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Speaker 1: Welcome to the playoff drive.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, let's go.

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Speaker 1: That's that. Kudos to Derrick Henry for getting the job

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Speaker 1: done against the Jacksonville Jaguars.

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Speaker 2: I think somebody called that you were all over. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: Jags are a bit of a mess too.

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Speaker 1: They are a mess, and that's a franchise that you

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Speaker 1: just expect when things get tight. You know, you could

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Speaker 1: feel it. But they win, makes the Sunday night game

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Speaker 1: not quite as well. It was still relevant, yeah, but

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Speaker 1: they were in, and the Steelers knew.

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Speaker 2: They were in. Miami was already in. Yeah, Houston was

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Speaker 2: happy about it as well. And you know, right, you

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Speaker 2: made it less of a Jacksonville did the whole a

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Speaker 2: nice favor.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, imagine I was thinking of that as I was

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Speaker 1: watching in game. I'm like, thank god Jacksonville lost earlier

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Speaker 1: in the day because if I were sitting up having

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Speaker 1: to watch this Bill's Dolphins.

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Speaker 2: Game by your future out there, yeah, that.

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Speaker 1: Would not have been fun. But as it was, the

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Speaker 1: Steelers take care of business on Saturday, beating the Ravens

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Speaker 1: for a second time, sweeping them seven of eight games.

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Speaker 1: Now they've won against the Baltimore Ravens and I don't

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Speaker 1: give two craps about who played and who didn't play.

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Speaker 1: The Ravens played most of their defense.

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Speaker 2: Yet but about three guys and had a rotation and

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Speaker 2: all that.

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Speaker 1: They even rested Hamilton might not have played period.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, he was injured, right.

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Speaker 1: I've seen a lot of that floating around. Oh, the

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Speaker 1: Ravens rested some key guys. No, they didn't rest them.

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Speaker 1: Zay Flowers wasn't gonna play. He was doubtful all week long.

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Speaker 1: He didn't practice all week long. Lamar is a different

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Speaker 1: Lamar was the only one who really and then Rokwan

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Speaker 1: Smith didn't get that was really about it. Marlon Humphrey

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Speaker 1: was hurt.

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Speaker 2: Humphrey was heard, Hamilton was hurt.

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Speaker 1: They was hurt. Yeah, those guys were hurt, hurt. They

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Speaker 1: might not have played regardless, you know, so and.

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Speaker 2: Rest Mica No to your point, yeah, yeah, you know.

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Speaker 1: To me, you know, would Lamar have made a difference

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Speaker 1: in that game?

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Speaker 2: Maybe? Probably?

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Speaker 1: He's great, but the weather, neither team was going to

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Speaker 1: throw the ball right, and the Steelers were the more

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Speaker 1: physical team. And I sent this to you today, Matt.

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Speaker 1: I saw in the ESPN preview, Yeah, Patrick Queen saying

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Speaker 1: we play a brand of football that people don't want

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Speaker 1: to play. Talking about the Ravens, well, the Steelers do Steelers,

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Speaker 1: and the Steelers actually beat them at it.

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Speaker 2: I think the Steelers and Ravens play the way they

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Speaker 2: do because the Steelers and Ravens exist, Yes, and then

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Speaker 2: it trickles down to the rest of the division, you.

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Speaker 1: Know, right, and quite frankly, the Steelers might be better

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Speaker 1: at playing that brand of football when they play the Ravens.

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Speaker 1: You don't beat a team seven of eight times by accident, no.

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Speaker 2: No, I mean yes, you can look at it. Would

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Speaker 2: they have been better with themar of course they would

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Speaker 2: have been in Roquar all those things, But seven and

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Speaker 2: eight is a pretty strong trend, as it is five

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Speaker 2: and one the division, you know what I mean? Right,

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Speaker 2: those are those are numbers that are legit.

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Speaker 1: Some good things that happened for this team this year.

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Speaker 1: Three of the four teams in the AC North make

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Speaker 1: the playoffs.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, all have a winning record. First time. There's the

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Speaker 2: thirties that my division has had all winning record, you

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Speaker 2: know teams.

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Speaker 1: That Yeah, I mean it's the best division in football. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's not close, and it would not surprise me. I mean,

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Speaker 1: there's no if the Steelers beat baltim or beat the

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Speaker 1: other Ravens. Yeah, if the Steelers beat the Bills, I'll

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Speaker 1: get it. If the Steelers beat the Bills this week,

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Speaker 1: they go back to Baltimore, I guarantee you that's the

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Speaker 1: one match up the Baltimore's is home. Man. We don't

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, maybe this is optimistic, but I was

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Speaker 2: actually just on Mark Madden Show and we were kind

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Speaker 2: the Tomlin McDermott factor. But there's definitely a Tomlin Harbaugh factor.

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Speaker 2: You know, where coaches coach against coaches more so than

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Speaker 2: you know, teams and franchises necessarily, and the familiarity that

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Speaker 2: the underdog. Frankly, the Steelers having Buffalo and then hopefully

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Now it was not all Rosie for he was

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Speaker 1: this weekend. You lose TJ Watt for this weekend, for sure.

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Speaker 2: To be honest, when it happened, I thought, oh, no,

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Speaker 2: he's not gonna be ready for next year.

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Speaker 1: That was Oh, I hope he did. You know, did

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Speaker 1: he tear the A c L. Now? The way he

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Speaker 2: Know, tear, didn't take them off a card or you know.

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Speaker 1: But I also saw Rod Woodson walk off back.

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Speaker 2: In the Yeah, just for the pride of it all,

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Speaker 2: but it didn't look good, and I initially thought, well,

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Speaker 1: I mean, to be honest, my initial thought was, oh,

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Speaker 1: Adams, Yeah, Adams. You know they've kind of went kneed

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Speaker 1: That's where the pain.

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Speaker 2: Comes from, the actual cap, the bone.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, when you when somebody, when you bang knee caps

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Speaker 1: the worst pain ever. Yeah, like, oh, it makes you

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Speaker 1: want to just makes you want to throw up. It's

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Speaker 1: I've had you know, about a three quarter tear of

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Speaker 2: From doing the need of the situation.

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Speaker 1: No, but but I've done the need knee thing a

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Speaker 2: A c L. It's like getting the hammered of the ship.

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Speaker 1: Pain. I don't even like to think about that. So

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Speaker 1: I think that's where the initial you know, you saw

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Speaker 2: The might not do permanent damage. Yeah, it's coctural damage. Okay,

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Speaker 2: that adds up, so you know, we'll see.

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Speaker 1: I will say this, the Steelers are in better shape

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Speaker 1: to not have TJ. Watson that in a long time,

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Speaker 1: and it might help even more this week. Un you know,

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Speaker 1: this is a glass half full kind of uh kind of.

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Speaker 2: I mean, he's.

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Speaker 1: No chance, but Marcus Golden is more of a power rusher.

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Speaker 1: He's not going to get out of his lane.

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Speaker 2: No for her big to play a little more.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but Golden's going to push the pocket straight up

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Speaker 1: the field and keep and keep Josh Allen in the pocket.

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Speaker 2: I'm sure that'll be a big sticking point, is Yeah,

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Speaker 2: he can do so many things to carve you up.

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Speaker 2: We'll talk so much Allen this week. It's not to

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Speaker 2: the point where it's like Fields are one of these young,

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Speaker 2: unproven passers. But you definitely want him in the pocket.

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Speaker 2: You don't want to don't want him around shrugging guys

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Speaker 2: off and doing ben stuff, you know, because he does.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, And and you know if he starts to do that,

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Speaker 1: he starts to put on the Superman cape. That's bad.

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Speaker 2: That's bad. That's bad. And he starts feeling it, That's

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Speaker 2: that's bad. I think you want him sitting there patting

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Speaker 2: the football in the pocket. You can live with that.

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Speaker 1: And and so you know you have that going for you.

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Speaker 1: You get CAZy and Mike A. Fitzpatrick back this week.

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Speaker 1: Casey was in the locker room today. The suspension is over,

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Speaker 2: Bunkers to say this, and no offense to Killer Brew.

