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Speaker 2: And we are back.

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Speaker 3: I am Dale LOLLI he is the Matt Williamson and

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Speaker 3: well Matt at this time for a little fantasy football focus.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we'll do this a little you know, I mean

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Speaker 3: do this for this week's games a little bit differently.

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Speaker 3: We usually on Wednesdays go through the injury reports and stuff.

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Speaker 3: Part of the injury reports this week, even if you're

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Speaker 3: not doing any fantasy stuff, is who's playing and who's not, and.

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Speaker 2: Who has something to play for and who's to sit

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Speaker 2: down And it's a hard thing to figure out.

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Speaker 3: There's a lot of news with that. But before we

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Speaker 3: get into that. According to Yahoo Sport, fantasy sports are

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Speaker 3: one of the big hosting platforms. The five players who

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Speaker 3: are on the most championship teams. Okay that you if

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Speaker 3: you won your championship this week, these are the guys

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Speaker 2: So these are guys that we talked about the soft

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Speaker 2: year is why make it clear because they were actually

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Speaker 2: in your lineup on champing.

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Speaker 3: The guys who were in championship lineups.

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Speaker 2: Because ESPN used to do it. Where who are the

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Speaker 2: most ones that took you to the championship, the eleventh

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Speaker 2: round pick that ended up hitting big, you know Lamar's

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Speaker 2: is a different conversation.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, So in this week, it was starting from the

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Speaker 3: bottom up. If you had Adam Thielen.

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Speaker 3: Sixty eight point two to two percent of their championship

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Speaker 3: winners had Adam Thielen in their sixty nine percent of

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Speaker 3: their champions had Joe Burrow in the lineup.

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Speaker 2: Bengals were strong.

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Speaker 3: Uh, seventy point seven percent seventy point oh seven percent,

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Speaker 3: I should say, had lab McConkey in the lineup. Okay,

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Speaker 3: seventy three point one nine percent of winning lineups had

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Speaker 2: Sure, including me. Yeah, three touchdowns.

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Speaker 3: Three touchdowns, So if you look at it that way,

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Speaker 3: four receivers in the top five and a quarterback, yeah,

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Speaker 3: of those guys. Oh yeah, you were, you were winning

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Speaker 3: your championship. You have T Higgins and Molak Neighbors in

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Speaker 2: And you might have picked Feeling up off of waivers, right,

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Speaker 2: you know, where some team might have had all five

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Speaker 3: And mcconkee, you know, was a late draft pick, late

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Speaker 3: late ish, I should say it was certainly later than

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Speaker 3: He was coming off of one hundred catch season last year.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm just looking here late round draft picks around sixteen.

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Speaker 2: News came out. Yeah, I just remind you rode him

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Speaker 2: That's huge. Yeah. He was big for me to get

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Speaker 2: the most recent trade I made and he wasn't great.

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Speaker 2: I just was like, I need a run back back.

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Speaker 2: Just give me your worst running back, and that's who

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Speaker 3: Off Baker Mayfield in round thirteen.

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, you picked him up. Darnell Mooney in round twelve.

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Speaker 3: Round ten, I got Brock Bowers.

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Speaker 2: That's that's a league winner. Yeah, that's yeah, that's right there.

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Speaker 3: Chase Brown went round nine.

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Speaker 2: No, now you're talking. Yeah, now you're talking. Now, we're

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Speaker 3: Yeah, for a large portion of the season. Brian Robinson

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Speaker 3: I got Jackson Smith and Jigba in round eight.

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Speaker 2: Knock on him. Just so many mouths to feed there,

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Speaker 3: And you know, Terry McLaurin went round seven. Yeah, that's pretty.

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Speaker 2: Solid, A really good year. A little quiet lately.

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Speaker 3: But David Montgomery went round seven, one pick before I was.

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Speaker 2: just curious who were like the first round Bus McCaffrey's the.

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Speaker 3: Biggest first McCaffrey. Bryce Hall went second.

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Speaker 3: No, Ceedee Lamb went third.

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Speaker 3: No, you know Tyreek Hill went fourth.

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Speaker 3: Henry Garrett Wilson went ten. What the thing about him?

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Speaker 3: Jamir Gibbs went eleven.

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Speaker 2: And then Kyron Williams went twelve. Do you think he

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Speaker 3: Devin Chan probably higher. You took a chance. I took

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Speaker 3: Not in the second round, yeah, DeVante Adams, you struggle.

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Speaker 2: Nobody saw Bucky Irving coming. Yeah. It wasn't as busty

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Speaker 3: Brandon Ayuk that's an ouch. Nico Collins great, but well

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Speaker 2: Okay. I don't know next year's drafts going to be

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Speaker 2: I started Allen and nearly got like fourteen points, you know,

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Speaker 2: I mean, like I had some other guys that didn't

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Speaker 3: the forty nine ers kicker in week eighteen. Reason to

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Speaker 3: change now, Yeah, but Rock Perdy likely to miss eight

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Speaker 3: week eighteen. Why would he play, right, He's dealing with

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Speaker 2: Uh, not the best movie.

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Speaker 3: We mentioned when we were going through the Bengals injury report.

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Speaker 3: Chase Brown a non participant. I'd be shocked if he goes. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: by the look of it, Brown wants to play. But right,

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Speaker 3: he's ten yards short of a thousand.

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Speaker 2: I get it. That's cool. But if you if you're

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Speaker 3: Yeah, can you run ahead ten times? Straight ahead ten

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Speaker 2: And I hope they do because that's not exactly that's

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Speaker 3: Xavier Lagett is going to need surgery in the offseason

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Speaker 2: At least that's something he'll be back from recently quick.

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Speaker 2: That shouldn't stunt his career too much. Looks like the Rams,

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Speaker 2: if I were that, Yeah, I would would you consider them?

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Speaker 2: If you Steelers? That's what everyone's gonna What else is

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Matthew Stafford and the starters may sit in Week eighteen,

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Speaker 2: Go to four. Yeah, I would see them too. At

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Speaker 2: As opposed to Packers or whoever is Washington. Yeah, I

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Speaker 2: guess that's when you go to Stafford and be like,

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Speaker 2: How important is it to you? Yeah? At his age,

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Speaker 3: I mentioned the Jannik andckway waved by the Patriots. Uh,

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that happened against the Steelers the first time.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a long time to be in concussion protocol.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Daniel Jones could be added to the Vikings fifty

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Speaker 3: three man roster for Week eighteen.

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Speaker 3: Kendre Miller placed in concussion protocol could be Clyde Edwards

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Speaker 2: Makes you played a fair amount this week.

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Speaker 3: Aaron Jones, with a quad injury, expected to practice this week.

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Speaker 2: I would you push him? Yeah, you're gonna push him.

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Speaker 2: He's gonna play.

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Speaker 3: Derek Carr will have his hand reevaluated heading into Week eighteen.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I heard that there's actually a legit chance he plays.

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Speaker 3: Chris Olave with that concussion finally expected to practice this week.

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Speaker 2: get one game in post concussion or go out there

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Speaker 2: and run twenty routes or whatever. Yeah, he's like, we're

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Speaker 2: they're only foundational pieces.

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Speaker 3: Jade and Daniels and these starters will play in Week eighteen.

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Speaker 3: For Washington, what do they have on the line, Just seatings, seating. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: they could win this sixth seed and face the Rams

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Speaker 3: instead of the Eagles the wild card round by moving

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Speaker 2: I guess it's worth it. They the Cowboys, right, Yeah? Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Jaylen Waddle optimistic for Week eighteen for the Dolphins.

