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

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

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Speaker 1: and Gold Steelers Nation Radio.

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Speaker 2: Welcome back. I am Dale Lolly, he is Matt Williamson.

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Speaker 2: It's time for the fantasy football focus here on the

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Speaker 2: Drive and Matt Well the lead on the lot of

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Speaker 2: the Fantasy football news right now deals with the Steelers.

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Speaker 2: Of course, Pat farm With and Kenny Pickett. That makes

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Speaker 2: sense looking here at some of the other stuff. It

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Speaker 2: is Wednesday, take a look at some practice report stuff.

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Speaker 2: Derek Carr limited at practice on Wednesday. He was limited

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Speaker 2: in Sunday's game as well with that shoulder.

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Speaker 3: That was a remarkably frustrating turn of events. Yeah, Like

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Speaker 3: if I were a Saints fan or fantasy so, like,

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Speaker 3: all you need to know about why do I say that?

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Speaker 3: The all you need to know is Alvin Kamara comes

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Speaker 3: back last week from suspension. Right, they target him for

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Speaker 3: thirteen times. He catches thirteen of them. You know they're

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Speaker 3: not real deep targets. That's where I'm going with us.

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Speaker 3: He ended up with like thirty three yards on thirteen catches.

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Speaker 3: Not only is that the fewest yards ever by a

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Speaker 3: player in the history of the league to catch thirteen balls,

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Speaker 3: it's the fewest in the league, the fewest in league

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Speaker 3: history for someone to catch ten eleven or more ball

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Speaker 3: at least ten. And meanwhile Chris Olave has like two targets,

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Speaker 3: ends up with four yards or four yards. Yeah, I mean, so.

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Speaker 2: That was the That was the Saints passing game last week.

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Speaker 3: That was hurt shoulder guy. You know, like, if you

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Speaker 3: can't throw, don't be out there.

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Speaker 2: Why do you have Jameis Winston on the roster?

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Speaker 3: Exactly? And I think he got in the game too.

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Speaker 3: So if Carr's shoulder is that bad, and it kept

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Speaker 3: going back and forth going to the pre you know,

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Speaker 3: going into the games Henna plays, you know it's gonna

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Speaker 3: be Winston's gonna be car and all you're gonna do

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Speaker 3: is dump it down to Kamar.

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Speaker 2: Set your butt down.

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Speaker 3: Then don't be out there.

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Speaker 2: Set your butt down.

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Speaker 3: It's not a Burrow situation kind of is.

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Speaker 2: Juwan Johnson with a calf for the Saints. Non participant

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Speaker 2: on Wednesday. He has not been Fantasy relevant this year.

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Speaker 3: No, Their offense should be better on PA than I mean,

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Speaker 3: it's good on paper, but it's not playing great.

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Speaker 2: Uh, Javonte Williams with the hip injury, did not practice

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Speaker 3: I don't think he's gonna play. That might be multiple weeks. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: that McLaughlin character needs to be picked up.

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Speaker 2: Julio McLaughlin popular waiver wire pick up this week.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's up. I mean, he looks good when he's

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Speaker 3: been out there. They've been high on him, and pe

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Speaker 3: Ryan's been underwhelming.

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Speaker 2: Ramandre Stevenson with a thigh injury really listed as limited Wednesday.

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Speaker 3: They have a defensive slug fest Saints. Okay, yeah, that

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Speaker 3: makes sense.

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Speaker 2: We can see a whole bunch of balls going five

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Speaker 2: yards now if he doesn't.

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Speaker 3: Play, I mean, are you starting Zeke?

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Speaker 2: I mean it's a volume based play volume.

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Speaker 3: I mean they probably aren't gonna score a lot of points.

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Speaker 3: I mean that game, in the Steeler game or the

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Speaker 2: You're basically hoping for a touchdown because Zeke's gonna have

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Speaker 2: twenty for sixty six and he's not gonna touchdown anything

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Speaker 2: but right, maybe catch a ball or two.

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Speaker 3: Their offense is kind of broke too, but Stephens, I

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Speaker 3: keep thinking that Stevenson is the way to get their

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Speaker 3: offense back on track. And they don't using them as

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Speaker 3: much as you'd think.

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Speaker 2: Uh, Deebo Samuel knee and ribs was limited at practice

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Speaker 2: on Wednesday. He had the same thing last week and

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Speaker 2: ended up playing. How much of the chagrin of Kittle owners.

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Speaker 3: But looking at that Monday, he was just a decoy

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Speaker 3: the whole time. Yeah, they didn't want to Kittle and

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Speaker 3: there's one deep league where I started Debo. I'm like, well,

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Speaker 3: he's out there. I don't have much else. He was

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Speaker 3: just running running around versus air basically.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Elijah Mitchell with a knee, not participating on Wednesday.

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Speaker 3: They got the Cowboys this WEEKND they played.

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Speaker 2: The Cowboys, it's going to be full go for McCaffrey,

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Speaker 2: And twenty plus touches for McCaffrey in that game.

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Speaker 3: And do you think you start Deebo though.

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Speaker 2: So those two teams played last year in the playoffs.

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Speaker 3: Day Sunday night too. Yeah, Yeah, I thought there were

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Speaker 2: That was like a set. It was a nineteen to

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Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, maybe the two the best three or four

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't expect it to be much different than that.

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Speaker 3: So you, I mean, McCaffrey doesn't matter. But I mean,

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Speaker 3: are you siding against starting your Cowboys and Niners?

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Speaker 2: I am gonna I'm gonna start my Niners. I'm gonna

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Speaker 2: start like here's the I's been fantastic.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: And the one way, the one thing that the Cowboys

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Speaker 2: are different or one way they're different this year than

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Speaker 2: they were last year when they pl faced them in

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Speaker 2: the playoffs. They're down digs cornerback true.

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Speaker 3: True, So yeah, I'm gonna.

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Speaker 2: To attack that. And Parsons is also banged up.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but he was really good when he came back

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Speaker 2: That's fine that happened. I mean, I think it's an

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Speaker 2: ankle injury for Parsons.

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Speaker 3: Strange question, would you rather start Party or Prescott?

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Speaker 2: You know how I feel about Dak Prescott.

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Speaker 3: Why now you feel about Party too.

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Speaker 2: I'd say I'd start Party if I had If you

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Speaker 2: give me, give me that choice.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, start Pery against two good defenses. You could do worse.

