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Speaker 1: This is the Drive with Dale Lolly and Matt Williamson

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Speaker 1: on your twenty four to seven home of the Black

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Speaker 1: and GOLDNR Steelers Nation Radio.

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Speaker 2: Welcome back. I'm Dale Lollie. He is Matt Williamson. The

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Speaker 2: Matt Williamson keeps hitting my d on there and Matt,

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Speaker 2: it's time for the Fantasy football focus here on the

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Speaker 2: Drive and let's take a look here at some of

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Speaker 2: the ins and outs of practice again today around the league.

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Speaker 2: Romeo Dobbs was limited again in Thursday's practice for the

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Speaker 2: Green Bay Packers.

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Speaker 3: Oh see that Falcons.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Curtis Samuel and Chase Young. Samuel was limited again on

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Speaker 2: Thursday with the hip injury. Chase Young upgraded to a

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Speaker 2: full participant.

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Speaker 3: On Oh wow, they got a rooting for that guy.

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Speaker 5: I mean he's had some bad luck, but he also

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Speaker 5: hasn't played great when healthy. But they need to get

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Speaker 5: a better beat on him. I he's coming into a contract,

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Speaker 5: you're already.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: James Connor with a calf injury, limited in Thursday's practice.

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Speaker 2: He was limited both practices last week and then played.

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Speaker 2: So they played the Giants this week.

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Speaker 5: If you were the Ravens, would you call about James Connor.

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Speaker 5: That's not like a tailor trade. You could get him

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Speaker 5: a lot cheaper. Yeah, that's it seems like it fit

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Speaker 5: their persona, you know. I mean, that's that's a name

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Speaker 5: might be after if I were the Birdies.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that makes some sense. John Machie with the hamstring,

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Speaker 2: was limited in Thursday's practice for the Houston He's I mean,

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Speaker 2: played down the line, never played a football game.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. Was he an active in Week one? I'm not

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Speaker 3: sure about that, but yeah.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: It's been all Nico, which is really promising, and Robert Woods,

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Speaker 5: which I guess I get for a rookie quarterback. But

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Speaker 5: those two are the receivers to pay attention to.

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Speaker 2: I guess with Noah Brown now on injured reserve for them,

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Speaker 2: Brown was running out of the slot for yeah.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so maybe maybe he gets you.

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Speaker 2: See if that happens. H Dalton Schultz with a thigh.

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Speaker 2: I don't know who's typing these things here. I'm looking

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Speaker 2: here on NBC Sports. So they have the little things

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Speaker 2: here with the injuries.

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Speaker 3: This is what used to be roto World.

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Speaker 2: James Connor's injury was listed as calm. I assume that's calf. Okay,

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Speaker 2: so many he's an editor. What I'm saying because Dalton

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Speaker 2: Schultz history injury thing.

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Speaker 3: Instead of thigh, instead of thigh, it's a thing. I'm

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Speaker 3: not trying to figure that out. There's something wrong with him.

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Speaker 2: He was a full participant today.

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Speaker 3: Oh okay, I thought this was bad. Okay, fair enough.

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Speaker 3: The Texans passing attack isn't dreadful thing.

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Speaker 2: One or thing too? Is this Doctor Seuss book? I

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Speaker 3: Did you do whatever that thing is?

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Speaker 2: How about this news Austin Ekelar did not practice on Thursday.

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Speaker 5: Wow, that's massive. Obviously he's a first round pick in

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Speaker 5: every league. I thought people were getting a little aggressive

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Speaker 5: with their waiverwick pickups on Kelly, like I put in

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Speaker 5: for him, don't get me wrong, but like some of

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Speaker 5: the leagues I'm in, like the fab money was.

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Speaker 3: Like seventy percent eight It's crazy, you know.

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Speaker 5: And went back and watched more of that Dolphins Chargers game,

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Speaker 5: and the Dolphins run defense is clearly a problem. But

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Speaker 5: Fangio also doesn't care. I mean, they were super light

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Speaker 5: boxes and they're just handed it off and handed it off,

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Speaker 5: and kind of thought.

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Speaker 3: This might be as good as it gets for Kelly.

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Speaker 3: But if Eckler's on a round.

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Speaker 5: I mean that guy is I don't know if he's

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Speaker 5: in RB one, but he's a clear start.

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Speaker 2: He's a sure thing RB two.

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Speaker 3: Yeah right, I mean as a starter.

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Speaker 2: In a good offense like that. I mean, I mean

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Speaker 2: he looked good.

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Speaker 3: I mean he Yeah. I think he's a decent player.

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Speaker 2: There's a reason why they didn't pay Austin Ekelara. I

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Speaker 2: because they like Josh Kelly.

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Speaker 5: Agreed, and they have something we talked about this yesterday.

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Speaker 5: Have some awful contracts on that team too.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, if he doesn't go all of a sudden, Josh Kelly,

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Speaker 3: Sure his price is THEFS doesn't change.

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Speaker 2: It doesn't the price doesn't change. He'll be very chalk.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it'll be everywhere.

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Speaker 3: Doesn't play a lot.

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Speaker 2: Darren Waller with the hamstring was limited Thursday. Did you

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Speaker 2: hear he said that this may be it might be

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Speaker 2: about with Cooper Cup.

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Speaker 5: Oh that I never heard anyone go to a hamstring

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Speaker 5: specialist and Cup did that?

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Speaker 2: Why because they said they said it might When when

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Speaker 2: it was talked about with the coach when when McVeigh

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Speaker 2: talked about it, he said it might be a nerve.

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Speaker 5: Issue, which apparently is much worse, much worse apparently. Yeah,

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Speaker 5: nothing's going right for the Giants.

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Speaker 2: No, I had somebody ask me today or yes last

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Speaker 2: night on Twitter, one of our listeners asked, if you

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Speaker 2: got Daniel Jones, who did he say was out there?

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Speaker 2: It was, Oh, it was commander's quarterback. Now, how would

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Speaker 2: you would you drop Jones? How? I'm like, no, I

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Speaker 2: can't go.

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Speaker 3: I'm not to that level.

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Speaker 2: No Jones. I think he'll be okay because he runs

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Speaker 2: enough to make it sure.

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Speaker 3: Everyone's as bad as it's gonna get.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's going to be any where than that.

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Speaker 5: This isn't fantasy related, but we were asked on the

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Speaker 5: podcast yesterday how many NFC quarterbacks would you put ahead

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Speaker 3: I came up with and not even fantasy.

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Speaker 5: I came up like nine or ten, names like Jordan

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Speaker 5: Love and you know, I mean definitely car.

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Speaker 3: I mean, let alone this to the stars. It's not great.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Now, Waller played through that injury last week, but man,

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Speaker 2: you hate it.

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Speaker 3: He's not young either.

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Speaker 2: He's not young, and you'd hate this, you have to

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Speaker 2: start him, and three snaps into the game, he goes

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Speaker 2: limping off the field and you take a.

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Speaker 5: Zero and you probably I mean, if you own Waller

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Speaker 5: and drafted him, it's Week two and.

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Speaker 2: You probably didn't draft somebody.

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Speaker 5: Probably isn't another great option. But there aren't a lot

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Speaker 5: of waiver wire tight ends that are kind of interesting,

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Speaker 5: like the la Portas and Hayden Hurst.

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Speaker 2: You're basically trying to hit the lottery. Yeah, I know

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Speaker 2: you're hurting for a you're hoping for a four for

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Speaker 3: Yeah, touchdown, that's what you're hoping.

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Speaker 5: I mean, I'm not starting any of those guys over

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Speaker 5: then he's limping around.

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Speaker 2: He did say, nah, I'm playing. We asked if he

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Speaker 2: was going to be held out this week, but the Cardinals, Yeah,

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Speaker 2: Kendrey Miller, he was a hot name in the preseason. Uh,

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Speaker 2: he practiced. He's got a hamstring issue. This here's the

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Speaker 2: problem with this. So if you drafted Kendrey Miller, you

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Speaker 2: drafted him for this three game spot when they didn't

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Speaker 2: have Kamara. See is already gone. You're not putting You're

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Speaker 2: not putting Kendrey Miller into your lineup this week.

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Speaker 3: No, No, you're not gonna get that out right.

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Speaker 2: So next week, even if he has a good game

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Speaker 2: this week, you get one week out of him and

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Speaker 2: Kamara comes back and he becomes an afterthought.

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Speaker 3: See, I'm gonna fight you on that though, because.

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Speaker 2: You're talking for Dynas this season. I don't think he

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Speaker 2: has any value.

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Speaker 3: I drank.

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Speaker 5: I draft rookie running backs with the second half of

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Speaker 5: the season in mind.

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Speaker 3: I mean, his turn will come, people will fall.

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Speaker 2: Let's sketch jam all. He got two guys ahead.

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Speaker 3: Now that is bad. But one game I thought Jamal

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Speaker 3: Williams looked horrible in that game.

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Speaker 2: It was a Titans run.

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Speaker 5: It's a really tough, tough matchup, and coaches adore Williams.

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Speaker 5: I mean, he's not coming out anytime soon. But if

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Speaker 5: Kendra Miller got dumped or he's not in your lineup,

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Speaker 5: then you have a deep enough bench third round pick.

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Speaker 2: They're playing Alvin Kamara.

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Speaker 3: Oh, they'll play Kamara because they can't.

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Speaker 2: Trade him because he's making like sixteen million dollar base

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Speaker 2: salary this year.

