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Speaker 1: Welcome back. I'm Dale Ali.

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Speaker 2: He is Matt Williamson, and this is the drive on

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Speaker 2: Steelers Nation Radio. And as I mentioned going into the

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Speaker 2: break there, Bill Barmeoell on ESPN ranked the weapons for

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Speaker 2: each team in the NFL one through thirty two, and

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Speaker 2: this is offensive weapons. Obviously we've done some similar stuff

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Speaker 2: to this, but this is a different little take on

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Speaker 2: it because he says, here are the caveats that he

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Speaker 2: used here, and I'm just going to read off the

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Speaker 2: things that he has in bold here. This is only

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Speaker 2: about on field performance for the twenty twenty three season.

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Speaker 1: Okay, First of.

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Speaker 3: All, sure, we're not you know, boy, I love this.

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Speaker 3: I think Jason Smith and Jigma is going to be

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Speaker 3: great or you know, I'll get you now right, I

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Speaker 3: get it.

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Speaker 2: Okay, cool, Injury history and suspensions matter. Okay, So for example,

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Speaker 2: you know, it's only really, as he says here, it's

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Speaker 2: only realistic to project Michael Thomas to miss more time

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Speaker 2: than Travis Kelcey.

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Speaker 3: Sure, or hey, Jamison Williams is already missing time with

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Speaker 3: I can't get them seventeen games worth of credit here.

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Speaker 1: Right.

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Speaker 2: Wide receivers are weighted more heavily than running backs or

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Speaker 2: tight ends.

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Speaker 1: And that's just where the NFL is at right now.

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Speaker 3: I said, I don't disagree with that. I give them

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Speaker 3: credit for that, while I think tight ends are vastly

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Speaker 3: underpaid and underrated receivers are getting paid for a reason,

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Speaker 3: they're getting paid huge.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: And then the final thing here is the focus is

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Speaker 2: on elite players in a team's top five contributors.

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Speaker 1: Okay, oh, he's got another one here.

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Speaker 2: Efficiency matters as well, so he's so he's looking at

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Speaker 2: yards yards per route run and target share, things of

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Speaker 2: that nature.

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Speaker 3: So at number Jackson types don't Yeah, you know, at.

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Speaker 2: Number thirty two, which is the same spot that they

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Speaker 2: were at when he did this in twenty twenty two

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Speaker 2: and in twenty twenty one.

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Speaker 1: Are the Houston Texans.

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Speaker 3: I mean they're bad, but they're getting better.

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Speaker 2: I mean, well, I mean the problem is, you know,

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Speaker 2: can you count on John Matchie?

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Speaker 1: You know some of these other Robert Woods is coming

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Speaker 1: off of a.

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Speaker 2: ACL you know, it's even Damian Pierce didn't have a

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Speaker 2: complete rookie season.

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Speaker 3: Like there's questions, Oh, there's definitely questions. I'm just saying,

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Speaker 3: I'm not sure that'd be thirty two for me. But yeah,

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Speaker 3: that's pretty bad. I mean they were I did a

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Speaker 3: thing on DVA offenses today and it was them and

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Speaker 3: the Colts were the distant worst two offenses by DVA.

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Speaker 3: And are the weapons noticeably better than that bad? I

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Speaker 3: like Nico Collins, but the answer is no.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Thirty one is the Carolina Panthers. They were eighteenth going

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Speaker 2: into last year. They were seventh going into twenty twenty one.

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Speaker 3: And Nam McCaffrey, who's part of the trade obviously.

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Speaker 1: Is DJ Moore, And you know, right right, right, right right,

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Speaker 1: it's pretty bad.

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Speaker 3: I mean, I think that offense is going to be

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Speaker 3: quite bad this year, to be very honest with you.

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Speaker 3: Is it worth it? Probably, but it's going to be

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Speaker 3: growing pays galore, and I think they need to heavily

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Speaker 3: invest in pass catchers go forward.

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Speaker 1: Thirty is the Arizona Cardinals.