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Speaker 2: But he's a special teamer. Yeah, I mean he's played

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Speaker 2: twenty thirty snaps. He's last couple of weeks. That's too many,

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Speaker 2: So he's going to see the defense at all. But

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Speaker 2: not only you got Minka, who's a stud.

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Speaker 1: You get a three safety rotation. Now I think you

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Speaker 2: just don't know who does who who loses out on

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Speaker 1: I think I think he goes back to being the

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Speaker 1: you go to your your nikel or dime defense, now

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Speaker 1: and and in that respect, in that regard, if you're Buffalo,

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Speaker 1: you don't know what to expect from the Steelers this week.

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Speaker 1: You don't know how you know those guys are all

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Speaker 2: Yeah. And we were talking off the air. I haven't

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Speaker 2: not quite what it used to be. But if Minka

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Speaker 2: those other three beat you, all right, Yes, and Davis

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Speaker 2: is fighting something and Cook's a dangerous receiver, but you're

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Speaker 2: healthier at linebacker two. Speaking of that, I want to

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Speaker 2: ask you this, and this is I bet I know

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Speaker 2: the answer. But the linebacker snaps yesterday true, off the ball,

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Speaker 2: linebackers were very squashed together between Robinson, who frankly played

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Speaker 2: his best kid steeler. I thought Roberts, Walker and Jack

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Speaker 2: none of them dominated snaps. Nobody was an every down guy.

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Speaker 2: Do you think that's because it was Roberts first came back.

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Speaker 1: I think so yeah.

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Speaker 2: And I bet you think it snapped count goes up

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Speaker 2: and he's a snap leader from now on. I assumed

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Speaker 1: the on the on the arm and everything. He says,

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Speaker 1: I just I spent a lot of time with the trainers,

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Speaker 1: but I wasn't going to miss this game. Well, now

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Speaker 1: he's another week removed from that.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I would assume he leads that room and snaps

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Speaker 2: once again, which is good.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so you know all things considered, spying.

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Speaker 2: Your knees and back in. You're able to weather that.

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Speaker 1: You know, their running game Steelers, Yeah, is nasty.

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Speaker 2: It's nasty. I think that's just had a good conversation

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Speaker 2: with with Wolf and Rob King and boy Wolf's in

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Speaker 2: his glory. I mean because not game, but they're trapping

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Speaker 2: I mean that five some now is playing well and

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Speaker 1: Yeah, just looks better and better each time. You know,

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Speaker 1: During the game. I tweeted out when he, you know,

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Speaker 2: Him more and mortal at work. Yeah, I mean you

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Speaker 1: He's put the team on his back to a certain

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Speaker 1: That's yeah. You saw Fournette. You get more run last night.

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Speaker 2: but I might first one to one. You're like, if

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Speaker 1: That's the thing. You don't want to go up to

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you're not gonna go four wide and throw it

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Speaker 1: That's playing right, and that's what they want to do.

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Speaker 2: Bit, and frankly even a little bit. In that Steelers

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Speaker 2: they were really loose. And my halftime notes were Steelers

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Speaker 1: The weather always is, it alwaysies. It equalizes things that

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, so we'll see what the how the

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Speaker 2: That wins at least levels of playing field. Yeah, that much,

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Speaker 1: You don't want Mason Rudolph getting into a shootout with Josh.

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Speaker 2: of think they're going to go four wide and shotgun

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Speaker 1: Unfortunately, I've seen teams over the years do that.

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Speaker 2: You can slap you weather.

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Speaker 2: And of course you would take eighteen for twenty with

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Speaker 2: But there's also a big play in there, you know

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Speaker 2: they usually win. And if he's completing what ninety percent

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Speaker 2: Throwing yourself into. Yeah, and you and there was the

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Speaker 1: They did hit the big play.

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Speaker 2: And they set that one up.

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Speaker 2: Yeah boom. So Tuble notes on that, and they really

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Speaker 2: He's on the sidelines, happy as can be without a catch,

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Speaker 2: I think he's mature enough and smart enough to realize

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Speaker 2: And not that he's t J Watt, but he has

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Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, when okay, they're gonna double me, but I'm

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm still gonna be that guy because it doesn't matter.

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Speaker 2: So I don't know if Diggs is still that guy

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Speaker 2: I bet he's fighting something. Like anyone who plays fantasy

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Speaker 1: No, he's not. And you know, Joey Porter Junior's done.

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Speaker 1: It's fourth in the league, and it doesn't matter whether

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Speaker 1: He's been really good and that'll be a fun matchup

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, and I think you'll get it. Yeah, I think

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Absolutely, So the Steelers get the win that they needed.

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Speaker 1: The Steelers in twenty twenty backed into the playoffs. The

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Speaker 2: I mean, actually, both these teams that are going to

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Speaker 2: See what you're saying as opposed to, Oh, the Eagles

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Speaker 2: are perfect example.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I think they're one and five in their last six games,

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Speaker 2: but they clinched because of being ten and one.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Jacksonville, had they somehow made the playoffs, would have

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Speaker 1: backed into the playoffs.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I unless they blueted doors off the Titans, which

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Speaker 2: they sure didn't.

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Speaker 1: They did not know. We're gonna get to a break.

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Speaker 1: And Matt, we've already started to see the coaching wheels

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Speaker 1: turning here on Black Money, you know, as many as

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Speaker 1: I thought, not to point yeah yet. Yeah, but we've

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Speaker 1: seen Arthur Smith fired in Atlanta after three consecutive seven

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Speaker 1: to ten seasons.

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Speaker 2: I think that had had to be done. I mean

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Speaker 2: it just seems like I don't know if you saw this,

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Speaker 2: but that could announce it like twelve oh two am.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, like get ready to go, right.

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Speaker 2: I'm sure they told him right after the game or

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Speaker 2: even before. Who's to say. Now everyone plays fantasy's always

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Speaker 2: mad at him because they drafted these three guys high,

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Speaker 2: and I think that's a warranted complaint. You know that

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Speaker 2: they're just not using those assets nearly enough. But I

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Speaker 2: also think going into the season with Heineke and Ritter.

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Speaker 1: As you're playing it probably not a good plan.

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Speaker 2: Is inadequate. They got better on D but they were

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Speaker 2: like the best running the offense in the league last year,

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Speaker 2: and then this year they went way backwards, so their

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Speaker 2: strengths became weaknesses, and I think it change makes sense.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't. Was he the play caller as well

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Speaker 1: in Atlanta?

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Speaker 2: I think so? Okay, I think so, I mean he

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Speaker 2: wasn't Tennessee.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean that might be what he's better suited

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Speaker 1: to do. Did you see how that game ended.

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Speaker 2: By the way, say he wasn't real thrilled.

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Speaker 1: I wouldn't have been either.

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Speaker 2: I thought that was a bit much. Yeah, And as.

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Speaker 1: It turned out, you know, he was mad at Dennis

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Speaker 1: Allen about it, and the players did that on their

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Speaker 1: own to get Jamal Williams.

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Speaker 2: I did kind of hear something, you know.

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Speaker 1: So for the people who didn't see it, it's the

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Speaker 1: end of the game. I think the Saints were up

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Speaker 1: twenty one pay they're in they're in a victory formation

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Speaker 1: at the goal line on the final play of the game,

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Speaker 1: and instead of taking the knee, they snapped the football

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Speaker 1: and handed to Jamal Williams and he barrels into the

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Speaker 1: end zone because they needed to get him a touchdown

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Speaker 1: this year.

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Speaker 2: Is that for a bonus or something.

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Speaker 1: He hadn't scored a touchdown all a million last year. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: so they wanted to get him.

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Speaker 2: A touchdown and run him out of the eye like

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Speaker 2: everybody else, you know, right.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that was not the play call, that the that

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Speaker 1: the coaching staff gave them. They went rogue a.

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Speaker 2: Little bit on that, and I didn't realize all that.

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Speaker 1: Arthur Smith was not happy about it, and you saw

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Speaker 1: Dennis Allen trying to explain it to him, and Arthur

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Speaker 1: Smith wasn't. I wouldn't either, because what if something. You know,

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Speaker 1: if you're Smith either Caro Falcons player, and you're okay,

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Speaker 1: they're in victory formation here, it's my last play of

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Speaker 1: the season. I'm not firing out on that. And if

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Speaker 1: I did fire out on it and they didn't do,

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Speaker 1: then the Saints are mad. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, if you're diving at the quarterbacks in the eies,

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Speaker 2: they're taking their center and driving them into the backfield.

