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Speaker 3: And we are back. I am Dale LOLLI he is

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Speaker 3: Steelers Audio Network, and I'm Matt. I wanted to what's

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Speaker 3: some extra thought into this this week as we get

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Speaker 3: real quick at the prices points on on draft Kings.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, be from obviously, and we're.

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Speaker 3: Gonna be a little weent tore Zig, maybe a little

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Speaker 3: So Josh Allen is going to be eighty two hundred. Okay,

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Speaker 3: do we expect weather? I would think so.

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Speaker 4: I would think there's something and that's a really good defense.

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Speaker 4: I don't think I would be investing in him.

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Speaker 3: Lamar Jackson is eight thousand, that's up, Jade Daniels is

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Speaker 3: seventy five hundred. They're twenty eighth against opposing quarterbacks Tampa Bay.

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Speaker 4: I think there's been a lot of points in that game.

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Speaker 3: I do too. Jalen Hurts seventy three hundred, Baker Mayfield

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Speaker 3: sixty eight hundred towards that game. Yeah, although Washington is

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Speaker 3: fifth against opposing quarterbacks this year, I do too. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: they played some bad ones. They made a couple of times.

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Speaker 3: Sam Darnold is sixty five hundred, Rams are twenty fourth.

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Speaker 3: That's another bad keep an eye on that. We don't

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Speaker 3: even know where that game might be played at. Bo

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Speaker 3: Nick's sixty three hundred, Justin Herbert six thousand, Jordan Love

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Speaker 3: Stroud fifty five hundred, Russell Wilson fifty three hundred. If

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Speaker 3: you now today, I guess Hurts practiced at least.

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Speaker 4: It's trending the right direction, at least at least.

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Speaker 3: Gonna, you know, the potential to get cleared. He got

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Speaker 3: a limited practice in at least today. But he's seventy

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Speaker 3: three hundred. If you don't think he's gonna play well,

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Speaker 4: he's a pocket passer. He does not run at all. No,

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Speaker 3: I think I think Bucks, Yeah, Bucks, Washington and Rams Yeah,

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Speaker 3: Minnesota the two games to keep an eye on.

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Speaker 4: But I like Darnold more than the Stafford just considering

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Speaker 3: Looking at the running backs, Saquon Is eighty five hundred,

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Speaker 4: I can't envision spending big on any of those guys.

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Speaker 3: Play Jaylen McMillan fifty two hundred. There's some nice options. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: Cooper who's good to go now forty nine hot. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: I'm just telling you, folks, I just have a feeling.

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Speaker 4: I don't know if i'd pay up for him.

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Speaker 3: Pat Fryarman with forty four hundred. I think they're not

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Speaker 4: There's some decent options. I don't like the expensive them.

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Speaker 3: Looking at the defenses, the Ravens are thirty seven hundred,

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Speaker 3: For the Steeler defense, I bet we own them just

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Speaker 3: So Cleete Blakeman's crew, I'm sure he's historically Yeah, three

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Speaker 3: I don't want to be second. I'm not going to

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Speaker 3: Brad Allen's crew assessed the least amount of penalty yardage

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Speaker 3: two hundred plus penalties this season. In twenty twenty three,

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Speaker 4: is this a competition committee thing?

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Speaker 3: I think it's something that they're going to talk about,

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Speaker 3: And it seems to me the standalone games where there

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Speaker 4: Called, that makes it harder. If it's only one game

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Speaker 3: Makes you crazy? So how about this little stat on

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Speaker 3: Cleayton is a lovely gang of marauders. They gave out

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Speaker 4: Oh really, home teams. I don't want that worries me

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Speaker 3: And you know, Craig worlfstats crew was the toughest on

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Speaker 4: These extreme ones, those home road splits won't worry me

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Speaker 3: Yes, there were seven, that's what we're talking about here,

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Speaker 4: Didn't seem very unusual.

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Speaker 3: No, Blakeman's crew, remember they worked sixteen weeks. Yeah, they

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Speaker 3: Sometimes two with double digits O. Carl Cheffers and John

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Speaker 3: the same win. I don't know who's right and who's wrong.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, say, I mean, I'm sure that what's the right

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Speaker 4: If you're dragging people down on pass interference calls, that

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Speaker 4: what I mean. There's some that are just black and white.

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Speaker 3: You know. There were twenty seven games this season when

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Speaker 3: a team was assessed at least one hundred yards and penalties.

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Speaker 3: Blakeman's crew had five of those.

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Speaker 4: Wow.

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Speaker 3: Four crews did not have any one penalty games.

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Speaker 4: Side note, that's along this line. I don't even know

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Speaker 4: if you know the answer. So we can blame Cleat

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Speaker 3: And his crew? Yeah, that's what say, Like, does he's

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Speaker 3: have one bad apple on his crew? But you can,

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Speaker 4: A good coach is a terrible O line coach and

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Speaker 4: you can't pick up blitzes. You know, is that is

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Speaker 3: Finished as the runner up three times before he come

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Speaker 3: on cleat did they did they go year after year

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Speaker 3: with the same crew. Uh, there'll be some changes here

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Speaker 4: I imagine, right right, you bring back the same people

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Speaker 3: Finally, the Ravens, Cowboys and Jets, Oh, Jets and Titans

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's relevant, I know it. This week the Jets

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Speaker 3: Jets number one, the Ravens were number two.

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Speaker 4: I'm sure the other ones were closed.

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Speaker 3: The Ravens were all by themselves on the top of

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Speaker 4: They had four four you wonder, I mean, I don't

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Speaker 4: this is one of the ways. Hand them one hundred yards?

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Speaker 4: This is one of the ways. Yeah. Yeah. I mean,

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Speaker 3: Kind of also why I wanted to touch on that now.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Again, they are a highly highly penalized team.

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Speaker 4: And this won't be Blakeman's crew or Whoever's crew, but

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Speaker 3: All star crews now, So I mean, you know who

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Speaker 3: be until you get to that point. I'd be interested

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Speaker 4: Are right right right or where he's at. Yeah, you know,

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Speaker 4: But the crew, what's the crews like versus All star teams? Better, worse, higher?

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Speaker 3: Lest they just started doing this a few years ago.

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Speaker 4: I know the Super Bowl is always an all star team. Yeah, okay,

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Speaker 4: so we're kind of getting to the point around here. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: and it would be a difficult And how do you

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Speaker 3: That's yeah, yeah, yeah, it's tough to figure out something.

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Speaker 3: I mean to go back, you'd almost have to go

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Speaker 3: I'm gonna mark that. Often sometimes there's multiple you know.

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Speaker 4: It's somebody to doing. They're judging all the line judges.

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Speaker 4: This is what they do, like rank and LONGSTI yeah, right,

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Speaker 3: You'll see the guys who.

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Speaker 3: With everything, absolutely but just interesting little thing thereby Goose Goslin.

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Speaker 3: NFL analysts breaks down every team in the playoffs X factor.

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00:21:17,720 --> 00:21:19,959
Speaker 3: Oh okay, let's take a look at who he has

436
00:21:20,040 --> 00:21:22,080
Speaker 3: on there, see if we agree or disagree who we

437
00:21:22,240 --> 00:21:25,640
Speaker 3: would come up with in that situation. For the Kansas

438
00:21:25,640 --> 00:21:28,320
Speaker 3: City Chiefs, he has cornerback Josh Williams.