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Speaker 2: They were fifteenth last year, eighteenth and twenty twenty one.

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Speaker 3: I mean, Connor's okay. I think Marquis Brown's a good player.

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Speaker 3: Rondel Moore is fine, you know, but they're bottom the

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Speaker 3: league too.

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Speaker 2: Many guys like Marquise Brown and Rondel Moore to me

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Speaker 2: are similar type players.

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Speaker 1: You know, small, you know, different styles. You know, Brown's

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Speaker 1: more than that.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, more down the field where Brown is gonna or

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Speaker 2: I'm sorry, Rondell Moore's going to catch stuff behind the

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Speaker 1: But it's just it's not a good offense.

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Speaker 3: It's not good offense. And they're both tiny, and you

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Speaker 3: know their tight ends might be okay, but pretty bad.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Twenty nine the Tennessee Titans. They were nineteenth. Last year

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Speaker 2: they were third and twenty twenty one.

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Speaker 3: I guess A J. Brown and Woods in his prime.

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Speaker 1: And yeah, got well Derrick Henry A J. Brown. Corey

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I didn't think about Henry Eve. I'm

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Speaker 3: thinking more pass cutchers. But now that's I guess Henry

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Speaker 3: still being there might keep them from thirty two.

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Speaker 1: I mean it's probably about all.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, because you know the receivers Nick Westbrook, A kidd A,

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Speaker 2: Kyle Phillips, it's just not good.

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Speaker 3: No, I mean Burt's is still very much a work

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Speaker 3: in progress.

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Speaker 1: Well, yeah, and they need him to be number one.

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Speaker 3: I think there's a chance Chig leads that team in receptions. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: that's not what you want.

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Speaker 2: Twenty eight they were eleventh and twenty twenty one, they

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Speaker 1: Last year, they're twenty eighth this year. The Green Bay Packers.

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Speaker 3: The youngest team in the league. This is a version

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Speaker 3: of a rebuild, but questions galore. I mean, I still

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Speaker 3: think Aaron Jones is a really good player, but the

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Speaker 3: other guys are all well.

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Speaker 2: See the average age of their wide receivers and tight

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Speaker 2: ends is twenty three point four.

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Speaker 1: Is it really?

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Speaker 3: I didn't read that. I just know that all over

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Speaker 3: their team they are the youngest team in the league.

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Speaker 1: They are super young.

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Speaker 2: At twenty seven they were sixteenth, and twenty twenty one thirtieth,

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Speaker 2: and twenty twenty two twenty seventh.

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Speaker 1: This year the Giants seems.

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Speaker 3: Rough on that. I mean, if you give Barkley and Waller.

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Speaker 2: But as he said, those aren't the premium positions. Who

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Speaker 2: are your wide receivers?

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Speaker 3: I know, I mean a bunch of slaw dudes. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: and it's not great, but it's better than what they've

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Speaker 3: played with last year, I guess, is my point?

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Speaker 1: Well, I mean he had them ranked thirtieth last year,

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Speaker 1: their twenty seventh now, so I guess he agrees.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, at twenty sixth, they were twenty seventh and twenty

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Speaker 2: twenty one. They were twenty sixth last year, so they

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Speaker 2: haven't done anything to improve their lot.

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Speaker 3: The Patriots, so their skill guys, I would say Ramandre

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Speaker 3: Stevenson's the only one that's an.

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Speaker 1: Above average starter, and he's a running back.

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Speaker 3: And he's a running back, right, Yeah, I like it,

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Speaker 3: but he's also not Christian McCaffery.

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Speaker 4: No.

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Speaker 1: Lower, they are bad.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's pretty bad.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, twenty five they were twenty eighth, and twenty twenty one,

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Speaker 1: The Colts.

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Speaker 3: I mean, I know we're gonna start talking about teams

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Speaker 3: that are quite strong. But I think Pittman's a really

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Speaker 3: good receiver. I think Taylor's a nearly elite running back,

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Speaker 2: Think I think Pittman would be a good solid. He'd

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Speaker 2: be a high end number two.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, he might be Steelers best receiver.