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Speaker 2: You know, No, that's exact same thing as a gentleman's

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Speaker 2: agreement the game's over, right, Yeah, that's that's different than

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Speaker 2: we just kept handing it off and you couldn't stop us, right,

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Speaker 2: I mean that frankly is Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, of course Carolina fired not only head coach Frank

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Speaker 1: Reich and everybody else, but now they also fired a

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Speaker 1: general manager, Scott fitter Fitterer.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, there's gonna be changes. They're looking like

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Speaker 2: this function junction there, and I get the impression that

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Speaker 2: the owner is the one that wanted Bryce Young, who

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Speaker 2: looks totally over well. To be honest with you, I mean,

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Speaker 2: do we blame the GM for that. I don't know.

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Speaker 2: I mean you couldn't convince the owner's mind. Who knows,

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Speaker 2: But I mean one guy has power there and that

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Speaker 2: could be a bad situation for a decade.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, of course, the Raiders situation. We already know what's

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Speaker 1: going on there that they need a new coach and

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Speaker 1: general manager.

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Speaker 2: The Chargers of State pierces out.

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Speaker 1: No, they haven't.

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Speaker 2: Okay, they've decided.

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Speaker 1: They've started requesting to speak to people. Same thing in

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Speaker 1: Los Angeles.

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Speaker 2: From what I understand, Atlanta already asked for both Lions coordinators. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: like they're starting to do those type of things already.

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Speaker 1: The Giants not only get rid of the special teams

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Speaker 1: coordinator Thomas mcgahey and the offensive line coach Bobby Johnson

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Speaker 1: Wink Martindale, their defensive coordinator resigned today as well. Of course,

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Speaker 1: we know the Steelers are going to be looking for

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Speaker 1: an offensive coordinator.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we're not. I mean, it's gonna be different than

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Speaker 2: who started his offense cordion in last year. It's all

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Speaker 2: we know for fact.

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Speaker 1: And then in Washington you got there Ron Rivera out today.

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Speaker 1: We knew the Chicago Bears they need a new defensive

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Speaker 1: coordinators presently enough. I mean their guy stepped down September twentieth,

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Speaker 1: Alan Williams.

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Speaker 2: And eber Flues took over.

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Speaker 1: They got better and better as the season went on.

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Speaker 2: I see where ebra Flues made his spones, you know,

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Speaker 2: and their defense has been quite good. I don't think

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Speaker 2: they'll make many changes there. Yeah, So, I mean that's

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Speaker 2: where backside. Who knows, but that's where things stand. With

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Speaker 2: the coaching.

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Speaker 1: We'll see. We'll see about Belichick and some of.

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Speaker 2: These other Something could easily happen while we're on the air. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: that there could be news. Yeah. Yeah, the Martindale stuff.

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Speaker 2: I didn't know till just now either.

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Speaker 1: Now, let me as we were talking about t J.

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Speaker 1: Watt in the previous segment. He had nineteen sacks to

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Speaker 1: finish the season, led the NFL for one. Yeah, for

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Speaker 1: the third year, third time in the ass and.

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Speaker 2: Even end up with any I didn't notice he got

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Speaker 2: one or not. They both started with seventeen.

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Speaker 1: He he did, he had a half.

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Speaker 2: He had a half and a half.

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Speaker 1: So what leads to the league in sacks for three

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Speaker 1: the last four years. No player had ever led the

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Speaker 1: league in sacks three seasons. He I thought he was

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Speaker 1: playing ridiculous.

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Speaker 2: Had a great game before he got hurt, before he

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Speaker 2: got hurt. Yeah, the numbers even beared out. I think

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Speaker 2: you put it in your story, you know, the tackles

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Speaker 2: for loss and all the hits and all those things too.

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Speaker 1: I don't see how anybody who has a vote for

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Speaker 1: Defensive Player of the Year doesn't vote for that guy.

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Speaker 2: I don't feel as strongly because I don't think he's

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Speaker 2: a slam dunk like he was the year he wonted.

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Speaker 2: But I don't think anyone is a better case. That's

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Speaker 2: what I mean.

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Speaker 1: There's nobody you want to get like people well, Miles Garrett,

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Speaker 1: he had one sack in the last six weeks in

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Speaker 1: the Seas.

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Speaker 2: It's a long stretch to go without a sack.

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Speaker 1: And if you're not going to vote for him, okay,

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Speaker 1: then then you.

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Speaker 2: Know Parsons conversation.

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Speaker 1: But wats numbers are better, are better?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, there's not a guy that's a slam dunk or

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Speaker 2: someone that is clearly as a better case. It really isn't.

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Speaker 1: And if you put if you put out on that

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Speaker 1: Dallas defense with the leads that they've played with, oh

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Speaker 1: my god.

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Speaker 2: It would have been better. Yeah, I mean, there's no

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Speaker 2: question about that. I'm with you. He would be my vote,

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Speaker 2: and I don't try to be homer issh on this.

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Speaker 2: I don't think anybody ran away with the award. And

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Speaker 2: if you put his case out there, it's the strongest.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't even think that. To me, it's not

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Speaker 1: even close. I mean I just just looking at the numbers,

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Speaker 1: looking and yes, we've seen every snap that he's played

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Speaker 1: this year. They don't make the playoffs without TJ. Want

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Speaker 1: this chance, no chance, there's probably they probably have three

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Speaker 1: more losses than what they finished with.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I think Dallas does probably without Parsons

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Speaker 2: or all. These guys are super impactful. I mean that's

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Speaker 2: a hard conversation. It's not a quarterback or receiver where

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Speaker 2: the numbers are just right out there. I mean, I've

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Speaker 2: just defends these guys differently.

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Speaker 1: I've seen at least three games changed because of TJ

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Speaker 1: Wat where they've closed the game up because of something

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Speaker 1: that Want did or something Want was involved in.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, absolutely, it's his case is very very strong.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: It just just get the impression that the national folks

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Speaker 2: aren't doing that because they think this is Garrett's year

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Speaker 2: and it's kind of preconceived since before the season.

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Speaker 1: Like Kevin Stefancy came out last week, Well, he's the

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Speaker 1: best player on the best defense in league. I don't

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Speaker 1: even know if they're the best defense in the league.

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Speaker 2: I don't either, But I don't know that that necessarily

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Speaker 2: means that you're deserved.

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Speaker 1: No, that's the other like, you know, if you're the.

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Speaker 2: Best player on the fifteenth best defense in the league

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Speaker 2: and you're getting Aaron Donald like disruption.

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Speaker 1: I mean quite exactly. Max Crosby would be my second.

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Speaker 2: He's been phenomenal too.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, he would be my second vote, you know.

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Speaker 2: And that's a situation like that, like where you're the

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Speaker 2: only show in town and that defense kept getting better

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Speaker 2: and better and better, a lot of it because of Crosby.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, if you you know, if it comes

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Speaker 1: down to what, what do you consider the best defense?

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Speaker 1: Because points wise, Cleveland wasn't even in the top ten

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Speaker 1: in terms of points allowed. They allowed twenty one point

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Speaker 1: three points per game.

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Speaker 2: Wow, I thought they were closer to the top than that.

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Speaker 2: I think Baltimore's better defense.

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Speaker 1: Baltimore is a better defense, but they don't have they

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Speaker 1: don't really have a candidate that you would look.

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Speaker 2: At Norokwe is not enough.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I mean it's had a great year. He's a difference maker,

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Speaker 2: easy Pro Bowl or All Pro type guy. But it

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Speaker 2: doesn't have the Ray Lewis cachet or something like that.

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Speaker 2: It's hard for a linebacker two.

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Speaker 1: So you know, overall, the Steelers ended up finishing one, two,

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Speaker 1: three four six in scoring defense this year, which, yeah,

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Speaker 1: nineteen point one points per game.

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Speaker 2: They're also on the field a lot. Yeah, you would,

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Speaker 2: you would take that.