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Speaker 5: But he's at that Dalvin Cook Joe Mixon level where

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Speaker 5: he's starting to decline. I'm just telling you November Miller

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Speaker 5: might be guy rookie running back half the season.

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Speaker 2: I'm not counting on it. Traylon Burk's returned to practice

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Speaker 5: He's got it. I feel for him in a way.

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Speaker 5: I mean like he was asked to be the A. J.

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Speaker 5: And then you watch Tennessee this week and again one

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Speaker 5: game against Saints, Tannehill was awful. He missed a couple

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Speaker 5: of huge plays to non Burks, and Hopkins still is

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Speaker 5: demanding targets. So if they're gonna throw the ball twenty

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Speaker 5: times a game, even if Burks takes a step, is

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Speaker 5: the second year he's useless for fantasy.

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Speaker 2: Well. DeAndre Hopkins, with an ankle, did not practice again today.

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Speaker 5: Oh I didn't know there was anything wrong with him. Yeah,

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Speaker 5: I mean he's another one. Maybe he doesn't last throughout

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Speaker 2: Now that might be more of a veteran thing, could be,

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Speaker 2: but it doesn't help your get on the same page

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Speaker 2: with the struggling quarterback if you never practice.

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Speaker 3: And their lines terrible. As we often refer.

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Speaker 2: To Tron Armstead with back here, we're back to this

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Speaker 2: now for Toron Arnstead.

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Speaker 3: He always has seven things.

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Speaker 2: Back, ankle, knee, back.

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Speaker 3: Ankle, knee.

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Speaker 5: I don't know anyone that's ever been on consistently been

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Speaker 5: on a report that has more than one thing than Armstead.

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Speaker 5: Armstead as on multiple Yeah, and people know him saying

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Speaker 5: he's like one of the toughest guys in the most

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Speaker 5: people wouldn't even play as many games as he does.

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Speaker 5: But also people say, well, we hope we get ten

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Speaker 5: or twelve games out him.

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Speaker 2: He was back at practice on Thursday. That's not good

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Speaker 2: news for the Dolphins because Raheem Moster also returned to

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Speaker 2: practice Thursday after having a d MP with a knee

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Speaker 3: So I think they get the Patriots. Yeah, it's a

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Speaker 3: tough matchup. I don't know what. They'll throw all over

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Speaker 3: New England like they did.

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Speaker 2: Whll New England run all over Miami.

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Speaker 5: That's the probably the plan. Maybe that's a higher score

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Speaker 5: game and people.

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Speaker 2: Think, yeah, Mark Andrews practiced on Thursday.

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Speaker 3: Huge, good for them. They need some good news.

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Speaker 2: They most certainly do.

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Speaker 5: Jay Flowers is impressive, but I would think Andrews gets

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Speaker 5: molt or double digitar.

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Speaker 2: He's up ten targets against the Bengals. In the game,

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Speaker 2: they're probably gonna have to score some points in because

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Speaker 2: The Falcons gave up one hundred and fifty four rushing

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Speaker 3: Of note that I can't even come up with.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Christian Watson once again did not practice on Thursday.

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Speaker 2: So it wasn't the typical Packers offense.

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Speaker 2: Uh. Andrew Thomas, the Giants left tackle, was limited today.

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Speaker 5: Wall Yeah, I mean he's really the best offensive player.

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Speaker 5: I'm not starting if he's one hundred percent. I mean,

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Speaker 5: M They have some They have the Bears, right, they

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Speaker 5: I mean that the whole, the whole kit and kaboodle

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Speaker 2: Bennett might be becoming a grandfather or something.

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Speaker 3: I don't know what's going on.

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Speaker 4: They did.

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Speaker 2: They won't talk about what issues or.

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Speaker 3: What the heck's going on, but that's an odd situation.

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Speaker 2: How about this one? Patriots beat writer Andrew Callahan says

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: I mean he's a it worse a week away.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean he's MATC.

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Speaker 5: Jones actually played quite well, you know, studying that game.

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Speaker 2: I would say so.

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Speaker 2: For the Seahawks, Devin Witherspoon with the hamstring, got a

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Speaker 5: Yeah, they they put Lucas on the right tackle on

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so they get you. They played Detroit this week

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Speaker 2: Don't know if I I don't know if I want to.

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Speaker 2: Geno Smith might not be startable this week without both

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Speaker 5: No, I mean, I think it really hurts Metcalf and

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Speaker 5: I mean, if he invested in Seahawks, he's getting out

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Speaker 3: Mean they're a hold or a cell. They're not a buy.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm not I'm not buying. Nobody's gonna be buying.

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Speaker 2: You're not gonna ge. You're gonna get pennies on the

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Speaker 5: I mean, lock would be tough to move right now

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Speaker 2: He doesn't go crazy on the field and shove somebody

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Speaker 2: I shall rise yet again.

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Speaker 2: Do you take that to mean he's going to be

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Speaker 3: So what I saw was.

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Speaker 5: from what I understand, I hate, hate, hate commenting on

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Speaker 5: You know, just needs that lower body stability and a

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Speaker 3: Once you've come.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, but I mean it often leads to It's like

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Speaker 3: Let alone, if you're twenty two. I don't know. I

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think so as well. I mean that's just

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Speaker 3: To like with this too.

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Speaker 5: Like I could just see them having a semi dismal

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Speaker 2: Are you doing that right?

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Speaker 3: I don't think it kills either team if they lose, No, but.

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, But I don't know what.

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Speaker 2: To think of that game, Like, is that going to

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Speaker 2: you have to outscore the Chiefs. Yeah, well you have

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Speaker 5: Anymore, and scoring is down. I kind of look at

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Speaker 3: Yeah. I don't think your defense is great, yeah, and

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Speaker 5: Like at M's usage was better than I thought. Ridley

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Speaker 2: He was pretty good down the stretch last she was really.

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Speaker 2: And one thing that Sean Payton's offenses all have always

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Speaker 5: You have to get him the ball. It's a good point.

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Speaker 5: I mean there's there's some high volume receivers in Peyton's past. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: dozen targets this week either.

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Speaker 3: No, I think you throw them right back in your

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Speaker 3: lineup gladly.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. So that's the fantasy football focus to say, anybody

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Speaker 2: you're interested in playing tonight, he got Eagles and Vikings.

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Speaker 3: I think it's be a high scoring game, especially from

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Speaker 3: the Eagle side.

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Speaker 2: I don't think it's gonna be a typically gone under that.

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Speaker 3: I know, I know. I just.

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Speaker 5: What about the running backs game was not playing game

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Speaker 5: was out? Would you put Swift in your lineup?

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Speaker 2: I was listening to some stuff today from people who

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Speaker 2: well hopefully with know in Philadelphia. They said Swift will

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Speaker 2: be the number one guy, makes sense, and then the

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Speaker 2: other he's active. Penny will be active, but he'll be supplemental.

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Speaker 5: Okay, Well, I mean I guess I'd be comfortable putting

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Speaker 5: Swift in my lineup.

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Speaker 2: Now what that means? Does that mean fifteen you know,

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Speaker 2: fifteen touches for Swift?

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Speaker 3: Probably that's not bad though, in today's NFL landscape environment,

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Speaker 3: you know, against a bad defense behind that line. But

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Speaker 3: Eagles line didn't play great.

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Speaker 5: I mean, I think the Patriots defense is a lot

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Speaker 5: better people think, you know, and Belichick had six months

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Speaker 5: to prepare for them. Yeah, I think they rebound in

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Speaker 5: a big way, but they kind of need to. I mean,

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Speaker 5: they didn't show great.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. On the other side of that, the Eagles defense,

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Speaker 2: no brad Bury.

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Speaker 3: Linebackers are all bad.

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Speaker 2: Linebackers are all banged up but are new.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but they might not have Darrisaw centers out.

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Speaker 2: I would guess Darisaw gives it a try, but the

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Speaker 2: center is definitely out. So I expect a lot of

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Speaker 2: quick stuff from Minnesota.

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Speaker 3: I'm not thrilled by starting Madison would.

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Speaker 2: I wouldn't start Madison, yeah, but I on fire on

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Speaker 2: pretty high. I think Hawkinson could be the smash.

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Speaker 5: I don't love Addison to night, but it wouldn't be

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Speaker 5: the worst thing. I think they throw a lot.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Addison is gonna get I mean you got to

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Speaker 2: expect a lot of sleigh on Jefferson whenever Philadelphia can

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Speaker 2: make that happen.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and no, I think Hawkinson has a very big night.

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Speaker 5: Yeah. I like the Eagles to win that game by

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Speaker 5: more than a touchdown.

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Speaker 2: Though we shall see.

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Speaker 3: We shall see has been down.

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Speaker 2: It is down across the league. But that's going to

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Speaker 5: That wouldn't be bad, No, I A lot of people

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Speaker 5: wouldn't mind grabbing that, mind that at all.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, So go ahead and do that now the question

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Speaker 2: for today. Apparently I got ahead of myself with these

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Speaker 2: the other day. But Ben Roethlisberger, Terry Bradshaw, who had

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Speaker 2: the most pass completions as a Steeler in a game

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Speaker 2: versus the Browns, I.

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Speaker 3: Like seven chances. Yeah, yeah, just eras are just so different.

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Speaker 2: Very much so. But you know, looking here, Matt, at

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Speaker 2: some of the stuff that's out there right now. So

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Speaker 2: David Carr is an analyst for an NFL dot com

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Speaker 2: and of course a former NFL quarterback, so he were

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Speaker 2: a little piece here. He says, a Week one has

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Speaker 2: already coming gone, and there's already one trend that's resurfaced

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Speaker 2: from a year ago. In Week one of twenty twenty two,

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Speaker 2: six teams scored ten offensive points or less.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, fast forward.