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Speaker 2: Have better weapons, yeah, more that is hurting for weapons. No,

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Speaker 2: they're not hurting for weapons. But I think Party's weapons

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Speaker 3: Think, I think, I think Kittle has been a better

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Speaker 3: fantasy producer. Yeah, I mean he throws a lot of touchdowns.

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Speaker 2: Let's see here. Miles Sanders with the groin injury limited

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Speaker 3: It's very true, but related we talked yesterday. I mean,

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Speaker 3: if he's still out there, I just grabbing him.

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Speaker 2: I just cut him this week.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, who'd you pick up though?

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Speaker 2: Rashid Rice from Kansas City. He's gotten twelve targets over

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Speaker 3: Yeah, maybe he emerges out of it.

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Speaker 2: Throwing the dice on that one.

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Speaker 3: This makes sense.

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Speaker 2: Twelve targets in that offense. Okay, if it continues to

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Speaker 3: That's the thing. So even if Miles Sanders out, you

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Speaker 3: especially with bye weeks kicking in and all the injuries.

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Speaker 2: This is some interesting news. Josh Reynolds with a groin

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Speaker 2: limited on Wednesday. A mon Ross Saint Brown's dealing with

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Speaker 2: an abdomen injury estimated as a non participant on Wednesday.

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Speaker 2: Did they throw.

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Speaker 3: Jamison Williams in there and go, hey, here, I think

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Speaker 3: the one thing people need to realize, and this is

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Speaker 3: very Deshaun Watson esque from last year. He hasn't met

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Speaker 2: True.

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Speaker 3: I mean, so he's not been in wide receiver meetings.

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Speaker 3: He has not been running round.

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Speaker 2: He was here's the here's the problem. He was there

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Speaker 2: in the spring and throughout the SU camp, right, but

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Speaker 2: then he got hurt in training camp.

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Speaker 3: Right, So he hasn't done stuff with his teammates on

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Speaker 3: the field for a long time. But his style of

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Speaker 2: It might be one or two targets, but it might

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Speaker 3: Of Renolds doesn't play. He's not a direct replacement for

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Speaker 3: Saint Brown. But if Reynolds doesn't play, that's the outside

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Speaker 3: the numbers, you know, go deep guy.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Zay Jones, with the knee injury, was limited for

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Speaker 2: the Jaguar on Wednesday. Did he play last He did not,

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Speaker 2: and he hasn't played since Week one. Interestingly enough, in

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Speaker 2: Week one, Christian Kirk got nothing when since day Jones

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Speaker 2: has been out. Christian Kirk's got pepper with targets.

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Speaker 3: Yes, because they are the same style and Ridley isn't

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Speaker 3: Ingram's different. That's important for Kirk. Maybe you aren't starting

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Speaker 3: Ja Jones and I never give z A. Jones enough credit

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Speaker 3: than I always thought. Man, that's a bad contract. You know,

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Speaker 3: everyone talked about the Kirk contract, but the Jay Jones

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Speaker 3: one I thought was more egregious. But they like him

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Speaker 3: and he's there's something to be said for some of

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Speaker 3: these Robert Woods type, you know, know, where they're going

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Speaker 3: to be professional receivers that the quarterback trusts, and that's him.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. It's also no coincidence that I think when their

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Speaker 2: they haven't had the full compliment of receivers since then.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. I mean they're looking for reliability in the offense.

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Speaker 3: could really use a Jones back.

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Speaker 2: So you have little Jonathan Taylor news here, Yeah, Yeah,

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Speaker 2: I know estimated is a full participant in Wednesday's practice.

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Speaker 3: What do you mean it was?

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Speaker 2: What was a walk through? Oh, they'd got walk through?

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Speaker 3: Why why did they practice like everybody else?

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Speaker 2: I don't know. I know in Colts Nation Radio.

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Speaker 3: But they play Sunday right, I can't. Yeah, I don't

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Speaker 3: know why not?

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Speaker 2: Coaches do what they do? Are you firing him up

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Speaker 2: the first time he's back? They played Tennessee this week.

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Speaker 2: That's not a good running back matchup.

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Speaker 3: Is he happy? Doesn't matter?

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Speaker 2: Is he going to go out there run?

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Speaker 3: Probably not, but he might at some point this year.

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Speaker 2: I mean I gotta see it first.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. Yes, it depends on the makeup of your team.

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Speaker 2: I mean it's also but it kills your Zach Moss value.

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Speaker 3: Oh you can't start Moss anymore? No, I mean I

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Speaker 3: don wouldn't drop him yet, but I don't think you

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Speaker 2: You might want to try to trade him to the

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Speaker 2: tailor owner at this point. Say hey, here's if Taylor.

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Speaker 2: You sat on Taylor at this point, if you don't

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Speaker 2: have Moss, well, if Taylor pulls the oh arm he

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Speaker 2: used to have Moss now.

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Speaker 3: Or if he gets traded because Moss was good Moss

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Speaker 3: was good. He's a volume guy. What's appealing, though, is

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Speaker 3: if Taylor gets the Moss workload, whoa because he's such

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Speaker 3: a better player.

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Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't know that he's gonna want that,

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Speaker 2: Like Moss is in a situation where he's been traded

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Speaker 2: by a team you can't. Yeah, he's gonna take everything

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Speaker 2: into mean, yeah, yeah, Taylor wants the money.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. I don't know if it matters what he might go.

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Speaker 2: Out there, put up one big game to say, look

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Speaker 2: That may be just a situation where Okay, you're coming

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Speaker 3: If you can't protect he kind of fits that. Get

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Speaker 2: But how about this news Raheem Moster not spotted it

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Speaker 3: Wow, the Chan is all systems go?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I don't even know if it matters

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Speaker 3: I don't know how much that changes things, but how

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Speaker 2: Erth Smith Junior, with the hamstring, returned to practice on

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Speaker 3: Okay, there, he's not fanacy worthy.

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Speaker 3: He's not a bad play, that's not. Yeah, Bears these

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Speaker 3: great for McLaurin. I haven't heard any more toe stuff

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Speaker 3: And if he does, he's gonna get hit. I mean,

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Speaker 3: The worst defense ever. Their offense showed signs of life.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the one thing that they the Broncos do

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Speaker 2: They got nothing in their assignment.

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Speaker 2: The rams have opened Cooper cups twenty one day window.

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Speaker 3: I think there's a chance he plays.

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Speaker 3: Well, I assume it's the we could be the worst

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Speaker 2: Last week, like twenty two million a year.