439
00:21:29,840 --> 00:21:32,480
Speaker 4: Yeah, I guess that's a good one. I mean they're

440
00:21:32,560 --> 00:21:38,200
Speaker 4: corners besides McDuffie, are you know not what they've been

441
00:21:38,280 --> 00:21:42,240
Speaker 4: with Sneed and those guys. So we'll see how that

442
00:21:42,320 --> 00:21:46,920
Speaker 4: works out. For the Detroit Lions wide receiver Jamison Williams,

443
00:21:47,280 --> 00:21:48,840
Speaker 4: it's a good one. He's kind of all little. When

444
00:21:48,880 --> 00:21:50,840
Speaker 4: he makes big plays, they're really hard to deal with.

445
00:21:51,160 --> 00:21:52,640
Speaker 4: Probably taken something on defense.

446
00:21:52,720 --> 00:21:54,120
Speaker 3: He's volatile in many many ways.

447
00:21:54,200 --> 00:21:55,080
Speaker 4: Yeah, absolutely, Yeah.

448
00:21:55,119 --> 00:21:58,040
Speaker 3: People think this is the thing about George Pickens, and

449
00:21:58,119 --> 00:22:00,879
Speaker 3: I hear people talk about George Pickens. You know, wouldn't

450
00:22:01,280 --> 00:22:03,920
Speaker 3: if it was just off the field stuff, like what

451
00:22:04,160 --> 00:22:04,879
Speaker 3: is what's off of?

452
00:22:05,000 --> 00:22:05,560
Speaker 4: What's off the.

453
00:22:05,480 --> 00:22:08,920
Speaker 3: Field with George? I've seen nothing off the field? Okay, Oh,

454
00:22:08,960 --> 00:22:09,959
Speaker 3: he's short with the media.

455
00:22:10,680 --> 00:22:12,920
Speaker 4: That's not the first about that, right, right, right, It's

456
00:22:12,960 --> 00:22:15,520
Speaker 4: not the first time get arrested or getting in for anything.

457
00:22:15,640 --> 00:22:18,520
Speaker 3: Right, He's not been doing any of that kind of stuff.

458
00:22:18,520 --> 00:22:22,480
Speaker 3: It's he is volatile on the field, I think, much

459
00:22:22,520 --> 00:22:23,720
Speaker 3: like Jamison Williams.

460
00:22:24,000 --> 00:22:27,520
Speaker 4: Yeah, Williams get suspended all the time, right. Yeah.

461
00:22:29,160 --> 00:22:35,320
Speaker 3: Uh. For the Philadelphia Eagles, more defensive tackle Moro a Joemo,

462
00:22:36,400 --> 00:22:38,320
Speaker 3: why would not be the guy that I picked?

463
00:22:38,440 --> 00:22:41,840
Speaker 4: No, I mean he's their fourth defensive tackle. Yeah, he's

464
00:22:41,880 --> 00:22:44,880
Speaker 4: a fine player. I mean, I really like Milton Williams

465
00:22:44,880 --> 00:22:47,600
Speaker 4: and Carter is a really good player. That's a tough one, though.

466
00:22:47,640 --> 00:22:48,960
Speaker 4: I'm not sure who I'd come up with. That's a

467
00:22:49,000 --> 00:22:49,800
Speaker 4: really stacked off.

468
00:22:49,800 --> 00:22:53,119
Speaker 3: I might have Dallas Goddard. He's coming back like you

469
00:22:53,160 --> 00:22:54,600
Speaker 3: haven't had him in the last month.

470
00:22:54,640 --> 00:22:57,520
Speaker 4: It's a nice addition to an already strong crew. Hurts

471
00:22:57,520 --> 00:22:59,440
Speaker 4: his head would be another one too, hurts his head.

472
00:23:02,880 --> 00:23:06,760
Speaker 3: That's right up there with Taylor Swift for the Bills

473
00:23:07,920 --> 00:23:09,399
Speaker 3: edge rusher Von Miller.

474
00:23:10,160 --> 00:23:12,080
Speaker 4: Yeah, maybe you can get the best from him, you know,

475
00:23:12,119 --> 00:23:16,720
Speaker 4: put it all together spot situations. No, Rousseau is already good.

476
00:23:17,359 --> 00:23:18,919
Speaker 4: Maybe he can close out some games for you.

477
00:23:19,200 --> 00:23:21,800
Speaker 3: It is his age. Okay, it's a good one for

478
00:23:21,960 --> 00:23:26,320
Speaker 3: the Ravens Marlon Humphrey, that's kind of cheating.

479
00:23:27,040 --> 00:23:28,920
Speaker 4: I think he's solid. I think you know what you're getting. Yeah,

480
00:23:28,920 --> 00:23:30,800
Speaker 4: you know what I mean, Right, that's on. I don't

481
00:23:30,800 --> 00:23:33,440
Speaker 4: think that's a wild card or a right, that's that's

482
00:23:33,440 --> 00:23:34,800
Speaker 4: a consistent player that you know.

483
00:23:35,119 --> 00:23:39,640
Speaker 3: Yeah, that for the rape given the fact that we

484
00:23:39,680 --> 00:23:43,520
Speaker 3: think the Zay Flowers isn't going to play, I mean

485
00:23:43,840 --> 00:23:45,840
Speaker 3: it would be like an Agalar or could be an

486
00:23:45,880 --> 00:23:48,479
Speaker 3: agar could be as bateman, Like, yeah, what are they

487
00:23:48,480 --> 00:23:49,359
Speaker 3: going to give you here?

488
00:23:49,520 --> 00:23:52,159
Speaker 4: I was initially thinking one of their offensive lineman not

489
00:23:52,320 --> 00:23:55,159
Speaker 4: named stan Lee or Linderbaum. You know, like if one

490
00:23:55,160 --> 00:23:57,880
Speaker 4: of those guys turns into a big liability, they don't

491
00:23:57,880 --> 00:24:00,760
Speaker 4: have much many other answers. Yeah, mm hmm.

492
00:24:01,119 --> 00:24:05,320
Speaker 3: For the Buccaneers wide receiver Jalen McMillan, he's.

493
00:24:05,160 --> 00:24:07,440
Speaker 4: Coming on pretty strong. Yeah. Could he take the next

494
00:24:07,480 --> 00:24:09,440
Speaker 4: level in the playoffs, everything's just ramped up a little.

495
00:24:09,440 --> 00:24:10,760
Speaker 3: I'd look at Kate ought in there too.

496
00:24:10,960 --> 00:24:13,199
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, you know what you're getting out Evans, But

497
00:24:13,240 --> 00:24:15,520
Speaker 4: who my other pass? Who do? Yeah?

498
00:24:15,640 --> 00:24:18,000
Speaker 3: And Auten has been out for a little while, but

499
00:24:18,040 --> 00:24:20,919
Speaker 3: he had a really good stretch. Good player out uh.

500
00:24:21,000 --> 00:24:26,800
Speaker 3: For the Houston Texans wide receiver John Matchie. That's that's

501
00:24:26,800 --> 00:24:27,480
Speaker 3: a I mean.

