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Speaker 1: And we are back. I am Dale Lolly, he is

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Speaker 1: Matt Williamson, and it is time for the Fantasy Football Focus,

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Speaker 1: and as we do on Mondays, we'll take a look

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Speaker 1: at some of the top performers from this weekend. And

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Speaker 1: we had once again not a big passing weekend here

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Speaker 1: in the NFL. Only three guys over three hundred yards.

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Speaker 1: I know, it's starting to become a trend.

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Speaker 3: Started to become a trend, and it's also becoming run

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Speaker 3: heavy league.

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Speaker 1: As you mentioned. Yeah, well five team, five teams through

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Speaker 1: twenty or fewer passes.

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Speaker 3: And still one and one of them was the saying

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Speaker 3: to put up huge numbers. The two teams at the Steelers,

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Speaker 3: Chargers the Box who beat the Lions and Green Bay. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: ran and ran and ran and ran and ran.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. So it was Gino Smith putting up three twenty

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Speaker 1: seven and a touchdown and to win against the Patriots.

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Speaker 1: Now it took overtime to get that one, right, So

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Speaker 1: you know that three twenty seven. I don't know what

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Speaker 3: But they were a team that couldn't run the ball

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Speaker 3: at all. Yeah, Charbonade had very very little on the

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Speaker 3: not sure either. Yeah, and the Patriots were the opposite too.

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Speaker 3: The Patriots stopped the run and ran, ran, ran and ran,

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Speaker 3: and they hung around.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Uh. Brock Perdy threw for three nineteen and the

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Speaker 1: loss to the Minnesota Vikings. I thought he was so

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Speaker 1: so as well. Yeah, I mean that sacked six times. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Floraz caused the problems. Yeah, they kept they blitzed the

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Speaker 1: crap out of them, and it was a problem. He

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Speaker 1: threw one touchdown, had one interception, also fumbled in that game.

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Speaker 1: Jared Goff through fifty five passes in the loss to

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Speaker 1: that's not really their formula.

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Speaker 3: And Detroit needs to scramble a little bit. Like they

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Speaker 3: beat the Rams and it was like, wow, playoff matchup

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Speaker 3: and it's like being the Rams as hard as you

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Speaker 3: think after you know, Arizona destroyed destroyed them, right, Yeah,

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Speaker 3: And I know injuries have really hurt the Rams, but

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Speaker 1: Yeah, just missing was Dak Prescott in the Cowboys loss.

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Speaker 1: This is the commonality here, right, Three of the top

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Speaker 1: four performances for quarterbacks throw throwing for the most yards.

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Speaker 1: We're in losses, and the other one was overtime against

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Speaker 1: the Patriots. Yeah, you know, like not exactly. I think

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Speaker 3: but I mean, these voluminous running teams are winning now.

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Speaker 1: Gardner Minshew threw for two seventy six and a touchdown

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Speaker 1: in that win over the over Baltimore. Again, but they

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Speaker 1: had to come back to win.

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Speaker 3: They had to come back. Yeah, yeah, again I think,

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Speaker 3: and they're running game is not very good.

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Speaker 1: No, it's not right. They did however, they scored on

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Speaker 1: four consecutive possessions against Baltimore's defense in the second half

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Speaker 1: points in four consecutive possessions. Bowers Bowers and Adams Bowers Adams. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Baltimore's got some issues. Baltimore's got some issues.

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Speaker 3: I mean, I mean, we could talk about the division

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Speaker 3: in case I forget, Bowers has the most receptions of

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Speaker 1: Feel pretty good about having it. I had to kind

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Speaker 1: And all right, I'm good with Bauers. I'm rolling out there.

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Speaker 1: Some of the poor performances. Bryce Young, who we mentioned,

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Speaker 1: On the other side of that, we talked about the

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Speaker 1: top four of the top five quarterbacks had the most

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Speaker 3: I mean again, a lot of Thursday night ers are

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Speaker 3: going Bill's win this game. I get nothing. I have

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Speaker 3: Josh Allen's for my fantasy team, you know. I mean

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Speaker 3: he's the surest bet of all.

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Speaker 1: Minshew and Darnold are two guys, though they were six

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Speaker 3: And I like their weapons, you know, I mean, if

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Speaker 3: Average enough that you're going to keep them in games.

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Speaker 3: But you might have to throw it quite a bit.

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Speaker 3: And hey, I'll throw to Adams and Bowers and Jefferson

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Speaker 3: bad shape. Starter is a strong word for fantasy quarterback, right.

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Speaker 1: But if you've got Tua or you have Jordan Love,

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Speaker 1: That was a weird win, though weird. The Giants lost

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Speaker 1: It was bad. Completely. It wasn't even close to being

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Speaker 3: And along those lines make it even weirder, Washington had

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Speaker 3: seven field goals. Yeah, you know, they didn't get in

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Speaker 1: He was targeted on two thirds of the dropbacks. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you know, like thirty big target share, sixty six point six.

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Speaker 1: And we'll get to him and in the next when

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Speaker 1: we talk about the wide receivers Fantasy day, Yeah, like

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Speaker 1: you have a weird fantasy game. JK. Dobbins seventeen for

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Speaker 3: but he's not explosive. Dobbins is ripping off long runs.

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Speaker 1: be a key to the game. Dobbins looks like an

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Speaker 1: James Connor twenty one for one, two in a touchdown.

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Speaker 1: In our league. I got again shut out on a

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Speaker 3: You Yeah, yeah, I mean they've both done, have the

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Speaker 3: greatest injury track record. But running backs a week the week,

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Speaker 3: of the rite them while you can. Alvin Kamara twenty

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Speaker 3: mean they're older, I mean, they're freshest, could be. They're

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Speaker 3: good football players. Schemes helping dramatically. I tweeted this out

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Speaker 3: a couple hours ago. The Saints were last in the

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Speaker 3: and they're putting up points like crazy. Like that doesn't

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's going to be helpful. On the other

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Speaker 1: No, I'm really here a liability. It was under fifty percent. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: leading rushers this week. Jayalen Warren is number thirty in

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Speaker 1: this week's leading rushers with forty two yards. Okay, Richardson's

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Speaker 1: he didn't run. They didn't. They just they didn't have

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Speaker 3: Colts have to kind of be kicking themselves a little

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Speaker 1: Do the same. Yeah, Richardson was seventeen of thirty four

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Speaker 3: Times, no, right, I mean take big shots, design runs

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Speaker 3: I mean you'll see him in a couple of weeks here,

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Speaker 1: Isaiah Pacheco had nineteen for ninety didn't score in all

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Speaker 1: Thirteen for eighty four from Jamiir Gibbs, Derrick Henry eighteen

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Speaker 3: I've always thought he was one of my favorite handcuffs. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: I mean, and I think he's I think he's kind

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Speaker 1: Yeah, if he's available, Oh, I grafted. I think he

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Speaker 1: If some word happened to Connor, Yeah, the Marcado would

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Speaker 3: If it's a good offense. I don't know a ton

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Speaker 1: Absolutely, keep him on the on the back burner. Eleven

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Speaker 3: He's a force. I mean, he's clearly the one there. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Jefferson had four for one thirty three and a touchdown,

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Speaker 3: But I didn't hear a lot today. That's promising. But yeah,

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Speaker 3: I mean he's a star absolutely, and Darnold's not hurting

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Speaker 1: Marvin Harrison only had four catches, but they went for

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Speaker 1: the clock. Rams or rams are a messer right now, Yeah, disaster.

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Speaker 1: DK Metcalf had ten for one twenty nine in a

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Speaker 3: H I mean him and JSN are clearly the one

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Speaker 3: and two now, I think, yeah, there's a good offense

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Speaker 1: Well, you mentioned Malak Neighbors earlier ten for one to

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Speaker 1: He's the youngest player in NFL history to have ten catches,

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Speaker 1: one hundred yards and a touchdown in one game. Really, Okay,

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Speaker 1: I mean he's a I think he's a wide receiver

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Speaker 1: one for fantasy. Yeah, they understand that. They defeat him

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Speaker 1: like crazy. A mon Ross Saint Brown eleven for one nineteen.

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Speaker 1: he had sixteen targets when he left that.

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Speaker 3: I think people that drafted him in round eight or

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Speaker 1: Chris Godwin's seven for one to seventeen in a touchdown

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Speaker 1: And that team.

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Speaker 3: I was a little worried after Week one, you know,

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Speaker 1: Year brock Bauers just missed with nine for ninety eight,

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Speaker 1: Earth, of course.

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Speaker 3: But folks, I mean, but in fact they did against

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Speaker 3: I'm sure you're putting them in your lineup next week.