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Speaker 3: Twenty two million a year, So I just I'd looked

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we're gonna spend it on Hunter Henry and Johnny Smith.

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Speaker 2: Does anybody really want to go to New England and play?

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Speaker 2: Like everything you see about New England?

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Speaker 2: What Belichick's no fun to play for?

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Speaker 3: But that's fine if you win fourteen games and rings.

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Speaker 3: You know, yeah, it takes two to tango. You Are

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Speaker 2: They have to basically overspend at this point.

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Speaker 2: They might also you might also see a situation there,

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Speaker 2: GM is buying the groceries. Build a head coach can't

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Speaker 3: The groceries are all spoiled, Like he buys them all

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Speaker 3: And it's all gray and old and good luck. But

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Speaker 2: See something like that. Kirk Cousins is going to get

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Speaker 2: More of than Sam Bradford by the time he's done.

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Speaker 3: I mean, remember they franchised them three years in a row.

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Speaker 2: It's all guaranteed money, all guaranteed money. Crazy happiest could

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Speaker 2: be you like that? Yeah?

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Speaker 3: I do, sure do. Yeah. Wonder who his agent is?

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Speaker 5: He? Yeah?

449
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Speaker 3: He here? Whoever their agent is? Yeah? Doing all right?

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Speaker 2: Anyways, that's gonna do it for the fantasy football focus.

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Speaker 2: Steelers dot com. Man I did a little research you

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Speaker 2: did this week. We're starting to get into the point

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Speaker 2: in the season we're four games in that you start

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Speaker 2: to figure out what officials are calling and what they

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Speaker 2: aren't calling.

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Speaker 3: I never go down this road. I'm glad you did.

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Speaker 2: Okay, I'm just sitting around today. I'm thinking about some stuff.

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Speaker 2: I said, we're four games into this. Who's calling a

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Speaker 2: lot of penalties? Who isn't?

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Speaker 3: Gotcha?

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Speaker 2: So the officiating crews you don't want to see at

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Speaker 2: your game this season.

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Speaker 3: In terms of a lot of penalty level.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, if you don't want to see a lot of

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Speaker 2: penalty flags flying, and I don't know anybody that does.

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Speaker 3: Of course, that would be.

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Speaker 2: Ron Torbert's crew. They're calling sixteen point twenty five penalties

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Speaker 2: per game. That's just over the crew of Brad Rodgers,

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Speaker 2: who's calling sixteen per game.

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Speaker 3: That's a lot.

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Speaker 2: It's a lot of penalties of penalties, especially when you

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Speaker 2: look at it with the compared to the guys who

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Speaker 2: don't call a lot of penalties.

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Speaker 3: These are definitely trends. This isn't fluky stop. No, we're

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Speaker 3: four games into this.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, the least flag happy crew has been those of

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Speaker 2: Clay Martin and Clayton Blakeman. Ten penalties per game, So

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Speaker 2: you see the difference.

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Speaker 3: Here five er side isn't crazy.

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Speaker 2: Well, it's it's a difference of six penalties. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 2: ten penalties per game. I can live with that.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, between two teams. Sure, that's actually pretty low. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: as you mentioned, it is low.

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Speaker 2: Carl Cheffer's crew is working the Steelers Ravens game this week.

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Speaker 2: They've only called eleven point six to seven penalties, So

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Speaker 2: they're on the lower end. They're on the definitely on

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Speaker 2: the on the low end of this. Uh, and if

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Speaker 2: you look at this, of the penalties that they've called,

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Speaker 2: by far the most, they've called thirty five total penalties.

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Speaker 2: They've done three games.

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Speaker 3: The chef first crew that we're.

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Speaker 2: Getting fifteen false starts.

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Speaker 3: You have to call that right right, right, like there's no,

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Speaker 3: there's no, that's not a judgment here and called hold

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Speaker 3: or whatever. It's like you jumped them and throw the flag.

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Speaker 2: The second most penalties that they've called is is offensive holding.

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Speaker 2: They've caught it four times.

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Speaker 3: That's so much once and what's the game that's.

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Speaker 2: Less than the average this this thus far this season

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Speaker 2: for holding penalties has been it's like two point three

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Speaker 2: seven or something like that. It's not it's not as

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Speaker 2: low as like the it was one point seven seven

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Speaker 2: and twenty twenty twenty when holding was legal that year.

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Speaker 2: So the average then is they're they're less than fifty

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Speaker 2: percent less than the average.

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Speaker 3: You said they've only called four holding penalties. Yeah, that's

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Speaker 3: won a game when.

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Speaker 2: They've done three games.

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Speaker 3: They've done that, but it's still yeah, that's still very low.

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Speaker 2: That's the second most penalty. That's the second biggest penalty

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Speaker 2: that they've called fifteen false starts for holding penalties.

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Speaker 3: And it's good point about the false starts too, because

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Speaker 3: it's like you jumped, I have.

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Speaker 2: To call it, Yeah, you have to call it. So

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Speaker 2: to me, if that's what they're gonna call, and they're

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Speaker 2: gonna they're watching for false starts very closely. Obviously. If

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Speaker 2: they're averaging five false start penalties that they've called per game, five, well,

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Speaker 2: at least.

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Speaker 3: They're not letting the Chiefs get away with it and

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Speaker 3: two good. I mean, that's frustrating to me, is those

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Speaker 3: tackles moving early and getting away.

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Speaker 2: That's a road team penalty at least it should be.

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Speaker 3: Well, and it certainly is. If you have TJ. Watt

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Speaker 3: and Alex high Smith, you won every false start being

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Speaker 3: called absolutely not getting.

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Speaker 2: Out of your not getting a quick start on me here. Yeah, So,

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Speaker 2: I mean I think that's the crowd could affect the

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Speaker 2: game this weekend.

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Speaker 3: Could So here's my penalty nugget, just so it happened.

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Speaker 3: The Steelers are being penalized four point eight times per game,

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Speaker 3: only the Jags and Jets are less, so they're doing

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Speaker 3: their share there. Baltimore is being penalized seven times per game.

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Speaker 3: Only six teams are being penalized more often, and the Steelers'

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Speaker 3: opponents are being penalized eight point five times per game.

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Speaker 3: Only Washington's opponents are higher.