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Speaker 2: No, they're gonna give it a shot, yeah, and try

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Speaker 3: Bryce Young and the starters will play in Week eighteen

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Speaker 3: for the Carolina Panthers, no reason not to.

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Speaker 2: They just keep building on what you're doing.

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Speaker 3: Josh Allen, and the bill starters will start in Week eighteen,

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Speaker 3: but be taken out quickly.

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Speaker 2: That sounds like a series. Yeah, hand it off three times,

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Speaker 2: and Mitch, you're in a put a baseball cap on.

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Speaker 3: The Chargers are unsure if they'll play their starters in

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Speaker 3: the Steeler game.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. They have the luxury of knowing more things.

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Speaker 3: Which is really the league doesn't like to do this.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, and it's an almost impossible puzzle to put

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Speaker 3: Here's the thing though, for them, Josh Palmer with the

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Speaker 3: that's bad for them. I was just thinking more along

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Speaker 2: Different injuries this year, including the Liz Frank which I

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Speaker 2: They're starting free safe injuries.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. Justice Hill expected back this week for the Ravens.

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Speaker 2: Okay, they use him. He's the third done back.

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Speaker 3: The Chiefs could be getting Jalen Watson back for the postseason.

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Speaker 2: I don't know much playing time he don't have, but

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Speaker 3: Nicole Hardman could return for the postseason.

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Speaker 3: Uh to at tag of I Lowe with that hip issue.

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Speaker 2: It's a huge deal. Huntley wasn't horrible.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, the Big Brown's offense was and that didn't help.

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Speaker 2: But they might beat the Jets Withtley.

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Speaker 2: Now they were asked.

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Speaker 3: Caleb Williams and the starters expected to play for the Bears.

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Speaker 3: In Week eighteam but it's a road game and don't

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Speaker 2: And a new staff there too, But you want to

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Speaker 3: Kate Auton status uncertain for Week eighteens, dealing with that

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Speaker 3: Yeah. Shaq Mason misspractice on Monday.

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Speaker 2: Starting guard who, like everyone on that line, is kind

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Speaker 3: They did get Juice Scrugs back though, so one out

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Speaker 2: Would you want to get him fired up in this game,

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Speaker 2: just to get him in uniform and catch a pass

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Speaker 3: But if your quarterback doesn't play, it doesn't do you

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Speaker 2: I know, he just hasn't played in so long. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: looks you know the playbook, right, you know, do it

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Speaker 3: A couple of last things here, ty J Spears dealing

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Speaker 3: And then the Titans also will play both Mason Rudolfie.

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Speaker 2: That was in there. I thought that was interesting. It

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Speaker 3: See what's when we keep going in the next season.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I mean for fantasy, I'm not real interested

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Speaker 2: now it's been good, really has been good, you know.

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Speaker 2: But that's weird with the quarterbacks.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, But I don't say it's wrong.

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Speaker 2: It's just an interesting approach.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's the fantasy football focus. Matt and are going

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Speaker 3: power ranking day. Let's go through those and see who

442
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Speaker 3: we think should be up, who we think should be down.

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Speaker 2: Right after this.

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Speaker 1: In the least, He's the Drive with Dale Lolly and

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Speaker 1: Matt Williamson on your twenty four to seven Home of

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Speaker 1: the Black and Gold Steelers Nation Radio.

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Speaker 2: And we are back.

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Speaker 3: I am Dale Lolly, he is the Matt Williamson and

449
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Speaker 3: Matt it is time to dig into the well. I

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Speaker 3: guess this is the.

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Speaker 2: Final regular seas year or next week or not.

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Speaker 3: So the final one of the regular season, I suppose,

453
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Speaker 3: because next week will be playoffs.

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Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, so playoffs. Let's again playoffs. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: So these are Eric at Holmes ranking Saints.

456
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Speaker 2: Past your Giants to be thirty two after one week

457
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Speaker 2: of another miserable loss and a win for the Giant.

458
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Speaker 2: I think they're the only two contenders. Well, Patriots are

459
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Speaker 2: really bad too.

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Speaker 3: That's none of those teams are who he has two? Okay,

461
00:21:00,760 --> 00:21:01,960
Speaker 3: somebody else you're not thinking of.

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Speaker 2: They're that bad though. I mean the Giants are running

463
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Speaker 2: away with it and only happen to get a win

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Speaker 2: the Tennessee Titans. I still think they would win against

465
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Speaker 2: all those teams more often.

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Speaker 3: They lost to the Jaguars twice in the last three weeks.

467
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Speaker 2: Oh they're not good.

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Speaker 1: Man.

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Speaker 3: The Jaguars were living down here for a long time.

470
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Speaker 2: I know. Patriots have like three good players.

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Speaker 3: The Patriots are thirty one. They're down three spots.

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Speaker 2: Okay, so they think the Saints be either one of

473
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Speaker 2: those teams, right, I get currently constructed? I don't know

474
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Speaker 2: I agree with.

475
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Speaker 3: That at thirty The Cleveland Browns pretty miserable as currently constructed.

476
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Speaker 3: If you're going to tell me that the DTR and

477
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Speaker 3: there's you know they're bad.

478
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Speaker 2: I'd say, is that the worst offense in the league

479
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Speaker 2: on New Year's Eve? Yees strong case or they can't

480
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Speaker 2: even operate right? Saints are pretty bad, like the Giants

481
00:21:52,760 --> 00:21:56,840
Speaker 2: are way better on offensive? Those lit yuck.

482
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Speaker 3: At twenty nine, up three spots are the Giants.

483
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Speaker 2: I mean there's something awful teams. A win goes a

484
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Speaker 2: long way. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: At twenty eight, up two spots the Jaguars, Yeah, on

486
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Speaker 3: the Titans and beating up on the Titans. At twenty seven,

487
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Speaker 3: up two spots the Raiders. They've won to a run.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Okay. O'Connell's not terrible. Yeah, I think he could be.

489
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Speaker 3: He'd be a long time backup in that league.

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Speaker 2: I think you'll have a Minshew fitzpatrick career. Yeah, probably

491
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Speaker 2: play for ten teams, you know. At twenty six holding

492
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Speaker 2: steady the Jets, boy, they were I thought the saddest

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Speaker 2: team of all. They were garbage, Yeah, I mean miserable,

494
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Speaker 2: old bad, didn't want to be there.

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Speaker 3: No, it all started with Aaron Rodgers walking doing the

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Speaker 3: walkout before the game started. As they're coming out of

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Speaker 3: the tunnel and they had this big. They don't call

498
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Speaker 3: them boom boxes anymore.

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Speaker 2: They call him bump boxes. Yeah, giant.

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Speaker 3: And they're playing Gangster's Paradise by Coolio, which is about

501
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Speaker 3: what thirty years.

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Speaker 2: Old, right, it was just old folks.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I mean nothing gets you pumped up like

504
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Speaker 3: a thirty year old.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. I'm not sure the rookies is into that, right,

506
00:23:09,400 --> 00:23:09,920
Speaker 2: that would.

507
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Speaker 3: Be like, why are you playing? Like when I was

508
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Speaker 3: in high school. We come out, we're coming out to

509
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Speaker 3: h Buddy Holly and the crickets.

510
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Speaker 2: Lawrence, Well, thirty years old and what are we doing here?

511
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Speaker 2: I don't remember this right? Every day?

512
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Speaker 3: Twenty five the Carolina Panthers.

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Speaker 2: That's the first respectable team. Yeah, I don't win a lot.

514
00:23:37,040 --> 00:23:39,080
Speaker 2: They don't win a lot, but they're I'm kind of

515
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Speaker 2: in it, into it.