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Speaker 1: I believe that some of the other guys who might

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Speaker 3: You know, does his cousins look better? Was it a

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Speaker 1: I thought the way he was running the ball early

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Speaker 1: in the game, I'm like, Oh, we're gonna have a

435
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Speaker 1: big one here. Didn't happen. We have a check go

436
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Speaker 1: in the lineup. He was fine. Jordan Mason in the

437
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Speaker 1: lineup that worked out well. He had sixty four percent

438
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Speaker 1: ownership though we were right about that. Yeah, yeah, Cooper

439
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Speaker 1: Cup had sixty seven point eight percent ownership, only had

440
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Speaker 1: four for thirty seven. Well he got hurt. I mean yeah,

441
00:20:15,480 --> 00:20:19,199
Speaker 1: rams are a mess. We had Palmer, Josh Palmer with

442
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Speaker 1: the Rams or with the Chargers. They just don't throw

443
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Speaker 1: the ball enough.

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Speaker 3: He's not doing much either to really do my Chargers homework.

445
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Speaker 3: It's been Quintin Johnson is getting the most route share

446
00:20:28,240 --> 00:20:32,400
Speaker 3: and Mconkey's two. Palmer's out there a lot, but he's

447
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Speaker 3: not producing like the other two.

448
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Speaker 1: Yeah. I think if you have him, might be time,

449
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Speaker 1: might be droppable, might be droppable. Malik Neighbors we had

450
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Speaker 1: in the lineup. He had thirty one point seven brought

451
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Speaker 1: Bowers we had in the lineup eighteen point eight. He

452
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Speaker 1: was only four forty four hundred last week. That's going

453
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Speaker 1: to go up. That's gonna go up. The same thing

454
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Speaker 1: with Neighbors was fifty nine hundred. That's going to go

455
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Speaker 1: up to massively. Yeah. Yeah. We had Derrick Henry in

456
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Speaker 1: the lineup. He was fine. Patriot Steve Fense right, he

457
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Speaker 1: did not know And we had the Patriots defense didn't

458
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Speaker 1: work out great, but they got us three points. Ok

459
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Speaker 1: So we'll see if we hold on and stay in

460
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Speaker 1: the money here. But yeah, there's a lot of big

461
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Speaker 1: dogs tonight though. Yeah. Absolutely, we're gonna get to a

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Speaker 1: break that's gonna do it for the Fantasy Football Focus.

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Speaker 1: He is Matt Williamson. I am Dale Lolly. This is

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Speaker 1: the Drive on the Steelers Audio Network, Matt, and I'll

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Speaker 1: be back with more right after this.

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Speaker 2: This is the Drive with Dale Lolly and Matt Williamson

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Speaker 2: on your twenty four to seven home of the Black

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Speaker 2: and Gold Steelers Nation Radio.

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Speaker 1: And we are back. He is the Matt Williamson. I

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Speaker 1: am Dale Lollie. And well we're gonna talk a little

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Speaker 1: bit about Bill Barmwell's article today again tonight, nine teams

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Speaker 1: have started h and two, and if you go back

473
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Speaker 1: to two thousand and two, the teams that have started

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Speaker 1: oh and three, there have been one hundred and three

475
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Speaker 1: of them. Okay, you start oh and three. One team

476
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Speaker 1: has rebonded to make the playoffs. Wow, So Atlanta could

477
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Speaker 1: add to this list tonight. They're on one. There own one.

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Speaker 1: There could be ten teams.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, So of those nine and a half teams.

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Speaker 3: Four of them will probably lose in Week three at least,

481
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Speaker 3: you know, maybe more because they're maned. Like I don't

482
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Speaker 3: even know who Carolina plays, but I'm not liking their

483
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Speaker 3: champions to go to one and two. And I mean,

484
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Speaker 3: it's almost close to elimination time.

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Speaker 1: It really is. And there's two in the division, two

486
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Speaker 1: within the division, and lo and behold, they lead Barnwell's

487
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Speaker 1: list of the oh and two teams that he feels

488
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Speaker 1: have the best chance to pull out of this.

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Speaker 3: You and I have talked off the air. I think

490
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Speaker 3: we're both more confident and since he especially because the

491
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Speaker 3: upcoming schedule. Yeah, and they've been both teams have been.

492
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Speaker 3: All four games been competitive, both Bengals and both Ravens.

493
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Speaker 3: But I feel like since he's in a better spot.

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Speaker 1: They both have too bad a bad loss each shows not.

495
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Speaker 3: Good teams, right, and they've they've lost at home too.

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Speaker 3: Yeahs have two road games.

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Speaker 1: You know. Yeah that factors into this whole thing to me.

498
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Speaker 1: Yeah that okay, you lost games, but you lost games

499
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Speaker 1: at home to bad team raiders in the Patriots. Yeah yeah,

500
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Speaker 1: that's not okay. Yeah. Or so, he ranks Cincinnati as

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Speaker 1: his best of the zer and two teams. I tend

502
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Speaker 1: to agree. Right now, their football Power Index gives them

503
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Speaker 1: a forty three point two chance of making the postseason,

504
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Speaker 1: making the playoffs. Well, I know they have an easy

505
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Speaker 1: one coming up. I forget who it is they have.

506
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Speaker 1: Two of their next three games are against one of

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Speaker 1: them Carolina, Carolina and the Giants.

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Speaker 3: So two and two all of a sudden that they're probably.

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Speaker 1: A third game, however, is against Baltimore.

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Speaker 3: I don't think that's a loser leave tone match in

511
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Speaker 3: you know, week five, but it could be for the

512
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Speaker 3: Ravens if they're own four.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean the Ravens have a really tough schedule

514
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Speaker 1: coming up. Yeah, if you look at Baltimore schedule. They

515
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Speaker 1: got to go to the Dallas this week, to Dallas,

516
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Speaker 1: to Dallas. Now, Dallas got smoked yesterday, but they're so good.

517
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Speaker 1: That was Dallas's first loss in sixteen in their last

518
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Speaker 1: seventeen home games. Really wow, and I think eight of

519
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Speaker 1: those games they had won by twenty or more points. Wow.

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Speaker 1: I assume Dallas is favored in that game. I would

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Speaker 1: think so, yeah, I would think. I mean, both coming

522
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Speaker 1: off a loss. So if Baltimore goes to Dallas this

523
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Speaker 1: week and loses. Now we know Lamar has a good

524
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Speaker 1: record against NFC team, sure, because you just don't see

525
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Speaker 1: them all that often. But that's a good Dallas defense.

526
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Speaker 1: It's just gotten embarrassed.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean teams rebound heavy, you know, they get

528
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Speaker 3: embarrassed like that. They're good at home, they walk party

529
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Speaker 3: and Lawrence and Zimmer. I mean, like, I don't love

530
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Speaker 3: the O line situation.

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Speaker 1: No, that's the problem for the Ravens right now. There's

532
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Speaker 1: also this stuff that they really I sent this to

533
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Speaker 1: you earlier. Yes, a little alarm founded in I founded

534
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Speaker 1: in Barnwell's piece here Today, opponents have completed opposing quarterbacks

535
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Speaker 1: this season are fifteen of fifteen for one hundred and

536
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Speaker 1: twelve yards and a touchdown when they use play action

537
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Speaker 1: against Baltimore's defense.

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Speaker 3: Wow, I can't explain that. I mean, why, what's the correlation?

539
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Speaker 3: It can't just be because Patrick Queen left town or.

540
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Speaker 1: You know what I mean, like some of it might

541
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Speaker 1: be that. I mean, yeah, I mean there's starting a

542
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Speaker 1: young linebacker in there. Is he biting left and right

543
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Speaker 1: and they're attacking him already. Maybe the co or the

544
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Speaker 1: last week the Raiders went they just went after Brandon

545
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Speaker 1: Stevens time and time again with DeVante Adams, and he

546
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Speaker 1: had no answer for it.

547
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Speaker 3: Now, Okay, I didn't realize it was the same coverage

548
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Speaker 3: guy percent of the time. But I'm sure Harball will

549
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Speaker 3: get things worked out. But that team right now is

550
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Speaker 3: in flux a little bit.

551
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Speaker 1: Yeah, the other side of the ball is this. Lamar

552
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Speaker 1: Jackson this season is one for nine on passes at

553
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Speaker 1: travel twenty or more yards down the field. That's odd,

554
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Speaker 1: but thirty eight yards. They have just five plays of

555
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Speaker 1: twenty or more yards that they have produced, a lot

556
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Speaker 1: of that being after the catch stuff because they can't

557
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Speaker 1: protect him. Say, I think you nailed it. I think

558
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Speaker 1: it's protection. I never thought he's a great deep passer.