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Speaker 2: But wait a second, Matt, I thought, I thought Mike

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Speaker 2: Tomlin's teams are always undisciplined. Because anytime, anytime the Steelers

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Speaker 2: have a game where they have like eight or nine penalties,

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Speaker 2: well it's just same old Tomlin team. They're undisciplined.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I keep hearing, boy, the special teams penalties are

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Speaker 3: getting out of control. I mean, only two teams are

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Speaker 3: getting penalized less often than the Steelers.

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Speaker 2: It's just not a realist. I mean, rightly, if you

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Speaker 2: only watch your team and I get and they're fan, that's.

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Speaker 3: That's cool, right, you don't have to watch the whole

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Speaker 3: league and study the league. That's what we're here for,

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Speaker 3: you know, right.

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Speaker 2: But yeah, that's not a big I mean they've typically

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Speaker 2: during the tomlin Er, even in the Cowar, they've not

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Speaker 2: been a highly penalized team.

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Speaker 3: You know. So the average Steeler game, the opponent is

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Speaker 3: eight and a half penalties and the Steelers are four

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Speaker 3: point eight.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so basically twelve or thirteen penalties per game.

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Speaker 3: We got mostly on the opponent.

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Speaker 2: A crew coming in this week. That doesn't call a

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Speaker 2: lot of penalties.

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Speaker 3: Yea, and Baltimore seven per game.

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Speaker 2: I have to be honest with you, I mean, unless

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Speaker 2: something is completely egregious, yeah, keep the keep the flag

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Speaker 2: in the pocket. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: I also don't like pass rushers being dragged down. I

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Speaker 3: don't want to see certainly.

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Speaker 2: That would be egregious. Yea, if somebody's getting yanked to

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Speaker 2: the ground, that's egregious.

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Speaker 3: But like fighting for balls in the air or oh

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Speaker 3: you're one point five yards downfield that let it slide.

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Speaker 3: I mean, that's one.

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Speaker 2: So I went back and actually looked at everything. I

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Speaker 2: did a four year look at everything, and four years

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Speaker 2: ago illegal man downfield was never called. I'm sure it

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Speaker 2: was like point one seven times per game. So like then,

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Speaker 2: they made a point of emphasis one of one out

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Speaker 2: of every five games you saw somebody get called for

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Speaker 2: being illegally downfield.

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Speaker 3: And we're all the fans being like, look at that guard,

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Speaker 3: he was two yards downfield. What are we doing around here?

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Speaker 3: Pretty cares?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, uh you know, now it's like four times that many.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, hopefully I think it's decreasing. I haven't seen as

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Speaker 3: much of it this year.

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Speaker 2: It's lastly being called the same rate that it was

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Speaker 2: last year. But if you remember last year, they when

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Speaker 2: they started the season, they were calling it all crazy

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Speaker 2: all the time, and then all of a sudden they

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Speaker 2: just kind.

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Speaker 3: Of went away. No it should That's that's one of

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Speaker 3: the league slash officials not understanding how the game is

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Speaker 3: being played. You know, like, if I'm gonna run a

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Speaker 3: lot of RPOs, I'm askingtting enough from offensive line.

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Speaker 2: I mean that I can't the offensive linemen ten yards

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Speaker 2: downfield when when you know, when the courss is okay, yeah,

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Speaker 2: you can't do that.

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Speaker 3: But two yards orus, one yard or whatever, one step difference,

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Speaker 3: I don't care.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I mean, if that's what you want

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Speaker 2: to do, tether them to the line of scrimmage.

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Speaker 3: And they can't see it though. These things are happening

612
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Speaker 3: behind their heads, like they don't know that answer, and

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Speaker 3: they don't even know what play call is. They don't

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Speaker 3: know if the runner pass and half the time, yeah,

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Speaker 3: so well the coaches have it just seems like it's

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Speaker 3: getting better.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's more. You know, once it becomes

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Speaker 2: a point of emphasis like that, the coaches starts going okay, hey, guys,

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Speaker 2: we're going to count one one thousand and two, one thousand.

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Speaker 3: You know, and then you get called every time.

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Speaker 2: They're gonna get called for it.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so you said holdings, holdings kind of.

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Speaker 2: Holding steady from what it typically is, it's not that

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Speaker 2: big of a the COVID year, it was really really wet.

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Speaker 2: The COVID year was definitely the outlier, and there was

626
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Speaker 2: basically a half a holding penalty per game less than

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Speaker 2: there had been in previous year.

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Speaker 3: And that was the highest scoring year in league history.

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Speaker 2: And that was like a twenty year low for holding least.

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Speaker 3: Like yeah, oh yeah, yeah, I mean it really was

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Speaker 3: legal that year. There was no one in The sacks.

632
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Speaker 2: Were way down. That's when you know t J Watt

633
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Speaker 2: led the league with fourteen sacks.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. Wow, I didn't realize it was that low. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: and it's one of my big reasons. I mean, when

636
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Speaker 3: everyone asked, why is scoring down? D linemen are way

637
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Speaker 3: better than O lineman. If you let them hold, well,

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00:27:38,680 --> 00:27:41,120
Speaker 3: then that'll come back up. Yeah, you know, I don't

639
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Speaker 3: want to see that though. I don't want to see

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Speaker 3: that to that point. But scoring is more fun.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, But it's it's always worth noting, especially once you

642
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Speaker 2: get enough data. You know who the who the officiating

643
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Speaker 2: crews are that are over officious jerks. Yeah, and who

644
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Speaker 2: the official crews are that let them play, let the

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Speaker 2: players decide the game.

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Speaker 3: Side note just kind of dawned on me. This is

647
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Speaker 3: a last year thing for the Steelers. Twenty twenty two

648
00:28:04,800 --> 00:28:11,360
Speaker 3: Steelers Deontay and Pickens as a pair had the most

649
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Speaker 3: defensive pass interference calls that don't show up enough. You know.

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Speaker 3: That was like, well, they're not explosive enough. Well, if

651
00:28:17,400 --> 00:28:20,800
Speaker 3: you get a forty yard defensive DPI down the sidelines,

652
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Speaker 3: you still move the ball forty yards. It just doesn't

653
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Speaker 3: show up in the quest for four hundred yards or

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Speaker 3: the explosive list or any of that kind of thing.

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Speaker 2: I think Pickens is always going to be that guy.

656
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Speaker 3: I think he's going to always be that guy.

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Speaker 2: He just doesn't get there. There's not a ton of separation.

658
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Speaker 3: Here, and he's going to get people dragging him down

659
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Speaker 3: and fight them.