516
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Speaker 3: Although they weren't last week they got smoked.

517
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Speaker 2: They did. Twenty four the Bears. I guess they're the

518
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Speaker 2: best yet, but they're pretty miserable.

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Speaker 3: At twenty three, you finally have the Saints.

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Speaker 2: That's wrong, Yeah, that's right. Wrong. I mean, watch the

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Speaker 2: Packer game two weeks ago. It was the worst performance

522
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Speaker 2: any team that all year.

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Speaker 3: Well, Darren Rizzy, this week is trying to go four

524
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Speaker 3: and four as the interim coach.

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Speaker 2: I get that they have some wins in the second

526
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Speaker 2: half of the season. Yeah, I mean, I guess that's

527
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Speaker 2: the argument that was.

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Speaker 3: When they had a quarterback right now, the car might

529
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Speaker 3: be back this week. We'll see, and that might make it.

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Speaker 2: Their lave mic those the weapons are terrible to Oh,

531
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Speaker 2: they're awful. Yeah, yeah, but without Kamara and yeah.

532
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Speaker 3: At twenty two are the Colts Welcome to the club boys.

533
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Speaker 3: That's they didn't move at all. Yeah, but that's where

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Speaker 3: they're at. They lost to the Giants this week with

535
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Speaker 3: a playoff spot on the line.

536
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Speaker 2: So we always do. We just started doing that when

537
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Speaker 2: a team gets officially eliminated, we just do like a

538
00:24:38,880 --> 00:24:41,000
Speaker 2: whole segment on them, and today was the Colts, and

539
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Speaker 2: I stole your Field's idea of what I do. But

540
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Speaker 2: I think coaching staff is a problem. Defensive staff, it's

541
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Speaker 2: a real problem. And I think they're the only team

542
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Speaker 2: we got eliminated this week, like truly eliminated. Cardinals were

543
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Speaker 2: already eliminated. I'm pretty sure we just kind of scanned

544
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Speaker 2: my head real quick, and there's going when I could

545
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Speaker 2: come up with it's the only one.

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Speaker 3: They're only one in the AFC. Somebody else had already

547
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Speaker 3: been a limit alive.

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Speaker 2: Yeah right. Uh.

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Speaker 3: At twenty one down a spot the Cowboys, they're in

550
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Speaker 3: the same tier, they're both no c I mean there

551
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Speaker 3: now it's over. Yeah, they put up a fight for

552
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Speaker 3: a while. At twenty up a spot the forty nine ers. Well,

553
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Speaker 3: I don't know to bump the forty nine ers up

554
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Speaker 3: a spot in the Cowboys down a spot.

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Speaker 2: I left them right where they were at. Niners were

556
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Speaker 2: good last night, though, I mean, you can make a kick.

557
00:25:29,640 --> 00:25:32,840
Speaker 2: They lost by six the two mixed kicks that and

558
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Speaker 2: two interceptions for the differences interception.

559
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Speaker 3: Yeah, don't throw interceptions and miskicks do happen you don't

560
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Speaker 3: have a good kicker.

561
00:25:40,680 --> 00:25:44,800
Speaker 2: Yeah, but that was against the Lions kick not Lions defenses. Oh,

562
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Speaker 2: it's atrocious. I don't think they can go through the

563
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Speaker 2: playoffs with that. Tea No, no, no, I agree.

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Speaker 3: Nineteen is the Cardinals, fine, Eighteen the Dolphins. Dolphins better

565
00:26:01,480 --> 00:26:05,480
Speaker 3: than the Cardinals, probably probably, assuming who is in there. Yeah,

566
00:26:06,520 --> 00:26:09,080
Speaker 3: seventeen down two spots are the Falcons.

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Speaker 2: Pennix is interesting in that we all want to get

568
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Speaker 2: excited about him and I think there should be excitement

569
00:26:18,119 --> 00:26:21,679
Speaker 2: about him. He's only played two games. But if you

570
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Speaker 2: watch that game, the broadcasters never mentioned like all the

571
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Speaker 2: open throes he missed. There were a lot, Yeah, and

572
00:26:28,720 --> 00:26:30,959
Speaker 2: there was. You know, deep ball doesn't have a lot

573
00:26:31,000 --> 00:26:33,320
Speaker 2: of arc on it yet or maybe ever. You know,

574
00:26:33,400 --> 00:26:35,879
Speaker 2: like it's not like, oh we got another one, that's

575
00:26:36,119 --> 00:26:37,000
Speaker 2: the next coming.

576
00:26:37,160 --> 00:26:39,960
Speaker 3: Not a perfect situation. He's just better than Kirk Cousins.

577
00:26:40,280 --> 00:26:41,640
Speaker 2: And the move should have been made a month ago.

578
00:26:41,760 --> 00:26:45,520
Speaker 3: Which if you're watching that game, they kept talking about.

579
00:26:46,280 --> 00:26:48,240
Speaker 3: I can't remember which game it was because I watched

580
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Speaker 3: a thousand games last year.

581
00:26:49,680 --> 00:26:50,560
Speaker 2: It was against Washington.

582
00:26:50,600 --> 00:26:52,280
Speaker 3: It was a fun Yeah, but I've watched a bunch

583
00:26:52,320 --> 00:26:54,359
Speaker 3: of different games, and somebody was talking about, you know,

584
00:26:54,359 --> 00:26:56,360
Speaker 3: all the quarterbacks that are going to be out there,

585
00:26:56,600 --> 00:26:59,520
Speaker 3: maybe this team signs Kirk Cousins. Who in their right

586
00:26:59,560 --> 00:27:02,480
Speaker 3: mind would want to sign Kirk Cousins based off of

587
00:27:02,480 --> 00:27:03,840
Speaker 3: what he put on the field this year.

588
00:27:03,920 --> 00:27:06,240
Speaker 2: Yeah, after people are like, oh, some might trade for.

589
00:27:06,240 --> 00:27:11,359
Speaker 3: Him, No way, there's no you that contract it's like

590
00:27:11,440 --> 00:27:12,639
Speaker 3: almost fully guaranteed.

591
00:27:12,920 --> 00:27:17,000
Speaker 2: It's a ridiculous deal, right, Could he get the Wilson

592
00:27:17,040 --> 00:27:20,879
Speaker 2: deal next year? If he gets cut. He's got a

593
00:27:20,920 --> 00:27:21,119
Speaker 2: lot of.

594
00:27:21,080 --> 00:27:23,640
Speaker 3: Guaranteed money potentially if you didn't have to pay him.

595
00:27:23,720 --> 00:27:26,239
Speaker 3: That's what I mean, if you make more sense than

596
00:27:26,320 --> 00:27:29,120
Speaker 3: bringing him in and hoping he's the savior, right because

597
00:27:29,119 --> 00:27:30,800
Speaker 3: you're paying him a bunch of money, because that's not

598
00:27:30,840 --> 00:27:31,680
Speaker 3: who he is at this point.

599
00:27:31,760 --> 00:27:35,320
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm thinking the team that drafts Should or Sanders

600
00:27:35,520 --> 00:27:38,960
Speaker 2: also has cousin he becomes the big brother mentor type

601
00:27:39,000 --> 00:27:39,840
Speaker 2: and a million a year.

602
00:27:39,960 --> 00:27:43,640
Speaker 3: Speaking of which, somebody on the message board today said,

603
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Speaker 3: I'm going to remember your your Should Door Sanders take.

604
00:27:47,760 --> 00:27:49,960
Speaker 3: First of all, I don't give takes. I give my opinion.