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Speaker 1: I don't think he's in the mix. I wouldn't go

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Speaker 2: He got ninety nine passes last year, but he averaged

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Speaker 2: nine point three yards to catch.

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Speaker 3: Their offense was almost unwatchable with Matt Ryan and then

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Speaker 3: Jeff's Saturday taken over, and I mentioned I did that

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Speaker 3: DVA stuff. They were thirty two.

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Speaker 2: I mean Pittman right, Pittman right now might be a

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Speaker 2: younger version of Juju.

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Speaker 3: I like him more than that.

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Speaker 1: I like Juju back in the day here to be.

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Speaker 1: You know that he's a guy that's he's not a

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Speaker 3: Yeah no, I mean he's a slant guy and you know,

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Speaker 3: contested catch dude.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: I like their tight end, Zo and I kind of

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Speaker 3: like Pierce, and I kind of like downs. I mean,

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Speaker 3: they're all question marks.

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Speaker 1: But they're twenty fifth in the league.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's tough competition.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, twenty fourth. They were seventeenth.

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Speaker 2: This team was seventeenth and twenty twenty one, fourteenth and

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Speaker 2: twenty twenty two. They're now twenty fourth Denver.

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Speaker 3: Okay. I mean I know running backs and don't carry

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Speaker 3: as much weight, but I would hold Javonte Williams injury

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Speaker 3: heavily against them. I think Doulchic is a fun, young

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Speaker 3: type end, and the receivers are good. I mean you

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Speaker 3: drafted Mims.

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Speaker 2: High, yeah, but I don't think Sutton, Jerry Judy, they

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Speaker 2: haven't worked out like they thought.

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Speaker 1: You know, they took kJ Hammler was a second round pick.

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Speaker 3: I know, I know.

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Speaker 2: I mean they've they've used they've used draft capital at

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Speaker 2: wide receiver like crazy, and they don't have a stud.

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Speaker 3: It wouldn't shock me if Judy maybe I was gonna

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Speaker 3: say Or, but I'm gonna say and Or Sutton aren't

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Speaker 3: Broncos this time next year.

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Speaker 1: Wouldn't surprise me.

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Speaker 2: I mean, they were losing Tim Patrick to them last

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Speaker 3: It's a big deal. Yeah, he's a I mean he's

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Speaker 3: a really good play. I mean he's a good three.

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Speaker 3: But it hurtd them dramatically.

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Speaker 2: At twenty Yeah, at twenty three they were tenth, and

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Speaker 2: twenty twenty one they were seventh, and twenty twenty two

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Speaker 2: they followed twenty three the Rams.

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Speaker 3: So I'm not gonna give Bill Barnwall hard time on

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Speaker 3: this one, except for it's more of a philosophical thing

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Speaker 3: when you do ranks like cup is the best name

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Speaker 3: we've probably mentioned yet. I mean, I'm off the top

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but the.

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Speaker 3: Rest is junk. I mean we're talking Ben Scarnic and

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Speaker 3: Tyler Higbee and two too out well yeah yeah, but

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Speaker 3: one guy carries a ton of weight.

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Speaker 2: They must carry a lot of weight there. Yeah, at

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Speaker 2: twenty two, people will go nuts about this. They were

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Speaker 2: thirtieth and twenty twenty one, they were twenty fourth and

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Speaker 2: twenty twenty two. They're now twenty second.

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Speaker 1: The Jets.

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Speaker 3: I love Rees Hall and I love Garrett Wilson, but

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Speaker 3: they're second year guys, you know, I mean they don't

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Speaker 3: have the body of work. The rest of the crew

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Speaker 3: is good, it's not phenomenal.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well, all they did was go out and sign

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Speaker 2: all Aaron Rodgers buddies, So right.

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Speaker 3: Right, I don't care about Lizard and you know Nichole

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Speaker 3: Hardman and.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, twenty one, they were twenty twenty four, they were

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Speaker 2: twenty four and twenty twenty one. They were twenty second

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Speaker 2: in twenty twenty two. The Washington Commanders.