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Speaker 2: And yeah, I mean he drew one on Sunday.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. I think he'll always be near the top of league.

662
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Speaker 2: Yeah, because he's kind of like DeAndre Hopkins, like where.

663
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Speaker 3: You're not going to be that A dot's gonna be deeper.

664
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Speaker 2: Is a deeper and he's always fight hand fighting and you.

665
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Speaker 3: Know, tested catch guy. Yeah, I do think he's a

666
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Speaker 3: better separator this year with a wider rottree than he

667
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Speaker 3: was as a rookie.

668
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Speaker 2: Oh, have to be no question. Everybody knows. I'm just gonna.

669
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Speaker 2: I'm just bailing because he's running a go route every time.

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Speaker 3: Okay, you're seeing deep in cutting stuff and posts and

671
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Speaker 3: stuff like that and more after the catch too.

672
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Speaker 2: Yeah, but he's getting a ton of attention right now

673
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Speaker 2: with Deontay Johnson. I truly believe there's nothing wrong with

674
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Speaker 2: this offense right now that having a healthy Deontay Johnson

675
00:29:20,000 --> 00:29:22,720
Speaker 2: wouldn't help. Sure wouldn't help a lot of the issues.

676
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Speaker 3: Frankly, I'm pretty down on Alan Robinson. I mean, but

677
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Speaker 3: I think I'm excited about Deontay Pickens Austin as a

678
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Speaker 3: as a trio.

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Speaker 2: Robinson to me still has like if Deontay Johnson's out

680
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Speaker 2: there now now, Alan Robinson has value.

681
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Speaker 3: He has more value, more value.

682
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Speaker 2: Right.

683
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Speaker 3: He can't be your two, He really can't.

684
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Speaker 2: He can't be the two, right. That's the that's the

685
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Speaker 2: problem that they're having right now. And without friar Mouth

686
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Speaker 2: this week. I'm really concerned.

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Speaker 3: That's why I kind of mentioned Hayward earlier or yeah,

688
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Speaker 3: is washing Washington has one target this year?

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Speaker 2: He's running he came last week.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, he's run forty routes. He has one target. I mean,

691
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Speaker 3: I bet that obviously is going to increase. Let's see

692
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Speaker 3: what he does with it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I thought he would be a bigger

694
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Speaker 2: red zone target. But they haven't gotten in the red

695
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Speaker 2: zone right. They've either skipped past the red zone or

696
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Speaker 2: they haven't got there. Although they didn't get there twice

697
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Speaker 2: on Sunday, I had that was one of my guarantees.

698
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Speaker 2: They came up one short. If they convert that, they

699
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Speaker 2: convert the fourth down play, they probably get another red

700
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Speaker 2: zone trip out of it. And I hit my h

701
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Speaker 2: I hit my guarantee on that one.

702
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Speaker 3: So I sent a tweet out last night that they're

703
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Speaker 3: the only team in the league that doesn't have a

704
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Speaker 3: carry within the five the first within five yards of

705
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Speaker 3: the goal line, because they hardly be. I almost didn't

706
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Speaker 3: send it out, like I thought, you know, like everyone's like, well,

707
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Speaker 3: it's about Canada's fault.

708
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Speaker 2: Everything's back Canada, global warming, Matt Canada exactly.

709
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Speaker 3: I mean, it's his fault. He is throwing it all that.

710
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Speaker 3: I'm like, well, they really haven't been there, but I

711
00:30:49,840 --> 00:30:51,760
Speaker 3: had somebody tweeted me today that means a lot of

712
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Speaker 3: different things.

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Speaker 2: Matt Canada is a scumbag. Come on, come on, do

714
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Speaker 2: we have to get personal with this. If you don't

715
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Speaker 2: like the guy as a cod that's fine, but come on,

716
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Speaker 2: he's a person too.

717
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Speaker 3: My kids went to school with Todd Hayley's kids and

718
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Speaker 3: they couldn't go to school once in a while. Yeah,

719
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Speaker 3: what do you doing? They were eight.

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Speaker 2: Get a grip, Yeah, get a grip. It is what

721
00:31:17,280 --> 00:31:20,360
Speaker 2: it is, and you know it's not all on the

722
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Speaker 2: offensive coordinator, despite what you might believe. But yeah, we'll see,

723
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Speaker 2: we'll see. We're gonna get to a break. He is

724
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Speaker 2: Matt Williamson. I am Dale Lolly. You're listening to this

725
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Speaker 2: to drive here on Steelers Nation Radio. When we come back,

726
00:31:33,760 --> 00:31:36,800
Speaker 2: we'll hear from Kenny Pickett, the Steelers quarterback, and how

727
00:31:36,840 --> 00:31:39,560
Speaker 2: his practice went today, all that good stuff. We'll be

728
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Speaker 2: back with more right after this.

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Speaker 1: Come He's the Drive with Dale Lolly and Matt Williamson

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

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Speaker 1: and Gold Steelers Nation Radio.

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Speaker 2: Welcome back to the Drive. I am Dale Lalli. He

733
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Speaker 2: is the Matt Williamson and Matt Earlier today, Kenny Pickett

734
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Speaker 2: spoke to the media, Uh, talked about his injury status

735
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Speaker 2: and didn't shed a ton of light on that as

736
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Speaker 2: you would expect, but certainly uh, you know, gave some

737
00:32:18,520 --> 00:32:21,200
Speaker 2: updates there and talked about what he and the team

738
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Speaker 2: need to do better.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and they need to do a lot better. He

740
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Speaker 3: needs to do a lot better. And I think they

741
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Speaker 3: all realize that it's not a mystery, right. Yeah.

742
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Speaker 2: So let's see what Kenny Pickett had to say.

743
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Speaker 5: Kenny, how do you feel good?

744
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Speaker 2: Good?

745
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Speaker 5: It'd be ready to go by Sunday?

746
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Speaker 2: Were you worried at all that it was going to

747
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Speaker 2: be worse than what it was.

748
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Speaker 7: A little bit from what the doctors were saying they

749
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Speaker 7: were worried about, but got lucky that it was what

750
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Speaker 7: it was and pushing it.

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Speaker 2: Gonay give any limitations at all?

752
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Speaker 5: No, I think buy Sunday, I'll be good.

753
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Speaker 4: The knee brace that.

754
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Speaker 5: You have on, is that just for practice?

755
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Speaker 4: Are you're wearing that around all the.

756
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Speaker 5: Time just for practice? Think you're gonna could you weary it?