605
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Speaker 3: I'm not twelve, I don't work for this the state,

606
00:27:54,000 --> 00:27:56,280
Speaker 3: the station across town. These are not takes. I'm not

607
00:27:56,320 --> 00:27:58,760
Speaker 3: giving you a hot take. These are my opinions. I

608
00:27:58,800 --> 00:28:01,840
Speaker 3: don't know that Should Sanders, from what I have seen,

609
00:28:01,920 --> 00:28:04,040
Speaker 3: is going to be a good NFL quarterback. If his

610
00:28:04,160 --> 00:28:07,359
Speaker 3: name were Lally Orster Door Williamson, I don't know that

611
00:28:07,359 --> 00:28:09,040
Speaker 3: people will be talking about him as being the top

612
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Speaker 3: pick in this draft.

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Speaker 2: I was going they my kid should Yeah right. Yeah,

614
00:28:13,040 --> 00:28:14,800
Speaker 2: I don't know enough about him, but I'm not blown away.

615
00:28:14,800 --> 00:28:16,000
Speaker 2: At the point, I'm not blown away.

616
00:28:16,000 --> 00:28:18,760
Speaker 3: I see a lot of sideways passes accurate.

617
00:28:18,840 --> 00:28:20,879
Speaker 2: But I think also the one thing about him that

618
00:28:20,920 --> 00:28:24,320
Speaker 2: I have noticed is because his last name isn't Lawlier Williams,

619
00:28:24,359 --> 00:28:26,480
Speaker 2: and they think he's a really good athlete and he's not.

620
00:28:26,760 --> 00:28:31,240
Speaker 2: He's more to attack of Vailoa than he is. Yeah,

621
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Speaker 2: Jayden and Daniel. He got a little bit of mommy's

622
00:28:33,080 --> 00:28:35,720
Speaker 2: jeans from athleticism. Apparently not all dads, because Dad was

623
00:28:35,760 --> 00:28:40,440
Speaker 2: like the best athlete I've ever heard. And again I'm

624
00:28:40,440 --> 00:28:43,000
Speaker 2: not saying he might be great. I have studied.

625
00:28:43,160 --> 00:28:45,680
Speaker 3: Depending where he lands, yeah, I think he's going to

626
00:28:45,680 --> 00:28:47,479
Speaker 3: be a systems quarterback in the NFL.

627
00:28:47,720 --> 00:28:50,600
Speaker 2: But for the turn of the new year, where I

628
00:28:50,640 --> 00:28:54,280
Speaker 2: always am in draft prospects, usually the top quarterback I

629
00:28:54,360 --> 00:28:55,360
Speaker 2: like a lot better than this guy.

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Speaker 3: I would not take him number one overall. That's just

631
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Speaker 3: me me putting that out there on December thirty.

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Speaker 2: Fast.

633
00:29:02,560 --> 00:29:04,920
Speaker 3: I haven't studied this. I haven't looked at all the

634
00:29:05,000 --> 00:29:07,200
Speaker 3: tape and you know, seen all that stuff. I haven't

635
00:29:07,720 --> 00:29:08,240
Speaker 3: seen any.

636
00:29:08,280 --> 00:29:09,640
Speaker 2: Very very early for draft takes.

637
00:29:09,800 --> 00:29:13,560
Speaker 3: I like cam word better. I get that's better arm anyways.

638
00:29:13,600 --> 00:29:14,440
Speaker 2: But anyway, so.

639
00:29:16,960 --> 00:29:20,000
Speaker 3: At sixteen up a spot the Seattle Seahawks.

640
00:29:21,600 --> 00:29:22,760
Speaker 2: I think they're the best team yet.

641
00:29:23,720 --> 00:29:26,800
Speaker 3: Yeah, and may not get in.

642
00:29:26,960 --> 00:29:30,840
Speaker 2: May not get in successful year though, I would say,

643
00:29:30,880 --> 00:29:32,520
Speaker 2: I would say, I mean, consider it's a whole new

644
00:29:32,520 --> 00:29:37,239
Speaker 2: coaching staff, bring back Geno, add to it. You get

645
00:29:37,320 --> 00:29:38,640
Speaker 2: some lineman where you're at.

646
00:29:38,720 --> 00:29:41,280
Speaker 3: If they don't get in, they can point directly to

647
00:29:43,080 --> 00:29:45,160
Speaker 3: losing to the Giants at home in Week five.

648
00:29:46,200 --> 00:29:49,640
Speaker 2: Oo. I mean every team has one of those give

649
00:29:49,720 --> 00:29:51,040
Speaker 2: or tape, but that's at the bottom all.

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00:29:51,080 --> 00:29:53,360
Speaker 3: I thought, Mike tom Lomley coach those games. You only

651
00:29:53,400 --> 00:29:54,000
Speaker 3: lose games that.

652
00:29:54,000 --> 00:29:57,880
Speaker 2: You're supposed to win. Yeah, because underdogs never win. Yeah,

653
00:29:58,560 --> 00:30:00,800
Speaker 2: that's a bad one. The Seahawks lost the Giants at

654
00:30:00,800 --> 00:30:05,160
Speaker 2: home at home. See that as hard place to play,

655
00:30:05,160 --> 00:30:07,400
Speaker 2: as people think. Not what the Houston records.

656
00:30:07,440 --> 00:30:13,480
Speaker 3: At fifteen up a spot the Bengals, Yeah.

657
00:30:13,240 --> 00:30:14,960
Speaker 2: That's proper. I bet a lot of people would have

658
00:30:14,960 --> 00:30:18,800
Speaker 2: them higher because the win streak. There's still an even

659
00:30:18,840 --> 00:30:21,360
Speaker 2: steven bad defense the road team.

660
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Speaker 3: Yeah, at fourteen, down a spot the Houston Texans.

661
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Speaker 2: Who's better of those two today?

662
00:30:31,000 --> 00:30:32,800
Speaker 3: I'd still take the Texans over the Bengals.

663
00:30:34,160 --> 00:30:37,000
Speaker 2: There are more complete defense is quite good. It's much

664
00:30:37,000 --> 00:30:40,240
Speaker 2: better than Cincinnati's not not even close. And I think

665
00:30:40,400 --> 00:30:43,640
Speaker 2: Joe Mixon would run all over that Cincinnati defense because

666
00:30:43,640 --> 00:30:47,560
Speaker 2: he would be highly motivated to do so. Yeah, I

667
00:30:47,560 --> 00:30:50,240
Speaker 2: don't think the Texans offense is as broken as the

668
00:30:50,280 --> 00:30:51,320
Speaker 2: Bengals defense.

669
00:30:51,520 --> 00:30:55,320
Speaker 3: Yeah, Bengals defense is bad. Yeah, they said last week

670
00:30:55,360 --> 00:30:58,480
Speaker 3: the Bengals defense, if we're if we're putting sixty two

671
00:30:58,600 --> 00:31:02,360
Speaker 3: units out there, four units out there, it's in the

672
00:31:02,360 --> 00:31:03,960
Speaker 3: bottom four or five.

673
00:31:04,240 --> 00:31:07,600
Speaker 2: I definitely thought so. The second the whistle blue after

674
00:31:07,600 --> 00:31:10,560
Speaker 2: the Steelers win, I think it's gotten a little better.

675
00:31:10,600 --> 00:31:12,920
Speaker 2: They've taken the ball away and they got me say,

676
00:31:12,920 --> 00:31:15,440
Speaker 2: at least they've saved their butts a little bit.