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Speaker 2: One year and it happened again. There are six teams

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Speaker 2: that did not reach ten points last week. That would

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Speaker 2: be the Giants who got shut out, the Bengals who

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Speaker 2: scored three, the Steelers who scored seven, the Cardinals who

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Speaker 2: scored nine, the Texans had nine, the Panthers had ten.

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Speaker 2: Now some of.

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Speaker 3: Those are bad offenses.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that being said, the Steelers scored seven. They they

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Speaker 2: had a first and goal or first and ten from

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Speaker 2: the San Francisco fourteen in the third quarter after a TJ.

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Speaker 2: Watt stripsack and didn't get in the end zone. If

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Speaker 2: you look at the plays on that one, that was

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Speaker 2: when George Pickens had the one on one came it

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Speaker 2: made a great catch, but the ball was just it

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Speaker 2: was thrown too far out of bounds. I probably would

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Speaker 2: have gone back to that again maybe, but if he

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Speaker 2: can go to the well too many times on that one,

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Speaker 2: you know, when the guy's making those kind of catches.

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Speaker 2: But you know, they ended up turning the ball over

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Speaker 2: on downs on I believe it was fourth and four

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Speaker 2: with a throw into the end zone, So they could

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Speaker 2: have easily scored more points if they're kicking field goal

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Speaker 2: or if they punched that in I mean so, I mean,

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Speaker 2: the offense wasn't great in that game, but but.

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Speaker 5: There also wasn't the counter to that. I don't know

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Speaker 5: if Carr gets into this. I didn't click on the article,

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Speaker 5: but besides Chargers Dolphins, there weren't any high scores.

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Speaker 2: There weren't. Yeah, those up and do games didn't happen.

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Speaker 3: Not at all.

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Speaker 5: I mean, scoring was very low. I bet the league

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Speaker 5: is very concerned because it's been a couple of years

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Speaker 5: in a row now that it's dropped dramatically, like several

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Speaker 5: points per game. Yeah, total points per game, And I

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Speaker 5: don't think the NFL wants that, he says.

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Speaker 2: Interestingly, half the teams that failed to score more than

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Speaker 2: ten points in Week one last season, the Cowboys, the Packers,

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Speaker 2: the forty nine ers of all teams ended up averaging

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Speaker 2: more than twenty points per game over the entire season. Furthermore,

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Speaker 2: the Cowboys, who scored the fewest points of any team

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Speaker 2: on opening weekend last year, finished twenty twenty two, ranked

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Speaker 2: fourth overall and average points scored. Okay, so again, don't

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Speaker 2: you know this stuff happens?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, this stuff happened. I mean sometimes it's just a

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Speaker 5: one off, it's one game.

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Speaker 2: You saw that. Now, the forty nine er offense last

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Speaker 2: year wasn't the forty nine er offense we saw opening

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Speaker 2: the season this year. Wasn't there no Trey Lance and

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Speaker 2: they didn't have Christian McCaffrey.

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Speaker 3: Oh good point. Yeah, personnel.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, but and some of it is just small sample size.

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Speaker 5: No one bats, and I if the Yankees score zero

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Speaker 5: runs or one run two day in July, you know, but.

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Speaker 2: You can't start stacking games like that.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: And I do think a couple of those teams you mentioned,

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Speaker 5: Carolina comes to mind, are going to be bad offenses

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Speaker 5: this year.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Like I think the Steelers will get back on track.

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Speaker 2: Arizona Houston. Like these are bad offenses.

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Speaker 3: Are good players.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, So, he says, I'm examining each of the slow

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Speaker 2: starting offenses, revealing which one we should expect the course

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Speaker 2: correct as the season progresses, which ones are in for

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Speaker 2: a long campaign. I think we might have just guessed

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Speaker 2: what the rest of the article looks like here.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, but I know he's gonna lead off with the

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Speaker 5: Giants and our injury segment. If Thomas and Waller aren't

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Speaker 5: in great trouble, yeah, boy, I would start to really

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Speaker 5: worry about New York.

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Speaker 2: They averaged two point six yards per play last week.

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Speaker 3: Wow, I remember.

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Speaker 2: Play and turned the ball over for scores and just.

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Speaker 3: They gave the defense points.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it was way just an awful offensive performance.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, very much so.

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Speaker 2: But they have Saquon Barkley. Yeah, Daniel Jones is an

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Speaker 2: Darren Waller's Uh yeah, you know receivers were last year. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: so they should bounce back in some form or fashion.

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Speaker 3: I would hope and stay ball that's his specialty.

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Speaker 2: And they do play the Cardinals this week.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a good point.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: So you think they get to twenty this week?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I tend to think, Yeah, I tend to

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Speaker 5: think so probably control the clock.

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Speaker 2: I think they'll do better against the Cardinals than Washington did.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that was a little sticky for them for a while. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Now, people forget Arizona's head coach was the defensive coordinator

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Speaker 2: for the uh Eagles. For the Eagles, so he knows. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: very so. It's the fact that they're playing back to

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Speaker 2: back AF or NFC East opponents here to kick off

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Speaker 2: the season. He's very familiar with.

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Speaker 3: I bet there's a rookie head coach. You're pretty happy.

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Speaker 2: Jonathan Gannon, Right, yeah, good point. The Bengals, I bet

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Speaker 2: are the next team here. We're going to think the Bengals,

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Speaker 2: you know, are people in Cincinnati. Uh as up in

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Speaker 2: arms right now as fans are in Pittsburgh.

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Speaker 5: So I don't know if you if you read this yet,

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Speaker 5: but I emailed it to you. I always refer to

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Speaker 5: I often refer to the site reception, perception. And they

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Speaker 5: have now a quarterback expert who just broke down Burrow's

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Speaker 5: game because this is very Steeler Brown's relevant. And he

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Speaker 5: gave credit to the Browns. They had an aggressive game plan.

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Speaker 5: They blitzed them like crazy. But really what he said

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Speaker 5: was Burrow shouldn't have played in this game. Yeah, he's

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Speaker 5: like he can't throw the ball. Yeah, he couldn't drive

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Speaker 5: off his foot, He couldn't generate any RPMs. That might

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Speaker 5: be more scary than getting smoked by the Browns. I mean,

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Speaker 5: is he healed for this upcoming week? Did he go

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Speaker 5: out there too early?

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Speaker 2: Did he set it back a little bit by not?

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Speaker 3: You know, it's been good.

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Speaker 2: Is this going to be something now that lingers for

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Speaker 2: a month?

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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 5: Because of that, and you watch that game, it's like

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Speaker 5: he had no juice on the ball, and he's not

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Speaker 5: the biggest arm guy to begin with. And you know,

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Speaker 5: I mean he's not going to live on Lamar like legs.

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Speaker 5: You know, I mean processing and getting the ball out

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Speaker 5: on time with enough arm strength is his game. I mean,

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Speaker 5: I'm not hoping this on him, but it could be

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Speaker 5: a long month, two months.

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Speaker 2: I expect him to beat the Ravens this week.

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Speaker 3: I do too, unless he looks horrible.

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Speaker 2: Well, I think you know, if your a defense is good,

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Speaker 2: if you're the Bengals, I think you have a sit

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Speaker 2: down with Burrow if you if you.

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Speaker 3: Hate him so much the night before, you in the.

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Speaker 2: Night before, but you have that that talk like, hey, Joe,

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Speaker 2: you didn't look good. What's going on here? Because if

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Speaker 2: that's the case, we need to play offense a little differently.

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Speaker 5: Or you need to I'm not saying like trade for Brissett,

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Speaker 5: but have a better backup plan.

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Speaker 3: Well, that would be And we know it's no threat

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Speaker 3: to you, Joe.

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Speaker 5: We just gave you all the money in the world.

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Speaker 5: It's your time, but we need to have a better

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Speaker 5: backup plan. If you can't throw the ball, Yeah, it's going.

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Speaker 2: To be a talk to us. Let us know, are

666
00:29:47,200 --> 00:29:48,719
Speaker 2: are you able to make these strows? Or is that

667
00:29:48,800 --> 00:29:51,520
Speaker 2: just a you know rust and the weather didn't help

668
00:29:51,600 --> 00:29:51,840
Speaker 2: up there.

669
00:29:51,840 --> 00:29:54,880
Speaker 3: I mean there was a lot of stuff, you know, right.

670
00:29:54,720 --> 00:29:56,240
Speaker 2: But that's always the case in Cleveland.

671
00:29:56,280 --> 00:29:58,680
Speaker 3: Sure it's not. Can get better? No, let me find

672
00:29:58,760 --> 00:29:59,560
Speaker 3: December and.

673
00:29:59,520 --> 00:30:01,720
Speaker 2: The Steeler there are his third team on here, and

674
00:30:01,720 --> 00:30:04,080
Speaker 2: here's what he has to say. The Steelers had the

675
00:30:04,200 --> 00:30:06,520
Speaker 2: unfortunate tasks of playing the best team in the NFL

676
00:30:06,640 --> 00:30:07,880
Speaker 2: right now out of the gate.

677
00:30:08,160 --> 00:30:10,320
Speaker 3: I think everybody agrees on that. Yeah, way, yeah.