757
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Speaker 5: Depends how the week goes and how I feel a

758
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Speaker 5: Sunday and if I need it or not.

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Speaker 4: How did things feel today out there? I mean you

760
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Speaker 4: said you were trying to go Sunday, but just how

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Speaker 4: the needs feel? How is it fell in the you know, forty.

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Speaker 3: Eight hours or so games?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it feels good.

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Speaker 7: I'm confident with the plan that we have. By Sunday,

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Speaker 7: I'll feel, you know, a lot better and be good

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Speaker 7: to go.

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Speaker 2: How did that impact your preparation, you know, as far

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Speaker 2: as like how you review yourself after a game and get.

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Speaker 5: Ready for next weekday.

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Speaker 7: In terms of like didn't did it slow down anything

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Speaker 7: in the recovery work that you had to do from

772
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Speaker 7: studying what you've done and what you have to.

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Speaker 5: Do this week?

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Speaker 7: I think it just adds on, you know, like you

775
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Speaker 7: just you add on the the rehab something you have

776
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Speaker 7: to do after and that's pretty much it.

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Speaker 5: Did you take the same non a snaps you normally

778
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Speaker 5: would on a Wednesday? Or did mit you take a

779
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Speaker 5: little over?

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Speaker 7: I took what I needed to take in terms of

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Speaker 7: you know, what they were telling me that the doctors

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Speaker 7: and the trainers we have here and uh, you know.

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Speaker 5: As we as we go through the week, It'll probably

784
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Speaker 5: go based off of what they said. Kenny Mike mentioned

785
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Speaker 5: the physicality was missing or lacking at times in the

786
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Speaker 5: game against Houston. What did you notice some of the

787
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Speaker 5: things from film, especially off side?

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Speaker 7: I always just look at execution based, you know, and

789
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Speaker 7: and all eleven guys on offense need to do our

790
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Speaker 7: jobs in order to in order for us to be successful.

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Speaker 5: So that's something we gotta continue to push for.

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Speaker 2: He talked for us about as he put a fluidity

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Speaker 2: of decision or to see more of that from you

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Speaker 2: if you guys talked about that, and.

795
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Speaker 5: What do you think it means that?

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Speaker 7: Yeah, just continue to push and get the ball out

797
00:34:16,560 --> 00:34:18,719
Speaker 7: and guys run their routes. I gotta put the ball

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Speaker 7: on them accurately and and and move the offense that way.

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Speaker 4: When you look at when you review the teeth, see

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Speaker 4: the fourth and one play obviously where you got hurt.

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Speaker 4: What would you have done differently after after watching it

802
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Speaker 4: and reviewing it.

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Speaker 7: You know, get back to Calvin possibly faster is from

804
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Speaker 7: from watching it. You know, we wanted to take to

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Speaker 7: look at you know, the front side and get to

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Speaker 7: the backside.

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Speaker 5: I try to extend my legs and make a play.

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Speaker 5: Uh just didn't work out?

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Speaker 3: What can do you feel like you need to change

810
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Speaker 3: up anything, maybe not personally, but just offensively for you

811
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Speaker 3: guys to get back to being able to execute.

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Speaker 7: I wouldn't say change up, and it needs to be,

813
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Speaker 7: you know, a full focus from everybody. You know, it

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Speaker 7: seems like that one or two plays here and there

815
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Speaker 7: we set ourselves behind the chains where it's a penalty

816
00:35:01,040 --> 00:35:03,040
Speaker 7: or some kind of negative play when we get moved

817
00:35:03,040 --> 00:35:05,040
Speaker 7: and we set ourselves back, and we gotta continue to

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Speaker 7: eliminate those along.

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Speaker 5: Those same lines too.

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Speaker 4: What are the conversation conversations like among these guys offensively

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Speaker 4: with some of.

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Speaker 7: The frustrations if you're dealing with yeah, I mean obviously

823
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Speaker 7: it's you're frustrated. It hasn't been good. We know it's

824
00:35:15,719 --> 00:35:18,040
Speaker 7: nowhere news what it needs to be. But there can't

825
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Speaker 7: be a pan. There has to be, you know, a

826
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Speaker 7: continue guys showing up, putting the work in and going

827
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Speaker 7: out there and playing hard on Sundays.

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Speaker 5: So I can't give you a real elaborate answer on that.

829
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Speaker 5: It's just, you know, something we have to do together.

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Speaker 2: Do you worry about that affecting guys confidence?

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Speaker 5: I don't.

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Speaker 7: I mean, guys are professionals. Man, it's the NFL. If

833
00:35:32,760 --> 00:35:34,160
Speaker 7: you can't do that, you don't deserve to be in

834
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Speaker 7: this room.

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Speaker 5: So guys know what they have to do. They gotta

836
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Speaker 5: show up and put the time in.

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Speaker 7: How's your confidence through all the good I mean, listen, man,

838
00:35:40,040 --> 00:35:41,720
Speaker 7: it is what it is. There's gonna be ups and downs.

839
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Speaker 7: It's not it's not perfect. There's nowhere news we want

840
00:35:44,040 --> 00:35:46,200
Speaker 7: it to be. But there's a ton of ball left.

841
00:35:46,239 --> 00:35:48,000
Speaker 7: We have a great opportunity this weekend, so that's where

842
00:35:48,000 --> 00:35:48,520
Speaker 7: the focus is.

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00:35:48,600 --> 00:35:49,680
Speaker 2: It is gonna matter you.

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Speaker 5: You know that you've done it before.

845
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Speaker 2: You guys have been successful in offense.

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Speaker 5: Yeah we know, we know that. But that doesn't mean

847
00:35:56,160 --> 00:35:57,319
Speaker 5: you're gonna go out there and do it right. I

848
00:35:57,320 --> 00:35:59,000
Speaker 5: mean you have to. That's that's the thing.

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Speaker 7: You gotta make it simple, man. We got to go

850
00:36:00,360 --> 00:36:03,120
Speaker 7: out there and play football. And that's it. I can't

851
00:36:02,960 --> 00:36:04,760
Speaker 7: get up here and give you guys a secret answer

852
00:36:04,960 --> 00:36:06,560
Speaker 7: to what the problems are and what they may be.

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00:36:06,960 --> 00:36:07,960
Speaker 7: We gotta go out there and play.

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00:36:08,000 --> 00:36:10,040
Speaker 4: Bottom line, when you look at the way that Nagie

855
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Speaker 4: came out running in the second half.