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Speaker 1: The yardage stuff, I don't care as much about yards

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Speaker 1: is important to me. You know, there's plenty of games

658
00:28:27,840 --> 00:28:30,080
Speaker 1: where teams you're gonna be're more than willing to give

659
00:28:30,160 --> 00:28:32,080
Speaker 1: up the yards to get a stock.

660
00:28:31,880 --> 00:28:34,479
Speaker 2: In terms of like defensive metrics I care about. Yardage

661
00:28:34,560 --> 00:28:36,720
Speaker 2: might not even be in the top ten. Yeah right,

662
00:28:36,800 --> 00:28:37,399
Speaker 2: I mean it really is.

663
00:28:38,120 --> 00:28:39,560
Speaker 1: The bottom line is what was the score at the

664
00:28:39,640 --> 00:28:40,120
Speaker 1: end of the game.

665
00:28:40,240 --> 00:28:44,440
Speaker 2: Yeah, and takeaways, red zone defense, pressure, sacks, you know,

666
00:28:45,680 --> 00:28:47,880
Speaker 2: yards per carry things. You know, there's a lot more

667
00:28:47,920 --> 00:28:50,120
Speaker 2: things to hone it down than how many yards to

668
00:28:50,160 --> 00:28:50,800
Speaker 2: give up in a game.

669
00:28:50,920 --> 00:28:53,920
Speaker 1: Yeah, I just look at that, so I you know,

670
00:28:54,560 --> 00:28:56,840
Speaker 1: that doesn't mean I think the Steelers defense was better

671
00:28:56,880 --> 00:28:57,960
Speaker 1: than Cleveland's this year.

672
00:28:58,040 --> 00:28:59,040
Speaker 2: No, I don't think it was either.

673
00:28:59,200 --> 00:29:01,640
Speaker 1: But I think you know that there there are some

674
00:29:01,720 --> 00:29:03,720
Speaker 1: things that they were better than the Browns in.

675
00:29:03,880 --> 00:29:06,920
Speaker 2: But I don't like this argument for any award. He

676
00:29:06,960 --> 00:29:10,080
Speaker 2: was the best player on the best unit. So therefore,

677
00:29:10,840 --> 00:29:12,160
Speaker 2: well that means you probably a lot of good guys

678
00:29:12,160 --> 00:29:17,080
Speaker 2: around him, right, probably unless it's a team game. Yeah,

679
00:29:17,080 --> 00:29:18,600
Speaker 2: that doesn't mean the best guy in the best unit

680
00:29:18,680 --> 00:29:21,280
Speaker 2: can't win it. But to me, that's not like, well,

681
00:29:21,440 --> 00:29:22,760
Speaker 2: well he's the best guy on the best d he

682
00:29:22,840 --> 00:29:24,880
Speaker 2: wins it every year. That's not really how the world works.

683
00:29:25,000 --> 00:29:28,720
Speaker 1: I also looked up the stats on Joey Porter Junior

684
00:29:28,760 --> 00:29:31,600
Speaker 1: and Jalen Carter today. No, I don't know it's falling.

685
00:29:31,800 --> 00:29:33,640
Speaker 1: I don't know that Carter is going to win the

686
00:29:33,760 --> 00:29:35,800
Speaker 1: NFL Defensive Rookie of the Year award.

687
00:29:36,320 --> 00:29:37,400
Speaker 2: He played who is though he.

688
00:29:37,360 --> 00:29:41,040
Speaker 1: Played forty seven percent for the season of the Eagle snaps.

689
00:29:41,120 --> 00:29:44,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, and it's been less and less from what I've understood. Yeah, Porter,

690
00:29:45,200 --> 00:29:48,440
Speaker 2: the defense, I mean you talk about the opposite orders.

691
00:29:48,480 --> 00:29:51,800
Speaker 2: Their defense stinks, Yeah stinks. Yeah.

692
00:29:52,000 --> 00:29:54,160
Speaker 1: Porter ended up playing like seventy three percent of the

693
00:29:54,160 --> 00:29:55,400
Speaker 1: Steelers defensive snaps.

694
00:29:55,400 --> 00:29:58,120
Speaker 2: For the season, but season after starting really slow, now

695
00:29:58,160 --> 00:29:59,040
Speaker 2: he plays every snap.

696
00:29:59,160 --> 00:30:02,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, And even when and he wasn't starting quote unquote

697
00:30:02,000 --> 00:30:04,880
Speaker 1: early year, he still played. Yeah, it's not like he

698
00:30:04,960 --> 00:30:06,520
Speaker 1: was a non factor for the Steelers.

699
00:30:06,520 --> 00:30:09,320
Speaker 2: And it wasn't long before he really started playing thirty snaps,

700
00:30:09,320 --> 00:30:11,480
Speaker 2: forty snaps, like the beginning it was ten to fifteen

701
00:30:11,560 --> 00:30:12,360
Speaker 2: and then it was every snap.

702
00:30:12,440 --> 00:30:14,040
Speaker 1: But I've heard, I've seen some things out there were

703
00:30:14,040 --> 00:30:17,080
Speaker 1: people whoever did that. There was a story on ESPN

704
00:30:17,120 --> 00:30:20,120
Speaker 1: about their picks and well Porter was you know, he

705
00:30:20,200 --> 00:30:22,200
Speaker 1: was a part he did or he didn't break into

706
00:30:22,240 --> 00:30:24,480
Speaker 1: the starting line up until week seven, So I didn't

707
00:30:24,480 --> 00:30:28,120
Speaker 1: consider him, But you considered Jalen.

708
00:30:27,880 --> 00:30:31,360
Speaker 2: Carter, who's not really a starter. Who's not a starter either,

709
00:30:31,560 --> 00:30:33,840
Speaker 2: he's a total rotation law player. Yeah, and they have

710
00:30:33,920 --> 00:30:35,840
Speaker 2: a lot of d linemen they won. Part of the

711
00:30:35,840 --> 00:30:38,160
Speaker 2: reason they drafted him is to keep rotating those guys

712
00:30:38,160 --> 00:30:40,280
Speaker 2: in has it worked out as plan, but none of

713
00:30:40,280 --> 00:30:42,760
Speaker 2: those guys are full time players and the Eagles front line. Yeah,

714
00:30:42,840 --> 00:30:45,160
Speaker 2: so it's a bad year though for defensive it is

715
00:30:45,200 --> 00:30:47,680
Speaker 2: like I don't know, I'm not discrediting Porter, but like

716
00:30:47,800 --> 00:30:51,120
Speaker 2: who's got a better case? Yeah, I mean, I know

717
00:30:51,160 --> 00:30:54,120
Speaker 2: the d tackle with the Rams has been impressive, and

718
00:30:54,160 --> 00:30:56,840
Speaker 2: that was Sando's call, and Witherspoon looked like he was

719
00:30:56,920 --> 00:30:58,960
Speaker 2: right in it for a while. I could understand that.

720
00:30:59,200 --> 00:31:02,080
Speaker 2: But I don't see anyone that's been a dominant defensive

721
00:31:02,120 --> 00:31:03,800
Speaker 2: rookie start to finish, that's for sure.

722
00:31:03,920 --> 00:31:06,240
Speaker 1: I mean, I could see Will Anderson winning it because

723
00:31:06,360 --> 00:31:08,560
Speaker 1: he's got some momentum. He was a high draft pick. Yeahs.

724
00:31:08,720 --> 00:31:12,680
Speaker 2: You know, however, the last two or three games he's

725
00:31:12,720 --> 00:31:15,280
Speaker 2: playing forty percent of snaps. He's fight an injury, but

726
00:31:15,320 --> 00:31:18,200
Speaker 2: he's effective and they're a good story in there in

727
00:31:18,240 --> 00:31:20,400
Speaker 2: the postseason. It wouldn't break my heart if he won it. Yeah,

728
00:31:20,400 --> 00:31:21,320
Speaker 2: I would understand it.

729
00:31:21,640 --> 00:31:24,560
Speaker 1: Yeah I would too. Looking ahead, I bet he does.

730
00:31:24,600 --> 00:31:25,600
Speaker 2: The more I think about it, I.