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Speaker 3: I like their two starting receivers a lot, and Curtis

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Speaker 3: Samuel seems to have kind of found his niche.

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Speaker 1: They don't have a tight end.

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Speaker 3: Cosition's awful. Running backs sock radio.

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Speaker 1: And the running backs are just guys.

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Speaker 3: They're just guys. Yeah, at twenty they may even be

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Speaker 3: lower for me.

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Speaker 1: A big fall here for this team.

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Speaker 1: The Buffalo Bills.

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Speaker 3: I think that's just.

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Speaker 1: I mean, Digs.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I say Digs and Copper about saying, but the

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Speaker 1: I mean, I like Dawson Knox, but he's you know,

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Speaker 3: No, definitely not. You know, you put a lot of

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Speaker 2: At nineteen, they were sixth, and twenty twenty one, they

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Speaker 1: They're now nineteenth. The Kansas City Chiefs.

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Speaker 3: I mean, this is a compliment to the organization, but

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it depends on how you look at Kelsey.

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Speaker 3: No, like him and Cooper Cupp have at least the

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Speaker 5: Absolutely eggs or you know, he's just bad, right right right,

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, put him in the wide receiver positions as

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Speaker 2: How about the fall for this team at eighteen In

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Speaker 1: Wow, in twenty twenty two they were number five. They

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Speaker 3: Ooh yeah, I mean our Evans and god when's best

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Speaker 2: You know, the running back position is largely unknown, The

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it's not even like late career Gronk

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Speaker 2: I mean, I like Kate Auten. Yeah, but yeah, it's bad.

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Speaker 2: They might be lower for me, well, would they be

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Speaker 1: At seventeen?

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Speaker 2: In twenty twenty one, they were twenty six In twenty

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Speaker 1: This year is the Chicago Bears. Hmm?

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Speaker 3: Are they better or worse than? Like Washington? And the

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Speaker 3: I mean, like they the same tier. I mean, Mooney's good,

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Speaker 3: commit is good?

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Speaker 2: Adequate or yeah, you got to chase I'll see what

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Speaker 3: They get a handful of backs that are fine. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 3: I mean Mooney missed a lot of time. I mean

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Speaker 2: At sixteen, they were thirty first and twenty twenty one seventeenth.

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Speaker 1: Last year they're sixteenth. Now the Detroit Lions.

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Speaker 3: I mean, as it's constructed right this second, and it's

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Speaker 2: Yes, basically what it has been the last couple of years.

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Speaker 2: It's a mon Ross Saint Brown and now.

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Speaker 3: What I mean, we know Jamison Williams is coming back,

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Speaker 1: And you don't even have Hawkinson the fallback on.

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Speaker 3: Now right right right, I mean that's what I mean.

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Speaker 3: It's rookies, it's Laporta, it's Gibbs, you.

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Speaker 1: Know, like I mean, you got Marvin Jones and Josh Reynolds.

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Speaker 3: But eh, yeah, like would you be in the DeAndre

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Speaker 1: Probably not what he's wanted, wants to be paid.

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Speaker 3: That's probably the thing period, and that that might be

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Speaker 1: Though at fifteen.

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Speaker 2: They were try fourteenth and twenty twenty one they were

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Speaker 1: The Baltimore Ravens.

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Speaker 3: You and I don't like the Odell signing.

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Speaker 1: Can you put the Ravens ahead of some of the

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Speaker 3: I was about to say the opposite. It's funny. I

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Speaker 1: Well put on that. I would I rather.

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Speaker 2: Have Godwin and Evans and Kate Aughton as opposed to

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Speaker 3: I'd rather the Ravens, especially when you mentioned upside.

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Speaker 2: I don't care about upside and first round draft picks.

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Speaker 2: Those guys haven't played a down of football yet.

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Speaker 3: I know, I know. I think Andrews and Likely are good.