677
00:31:15,760 --> 00:31:17,800
Speaker 3: They just they finally figured out. As I was watching

678
00:31:17,800 --> 00:31:21,160
Speaker 3: the game the other night, I'm like, oh, they finally

679
00:31:21,200 --> 00:31:24,160
Speaker 3: figured out, Hey, let's not have Mike Hilton cover somebody.

680
00:31:24,400 --> 00:31:27,160
Speaker 3: Let's have him blitz on every every play because that's

681
00:31:27,160 --> 00:31:29,520
Speaker 3: what he does better best, because he doesn't cover anybody,

682
00:31:29,640 --> 00:31:31,840
Speaker 3: not that he doesn't cover anybody, but he's not great

683
00:31:31,840 --> 00:31:33,720
Speaker 3: in coverage. But we're gonna blitz him because he's really

684
00:31:33,760 --> 00:31:34,120
Speaker 3: good at that.

685
00:31:34,920 --> 00:31:38,480
Speaker 2: So my dad just sent us a text. Yes, said,

686
00:31:39,040 --> 00:31:41,640
Speaker 2: Mom pushed me to name you should do or in

687
00:31:41,680 --> 00:31:47,760
Speaker 2: a weak moment, I almost gave in. Glad didn't Dad,

688
00:31:48,840 --> 00:31:49,840
Speaker 2: Happy new your buddy.

689
00:31:50,920 --> 00:31:52,720
Speaker 3: I've already told you what you should have named your

690
00:31:52,840 --> 00:31:55,680
Speaker 3: your your son, Michael should what his middle name should

691
00:31:55,680 --> 00:31:55,920
Speaker 3: have been.

692
00:31:55,960 --> 00:31:58,600
Speaker 2: But not all this on the air for on the air.

693
00:31:58,680 --> 00:31:59,800
Speaker 2: Yeah stories uh.

694
00:32:00,160 --> 00:32:03,760
Speaker 3: At thirteen, down two spots the Denver Broncos.

695
00:32:04,560 --> 00:32:06,840
Speaker 2: I'm cool with that. They're hard to play against. Yeah,

696
00:32:06,920 --> 00:32:08,600
Speaker 2: they have a good defense, they can run the ball,

697
00:32:08,720 --> 00:32:13,600
Speaker 2: really good O line. At twelve holding steady the Rams.

698
00:32:14,680 --> 00:32:17,200
Speaker 2: I put the Rams over the Broncos. Yeah, quarterback.

699
00:32:17,480 --> 00:32:24,840
Speaker 3: Yeah. At eleven, up three spots, Tampa Bay.

700
00:32:25,640 --> 00:32:29,120
Speaker 2: Baker has been really good and they can run the ball.

701
00:32:29,120 --> 00:32:31,000
Speaker 2: They can run the ball, they have an O line,

702
00:32:31,320 --> 00:32:35,120
Speaker 2: they have enough weapons. The defense isn't great, No, it's not,

703
00:32:35,280 --> 00:32:38,960
Speaker 2: but neither is the Rams. Right, and he'll scheme things up.

704
00:32:40,160 --> 00:32:42,680
Speaker 2: Those three are pretty similar to me. Yeah, in terms

705
00:32:42,720 --> 00:32:43,480
Speaker 2: of power ranking.

706
00:32:44,720 --> 00:32:47,840
Speaker 3: At ten, down a spot, the Steelers.

707
00:32:48,840 --> 00:32:49,320
Speaker 2: I get it.

708
00:32:49,920 --> 00:32:51,640
Speaker 3: I get it, but I don't agree with it.

709
00:32:52,200 --> 00:32:53,160
Speaker 2: So who's next?

710
00:32:53,720 --> 00:32:57,040
Speaker 3: I would still have them ahead of the Chargers.

711
00:32:57,240 --> 00:33:02,440
Speaker 2: Yeah. It's funny because it wasn't malicious, believe it or not.

712
00:33:03,000 --> 00:33:06,720
Speaker 2: That after the Chargers game on Saturday, I got a

713
00:33:07,440 --> 00:33:11,040
Speaker 2: nicely worded tweet basically saying, I think the Chargers are

714
00:33:11,880 --> 00:33:14,880
Speaker 2: more buttoned up, better shape than the Steelers. And I

715
00:33:14,920 --> 00:33:19,280
Speaker 2: understand that take, and especially after watching those games on Christmas,

716
00:33:19,320 --> 00:33:22,840
Speaker 2: and then again it's a little recency bias, and my

717
00:33:22,920 --> 00:33:27,600
Speaker 2: answer was, I don't disagree, but look at the level

718
00:33:27,640 --> 00:33:30,800
Speaker 2: of opponents, correct, Like, I don't think the Chargers will

719
00:33:30,840 --> 00:33:31,880
Speaker 2: looked like that against.

720
00:33:31,600 --> 00:33:33,520
Speaker 3: They're not out there, They're not out there beating the

721
00:33:33,840 --> 00:33:34,760
Speaker 3: snot out of good team.

722
00:33:35,000 --> 00:33:37,360
Speaker 2: No, I mean they beat a horrendous team this past week.

723
00:33:37,680 --> 00:33:41,080
Speaker 3: Their wins are over the Raiders. The Panthers lost to

724
00:33:41,120 --> 00:33:43,600
Speaker 3: the Steelers twenty to ten with Justin Fields at quarterback.

725
00:33:44,080 --> 00:33:47,920
Speaker 3: Lost to the Chiefs. Bye, beat the Broncos twice. Good

726
00:33:47,960 --> 00:33:50,320
Speaker 3: for them, Yeah, that's great. Lost of the Cardinals.

727
00:33:50,360 --> 00:33:53,360
Speaker 2: That's kind of their signature moment season. Denver wins over

728
00:33:53,120 --> 00:33:55,360
Speaker 2: the Broncos. Yeah, lost of the Cardinals.

729
00:33:56,920 --> 00:34:04,800
Speaker 3: Beat the Saints, beat the beat the Titans, beat the Bengals, Okay,

730
00:34:05,880 --> 00:34:11,080
Speaker 3: lost to the Ravens, beat the Falcons, lost to Kansas City,

731
00:34:12,239 --> 00:34:15,680
Speaker 3: got crushed by Tampa Bay. Yeah that was in Week fifteen.

732
00:34:15,719 --> 00:34:18,320
Speaker 3: That's not that long ago. That was forty to seventeen.

733
00:34:19,640 --> 00:34:21,800
Speaker 3: Beat the Broncos, and then they beat the Patriots, and

734
00:34:21,800 --> 00:34:22,680
Speaker 3: you're gonna move them up.

735
00:34:22,840 --> 00:34:25,799
Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean the Patriot thing is that I don't care.

736
00:34:25,840 --> 00:34:26,640
Speaker 2: It was a non competitor.

737
00:34:26,719 --> 00:34:28,560
Speaker 3: You beat this, you beat the Patriots forty to seven,

738
00:34:28,600 --> 00:34:30,720
Speaker 3: You should beat the Patriots forty to seven. It shouldn't

739
00:34:30,719 --> 00:34:32,080
Speaker 3: be it shouldn't be a contest.

740
00:34:32,280 --> 00:34:34,040
Speaker 2: I would have the Steelers ahead of the Chargers, but

741
00:34:34,080 --> 00:34:36,520
Speaker 2: they're in the same neighborhood today.

742
00:34:37,160 --> 00:34:38,640
Speaker 3: At nine, he has the Chargers.

743
00:34:38,680 --> 00:34:41,680
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, at.

744
00:34:41,560 --> 00:34:43,400
Speaker 3: Eight the Commanders.