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Speaker 2: Just what does that do.

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00:36:13,000 --> 00:36:15,360
Speaker 4: For this offense to get things moving both you know,

858
00:36:16,000 --> 00:36:18,799
Speaker 4: emotional momentum, but just also within the flow of the game.

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00:36:18,920 --> 00:36:20,440
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, listen, twenty two is our guy.

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Speaker 7: He runs hard and when he gets going like that,

861
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Speaker 7: you know, I think you saw the momentum of the

862
00:36:24,440 --> 00:36:26,040
Speaker 7: offense pick up and we started doing what.

863
00:36:26,000 --> 00:36:26,560
Speaker 5: We know we could do.

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00:36:26,600 --> 00:36:28,920
Speaker 7: We just didn't finish in the red zone, whether it

865
00:36:28,960 --> 00:36:30,920
Speaker 7: be the negative plays or not executing where we need

866
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Speaker 7: to execute. So getting him going, obviously is always something

867
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Speaker 7: that we want to do early on.

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Speaker 4: Right of that, also committing to the run game and getting.

869
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Speaker 5: Going, it's both.

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Speaker 7: It's one hundred percent like if if it's not working

871
00:36:41,360 --> 00:36:42,640
Speaker 7: that you can't just beat your head in the wall.

872
00:36:42,680 --> 00:36:44,400
Speaker 7: You know, we got to continue to have those productive

873
00:36:44,480 --> 00:36:46,680
Speaker 7: runs where we get the play actions off of it

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Speaker 7: and do and be the balancing that we know we

875
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Speaker 7: want to be.

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Speaker 5: But it definitely works both ways.

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Speaker 4: You like to you mentioned Dan's going to be out

878
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Speaker 4: on the suddenly looks the confidence level in Broderick and

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00:36:54,160 --> 00:36:55,560
Speaker 4: how has he grown since training camp.

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00:36:55,640 --> 00:36:57,120
Speaker 7: Yeah, A ton of a ton of confidence in Broady.

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Speaker 7: You know, I love the way he prepares, love the

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00:36:58,680 --> 00:37:01,480
Speaker 7: way he works, super talented, get uh, young guy, and

883
00:37:01,520 --> 00:37:03,360
Speaker 7: I'm not expecting his be perfect. He shouldn't expect to

884
00:37:03,400 --> 00:37:04,200
Speaker 7: be perfect either.

885
00:37:04,080 --> 00:37:06,560
Speaker 5: So you know I can alleviate that stressfulard by telling.

886
00:37:06,400 --> 00:37:09,000
Speaker 7: Him that right now and having him just go out there, play.

887
00:37:08,840 --> 00:37:10,680
Speaker 5: Hard and take it one play at the time. What's

888
00:37:10,719 --> 00:37:12,840
Speaker 5: it about his preparation in his work that you like?

889
00:37:13,800 --> 00:37:14,759
Speaker 5: Just how he shows up every day.

890
00:37:14,760 --> 00:37:16,120
Speaker 7: He's the same guy, you know, he's I see the

891
00:37:16,120 --> 00:37:17,600
Speaker 7: same guy. I don't see a guy that comes out

892
00:37:17,600 --> 00:37:19,400
Speaker 7: there one day with with the high motor and the

893
00:37:19,400 --> 00:37:20,279
Speaker 7: next day a low motor.

894
00:37:20,320 --> 00:37:21,920
Speaker 5: And that's a good song for for a young kid

895
00:37:21,960 --> 00:37:22,239
Speaker 5: in there.

896
00:37:23,160 --> 00:37:25,440
Speaker 7: You know, he shows up ready to work and he's

897
00:37:25,440 --> 00:37:27,200
Speaker 7: got a ton of talent, so you know it's there.

898
00:37:27,280 --> 00:37:28,640
Speaker 7: He just gotta put it together and you know we're

899
00:37:28,640 --> 00:37:29,239
Speaker 7: gonna have to do that.

900
00:37:29,360 --> 00:37:30,239
Speaker 5: Can you be able to do that?

901
00:37:30,280 --> 00:37:32,360
Speaker 7: There's probably a common denominator on things that you and

902
00:37:32,440 --> 00:37:34,719
Speaker 7: the offiece have to work on together to be better.

903
00:37:36,000 --> 00:37:37,040
Speaker 5: Common together.

904
00:37:37,360 --> 00:37:39,279
Speaker 7: Like I said, it's one guy here or there, you know,

905
00:37:39,320 --> 00:37:41,840
Speaker 7: it's it's that's what's getting us in those those plays

906
00:37:41,840 --> 00:37:44,360
Speaker 7: where it's a penalty or negative play that gets us

907
00:37:44,360 --> 00:37:46,280
Speaker 7: behind the chains where we can move the ball successfully

908
00:37:46,280 --> 00:37:47,960
Speaker 7: and that kind of hurts our drives. So to me,

909
00:37:48,040 --> 00:37:49,759
Speaker 7: it's the it's the popcorn of the one guy here

910
00:37:49,840 --> 00:37:51,320
Speaker 7: or there that we need to get rid of. You

911
00:37:51,480 --> 00:37:54,600
Speaker 7: when you look in the mirror, what do you need

912
00:37:52,920 --> 00:37:54,160
Speaker 7: to get the work.

913
00:37:56,400 --> 00:37:56,880
Speaker 5: Personally?

914
00:37:57,000 --> 00:37:59,680
Speaker 7: Just you know, consistency, That's that's what I'm pushing.

915
00:37:59,440 --> 00:38:00,359
Speaker 5: To be consistent good.

916
00:38:00,360 --> 00:38:01,759
Speaker 7: And you're a great player, so I want to be

917
00:38:01,760 --> 00:38:04,000
Speaker 7: consistently good. Continue to be the guy that these guys

918
00:38:04,000 --> 00:38:06,600
Speaker 7: can rely on. And you know it works as a

919
00:38:06,640 --> 00:38:08,040
Speaker 7: team game is the ultimate team game.

920
00:38:08,080 --> 00:38:08,759
Speaker 5: We need to line the.

921
00:38:08,719 --> 00:38:11,520
Speaker 7: Receivers, backs and myself to all push the offense where

922
00:38:11,520 --> 00:38:12,640
Speaker 7: we need to be. But I want to push for

923
00:38:12,800 --> 00:38:15,000
Speaker 7: you know, very you know, high level consistency.