559
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Speaker 1: They've used a Flowers closer to the line of scrimmage,

560
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Speaker 1: not as a deep, longer developing route runner. The tight

561
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Speaker 1: ends are not going to be bomb bombed away deep

562
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Speaker 1: threats obviously, and they're the feature receivers. So I think

563
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Speaker 1: they had a lot of long gains last year though, Yeah,

564
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Speaker 1: that was that was the part of So they had

565
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Speaker 1: seventeen more twenty plus yard games on offense than they

566
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Speaker 1: did on defense, A plus seventeen differential there. They're not

567
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Speaker 1: getting that right now. It's really missing right now, eurarently,

568
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Speaker 1: and they're giving them up. Yeah, and protection has to

569
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Speaker 1: be a huge reason why. On offense, I mean, yeah,

570
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Speaker 1: they just can't protect real well. The other factor that's

571
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Speaker 1: really hurting them right now is justin Tucker can't make

572
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Speaker 1: a fifty yard field goal.

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Speaker 3: He's not close to being the best kicker in the

574
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Speaker 3: league anymore. No, I mean, I think he's the best

575
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Speaker 3: kicker ever, and that'd be a hard situation. It's kind

576
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Speaker 3: of like it's not like you're gonna cut the guy

577
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Speaker 3: or anything like that. But he is not close to

578
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Speaker 3: being middle of the road anymore for fifty plus like

579
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Speaker 3: as good as bases with these fifty yarders, which is amazing.

580
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Speaker 3: They're becoming a routine around the league. I mean they are.

581
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Speaker 1: And now Tucker, who used to be that guy.

582
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Speaker 3: Right, he's decreasing and everybody's passing them up.

583
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Speaker 1: And that used to be such a big weapon for them. Yeah,

584
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Speaker 1: Like when once they got into the forty, you're like, oh, well,

585
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Speaker 1: they're gonna send Tucker out here to kick a field goal.

586
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Speaker 1: I wonder if now it's changed dramatically. I think yeah,

587
00:27:46,840 --> 00:27:50,359
Speaker 1: I think hardballs, like, we can't do that anymore, right.

588
00:27:50,359 --> 00:27:52,199
Speaker 3: I mean, eventually you have to start losing faith, like

589
00:27:52,240 --> 00:27:54,399
Speaker 3: his legs on astrong as he used to be, or

590
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Speaker 3: he's just not as good at them, and now the

591
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Speaker 3: opponents are better than us at it.

592
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Speaker 1: Yeah, not on is it a weapon, But we're at

593
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Speaker 1: a disadvantage. At the end of that game yesterday against

594
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Speaker 1: the Raiders, they were at their own forty and they

595
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Speaker 1: you know, it used to be, okay, if you get

596
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Speaker 1: ten more yards here, we're gonna send Tucker out to

597
00:28:11,200 --> 00:28:13,159
Speaker 1: tie the game. I don't think that's the case for

598
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Speaker 1: them anymore. No, I think they need to reevaluate it.

599
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Speaker 3: Yeah, and they play They kind of played it that way.

600
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Speaker 3: It happens to everybody. But I'm sure he's expensive by

601
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Speaker 3: kick returns. And if everyone in the league's kicking fifties

602
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Speaker 3: and you can't, well, it's kind of like the situation

603
00:28:27,680 --> 00:28:30,080
Speaker 3: before when you had to you were so much better.

604
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Speaker 1: At everything than they were. That's an advantage that you

605
00:28:32,119 --> 00:28:34,359
Speaker 1: used to have that you don't have anything. It's the opposite.

606
00:28:34,680 --> 00:28:35,760
Speaker 1: Now it's a disadvantage.

607
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Speaker 3: And I'm gonna take anything away from Boss. He's been

608
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Speaker 3: unbelievable but you're seeing it around the league. These guys

609
00:28:41,480 --> 00:28:43,959
Speaker 3: are banging fifty yard ers like it's nothing, and the

610
00:28:43,960 --> 00:28:45,920
Speaker 3: coaches don't even hesitate to put him out there anymore.

611
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Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, and so when you can't do that

612
00:28:48,760 --> 00:28:51,400
Speaker 1: right like Aubrey and you know, Dallas or some of

613
00:28:51,400 --> 00:28:55,760
Speaker 1: these guys are just crushing. Yeah. So right now, I

614
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Speaker 1: think I think I said this. He lists them with

615
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Speaker 1: A or ESPN's FPI give the Ravens a forty point

616
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Speaker 1: two percent chance to make the playoffs. They lose next

617
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Speaker 1: week in Dallas, they might be done. I hate to

618
00:29:09,080 --> 00:29:12,240
Speaker 1: say about that organization, but I mean history shows it's tough.

619
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Speaker 1: Still have all your division games ahead of you, still

620
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Speaker 1: have all that. We know the Steelers schedule down the stretch.

621
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Speaker 1: Baltimore schedule this season is even more difficult than that

622
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Speaker 1: of Pittsburgh's. Yeah, it's brutal. I mean they yeah, I mean,

623
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Speaker 1: dropping that Raiders game is one they still got. They

624
00:29:28,520 --> 00:29:31,280
Speaker 1: still got Buffalo coming up. Their their next three games

625
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Speaker 1: the next three or awful are against Dallas, Dallas, Buffalo,

626
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Speaker 1: and Cincinnati. Did they have to get two? I think so.

627
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Speaker 1: I mean, you can't just get one of those, right,

628
00:29:42,560 --> 00:29:45,520
Speaker 1: two and three okay, yeah, you got kind of settle

629
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Speaker 1: things down twelve left. It's like, okay, you know one

630
00:29:48,240 --> 00:29:51,560
Speaker 1: and four though one and four is with what you

631
00:29:51,640 --> 00:29:53,720
Speaker 1: have coming, it's still upcoming, right, all right? The whole

632
00:29:54,440 --> 00:29:57,720
Speaker 1: five division games going, and Kansas City they play kids.

633
00:29:57,720 --> 00:30:01,000
Speaker 3: They already played City. But yeah, it's time to worry

634
00:30:01,040 --> 00:30:02,960
Speaker 3: in Baltimore. It's amazing how fast that happens.

635
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Speaker 1: Absolutely again, they're only seventeen of these things, and three

636
00:30:08,120 --> 00:30:13,760
Speaker 1: is trouble slows to being insurmountable. Jacksonville they're a miss too.

637
00:30:14,280 --> 00:30:17,000
Speaker 1: They currently have a twenty three point one percent chance

638
00:30:17,040 --> 00:30:20,520
Speaker 1: to make the playoffs according to the ESPN's FPI. They

639
00:30:20,520 --> 00:30:22,440
Speaker 1: don't look like that. I have no faith in them

640
00:30:22,480 --> 00:30:24,160
Speaker 1: right now. Lawrence sounds terrible.

641
00:30:24,840 --> 00:30:29,200
Speaker 3: I think coaching is questionable, and I just the whole

642
00:30:29,280 --> 00:30:31,200
Speaker 3: organization just seems unstable to me.

643
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it doesn't look good. No, uh, he has the

644
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Speaker 1: Rams at fourth on this list. I have. I'd have

645
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Speaker 1: them much lower, much lower. They're injured. Yeah, ESPN's FPI

646
00:30:40,280 --> 00:30:42,360
Speaker 1: lists than with a ten point three percent chance to

647
00:30:42,400 --> 00:30:43,440
Speaker 1: still make the playoffs.

648
00:30:43,480 --> 00:30:47,080
Speaker 3: But it doesn't look like fourth in their division. Yeah,

649
00:30:47,200 --> 00:30:50,480
Speaker 3: I mean, Seattle's undefeated Arizona just whipped them, and the

650
00:30:50,560 --> 00:30:51,640
Speaker 3: Niners are still pretty good.

651
00:30:51,720 --> 00:30:54,400
Speaker 1: Yeah, I just don't see it without it with that

652
00:30:54,680 --> 00:31:00,160
Speaker 1: team comes hurt. Yeah, they got problems. The Titans are

653
00:31:00,200 --> 00:31:02,880
Speaker 1: listed with a ten point eight chance percent ten point

654
00:31:02,920 --> 00:31:04,920
Speaker 1: eight percent chance to make the playoffs. They just don't

655
00:31:04,920 --> 00:31:06,080
Speaker 1: look like a good team right now.

656
00:31:06,120 --> 00:31:08,440
Speaker 3: No, and I don't think their quarterback is good. Yeah,

657
00:31:08,440 --> 00:31:11,400
Speaker 3: Hopkins is a shell of himself. The old line doesn't

658
00:31:11,440 --> 00:31:15,520
Speaker 3: look close to being fixed. I think you've mentioned this

659
00:31:15,560 --> 00:31:18,920
Speaker 3: a million times. I don't think Rudolph's far far from

660
00:31:19,000 --> 00:31:21,320
Speaker 3: getting the call here at some point. And we're going

661
00:31:21,360 --> 00:31:22,960
Speaker 3: to talk about the other teams in that division, but

662
00:31:23,120 --> 00:31:26,160
Speaker 3: that's the only division where there's one team that's undefeated

663
00:31:26,160 --> 00:31:29,680
Speaker 3: and everyone else is tinless. Yeah, like I almost feel

664
00:31:29,720 --> 00:31:32,520
Speaker 3: like Houston's they're right. I mean, I know that's not

665
00:31:32,640 --> 00:31:35,720
Speaker 3: the league works, but I can't imagine Houston not winning

666
00:31:35,720 --> 00:31:36,200
Speaker 3: that division.

