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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Drive. I'm Dale Lilli here with Matt Williamson.

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Speaker 1: It's Friday Play, Sunday Night. Sunday Night Football, Baby, Monday

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Speaker 1: Night Football. I get you juices flowing a little bit,

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Speaker 1: a little bit. I mean, it looked better on the schedule,

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Speaker 1: I'm sure to the non Steeler Seahawks fans or even

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Speaker 1: the Steeler and Seahawks fans than original and you look

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Speaker 1: like a marquee matchup. But I think it's a great

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Speaker 1: situation for Pittsburgh in particular. One they can't pass up,

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Speaker 1: that's for sure. Or let's slip away and might be

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Speaker 1: kind of a part two of the get Right games,

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Speaker 1: you know, Yeah, yeah, we'll see you know how this

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Speaker 1: all goes down. But um, you know, this is an

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Speaker 1: opportunity for the Steelers to get the three and three

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Speaker 1: m It's an opportunity to uh get into their bye

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Speaker 1: week with some rest. Um. The Browns a little beaten up.

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Speaker 1: Browns are a little beaten up. Absolutely, division is in

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Speaker 1: a weird spot right now. Browns have a really tough

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Speaker 1: game coming up. And I think what you're alluding to

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Speaker 1: is Nick Chubb's out for that one. We just found

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Speaker 1: that out Ravens have a really tough game coming up,

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Speaker 1: and I think the Chargers win that one, but we'll see.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I mean, I don't want to say the

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Speaker 1: Ravens are a fraud, and I still think they're a

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Speaker 1: good team. Right. They're not a four and one team.

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Speaker 1: They're not. They're not on level with They've gotten some bounces. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: they're a lot closer to being a three and three

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Speaker 1: two and you know two or three and two two

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Speaker 1: and three team than they are. I mean, I think

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Speaker 1: the Chargers, if you were to do a power ranking now,

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Speaker 1: are clearly better than the Ravens. I mean, I don't

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Speaker 1: care what the records are, just what they put out

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Speaker 1: onto the field week after week began credit. They found

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Speaker 1: a way to way and I'm not hacking on the

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Speaker 1: Ravens in any way. And I wonder where the Bengals

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Speaker 1: are at, you know, I mean, can they keep it

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Speaker 1: rolling and stay very relevant? I think they can. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think they should win. I mean, this is the game,

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Speaker 1: but the Lions have played everybody tough. They just haven't

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Speaker 1: bite you down to the end. They're the whole way

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Speaker 1: long line. So the division and even the conference are

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Speaker 1: really shaping up. And getting pretty interesting. But this is

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Speaker 1: a big game for the Steelers, and don't I assume

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Speaker 1: Steer Nations should not be taking it lightly like, oh,

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Speaker 1: they'll just roll out there and win, like Stewards aren't

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Speaker 1: at that point that they can just roll it out

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Speaker 1: and win against anybody quite yet. Yeah, I agree. Um,

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Speaker 1: you know, we'll see how this all plays out. Obviously, Uh,

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Speaker 1: the Seahawks will not have Russell Wilson for this game.

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Speaker 1: He was actually listed as as a limited participant in

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Speaker 1: their practice yesterday. He was just out there running around

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Speaker 1: and you know he can do that. He's got a

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Speaker 1: broken finger or whatever. It's not like he's out there

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Speaker 1: throwing the football. But DK Metcalf was was on the

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Speaker 1: injury list. He was limited on Wednesday, didn't practice on Thursday.

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Speaker 1: Chris Carson didn't practice yesterday. That this this is They're

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Speaker 1: not in a good place. No, I mean, they just

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Speaker 1: really aren't. I mean, I know, I'm a big strength

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Speaker 1: of scheduled guy, and I mean I'll be the first

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Speaker 1: to admit that this game looks a lot different on

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Speaker 1: paper in July and August than how it's gonna come before.

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Speaker 1: I mean, again, it was it was the game everybody

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Speaker 1: was talking about in the spring when they added that

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Speaker 1: seventeen team. Oh my god, the Steelers have to play

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Speaker 1: the Seahawks. How's it looks now? I'd rather play them

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Speaker 1: than anyone else in the West, absolutely, because you're one

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Speaker 1: extra game. Um again, can't take them lightly, you know that.