678
00:30:10,400 --> 00:30:12,800
Speaker 2: With the forty nine Ers limiting everything the Steelers tried

679
00:30:12,800 --> 00:30:15,920
Speaker 2: to do offensively throughout the contest, Pittsburgh didn't earn a

680
00:30:15,920 --> 00:30:17,920
Speaker 2: first down until there was one sixteen remaining in the

681
00:30:17,960 --> 00:30:20,680
Speaker 2: second quarter, and the forty nine Ers defense shook second

682
00:30:20,720 --> 00:30:24,040
Speaker 2: year quarterback Kenny Pickett from the start. Falling behind early

683
00:30:24,120 --> 00:30:27,200
Speaker 2: took Pittsburgh out of a rhythm and forced forced it

684
00:30:27,240 --> 00:30:30,200
Speaker 2: to become one dimensional. Leaning on the run game and

685
00:30:30,240 --> 00:30:33,560
Speaker 2: getting Najia Harris scoring in early in Week two could

686
00:30:33,600 --> 00:30:37,520
Speaker 2: help the Steelers rediscover the explosive, explosive downfield passing attack

687
00:30:37,800 --> 00:30:40,640
Speaker 2: they showed in the preseason. I'm a picket believer and

688
00:30:40,640 --> 00:30:42,200
Speaker 2: he has a lot of talent around him in the

689
00:30:42,240 --> 00:30:45,560
Speaker 2: passing game, George Pickens, Deontae Johnson though he missed some time,

690
00:30:46,200 --> 00:30:49,680
Speaker 2: Alan Robinson, and Pat Fryarmouth. I even picked up Pickens

691
00:30:49,680 --> 00:30:52,400
Speaker 2: off the waiver wire this week in my fantasy league,

692
00:30:52,440 --> 00:30:56,400
Speaker 2: like people were already, Oh my god, Week one was

693
00:30:56,400 --> 00:30:59,959
Speaker 2: a hiccup. And although the defense in this week's opponent, Cleveland,

694
00:31:00,040 --> 00:31:02,440
Speaker 2: will present another big challenge, look for Pittsburgh to have

695
00:31:02,480 --> 00:31:07,120
Speaker 2: more of an offensive identity. Can't say that enough. They

696
00:31:07,160 --> 00:31:09,720
Speaker 2: got out of their identity early in that game because

697
00:31:09,720 --> 00:31:13,000
Speaker 2: they fell behind quickly and it just didn't allow them.

698
00:31:13,320 --> 00:31:17,480
Speaker 2: If they give up one fewer touchdown in the first half,

699
00:31:17,600 --> 00:31:20,280
Speaker 2: or you know, make them kick a third field goal

700
00:31:20,480 --> 00:31:23,880
Speaker 2: instead of giving up that second touchdown again, if Patrick

701
00:31:23,920 --> 00:31:27,560
Speaker 2: Peterson was in perfect position to make that play. If

702
00:31:27,600 --> 00:31:32,640
Speaker 2: it's sixteen seven going into the half, much takes you

703
00:31:32,720 --> 00:31:34,880
Speaker 2: feel much differently about how things are going there. You

704
00:31:34,920 --> 00:31:35,880
Speaker 2: come out in the second half and you.

705
00:31:35,960 --> 00:31:36,440
Speaker 3: Run the ball.

706
00:31:36,520 --> 00:31:37,560
Speaker 4: Yeah, so.

707
00:31:39,240 --> 00:31:41,640
Speaker 5: Full disclosure. Car is not one of my favorite analysts.

708
00:31:41,720 --> 00:31:43,640
Speaker 5: I mean, I don't click on his stuff all that much.

709
00:31:43,720 --> 00:31:47,160
Speaker 5: He didn't particularly if his brother comes up. But hey,

710
00:31:47,160 --> 00:31:48,840
Speaker 5: I mean, if I had a brother that was scoreding quarterback,

711
00:31:48,840 --> 00:31:50,000
Speaker 5: I'd probably nice him on the air.

712
00:31:50,000 --> 00:31:50,200
Speaker 3: Two.

713
00:31:51,000 --> 00:31:53,040
Speaker 5: But I think that was really well said. I mean,

714
00:31:53,120 --> 00:31:55,840
Speaker 5: I think that paragraph he wrote about the Steelers offense,

715
00:31:56,840 --> 00:31:59,120
Speaker 5: I'm ninety percent on board with that. You know, get

716
00:31:59,120 --> 00:32:02,480
Speaker 5: back to Harris do have weapons. I'm a pickt believer. Heck,

717
00:32:02,520 --> 00:32:04,760
Speaker 5: if he was available in our our league, I'd pick

718
00:32:04,800 --> 00:32:06,280
Speaker 5: him up to you know. I mean, I think it's

719
00:32:08,280 --> 00:32:11,280
Speaker 5: almost the perfect storm of bad things happened on Sunday, you.

720
00:32:11,240 --> 00:32:14,520
Speaker 2: Know, against a very very good right.

721
00:32:14,560 --> 00:32:16,960
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's gonna step on your throat if you give

722
00:32:17,000 --> 00:32:19,480
Speaker 5: him the slightest, slightest opportunity.

723
00:32:20,480 --> 00:32:28,000
Speaker 2: The teams he doesn't think are going to rebound. Arizona says,

724
00:32:28,160 --> 00:32:30,000
Speaker 2: the Cardinals just aren't a good football team. They're going

725
00:32:30,080 --> 00:32:32,400
Speaker 2: to struggle all season long. It doesn't matter who the

726
00:32:32,480 --> 00:32:35,160
Speaker 2: quarterback is. If Kyler Murray were in there right now,

727
00:32:35,680 --> 00:32:36,680
Speaker 2: the Cardinals will still be.

728
00:32:36,680 --> 00:32:37,800
Speaker 3: Struggled and still be bad.

729
00:32:37,880 --> 00:32:38,080
Speaker 2: Yeah.

730
00:32:38,520 --> 00:32:41,960
Speaker 5: So another I hate We don't use the word rumor

731
00:32:42,000 --> 00:32:45,400
Speaker 5: here very often, but speculation. I mentioned Connor could go,

732
00:32:46,000 --> 00:32:48,400
Speaker 5: I'm here, Markis Brown might be on the block, you know,

733
00:32:48,520 --> 00:32:50,400
Speaker 5: like a Chief's or somebody like that.

734
00:32:50,440 --> 00:32:52,440
Speaker 3: Like it might only get worse for the Cardinals kind

735
00:32:52,480 --> 00:32:53,160
Speaker 3: of by design.

736
00:32:53,520 --> 00:32:57,840
Speaker 2: Yeah. Uh, the Texans, I mean the Texas and Panthers

737
00:32:57,880 --> 00:33:01,360
Speaker 2: are both starting rookie quarterbacks and how much longer before

738
00:33:02,000 --> 00:33:05,560
Speaker 2: Arizona starting a rookie quarterback. Clayton Tuon was not good

739
00:33:05,600 --> 00:33:11,200
Speaker 2: in the preseason. But you're not going anywhere with Josh Dobbs, right, I.

740
00:33:11,160 --> 00:33:12,400
Speaker 3: Think that's very intentional.

741
00:33:12,640 --> 00:33:14,480
Speaker 5: Of course they want to get Caleb Williams, we know that,

742
00:33:14,640 --> 00:33:18,160
Speaker 5: but I think Dobbs is there to be Caleb Williams

743
00:33:18,320 --> 00:33:23,960
Speaker 5: or whomever. Mentor and Tune. Oh, by the way, they

744
00:33:23,960 --> 00:33:26,320
Speaker 5: both help you lose games. But I think Tune, if

745
00:33:26,360 --> 00:33:28,480
Speaker 5: you look at him, like maybe he can be the

746
00:33:28,520 --> 00:33:32,440
Speaker 5: next quarterbacks long term backup. If you could find those

747
00:33:32,440 --> 00:33:35,200
Speaker 5: two things out about those two quarterbacks, that's a successful

748
00:33:35,240 --> 00:33:36,520
Speaker 5: quarterback room for this year.

749
00:33:37,240 --> 00:33:38,720
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know what I mean, Like it's Tune and

750
00:33:38,800 --> 00:33:39,520
Speaker 3: good enough too.

751
00:33:40,880 --> 00:33:43,120
Speaker 2: I would almost put and I know they scored more

752
00:33:43,160 --> 00:33:47,200
Speaker 2: than ten points. Tennessee's offense looks broken.

753
00:33:47,920 --> 00:33:50,240
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean they didn't even lean on Henry Yeah,

754
00:33:50,320 --> 00:33:52,000
Speaker 3: I mean I don't get that at all.

755
00:33:52,200 --> 00:33:56,880
Speaker 5: Tannehill look terrible. The difference between Houston and Carolina to me, though,

756
00:33:57,920 --> 00:34:01,760
Speaker 5: Carolina should have an O line. It hasn't really shown up.

757
00:34:02,800 --> 00:34:05,080
Speaker 5: The Texans should have an O line, but it's just

758
00:34:05,120 --> 00:34:08,840
Speaker 5: too injured at the moment. I just don't think Carolina

759
00:34:08,840 --> 00:34:15,440
Speaker 5: has any weapons like Miles Sanders all the receivers, you know,

760
00:34:15,480 --> 00:34:18,640
Speaker 5: Like I'm not saying Nico's great or Pierce or Schultz,

761
00:34:19,080 --> 00:34:21,760
Speaker 5: but at least they have some playmakers for their young quarterback.

762
00:34:21,960 --> 00:34:23,239
Speaker 3: It's a little better.

763
00:34:23,239 --> 00:34:25,040
Speaker 2: Is the Jets. Should The Jets have been on this.