502
00:24:27,560 --> 00:24:28,760
Speaker 4: No Dell, no digs.

503
00:24:28,880 --> 00:24:30,960
Speaker 3: Yeah, I assume do you think Machi plays ahead of

504
00:24:30,960 --> 00:24:34,800
Speaker 3: the ante? Probably? Probably he's been he knows the offensive

505
00:24:34,840 --> 00:24:36,880
Speaker 3: there is he gonna play more than Robert Woods.

506
00:24:37,119 --> 00:24:39,119
Speaker 4: That's what I'm assuming. That why they took Matchi not

507
00:24:39,119 --> 00:24:40,520
Speaker 4: Woods is my original thought.

508
00:24:40,640 --> 00:24:45,200
Speaker 3: Yeah, Xavier Hutchinson, like, there's some other dudes there that

509
00:24:45,200 --> 00:24:47,800
Speaker 3: Mechi's one of the most confidence. Yeah, she's me. She's

510
00:24:47,840 --> 00:24:52,280
Speaker 3: a good one for the Los Angeles Rams safety Cameron

511
00:24:52,359 --> 00:24:54,680
Speaker 3: kinchins Kay.

512
00:24:54,560 --> 00:24:56,520
Speaker 4: And he's played a lot as a rookie. You know,

513
00:24:57,600 --> 00:24:59,360
Speaker 4: I guess that's as good as any anything the back

514
00:24:59,400 --> 00:25:00,000
Speaker 4: seven would have been.

515
00:25:00,080 --> 00:25:04,720
Speaker 3: And yeah, could have been Ross Cockrell or not Ross

516
00:25:04,720 --> 00:25:08,440
Speaker 3: Cockrell whom I think Kello Weatherspoon. Yeah, Yeah, he's playing

517
00:25:08,440 --> 00:25:13,240
Speaker 3: a lot for them, right Ross cockran way back machine.

518
00:25:13,520 --> 00:25:14,959
Speaker 4: I'm like any think he was in the league, Uh

519
00:25:15,080 --> 00:25:19,640
Speaker 4: for the Minnesota Vikings defensive lineman Jihad Ward.

520
00:25:20,320 --> 00:25:21,080
Speaker 3: That's digging deep.

521
00:25:21,280 --> 00:25:24,399
Speaker 4: That's digging deep. I mean he's a rotational player. I

522
00:25:24,440 --> 00:25:27,359
Speaker 4: don't know that he's able to you know, sway the

523
00:25:27,440 --> 00:25:30,040
Speaker 4: balance of power good or bad.

524
00:25:30,400 --> 00:25:35,920
Speaker 3: I after the last game I have Sam Donald there.

525
00:25:36,400 --> 00:25:39,160
Speaker 3: He's definitely ball at all too Like he's the expects

526
00:25:39,200 --> 00:25:41,800
Speaker 3: if you get what you got out of Donald, can't

527
00:25:41,840 --> 00:25:43,879
Speaker 3: have that again. You can't have that performance in a

528
00:25:43,920 --> 00:25:45,080
Speaker 3: playoff and.

529
00:25:45,080 --> 00:25:47,760
Speaker 4: All of a sudden people be like, I'm not you know,

530
00:25:47,880 --> 00:25:49,920
Speaker 4: I could even argue line for them a little over.

531
00:25:50,040 --> 00:25:52,080
Speaker 3: I could argue Cam Robinson to the last I have to.

532
00:25:52,080 --> 00:25:54,720
Speaker 4: Say maybe O line not named Brian O'Neill.

533
00:25:57,400 --> 00:26:01,720
Speaker 3: For the Chargers wide receiver Quinton Johnston.

534
00:26:03,320 --> 00:26:06,399
Speaker 4: They don't rely on him a ton, but he's had

535
00:26:06,440 --> 00:26:08,640
Speaker 4: a lot better year than his rookie season. I didn't

536
00:26:08,640 --> 00:26:09,520
Speaker 4: think he had it in him.

537
00:26:09,560 --> 00:26:11,680
Speaker 3: He ended the season he had forty two catches for

538
00:26:11,800 --> 00:26:14,520
Speaker 3: five hundred and twenty five yards and eight touchdowns. The

539
00:26:14,600 --> 00:26:18,560
Speaker 3: touchdowns they don't throw a lot of touchdowns, no, but

540
00:26:18,600 --> 00:26:21,280
Speaker 3: he's been the guy that has gotten the most of that.

541
00:26:21,880 --> 00:26:23,879
Speaker 3: Remember he had forty two catches this season. What do

542
00:26:23,880 --> 00:26:26,879
Speaker 3: you have the last game? Like eleven sounds abut right?

543
00:26:27,000 --> 00:26:27,280
Speaker 3: Last game?

544
00:26:27,359 --> 00:26:29,560
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean they're trying to feature him. Yeah, that's

545
00:26:29,560 --> 00:26:33,000
Speaker 4: a good wild card. There's some talent there obviously for.

546
00:26:33,080 --> 00:26:37,879
Speaker 3: The Washington Commanders is a good one. Cornerback Marshawn Latimore.

547
00:26:38,040 --> 00:26:40,000
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think that's a real good one. He hasn't

548
00:26:40,000 --> 00:26:42,600
Speaker 4: played hardly at all. Four got him for a reason.

549
00:26:42,960 --> 00:26:44,880
Speaker 4: He can be sort of a shutdown guy.

550
00:26:44,960 --> 00:26:47,960
Speaker 3: Here's the thing. So the part of the interesting part

551
00:26:47,960 --> 00:26:51,840
Speaker 3: of that game this week, Marshawn Latimore and Mike Evans, Yeah, yeah,

552
00:26:51,960 --> 00:26:55,679
Speaker 3: have had some monumental blow ups on the field. Not

553
00:26:55,840 --> 00:26:57,879
Speaker 3: just battles, but they battled physically.

554
00:26:58,119 --> 00:27:00,320
Speaker 4: I actually thought about that. I mean the same kind

555
00:27:00,320 --> 00:27:02,960
Speaker 4: of let Evans get that last catch. You think Latimore will.

556
00:27:02,880 --> 00:27:05,720
Speaker 3: Know he mugged him at the line of right, like,

557
00:27:05,760 --> 00:27:10,280
Speaker 3: drag him down and got the stomach right and come

558
00:27:10,280 --> 00:27:12,320
Speaker 3: back out to get super guy.

559
00:27:12,960 --> 00:27:14,640
Speaker 4: You know that's huge. I mean, is he gonna try

560
00:27:14,640 --> 00:27:16,840
Speaker 4: to lock down Evans? Is that how this coaching staff

561
00:27:17,240 --> 00:27:18,040
Speaker 4: views them? I don't know.

562
00:27:18,280 --> 00:27:20,399
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean he's got a history there. If I'm Marshall,

563
00:27:20,400 --> 00:27:22,800
Speaker 3: I guarantee you Marshaw Lattimore is going to the coaching staff.

564
00:27:22,840 --> 00:27:24,280
Speaker 3: Is that No, I'm back this week. I want that.