667
00:31:36,360 --> 00:31:40,880
Speaker 1: Yeah, Indianapolis is sixth on here according to the FBI,

668
00:31:41,120 --> 00:31:43,320
Speaker 1: they have a twenty two point seven percent chance to

669
00:31:43,360 --> 00:31:48,000
Speaker 1: make the playoffs. I don't see it. That defense is bad, Yeah,

670
00:31:48,040 --> 00:31:49,800
Speaker 1: the quarterback is bad.

671
00:31:50,640 --> 00:31:53,520
Speaker 3: I think they need to make a defensive coordinator change.

672
00:31:53,520 --> 00:31:56,920
Speaker 3: I mean, they're so Vanilla and Cover three And that's

673
00:31:56,960 --> 00:31:58,760
Speaker 3: great when you got the legion of boone dudes, but

674
00:31:58,840 --> 00:32:01,840
Speaker 3: everyone knows what you're doing. And then you mentioned Buckner

675
00:32:01,840 --> 00:32:04,240
Speaker 3: got hurt in that game, and you know it was

676
00:32:04,320 --> 00:32:06,640
Speaker 3: ruled out immediately. If he's out a long stretch, that's

677
00:32:06,680 --> 00:32:07,720
Speaker 3: like them losing Cam Hayward.

678
00:32:07,800 --> 00:32:09,920
Speaker 1: Yeah, he had carted off with an ankle injury. He's

679
00:32:09,920 --> 00:32:12,080
Speaker 1: already dealing with a back. They might just shut him

680
00:32:12,080 --> 00:32:14,360
Speaker 1: down for a couple of weeks and two right, they

681
00:32:14,440 --> 00:32:17,600
Speaker 1: could be spiraling downward and the Steelers play them in

682
00:32:17,640 --> 00:32:18,360
Speaker 1: two weeks. Yeah.

683
00:32:18,440 --> 00:32:22,360
Speaker 3: And Richardson's really really talented. But is he the bring

684
00:32:22,360 --> 00:32:25,240
Speaker 3: you from behind pocket passer? Absolutely not.

685
00:32:25,360 --> 00:32:28,640
Speaker 1: Can't get Pittman involved at all. No, Yeah, we all

686
00:32:28,720 --> 00:32:30,760
Speaker 1: knew in the fantasy world Pittman and stuff was going

687
00:32:30,840 --> 00:32:32,760
Speaker 1: to drop. You know, he's not gonna get targeted. But

688
00:32:32,800 --> 00:32:35,760
Speaker 1: it's been a precipitous falling off. Yeah, because he just

689
00:32:35,800 --> 00:32:38,640
Speaker 1: can't hit the he can't hit the layups. No wonder

690
00:32:38,680 --> 00:32:42,520
Speaker 1: if you get Pittman off them. They just gave him money.

691
00:32:42,600 --> 00:32:45,080
Speaker 1: They just gave him money. Yeah probably not, Yeah, I

692
00:32:45,120 --> 00:32:48,200
Speaker 1: would think not, but man, that would uh, that would

693
00:32:48,200 --> 00:32:49,720
Speaker 1: go a long way. For the Steelers if they were

694
00:32:49,760 --> 00:32:52,320
Speaker 1: able to do something like that. Yeah, Mitchell was good

695
00:32:52,320 --> 00:32:54,880
Speaker 1: for him, but you know, Down has been hurt. Denver

696
00:32:55,440 --> 00:32:58,720
Speaker 1: at seven on this list by Barnwell four point three

697
00:32:58,720 --> 00:33:01,240
Speaker 1: percent chance to a re Definitely last of the ones

698
00:33:01,280 --> 00:33:04,880
Speaker 1: we've mentioned. Yeah, they're not good. No, they're not good.

699
00:33:05,000 --> 00:33:07,840
Speaker 3: I mean in the we'll talk power ranks tomorrow, but

700
00:33:08,720 --> 00:33:13,880
Speaker 3: they in competition for thirty or thirty one maybe Yeah, Yeah,

701
00:33:14,160 --> 00:33:14,920
Speaker 3: they're pretty bad.

702
00:33:15,080 --> 00:33:17,600
Speaker 1: They're pretty bad. And Sutton's a guy that they're not

703
00:33:17,760 --> 00:33:19,680
Speaker 1: They don't even use them, ven use them. He got

704
00:33:20,160 --> 00:33:22,120
Speaker 1: like two targets the entire game yesterday.

705
00:33:22,280 --> 00:33:25,080
Speaker 3: By no means I think certain is bad or changed

706
00:33:25,080 --> 00:33:28,440
Speaker 3: at all. But I thought Pickens was better than certained yesterday. Yeah,

707
00:33:28,480 --> 00:33:30,840
Speaker 3: but like I was just talking about this on another show,

708
00:33:30,960 --> 00:33:35,640
Speaker 3: is like Denver, they're big investments, are certained, the O

709
00:33:35,840 --> 00:33:39,880
Speaker 3: line and the first round quarterback, all of which were

710
00:33:40,000 --> 00:33:42,880
Speaker 3: liabilities or problems yesterday, you know what I mean?

711
00:33:43,600 --> 00:33:47,080
Speaker 1: And who's good? And Garrett Bowles is bad? The O

712
00:33:47,200 --> 00:33:49,880
Speaker 1: line was bad. Yeah, there's not much there, right, Yeah,

713
00:33:49,960 --> 00:33:53,240
Speaker 1: not much there at all. At eight on this list

714
00:33:53,440 --> 00:33:56,480
Speaker 1: are the Giants. I think the Giants are better than

715
00:33:56,920 --> 00:33:59,280
Speaker 1: I would have them ahead of Denver on a power rank. Yeah,

716
00:33:59,320 --> 00:34:01,200
Speaker 1: they didn't have a Yes, they have a kicker. He

717
00:34:01,240 --> 00:34:02,680
Speaker 1: lost the game because they didn't have a kicker.

718
00:34:02,720 --> 00:34:05,720
Speaker 3: Probably should have won that game. Yeah, So I don't

719
00:34:05,720 --> 00:34:06,600
Speaker 3: think they're horrible.

720
00:34:06,920 --> 00:34:08,719
Speaker 1: No, I think there's some things there that you can

721
00:34:08,760 --> 00:34:11,120
Speaker 1: look at and say, right, right, right, But the Steelers

722
00:34:11,160 --> 00:34:13,239
Speaker 1: will see them later in the season as well. The

723
00:34:13,280 --> 00:34:16,719
Speaker 1: Giants played the Rams today. I don't know who a

724
00:34:16,880 --> 00:34:19,600
Speaker 1: good point that's rough on the Rams, but that's where

725
00:34:19,600 --> 00:34:21,279
Speaker 1: they're at right now. That is kind of where they

726
00:34:21,320 --> 00:34:24,680
Speaker 1: are right And of course last on this list is Carolina.

727
00:34:25,160 --> 00:34:27,880
Speaker 1: What percentage they had to make playoffer point three percent?

728
00:34:28,680 --> 00:34:31,520
Speaker 1: We might play two games. Mister blue Tarsky has no

729
00:34:31,880 --> 00:34:32,560
Speaker 1: point average.

730
00:34:32,640 --> 00:34:34,960
Speaker 3: And if we mentioned this before, but Bryce Young got

731
00:34:35,040 --> 00:34:37,080
Speaker 3: bench today. Yeah, and I think it's the best thing

732
00:34:37,120 --> 00:34:39,799
Speaker 3: for him. It's the only chance the team has. But

733
00:34:39,840 --> 00:34:40,640
Speaker 3: I don't see them.

734
00:34:40,480 --> 00:34:42,000
Speaker 1: Being He might just need to sit and watch a

735
00:34:42,000 --> 00:34:42,560
Speaker 1: couple of weeks.

736
00:34:42,760 --> 00:34:44,719
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, And are they going to be the

737
00:34:44,800 --> 00:34:48,040
Speaker 3: quarterback market and probably knowing that owner, are they going

738
00:34:48,080 --> 00:34:49,799
Speaker 3: to be firing a coach again in week six?

739
00:34:49,920 --> 00:34:53,960
Speaker 1: Probably? Right? Like they're just repeating itself. Really is and

740
00:34:53,960 --> 00:34:54,960
Speaker 1: it's not pretty.