745
00:34:44,360 --> 00:34:45,160
Speaker 2: That's a little rich.

746
00:34:45,280 --> 00:34:47,640
Speaker 3: I think the Steelers are a better team than.

747
00:34:47,320 --> 00:34:50,959
Speaker 2: The Chargers are a better team than Commanders. Yeah, little

748
00:34:51,040 --> 00:34:59,040
Speaker 2: Rich who was right behind the Steelers Tampa Bay. I

749
00:34:59,040 --> 00:35:02,840
Speaker 2: would have the Commanders every time. But yeah, I'm not

750
00:35:02,920 --> 00:35:05,239
Speaker 2: sold on Washington's defense either. No, I'm not either.

751
00:35:05,280 --> 00:35:10,839
Speaker 3: I think it's it's a year troublesome, Yeah, troublesome. At

752
00:35:10,880 --> 00:35:12,680
Speaker 3: seven down a spot is Green Bay.

753
00:35:13,960 --> 00:35:17,200
Speaker 2: They should be falling a little bit, though. The six

754
00:35:17,280 --> 00:35:18,719
Speaker 2: ahead of them are clearly ahead of them.

755
00:35:18,760 --> 00:35:20,799
Speaker 3: I think I think the Steelers and Packers are on

756
00:35:20,880 --> 00:35:22,600
Speaker 3: the same level.

757
00:35:22,760 --> 00:35:24,839
Speaker 2: I do too, And it's all said and done, I'd

758
00:35:24,840 --> 00:35:28,960
Speaker 2: probably take them both ahead of Washington and the Charger. Yes. Yeah.

759
00:35:29,040 --> 00:35:31,200
Speaker 3: The only difference between the only difference to me between

760
00:35:31,239 --> 00:35:33,440
Speaker 3: the Steelers and Packers right now is that the Steelers

761
00:35:33,480 --> 00:35:38,000
Speaker 3: have a quote unquote signature win over the Ravens. The

762
00:35:38,000 --> 00:35:39,319
Speaker 3: Packers don't have one of those.

763
00:35:39,560 --> 00:35:42,879
Speaker 2: No, No, they're they're their best in drive.

764
00:35:42,960 --> 00:35:46,200
Speaker 3: Their best win is kind of Seattle, is it?

765
00:35:46,719 --> 00:35:49,279
Speaker 2: Yeah? I mean I know They're five losses are very

766
00:35:49,320 --> 00:35:52,120
Speaker 2: respectable losses, yeah in one of them. Yeah, you're allowed

767
00:35:52,160 --> 00:35:53,680
Speaker 2: to win one of the team. You know.

768
00:35:53,680 --> 00:35:55,560
Speaker 3: You start looking at the Steelers and like they're five

769
00:35:55,600 --> 00:35:59,160
Speaker 3: and three against playoff teams right now, and the Packers

770
00:35:59,160 --> 00:36:02,120
Speaker 3: don't match up quite as well in that regard. Here

771
00:36:03,960 --> 00:36:05,719
Speaker 3: at six up a spot is Baltimore.

772
00:36:07,360 --> 00:36:09,640
Speaker 2: I might have them higher, but I understand the teams

773
00:36:09,640 --> 00:36:10,359
Speaker 2: ahead of them are good.

774
00:36:10,600 --> 00:36:12,279
Speaker 3: Five down the spot is Philadelphia.

775
00:36:12,400 --> 00:36:14,880
Speaker 2: I think you still have to have Philadelphia ahead of Baltimore.

776
00:36:15,360 --> 00:36:17,520
Speaker 3: They played They played them like three weeks ago, and

777
00:36:17,719 --> 00:36:18,840
Speaker 3: I would meet them hand.

778
00:36:18,680 --> 00:36:21,160
Speaker 2: Philly as if pickets a quarterback. I would rank them

779
00:36:21,160 --> 00:36:23,279
Speaker 2: as Hurts. Hurts should be back. Yeah yeah.

780
00:36:25,160 --> 00:36:25,279
Speaker 1: Uh.

781
00:36:25,440 --> 00:36:30,040
Speaker 3: At four up a spot is Minnesota, Okay, and I've

782
00:36:30,040 --> 00:36:33,480
Speaker 3: been slow on Minnesota the four fourteen and two is

783
00:36:33,480 --> 00:36:34,200
Speaker 3: fourteen and two.

784
00:36:34,760 --> 00:36:37,400
Speaker 2: I might have all three of them ahead of Lions.

785
00:36:38,320 --> 00:36:40,480
Speaker 2: Lions defense might be the weakest unit of the top

786
00:36:40,520 --> 00:36:43,239
Speaker 2: six teams. Now. Their offense is near the top.

787
00:36:43,480 --> 00:36:45,760
Speaker 3: Yeah, it might be number one, might be number one.

788
00:36:46,000 --> 00:36:48,480
Speaker 2: But that defense to me is concerning. Yeah, it's it's

789
00:36:48,520 --> 00:36:50,560
Speaker 2: definitely troublesome. Yeah. Uh.

790
00:36:50,640 --> 00:36:52,440
Speaker 3: At three, Holding Steady are the Lions.

791
00:36:53,280 --> 00:36:55,320
Speaker 2: They've had a great year. I'm not trying to crush

792
00:36:55,360 --> 00:36:57,440
Speaker 2: the Lions, but I don't love where they're at. I

793
00:36:57,440 --> 00:36:57,959
Speaker 2: don't either.

794
00:36:58,880 --> 00:37:02,479
Speaker 3: At two, Holding Steady is Buffalo and then Kansas City

795
00:37:02,520 --> 00:37:03,080
Speaker 3: is number one.

796
00:37:04,040 --> 00:37:08,279
Speaker 2: Okay, top six are pretty clear, and really the order

797
00:37:08,640 --> 00:37:11,279
Speaker 2: isn't clear. But the top six to me are the

798
00:37:11,280 --> 00:37:12,160
Speaker 2: best teams in the league.

799
00:37:12,680 --> 00:37:15,560
Speaker 3: Yeah, I would agree with that, Yeah, I would agree

800
00:37:15,600 --> 00:37:18,839
Speaker 3: with that. I just think that Pittsburgh and Green Bay

801
00:37:18,880 --> 00:37:21,359
Speaker 3: are seven and eight kind of on a tier that

802
00:37:21,440 --> 00:37:23,040
Speaker 3: next tier by themselves.

803
00:37:23,560 --> 00:37:24,719
Speaker 2: I tend to agree. Yeah.

804
00:37:24,920 --> 00:37:26,520
Speaker 3: And if there were a team that I thought could

805
00:37:26,600 --> 00:37:28,120
Speaker 3: be on that tier with them, I think it might

806
00:37:28,160 --> 00:37:28,799
Speaker 3: be Tampa Bay.

807
00:37:30,800 --> 00:37:32,399
Speaker 2: I don't know the Chargers can get there. I don't

808
00:37:32,440 --> 00:37:37,480
Speaker 2: know that Washington could get there. Could Houston start playing

809
00:37:37,600 --> 00:37:39,080
Speaker 2: like that? I've been saying that for.

810
00:37:39,080 --> 00:37:41,799
Speaker 3: Like, so I don't think I think that ship has

811
00:37:41,800 --> 00:37:43,839
Speaker 3: sailed for this season. I think they are what they are.

812
00:37:44,400 --> 00:37:45,319
Speaker 3: I said this over and.

813
00:37:45,239 --> 00:37:48,440
Speaker 2: Over after Week fourteen, I'm like, I think Houston and

814
00:37:48,520 --> 00:37:51,120
Speaker 2: Baltimore will get things right after this late by I

815
00:37:51,160 --> 00:37:51,640
Speaker 2: was half right.