764
00:34:25,120 --> 00:34:28,200
Speaker 2: I know they scored again, they scored more than ten points,

765
00:34:28,239 --> 00:34:31,319
Speaker 2: but their offense might be messy the rest of the year.

766
00:34:31,400 --> 00:34:33,439
Speaker 5: I didn't like how Dalvin Cook looked and I didn't

767
00:34:33,480 --> 00:34:37,320
Speaker 5: love how he looked at the I mean, Wilson's great,

768
00:34:37,480 --> 00:34:41,640
Speaker 5: but their O line suspect not Zach Garrett. Sure, I'll

769
00:34:41,680 --> 00:34:46,200
Speaker 5: do that all year. Yeah, I think they are going

770
00:34:46,239 --> 00:34:48,359
Speaker 5: to have to run the ball like crazy with two

771
00:34:48,640 --> 00:34:51,560
Speaker 5: good backs. I think Haul's the better player will be

772
00:34:52,840 --> 00:34:57,040
Speaker 5: and played phenomenal defense and that's just so hard in

773
00:34:57,040 --> 00:35:00,720
Speaker 5: the league now. Yeah, but yeah, I mean, for obvious reasons,

774
00:35:00,719 --> 00:35:05,760
Speaker 5: they're they're offensive in trouble. Would you trade for somebody minshew?

775
00:35:05,880 --> 00:35:07,960
Speaker 5: I mean, I'm not saying like trade your first round pick.

776
00:35:08,000 --> 00:35:09,360
Speaker 2: I mean, you got you gotta win in hit. I

777
00:35:09,360 --> 00:35:12,200
Speaker 2: don't think Minshew's any good.

778
00:35:13,239 --> 00:35:15,560
Speaker 3: Maybe he's not the best example. Maybe Trubisky.

779
00:35:15,920 --> 00:35:18,239
Speaker 2: I mean, like, I don't know if the Steelers are

780
00:35:18,280 --> 00:35:21,279
Speaker 2: interested in trading Tribisky. James, you just signed him to

781
00:35:21,280 --> 00:35:22,680
Speaker 2: an extension, like I mean.

782
00:35:22,600 --> 00:35:24,680
Speaker 3: I'd at least signed Carson Wentz.

783
00:35:25,640 --> 00:35:27,640
Speaker 2: I mean, they have to do something. They can't. They

784
00:35:27,640 --> 00:35:29,600
Speaker 2: can't beat Zack Wilson and Tim Boyle.

785
00:35:29,640 --> 00:35:33,080
Speaker 5: And hope Zach is okay because he's never been. Okay,

786
00:35:33,280 --> 00:35:34,960
Speaker 5: he might be, but I'm not doing this, That's not

787
00:35:35,000 --> 00:35:37,279
Speaker 5: my plan. Just hoping that he get all of a sudden.

788
00:35:37,000 --> 00:35:38,759
Speaker 2: Because like they're they're kind of playing here with house

789
00:35:39,000 --> 00:35:41,280
Speaker 2: if I think if they had lost last week to Buffalo,

790
00:35:41,920 --> 00:35:44,520
Speaker 2: sure they might have already done something. I think they

791
00:35:44,520 --> 00:35:46,520
Speaker 2: feel like they're playing with house money a little bit here.

792
00:35:46,560 --> 00:35:47,680
Speaker 2: Having gotten that first win.

793
00:35:47,920 --> 00:35:50,719
Speaker 3: Oh, you go all in with Zach now, yeah, sure.

794
00:35:50,480 --> 00:35:52,880
Speaker 2: But if you go get smoked by the Cowboys this week,

795
00:35:53,440 --> 00:35:56,800
Speaker 2: and they might and they might, then yeah, you probably

796
00:35:56,800 --> 00:35:59,320
Speaker 2: Like if he looks and he could look really bad against.

797
00:35:59,080 --> 00:36:01,480
Speaker 3: Dallas, Yeah, I mean, I think those are the two

798
00:36:01,480 --> 00:36:04,560
Speaker 3: best defenses in the league. But the Jets offense might

799
00:36:04,600 --> 00:36:05,239
Speaker 3: not get to ten.

800
00:36:05,640 --> 00:36:07,560
Speaker 2: I don't know either one of the I mean, San

801
00:36:07,600 --> 00:36:09,319
Speaker 2: Francisco's defense is pretty darn good.

802
00:36:10,280 --> 00:36:12,000
Speaker 5: I think they're right there too, don't get me wrong,

803
00:36:12,040 --> 00:36:14,000
Speaker 5: but I don't know. If the Jets score ten points

804
00:36:14,040 --> 00:36:15,000
Speaker 5: against Dallas, it's.

805
00:36:14,840 --> 00:36:17,120
Speaker 2: Gonna be tough. Yeah, I mean, they're gonna really have

806
00:36:17,239 --> 00:36:18,080
Speaker 2: to get run heavy.

807
00:36:18,280 --> 00:36:18,640
Speaker 3: Yeah.

808
00:36:18,760 --> 00:36:21,839
Speaker 5: And Wilson better not make boneheaded plays or they're gonna

809
00:36:21,840 --> 00:36:22,520
Speaker 5: go the other direction.

810
00:36:22,800 --> 00:36:23,960
Speaker 4: Yeah.

811
00:36:24,040 --> 00:36:27,279
Speaker 2: Any other teams out there that you worried Bears? The

812
00:36:27,280 --> 00:36:29,640
Speaker 2: Bears offense is is a train wreck right now.

813
00:36:29,760 --> 00:36:30,280
Speaker 3: Train wreck.

814
00:36:30,960 --> 00:36:33,000
Speaker 2: Atlanta's like Atlanta and Washington.

815
00:36:33,880 --> 00:36:36,680
Speaker 3: Washington worries me a little much more than Atlanta. Watching

816
00:36:36,680 --> 00:36:37,400
Speaker 3: that Atlanta.

817
00:36:37,200 --> 00:36:39,680
Speaker 2: Washington or Atlanta that worries me because they don't It

818
00:36:39,680 --> 00:36:41,640
Speaker 2: doesn't seem like they trust Desmond Ritter at all.

819
00:36:42,080 --> 00:36:44,920
Speaker 5: They don't. I know they don't. I mean, I definitely

820
00:36:44,920 --> 00:36:47,719
Speaker 5: believe that. But all the fantasy communities losing their mind.

821
00:36:47,760 --> 00:36:51,719
Speaker 5: London didn't get any targets, Pitt's isn't doing anything. Algiers

822
00:36:51,840 --> 00:36:54,800
Speaker 5: out touching Beijeon as a running back and all that

823
00:36:54,800 --> 00:36:56,919
Speaker 5: stuff true, And Arthur Smith doesn't care at all about

824
00:36:56,920 --> 00:36:59,759
Speaker 5: your fantasy team, of course, but if you watch that game,

825
00:37:00,480 --> 00:37:05,440
Speaker 5: Carolina's offense was so bad. I think Smith said, Tyler

826
00:37:05,520 --> 00:37:08,279
Speaker 5: our year and never throw and we will win, and

827
00:37:08,320 --> 00:37:09,000
Speaker 5: that's what happened.

828
00:37:09,440 --> 00:37:10,600
Speaker 3: Well, the Bears is broken.

829
00:37:10,760 --> 00:37:14,240
Speaker 2: Here's the thing though, Atlanta plays a very very very

830
00:37:14,280 --> 00:37:15,399
Speaker 2: soft schedule this year.

831
00:37:15,600 --> 00:37:18,920
Speaker 5: Yeah, like the fantasy world might be bad for Atlanta,

832
00:37:19,080 --> 00:37:21,200
Speaker 5: but I don't think their offense is broken.

833
00:37:21,800 --> 00:37:23,879
Speaker 2: I mean, they know what they want to be. I'll

834
00:37:23,920 --> 00:37:29,719
Speaker 2: say that like Washington's offense, that's gaming on Brian, Like

835
00:37:29,760 --> 00:37:31,840
Speaker 2: Brian Robinson's the focal point of your offense.

836
00:37:31,920 --> 00:37:34,560
Speaker 3: That's not good enough, that's not you know, that's yeah,

837
00:37:34,880 --> 00:37:36,800
Speaker 3: not even close. McLaurin.

838
00:37:37,200 --> 00:37:41,839
Speaker 5: I bet is not on how looked like, I mean,

839
00:37:41,880 --> 00:37:44,000
Speaker 5: it's one game, but he only played one game last year.

840
00:37:43,920 --> 00:37:46,799
Speaker 2: Right, He's got two games now, neither one of them

841
00:37:46,840 --> 00:37:47,240
Speaker 2: are great.

842
00:37:47,600 --> 00:37:50,440
Speaker 3: I would bet Washington ends up as a bottom ten offense.

843
00:37:50,680 --> 00:37:52,960
Speaker 5: Yeah, if not worse. I think the Bears is the

844
00:37:52,960 --> 00:37:58,319
Speaker 5: one that's screaming trouble. Tampa's was better than I thought,

845
00:37:58,560 --> 00:38:00,360
Speaker 5: but they could crater.

846
00:38:00,480 --> 00:38:05,200
Speaker 2: And I mean, but you know, Chris Goblin could be

847
00:38:05,320 --> 00:38:09,040
Speaker 2: done tomorrow. Like that's just been his history and talking about.

848
00:38:08,880 --> 00:38:12,359
Speaker 5: Daniel in my cranium here of whose other offenses I'm

849
00:38:12,360 --> 00:38:16,680
Speaker 5: worried about. I don't want to throw Baltimore out there yet,

850
00:38:17,200 --> 00:38:19,319
Speaker 5: but it should better get better soon.