731
00:31:25,520 --> 00:31:27,200
Speaker 1: Think it's I think that's probably who it ends up.

732
00:31:27,200 --> 00:31:29,920
Speaker 2: I haven't looked like Vegas odds or anything, but I

733
00:31:29,960 --> 00:31:31,880
Speaker 2: bet he wins it the morn. You know, they have

734
00:31:31,880 --> 00:31:33,000
Speaker 2: a lot of good momentum.

735
00:31:33,040 --> 00:31:40,880
Speaker 1: So the games for this weekend kicking off Saturday at

736
00:31:40,960 --> 00:31:44,440
Speaker 1: four thirty, You've got the Cleveland Browns at the Houston Texans.

737
00:31:44,760 --> 00:31:47,480
Speaker 1: If I one, that should be should be a good one.

738
00:31:48,040 --> 00:31:49,560
Speaker 1: I kind of like Houston in that game.

739
00:31:49,680 --> 00:31:52,480
Speaker 2: I'm leaving that way as well because but they're underdogs

740
00:31:52,880 --> 00:31:54,920
Speaker 2: at home at home. Yeah, I think I would probably

741
00:31:54,920 --> 00:31:57,720
Speaker 2: take the points. I haven't thought matchups nearly enough, and

742
00:31:57,760 --> 00:31:59,400
Speaker 2: we'll talk about it on Friday a lot more in

743
00:31:59,440 --> 00:32:03,120
Speaker 2: all week, but I like Rick Houston's at a lot.

744
00:32:03,200 --> 00:32:05,400
Speaker 1: Cleveland's defense was just not as good on the road

745
00:32:05,440 --> 00:32:05,800
Speaker 1: this year.

746
00:32:05,960 --> 00:32:09,200
Speaker 2: That's very true. And again I'm a Flacco fan. That's

747
00:32:09,200 --> 00:32:13,320
Speaker 2: a great story someday one of these days. It's either

748
00:32:13,320 --> 00:32:15,800
Speaker 2: gonna be this game or the game after if they win.

749
00:32:15,880 --> 00:32:18,480
Speaker 2: In my opinion, the turnovers and sacks are going.

750
00:32:18,480 --> 00:32:20,160
Speaker 1: To come back as a team. They turned the ball

751
00:32:20,200 --> 00:32:22,120
Speaker 1: over thirty six times or twenty six times if.

752
00:32:22,000 --> 00:32:24,720
Speaker 2: She spent a ton and he has not been helping.

753
00:32:24,440 --> 00:32:26,520
Speaker 1: It, that will kill you. In the playoffs. You might

754
00:32:26,560 --> 00:32:28,320
Speaker 1: get you might be able to beat, you know, Jake

755
00:32:28,360 --> 00:32:31,000
Speaker 1: Browning right right during that right, you're not going to.

756
00:32:31,040 --> 00:32:32,920
Speaker 2: Beat on the road in the playoffs as a wild

757
00:32:32,920 --> 00:32:35,160
Speaker 2: card team, not gonna can't be taking sacks and turn

758
00:32:35,200 --> 00:32:36,080
Speaker 2: the ball over, and they do.

759
00:32:36,080 --> 00:32:40,640
Speaker 1: A lot of that. The other game on Saturday, this

760
00:32:40,720 --> 00:32:44,720
Speaker 1: is eight point fifteen Miami at Kansas City. Kansas City

761
00:32:44,800 --> 00:32:47,000
Speaker 1: is not a juggernaut this year. No, but I like

762
00:32:47,080 --> 00:32:48,040
Speaker 1: them over the Dolphins.

763
00:32:48,120 --> 00:32:50,000
Speaker 2: I do too. I just think they're in a better place.

764
00:32:50,040 --> 00:32:53,360
Speaker 2: I trust the coaching staff. Quarterback Kelsey ain't what he

765
00:32:53,480 --> 00:32:56,120
Speaker 2: used to be, but that Chiefs D's pretty good.

766
00:32:56,360 --> 00:32:58,560
Speaker 1: In Miami's defense is all kinds of bands.

767
00:32:58,560 --> 00:33:01,040
Speaker 2: They don't rush pass her anymore. They've been there hanging

768
00:33:01,040 --> 00:33:03,880
Speaker 2: on by a thread. Yeah, they really need waddle back

769
00:33:03,960 --> 00:33:04,880
Speaker 2: and guys like that.

770
00:33:04,920 --> 00:33:05,239
Speaker 1: They do.

771
00:33:05,280 --> 00:33:08,240
Speaker 2: I mean they do because that one might be for

772
00:33:08,320 --> 00:33:10,400
Speaker 2: Miami to win that game in Kansas City, they might

773
00:33:10,440 --> 00:33:12,400
Speaker 2: have to put up twenty eight or thirty. I think

774
00:33:12,400 --> 00:33:15,360
Speaker 2: they need a wattle. Yeah, some kind of Yeah.

775
00:33:15,400 --> 00:33:17,520
Speaker 1: Even Tyreek was a little nicked up last night towards

776
00:33:17,520 --> 00:33:19,040
Speaker 1: the end of that. Like the final play, the beating

777
00:33:19,120 --> 00:33:21,400
Speaker 1: final play of the game, their off final offensive play

778
00:33:21,400 --> 00:33:21,680
Speaker 1: of the game.

779
00:33:21,720 --> 00:33:25,160
Speaker 2: He wasn't on the field, Wasn't it okay? So I

780
00:33:25,160 --> 00:33:27,320
Speaker 2: says everything. No, ye, most importing guy in the league.

781
00:33:27,880 --> 00:33:29,560
Speaker 1: Of course. We know. The Steelers are at the Bills

782
00:33:29,600 --> 00:33:32,680
Speaker 1: at one o'clock on Sunday, kicking off the Sunday schedule.

783
00:33:32,680 --> 00:33:36,640
Speaker 1: Then at four thirty Green Bay at Dallas. The Mike

784
00:33:36,720 --> 00:33:37,440
Speaker 1: McCarthy Bull.

785
00:33:38,240 --> 00:33:40,680
Speaker 2: There's some fun matchups that way. I mean we've been talking,

786
00:33:40,840 --> 00:33:43,760
Speaker 2: you know, Rams Lions, but some fun Tyreek going back

787
00:33:44,280 --> 00:33:46,080
Speaker 2: to Kansas City. A lot of that kind of stuff

788
00:33:46,120 --> 00:33:49,760
Speaker 2: is really exciting. Man. I give the Packers credit that offense.

789
00:33:49,840 --> 00:33:53,760
Speaker 2: Jordan Love I when he came here eight weeks ago,

790
00:33:53,840 --> 00:33:56,320
Speaker 2: whatever it was, I thought, Man, I don't think he's

791
00:33:56,360 --> 00:33:59,280
Speaker 2: a long term answer, but boy, he's playing extremely well

792
00:33:59,280 --> 00:34:02,960
Speaker 2: in a really young offense. Maybe Lafloor winning thirteen games,

793
00:34:02,960 --> 00:34:06,160
Speaker 2: thirteen games, thirteen games was more than just Aaron Rodgers.

794
00:34:06,200 --> 00:34:08,080
Speaker 2: You know, maybe he knows a thing or two defense

795
00:34:08,160 --> 00:34:10,520
Speaker 2: playing a little better. I'd be a little scared from Dallas,

796
00:34:10,760 --> 00:34:11,800
Speaker 2: like Dallas should be favored.

797
00:34:11,800 --> 00:34:13,680
Speaker 1: I get it. I still like Dallas in that game.

798
00:34:13,880 --> 00:34:16,160
Speaker 2: I think they'll win, but I would be I don't

799
00:34:16,160 --> 00:34:18,520
Speaker 2: love the matchup. I mean not doing cartwheels over. I'd

800
00:34:18,600 --> 00:34:19,760
Speaker 2: rather play the Eagles or Tampa.

801
00:34:19,880 --> 00:34:22,520
Speaker 1: Yeah, the night game on Sunday night is even more

802
00:34:22,520 --> 00:34:24,960
Speaker 1: fun to me. This might be the game of the

803
00:34:25,000 --> 00:34:27,480
Speaker 1: weekend in terms of the one that I want to watch.