741
00:34:55,920 --> 00:34:59,760
Speaker 3: I think they play Washington in like a month overseas.

742
00:35:00,960 --> 00:35:02,160
Speaker 3: Maybe that's the one.

743
00:35:02,200 --> 00:35:05,719
Speaker 1: Who wants to watch that, right, I mean, what if

744
00:35:05,760 --> 00:35:07,880
Speaker 1: you were Vegas right now, what would you set there

745
00:35:07,920 --> 00:35:09,560
Speaker 1: over underwind? Total two?

746
00:35:10,800 --> 00:35:12,520
Speaker 3: I was just say one and a half? Yeah, I

747
00:35:12,600 --> 00:35:14,840
Speaker 3: mean that's that bad. They could go oh and seventeen.

748
00:35:14,840 --> 00:35:15,399
Speaker 3: They're that bad.

749
00:35:15,440 --> 00:35:18,279
Speaker 1: They're pretty darn bad to do. Where would you, let's say,

750
00:35:18,800 --> 00:35:22,440
Speaker 1: assuming Atlanta is an underdog tonight, assuming they lose, what

751
00:35:22,520 --> 00:35:25,279
Speaker 1: are you putting them out on this list?

752
00:35:26,360 --> 00:35:28,760
Speaker 3: I forget the order, but probably like third or fourth.

753
00:35:29,440 --> 00:35:33,680
Speaker 3: I still think they could rebound. Yeah, what hurts them is.

754
00:35:33,600 --> 00:35:35,920
Speaker 1: Tampa and the Saints looks so good, right, you know

755
00:35:35,920 --> 00:35:38,799
Speaker 1: they don't look fluky too, and oh so you've got

756
00:35:38,800 --> 00:35:39,600
Speaker 1: to be better than them.

757
00:35:39,719 --> 00:35:44,600
Speaker 3: That's difficult. I still think Cousins could get things going

758
00:35:44,960 --> 00:35:48,960
Speaker 3: and the offense could be quite good in Atlanta.

759
00:35:49,040 --> 00:35:51,280
Speaker 1: You know, it's a long season, and the defensive guys

760
00:35:51,280 --> 00:35:54,480
Speaker 1: that they added were late additions. Yeah, yeah, so I

761
00:35:54,480 --> 00:35:56,200
Speaker 1: should expect jud On to come on it. Yeah, and

762
00:35:56,440 --> 00:35:58,759
Speaker 1: even you know Simmons the same thing. Yeah, those are

763
00:35:58,800 --> 00:36:02,280
Speaker 1: two good players. Yeah, Like I'm out of them ahead

764
00:36:02,280 --> 00:36:06,160
Speaker 1: of like the Titans. Yeah, probably the Colds, you know,

765
00:36:06,280 --> 00:36:09,719
Speaker 1: not Ravens Bengals level. But as we mentioned when we're

766
00:36:09,760 --> 00:36:12,080
Speaker 1: going through this, the Steelers have some of these teams

767
00:36:12,120 --> 00:36:13,200
Speaker 1: coming up on the schedule.

768
00:36:13,360 --> 00:36:17,080
Speaker 3: I mean, imagine doing this show every day for a

769
00:36:17,120 --> 00:36:19,319
Speaker 3: lot of those teams, because more than half of them

770
00:36:19,360 --> 00:36:21,160
Speaker 3: are going to lose next week. And oen three is

771
00:36:22,000 --> 00:36:25,920
Speaker 3: the real climb, I mean kind of dead being dead. Yeah, yeah,

772
00:36:25,960 --> 00:36:26,719
Speaker 3: so we'll see.

773
00:36:27,160 --> 00:36:29,040
Speaker 1: It takes a lot to kind of hold everything together

774
00:36:29,080 --> 00:36:31,319
Speaker 1: if you get off to a start like that. And

775
00:36:32,080 --> 00:36:35,080
Speaker 1: I think, I just don't trust. I thought the Brownies

776
00:36:35,080 --> 00:36:37,320
Speaker 1: were going to be on that list. They won yesterday,

777
00:36:37,320 --> 00:36:40,160
Speaker 1: but they didn't look good. Watson played a little better,

778
00:36:40,360 --> 00:36:43,080
Speaker 1: the offense wasn't particularly good at all, you know, I

779
00:36:43,080 --> 00:36:45,920
Speaker 1: don't think. I don't know. I mean, Miami's not on

780
00:36:45,960 --> 00:36:48,880
Speaker 1: that list, but they might anymore. They might as well be.

781
00:36:49,000 --> 00:36:50,920
Speaker 1: I mean there's some teams, especially in the AFC, that

782
00:36:50,960 --> 00:36:54,040
Speaker 1: don't look threatening anymore. Yeah, we'll talk about that, yeah, segment,

783
00:36:54,040 --> 00:36:56,279
Speaker 1: I have to talk about the AFC in general. He

784
00:36:56,440 --> 00:36:59,160
Speaker 1: is Matt Williamson. I am Dale Lelly. You're listening to

785
00:36:59,200 --> 00:37:01,480
Speaker 1: the drive here on the Steak Deler's audio Network, Matt,

786
00:37:01,520 --> 00:37:03,319
Speaker 1: and I'll be back with more right after this.

787
00:37:07,320 --> 00:37:10,200
Speaker 2: At least is the Drive with Dale Lolly and Matt

788
00:37:10,239 --> 00:37:13,120
Speaker 2: Williamson on your twenty four to seven Home of the

789
00:37:13,200 --> 00:37:17,360
Speaker 2: Black and Gold cast in Steelers Nation Radio.

790
00:37:19,000 --> 00:37:21,360
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791
00:37:21,400 --> 00:37:23,760
Speaker 1: the S and R Drive on the Steelers Audio Network,

792
00:37:23,920 --> 00:37:26,359
Speaker 1: which many of you are doing right now. We are

793
00:37:26,400 --> 00:37:29,520
Speaker 1: on live Monday through Friday from four to six obviously,

794
00:37:29,600 --> 00:37:32,879
Speaker 1: and well that's on Steelers Nation Radio. You can also

795
00:37:33,000 --> 00:37:36,280
Speaker 1: listen on demand the podcast available on the Steelers official

796
00:37:36,480 --> 00:37:39,400
Speaker 1: mobile app and watch us on YouTube all that fund.

797
00:37:39,239 --> 00:37:41,359
Speaker 3: St Yeah, all you old school podcasters, got to check

798
00:37:41,400 --> 00:37:42,160
Speaker 3: us out on YouTube.

799
00:37:42,239 --> 00:37:45,840
Speaker 1: Absolutely like us, follow the show, all that good stuff.

800
00:37:46,400 --> 00:37:50,560
Speaker 1: And Matt, looking here at the AFC standings, there are

801
00:37:50,640 --> 00:37:56,320
Speaker 1: five unbeaten teams in the AFC. That's not going to change.

802
00:37:56,400 --> 00:38:02,200
Speaker 1: That's done. There are right now five unbeaten teams in

803
00:38:02,280 --> 00:38:05,279
Speaker 1: the NFC, with the Philadelphia Eagles pending here, so ten

804
00:38:05,520 --> 00:38:08,919
Speaker 1: unbeatens in the NFL right now. The Steelers one of those.

805
00:38:10,320 --> 00:38:15,520
Speaker 1: If you're looking at we'll get the power rankings tomorrow. Yeah, yeah,

806
00:38:15,560 --> 00:38:17,360
Speaker 1: And you are any of these teams that surprise you,

807
00:38:17,400 --> 00:38:22,840
Speaker 1: it's Buffalo, Houston, the Chargers, the Steelers, the Chiefs in

808
00:38:22,920 --> 00:38:28,600
Speaker 1: the a f C New Orleans, Minnesota, Seattle and Philadelphia

809
00:38:28,800 --> 00:38:30,120
Speaker 1: on Tampa in the NFC.

810
00:38:30,920 --> 00:38:35,680
Speaker 3: Start in the AFC, the Steelers and Chargers on the

811
00:38:35,760 --> 00:38:40,000
Speaker 3: surface are surprising to be in the quote elite or whatever,

812
00:38:40,480 --> 00:38:43,120
Speaker 3: but considering the teams that they both played and their

813
00:38:43,880 --> 00:38:47,239
Speaker 3: favor in both of their yeah, right right, I mean, so,

814
00:38:47,719 --> 00:38:49,880
Speaker 3: the Steelers did pull off an upset in Week one

815
00:38:49,920 --> 00:38:54,200
Speaker 3: according to Vegas, but none of its shocking results for

816
00:38:54,280 --> 00:38:55,919
Speaker 3: either one of those teams that are going to meet

817
00:38:56,360 --> 00:39:00,880
Speaker 3: here on Sunday. Yeah, the Saints beating Carolina is not

818
00:39:00,960 --> 00:39:02,920
Speaker 3: strange to me, but I thought they'd come back to earth,

819
00:39:03,040 --> 00:39:06,440
Speaker 3: and I thought the same for Minnesota. To be honest,

820
00:39:06,480 --> 00:39:09,680
Speaker 3: the Minnesota and the Saints to me might be good

821
00:39:09,840 --> 00:39:11,120
Speaker 3: when I thought they were average.