851
00:38:20,520 --> 00:38:21,960
Speaker 2: I don't know that I expect.

852
00:38:22,160 --> 00:38:23,160
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't.

853
00:38:23,160 --> 00:38:24,960
Speaker 2: I don't know that it is. I don't know it's

854
00:38:24,960 --> 00:38:26,200
Speaker 2: going to get markedly better.

855
00:38:26,400 --> 00:38:29,360
Speaker 5: I know the Jets always play the Bills rough, and

856
00:38:29,360 --> 00:38:30,760
Speaker 5: I'm not saying the Bills are gonna be a bottom

857
00:38:30,800 --> 00:38:31,600
Speaker 5: tend the offense.

858
00:38:31,640 --> 00:38:34,200
Speaker 3: They won't. But it might not be a great one.

859
00:38:34,719 --> 00:38:36,560
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, it might just be a It might

860
00:38:36,600 --> 00:38:38,560
Speaker 5: just be fine, you know. I mean it's a little

861
00:38:38,560 --> 00:38:39,440
Speaker 5: too Allen dependent.

862
00:38:39,560 --> 00:38:40,960
Speaker 3: Still it is.

863
00:38:41,280 --> 00:38:46,160
Speaker 5: Yeah, like the Colts was better than I expected. Titans

864
00:38:46,200 --> 00:38:51,280
Speaker 5: that might have been a Jago Beest aberration. Yeah, Denver's

865
00:38:51,400 --> 00:38:51,880
Speaker 5: was bad.

866
00:38:52,000 --> 00:38:55,960
Speaker 2: Denver's offense was bad against a bad defense defense. The

867
00:38:56,040 --> 00:38:57,239
Speaker 2: Raiders offense wasn't great.

868
00:38:57,600 --> 00:38:59,920
Speaker 5: It wasn't Jimmy was a little better. And I expected

869
00:39:01,239 --> 00:39:02,200
Speaker 5: Seattle's was bad.

870
00:39:02,239 --> 00:39:04,680
Speaker 2: Seattle's offense might be troublesome.

871
00:39:04,840 --> 00:39:08,680
Speaker 5: Yeah, Seattle could be the who are the underachieving offenses

872
00:39:08,680 --> 00:39:10,840
Speaker 5: this year? Seattle might be near the top of the

873
00:39:10,840 --> 00:39:13,319
Speaker 5: list for me, if we're of most worried.

874
00:39:13,080 --> 00:39:15,799
Speaker 2: It might be a situation where Gino Smith is.

875
00:39:16,880 --> 00:39:20,360
Speaker 5: Too much strength and Gino and tackle injuries. It is

876
00:39:20,360 --> 00:39:21,160
Speaker 5: a bad combination.

877
00:39:21,440 --> 00:39:23,839
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean you're talking about a quarterback. He had

878
00:39:23,880 --> 00:39:24,840
Speaker 2: ten years in the league.

879
00:39:24,960 --> 00:39:27,200
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, and a lot to go off of.

880
00:39:27,200 --> 00:39:28,800
Speaker 2: There and just didn't do it. And then all of

881
00:39:28,840 --> 00:39:30,640
Speaker 2: a sudden you has this, you know, an eight game stretcher.

882
00:39:30,680 --> 00:39:34,759
Speaker 2: He plays really well. Second half of the season wasn't great.

883
00:39:35,320 --> 00:39:37,160
Speaker 3: Bears was really bad to me, though, I just keep

884
00:39:37,200 --> 00:39:38,879
Speaker 3: coming up with them because.

885
00:39:40,080 --> 00:39:42,360
Speaker 5: The stuff of the homework I did on them was

886
00:39:42,680 --> 00:39:44,759
Speaker 5: you know, listening to other people and stuff that really

887
00:39:44,760 --> 00:39:49,279
Speaker 5: study them. They said things like their protections didn't match

888
00:39:49,320 --> 00:39:52,840
Speaker 5: their route concepts and stuff like that, and like fields

889
00:39:52,840 --> 00:39:56,880
Speaker 5: is still holding the ball and everyone's just sitting on

890
00:39:56,920 --> 00:40:00,360
Speaker 5: the short routes now because the protections aren't good, and

891
00:40:00,400 --> 00:40:02,799
Speaker 5: the later in the down fields is holding the ball

892
00:40:02,840 --> 00:40:07,560
Speaker 5: and take the sacks, and like everything's disjointed, and Claypool's

893
00:40:07,560 --> 00:40:08,640
Speaker 5: out there not doing what.

894
00:40:08,600 --> 00:40:11,560
Speaker 2: He's supposed to do and getting benched and.

895
00:40:11,480 --> 00:40:12,759
Speaker 3: The defense doesn't help and.

896
00:40:15,280 --> 00:40:17,759
Speaker 2: More's hands and yeah, as bad as it was last

897
00:40:17,760 --> 00:40:20,120
Speaker 2: week for the Steelers, I don't I didn't see.

898
00:40:19,920 --> 00:40:23,160
Speaker 5: That no, right, right, right, Like a lot of these

899
00:40:23,160 --> 00:40:25,720
Speaker 5: offenses we mentioned worry me more.

900
00:40:25,880 --> 00:40:28,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, I saw the quarterback have a bad day. Yeah,

901
00:40:29,000 --> 00:40:31,920
Speaker 2: throwing the football against a very really bad situation.

902
00:40:32,000 --> 00:40:34,560
Speaker 5: Yeah, like the Bears weren't some of some of these

903
00:40:34,600 --> 00:40:37,479
Speaker 5: teams were talking about Carolina the Bears. The other team

904
00:40:37,520 --> 00:40:39,600
Speaker 5: wasn't running away with it on the other side. Yeah,

905
00:40:39,600 --> 00:40:41,920
Speaker 5: you know, I mean you're playing the Falcons and Packers

906
00:40:41,960 --> 00:40:43,600
Speaker 5: and good teams, not great teams.

907
00:40:43,680 --> 00:40:44,000
Speaker 4: Yeah.

908
00:40:44,120 --> 00:40:46,319
Speaker 3: I mean they could have at least stuck with their

909
00:40:46,360 --> 00:40:47,920
Speaker 3: game plan and they didn't.

910
00:40:48,520 --> 00:40:51,360
Speaker 2: They had no game plan they had. It looked like

911
00:40:51,400 --> 00:40:53,000
Speaker 2: there was no game Yeah.

912
00:40:53,040 --> 00:40:54,719
Speaker 5: I mean they were at least able to stay on

913
00:40:54,840 --> 00:40:59,080
Speaker 5: script and not play left handed. And it didn't matter

914
00:40:59,640 --> 00:41:02,239
Speaker 5: what they planned on doing. They did, they just did

915
00:41:02,280 --> 00:41:02,760
Speaker 5: it poorly.

916
00:41:03,000 --> 00:41:05,640
Speaker 2: Yeah, as Matt Matt Cannada spoke to the media today

917
00:41:05,640 --> 00:41:08,719
Speaker 2: and said, look, we we had a game plan and

918
00:41:09,640 --> 00:41:11,880
Speaker 2: once you go five, three and out on five consecutors,

919
00:41:11,920 --> 00:41:14,600
Speaker 2: you can't get a first down on five consecutive possessions

920
00:41:14,600 --> 00:41:16,960
Speaker 2: and it's twenty to nothing game plan shot.

921
00:41:17,040 --> 00:41:19,120
Speaker 3: Yeah, now it's winging it. Yeah.

922
00:41:19,200 --> 00:41:21,160
Speaker 2: You know, when you can't complete, you can't convert a

923
00:41:21,200 --> 00:41:21,760
Speaker 2: first down.

924
00:41:23,040 --> 00:41:24,120
Speaker 3: Where's our bread and butter?

925
00:41:24,160 --> 00:41:26,960
Speaker 2: And it was not because there weren't guys open what's not?

926
00:41:27,000 --> 00:41:30,279
Speaker 2: Because you know, they just they couldn't do it because, yeah,

927
00:41:31,960 --> 00:41:32,919
Speaker 2: picking had a bad day.

928
00:41:33,280 --> 00:41:34,480
Speaker 3: He did. He did a really bad day.

929
00:41:35,000 --> 00:41:37,719
Speaker 2: So we'll see if it rebounds this week. He is

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Speaker 2: Matt Williamson. I am Dale Lallie. You're listening to the

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Speaker 2: Drive here on Steelers Nation Radio. We'll be back to

932
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Speaker 2: finish up the show right after this.

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Speaker 2: stuff there. I got some genuine Steelers I was wearing

944
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Speaker 2: some earlier for video too. Yeah, I changed you.

945
00:42:34,600 --> 00:42:36,400
Speaker 3: I stopped home it was on the way. I'm like,

946
00:42:36,680 --> 00:42:37,760
Speaker 3: I put my shorts on.

947
00:42:37,640 --> 00:42:40,960
Speaker 2: And that has pain wears pants to the video. I

948
00:42:41,040 --> 00:42:43,640
Speaker 2: do this show three hundred and sixty five days out

949
00:42:43,640 --> 00:42:45,440
Speaker 2: of the year with Matt. I never see him in pants.

950
00:42:45,520 --> 00:42:46,720
Speaker 3: It doesn't happen very often.

951
00:42:47,120 --> 00:42:49,160
Speaker 5: Even middle winter, I come strolling in the hoodie and

952
00:42:49,280 --> 00:42:51,759
Speaker 5: basketball shorts. If we're just coming here. Yeah, yeah, not

953
00:42:51,840 --> 00:42:53,680
Speaker 5: many people see me when I leave that here.

