy teams. I mean, I think 876 00:41:34,840 --> 00:41:37,799 Speaker 3: he's a really, really good player. But if you study them, 877 00:41:37,840 --> 00:41:40,600 Speaker 3: I've men just before he does the harder stuff. I mean, 878 00:41:40,640 --> 00:41:44,960 Speaker 3: they scheme up Hill more. Yeah, and just because he's special. 879 00:41:46,320 --> 00:41:50,440 Speaker 2: Don't be surprised if the Patriots have the number one 880 00:41:50,480 --> 00:41:52,239 Speaker 2: overall pick in next year's draft. That would not be 881 00:41:52,520 --> 00:41:54,879 Speaker 2: I would not be shocked at all. In fact, that's 882 00:41:54,920 --> 00:41:55,640 Speaker 2: what I expect to say. 883 00:41:55,640 --> 00:42:00,000 Speaker 3: Are they gonna be your pick over Carolina Washington? Yeah? 884 00:42:00,719 --> 00:42:01,200 Speaker 3: I think so. 885 00:42:01,920 --> 00:42:04,040 Speaker 2: Yeah, because all the other teams in their division are 886 00:42:04,080 --> 00:42:06,799 Speaker 2: actually their scheduled so much harder to right, I mean 887 00:42:06,800 --> 00:42:07,040 Speaker 2: they're not. 888 00:42:07,080 --> 00:42:09,239 Speaker 3: They're gonna be hing sixth in division probably, and right 889 00:42:09,800 --> 00:42:14,120 Speaker 3: Beelochick's a good coach, But I think that's not crazy 890 00:42:14,160 --> 00:42:16,240 Speaker 3: to say. 891 00:42:17,480 --> 00:42:22,360 Speaker 2: Uh, don't be surprised if Jonathan Taylor wins Offensive Player 892 00:42:22,360 --> 00:42:22,759 Speaker 2: of the Year. 893 00:42:23,960 --> 00:42:28,000 Speaker 3: I think he's a dynamic player. And fantasy is not 894 00:42:28,040 --> 00:42:31,280 Speaker 3: the same as reality. I mean, that's a two headed monster. 895 00:42:33,400 --> 00:42:36,560 Speaker 3: I get my podcast confused. I apologize, but I was 896 00:42:36,640 --> 00:42:38,759 Speaker 3: asked yesterday. I don't think you and I talked about 897 00:42:38,800 --> 00:42:43,600 Speaker 3: this is who are better running tandem? Lamar and Henry 898 00:42:44,000 --> 00:42:45,160 Speaker 3: or Richardson and Taylor. 899 00:42:46,520 --> 00:42:49,359 Speaker 2: I got to go Lamar and Henry because I've never 900 00:42:49,360 --> 00:42:51,479 Speaker 2: seen Richardson do it for full full game. 901 00:42:52,239 --> 00:42:54,280 Speaker 3: I went for different reasons, just because they're so different. 902 00:42:54,280 --> 00:42:56,480 Speaker 3: That is why I went for the Ravens. Like Taylor 903 00:42:56,520 --> 00:42:58,840 Speaker 3: and Richardson have semi close style. 904 00:42:59,080 --> 00:43:01,360 Speaker 2: Richardson has to show me he can stay healthy for 905 00:43:01,400 --> 00:43:03,160 Speaker 2: a fun I know, like you say this about Jayden 906 00:43:03,200 --> 00:43:05,399 Speaker 2: Daniels all the time, Well, he's going to get hurt. Well, 907 00:43:05,440 --> 00:43:07,200 Speaker 2: I know Richardson is going to get hurt because he 908 00:43:07,200 --> 00:43:08,879 Speaker 2: did it multiple times last year. 909 00:43:08,920 --> 00:43:12,000 Speaker 3: I mean, he's their ability. He certainly worries me, but 910 00:43:12,080 --> 00:43:14,720 Speaker 3: he's a great runner. I mean sixty. 911 00:43:14,800 --> 00:43:16,400 Speaker 2: He's not Lamar though. 912 00:43:16,840 --> 00:43:19,879 Speaker 3: No, No, that's why I took the Ravens to Derick 913 00:43:19,920 --> 00:43:24,359 Speaker 3: Henry Henry. I mean that is a thunder lightning. That's rare. Yeah. Yeah, 914 00:43:24,520 --> 00:43:27,720 Speaker 3: I didn't hesitate much. But I think Taylor's the point here. 915 00:43:28,360 --> 00:43:30,200 Speaker 3: Taylor's one of the best ball carriers on the planet 916 00:43:30,239 --> 00:43:32,080 Speaker 3: right now. To me, yeah, I mean he could be 917 00:43:32,120 --> 00:43:34,680 Speaker 3: as good as Nick Chubb was or in that neighborhood 918 00:43:34,680 --> 00:43:37,120 Speaker 3: at least. I don't know the numbers are reflected. 