565
00:27:24,560 --> 00:27:26,720
Speaker 4: I want him, and I bet they let him. I mean,

566
00:27:26,720 --> 00:27:28,280
Speaker 4: that's why you trade for That's why he went and

567
00:27:28,280 --> 00:27:34,840
Speaker 4: got him for the Packers cornerback Carrington Valentine. I don't

568
00:27:34,840 --> 00:27:38,160
Speaker 4: know about him. I mean I know that now there

569
00:27:38,200 --> 00:27:40,520
Speaker 4: out there, you know the their depth corners have been

570
00:27:40,560 --> 00:27:42,840
Speaker 4: tested and wouldn't chalk me their first round pick next

571
00:27:42,920 --> 00:27:43,520
Speaker 4: year as a corner.

572
00:27:46,560 --> 00:27:48,480
Speaker 3: I don't know who I'd go with them. Maybe a

573
00:27:48,520 --> 00:27:51,880
Speaker 3: guy like a Dontavium Wicks. You know that with Watson,

574
00:27:52,119 --> 00:27:54,720
Speaker 3: Watson's out, some of the other guys are in and out,

575
00:27:54,800 --> 00:27:55,280
Speaker 3: and I.

576
00:27:55,400 --> 00:27:57,680
Speaker 4: Guess they deal with a J. Brown and Devonte Smith

577
00:27:57,680 --> 00:28:00,480
Speaker 4: this week. It's a big deal to start, Yeah, big deal?

578
00:28:02,400 --> 00:28:06,960
Speaker 3: Uh? For the Denver Broncos quarterback bow Knicks.

579
00:28:08,119 --> 00:28:11,480
Speaker 4: Sure, I mean I guess you could. Yeah, the rookie

580
00:28:11,520 --> 00:28:15,639
Speaker 4: quarterback in the first play game is definitely a crap shoot.

581
00:28:16,280 --> 00:28:18,600
Speaker 3: But I might. I might put Julian mc laughlin is

582
00:28:18,600 --> 00:28:19,520
Speaker 3: their X factor.

583
00:28:20,040 --> 00:28:22,600
Speaker 4: It's not a bad one because I mean he's gonna

584
00:28:22,640 --> 00:28:24,800
Speaker 4: do some big plays and he can make plays for you.

585
00:28:24,840 --> 00:28:28,520
Speaker 3: And again that Bill's defense is not great against the run.

586
00:28:28,880 --> 00:28:34,440
Speaker 4: I might take his face the corner not named certain Uh,

587
00:28:35,640 --> 00:28:36,160
Speaker 4: the white guy.

588
00:28:36,480 --> 00:28:38,760
Speaker 3: Yeah, I know who you're talking. I'm trying to it's

589
00:28:38,760 --> 00:28:39,640
Speaker 3: not Mills.

590
00:28:39,320 --> 00:28:42,200
Speaker 4: It's now because I mean, when he's been sharp, they

591
00:28:42,240 --> 00:28:44,120
Speaker 4: don't pick on him. But when he's coming back and

592
00:28:44,160 --> 00:28:47,000
Speaker 4: he's he's been kind of OFFI from Iowa. They get

593
00:28:47,040 --> 00:28:49,479
Speaker 4: ripped in, he gets ripped up and attacked. Yeah, you know,

594
00:28:49,800 --> 00:28:53,880
Speaker 4: pictures facy for he's been good, not when he's half healthy.

595
00:28:54,520 --> 00:28:57,760
Speaker 3: That leads us with the Steelers. Who would your X

596
00:28:57,800 --> 00:28:59,080
Speaker 3: factor for the Steelers be?

597
00:28:59,880 --> 00:29:03,280
Speaker 4: I mean Pickens has some of it because he could

598
00:29:03,320 --> 00:29:05,280
Speaker 4: be great, or he could have what we just saw.

599
00:29:07,040 --> 00:29:11,760
Speaker 3: He's had more great than what we just Yes, yeah, hmmm,

600
00:29:13,440 --> 00:29:14,760
Speaker 3: I might go Mike Williams.

601
00:29:15,200 --> 00:29:17,560
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm thinking offense heavily. Yeah, I mean I kind

602
00:29:17,560 --> 00:29:19,600
Speaker 4: of think you know who the defensive player right are?

603
00:29:22,200 --> 00:29:24,680
Speaker 4: I wouldn't pick any of the offensive linemen. But what

604
00:29:24,760 --> 00:29:27,520
Speaker 4: if Dan Moore? I mean, he's been last month, hasn't

605
00:29:28,560 --> 00:29:31,040
Speaker 4: ye if you get back to October, Dan More, that's

606
00:29:31,080 --> 00:29:31,719
Speaker 4: a lot different.

607
00:29:32,800 --> 00:29:34,680
Speaker 3: Who did go with Russell?

608
00:29:34,680 --> 00:29:39,000
Speaker 4: And Wilson thought it a quarterbacks kind of a card, right,

609
00:29:39,080 --> 00:29:41,680
Speaker 4: that's not an X factor or a wild card. No,

610
00:29:42,080 --> 00:29:45,440
Speaker 4: I would not have gone Nick I dismissed because it

611
00:29:45,480 --> 00:29:48,640
Speaker 4: was a rookie. But I would not go with the Yeah,

612
00:29:49,000 --> 00:29:52,120
Speaker 4: the guy trying to win his tenth playoff game, he's

613
00:29:52,200 --> 00:29:52,800
Speaker 4: kind of done this.

614
00:29:52,800 --> 00:29:57,600
Speaker 3: Already, right, And the reason they went with as was.

615
00:29:57,640 --> 00:30:00,000
Speaker 3: You know, his last four games haven't been as good. Sure,

616
00:30:00,240 --> 00:30:02,600
Speaker 3: who was he missing in that game? Yeah, yeah, a

617
00:30:02,600 --> 00:30:05,760
Speaker 3: bunch of those games George Pickens, And then George Pickens

618
00:30:05,840 --> 00:30:08,880
Speaker 3: last week wasn't George Pickens. So yeah, when you take

619
00:30:08,920 --> 00:30:11,320
Speaker 3: the number one receiver out of the offense, or you

620
00:30:11,360 --> 00:30:15,000
Speaker 3: take the number one receiver takes himself out of the offense, Yeah, yeah, yeah,

621
00:30:15,040 --> 00:30:17,360
Speaker 3: the numbers aren't going to be quite as good. Again,

622
00:30:17,560 --> 00:30:20,600
Speaker 3: I'll go back to this, if Pickens, If George Pickens

623
00:30:20,720 --> 00:30:24,000
Speaker 3: just catches the thirty eight yarder down the sideline as

624
00:30:24,040 --> 00:30:26,080
Speaker 3: he should have, as he had done all season long,

625
00:30:26,760 --> 00:30:29,800
Speaker 3: that was not broken up by the defensive back. It

626
00:30:29,840 --> 00:30:32,920
Speaker 3: was a flat out drop. It was a perfectly thrown ball.

627
00:30:33,760 --> 00:30:35,040
Speaker 4: That game could be a lot different.

628
00:30:35,640 --> 00:30:37,280
Speaker 3: Wilson's numbers are a lot different.

629
00:30:38,560 --> 00:30:41,600
Speaker 4: We might be previewing the Texans, we might be previewing it. Yeah, exactly,

630
00:30:42,960 --> 00:30:46,040
Speaker 4: you know so, and he's not the only reason they lost.