954
00:42:53,719 --> 00:42:55,160
Speaker 2: It's a Pittsburgh thing, it is.

955
00:42:55,480 --> 00:42:58,480
Speaker 3: I'm always in shorts. My son's the same way me.

956
00:42:58,560 --> 00:43:00,480
Speaker 3: Middle winter. He was about the bus stop in short.

957
00:43:00,719 --> 00:43:03,239
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't. I don't do that.

958
00:43:03,239 --> 00:43:04,920
Speaker 3: That's all why I stopped him. It wasn't like I

959
00:43:04,920 --> 00:43:07,200
Speaker 3: was uncomfortable, but I'm here, well.

960
00:43:07,239 --> 00:43:14,240
Speaker 2: Might as well. Absolutely, But the Steelers, uh practice report today?

961
00:43:15,280 --> 00:43:16,120
Speaker 2: Not often.

962
00:43:16,120 --> 00:43:17,719
Speaker 5: I think it's where you wanted to be. Yeah, I

963
00:43:17,760 --> 00:43:19,799
Speaker 5: think the big guys you knew weren't gonna around right.

964
00:43:20,360 --> 00:43:23,440
Speaker 2: And of course Cam Heyward has gone on injured reserve.

965
00:43:24,160 --> 00:43:27,560
Speaker 2: The Steelers making a move then with that to go.

966
00:43:28,719 --> 00:43:31,200
Speaker 3: Soon as eligible. He's off, you know, I mean that's.

967
00:43:31,040 --> 00:43:33,520
Speaker 2: The he's out for at least four weeks because of that.

968
00:43:33,600 --> 00:43:35,959
Speaker 3: You know this one and three more folks.

969
00:43:35,680 --> 00:43:38,399
Speaker 2: Yeah, so we'll see. I mean he talks about how

970
00:43:38,440 --> 00:43:43,040
Speaker 2: he is a well he's got wolverine blood. We'll see,

971
00:43:43,200 --> 00:43:45,240
Speaker 2: you know, how quickly he can come back from the surgery.

972
00:43:45,239 --> 00:43:46,280
Speaker 3: Out there was a surgery.

973
00:43:46,320 --> 00:43:49,640
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was scheduled for today, and we're not going

974
00:43:49,719 --> 00:43:50,120
Speaker 2: to get.

975
00:43:50,239 --> 00:43:51,440
Speaker 3: The deep reports of that.

976
00:43:51,760 --> 00:43:51,920
Speaker 2: No.

977
00:43:52,000 --> 00:43:54,280
Speaker 3: I hope he didn't find anything terrible when you went in.

978
00:43:54,360 --> 00:43:57,799
Speaker 2: Right, you hope everything went well. But that was not

979
00:43:58,040 --> 00:43:59,160
Speaker 2: surprising that he went on.

980
00:43:59,320 --> 00:43:59,640
Speaker 4: I R.

981
00:44:00,040 --> 00:44:03,200
Speaker 2: Des Fitzpatrick was promoted off the practice squad to the

982
00:44:03,239 --> 00:44:03,920
Speaker 2: active roster.

983
00:44:04,480 --> 00:44:06,040
Speaker 3: He kept showing it more and more in camp.

984
00:44:06,160 --> 00:44:06,359
Speaker 4: Yeah.

985
00:44:06,520 --> 00:44:08,759
Speaker 5: I mean, like I kind of I knew him coming

986
00:44:08,760 --> 00:44:10,560
Speaker 5: out of Louisville. I think he was a fourth round,

987
00:44:10,800 --> 00:44:14,160
Speaker 5: fourth round picking Titans. Yeah, and was a good prospect.

988
00:44:14,200 --> 00:44:15,759
Speaker 5: I mean that's about where I thought he should go

989
00:44:15,840 --> 00:44:18,359
Speaker 5: in the draft. And then he got the camp. I'm like, oh,

990
00:44:18,400 --> 00:44:20,120
Speaker 5: that's a nice pickup. But boy, there's a lot of

991
00:44:20,160 --> 00:44:22,200
Speaker 5: receivers here. He's not gonna beat out boy Kin. Yeah,

992
00:44:22,239 --> 00:44:23,600
Speaker 5: you know what I mean, He's in trouble, But he

993
00:44:23,640 --> 00:44:26,320
Speaker 5: just kept showing up and showing up and then played

994
00:44:26,320 --> 00:44:28,880
Speaker 5: more and more special teams, you know, like those receivers

995
00:44:28,880 --> 00:44:32,200
Speaker 5: that get the special teams, nod are doing something right

996
00:44:32,239 --> 00:44:34,839
Speaker 5: on offense, you know, those borderline guys. So I don't

997
00:44:34,840 --> 00:44:36,759
Speaker 5: know if Hill he probably won't be active for this game,

998
00:44:36,840 --> 00:44:40,600
Speaker 5: but I mean I think he's an NFL player.

999
00:44:40,880 --> 00:44:43,520
Speaker 2: Yeah. He had his five career catches for forty nine

1000
00:44:43,600 --> 00:44:47,040
Speaker 2: yards and a touchdown in five regular season games, so

1001
00:44:47,040 --> 00:44:49,640
Speaker 2: it's not like he's never played. He's played some games

1002
00:44:49,680 --> 00:44:49,960
Speaker 2: in the.

1003
00:44:49,920 --> 00:44:53,359
Speaker 3: League, but he obviously he's impressed them.

1004
00:44:53,600 --> 00:44:57,320
Speaker 2: Yeah, right. Looking at that rest of the injury report,

1005
00:44:57,800 --> 00:45:02,279
Speaker 2: of course, Deantey Johnson did not practice. Anthony McFarland did

1006
00:45:02,360 --> 00:45:05,799
Speaker 2: not practice with a little knee issue. Chooks, the CORPS

1007
00:45:05,800 --> 00:45:08,839
Speaker 2: four with the concussion, was limited today. That's a good

1008
00:45:08,920 --> 00:45:12,200
Speaker 2: sign for him. James Daniels that turns out to be

1009
00:45:12,280 --> 00:45:15,160
Speaker 2: an ankle injury. He was limited today, as were Pat

1010
00:45:15,160 --> 00:45:18,800
Speaker 2: Friarmouth with the chest and Larry Ogan Jobi with the foot.

1011
00:45:19,440 --> 00:45:22,040
Speaker 2: So it looks like, you, you know, you may only

1012
00:45:22,080 --> 00:45:25,440
Speaker 2: be without Hayward and Johnson this week. As we mentioned

1013
00:45:25,440 --> 00:45:28,240
Speaker 2: there though the Browns injury report, they had some guys

1014
00:45:28,239 --> 00:45:31,520
Speaker 2: that did not practice because of non injury related stuff,

1015
00:45:31,920 --> 00:45:36,960
Speaker 2: but defensive tackle Shelby Harris with an achilles injury defensive

1016
00:45:36,960 --> 00:45:41,640
Speaker 2: tackle Maurice Hurst with a hamstring injury, defensive tackle Siaki

1017
00:45:41,719 --> 00:45:44,719
Speaker 2: Eka with a foot issue. All did not practice.

1018
00:45:44,880 --> 00:45:47,320
Speaker 5: Not superstars, but you don't want cluster injuries at the

1019
00:45:47,320 --> 00:45:48,400
Speaker 5: same position.

1020
00:45:48,120 --> 00:45:48,880
Speaker 4: At the same spot.

1021
00:45:48,960 --> 00:45:52,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's that's where it gets difficult. Safety one Thornhill

1022
00:45:52,920 --> 00:45:54,680
Speaker 2: did not practice with a calf issue.

1023
00:45:54,920 --> 00:45:58,400
Speaker 3: And then that's worth on Thornhill.

1024
00:45:58,520 --> 00:45:58,719
Speaker 4: Yeah.

1025
00:45:58,719 --> 00:46:00,400
Speaker 3: I think he's a good player, not a great player.

1026
00:46:00,440 --> 00:46:03,919
Speaker 5: But if we were talking about Friarmouth and tight ends

1027
00:46:03,960 --> 00:46:07,080
Speaker 5: and middle of the field and Thornhill's.

1028
00:46:06,600 --> 00:46:08,799
Speaker 2: Helping out in the run game. Yeah, yeah, So that's

1029
00:46:08,840 --> 00:46:11,759
Speaker 2: that's interesting. And of course Anthony Walker, one of their

1030
00:46:11,760 --> 00:46:13,640
Speaker 2: inside linebackers, did not practice.

1031
00:46:13,800 --> 00:46:15,399
Speaker 3: Makes me attack the mitlefield even more.

1032
00:46:15,480 --> 00:46:18,960
Speaker 2: Yeah. And then Jedrick Willis uh with their starting left

1033
00:46:19,000 --> 00:46:21,960
Speaker 2: tackle with the foot was limited. Today they're already down

1034
00:46:22,000 --> 00:46:23,080
Speaker 2: there starting right tackle.

1035
00:46:23,760 --> 00:46:27,760
Speaker 5: So you've called him Willis eight thousand times his name will.

1036
00:46:27,760 --> 00:46:29,960
Speaker 2: I'm looking at this, So'm like, when you see the

1037
00:46:30,000 --> 00:46:30,919
Speaker 2: eye date all the time.