919 00:43:38,440 --> 00:43:42,120 Speaker 2: Don't be surprised if JK. Dobbins is the Chargers leading 920 00:43:42,200 --> 00:43:44,080 Speaker 2: running back by seas. 921 00:43:44,200 --> 00:43:47,200 Speaker 3: Wouldn't shock me. Yeah, you know, he's their best guy. 922 00:43:48,239 --> 00:43:49,240 Speaker 3: Needs to stay healthy too. 923 00:43:49,200 --> 00:43:51,840 Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I I the last image I have 924 00:43:51,920 --> 00:43:53,600 Speaker 2: of him is running like he has a. 925 00:43:53,680 --> 00:43:56,120 Speaker 3: Uh yeah, but a little gideop, Yeah, a little hit. 926 00:43:56,080 --> 00:43:59,800 Speaker 2: A couple of bricks in his back pocket all count Yeah. 927 00:44:00,320 --> 00:44:02,320 Speaker 3: But so no, he's their best player. 928 00:44:02,920 --> 00:44:08,640 Speaker 2: Yeah, don't be surprised if Isaiah Pacheco has his first 929 00:44:08,680 --> 00:44:10,160 Speaker 2: one thousand yard rushing season. 930 00:44:10,760 --> 00:44:14,040 Speaker 3: Done that yet, Yeah, he'll get there. I mean if 931 00:44:14,040 --> 00:44:16,000 Speaker 3: he plays seven game yeah, it's not the thing. If 932 00:44:16,000 --> 00:44:17,399 Speaker 3: he plays seventeen, he'll get there with. 933 00:44:17,360 --> 00:44:18,880 Speaker 2: His running style. Can he stay healthy? 934 00:44:18,920 --> 00:44:21,160 Speaker 3: That's the scares the heck out of me? Right, But 935 00:44:21,200 --> 00:44:22,799 Speaker 3: he'll average enough I bet per. 936 00:44:22,719 --> 00:44:24,319 Speaker 2: Game Tasmanian devil. 937 00:44:24,920 --> 00:44:29,840 Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, but no, I don't think that's a crazy prediction. 938 00:44:30,000 --> 00:44:31,080 Speaker 3: Of all the ones he's mentioned. 939 00:44:31,760 --> 00:44:35,200 Speaker 2: Uh, one more, don't be surprised if Patrick certained the 940 00:44:35,280 --> 00:44:38,200 Speaker 2: second becomes the league's highest paid defensive back. 941 00:44:39,280 --> 00:44:43,040 Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, Antoine Winfield is right now, certain's worth 942 00:44:43,040 --> 00:44:45,600 Speaker 3: more to me than him his cornerback. He's a corner Yeah. 943 00:44:46,400 --> 00:44:50,000 Speaker 3: Will it be with Denver? That's a good question. Like 944 00:44:50,080 --> 00:44:54,160 Speaker 3: I mean, at the trade deadline. If they're saying, would 945 00:44:54,160 --> 00:44:56,239 Speaker 3: I rather turn this guy into a first round pick 946 00:44:56,320 --> 00:44:59,080 Speaker 3: plus or make him the highest paid defensive back in 947 00:44:59,120 --> 00:45:00,799 Speaker 3: the league. And we have been won't We've won one 948 00:45:00,840 --> 00:45:02,000 Speaker 3: game at the trade deadline. 949 00:45:02,080 --> 00:45:05,960 Speaker 2: I think he's still like twenty five though, Like he's 950 00:45:06,000 --> 00:45:07,400 Speaker 2: still young. 951 00:45:07,600 --> 00:45:10,800 Speaker 3: Oh, he's young. I mean he's very very valuable. Yeah, 952 00:45:11,000 --> 00:45:12,319 Speaker 3: like Sauce isn't up. 953 00:45:12,360 --> 00:45:14,520 Speaker 2: Yeah, when people were talking about the Steelers and he's 954 00:45:14,520 --> 00:45:18,000 Speaker 2: twenty four, when people, well, Steeler should trade for Patrick's Fortan. Like, 955 00:45:19,800 --> 00:45:22,520 Speaker 2: if I'm Denver, I want to first and maybe a 956 00:45:22,560 --> 00:45:25,240 Speaker 2: third or something like that. Yeah, yeah, like giving him away. 957 00:45:25,840 --> 00:45:27,400 Speaker 2: I mean I might give you next year's first right 958 00:45:27,440 --> 00:45:30,680 Speaker 2: now for Tan. I mean if I'm any team, Yeah, 959 00:45:30,680 --> 00:45:32,759 Speaker 2: I'm not necessarily talk about Steeler. If from Denver, I 960 00:45:32,800 --> 00:45:33,160 Speaker 2: want two. 961 00:45:33,400 --> 00:45:37,480 Speaker 3: Yeah. I say he's a super valuable piece. To Dan's points, 962 00:45:37,920 --> 00:45:40,239 Speaker 3: he's probably the most valuable defensive back in the league 963 00:45:40,320 --> 00:45:40,640 Speaker 3: right now. 964 00:45:40,680 --> 00:45:42,640 Speaker 2: And he just happens to be up at this point. 