631
00:30:46,120 --> 00:30:48,600
Speaker 3: No, I'm not saying that at all. And I'm not

632
00:30:48,600 --> 00:30:50,480
Speaker 3: saying Wilson was great in that game. He didn't turn

633
00:30:50,480 --> 00:30:54,280
Speaker 3: the ball over though, And you know, even though he

634
00:30:54,440 --> 00:30:58,080
Speaker 3: there was some maybe some procedural mistakes at the end

635
00:30:58,120 --> 00:31:00,239
Speaker 3: of the game. You know, I'm not gonna blame him

636
00:31:00,280 --> 00:31:04,040
Speaker 3: for taking a sack when yeah, Hendrickson's on his back

637
00:31:04,040 --> 00:31:05,760
Speaker 3: in two point five seconds.

638
00:31:05,480 --> 00:31:07,800
Speaker 4: But there was a scramble that he picked up two

639
00:31:07,880 --> 00:31:09,720
Speaker 4: or three yards that the clock just kept rolling.

640
00:31:09,880 --> 00:31:12,120
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, did not do the Steelers any favors.

641
00:31:12,240 --> 00:31:14,600
Speaker 3: And I understand you're trying to get some yardage, you know,

642
00:31:14,640 --> 00:31:18,000
Speaker 3: in that situation. And maybe he didn't see the defender

643
00:31:18,080 --> 00:31:19,840
Speaker 3: there when he turned the corner, but there he was.

644
00:31:21,400 --> 00:31:23,080
Speaker 3: But he put the ball right on Firar with that

645
00:31:23,120 --> 00:31:25,840
Speaker 3: place started with fifteen seconds left on the clock. The

646
00:31:25,840 --> 00:31:28,959
Speaker 3: clock was not running. I hear people talking about that

647
00:31:29,000 --> 00:31:30,240
Speaker 3: play and said, well, I don't know that they would

648
00:31:30,280 --> 00:31:31,920
Speaker 3: have gotten to the line of scrimmage. I would have

649
00:31:31,960 --> 00:31:33,200
Speaker 3: liked to have found out.

650
00:31:34,040 --> 00:31:36,520
Speaker 4: I mean, like, I wouldn't expect this author to be

651
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Speaker 4: in the weeds like we are with the Steelers. But

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Speaker 4: Mike Williams is probably my choice. I would say, so,

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Speaker 4: if we think he's going to get a bump, can

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Speaker 4: he give you three or four big plays?

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Speaker 3: We're you know, if Justin Field's in that situation, would

656
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Speaker 3: he be an X factor? Yeah?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, do you expect him to play. I thought he

658
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Speaker 4: was gonna play last week. Yeah, I think I. Well,

659
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Speaker 4: they didn't have the ball enough last week if annas.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, this time around and he's completely healthy now yeah,

661
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Speaker 3: I expect to see some Justin Fields.

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Speaker 4: I kind of do every game now.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and I've heard people talk about well Justin Fields.

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Speaker 3: The Steelers have benched him the last month. No, he's

665
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Speaker 3: been hurt.

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Speaker 4: No, he was an active.

667
00:32:13,040 --> 00:32:14,520
Speaker 3: He was inactive because he was hurt.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's not like they liked Alan better, yeah, and

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Speaker 4: benched him. He was hurt. Yeah, So.

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Speaker 3: Nothing to save him for now. So no, burn the boats,

671
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Speaker 3: earn the boats.

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Speaker 4: What's that mean? There you go?

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Speaker 3: Anyways, So Russell Wilson is the guy that they used here,

674
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Speaker 3: and well, Russell Wilson's kind of low hanging fruit. It is.

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Speaker 4: It is.

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Speaker 3: Russell Wilson spoke to the media today and well the

677
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Speaker 3: quarterback spoke. So let's as we've done the last few weeks.

678
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Speaker 3: Because they've had Saturday games, Wednesday games, all that stuff,

679
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Speaker 3: we've been able to play them back on the show.

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Speaker 3: We'll do that when we come back. He's Matt Williamson.

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Speaker 3: I am Dale, Lolly. You're listening to the drive here

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Speaker 3: on the Steelers Audio Network.

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Speaker 2: At least, he's the Drive with Dale Lolly and Matt

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Speaker 2: Williamson on your twenty four to seven Home of the

685
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Speaker 2: Black and Gold cast in Steelers Nation Radio.

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Speaker 3: Welcome back to the Drive. I'm Dale LOLLI he is

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Speaker 3: the Matt Williamson and Matt being a Wednesday here Wednesday,

688
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Speaker 3: that is a Thursday.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: We get to hear from Russell Wilson earlier today. We

691
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Speaker 3: just talked about him as being the Steelers kind of

692
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Speaker 3: X factor here in this game, and we experience is key.

693
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Speaker 3: His experience is key, It's critical, and you hear him

694
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Speaker 3: talk a little bit about that here. But I wanted

695
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Speaker 3: to get to what he had to say to the

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Speaker 3: media today as the Steelers get ready to play the

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Speaker 3: Baltimore Ravens on Saturday night.

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Speaker 1: Rush you talked about having anees. Is that easy to

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Speaker 1: do to leaving four straight at the end of the players, No,

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Speaker 1: it's not thing. It's easy to do.

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Speaker 6: But I think also singular focused, you know, I think

702
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Speaker 6: that the opportunity we have in front of us, it's

703
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Speaker 6: a great one. We're excited about opportunity obviously in the playoffs,

704
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Speaker 6: and it's uh, you know, guys that you know, played

705
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Speaker 6: fifteen years and never gotten the playoffs, So a lot

706
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Speaker 6: of these guys who haven't. It's an exciting moment, exciting time.

707
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Speaker 6: It's exciting for all of us because we also know

708
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Speaker 6: how how how how good of a team we are

709
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Speaker 6: when we play our best, and excited about the opportunity

710
00:34:17,160 --> 00:34:18,960
Speaker 6: of those times, you know, facing the.

711
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Speaker 1: Challenge we're in.

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Speaker 6: Do you feel like do you feel like you have

713
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Speaker 6: a lot of personally at stake in this just because

714
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Speaker 6: next year's I'm certainly at disappoint Yeah, I guess I

715
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Speaker 6: always think about the moment, and I'm not really worried

716
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Speaker 6: about you, you know, down the road or anything like that.

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Speaker 1: I always think about just the moments of being uh

718
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Speaker 1: in the moment.

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Speaker 6: Of today's practice, being the moment of.

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Speaker 4: This this game that we have.

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Speaker 1: That always handles himself, you know, I'm excited about that.

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Speaker 6: The opportunity of playing the playoffs and and play with

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Speaker 6: these guys, that's where my focus is.

724
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Speaker 5: Rus when you've been back to the conversations you were

725
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Speaker 5: having like this dealers, like Jarmlin, that's back in March,

726
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Speaker 5: when you're trying to figure out where you want to go,

727
00:34:56,719 --> 00:35:00,080
Speaker 5: how much of getting a playoff when here was I

728
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Speaker 5: parted that, Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's great, man. That's a huge part of this journey.