822
00:39:11,160 --> 00:39:14,439
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know what I mean. Seattle's are kind of surprising,

823
00:39:15,520 --> 00:39:17,799
Speaker 1: but they played Denver, New England. True, you know what

824
00:39:17,800 --> 00:39:18,080
Speaker 1: I mean.

825
00:39:18,200 --> 00:39:23,279
Speaker 3: But that's an awful good start for young staff, you know,

826
00:39:24,320 --> 00:39:25,320
Speaker 3: turning things around.

827
00:39:26,880 --> 00:39:30,040
Speaker 1: You think Tampa would be a surprise as well. They're

828
00:39:30,040 --> 00:39:31,560
Speaker 1: the team I was about to bring this because they

829
00:39:31,640 --> 00:39:32,640
Speaker 1: won in Detroit.

830
00:39:32,880 --> 00:39:37,640
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I wonder Detroit went or Tampa won their division,

831
00:39:37,640 --> 00:39:40,920
Speaker 3: their bad division, and and they might be better than

832
00:39:40,920 --> 00:39:43,279
Speaker 3: they were last year though, which means that they're not

833
00:39:43,480 --> 00:39:47,120
Speaker 3: just a playoff team. They're a contender. I mean that,

834
00:39:47,239 --> 00:39:48,560
Speaker 3: I'm saying that with a question mark.

835
00:39:48,680 --> 00:39:51,120
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know that I'm there yet with that.

836
00:39:51,239 --> 00:39:53,239
Speaker 3: Like if they played the Lions ten times, I think

837
00:39:53,280 --> 00:39:55,680
Speaker 3: they win three and one of them was yesterday.

838
00:39:55,800 --> 00:39:58,480
Speaker 1: Yeah, Dan Campbell was talking after there was some decide.

839
00:39:58,440 --> 00:40:00,600
Speaker 1: I didn't see what the decision was. Obviously, I was

840
00:40:00,600 --> 00:40:03,920
Speaker 1: at the Steeler game, but there was some decision he

841
00:40:03,960 --> 00:40:07,600
Speaker 1: made in that game that maybe cost them to remember,

842
00:40:07,719 --> 00:40:10,480
Speaker 1: but he's known for that. Yeah, you know, Like that's

843
00:40:10,520 --> 00:40:14,680
Speaker 1: where people I think misunderstand with with Mike Tomlin, Like, yeah,

844
00:40:14,680 --> 00:40:17,080
Speaker 1: these fiery coaches and he goes for it on fourth

845
00:40:17,120 --> 00:40:19,400
Speaker 1: down and that's fun as can be. Yeah, but that

846
00:40:19,480 --> 00:40:20,800
Speaker 1: doesn't win you games necessarily.

847
00:40:20,880 --> 00:40:24,719
Speaker 3: When you lose. Yeah, it's hard, man, I mean back

848
00:40:24,760 --> 00:40:27,840
Speaker 3: to the Bucks. Like, I'm definitely putting the Niners ahead

849
00:40:27,840 --> 00:40:31,439
Speaker 3: of him. I'm still putting Detroit Green Bay with love

850
00:40:31,760 --> 00:40:34,239
Speaker 3: if he comes back soon. I think even after the night,

851
00:40:34,280 --> 00:40:38,680
Speaker 3: I'm putting Philly, probably putting Dallas ahead of him. Saints

852
00:40:38,800 --> 00:40:43,080
Speaker 3: versus Bucks, I don't know. Yeah, probably lean towards the

853
00:40:43,120 --> 00:40:45,120
Speaker 3: bus just because last year is better for the Bucks.

854
00:40:45,120 --> 00:40:48,800
Speaker 1: But I guarantee when the power rankings come out tomorrow,

855
00:40:51,000 --> 00:40:53,880
Speaker 1: of the two of the unbeaten teams, I'll bet you

856
00:40:53,960 --> 00:40:58,040
Speaker 1: the Steelers are the last one on there. Huh. Yeah,

857
00:40:58,080 --> 00:41:01,800
Speaker 1: I bet you're right. I bet because well, they're just winning,

858
00:41:01,800 --> 00:41:02,759
Speaker 1: but they're not impressive.

859
00:41:02,760 --> 00:41:06,480
Speaker 3: They're not winning by enough. They both run the road. Yeah,

860
00:41:08,080 --> 00:41:10,239
Speaker 3: I bet they will be too. Yeah, I mean, they're.

861
00:41:10,040 --> 00:41:11,759
Speaker 1: Just my feeling they'll be, and they'll be. I just

862
00:41:11,840 --> 00:41:14,200
Speaker 1: know how public perception is, right, there'll be four or

863
00:41:14,280 --> 00:41:16,960
Speaker 1: five one on one teams ranked ahead of them. Y

864
00:41:17,000 --> 00:41:18,960
Speaker 1: oh yeah, yeah for sure. Yeah.

865
00:41:19,080 --> 00:41:23,719
Speaker 3: Where do you think like Minnesota is though? Because Minnesota started.

866
00:41:23,640 --> 00:41:25,879
Speaker 1: But they beat the Niners, that's true, I mean, being

867
00:41:25,920 --> 00:41:28,440
Speaker 1: the Niners go a long way, like the Niners will

868
00:41:28,440 --> 00:41:30,640
Speaker 1: be ahead of Steelers of course. Yeah, they're one on one, right,

869
00:41:30,920 --> 00:41:32,400
Speaker 1: I mean, and I would put them ahead of the

870
00:41:32,400 --> 00:41:34,799
Speaker 1: Steelers and I didn't have their best day. I mean,

871
00:41:34,800 --> 00:41:36,759
Speaker 1: I'll bet the MINNISO. I'll bet your Minnesota gets bumped

872
00:41:36,840 --> 00:41:38,799
Speaker 1: up ahead of the Steelers and the Power rankings. Yeah,

873
00:41:38,840 --> 00:41:41,200
Speaker 1: I do too. I bet the Chargers already are. Yeah

874
00:41:41,239 --> 00:41:43,120
Speaker 1: they were last week. They were last week, and we

875
00:41:43,480 --> 00:41:46,200
Speaker 1: disagree with that. My opinion the Chargers hasn't changed, not

876
00:41:46,239 --> 00:41:47,640
Speaker 1: one bit. I mean they're two and zero.

877
00:41:48,320 --> 00:41:51,640
Speaker 3: If you could get a better deal on the underwind

878
00:41:51,680 --> 00:41:54,480
Speaker 3: total now like if that the odds are changed dramatically,

879
00:41:54,520 --> 00:41:57,359
Speaker 3: I'm like, I still might go under. Yeah, I mean

880
00:41:58,000 --> 00:41:59,520
Speaker 3: I do think they're well coached, and we'll talk a

881
00:41:59,560 --> 00:42:02,279
Speaker 3: lot of charge. Their own lines impressive, and they're they're

882
00:42:02,280 --> 00:42:05,239
Speaker 3: gonna play a Steeler like game. I still think they

883
00:42:05,239 --> 00:42:09,000
Speaker 3: got problems. Yeah, Yeah, there's things you can exploit. Yeah,

884
00:42:09,040 --> 00:42:11,120
Speaker 3: the defense is still something you can take advantage of.

885
00:42:11,719 --> 00:42:15,160
Speaker 3: Of the one on one teams you got in the

886
00:42:15,200 --> 00:42:19,680
Speaker 3: a f C, New England, the Jets, Cleveland, the Raiders,

887
00:42:19,880 --> 00:42:24,120
Speaker 3: and the Dolphins. There any of those that you would put.

888
00:42:24,280 --> 00:42:25,960
Speaker 3: I think some of those teams.

889
00:42:25,640 --> 00:42:29,000
Speaker 1: I would put I feel worse about. Yeah, Like I

890
00:42:29,000 --> 00:42:34,520
Speaker 1: don't feel good about like the teams I thought Mike Dolphins. Yeah,

891
00:42:34,560 --> 00:42:37,839
Speaker 1: the teams like in the preseason, we thought they could

892
00:42:38,000 --> 00:42:39,880
Speaker 1: surprise and be good to see, Like if you were real,

893
00:42:40,000 --> 00:42:43,280
Speaker 1: if we were re stacking the af C East, Buffalo

894
00:42:43,360 --> 00:42:44,560
Speaker 1: clearly looks like the best.