965 00:45:42,840 --> 00:45:45,560 Speaker 3: Yeah, Sauce might be, but you can't pay him not Yeah, 966 00:45:45,760 --> 00:45:48,359 Speaker 3: make that happen, so yeah he should be. Yeah, if 967 00:45:48,360 --> 00:45:49,759 Speaker 3: I was his agent, I would say I want to 968 00:45:49,800 --> 00:45:54,160 Speaker 3: be the richest defensive back ever and people someone will say. 969 00:45:54,000 --> 00:45:57,600 Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, if it's not Denver, somebody else will for him. 970 00:45:57,480 --> 00:46:00,439 Speaker 3: And yeah yeah. If Denver disagrees with that and says, well, 971 00:46:00,520 --> 00:46:03,160 Speaker 3: we're gonna trade this asset because we need so many things, 972 00:46:03,880 --> 00:46:05,280 Speaker 3: that's you. I think we got the tradable. 973 00:46:05,640 --> 00:46:10,759 Speaker 2: But Adam Ryank has them in the playoffs. Oh yeah, yeah, 974 00:46:11,000 --> 00:46:11,839 Speaker 2: so they don't need anything. 975 00:46:11,880 --> 00:46:15,800 Speaker 3: They're good roster. He should be a building block for them. Yeah, 976 00:46:15,840 --> 00:46:18,080 Speaker 3: but if I can turn him into four starters that 977 00:46:18,120 --> 00:46:20,439 Speaker 3: are cheaper, that's the key. That's the thing, right, they're 978 00:46:20,480 --> 00:46:21,239 Speaker 3: all all young. 979 00:46:21,520 --> 00:46:26,319 Speaker 2: Maybe, yeah, that's Stan Graziano's. Don't be surprised if that's 980 00:46:26,320 --> 00:46:27,560 Speaker 2: pretty good. There's some good ones in there. 981 00:46:27,600 --> 00:46:31,799 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I like that. I like that little and 982 00:46:31,840 --> 00:46:34,080 Speaker 3: they're not crazy. Naug you can get to fifteen hundred. 983 00:46:34,280 --> 00:46:37,759 Speaker 2: Yeah, it could happen. It could happen for sure. But 984 00:46:38,600 --> 00:46:40,360 Speaker 2: that's going to do it for our show. Today tomorrow 985 00:46:40,600 --> 00:46:43,080 Speaker 2: is going to be all about our predictions. Okay, about 986 00:46:43,080 --> 00:46:45,439 Speaker 2: what's going to happen this season, Matt and now will 987 00:46:45,440 --> 00:46:46,759 Speaker 2: give that to you. We'll be bringing that to you 988 00:46:46,840 --> 00:46:48,440 Speaker 2: that way, you'll have it all weekend to kind of 989 00:46:48,440 --> 00:46:49,040 Speaker 2: digest there. 990 00:46:49,040 --> 00:46:51,759 Speaker 3: For the holiday weekend. Yeah, on Monday. 991 00:46:52,560 --> 00:46:55,840 Speaker 2: So don't go hitting us up on Twitter asking where's 992 00:46:55,840 --> 00:46:56,520 Speaker 2: the Monday show? 993 00:46:56,840 --> 00:46:58,000 Speaker 3: There wasn't one, won't one. 994 00:46:58,520 --> 00:47:00,600 Speaker 2: We're gonna take a holiday off and then hit the 995 00:47:00,640 --> 00:47:01,880 Speaker 2: ground running for the whole season. 996 00:47:02,000 --> 00:47:04,439 Speaker 3: Then it's weak. I mean it's game week. I mean yeah, yeah, 997 00:47:04,440 --> 00:47:06,319 Speaker 3: we got a week week from today. There is a 998 00:47:06,400 --> 00:47:07,279 Speaker 3: show the game. 999 00:47:07,440 --> 00:47:10,760 Speaker 2: Absolutely, yeah, week from week from today. 1000 00:47:10,840 --> 00:47:11,680 Speaker 3: Yeah, awesome. 1001 00:47:11,880 --> 00:47:14,279 Speaker 2: Raven chiefs, Raven chief How great is that gonna be 1002 00:47:14,360 --> 00:47:15,920 Speaker 2: a fantastic greatly? 1003 00:47:15,960 --> 00:47:17,600 Speaker 3: I mean the first game is always awesome, but it's here, 1004 00:47:17,640 --> 00:47:18,800 Speaker 3: it's like almost here. Yeah. 1005 00:47:18,800 --> 00:47:21,520 Speaker 2: Absolutely, But uh for my partner Matt Williamson, for Justin 1006 00:47:21,560 --> 00:47:24,359 Speaker 2: Miller here on site keeping us on the air, I 1007 00:47:24,400 --> 00:47:26,759 Speaker 2: am Dale Lollie. We thank you for listening to this 1008 00:47:26,920 --> 00:47:29,160 Speaker 2: edition of the Drive on the Steelers Audio Network.