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Speaker 2: That's fine, but they're tight ends. And he said he

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Speaker 2: doesn't weigh the tight ends quite like putting. I would

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Speaker 2: say Kansas City with Kelsey. Kelsey's better than anybody the

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Speaker 3: But he's like the third best in the league. Period.

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Speaker 1: So you tell are you telling me that that? Right now?

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Speaker 2: Patrick Mahomes would rather have Baltimore's pass catchers than what

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Speaker 2: he has.

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Speaker 1: In Kansas City.

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Speaker 3: I think you're cheating a little because those two are

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Speaker 3: Andrews isn't that far off Kelse see nobody's Kelsey.

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Speaker 2: But Kelsey to me is head and shoulders above everybody

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Speaker 2: else is a pass catcher at the tight end position.

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Speaker 2: I agree, but I think, I think, I think, but

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Speaker 2: I think Kelsey is the top five pass catcher in

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Speaker 2: the league, league.

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Speaker 1: Regardless of position. Agreed.

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Speaker 2: Yes, where in fantasy football will tell you when you

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Speaker 2: have a draft, Kelsey's going to go in the first round,

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Speaker 2: Andrews is gonna go what round three or four?

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Speaker 3: I would say, yeah, yeah, and then it's a mess.

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Speaker 3: But I guess I'll fight you on.

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Speaker 2: This, Like they'll be between between Kelsey and Andrews, they'll

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Speaker 2: be fifteen wide receivers taken.

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Speaker 1: Mm hmm.

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Speaker 3: Chiefs are a weird example because I think we talked

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Speaker 3: about this even last week that Mahomes wouldn't trade Kelsey

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Speaker 3: for anyone on the planet, you know, including Tyreek or

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Speaker 3: red zone. But the rest of that pass engine or

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Speaker 1: Oh, I get it.

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Speaker 2: I'm just saying I like that one guy should carry

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Speaker 3: Mm hmm. But like if the Bucks, if we're drafting,

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Speaker 3: who do you want first from the Bucks and Ravens.

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Speaker 3: Andrews is your first pick to.

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Speaker 2: Me, I don't know that he is Andrew Andrews or

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Speaker 2: I know, I know they aren't, I might rather have

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Speaker 1: I might rather have Chris Godwin. They probably the set,

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Speaker 1: I mean to me, they're they're in the same neighborhood.

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Speaker 3: Then two Bucks and then three Ravens.

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Speaker 1: It would be a while before I took the next one.

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Speaker 4: No, yeah, yeah, like those guys, the guys we just

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Speaker 4: they shouldn't get touched until like round eight or nine.

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Speaker 3: I see what you're saying. I was talking about just

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Speaker 3: a Bucks Ravens.

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Speaker 2: Draft, Like I'm just yeah, but I'm saying that those two,

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Speaker 1: Me, Andrew, they compete with Andrews, and there's two of them.

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Speaker 1: Mm hmm, Like I just want any could do with Odell. Well,

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Speaker 1: I don't know what he is.

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Speaker 3: You know, I've been doing some of these best ball

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Speaker 3: which I don't think as a compliment, you.

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Speaker 1: Know, like because nobody knows.

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Speaker 3: Nobody knows if you're the Ravens. If two of those

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Speaker 3: But it might take you a while to figure out

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Speaker 2: Okay, I disagree, but I mean I don't think they're

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you're not saying they're twenty five, no, but.

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Speaker 1: I don't love it at the vision that's noteworthy.

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Speaker 2: We should probably take a break here because we're we're

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Speaker 2: really discussed this. We have fourteen teams left to get to.

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Speaker 2: We still haven't mentioned the team.

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Speaker 3: That we'll talk about one AFC North team.

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Speaker 2: We've only had one AFC North team, So he kind

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Speaker 2: of gives you an idea of where the AFC North

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Speaker 2: is in terms of offensive talent.

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Speaker 1: But he yeah, he is Matt Williamson. I am Dale Lally.

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Speaker 2: We'll get back to Bill barm Weell's list here on

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Speaker 2: the best offensive skill position guys in the NFL when

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