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Speaker 1: At least, is the Drive with Dale Lolly and Matt

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

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Speaker 1: Black and Gold Steelers Nation Radio.

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

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Speaker 2: and it is now time here kicking off our number

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Speaker 2: two of the drive to get to the fantasy football focus.

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Speaker 2: And Matt, let's take a look at the schedule first

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Speaker 2: this week and see what we like. In terms of

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Speaker 2: streaming defenses, we're getting down to the nitty gritty here

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Speaker 2: in terms of fantasy football. Week thirteen most team. Most

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Speaker 2: leagues start their playoffs in weeks fifteen. I. By the way,

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Speaker 2: I am the only team who has clinched a playoff

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Speaker 2: spot in our shared league thus far. Even though I'm

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Speaker 2: in second place in my division based on a time.

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Speaker 3: You're also in second place in total points score.

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Speaker 2: Yes, you have moved past me by a few points

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Speaker 2: this week. We're gonna We're gonna fight that out the

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Speaker 2: rest of the way.

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Speaker 4: Here.

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Speaker 2: I a bunch of guys on bye. I have nobody.

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Speaker 2: I have nobody on a bye the rest of the season.

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Speaker 3: I'm not sure if I do either, because last week

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Speaker 3: was the one I was most worried about Oh, I

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Speaker 3: was too Yeah, and I blew up.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, I had half of my receiving corps in

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Speaker 2: the in the brisall on bye and it was not pretty.

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Speaker 2: But thankfully I have sake one Barkley, which saved saved

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Speaker 2: my bacon there. Yeah. Looking at this week's games, we

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Speaker 2: as we mentioned, Week thirteen kicks off on Thursday night

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Speaker 2: with three games actually during the days. Don't forget to

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Speaker 2: set your line up before you fall asleep from your turkey. Uh,

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Speaker 2: Chicago is at Detroit.

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Speaker 3: I don't forget. There's a Friday game too, folks.

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Speaker 2: Correct, Yeah, yeah, Chicago at Detroit. Yep, Cargo, you're going

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Speaker 3: I don't think I want to do either. I mean

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Speaker 3: a lot. I know they're favored by like over ten.

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Speaker 3: I guess. I guess that the Lions easy. Yes, the

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Speaker 3: any defenses against them. I think they're almost there.

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Speaker 2: I think so, yeah, they they pretty much score points.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I would start against the.

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Speaker 2: Lions d right now, but I don't expect Montgomery to

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Speaker 2: play in that game for Detroit. So Jack, that's a

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Speaker 2: big Jamior Gibbs game. As we said yesterday on a

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Speaker 2: short week, and then you.

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Speaker 3: Have maybe even whoever their replacement is right, especially if

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Speaker 3: you're putting together like a four game DFS lineup. I mean,

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Speaker 3: if you think they're going to be winning by two

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Speaker 2: They're not gonna be running game to that situation.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. No, you know he's not gonna be closing out

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Speaker 3: be a sneaky play there.

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Speaker 2: You got the New York Giants at Dallas in a

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Speaker 2: snooze fest. Tickets available for that one for twenty eight

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Speaker 2: dollars one hundred and eighty four dollars Detroit. I'm looking here, but.

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Speaker 3: Rather stay home and eat stuffing and you know, right,

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Speaker 3: would you start to catch I was thinking maybe both

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Speaker 3: Cowboys with Parsons back, they both rush the passer. Both

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Speaker 3: offenses are bad. It's the low over under. Yeah, it couldn't.

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Speaker 2: It could end up being Drew Locke this week for

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Speaker 3: It's really bad to see if if it's.

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Speaker 2: Lock or if it's either way. I don't I don't

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Speaker 2: is not great, but it's better with Parsons in there,

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Speaker 2: to your point, and the nightcap and nightcap is actually

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Speaker 3: I'm not touching either defense.

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Speaker 2: No, no, I don't like either defense unless weather is

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Speaker 2: They're both gonna throw the football. Although green Bay is

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Speaker 3: See you know miamis though.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, moving on to that Friday game. This is a

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I guess Daniel Jones told him, nah, I'm good.

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Speaker 3: I'm have no interest to going to the Raiders head

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Speaker 3: beat in for the rest of the year, So who

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Speaker 3: Chiefs are maybe the start of the week. I mean,

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Speaker 3: but it's a top top one for sure. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, They're favored by twelve and a half and the

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Speaker 2: kind of gives you an idea of what Vegas expects

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Speaker 2: they don't think the Raiders are going to score a

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Speaker 2: whole bunch. Moving on to Sunday's matchups at one o'clock

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Speaker 2: in that window, a bunch of games at one o'clock

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Speaker 3: Which makes me crazy, by the way, Yeah, I mean

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Speaker 3: you got four games out of the out of the way.