1038
00:46:31,040 --> 00:46:33,160
Speaker 3: If I type it, I would type Willis, Like, that's

1039
00:46:33,200 --> 00:46:36,839
Speaker 3: not it. It's only been three years. I've been wanting

1040
00:46:36,880 --> 00:46:39,360
Speaker 3: to correct you, But fine, that's I Butcher names one

1041
00:46:39,400 --> 00:46:40,000
Speaker 3: of those things.

1042
00:46:39,800 --> 00:46:41,799
Speaker 2: Where you see the eyes and the ls all next

1043
00:46:41,840 --> 00:46:42,279
Speaker 2: to each other.

1044
00:46:42,280 --> 00:46:45,759
Speaker 5: I called Cameron Sutton Courtland Sutton a thousand times when

1045
00:46:45,800 --> 00:46:46,320
Speaker 5: he was a Steeler.

1046
00:46:46,400 --> 00:46:47,520
Speaker 3: Tu, I had no good reason to.

1047
00:46:47,640 --> 00:46:50,000
Speaker 2: You're still doing the whole Pickens pick a thing like.

1048
00:46:50,480 --> 00:46:54,960
Speaker 3: Who Frederickson the Cowboys center?

1049
00:46:55,120 --> 00:46:55,440
Speaker 4: Yeah?

1050
00:46:55,560 --> 00:46:59,719
Speaker 5: I called him Rob Frederickson eight thousand times because Rob

1051
00:46:59,800 --> 00:47:02,120
Speaker 5: was our backup center at pitt He was a walk

1052
00:47:02,160 --> 00:47:04,000
Speaker 5: on that we gave a scholarship too. I'm not sure

1053
00:47:04,000 --> 00:47:05,480
Speaker 5: we gave you a scholarship, Rob, but he was a

1054
00:47:05,480 --> 00:47:08,160
Speaker 5: good kid. And one of them is a pro bowler,

1055
00:47:08,239 --> 00:47:10,000
Speaker 5: one of them is a walk on center pit and

1056
00:47:10,080 --> 00:47:11,640
Speaker 5: nothing in comics but for being centered.

1057
00:47:12,840 --> 00:47:13,280
Speaker 3: It happens.

1058
00:47:13,320 --> 00:47:15,279
Speaker 2: We're getting old work, we're getting old.

1059
00:47:15,320 --> 00:47:17,600
Speaker 3: But I'm not throwing stones in my glass house.

1060
00:47:17,920 --> 00:47:20,080
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, ideally, you'd love to have Cam Heyward

1061
00:47:20,120 --> 00:47:23,240
Speaker 2: available for this game. You'd love to have Deontay Johnson guard. Yeah,

1062
00:47:23,360 --> 00:47:27,400
Speaker 2: you know, we'll see. I mean, I think i'd like

1063
00:47:27,440 --> 00:47:29,799
Speaker 2: to see more Keanu Benton. You'd like to see more

1064
00:47:29,840 --> 00:47:30,879
Speaker 2: k wait for that.

1065
00:47:30,880 --> 00:47:34,239
Speaker 5: That's that's the only silver lining to me and I

1066
00:47:34,360 --> 00:47:37,480
Speaker 5: like we've been saying too talking through the well. You

1067
00:47:37,480 --> 00:47:40,680
Speaker 5: don't have Deontay, Well, let's get big on offense. You know,

1068
00:47:40,719 --> 00:47:42,880
Speaker 5: I think it's a great opportunity for Benton, great opportunity

1069
00:47:42,920 --> 00:47:44,799
Speaker 5: for Washington Heyward, those guys too.

1070
00:47:45,320 --> 00:47:47,279
Speaker 3: But I don't care about opportunities. I want to beat

1071
00:47:47,280 --> 00:47:47,600
Speaker 3: the Browns.

1072
00:47:47,600 --> 00:47:49,399
Speaker 2: You know, you got to win the game. Ye win

1073
00:47:49,520 --> 00:47:52,839
Speaker 2: the game, you know, and you know, once you get

1074
00:47:52,880 --> 00:47:56,280
Speaker 2: through this little stretch at the beginning of the season,

1075
00:47:58,400 --> 00:48:01,400
Speaker 2: you know, you start looking at what you have upcoming.

1076
00:48:01,440 --> 00:48:04,440
Speaker 3: Then two would be terrible, but the next two or

1077
00:48:05,480 --> 00:48:05,960
Speaker 3: games you.

1078
00:48:05,880 --> 00:48:09,120
Speaker 2: Should win, Yeah, because then you know, after that you

1079
00:48:09,200 --> 00:48:15,560
Speaker 2: get Raiders in Vegas. Yeah, the Raiders in Vegas at

1080
00:48:15,560 --> 00:48:16,759
Speaker 2: the Texans.

1081
00:48:17,280 --> 00:48:19,320
Speaker 3: Your favorite. In both those games, even if this is

1082
00:48:19,320 --> 00:48:20,440
Speaker 3: a disaster game.

1083
00:48:20,719 --> 00:48:23,880
Speaker 2: You get the Ravens at home. Maybe they figured their

1084
00:48:23,920 --> 00:48:25,680
Speaker 2: offense out by them, Maybe they have some of these

1085
00:48:25,680 --> 00:48:28,160
Speaker 2: They've got a myriad of injuries right now.

1086
00:48:28,200 --> 00:48:31,719
Speaker 5: If that snowball of injuries hits them, my hunch is

1087
00:48:31,760 --> 00:48:34,680
Speaker 5: the Ravens and Steelers will look a lot different in

1088
00:48:34,719 --> 00:48:36,880
Speaker 5: Week five than they do on September fourteenth.

1089
00:48:37,000 --> 00:48:40,480
Speaker 2: Yeah, then you get your bye in week six. In

1090
00:48:40,560 --> 00:48:42,520
Speaker 2: the grand scheme of things, When the schedule came out,

1091
00:48:42,560 --> 00:48:44,600
Speaker 2: you're like, oh, the buy's pretty early this year. Well,

1092
00:48:44,600 --> 00:48:49,560
Speaker 2: now that you're without Cam Hayward' so yeah, that's not

1093
00:48:49,600 --> 00:48:51,879
Speaker 2: a bad play. Hey, it's a game that you don't

1094
00:48:51,920 --> 00:48:53,640
Speaker 2: have to play without Cam Hayward.

1095
00:48:54,239 --> 00:48:56,040
Speaker 3: Yeah, good point. I mean he's that important.

1096
00:48:56,120 --> 00:48:58,600
Speaker 2: Yeah, so you know if it's let's say that, so

1097
00:48:58,640 --> 00:49:01,040
Speaker 2: that will get you through one, two, three, that's five

1098
00:49:01,120 --> 00:49:03,080
Speaker 2: weeks coming out of the bye.

1099
00:49:03,320 --> 00:49:08,239
Speaker 3: Okay, so Cam won't be there for Ravens, right and after.

1100
00:49:08,000 --> 00:49:10,799
Speaker 2: That, after that then it starts getting maybe he's back,

1101
00:49:11,440 --> 00:49:13,480
Speaker 2: you know, much better chances back he come out of

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Speaker 2: the bye at the Rams.

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Speaker 3: That buybe works out well for his ir situation.

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Speaker 2: Right at the Rams coming out of the bye. That's

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Speaker 2: now six weeks out from the Hayward injury. And then

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Speaker 2: you get the Jaguars at home, the Titans at home

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Speaker 2: on a Thursday night. So if you can get him

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Speaker 2: back somewhere in that time frame, yeah, then you get

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Speaker 2: Packers Brown's.

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Speaker 3: I don't think Deontay will be out, No.

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Speaker 2: I would expect Deonte maybe maybe he's out against the Raiders,

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Speaker 2: comes back against the Texas, maybe he's back against the Ravens.

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Speaker 2: But I don't expect that to be a long term

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Speaker 2: thing either. So in the grand scheme of things. Uh oh, and.

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Speaker 3: Two would be terrible, but that would not be the

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Speaker 3: end of the season.

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Speaker 2: No, No, there's there's plenty of season left. I think

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Speaker 2: it was we saw in Week one. Anybody can lose. Yeah, sure,

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Speaker 2: you know, the Chiefs, the Bills.

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Speaker 3: Who else was Bengals?

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Speaker 2: The Bengals lost, The Chargers lost. To me, these are

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Speaker 2: teams that everybody's penciling into the playoffs already. You know,

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Speaker 2: are one of them going to start going too?

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Speaker 5: And it's a bigger conversation we have time for. But

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Speaker 5: we all think the AFC is much better than the NFC.

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Speaker 5: But I mean, Eagles, Cowboys, Niners, they may be the

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Speaker 5: best threning teams in the league.

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Speaker 2: They look pretty good.

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Speaker 5: What Philly does tonight? Yeah, the AFC has more questions

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Speaker 5: at the moment.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, We're going to continue to answer those questions

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Speaker 2: as we continue here on the show. Tomorrow, we'll be back.

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Speaker 2: We'll have lots of stuff. We'll break down tonight's game,

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Speaker 2: we'll get you a preview of the weekend's games. Of course,

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Speaker 2: we won't do a show on Monday because there's a

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Speaker 2: game on Monday, so don't tune in to try to

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Speaker 2: listen to the Drive on Monday, but of course Mark,

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Speaker 2: Matt and will be part of the pregame show. But

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Speaker 2: that's going to do it for our show today, So

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Speaker 2: for my partner Matt Williamson for seej woefully here on

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Speaker 2: site keeping us on the air. I am Dale, Lallie.

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Speaker 2: We thank you for listening to this edition of the

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Speaker 2: Drive on Steelers Nation Radio.