816
00:37:51,680 --> 00:37:55,040
Speaker 3: I think the scariest quote unquote wild card teams going

817
00:37:55,040 --> 00:37:57,680
Speaker 3: into this or teams in that first round who aren't

818
00:37:57,719 --> 00:38:02,719
Speaker 3: going to be necessarily the favorites our Pittsburgh, Green Bay

819
00:38:03,160 --> 00:38:05,320
Speaker 3: and Tampa. And Tampa's gonna win their division.

820
00:38:05,320 --> 00:38:07,080
Speaker 2: But yeah, yeah, yeah, but they'll probably be a dog,

821
00:38:07,719 --> 00:38:09,360
Speaker 2: probably because they probably get the Lions.

822
00:38:09,680 --> 00:38:11,680
Speaker 3: They're gonna get Lions or Minnesota, And I would not

823
00:38:11,719 --> 00:38:13,080
Speaker 3: be surprised at all if they won.

824
00:38:12,920 --> 00:38:16,160
Speaker 2: That game at home. Yeah, I could see that.

825
00:38:16,840 --> 00:38:18,320
Speaker 3: I just I don't know a little.

826
00:38:18,080 --> 00:38:19,279
Speaker 2: Bit of a giant killer thing to them.

827
00:38:19,280 --> 00:38:24,600
Speaker 3: I don't know that Denver or the Chargers, Washington, Washington.

828
00:38:25,200 --> 00:38:27,919
Speaker 2: They're all teams that kind of OutKick their coverage. This year. Yeah,

829
00:38:27,920 --> 00:38:29,960
Speaker 2: I don't know that's the year. Even if they're one

830
00:38:30,000 --> 00:38:32,640
Speaker 2: and done building on something.

831
00:38:32,920 --> 00:38:35,239
Speaker 3: I don't know of those go in and pull pull

832
00:38:35,280 --> 00:38:37,000
Speaker 3: on upset in the first round of the playoffs.

833
00:38:37,160 --> 00:38:39,239
Speaker 2: No, I lean that way too, But I think I

834
00:38:39,280 --> 00:38:41,879
Speaker 2: don't think they walk into Baltimore or Buffalo, and.

835
00:38:41,560 --> 00:38:45,080
Speaker 3: I think the Packers, Steelers, and Box could all win

836
00:38:45,160 --> 00:38:46,839
Speaker 3: as underdogs in the opening round.

837
00:38:47,000 --> 00:38:48,680
Speaker 2: The Bucks will be at home. Oh the Steels are

838
00:38:48,680 --> 00:38:52,080
Speaker 2: gonna be a dog. I mean, if it's they're playing

839
00:38:52,120 --> 00:38:53,920
Speaker 2: Houston today, would they be a dog? I don't know.

840
00:38:54,000 --> 00:38:57,200
Speaker 2: I bet not even in their building. Yeah, assuming Pickens

841
00:38:57,200 --> 00:38:59,879
Speaker 2: and Porter and all those guys are playing, right, Yeah,

842
00:39:00,120 --> 00:39:02,319
Speaker 2: I think I think the Steelers are two or three

843
00:39:02,320 --> 00:39:06,080
Speaker 2: point favorites. It could be, could be. And there's people

844
00:39:06,080 --> 00:39:06,640
Speaker 2: screaming at.

845
00:39:06,600 --> 00:39:09,200
Speaker 3: The radio right now, you guys radiots not sure. We're

846
00:39:09,239 --> 00:39:11,319
Speaker 3: just giving our opinion. These aren't hot takes.

847
00:39:12,080 --> 00:39:14,560
Speaker 2: Houston's a problem. If you studied Houston, you'd be really

848
00:39:14,600 --> 00:39:17,719
Speaker 2: frustrated with them. Yeah, because it's not like last year,

849
00:39:17,840 --> 00:39:18,239
Speaker 2: not at all.

850
00:39:18,280 --> 00:39:21,000
Speaker 3: It's a different different team, different team. I mean, they're

851
00:39:21,320 --> 00:39:22,279
Speaker 3: in a bad spot right now.

852
00:39:22,280 --> 00:39:24,919
Speaker 2: Anyways. Their offensive coordinator is not gonna be fielding any

853
00:39:24,920 --> 00:39:25,319
Speaker 2: head coach.

854
00:39:25,400 --> 00:39:27,320
Speaker 3: Don't believe so, nor Iso.

855
00:39:27,600 --> 00:39:31,560
Speaker 2: No. Yeah, the bloom is off those roads anyways.

856
00:39:31,560 --> 00:39:34,600
Speaker 3: He is Matt Williamson. I am Dale Lellye, you're listening

857
00:39:34,640 --> 00:39:37,399
Speaker 3: to the Drive here on the Steelers Audio Network along

858
00:39:37,440 --> 00:39:41,120
Speaker 3: with Matt Stadt. How you doing, Yeah uh, and we're

859
00:39:41,120 --> 00:39:42,359
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860
00:39:42,400 --> 00:39:44,960
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861
00:39:45,000 --> 00:39:48,200
Speaker 3: six pm right here on these very airwaves. We're going

862
00:39:48,280 --> 00:39:51,239
Speaker 3: to continue into the off season. Here will probably take

863
00:39:51,280 --> 00:39:53,799
Speaker 3: you all the way through free agency, five days a week.

864
00:39:53,800 --> 00:39:54,840
Speaker 2: So it's a little good news.

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Speaker 3: Some senle flights they're ready to go, or it will

866
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Speaker 3: be right there in the stadium watching practices and giving

867
00:40:00,560 --> 00:40:02,040
Speaker 3: you the rundown from.

868
00:40:02,640 --> 00:40:05,200
Speaker 2: Really dig into the draft. But that's like, that's not

869
00:40:05,280 --> 00:40:07,600
Speaker 2: after the Steelers get eliminade. That's down the road. Super

870
00:40:07,640 --> 00:40:09,640
Speaker 2: Bowl's done and all that stuff too. But yeah, it

871
00:40:09,760 --> 00:40:11,560
Speaker 2: is a fun next stage of the.

872
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Speaker 3: Development's always fun learning about players. You're like, oh, that

873
00:40:14,480 --> 00:40:17,200
Speaker 3: guy looks ae you. We'll talk about this when we

874
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875
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876
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877
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Speaker 1: and Matt Williamson on your twenty four to seven Home

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Speaker 1: of the Black and Gold cast in Steelers Nation Radio.

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Speaker 3: Welcome back. I am Dale LOLLI he is the Matt

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Speaker 3: Williamson and this is the Drive on the Steelers Audio Network.

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Speaker 3: And one of the things we were just talking about

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Speaker 3: there was the draft process and a lot of times

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Speaker 3: like I'm not a scout, I've never been a scout,

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Speaker 3: but I've covered the game for a long time sure,

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Speaker 3: and covered a lot of Steeler practices and Steeler drafts

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Speaker 3: and talk to people within the organization, and so you

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Speaker 3: get to an understanding of what the team values, yea

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Speaker 3: in the draft process by doing that, what they're looking for,

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Speaker 3: and as a former scout yourself, you have a better

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Speaker 3: understanding of those Well look at him flip his hips.

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Speaker 2: And that kind of stuff.

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Speaker 3: I don't get into it like that, but but.

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Speaker 2: You can always just even looking through a Steeler perspective,

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Speaker 2: like that guy's.

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Speaker 3: Offer that that guy's not going to be yeah right.