730
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Speaker 1: We're not just looking for one playoff one, but the

731
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Speaker 1: only one you can get is this one right now.

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Speaker 6: And so I think the focus for us is just

733
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Speaker 6: getting ready to go and join the process of this.

734
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Speaker 6: You know, playing in the playoffs is such a special thing,

735
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Speaker 6: and like I said, some of the guys who haven't

736
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Speaker 6: played in the playoffs, this is a special moment falls.

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Speaker 6: But I think that I think the most important thing

738
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Speaker 6: we can do is just folks on our discipline, folcus

739
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Speaker 6: on our preparation, focus on getting ready and then getting

740
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Speaker 6: ready when the when the balls kicked off, of playing

741
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Speaker 6: our best for sixty minutes.

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Speaker 3: But we're kind of breaking that cycle.

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Speaker 1: Part of the conversation, Yeah, for sure. I think that's

744
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Speaker 1: definitely a huge part of it.

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Speaker 6: You know, And you know, I've been fortunate to play

746
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Speaker 6: a lot of playoff games, a lot.

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Speaker 1: Of moments, and I think to be able to use

748
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Speaker 1: that experience and to you know, you know, talk talk

749
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Speaker 1: to guys about.

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Speaker 6: What it feels like, what it what it is, and

751
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Speaker 6: the moments that you know can forever change your life

752
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Speaker 6: and all that. So we're living it. We're right in

753
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Speaker 6: the middle of it right now, and we're excited about

754
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Speaker 6: that opportunity to go a show who we can be.

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Speaker 4: You know.

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Speaker 1: That's that, man's the fun part of it. At the

757
00:36:05,080 --> 00:36:09,640
Speaker 1: end of the player game, we didn't we didn't get

758
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Speaker 1: it done.

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Speaker 6: And then I think it's simple as it is, but

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Speaker 6: I think the next opportunity is always the best one, uh,

761
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Speaker 6: you know, and hopefully that uh we want to get

762
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Speaker 6: into that two minute situation again or in the last

763
00:36:18,160 --> 00:36:21,800
Speaker 6: you know, drive of the game, we can go win it.

764
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Speaker 1: Going into this, So saying.

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Speaker 3: The last month you all that.

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Speaker 4: You feel like you have a handle on that going

767
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Speaker 4: into the playoffs, Well, at the same time, I feels

768
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Speaker 4: like you're.

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Speaker 1: Too restricted and risk taking.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I think we got to be aggressive in our

771
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Speaker 6: mentality is one game in the past game and and uh,

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Speaker 6: you know.

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Speaker 1: Having no fear of these games of a game and being.

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Speaker 6: Question in the playoffs, things go your way a lot,

775
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Speaker 6: sometimes they don't.

776
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Speaker 1: Moments and being respond and all.

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Speaker 6: That stuff, and so being have having having understanding of

778
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Speaker 6: what's gonna help us win is obviously you know, we

779
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Speaker 6: have one run ball.

780
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Speaker 1: Effectively, you want to be able to obviously throw it effective,

781
00:36:56,480 --> 00:36:57,680
Speaker 1: going to be able to score in the red zone,

782
00:36:57,920 --> 00:37:00,400
Speaker 1: just the normal stuff. It's not it's not a new games.

783
00:37:00,440 --> 00:37:03,239
Speaker 1: The game is still always the same game. It's just

784
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Speaker 1: it's just a.

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Speaker 6: Little bit more exposure, a little bit more uh, a

786
00:37:05,800 --> 00:37:08,000
Speaker 6: little bit more fun, a little bit more worthwhile.

787
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Speaker 1: Us well that too many guys in this from have rings.

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Speaker 5: You know, do you feel like I'd added responsibility since you

789
00:37:13,800 --> 00:37:15,399
Speaker 5: sort of know what it takes to have success this time,

790
00:37:15,480 --> 00:37:17,080
Speaker 5: you're to sort of impart some of that wisdom one.

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Speaker 1: Of these guys.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I've been talking to the guys a lot of

793
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Speaker 6: just about the process of winning, in the process of

794
00:37:21,960 --> 00:37:24,400
Speaker 6: what it sounds like to go into the playoffs, and

795
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Speaker 6: but you know, just the feeling that it is, you know,

796
00:37:27,320 --> 00:37:30,120
Speaker 6: and it is one hundred yards still fifty three and

797
00:37:30,160 --> 00:37:33,640
Speaker 6: a third the same field and everything else, but you know,

798
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Speaker 6: you're you're closer to the dreams that you always dreamed

799
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Speaker 6: about when you're a young kid, you know, and the

800
00:37:37,920 --> 00:37:40,040
Speaker 6: opportunity of that and what we all work for and

801
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Speaker 6: so that's real and I think that you know what

802
00:37:42,960 --> 00:37:44,839
Speaker 6: I think also too, you know, I think a big

803
00:37:44,840 --> 00:37:46,040
Speaker 6: part of it, right, now is just.

804
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Speaker 1: You know, we're painting the picture of of how good

805
00:37:50,320 --> 00:37:52,359
Speaker 1: we are when we're good, you know, and how great

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Speaker 1: that is.

807
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Speaker 6: And I think we were one of the hotest teams

808
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Speaker 6: of football, you know, and that was you know, that

809
00:37:56,200 --> 00:37:58,719
Speaker 6: was a month ago, but it doesn't It wasn't that

810
00:37:58,719 --> 00:38:01,040
Speaker 6: far here, you know, when that long ago. And so

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Speaker 6: I think the biggest thing is that how do we

812
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Speaker 6: recreate that, How do we build that, how do we

813
00:38:04,480 --> 00:38:07,160
Speaker 6: go off of that, how do we communicate that way,

814
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Speaker 6: how do we play that way? How do we make

815
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Speaker 6: you know, plays in that manner? And I know that

816
00:38:10,920 --> 00:38:13,440
Speaker 6: we can about how we practice, how we prepare, And

817
00:38:13,480 --> 00:38:15,279
Speaker 6: I think the best the best part about it is

818
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Speaker 6: we've got the same guys in the locker room that.

819
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Speaker 1: We had a month ago when everybody was cheering us on.

820
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Speaker 1: So I think the best thing is is that you

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Speaker 1: just focus on the moments.

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Speaker 6: And I think that we're focused on, you know, go

823
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Speaker 6: and performing over the over this week and seeing where

824
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Speaker 6: that takes us. Rush what do you take on those

825
00:38:31,280 --> 00:38:34,200
Speaker 6: first two matches or those other two matchesmore that you

826
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Speaker 6: can use for these they're great, they're great matchups.

827
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Speaker 1: Obviously AFC North in their battles.

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Speaker 6: The great football players on both sides, some of the

829
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Speaker 6: best players in the world and both sides of the ball.

830
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Speaker 6: So you know, for both teams, and I think that

831
00:38:44,840 --> 00:38:46,319
Speaker 6: you know, we're gonna have to play our best or

832
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Speaker 6: do our thing and have great confidence. I think there's

833
00:38:49,160 --> 00:38:50,839
Speaker 6: a lot of things they do extend extreaded well. They

834
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Speaker 6: got a lot of great players, especially the defensive side.

835
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Speaker 6: They do a lot of good things mixed up with coveragers.