924
00:38:15,040 --> 00:38:17,239
Speaker 5: A year ago, this week you make your first NFL start.

925
00:38:17,239 --> 00:38:20,240
Speaker 5: How much your growth you sending yourself? How many progress

926
00:38:20,239 --> 00:38:20,560
Speaker 5: to get?

927
00:38:21,080 --> 00:38:22,320
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean we can get in the growth in

928
00:38:22,360 --> 00:38:24,160
Speaker 7: the progress stuff. Right now we're two and two, we're

929
00:38:24,160 --> 00:38:25,359
Speaker 7: trying to go a third win here.

930
00:38:25,400 --> 00:38:26,480
Speaker 5: That's that's what I'm focused on.

931
00:38:27,400 --> 00:38:30,080
Speaker 2: Did they look shimilar the shame as they as they

932
00:38:30,120 --> 00:38:31,239
Speaker 2: did last year when your standing them?

933
00:38:32,320 --> 00:38:35,200
Speaker 7: Obviously you know some differences, but listen, they're a great defense.

934
00:38:35,200 --> 00:38:36,320
Speaker 5: You're you're really good defense.

935
00:38:36,360 --> 00:38:38,160
Speaker 7: It's always gonna be a battle on the AFC North,

936
00:38:38,200 --> 00:38:38,720
Speaker 7: so that's where.

937
00:38:38,560 --> 00:38:39,279
Speaker 5: Gotta get ready for it.

938
00:38:39,320 --> 00:38:41,520
Speaker 2: Sunday, Okay, can you put your finger on anything that's

939
00:38:41,520 --> 00:38:43,920
Speaker 2: happening with those early sort of drives.

940
00:38:43,960 --> 00:38:45,719
Speaker 5: It seems like you haven't. You haven't scored in your

941
00:38:45,719 --> 00:38:48,520
Speaker 5: first or second drive all season. Those the theories you

942
00:38:48,600 --> 00:38:50,799
Speaker 5: you plazing you feel best about? Can you have put

943
00:38:50,800 --> 00:38:53,360
Speaker 5: anything on why those specifically aren't any more for you?

944
00:38:53,480 --> 00:38:55,040
Speaker 7: I mean, I think those specifically are like the other

945
00:38:55,080 --> 00:38:56,640
Speaker 7: ones I've been saying, you know, I think it means,

946
00:38:56,680 --> 00:38:58,160
Speaker 7: you know, they kind of go hand in hand.

947
00:38:58,840 --> 00:39:01,319
Speaker 3: Canny. I think I might have told the CBS guys have.

948
00:39:01,400 --> 00:39:03,160
Speaker 5: The day that the offense is not designed to play

949
00:39:03,239 --> 00:39:05,960
Speaker 5: on behind it is that doing? You know, and you're

950
00:39:06,000 --> 00:39:07,600
Speaker 5: the guy that runs the offense, is that sort of

951
00:39:07,640 --> 00:39:09,440
Speaker 5: like how do you ran? Tom?

952
00:39:10,520 --> 00:39:12,080
Speaker 7: All Right? We gotta be designed to put points up

953
00:39:12,120 --> 00:39:13,920
Speaker 7: and win games. That's that's kind of what I care about.

954
00:39:13,920 --> 00:39:15,960
Speaker 7: I don't care if we're behind or we're ahead, or

955
00:39:16,000 --> 00:39:19,000
Speaker 7: whatever the situation may be. It's our job to put,

956
00:39:19,080 --> 00:39:20,480
Speaker 7: you know, more points on the board than the other

957
00:39:20,480 --> 00:39:20,960
Speaker 7: team does.

958
00:39:21,080 --> 00:39:23,080
Speaker 5: So that's that's what our our goal and design needs

959
00:39:23,120 --> 00:39:25,320
Speaker 5: to game like you got your damn a few touchdowns

960
00:39:25,320 --> 00:39:27,479
Speaker 5: that you guys could make that up right of course.

961
00:39:27,560 --> 00:39:28,960
Speaker 7: Yeah, I think any game we're in we have a

962
00:39:29,000 --> 00:39:31,640
Speaker 7: chance to win, no matter what anything else.

963
00:39:32,280 --> 00:39:32,640
Speaker 5: Thanks Ken.

964
00:39:34,520 --> 00:39:37,080
Speaker 2: That was Steelers quarterback Kenny Pickett that or with the

965
00:39:37,160 --> 00:39:40,200
Speaker 2: media earlier today. And uh, well, I mean sounds like

966
00:39:40,239 --> 00:39:42,000
Speaker 2: he wants to go.

967
00:39:42,320 --> 00:39:47,440
Speaker 3: Uh seems enthusiastic about it and optimistic, I guess is

968
00:39:47,480 --> 00:39:48,239
Speaker 3: the word I'm looking for.

969
00:39:48,520 --> 00:39:50,360
Speaker 2: Yeah, wants to get back out there, get back on

970
00:39:50,400 --> 00:39:52,719
Speaker 2: the horse, and uh well try to write this ship

971
00:39:52,760 --> 00:39:53,400
Speaker 2: a little bit and.

972
00:39:54,000 --> 00:39:56,160
Speaker 3: Make sure he practices in full Thursday before we get

973
00:39:56,160 --> 00:39:57,080
Speaker 3: too excited.

974
00:39:56,760 --> 00:39:57,680
Speaker 2: At Friday for sure.

975
00:39:57,760 --> 00:39:59,120
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, good point.

976
00:39:58,960 --> 00:40:01,360
Speaker 2: Friday for sure. But uh man, we'll see. I mean

977
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Speaker 2: it's going to be probably more of a pain tolerance

978
00:40:03,400 --> 00:40:06,440
Speaker 2: thing than anything else. But uh we'll see where he's

979
00:40:06,440 --> 00:40:07,640
Speaker 2: at here in the next couple of days.

980
00:40:07,640 --> 00:40:10,120
Speaker 3: And he could certainly get a helmet on that in

981
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Speaker 3: the first quarter and change everything. Change Ye, this game is.

982
00:40:14,640 --> 00:40:16,839
Speaker 2: That's why you get Mitched Trubisky ready for this one

983
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Speaker 2: as well. Uh that's going to do it for our

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Speaker 2: show today. So for my partner Matt Williamson for Brian

985
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Speaker 2: Lamartine here on site keeping us on the air. I'm

986
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Speaker 2: Dale Lollie. We thank you for listening to this edition

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