804
00:34:28,280 --> 00:34:31,920
Speaker 1: Rams at Lions. Yeah, I mean Stafford going back to

805
00:34:31,920 --> 00:34:33,279
Speaker 1: Detroit for a playoff game.

806
00:34:33,440 --> 00:34:36,440
Speaker 2: I'm golf totally disrespectful to get out here because we

807
00:34:36,520 --> 00:34:39,840
Speaker 2: want Stafford kicking over Cans And yeah.

808
00:34:38,640 --> 00:34:41,040
Speaker 1: You can't ask for better storylines than that.

809
00:34:41,200 --> 00:34:43,759
Speaker 2: No, that's phenomenal. So that's that's good stuff. That's too

810
00:34:43,760 --> 00:34:47,120
Speaker 2: easy teams to root for. I was really hard on

811
00:34:47,920 --> 00:34:50,520
Speaker 2: the Lions head coach for playing everybody. I don't understand

812
00:34:50,560 --> 00:34:52,840
Speaker 2: why he did that. And it looks like Laporta is

813
00:34:52,880 --> 00:34:55,480
Speaker 2: not as bad off as he could have been. But

814
00:34:56,320 --> 00:34:57,960
Speaker 2: and then he didn't take game off the field after that,

815
00:34:58,480 --> 00:34:59,960
Speaker 2: But different story altogether.

816
00:35:00,120 --> 00:35:03,680
Speaker 1: Yeah. And then finally in what might be the dog

817
00:35:03,760 --> 00:35:08,560
Speaker 1: game of the weekend, Eagles at Buccaneers at eight o'clock

818
00:35:08,600 --> 00:35:09,240
Speaker 1: on Monday.

819
00:35:11,280 --> 00:35:12,600
Speaker 2: They're both limping around right now.

820
00:35:12,640 --> 00:35:15,120
Speaker 1: The Eagles are favored in that game, and I.

821
00:35:16,320 --> 00:35:19,880
Speaker 2: Yeah, Baker's far from one und I don't know how

822
00:35:19,920 --> 00:35:22,520
Speaker 2: much you're able to watch it, but he's probably should

823
00:35:22,560 --> 00:35:23,319
Speaker 2: not have been out there.

824
00:35:23,680 --> 00:35:26,879
Speaker 1: But he gets another day of rest the ribs. That's

825
00:35:26,880 --> 00:35:27,879
Speaker 1: a rib injury.

826
00:35:27,600 --> 00:35:29,879
Speaker 2: Solo for the Steelers, they get an extra day too. Yeah,

827
00:35:30,080 --> 00:35:35,319
Speaker 2: it's important. Could the Eagles turn it on maybe, but

828
00:35:35,360 --> 00:35:37,320
Speaker 2: they're showing off that defense.

829
00:35:38,080 --> 00:35:41,560
Speaker 1: I heard. I heard. I was listening my drive down

830
00:35:41,600 --> 00:35:46,400
Speaker 1: to Baltimore listening to a serious NFL and there was

831
00:35:46,440 --> 00:35:50,799
Speaker 1: a quote from one of the Eagles defenders because they

832
00:35:50,800 --> 00:35:53,320
Speaker 1: made have switched to Matt Patricia as their defensive coordinator

833
00:35:53,320 --> 00:36:00,399
Speaker 1: a few weeks ago, talking about how they changed terminology things.

834
00:36:00,440 --> 00:36:02,200
Speaker 1: You can't do that in the middle of a season.

835
00:36:02,600 --> 00:36:04,520
Speaker 2: Nick. I don't know the man. I've never been around him,

836
00:36:04,520 --> 00:36:07,879
Speaker 2: but boy does he scream too smart for his own good. Yeah,

837
00:36:07,880 --> 00:36:09,680
Speaker 2: I mean he was like that as a head coach

838
00:36:09,719 --> 00:36:13,120
Speaker 2: of the Lions. I guess he's like some Mensa Harvard

839
00:36:13,239 --> 00:36:14,920
Speaker 2: something something something that's great.

840
00:36:14,960 --> 00:36:16,600
Speaker 1: You're dealing with guys that you want.

841
00:36:16,440 --> 00:36:19,320
Speaker 2: Them to Everyone listening to you is from Mensa and Harvard.

842
00:36:19,920 --> 00:36:22,320
Speaker 1: You want guys being able to think quickly on their feet.

843
00:36:22,640 --> 00:36:25,600
Speaker 1: You don't want them to have to see, Okay, what's

844
00:36:25,640 --> 00:36:27,160
Speaker 1: this call? What do I got to do here?

845
00:36:27,360 --> 00:36:29,160
Speaker 2: And that's what the Eagles were all about last year.

846
00:36:29,200 --> 00:36:31,680
Speaker 2: They were never a complex defense. They won up front,

847
00:36:32,440 --> 00:36:34,560
Speaker 2: swarm to the ball, you know, played with a lot

848
00:36:34,560 --> 00:36:36,680
Speaker 2: of leads, which they haven't been able to do either.

849
00:36:37,239 --> 00:36:39,680
Speaker 2: Devonte Smith didn't play yesterday. A J. Brown could be

850
00:36:39,680 --> 00:36:42,000
Speaker 2: out for the rest of the year. I'ven't seen Hurtz

851
00:36:42,040 --> 00:36:44,040
Speaker 2: has a bad finger that is all messed up and

852
00:36:44,040 --> 00:36:48,680
Speaker 2: hasn't played well. Swift missed the game, yesterd Yeah, I

853
00:36:48,719 --> 00:36:50,520
Speaker 2: mean they're not a good football team right now.

854
00:36:50,520 --> 00:36:53,680
Speaker 1: They're not. You know, if they were playing any of

855
00:36:53,719 --> 00:36:56,560
Speaker 1: the other teams in the AFC or the NFC playoffs,

856
00:36:57,400 --> 00:36:59,600
Speaker 1: I would say, well, but I don't know that I

857
00:36:59,600 --> 00:37:00,920
Speaker 1: can pick Tampa Bay against him.

858
00:37:01,080 --> 00:37:03,120
Speaker 2: I know, I know, especially the way Baker looks at

859
00:37:03,120 --> 00:37:05,759
Speaker 2: the moment, but those two teams are limping in.

860
00:37:05,960 --> 00:37:07,279
Speaker 1: They are definitely limping in.

861
00:37:07,360 --> 00:37:07,720
Speaker 2: Yeah.

862
00:37:07,760 --> 00:37:11,040
Speaker 1: With that in mind, Matt, when we come back, all right,

863
00:37:11,160 --> 00:37:13,960
Speaker 1: tonight's the NCAA Championship.

864
00:37:14,120 --> 00:37:16,719
Speaker 2: Yeah, i'msych for that too. So we're gonna we're gonna.

865
00:37:16,480 --> 00:37:19,400
Speaker 1: Go ahead and look at this playoff field or the

866
00:37:19,520 --> 00:37:23,560
Speaker 1: NFL in general, and pick this the fourteen teams we

867
00:37:23,600 --> 00:37:26,600
Speaker 1: would have liked to have seen in the postseason.

868
00:37:26,680 --> 00:37:27,959
Speaker 2: So maybe someone that didn't make.

869
00:37:27,920 --> 00:37:30,960
Speaker 1: Maybe maybe there's somebody in there that we we looked

870
00:37:30,960 --> 00:37:33,120
Speaker 1: at that we look at them like they were Florida.

871
00:37:32,719 --> 00:37:33,560
Speaker 2: State, Georgia.

872
00:37:33,680 --> 00:37:36,600
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, okay, so let's do that when we return.

873
00:37:36,680 --> 00:37:39,200
Speaker 1: He is Matt Williamson. I am Dale, Lolly. You're listening

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Speaker 1: to the drive here on Steelers Nation Radio, Welcome back.

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Speaker 1: I am Dale Lollly. He is the Matt Williamson and

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Speaker 1: Matt as I t is there in the before the break.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna look at these playoff fields like we are

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Speaker 1: the college selection committee or the NFL Selection Committee for

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Speaker 1: the playoffs. There are no rules to get into the playoffs.