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Speaker 3: Why not spread things out on Sunday there's.

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Speaker 2: Only there's only three games in the four o'clock window,

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Speaker 2: and there's of course the one night you know, the

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Speaker 2: So you got all these games. Was at one, two, three, four, five, six,

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Speaker 2: seven games on Sunday in the one o'clock window, first

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Speaker 3: Yeah, uh, I think I'm know and no on that one.

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Speaker 2: I don't want to start either defense in that one. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: I'm with you. The Falcons get no sacks, and right

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Speaker 2: Atlanta's offense, they're coming off a bye, they should have

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Speaker 2: after watching the Ravens run through through Los Angeles' offense

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Speaker 2: go run the football against these guys. Yeah, you got

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Speaker 3: Kind of lean towards no and no, just because I

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Speaker 3: But I also think the Steelers will get sacks. Right.

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Speaker 2: The over unders is forty six and a half, so

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Speaker 2: that might affect what you're looking for in a streaming defense.

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Speaker 2: But I'm with you. I think both offenses will have

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Speaker 3: I mean, like if my team only had the Steelers D,

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Speaker 3: I don't think I'm cutting the I'm not going to

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Speaker 2: No, nothing crazy like that. How about Arizona at Minnesota.

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Speaker 2: Tough for Arizona. You know, you had a road game

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Speaker 2: I mean you only scored six points. Yeah, Minnesota's defensive got.

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Speaker 3: The ideal match up. If you the same thing. If

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Speaker 3: you're the Vike's D I'm not cutting them because of

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Speaker 3: this matchup or no going fishing. I'll just probably put

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Speaker 2: Yeah. You got Indianapolis at New England. The over under

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Speaker 3: Yes on Indy, although I don't think it's a very

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Speaker 2: England maybe, I mean because you get the Anthony Richardson factor,

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Speaker 2: and at New England again, is Weather going to be

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Speaker 3: I'm just saying. I'm just thinking about two real heavy

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Speaker 3: Remandre and Taylor might be short, low scoring and in

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Speaker 3: the end you're happy you started the D and you

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Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, it doesn't have to be a lot of

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Speaker 3: Mhm. And you're right. Same definitely. Check Weather and Green

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Speaker 2: Yeah, same thing with Seattle going to the Jets. The

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Speaker 2: Starting Seattle's defense, I really like this, Yeah.

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Speaker 3: I am. I mean, I do think a bye will

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Speaker 3: but they may have cashed it in. Like I just

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Speaker 3: like where Seattle's defense is right now. I mean, that's

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Speaker 3: a rough road trip, but I like where Seattle' d

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Speaker 2: You start New York against Seattle. Corners are good.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, they just underachieved greatly this year.

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Speaker 3: They might be the top twelve with borderline. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Tennessee is at Washington.

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Speaker 3: Probably no one both.

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Speaker 2: I'd say no and no, even though you know, Tennessee's

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Speaker 2: a lot of times just go for touchdowns. But I

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Speaker 2: don't know if I can start the Washington defense.

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Speaker 3: I think it's coming back to earth as a less

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Speaker 2: Houston is at Jacksonville. That's the final one o'clock game

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Speaker 3: Yes, on Houston all day long. Might see Lawrence back

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Speaker 2: You got the in the four o'clock games. First of

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Speaker 3: It's actually leaning towards know and no.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's one of the higher over unders of the weekend.

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Speaker 2: And both defense is not great. It's forty eight and

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Speaker 3: Was just figuring some things out.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Tampa Bay is at Carolina. The over under forty

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Speaker 2: looks like the Panthers have figured some things out offensively.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I definitely am not starting the Panthers d I

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Speaker 2: Still, I don't think I can start Tampa either.

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Speaker 3: I'm not excited about it.

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Speaker 2: You can run on Tampa. I think Carolina will do that.

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Speaker 2: I mean, if you can run the ball, Carolina is

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Speaker 2: Yeah. The four to twenty five game, the national game

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Speaker 3: Although they do have a rest disadvantage. The Eagles are

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Speaker 2: Again though, Yeah, they were on the on the road,

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Speaker 2: don't even know. Do they fly to Baltimore or do

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Speaker 3: I don't think Jets bust or fly when they play

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Speaker 2: Oh, probably not. Yeah, same thing with the Chargers and Rams. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 3: I had a little bit of the helicopter right, just

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Speaker 2: Coaches or creatures a habit and they like to do these.

