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Speaker 1: Your tunes about drive on Home of the Black and

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Speaker 1: Goal Steelers Nation Radio Back. I'm Dale Ali here with

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Speaker 1: Williamson Matt. I know there was a lot of finn

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Speaker 1: angst and displeasured um and it has been over these

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Speaker 1: Steelers coordinator position, especially particularly offensive. They need to fire

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Speaker 1: this guy, fire that guy. This situation with the Indianapolis Colts,

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Speaker 1: to me shows you why you should appreciate the way

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Speaker 1: the Steelers handle these things. Yes, I hadn't go on

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Speaker 1: a lot of levels. Here's a situation with the Colts.

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Speaker 1: So they bring in Jeff Saturday to be their new

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Speaker 1: the new head coach, somebody who's not He didn't hire

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Speaker 1: a single guy in the staff. He's never put a headset,

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Speaker 1: never put ahead said. I never stood on the sidelines

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Speaker 1: and had who's calling? He plays for these guys. I

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Speaker 1: guess they fired. The offense's coordinator got fired fired last week. Gone.

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Speaker 1: The only guy, the only guy on staff I believe

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Speaker 1: who has actually ever called plays before Scotty Montgomery, who

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Speaker 1: used to be the wide receiver's coach here. He called

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Speaker 1: plays for a couple of years at Duke. Okay, yeah

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Speaker 1: out scheme, Yeah, alright, this is so you're bringing in

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Speaker 1: with yeah, okay, this is gonna be a disaster. It's

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Speaker 1: gonna be a disaster. Is this really what you want?

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Speaker 1: You know, if you're look at the again, the the

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Speaker 1: the Carolina Panthers today fired two more defensive assistance this

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Speaker 1: is you know, again the interim head coach is going, Okay,

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Speaker 1: we can't we can't move forward with these two guys anymore.

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Speaker 1: They fired their defensive line coach and her secondary coach.

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Speaker 1: Pepper might end up being a great owner in Carolina.

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Speaker 1: He's sure good with hedge funds from what I understand,

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Speaker 1: which isn't the same. Yeah, but don't right, Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: mean he has a lot of money. He can do

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Speaker 1: what ever he want with it, as can the family.

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Speaker 1: I think so much of this is ownership, though without

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Speaker 1: a doubt. I mean they are the probably the two

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Speaker 1: most reactive owners or volatile owners in the well's Cleveland's

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Speaker 1: not far behind. I mean, there's guys like Washington that

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Speaker 1: I mean, don't get me wrong. I mean that's not

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Speaker 1: an exclusive club. But stability, which is one of the

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Speaker 1: things people I don't say criticize about the Steelers but

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Speaker 1: frustrates them. Oh they're they're they're they're too slow moving.

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Speaker 1: That's not a bad thing, folks, you know what I mean.

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Speaker 1: It's not just oh we'll go from rivers to this quarterback.

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Speaker 1: Just put your finger in the air and feel which

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Speaker 1: way the winds blowing. Oh, we're gonna do this today,

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Speaker 1: and then it's blowing the other way tomorrow. Oh, now

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Speaker 1: we're gonna do this now, and I'm gonna sell the

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Speaker 1: stock and buy this stock form my hedge fund. You know,

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Speaker 1: like it doesn't really work that way. There's people involved,

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Speaker 1: you know. Um as for Saturday. So we were on

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Speaker 1: the air today when the news broke, and I was like,

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Speaker 1: whoa stop, we gotta talk about this. This This is crazy,

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Speaker 1: you know. So I thought about organically and just crushed it.

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Speaker 1: I'm like, this is the craziest thing I've ever heard.

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Speaker 1: And then I thought about him, like, if is there

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Speaker 1: anyway this is defensible? And I thought, Okay, the owner

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Speaker 1: loves Saturday, respects him as a football mind. Who's good center,

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Speaker 1: um whatever that's worth. So maybe he's just the guy

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Speaker 1: that's coming in and going to tell the owner, Boy,

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Speaker 1: you're running back coach is really good. Your linebacker coach

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Speaker 1: is really good. I'd get rid of this guy, and

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Speaker 1: he's just like a spy. This is akin to the

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Speaker 1: Steelers Art Rooney coming in and firing Mike Tomlin tomorrow

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Speaker 1: and then hiring Marquise Pounce to beat exactly what are

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Speaker 1: you doing today? I heard you coach some high school

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Speaker 1: a little bit on the side. It's nuts, It's not

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Speaker 1: it's crazy. This is not what you want for your

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Speaker 1: for your franchise. This is not how you want a

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Speaker 1: billion dollar entity that has millions of fans. This is

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Speaker 1: not how you want to run your that business, that

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Speaker 1: Quentin Nelson and the Forest Buckner and Darius Leonard and

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Speaker 1: be like, this is the plan. Cool? You know this guy,

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Speaker 1: how's he gonna I mean again, who's gonna call the play?

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Speaker 1: How is he gonna handle, you know, doing head coach

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Speaker 1: how that stuff work. Yeah, oh wait, I got a challenge?

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Speaker 1: Is so right? And some guy just met told me

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Speaker 1: you know, I might actually watch that. I don't even

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Speaker 1: know who the Colts played next week, but I'm taking them. Yes, yes, yes, yes,

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Speaker 1: And the Colts aren't even a bad players. This is

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Speaker 1: a franchise that two years ago and even last year

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Speaker 1: So I know when we're not here to talk about Colts,

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Speaker 1: and we're not gonna spend the whole show talking Colts.