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Speaker 1: But DK Metcalf is a big one. I mean, if

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Speaker 1: you tell me on on Monday Steelers lost, but you

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Speaker 1: didn't see the game at what happened, I'd be like, well,

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Speaker 1: Metcalf probably got behind him for one or two or

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Speaker 1: you know, something like that happened, or special teams, not

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Speaker 1: even him get necessarily getting behind you. It's just him

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Speaker 1: overpowering your defensive back. Yea, yeah, yeah, because he's he's

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Speaker 1: a six fourth. He's what you want Chase Claypool to become,

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Speaker 1: exactly exactly. And it's a small little sample size because

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Speaker 1: Gino Smith basically played a half, but he really went

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Speaker 1: DK's way, you know, and Wilson prefers lock it, which

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Speaker 1: makes perfect sense. They've been playing together much longer. They

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Speaker 1: have a real symmetry going. Not that Wilson doesn't go

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Speaker 1: both directions, but it looks like Metcalf will probably lead

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Speaker 1: the team in targets just a hunch, And I mean,

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Speaker 1: if you're a quarterback stepping into a game like that

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Speaker 1: off cough the bench, why wouldn't you throw it that way?

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Speaker 1: Of course? Right, I'm looking at nothing against Locket. Lock

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Speaker 1: he's looking his cornerback in the eye. And I look

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Speaker 1: over here and here's Metcalfee's who's you know, twisted steal

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Speaker 1: you know, eight inches taller. I'm throwing that way? Yeah, absolutely, Um. Again,

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Speaker 1: the big plays on the Seattle offense would worry me

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Speaker 1: a little bit, especially against the corners that but the

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Speaker 1: Steels corners are healthier that have have allowed some big plays.

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Speaker 1: Carson being in or out doesn't change my doesn't move

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Speaker 1: the needle a lot. But he's better than Collins, you know,

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Speaker 1: assuming he's himself. I mean, I assume they'll try to

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Speaker 1: lean on him. Collins running style dress me nuts. They

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Speaker 1: always talked about him being the river dance Do you

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Speaker 1: remember that he was the river dance guy. His feet

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Speaker 1: are constantly moving and like, even if he's not going

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Speaker 1: to be there going anywhere, Yeah, a little left right

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Speaker 1: picks him up high and yeah he does have an

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Speaker 1: odd style to him, and he's just a guy, you know.

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Speaker 1: I mean, he's okay, you know, but he's been around

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Speaker 1: the block too. He's kind of like Gino's. Yeah. I mean,

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Speaker 1: if you were going to rank Gino Smith as a backup,

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Speaker 1: I can't remember. He wasn't on those lists I put

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Speaker 1: right in the middle that we had earlier. And he

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Speaker 1: just hasn't played, hasn't played and pursued. And I had

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Speaker 1: a good conversation with Merril Hodges last night and he

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Speaker 1: brought a good point about Geno that probably will make

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Speaker 1: people feel better. I mean, he does have a pretty

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Speaker 1: long history. So the question I asked Meryl was like,

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Speaker 1: if you're preparing for Gino, is he a bit of

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Speaker 1: an unknown? How do you go about doing that? And

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Speaker 1: Meryl was like, I think he's a known. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I think the book has been written and he's like man,

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Speaker 1: I studied him at West Virginia. I studied him his

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Speaker 1: first couple of years, and I don't think he's any

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Speaker 1: different now. Like he didn't say it exactly in these

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Speaker 1: words because it's kind of offensive. I'm not offensive, but

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Speaker 1: it's like when the going gets tough, Gino kind of crumbles,

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Speaker 1: you know, like he's kind of a fair weather quarterback.

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Speaker 1: You don't think you like Jamis Jamis Winston went to

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Speaker 1: New Orleans so he could learn behind Drew Brees. You

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Speaker 1: don't think Gino Smith in a year and now a

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Speaker 1: little bit more about I mean, he's been a backup

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Speaker 1: was like, I don't exactly know what this guy is

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Speaker 1: little bit of preseason here and there, a couple of

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Speaker 1: different stops. But again, Merrill thought when he handed, when

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Speaker 1: he's under pressure, he kind of crumbles. The big down

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Speaker 1: and distant situations aren't his best friends with when the

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Speaker 1: coverages are a little different, or when it matters most

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Speaker 1: you know, his West Virginia production. And I'm not cutting

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Speaker 1: on the Mountaineers, there's yeah, I'm fairly anyway. A lot

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Speaker 1: he's got tools and he's been around the block, so

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Speaker 1: he can hurt you. Yeah, you can't make mistakes. You

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Speaker 1: play your you know, play your defense. Um, I think

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Speaker 1: make a Fitzpatrick gets an interception this week wouldn't surprise me.