895
00:42:44,400 --> 00:42:48,440
Speaker 3: Time in close is New England still four? Mm hmmm

896
00:42:48,760 --> 00:42:55,560
Speaker 3: without Tua, Jets are two? I think so as currently constructed. Yeah,

897
00:42:55,680 --> 00:42:59,279
Speaker 3: I think the Patriots are still four. Yeah, but if

898
00:42:59,280 --> 00:43:02,600
Speaker 3: two it doesn't play for months. They're not a playoff

899
00:43:03,040 --> 00:43:05,080
Speaker 3: like I'm looking at it from like a wildcard perspective.

900
00:43:06,719 --> 00:43:09,000
Speaker 1: I liked much better.

901
00:43:08,840 --> 00:43:11,640
Speaker 3: In Miami and probably better than the Jets to be

902
00:43:11,640 --> 00:43:13,720
Speaker 3: a wildcard team. I might talk about win their division.

903
00:43:13,880 --> 00:43:16,960
Speaker 1: Yeah, I like their chances better than the Chargers or anyone.

904
00:43:17,840 --> 00:43:19,600
Speaker 1: Before the season started, I thought they're going to be

905
00:43:19,600 --> 00:43:22,759
Speaker 1: three AFC East teams right playoffs. I don't see it

906
00:43:22,760 --> 00:43:24,239
Speaker 1: that way now. I don't see it. I mean, like, who,

907
00:43:24,640 --> 00:43:26,359
Speaker 1: We're just two weeks into this thing and I don't

908
00:43:26,360 --> 00:43:29,400
Speaker 1: see that you do it quick? Who would you seven

909
00:43:29,600 --> 00:43:32,759
Speaker 1: AFC teams be now? Well, right now? If we to

910
00:43:32,800 --> 00:43:36,840
Speaker 1: do new predictions right now, it's Buffalo, Houston, the Chargers,

911
00:43:37,239 --> 00:43:41,760
Speaker 1: the Steelers, then the Chiefs as the top wild card okay.

912
00:43:42,600 --> 00:43:47,480
Speaker 1: Then you have New England and the Jets are the seven. Okay.

913
00:43:48,440 --> 00:43:51,040
Speaker 3: If I had to predict division winners right now, though,

914
00:43:52,600 --> 00:43:56,960
Speaker 3: I would definitely take the Bills, Chiefs and Texans. I'm

915
00:43:56,960 --> 00:43:58,840
Speaker 3: not willing to say, oh, Steelers got the division. No,

916
00:44:00,040 --> 00:44:00,839
Speaker 3: I still go to the Bengal.

917
00:44:00,880 --> 00:44:02,600
Speaker 1: A lot of work still yet to be done. Yeah,

918
00:44:02,640 --> 00:44:04,240
Speaker 1: but they have a two game lead on the Bengals.

919
00:44:04,239 --> 00:44:04,640
Speaker 1: They do it.

920
00:44:04,680 --> 00:44:07,680
Speaker 3: I'd probably still take the Bengals. I would definitely pick

921
00:44:07,719 --> 00:44:11,080
Speaker 3: the Steelers as one of the wild cards. Yeah, probably

922
00:44:11,080 --> 00:44:15,400
Speaker 3: still take the Ravens. M Looking at that schedule, I

923
00:44:15,480 --> 00:44:16,400
Speaker 3: just don't know who's left.

924
00:44:16,640 --> 00:44:19,960
Speaker 1: Maybe the Jets. I think the Jets get in of

925
00:44:19,960 --> 00:44:23,400
Speaker 1: the team's currently in there. I don't think the Patriots

926
00:44:23,400 --> 00:44:27,120
Speaker 1: are real. I don't think the South is real other

927
00:44:27,160 --> 00:44:30,919
Speaker 1: than Houston. Yeah, it doesn't leave much. It doesn't. It's

928
00:44:31,000 --> 00:44:33,720
Speaker 1: not it doesn't look as deep as it did when.

929
00:44:33,560 --> 00:44:36,799
Speaker 3: The Stars look very attainable. Like to me, it'd an

930
00:44:36,880 --> 00:44:38,319
Speaker 3: upset if the Steelers aren't one of them.

931
00:44:38,840 --> 00:44:40,759
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean that's kind of where we're at right now,

932
00:44:40,800 --> 00:44:42,920
Speaker 1: given how some of these other teams are playing.

933
00:44:42,719 --> 00:44:45,360
Speaker 3: Right and we're crazy. I mean I make this mistake

934
00:44:45,400 --> 00:44:47,840
Speaker 3: every year. After Week one and two, things change drastic.

935
00:44:47,960 --> 00:44:48,120
Speaker 1: Oh.

936
00:44:48,120 --> 00:44:51,160
Speaker 3: Absolutely, there's bad things ahead for the Steelers where.

937
00:44:50,920 --> 00:44:52,960
Speaker 1: Some of these teams are at right now. With Miami

938
00:44:53,000 --> 00:44:56,720
Speaker 1: without Tua, that's a big one. Baltimore's offensive line issues

939
00:44:57,080 --> 00:44:59,680
Speaker 1: two good teams a row and two. Yeah, the vision

940
00:45:00,120 --> 00:45:03,759
Speaker 1: Cleveland's won and one, but the quarterback looks it's not

941
00:45:03,920 --> 00:45:05,200
Speaker 1: He's not fixed.

942
00:45:04,960 --> 00:45:08,799
Speaker 3: Right, it's a problem. Jacksonville could get back to being

943
00:45:08,920 --> 00:45:10,319
Speaker 3: in the top seven.

944
00:45:10,400 --> 00:45:12,239
Speaker 1: I guess. I mean, they've lost two games by a

945
00:45:12,280 --> 00:45:15,640
Speaker 1: combined to eight points. I don't like where they're at.

946
00:45:15,719 --> 00:45:18,839
Speaker 1: But but they've also lost to Houston and Cleveland, which

947
00:45:18,880 --> 00:45:20,239
Speaker 1: is two of the teams that you're going to be

948
00:45:20,360 --> 00:45:21,959
Speaker 1: shuffling with me. Yeah, I hear he's saying.

949
00:45:22,040 --> 00:45:24,319
Speaker 3: Yeah, I say, but they're both decent teams. Yeah, they

950
00:45:24,320 --> 00:45:26,120
Speaker 3: didn't lose the garbage.

951
00:45:26,120 --> 00:45:27,520
Speaker 1: But I don't feel good about the Colts.

952
00:45:28,040 --> 00:45:30,520
Speaker 3: No, I feel much worse about the Colts. Yeah, especially

953
00:45:30,520 --> 00:45:32,719
Speaker 3: if the fucking things bad. I mean, that's that's one

954
00:45:32,719 --> 00:45:36,479
Speaker 3: of my least least colts you could lose.

955
00:45:36,600 --> 00:45:37,960
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know what I mean. And these are the

956
00:45:38,000 --> 00:45:39,560
Speaker 1: team you know when I don't feel bad about the

957
00:45:39,600 --> 00:45:41,400
Speaker 1: Chargers when you when you Yeah, I don't feel good

958
00:45:41,400 --> 00:45:44,040
Speaker 1: about them at all. I mean, I think they'll be

959
00:45:44,080 --> 00:45:46,480
Speaker 1: a tough game. They'll be hard tea to play against.

960
00:45:46,480 --> 00:45:48,399
Speaker 1: It every week no matter who they play, they want

961
00:45:48,400 --> 00:45:49,480
Speaker 1: to play like the Steelers play.

962
00:45:49,560 --> 00:45:51,600
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, they're gonna shortened games, and he's a good coach,

963
00:45:51,680 --> 00:45:53,920
Speaker 3: But I don't think they're a contender all of a sudden.

964
00:45:54,160 --> 00:45:56,319
Speaker 1: No, So I mean I'm looking at this. I mean

965
00:45:56,320 --> 00:45:59,200
Speaker 1: this again. The Steelers are positioned themselves well, really well,

966
00:45:59,400 --> 00:45:59,879
Speaker 1: really well.

967
00:45:59,840 --> 00:46:01,640
Speaker 3: And we know the second half of the season looks

968
00:46:01,800 --> 00:46:06,600
Speaker 3: really daunting. But not if Watson's bad and ye Baltimore

969
00:46:06,640 --> 00:46:08,080
Speaker 3: can't block anyone, and you know.

970
00:46:08,120 --> 00:46:10,920
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean you're not going to go oh and

971
00:46:11,000 --> 00:46:11,920
Speaker 1: six in the division?