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Speaker 1: But if you were them, would you go to the

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Speaker 1: first round pick quarterback? But by the time he's good,

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Speaker 1: is Taylor and Buckner and those guys still good? Or

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Speaker 1: do you define what insanity is and try it again

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Speaker 1: and trade for Derek Carr. Well, the GM's still Chris

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Speaker 1: go get Derek Carr. They'll go Jimmy trade for Aaron

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Speaker 1: do this again and then draft the left tackle you know,

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Speaker 1: which I don't think the worst plan I've ever heard,

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Speaker 1: but they do it every year every year. You can't

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Speaker 1: have a different starting quarterback over here. You have to

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Speaker 1: have organizational stability exactly to win. It's what the What's

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Speaker 1: what the Cincinnati Bengals finally figured out when they stuck

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Speaker 1: with Marvin Lewis all those years. Yes, you're going to

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Speaker 1: have up ears and down years. There's going to be

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Speaker 1: variation because that's the way the league. It's the way

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Speaker 1: the league set up. When you win a bunch of games,

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Speaker 1: you win lot, you get lower draft picks. Like last

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Speaker 1: night's game is a perfect example. Rabel is one of

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Speaker 1: those guys. Now, if that's Joe average new coach, they

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Speaker 1: lose by a hundred, looks by a hundred. I mean,

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Speaker 1: consistently win games in this league, and you stick with them,

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Speaker 1: so they all have their words. Of course they do.

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Speaker 1: Look what Pete Carroll's doing in Seattle. They shouldn't be

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Speaker 1: more quick Colts note that I think will be the

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Speaker 1: where's all their money. It's a guard, defensive tackle, lineback,

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Speaker 1: or nickel corner, running back, like all the cheap positions.

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Speaker 1: You're like, I do kind of like the roster, but

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Speaker 1: they're great at their place. They beat the Bengals in

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Speaker 1: Week one. They lose the Patriots in Week two by two.

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Speaker 1: And by the way, I don't love the argument of

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Speaker 1: well they got lucky because the long snapper got hurt. Well,

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Speaker 1: there's been a lot more things like that that have

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Speaker 1: And I think they were the better team that day too.

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Speaker 1: They were the better team completely. They lose the Patriots

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Speaker 1: You lose the Jets by four, You beat the Bucks

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Speaker 1: by two, you lose to the Dolphins by six. All

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Speaker 1: these one score games. Bad coaches lose those games by

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Speaker 1: a lot. You see that across the league. And this

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Speaker 1: Outsiders guide for next year is gonna say, well, Mike

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Speaker 1: Tomlin has a better than average track record of winning

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Speaker 1: It wasn't his year for one score games, but he's

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Speaker 1: got a huge body of work that he usually beats

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Speaker 1: the Seahawks. I just read something about them today. They've

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Speaker 1: of them. That's not going to keep up. Even the Eagles,

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Speaker 1: by far the best turnover differential in the league. Well,

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Speaker 1: lose that game. Although that was the late Yeah, that

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Speaker 1: No turnovers against the Bucks. Yeah, uh, had three turnovers

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Speaker 1: then minus two against the Eagles in their place. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's you know it? Sounds like such an easy thing

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Speaker 1: care of the football. Here's the thing. They're not fumbling, no,

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Speaker 1: I mean the Steelers have. I mean they've been a

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Speaker 1: but he's also paid for every mistake he's made and

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Speaker 1: something that he hasn't so right now, the Steelers. The

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Speaker 1: Steelers do have ten fumbles themselves this year. Now, they've

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Speaker 1: recovered six of those because they've lost four um opponents

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Speaker 1: That's the thing. Nag never fumbles. That's that's that's one

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Speaker 1: You know, like two more turnovers, they're not worst anymore

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Speaker 1: He's getting activated this week as well, and they had

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Speaker 1: a plan for him coming into this season. We're finally

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Speaker 1: and you throw William Jackson in the mix, and guys

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Speaker 1: like Ogan Job, you are gonna be we're battling. Little

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Speaker 1: things are gonna be fine, and you know so, and

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Speaker 1: guys will get hurt of going forward, of course, you know,

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Speaker 1: but but they're pretty darn healthy right now. Coming out

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Speaker 1: your defense, your defense is going to be much more

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Speaker 1: you know, your your your young quarterback now has four

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Speaker 1: They can get a better draft pick. That's ridiculously and

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Speaker 1: everybody trade Cam and you know, yeah, I mean like

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Speaker 1: that's that's not the way this is gonna work. I

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Speaker 1: just expect the second half of the season be better

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Speaker 1: than the first. I've been saying that for two months

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Speaker 1: and yeah, I mean it, I was saying at least

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Speaker 1: knew it was gonna be bad, folks. You suffered through it.

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Speaker 1: And now if it's if it looks like that going forward,

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Speaker 1: I'm not gonna put a cherry on top everything. Oh

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Speaker 1: it's okay, Kenny, through five picks, it'll be fhind you know, No,

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Speaker 1: it needs to be better, and it should be, but

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Speaker 1: I think there's a lot of reasons to believe it

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Speaker 1: will be. Absolutely I'm with you on that one. I

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Speaker 1: I'll be right there with you if that doesn't happen.

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Speaker 1: But I don't expect that that. I have been disappointed.

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Speaker 1: I have too much respect for what Mike Tomlin is

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Speaker 1: capable of. Ros I've seen this show before to know

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Speaker 1: that you don't. It's there two and six right now.

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Speaker 1: There's no possible way he just just sent you know

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Speaker 1: mail in the season, saw in twenty two and six

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Speaker 1: and the first half and finish eight and eight like

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Speaker 1: saw that come as one of the best five rosters

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