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

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Speaker 1: Home of the Black and Gold Steelers Nation Radio. We

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Speaker 1: are back Um Dale Ally here with Matt Williamson and

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Speaker 1: Matt Um. Earlier today, John Harbaugh announcing that Tyler Huntley

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Speaker 1: will be the starting quarterback. No surprise there, No, I

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Speaker 1: mean he's been playing this game for a month where

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Speaker 1: every Monday or Tuesday we're hoping Lamar played. I think

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Speaker 1: he's going to practice, And you know, I'm shocked even

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Speaker 1: came out this early and made the announcement. Lamar isn't

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Speaker 1: practiced in an in a month. And I assume it's

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Speaker 1: just so teams have to prepare for both players, and

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Speaker 1: of course there's all those little games you play, and

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Speaker 1: maybe deep down he was optimistic, but I never really

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Speaker 1: thought it was much of an option to begin with.

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Speaker 1: And that's good news for the Steelers. I mean, I

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Speaker 1: know Huntley has done some good things, but at Lamar, No,

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Speaker 1: he is not um if you look at Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: know hunt he has gotten a lot of praise. He

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Speaker 1: has um. He hasn't screwed things up, but they also

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Speaker 1: haven't won. They haven't won, and I keep equating him

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Speaker 1: to a picture that you know the second time through

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Speaker 1: the league, people know who he is, and I'm sure

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Speaker 1: that there's habits that people got to. You got the

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Speaker 1: read on after watching a couple of games of tape.

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Speaker 1: Usually you want to watch four games of a player

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Speaker 1: before you really scout him or analyze him. And it's

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Speaker 1: really tough on coaches when a new guy is thrown

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Speaker 1: in at the quarterback position and you know, you're just

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Speaker 1: looking at college reports or preseason reports on the guy

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Speaker 1: and they're not running the same offense and things like that.

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Speaker 1: And I think he's a really good long term backup

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Speaker 1: for Lamar. But backup, I mean people looked at him.

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Speaker 1: People I've I've probably if I've already been asked, he's

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Speaker 1: a he's a free agent. Should the Steelers sign him? Well,

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Speaker 1: first of all, he's not a free He's not a

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Speaker 1: free free agent. He's an exclusive rights free agent. He'll

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Speaker 1: be a Baltimore raven next year, right exclusively he can.

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Speaker 1: He can sign with the Ravens and nobody else exactly.

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Speaker 1: There's an exclusive. The word exclusive is important there. Could

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Speaker 1: they trade him? Sure? I mean he's going to be

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Speaker 1: They have a nice find there as a backup quarterback

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Speaker 1: on the check and he's the profect backup for Lamar, right,

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Speaker 1: like the Flacco thing is. And they tried it with

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Speaker 1: the kid from Penn State, right, Well, he's mobile, but

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Speaker 1: he wasn't Lamar. This kid is this kid is he's

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Speaker 1: Lamar Light. Here's the here's his stats. Here's what he's

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Speaker 1: at yards per game, A hundred fifty six point seven. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: His passer rating is eighty four point four. Um, the

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Speaker 1: sack rate is almost exactly the same Lamar was getting

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Speaker 1: exact at nine percent of the time. He's at eight

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Speaker 1: point seven. Very high. I mean, those are very high numbers,

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Speaker 1: so you know, to expect. The interesting thing is Josh

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Speaker 1: Johnson was at two point four. Really the veterans around

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Speaker 1: the block, the veterans getting rid of the football, uh

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Speaker 1: you know, and he was like one game if you

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Speaker 1: get there playing but still the Bengals game, okay, yeah. Um.

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Speaker 1: What I've noticed with them is, of course he's a

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Speaker 1: good athlete, and he will run basically the same offense

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Speaker 1: in terms of play calling. Um, he's and no one is.

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Speaker 1: I mean he's not the stop start accelerator, doesn't have

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Speaker 1: the top end speed that Lamar has, and really that

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Speaker 1: instinctive as a runner of you know, vision and all

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Speaker 1: those things as well. He's gonna take more hits if

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Speaker 1: he runs as much as Lamar than Lamar does. But

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Speaker 1: the biggest difference is where they throw the football. I mean,

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Speaker 1: he is a short thrower. He's not nearly the pastor

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Speaker 1: I don't have him handy, but his average depth of

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Speaker 1: of this is Go pull up Marquise Brown's stats and

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Speaker 1: Andrews will get like the Waller treatment, or you know,

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Speaker 1: It's not even close. He average Freeman average is thirty

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Speaker 1: pretty familiar. And so I looked up what Naji Harris

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Speaker 1: You know, so if for their entire backfield, they're they're

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Speaker 1: be a much different team. But they don't have a guy.

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Speaker 1: That's why. That's that's what you know exactly, that's a

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Speaker 1: And their ball carries in this game aren't real present. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: it's a nausea type game. It's also you know who

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Speaker 1: which quarterback is going to perform better in there? Always

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Speaker 1: called Benna Mutter. I think he absolutely is a big,

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Speaker 1: just a Lamar running around like itse chicken with the

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Speaker 1: He's average fifty yards rushing per game against them. That's

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Speaker 1: much lower than his average, much lower. I mean, at

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Speaker 1: it's time for the Fantasy Football Focus. We get to

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Speaker 1: pick our DFS line up for the Sunday games, and

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Speaker 1: this one, this will be a little bit easier than

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Speaker 1: the one was yesterday, a little more to pick from,

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Speaker 1: but still these games are top. It is really tough.

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Speaker 1: We'll do that right after this