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Speaker 1: I think both quote unquote star safeties kind of change

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Speaker 1: things up this week about from what they have been doing.

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Speaker 1: Adams is blitz thirteen times this year. He had blitzed

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Speaker 1: over ninety times all of last season. He has no sacks,

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Speaker 1: and he has no quarterback hits. Not only was either

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Speaker 1: best blitzer last year, I think he was the flat

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Speaker 1: out best pass Russia. Yes, so they haven't done that

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Speaker 1: with him. The Steelers have had to make it Fitzpatrick

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Speaker 1: down covering guys more instead of playing more center field.

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Speaker 1: I think against Lockett and Metcalf, you play more center field,

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Speaker 1: allow everybody else to do their job. You can't can't

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Speaker 1: let him get you know, take the top off in

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Speaker 1: this situation. So I think, you know, so I think

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Speaker 1: the Seahawks go the other way. They bring Adams down

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Speaker 1: in the box and say, okay, Steelers go ahead and

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Speaker 1: obviously you know the night and day, well the two

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Speaker 1: players or day I've just been the two situations. The

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Speaker 1: Seahawks corners are so bad though, you know, that's why

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Speaker 1: they're playing atoms out of out of position. And okay,

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Speaker 1: digs can be the top over the top guy, that's fine,

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Speaker 1: but they need more help than that because their corners

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Speaker 1: that extensively yesterday, which makes no sense, especially when you

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Speaker 1: consider what you've invested in the guy um and with

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Speaker 1: ten days to prepare, you gotta think. Pete Carroll's like,

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Speaker 1: we got to do something different. Guys, this isn't work. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: and everyone recognizes that. I don't know. I mean, obviously

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Speaker 1: you bring him down to stop help stop the run

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Speaker 1: a little bit. They're playing more of a bare front

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Speaker 1: though this year like a lot of um, which hasn't

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Speaker 1: really hasn't helped. Yeah, that hasn't helped either, right, I mean,

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Speaker 1: here's my interpretation what they were doing is there. They

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Speaker 1: I don't know, but last year kJ Wright, and he's

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Speaker 1: done this a lot throughout his career, even in the

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Speaker 1: Legion of Boom days, would come play over the tight end.

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Speaker 1: He's a two forty pounds six three linebacker. But he's

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Speaker 1: not an edge pass rusher. He's an edge center. He's

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Speaker 1: good and you know, coverage, you would man up on

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Speaker 1: kg right doing that. They're not gonna bring him back.

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Speaker 1: They want more of a defensive end three or four

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Speaker 1: outside linebacker doing that. Okay, I guess that makes sense

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Speaker 1: on paper, and put go five across five. Biggs will

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Speaker 1: kind of like the Steelers do. But then they drop

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Speaker 1: in coverage all the time. You know, like, what are

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Speaker 1: we doing here? Yeah, doesn't make a lot of sense.

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Speaker 1: I don't know what the plan is. Yeah, I mean,

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Speaker 1: it doesn't looked like you've had one. And that's what

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Speaker 1: worries me is maybe they'll come up with one on

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Speaker 1: this ten days rest, treat it like a mini by,

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Speaker 1: do some serious self scout and be like, maybe it

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Speaker 1: isn't what we do well, but we gotta do something different.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I think any coach is gonna at least

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Speaker 1: change it up. And you know, Wagoner is a good player,

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Speaker 1: and the defensive front isn't bad. It's just not star

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Speaker 1: studded the corners or the real area of concern. I mean,

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Speaker 1: it's a bad group. Yeah, yeah, I mean they just

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Speaker 1: don't cover anybody Steelers have. The Seahawks have an advantage

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Speaker 1: with with Lockett and Metcalf on the field. They're they're

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Speaker 1: very good, without question. I think the Steelers might have

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Speaker 1: cornerbacks are that bad. Yeah, I think you're right. Like

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Speaker 1: if Steelers receivers minus Seattle corners is greater than Metcalf

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Speaker 1: and Lockett minus Steelers corners, you know that there's the

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