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Speaker 1: It's just it's gonna impress us who's playing the best

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Speaker 1: right now and that's that's where you go.

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Speaker 2: So we're taking fourteen teams, we're.

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Speaker 1: Taking seven from each conference, and we're split, you know,

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Speaker 1: splitting them up here.

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Speaker 2: We are going to do conferences. Ye're not just taking them.

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Speaker 2: They can all be from the Big ten or packed whatever,

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Speaker 2: right right.

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Speaker 1: So looking at the AFC, you got Baltimore at thirteen

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Speaker 1: and four, Buffalo at eleven and six, Kansas City at

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Speaker 1: eleven and six, Houston at ten and seven, those year

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Speaker 1: division winners. Then you've got Cleveland eleven and six, Miami

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Speaker 1: at eleven and six, Pittsburgh at ten and seven. That's

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Speaker 1: the rest of your playoff field. After that, you've got Cincinnati,

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Speaker 1: Jacksonville and Indianapolis at nine and eight, the Raiders, the

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Speaker 1: Broncos at eight and nine, the Jets at seven and ten,

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Speaker 1: the Titans at six and eleven, the Chargers at four

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Speaker 1: and twelve, and the Patriots are five and twelve and

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Speaker 1: the Patriots at four and thirteen.

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Speaker 2: Patriots end up being the last in the last in

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Speaker 2: the conference thirteen. That's as possible.

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Speaker 1: I don't really argue too much with the teams that

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Speaker 1: made it in the AFC, so.

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Speaker 2: We don't have to rank these, you know, like one

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Speaker 2: place seven and all that kind of stuff necessarily for

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Speaker 2: this exercise. We could we could play with that order

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Speaker 2: if you want.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, to me, I.

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Speaker 2: Don't think anybody outside was one of the best seven.

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Speaker 1: I don't think so either. I think the seven are

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Speaker 1: the are the best seven?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 1: Would those be? Would that be the order in which

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Speaker 1: you would rank them going into the postseason.

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Speaker 2: Before we do? Who would be your eight? I think

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Speaker 2: mine would be the Colts.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think so.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I know the Colts beat the Steelers now

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Speaker 2: is a month ago or whatever, and you can use

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Speaker 2: that transit won that game. Yeah. I mean, if anyone

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Speaker 2: was to say a team doesn't belong and one should,

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Speaker 2: I think the Colts are the strongest argument. But the

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Speaker 2: way the Steelers finished, I still put them ahead of them,

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Speaker 2: same with Houston, same with the Browns.

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Speaker 1: Might have the Steelers ahead of Miami right now.

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Speaker 2: Miami is soft, but they're definitely one of the seven.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, they're definitely they definitely want yeah. Yeah, but they

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Speaker 1: still didn't beat anybody. Their strength of victory this season

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Speaker 1: was three fifty eight.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Three. The Steelers' strength of victory was the second best

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Speaker 1: in the league at five seventy one.

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Speaker 2: Okay.

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Speaker 1: That's the three fifty eight is easily easily the worst

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Speaker 1: in the AFC. It's in fact, it's almost one hundred

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Speaker 1: points less. The only other team that comes close was

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Speaker 1: the Chiefs at four to twenty eight.

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Speaker 2: Okay, So do you want to rank them one to seven? Yeah,

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Speaker 2: Baltimore's one, yeah, Miami seven.

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Speaker 1: I think they are. For me, I think I would.

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Speaker 1: I would have Buffalo.

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Speaker 2: Two agreed out of the Steelers six. Okay, So do

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Speaker 2: we agree on the top two and bottom two? Yes, Okay,

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Speaker 2: that leaves.

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Speaker 1: I think three. I would still have Kansas City, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: because of the Mahomes, I.

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Speaker 2: Would too, and Andy Reid and they have their problems,

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Speaker 2: but they have a defense and Ben they're done. It

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Speaker 2: means something to me in the player Browns or Texans.

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Speaker 1: I kind of like where the Texans are at right

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Speaker 1: now better than where I do with the Browns. I know,

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Speaker 1: the Flacco story is all cute and everything, but he's

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Speaker 1: gonna turn the football over. See.

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Speaker 2: I think there's two ways of looking at this. Is

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Speaker 2: because I don't think it happened to line up that

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Speaker 2: they play this week, and then a couple segments ago,

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Speaker 2: we kind of both leaned towards we're going to pick

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Speaker 2: the Texans. That doesn't mean they should be seated higher though,

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Speaker 2: right well, if the.

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Speaker 1: Game we're in Cleveland, I would feel the other way

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Speaker 1: about it.

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Speaker 2: That's what That's kind of my point is if we're

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Speaker 2: picking teams to go to the playoffs, I don't care

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Speaker 2: what they're going, what is ahead of them in the NFL,

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Speaker 2: you know what I mean? Like, well, they don't travel well.

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Speaker 2: I think i'd have the Browns ahead of Houston, even

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Speaker 2: though I probably will pick against them in this game.

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Speaker 2: I think their case for the playoffs to hold the

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Speaker 2: National Championship up is stronger. I get it, you know

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Speaker 2: what I mean?

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Speaker 1: Okay, let's move on to me is much more interesting.

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Speaker 1: So you've got San Francisco at twelve and five. You've

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Speaker 1: got Dallas at twelve and five. You've got Detroit at

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Speaker 1: twelve and five. That game, that's why that game in

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Speaker 1: Dallas two weeks ago.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, bigger than yeah right, I brushed that off more

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Speaker 2: than I should have.

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Speaker 1: You got Tampa at nine and eight. Then you have

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Speaker 1: the Eagles at eleven and six, the Rams at ten

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Speaker 1: and seven, the Packers at nine and eight. Also at

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Speaker 1: nine and eight are Seattle, in New Orleans and Nava

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Speaker 1: case at seven and ten, Minnesota, Chicago and Atlanta. Then

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Speaker 1: you get the Giants at six and eleven, Washington at

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Speaker 1: four and thirteen, Arizona at four to thirteen, in Carolina

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Speaker 1: at two and fifteen.

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Speaker 2: So we can't make a case for the Bears after

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Speaker 2: I mean like they were playing really well, but then

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Speaker 2: they got pretty much stamped. I don't think we can

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Speaker 2: make case for Atlanta, who was else right in that

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Speaker 2: neighborhood that are I think the Vikings don't have the.

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Speaker 1: Vikings fell off, Yeah, but I think Seattle and New

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Speaker 1: Orleans and.

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Speaker 2: Nine teams have a case.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Okay, well let's rank them then go San Franz won San.

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Speaker 1: Fran Is one.

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Speaker 2: I would go to Detroit too.

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Speaker 1: I would have Detroit second.

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Speaker 2: Okay, I thought that'd be controversial, but I would have

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Speaker 2: Detroit too.

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Speaker 1: Dallas three, yes, but I would then have the Rams.

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Speaker 2: Before For me though, I had to think about that,

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Speaker 2: you know, Rams versus Dallas. Is I trust Rams coach more?

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Speaker 1: Yeah? So the Rams would be four Green Bay five.

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Speaker 2: Say it's not Tampa, it's.

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Speaker 1: Not Tampa, and it's not Philadelphia, right right, based on

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Speaker 1: how they're playing right now, I might take Seattle or

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Speaker 1: New Orleans over.

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Speaker 2: Fideli too, and it gets to that point. But who's

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Speaker 2: five Green Bay?

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Speaker 1: Green Bay?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, like if I was like Tampa did in Philly.

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Speaker 2: To me, I know, this is kind of the opposite

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Speaker 2: of what I said, or very fortunately be playing each other. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: right right, I mean like neither one maybe is in

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Speaker 2: the top seven.

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Speaker 1: Like to me, Tampa, I guess is six just because.

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Speaker 2: It's Tampa better than New Orleans?

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Speaker 1: Well, they finished.

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Speaker 2: I don't care about their records.

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Speaker 1: Who's they beat them when they needed to beat them.

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Speaker 2: Who can convince the committee to get in the tournament?

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Speaker 1: I mean they had had the head wins on them

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Speaker 1: and yeah, you know, so I guess Yeah, I mean

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Speaker 1: New Orleans lost the tiebreaker to Tampa based on the

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Speaker 1: head to head stuff. They both went four and two

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Speaker 1: in the division.