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Speaker 2: I mean, even like step two of draft process, there's

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Speaker 2: some guys who could probably start to eliminate already once

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Speaker 2: we start to learn about you know what I mean,

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Speaker 2: Like just a hunch. I'm assuming Austin and Roman Wilson

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Speaker 2: are going to be Steelers next year. Therefore, I'm out

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Speaker 2: on five nine receivers.

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Speaker 3: Right, I don't mean like another and I don't ness

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Speaker 3: necessarily like. One of the things I was thinking he

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Speaker 3: made me think of this is I'm looking I was

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Speaker 3: looking at the top receivers over the weekend as I'm

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Speaker 3: watching football games, and I'm like, oh, this guy just

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Speaker 3: plays the slot. That guy just plays the slot. He's

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Speaker 3: he's been slot on. You got you've got slot.

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Speaker 2: Guys might love him, but we got that. Yeah right, Yeah, So.

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Speaker 3: You're looking more for an outside, physical presence kind of guy,

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Speaker 3: and that's the you know. So I see a lot

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Speaker 3: of mock drafts that come out this time of year,

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Speaker 3: and they just put the players in an order based on, well.

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Speaker 2: This guy's receiver obviously, just give him this five to

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Speaker 2: ten fast guy. Yeah right.

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Speaker 3: So for example, the Missouri receiver, what Burton or Burton?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, And I'm like, yeah, he's a good player, but

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Speaker 3: he's five ten. Does he necessarily fit what they want

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Speaker 3: to do in this offense?

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Speaker 2: Again, I don't know these prospects super well, but I

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Speaker 2: think he kind of has like the Jamar Chase build.

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Speaker 3: Yea to him, he's a bigger guy and so maybe

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Speaker 3: he was a But the other example was the Ohio

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Speaker 3: State receiver whose name I can't pronounce, Bob.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he's been a.

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Speaker 3: Slot receiver his entire college career, right, even though he's

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Speaker 3: six one, two of five, Like, can you play him outside?

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Speaker 2: Maybe? Maybe? I mean that was the conversation with Justin Jefferson, Right,

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Speaker 2: if he proves he could be an outside guy, show

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Speaker 2: that blah blah blah. Then if he can check that box,

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Speaker 2: then yeah, I'm interested. But he's slot only or just

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Speaker 2: a little fast guy. Got enough of them.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, those are things that you look for at the

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Speaker 3: Senior Bowl. To your point, sure that we're looking at.

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Speaker 3: Those are things you look at, you know, if you're

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Speaker 3: watching the East West Shrine practices or those Bowl.

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Speaker 2: Games, even the game tonight. I'm gonna yeah, these these

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Speaker 2: late late games. When I actually watched the whole thing,

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Speaker 2: I always pull up who are the prospects? I at

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Speaker 2: least want to be familiar with them. Yeah, Like a

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Speaker 2: real good example is like along the lines of the

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Speaker 2: steel wide receiver position is if not he's not back,

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Speaker 2: they're not the market for one hundred and ninety punds

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Speaker 2: running bay. No, you know, I mean they have a type.

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Speaker 2: It's gonna be two twenty plus.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, they like bigger backs.

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Speaker 2: Yep. So all these guys on the list, yeah, I'm

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Speaker 2: gonna pay attention to him, but not as much as

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Speaker 2: the ones that are two twenty year bigger. You know.

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Speaker 3: I mean there's in the trends that you know, we

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Speaker 3: we often joke about this that you know, you're you're

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Speaker 3: looking at the stuff and that guy's a Steeler, a

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Speaker 3: raven like because he fits, he's big enough to ride,

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Speaker 3: to ride, yeah yeah, and has a certain demeanor play demeanor. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: oh that guy's That guy looks like a Bengal. You know,

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Speaker 3: you just you learn things about players that prism we.

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Speaker 2: Were watching or you know what the mentioned before that

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Speaker 2: Falcons commander's game and I'm sitting there watching Saintstril like

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Speaker 2: seroucuse that guy, you know, Like, I mean there's a

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Speaker 2: lot of dudes. Of course, you don't get every pick,

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Speaker 2: you know, like boy Brian Thomas, like receiver would have

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Speaker 2: been really nice, or a tough dude slot that can

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Speaker 2: also go outside. Yeah, that'd be really nice. To Gene.

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Speaker 2: You know a lot of guys we liked on draft

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Speaker 2: Day that ended up being exactly what we wanted, but

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Speaker 2: you don't get so many picks.

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Speaker 3: I was kids that when I watched Brian Branch from

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Speaker 3: my car.

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Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, I don't remember your take on them

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Speaker 2: other than he loved them, But I do remember, and

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Speaker 2: people kind of didn't like the sound of it because

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Speaker 2: he's Joey Porter's kid. But when Day two opened and

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Speaker 2: I was asked, who would you take right now with

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Speaker 2: first overall pick and my Branch, I'm pretty happy with Porter,

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Speaker 2: but that would have been my pick of the day,

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Speaker 2: I said on the air, you know, and both would

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Speaker 2: be great.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you'd be in a different place right now. But

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Speaker 3: you're right, they're both really good players.

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Speaker 2: We liked them in the first round. Yeah, we walked

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Speaker 2: them a lot in the first round. Yeah, so I mean, like,

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Speaker 2: Porter be my next pick, but I would take Branch.

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Speaker 2: But they're both right.

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Speaker 3: And I mean, you know, they're you know, I loved

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Speaker 3: her big. You didn't necessarily like her big as much,

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Speaker 3: but I could see why he wouldn't like her. I mean,

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Speaker 3: he does have short arms. Yeah, yeah, he also has

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Speaker 3: a very active.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, pass rusher, and that that position is a good

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Speaker 2: example too. Is I think it's become really apparent that

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Speaker 2: a trait the Steelers, absolutely Covid is get off speed,

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Speaker 2: get off speed. Yeah, absolutely, And he's as good as anyone. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: the first two steps in the ground is going to

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Speaker 2: be really quick. They're gonna be looking at ten yard

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Speaker 2: you know, splits, They're gonna be watching tape of his

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Speaker 2: get off. If they probably won't this year, but next

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Speaker 2: edge guy they take in the top four rounds, I'll

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Speaker 2: bet everything I have he's got a good get off.

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Speaker 3: The other thing is motor like. I don't they don't.

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Speaker 3: I don't think they're real interested in guys who kind

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Speaker 3: of half asset out there.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. I wonder at the D line position in particular,

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Speaker 2: you know, going back to the deg line coaches and

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Speaker 2: many decades, you better run on the ball loafers, Yeah,

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Speaker 2: you better run to the ball ninety seven is and

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Speaker 2: be cool with a loafer first round pick in know,

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Speaker 2: no way, no right, so or they're gonna whip it

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Speaker 2: out of you.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, so there's some of that. Anyways, that's

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Speaker 3: gonna do it for today's show. So for my partner

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Speaker 3: Matt Williamson for Justin Miller here on site Ryan Miller

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Speaker 3: Hotline and you can call Justin also on kiss and

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Speaker 3: you know there you go get some stuff on there.

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Speaker 3: Tyler viitt Meyer here making sure our video gets out

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Speaker 3: onto YouTube and you'll be able to see that here

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Speaker 3: later tonight. Hope Tyler's not working too late tonight to

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Speaker 3: get that up. I am Dale safe to everyone. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: be safe. We'll talk to you next year. No show tomorrow.

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Speaker 3: We're going to take the day off. The Steelers won't.

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Speaker 3: I'll be down there covering practice. So there's that. But

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Speaker 3: we thank you for listening to this edition of the

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