836
00:38:55,680 --> 00:38:59,160
Speaker 6: They do, you know, how to make plays. So I

837
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Speaker 6: think the best thing we can do this here's the

838
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Speaker 6: things that.

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Speaker 1: You've done really really well.

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Speaker 6: I think there's been a lot of those things those

841
00:39:05,360 --> 00:39:08,719
Speaker 6: those two games, and you know, capitalize on them.

842
00:39:10,440 --> 00:39:12,520
Speaker 4: And the way they use their persons same one time,

843
00:39:12,600 --> 00:39:14,799
Speaker 4: their defense and the way that their personnel in the

844
00:39:14,800 --> 00:39:17,360
Speaker 4: second half of the season, what's made that so challenging

845
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Speaker 4: against them.

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Speaker 6: You know, I think they've done a good job of

847
00:39:20,719 --> 00:39:23,920
Speaker 6: making adjustments. I think that as you go throughout the season,

848
00:39:23,960 --> 00:39:26,120
Speaker 6: there's there's highs and lows. I think that they it

849
00:39:26,200 --> 00:39:28,120
Speaker 6: may seem really good adjustments over the best. You know,

850
00:39:28,360 --> 00:39:31,439
Speaker 6: since Week eleven, really you've done some really good things.

851
00:39:31,440 --> 00:39:33,800
Speaker 6: And so I think they created turnovers. They've done a

852
00:39:33,840 --> 00:39:36,439
Speaker 6: really good job of that. The their star players I've

853
00:39:36,440 --> 00:39:38,920
Speaker 6: played great in certain moments, they've you know and all that,

854
00:39:38,960 --> 00:39:40,680
Speaker 6: and I think the biggest thing that we can do

855
00:39:40,800 --> 00:39:42,080
Speaker 6: is just.

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Speaker 1: You know, play great, one play at the time.

857
00:39:43,280 --> 00:39:46,000
Speaker 6: And hopefully it's you know, it's seventy plus plays and

858
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Speaker 6: in all seven of those players are goals rs.

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Speaker 5: Understanding though a lot of the goals that you've talked

860
00:39:50,400 --> 00:39:53,000
Speaker 5: about and this team talked about happened in the postseason.

861
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Speaker 3: How do you measure if this season is suss.

862
00:39:56,200 --> 00:39:58,040
Speaker 6: Think we all know that answer. I mean, I think,

863
00:39:58,160 --> 00:40:00,839
Speaker 6: you know, we all you know, searching for one thing.

864
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Speaker 6: You know, that's always the case of the year, and

865
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Speaker 6: I think that we have the capability of doing that.

866
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Speaker 1: Great thing is we've got a great chance, meaning that

867
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Speaker 1: we're in it. I mean, that's a big part of it.

868
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Speaker 1: I think that anytime you go into a season, number

869
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Speaker 1: one goal obviously is to to get to.

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Speaker 6: The playoffs and have that chance and then from there,

871
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Speaker 6: you know, use all the experiences, all the highs and

872
00:40:18,280 --> 00:40:20,880
Speaker 6: lows of the season then and then responding at the

873
00:40:20,920 --> 00:40:24,080
Speaker 6: highest level. You know, when when when when the lights

874
00:40:24,080 --> 00:40:26,600
Speaker 6: come on? And so uh, lights will be on. We'll

875
00:40:26,600 --> 00:40:28,759
Speaker 6: be ready to go and and we're gonna give our

876
00:40:28,760 --> 00:40:32,360
Speaker 6: best and we'll play. Russ said today on offense is

877
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Speaker 6: gonna leave no stone unturned in the playoffs.

878
00:40:34,640 --> 00:40:35,600
Speaker 4: What does that mean to you?

879
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Speaker 6: I think that just, you know, Arthur, obviously, I think

880
00:40:39,160 --> 00:40:40,960
Speaker 6: that what that means is just if you want to

881
00:40:41,000 --> 00:40:42,480
Speaker 6: be able to play our best, we want to you know,

882
00:40:43,520 --> 00:40:45,839
Speaker 6: you know, whatever plays that we feel like are great ones,

883
00:40:45,880 --> 00:40:48,759
Speaker 6: runs and pastes, whatever those are, you know, make sure

884
00:40:48,760 --> 00:40:50,000
Speaker 6: that we that we get to them.

885
00:40:50,160 --> 00:40:53,120
Speaker 1: And uh and I think that also too. I think

886
00:40:53,320 --> 00:40:55,360
Speaker 1: it also means just our preparation in the week. I

887
00:40:55,360 --> 00:40:58,040
Speaker 1: think how how all of our guys have been preparing.

888
00:40:58,080 --> 00:41:01,239
Speaker 6: I think guys like Zach Frasier and Mason and and

889
00:41:01,680 --> 00:41:03,600
Speaker 6: we're all the whole offensive line and now they've been

890
00:41:03,600 --> 00:41:06,680
Speaker 6: preparing the right way, and just their thought process, our

891
00:41:07,120 --> 00:41:10,160
Speaker 6: protection meetings and our our run meetings and our past means,

892
00:41:10,200 --> 00:41:12,120
Speaker 6: and just the receivers have done a great job and

893
00:41:12,160 --> 00:41:15,200
Speaker 6: communication all week, and the confidence of that and just

894
00:41:15,880 --> 00:41:18,040
Speaker 6: you know, and how we practice today. I think guys

895
00:41:18,040 --> 00:41:20,960
Speaker 6: were really doing everything they could, you know, be at

896
00:41:20,960 --> 00:41:23,040
Speaker 6: the best today, and I think that was really good

897
00:41:23,080 --> 00:41:25,160
Speaker 6: to see and I just think that our effort, you know,

898
00:41:25,200 --> 00:41:27,799
Speaker 6: our tight ends and running backs, and so that's that's

899
00:41:27,840 --> 00:41:29,640
Speaker 6: part of the you know, every stone on turn.

900
00:41:29,680 --> 00:41:31,400
Speaker 1: It's just how we go about it, you know.

901
00:41:31,400 --> 00:41:34,080
Speaker 6: I think also to just the enthusiasm of playing ball

902
00:41:34,120 --> 00:41:35,719
Speaker 6: and the game we love and the opportunity that we

903
00:41:35,719 --> 00:41:38,160
Speaker 6: have in front of us for the Pittsburgh Dealers. Man,

904
00:41:38,160 --> 00:41:40,480
Speaker 6: what a great opportunity we have. We know, we know

905
00:41:41,160 --> 00:41:44,040
Speaker 6: what this this game means in the sense of this

906
00:41:44,120 --> 00:41:45,520
Speaker 6: it's our next one and we've got to make sure

907
00:41:45,520 --> 00:41:46,719
Speaker 6: that we make it our best one.

908
00:41:46,760 --> 00:41:49,160
Speaker 1: And so that's just that's just where we are in

909
00:41:49,200 --> 00:41:54,160
Speaker 1: that sense. Got three and one record first round, Tafa,

910
00:41:55,440 --> 00:41:58,160
Speaker 1: how much do you draw from that versus maybe getting

911
00:41:58,160 --> 00:41:59,320
Speaker 1: the taste of their last.