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Speaker 2: I think Seattle's pretty good too.

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Speaker 1: Seattle's unfortunately because of the division they play, and went

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Speaker 1: to and four in their division. Yeah, you know, but

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Speaker 1: they beat teams like the Browns.

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Speaker 2: But are they better than the Eagles right the second?

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Speaker 1: I think a lot of teams are better than the

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Speaker 1: Eagles right to second too, like this, Yeah, that would

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Speaker 1: be the Eagles would be a team that wouldn't make it.

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Speaker 1: You don't. You don't win one time in your last

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Speaker 1: five games or six games.

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Speaker 2: One of us they were ten and one.

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Speaker 1: There were ten and one, yeah, and completely falling apart.

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Speaker 1: They don't belong.

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Speaker 2: They don't.

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Speaker 1: You want to talk about not deserving to being a player,

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Speaker 1: and I always tell people, if you make it, you

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Speaker 1: deserve to be.

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Speaker 2: And it's all math. It's not but it doesn't work

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Speaker 2: the way we're doing this.

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Speaker 1: Actual, that's not a team that should be around. They

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Speaker 1: got very fortunate in their matchup.

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Speaker 2: Mm hm. So if if the season went seven.

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Speaker 1: If the season went one more week, or even two

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Speaker 1: more weeks, two more weeks, they might not make.

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Speaker 2: The playoffs, right, and they clinched a year ago. So okay,

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Speaker 2: I think we both agree they're not in the top

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Speaker 2: seven fair enough, But is Seattle better than Tampa?

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Speaker 1: That leaves us Tampa's Okay. So then now we break

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Speaker 1: it down to strength of victory. Tampa's strength of victory

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Speaker 1: is three seventy nine. Okay, Seattle's strength of victory is

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Speaker 1: three ninety two, so that doesn't really close. Give that

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Speaker 1: to me. New Orleans strength of victory is three forty.

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Speaker 1: They're all kind of.

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Speaker 2: Those South teams, all played easy.

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Speaker 1: Schedules, they're all kind of yuck.

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Speaker 2: So we have to pick two of those three.

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Speaker 1: Yes, unless you want to keep Philadelphia in the playoffs. Now,

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Speaker 1: I don't think Philadelphia's strength of trees four seventy six.

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Speaker 2: This, I don't mean logic behind this. But if I

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Speaker 2: were the Steelers or the Bears, Giants, whoever, I think

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Speaker 2: I want to play the Bucks out of those three.

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Speaker 1: Teams, Okay, I can understand why.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I mean constructed Seattle, scary Seattle.

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Speaker 1: Seattle will be my seventh team over Philly has currently constructed, assuming.

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Speaker 2: You'd leave the Saints out, Yeah, I think we're both

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Speaker 2: leaving Philly out.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think Philly's out. I would I would keep

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Speaker 1: Tampa Bay in, but I would add Seattle instead.

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Speaker 2: I think I'd leave Tampa out, And there's a lot

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Speaker 2: of recency bias behind that. I think the Saints are

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Speaker 2: better than them.

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Speaker 1: They just lost to the Buccaneers two weeks.

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Speaker 2: Right now, I know, but they also just wiped the

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Speaker 2: floor with the Falcon I think Seattle would be my six,

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Speaker 2: and either the Saints or Bucks would be seven, and

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Speaker 2: the Eagles are nine. Yeah, give me the Bucks. They

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Speaker 2: won the division.

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Speaker 1: Okay, there you go. Okay, so different than what actually

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Speaker 1: came to fruition, but that's why you play the whole season.

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Speaker 2: Who would be your fourteen if you combined them all?

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Speaker 2: The NFC in Carolina, No, No, I'm all of the

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Speaker 2: Big seven and seven. If if a conference doesn't matter,

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Speaker 2: does matter.

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Speaker 1: I think you go. I think you go Baltimore, San Francisco.

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Speaker 2: I think the NFC would have the bottom two or

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Speaker 2: three teams.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: If the Steelers probably of Green Bay over the Steelers.

1095
00:47:31,680 --> 00:47:33,719
Speaker 1: See I wouldn't they played that game, I know, and

1096
00:47:33,880 --> 00:47:35,000
Speaker 1: the Steelers beat them.

1097
00:47:34,880 --> 00:47:38,799
Speaker 2: But really impressively convincingly beat them. I think I'd have

1098
00:47:38,840 --> 00:47:44,800
Speaker 2: the Miami over anyone in the NFC South, Yeah, over Seattle,

1099
00:47:46,840 --> 00:47:47,920
Speaker 2: Miami versus Greensay.

1100
00:47:48,040 --> 00:47:49,680
Speaker 1: I look at the NFC and I think, Okay, the

1101
00:47:49,719 --> 00:47:51,680
Speaker 1: only the teams in the NFC that I know are

1102
00:47:51,680 --> 00:47:57,560
Speaker 1: better than the Steelers, San Francisco, Detroit, in Dallas, the

1103
00:47:57,600 --> 00:48:00,720
Speaker 1: rest of it. They played the Rams in Los Angeles

1104
00:48:00,760 --> 00:48:03,279
Speaker 1: and beat them. They played Green Bay here, but they

1105
00:48:03,320 --> 00:48:03,759
Speaker 1: beat them.

1106
00:48:04,280 --> 00:48:07,160
Speaker 2: I would Power rank the Rams today over the Steelers

1107
00:48:08,160 --> 00:48:10,160
Speaker 2: Packers is a conversation. I don't know that I would

1108
00:48:10,560 --> 00:48:11,480
Speaker 2: Packers Steelers.

1109
00:48:11,480 --> 00:48:13,920
Speaker 1: The Steelers offense is playing better than that the Steelers

1110
00:48:13,920 --> 00:48:15,160
Speaker 1: offense was when they played them.

1111
00:48:15,440 --> 00:48:17,720
Speaker 2: Yeah, but the Packers offense is playing way better.

1112
00:48:17,840 --> 00:48:20,120
Speaker 1: Would it play better? Way better against this defense?

1113
00:48:20,160 --> 00:48:22,399
Speaker 2: Though? And then you have to talk about head to head,

1114
00:48:22,440 --> 00:48:22,879
Speaker 2: you know, just.

1115
00:48:24,920 --> 00:48:27,279
Speaker 1: Take into consideration that the Steelers won't have what I

1116
00:48:27,360 --> 00:48:30,239
Speaker 1: get that. That's also part of the conversation, is it is?

1117
00:48:30,840 --> 00:48:33,799
Speaker 2: I think the Steelers, Dolphins, and Packers are about the

1118
00:48:33,800 --> 00:48:38,960
Speaker 2: same level, and I would have the Rams slightly above them.

1119
00:48:39,000 --> 00:48:42,440
Speaker 2: Everybody else that made the cut below them. Okay, one

1120
00:48:42,520 --> 00:48:43,600
Speaker 2: time I was impressed with the Packers.

1121
00:48:43,640 --> 00:48:46,440
Speaker 1: Tomorrow we'll do uh, we'll do our power rankings day.

1122
00:48:46,480 --> 00:48:49,560
Speaker 1: We'll see where all this, how they sorted out Eric

1123
00:48:49,560 --> 00:48:52,440
Speaker 1: at home one NFL dot Com. I thought that was

1124
00:48:52,440 --> 00:48:53,160
Speaker 1: a little interesting.

1125
00:48:53,239 --> 00:48:54,600
Speaker 2: Yeah, Twitch looking at it.

1126
00:48:56,480 --> 00:48:59,400
Speaker 1: Yeah, get your ready for tonight's game with Michigan playing

1127
00:48:59,520 --> 00:49:01,759
Speaker 1: Washington the National Championship.

1128
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Speaker 2: A lot of prospects to watch, folks.

1129
00:49:02,680 --> 00:49:05,440
Speaker 1: Absolutely, we're gonna get to another break that's going to

1130
00:49:05,440 --> 00:49:07,200
Speaker 1: do it for our number one of the drive. We'll

1131
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Speaker 1: be back with our number two right after this.