972
00:46:12,680 --> 00:46:16,279
Speaker 3: How many teams from the North go? I still think too,

973
00:46:17,400 --> 00:46:20,560
Speaker 3: if not more, might be three, might be three. I

974
00:46:20,600 --> 00:46:22,680
Speaker 3: probably would still put the Ravens and Bengals in the

975
00:46:22,680 --> 00:46:27,120
Speaker 3: playoffs today. But that's history doesn't show that that's going

976
00:46:27,200 --> 00:46:27,560
Speaker 3: to happen.

977
00:46:27,960 --> 00:46:31,759
Speaker 1: No, I mean, the the Ravens right now are one

978
00:46:32,000 --> 00:46:34,520
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson injury away from it, and then it's disaster.

979
00:46:34,800 --> 00:46:37,320
Speaker 1: Then it's it's disaster because they can't block anything. They're

980
00:46:37,480 --> 00:46:40,080
Speaker 1: they're even they're only staying in games right now because

981
00:46:40,080 --> 00:46:40,600
Speaker 1: of him.

982
00:46:40,680 --> 00:46:44,400
Speaker 3: Right, Like I always lump Jackson and Allen together in

983
00:46:44,440 --> 00:46:47,719
Speaker 3: that regard. But the Bills don't need Allen as much

984
00:46:47,719 --> 00:46:51,560
Speaker 3: as they used to. They still do to be a contenter. Yes,

985
00:46:51,600 --> 00:46:53,560
Speaker 3: but like this past week, he just kind of was

986
00:46:53,600 --> 00:46:55,319
Speaker 3: out there doing fine, you know guard.

987
00:46:55,560 --> 00:46:59,239
Speaker 1: Yeah, and he was not having he says more about

988
00:46:59,280 --> 00:47:03,479
Speaker 1: Miami does anything else. Yeah, he was doing that before

989
00:47:03,520 --> 00:47:05,719
Speaker 1: Tuo was even hurt. Oh yeah, yeah, that's not who

990
00:47:05,760 --> 00:47:08,640
Speaker 1: got her quarter. Yeah, that wasn't the reason they lost. Yeah,

991
00:47:08,800 --> 00:47:12,480
Speaker 1: they were dominating that game with their defense against Miamis.

992
00:47:12,719 --> 00:47:16,319
Speaker 1: Did I mention they were sa w FT soft right,

993
00:47:16,440 --> 00:47:20,919
Speaker 1: Like they're soft and Tua is really important to them too. Yeah,

994
00:47:21,000 --> 00:47:23,160
Speaker 1: just the style and they don't have a backup. They

995
00:47:23,200 --> 00:47:25,440
Speaker 1: don't have a backup. I think they're doomed.

996
00:47:25,520 --> 00:47:27,160
Speaker 3: I mean unless he comes back in a week or two,

997
00:47:28,000 --> 00:47:31,080
Speaker 3: which maybe does. There's been radio silence on that. Who

998
00:47:31,080 --> 00:47:31,640
Speaker 3: the heck knows.

999
00:47:31,920 --> 00:47:35,200
Speaker 1: Yeah, so we'll see uh in the NFC real quick.

1000
00:47:35,200 --> 00:47:37,080
Speaker 1: On the NFC. While if we were a break Cooper

1001
00:47:37,120 --> 00:47:39,279
Speaker 1: cup Is, the news is really bad on him. Yeah.

1002
00:47:39,280 --> 00:47:41,000
Speaker 1: We talked about the Rams, and Rams are in trouble.

1003
00:47:41,040 --> 00:47:43,080
Speaker 1: I think there are seasons pretty close to being over. Yeah,

1004
00:47:43,120 --> 00:47:45,640
Speaker 1: they're in trouble. I'm not worried about Dallas. I'm not

1005
00:47:45,680 --> 00:47:50,759
Speaker 1: worried about San Francisco. I'm not worried about Detroit. I'd

1006
00:47:50,800 --> 00:47:53,239
Speaker 1: have a hard time being worried about the Eagles. Yeah,

1007
00:47:53,280 --> 00:47:56,000
Speaker 1: no matter what happens tonight, we might get worried about

1008
00:47:56,000 --> 00:47:58,480
Speaker 1: the Falcons if they lose by thirty. Yeah, you know,

1009
00:47:58,960 --> 00:48:02,640
Speaker 1: but I think the AFC may not be quite as

1010
00:48:02,719 --> 00:48:05,120
Speaker 1: dauntings as we thought when the season started.

1011
00:48:05,239 --> 00:48:07,960
Speaker 3: And then there's teams like Chicago that everyone's picking as

1012
00:48:08,000 --> 00:48:11,160
Speaker 3: the dark horse. Nope, noah, I can't buy that rookie

1013
00:48:11,200 --> 00:48:13,279
Speaker 3: quarterbacks playing like a rookie. Yeah, he holds the ball

1014
00:48:13,280 --> 00:48:15,480
Speaker 3: a lot and takes a lot of sacks, and you know,

1015
00:48:15,520 --> 00:48:17,239
Speaker 3: he kind of looks like Fields did when he was

1016
00:48:17,280 --> 00:48:17,960
Speaker 3: an early Bear.

1017
00:48:18,120 --> 00:48:20,640
Speaker 1: Yeah, and that was a big win by Green Bay yesterday.

1018
00:48:20,800 --> 00:48:23,040
Speaker 1: There's they're not dead yet. No, if Love can come

1019
00:48:23,040 --> 00:48:24,920
Speaker 1: back the next two weeks. We said it when when

1020
00:48:25,040 --> 00:48:27,600
Speaker 1: when he was out there, they're talking about week five. Yeah,

1021
00:48:27,880 --> 00:48:30,200
Speaker 1: him him coming back. So it's three games that he

1022
00:48:30,239 --> 00:48:32,319
Speaker 1: would miss. If they could go one and two in

1023
00:48:32,400 --> 00:48:35,880
Speaker 1: those games, they'd be okay, they'll be okay. Yeah, Yeah,

1024
00:48:36,080 --> 00:48:37,480
Speaker 1: they might be able to go to them one. They

1025
00:48:37,520 --> 00:48:38,239
Speaker 1: might be to one.

1026
00:48:38,239 --> 00:48:39,879
Speaker 3: I don't know what their upcoming schedule is, but they've

1027
00:48:39,880 --> 00:48:41,600
Speaker 3: already talked about he might be back next week.

1028
00:48:41,719 --> 00:48:45,200
Speaker 1: Yeah, so we'll see. But uh yeah, it's just interesting

1029
00:48:45,239 --> 00:48:47,880
Speaker 1: how things change, perceptions change quickly.

1030
00:48:47,920 --> 00:48:50,480
Speaker 3: SATs, those type of teams are going to be in

1031
00:48:50,480 --> 00:48:53,040
Speaker 3: the playoff onnt probably Yeah, to know, you're probably gonna

1032
00:48:53,040 --> 00:48:54,960
Speaker 3: be in the playoff hunt by November.

1033
00:48:55,080 --> 00:48:57,919
Speaker 1: Yeah, especially if for coaching staff knows what they're doing

1034
00:48:57,960 --> 00:49:00,319
Speaker 1: and you're not going to fall apart. Yeah. I mean

1035
00:49:01,239 --> 00:49:03,600
Speaker 1: I think the Vikings coaching staff is really good. Yeah,

1036
00:49:03,600 --> 00:49:06,640
Speaker 1: I think they do a good job. Absolutely, get Hawkinson back,

1037
00:49:06,800 --> 00:49:09,800
Speaker 1: you know. Yeah, things looming out different like the Steelers.

1038
00:49:09,800 --> 00:49:11,239
Speaker 1: I mean at some point they're going to get Cam

1039
00:49:11,280 --> 00:49:13,359
Speaker 1: Sutton back. You know, there's there are things that you're

1040
00:49:13,360 --> 00:49:15,520
Speaker 1: going to add to this team that you don't have

1041
00:49:15,640 --> 00:49:18,000
Speaker 1: right now. He is Sam mal who's going to be back.

1042
00:49:18,000 --> 00:49:20,560
Speaker 1: You're winning these games without without, you know, maybe your

1043
00:49:20,560 --> 00:49:22,840
Speaker 1: best offensive lineman. Yeah, yeah, it'd be nice if you

1044
00:49:22,880 --> 00:49:25,560
Speaker 1: got him this week. Yeah. Absolutely, that's going to do

1045
00:49:25,560 --> 00:49:28,760
Speaker 1: it for today's show though. So well for my partner

1046
00:49:28,760 --> 00:49:31,279
Speaker 1: Matt Williamson, for Justin Miller here on site keeping us

1047
00:49:31,320 --> 00:49:34,360
Speaker 1: on the air, and for Tyler making sure our video

1048
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Speaker 1: looks perfect. Absolutely, we appreciate that. I'm Dale Lallie We

1049
00:49:40,360 --> 00:49:42,399
Speaker 1: thank you for listening to this edition of the Drive

1050
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Speaker 1: on the Steelers Audio Network.