912
00:41:59,080 --> 00:42:01,359
Speaker 3: Playoff game out of got of your mouth?

913
00:42:01,520 --> 00:42:03,680
Speaker 6: How much do you personally from Yeah, I mean I

914
00:42:03,680 --> 00:42:05,440
Speaker 6: think I think you've used all the experiences, you know,

915
00:42:05,520 --> 00:42:07,120
Speaker 6: especially when you had to play on the road.

916
00:42:06,960 --> 00:42:08,799
Speaker 1: In the playoffs and everything else. Is being able to

917
00:42:08,840 --> 00:42:09,919
Speaker 1: win those games.

918
00:42:10,000 --> 00:42:12,520
Speaker 6: Obviously think that you anytime you get to win the

919
00:42:12,520 --> 00:42:15,680
Speaker 6: first one is a huge one just because it's when

920
00:42:15,719 --> 00:42:17,719
Speaker 6: you get that first pitch you know out, and I

921
00:42:17,719 --> 00:42:19,279
Speaker 6: think that's a big thing. For us in this locker

922
00:42:19,400 --> 00:42:22,560
Speaker 6: room and everything else. And so yeah, for me, you know,

923
00:42:22,600 --> 00:42:24,919
Speaker 6: it's like I said to you, guys, it's it's being

924
00:42:24,960 --> 00:42:27,920
Speaker 6: poised in those moments, you know, looking forward to it,

925
00:42:28,320 --> 00:42:30,799
Speaker 6: knowing that it's gonna be a four quarter game, it's

926
00:42:30,800 --> 00:42:32,160
Speaker 6: going to be a battle, and we're looking forward to

927
00:42:32,200 --> 00:42:34,360
Speaker 6: the opportunity of it. And I've been fortunate obviously to

928
00:42:34,360 --> 00:42:36,960
Speaker 6: hold the trophy and everything else and do some special

929
00:42:37,000 --> 00:42:38,719
Speaker 6: things in the playoffs and then the moments of that,

930
00:42:38,800 --> 00:42:41,160
Speaker 6: and that we want to use all that experience that

931
00:42:41,280 --> 00:42:43,040
Speaker 6: we have, and some of the guys in this locker

932
00:42:43,120 --> 00:42:46,680
Speaker 6: room too, and guys like Van Jefferson and Ben Skronnick

933
00:42:46,760 --> 00:42:48,960
Speaker 6: and guys who you know played at the highest level too,

934
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Speaker 6: and moments and teams and those help, you know.

935
00:42:51,680 --> 00:42:53,319
Speaker 1: Especially on the offensive side of the ball.

936
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Speaker 6: We have some of the world class best players in

937
00:42:55,560 --> 00:42:58,560
Speaker 6: the world and guys like TJ and Cam and Uminka

938
00:42:58,640 --> 00:43:00,279
Speaker 6: and those guys, and so I want to make sure

939
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Speaker 6: that they get the takes of that too.

940
00:43:02,120 --> 00:43:03,279
Speaker 1: And and it's all about our.

941
00:43:03,200 --> 00:43:05,520
Speaker 6: Effort and how we focus and how we put it together.

942
00:43:05,560 --> 00:43:07,239
Speaker 6: And so that's the fun part about this game.

943
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Speaker 1: Games.

944
00:43:10,120 --> 00:43:10,799
Speaker 5: What do you take from that?

945
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Speaker 7: To utilize in this uppoint Yeah, I think that, you know,

946
00:43:13,719 --> 00:43:16,040
Speaker 7: it's it's uh, there's some things that we're doing really well,

947
00:43:16,280 --> 00:43:18,240
Speaker 7: and I want to want to make sure we focus

948
00:43:18,280 --> 00:43:20,319
Speaker 7: on those things and do those things and and make

949
00:43:20,320 --> 00:43:22,879
Speaker 7: sure that we multiply that, uh, you know, a few

950
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Speaker 7: times over.

951
00:43:23,560 --> 00:43:24,440
Speaker 1: I think that's a big thing.

952
00:43:24,480 --> 00:43:26,799
Speaker 6: And then anything that we haven't done well, obviously, I

953
00:43:26,800 --> 00:43:29,160
Speaker 6: think the most important thing is is is us being

954
00:43:29,200 --> 00:43:33,320
Speaker 6: able to you know, execute certain moments and in doing.

955
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Speaker 1: That at a high level.

956
00:43:34,200 --> 00:43:36,360
Speaker 6: And that's the opportunity we get, you know, and this

957
00:43:36,520 --> 00:43:39,000
Speaker 6: is uh, this is our this is our chance to do.

958
00:43:38,960 --> 00:43:40,239
Speaker 1: It, and we're excited about that.

959
00:43:40,600 --> 00:43:42,759
Speaker 6: And I think that's our focus is let's let's keep

960
00:43:42,760 --> 00:43:45,120
Speaker 6: repeating the things we're doing well and really anything that's

961
00:43:45,200 --> 00:43:46,160
Speaker 6: that's not still good.

962
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Speaker 1: So I think I've got a chance to do that.

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Speaker 1: All right, Thank you guys, appreciate it.

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Speaker 3: That was Steelers quarterback Russell Wilson with the assembled media

965
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Speaker 3: earlier today, and uh, goods up. You know, he's he's

966
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Speaker 3: going to be important. I mean, every quarterback is going

967
00:43:58,760 --> 00:44:01,520
Speaker 3: to be a team. But yes, to play well, Y's

968
00:44:01,560 --> 00:44:04,040
Speaker 3: play well. Still a young offense. People forget that you know.

969
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Speaker 3: I mean, there's a handful of dudes that will make

970
00:44:06,160 --> 00:44:08,600
Speaker 3: their first playoffs start. He's gonna keep the wheels on

971
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Speaker 3: the train, you know, going down the track, and keep

972
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Speaker 3: everybody on the right page, and we'll see how many.

973
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Speaker 3: It's gonna be a tough chore. He will be mister positive,

974
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Speaker 3: I know that, noubless of how things happen, and he's

975
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Speaker 3: gonna try to keep everybody in the right mind frame.

976
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Speaker 3: Mm hmm.

977
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Speaker 4: Showed up heavy on hard Knocks last night too, doing

978
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Speaker 4: a lot of that during the game. Good stuff.

979
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Speaker 3: So anyways, that's going to do it for the show

980
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Speaker 3: to they Matt, Yeah, bring on him. And we'll be

981
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Speaker 3: back again tomorrow to talk some more Steelers Ravens and

982
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Speaker 3: some of the other matchups of course, whi els. We'll

983
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Speaker 3: be back on Friday. We'll make our picks for the

984
00:44:39,000 --> 00:44:42,600
Speaker 3: weekend's games. We'll have our DFS picks all that fun stuff.

985
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Speaker 3: But for tonight, that's gonna do it. So for my

986
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Speaker 3: partner Matt Williamson, for Justin Miller here on site running

987
00:44:48,400 --> 00:44:52,280
Speaker 3: the Justin Miller hotline and the soundboard, and for Tyler

988
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Speaker 3: Viittmyer making sure our video gets out there onto YouTube,

989
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Speaker 3: I am Dale, Lollie. We thank you for listening to

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Speaker 3: this edition of the Drive on the Steelers Audio Network.