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Speaker 2: be perfect routine. Let's go routine. The final game, the

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Speaker 3: By the way, Eagles are Raven's defense. I think I'm

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Speaker 2: If I had to start. If I had to start one,

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Speaker 3: It's good. I just think these offenses are great.

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Speaker 2: No, I think both offenses are rolling pretty good. But yeah,

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Speaker 2: I think it's a tough one. And the Sunday night

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Speaker 2: I don't I haven't heard anything on him. Yeah, it's

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Speaker 3: A little bit off of you say, at Buffalo at.

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Speaker 2: Buffalo again, Yeah, yeah, it could very well be the case.

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Speaker 2: And then the Monday night game Cleveland at Denver.

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Speaker 3: Yes, and yes, especially Denver.

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Speaker 2: Denver's defense has been really good. Really Yeah, I don't

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Speaker 2: know if I like. They're favored by five. I don't

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Speaker 2: letdown all over it. But the over runners forty one

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Speaker 3: No, I think I'm starting both defenses though, Yeah, so

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Speaker 2: A few streamers there, but there's some defenses that you

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Speaker 2: typically you would typically start in. Yeah, I don't know

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Speaker 3: Yeah, there wasn't many sneaky ones. There wasn't a lot

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Speaker 3: that I thought, oh, we'll get that one cheap in DFS. Boy,

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Speaker 3: I need to cut my guy to run out and

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Speaker 3: get that one because it's such a good matchup.

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Speaker 2: You know, would be one that maybe you'd stream. But

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Speaker 3: I don't either. It's not a great week for that.

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Speaker 3: Probably just keep with what you got.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, unless you want to you know, Cleveland at this point,

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Speaker 2: pick them up, But do you want to play them

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Speaker 3: You know that's a I don't know. Denver drops a

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Speaker 3: ton of points.

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Speaker 2: On them, but right yeah, they're well rested though since

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Speaker 3: Extra day the eleven days.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, looking at this week's as streamers, not a lot

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Speaker 2: point in the season. But we don't know what's up

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Speaker 2: with JK Dobbins, Gus Edwards only twenty four percent rostered.

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Speaker 2: next three weeks. Interested in Gus Edwards.

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Speaker 3: And what about like Vidal in a super deep league.

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Speaker 2: Well, he would be, yeah, he would be at the

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Speaker 2: other one. He's only owned in Uh, what's what's at

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Speaker 2: two percent roster?

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Speaker 3: Probably very few. Yeah, So I mean I think Edwards

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Speaker 3: has to be in all leagues Edward.

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Speaker 2: Edwards might end up being the guy. He doesn't catch

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Speaker 3: They don't run the ball as well as you think

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Speaker 2: It's a high volume running game. It's not necessarily a

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Speaker 2: real productive running game. I think Vadal and Edwards end

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Speaker 2: Edwards will probably be your your your goal line back.

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Speaker 2: But I think, yeah, Vidal ends up getting the bulk

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Speaker 2: of the between the twenties carries, but all.

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Speaker 3: Might be a dfsor you know, yeah.

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Speaker 2: Right, I think that's more. I can't imagine you know,

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Speaker 2: hitting play on Thursday or Sunday or whenever they're playing, Like,

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Speaker 2: oh yeah, I'm gonna put that guy in my line up.

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Speaker 2: You've got to be really desperate to do that.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you have to have a lot of injuries, and

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Speaker 3: there's no buys.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Amir Abdullah twenty four rostered. You know you're not

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Speaker 2: to keep an eye on what Alexander Madison is a

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Speaker 2: I don't love starting him against Kansas City, but if

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Speaker 2: he's the only game in town, he's gonna get ten

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Speaker 2: to fifteen touches. He catches the he.

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Speaker 3: Catches the ball. Yeah, so I mean, yeah, right.

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Speaker 2: He might get ten points at him even if he

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Speaker 2: doesn't score a touchdown.

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Speaker 3: You would think most fantasy teams are pretty healthy right now.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, nobody's on a lot of times. You know, if

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Speaker 2: you had, let's say you've been starting JK. Dobbins all

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Speaker 2: to pivot somewhere. And if you don't have anybody on

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Speaker 2: your bench and and Abdula is at least you know,

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Speaker 2: would you would you rather start Abdullah this week or

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Speaker 2: say Tyler Alger or Jaylen Warren one of these clear

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Speaker 3: One of those teams. Yeah, definitely Abdula. I mean the

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Speaker 3: fourth quarter, they can be losing by twenty and he.

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Speaker 2: Might catch he might catch six passes in that situation.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I've also kind of liked this game too.

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Speaker 3: I'm shocked these last this long.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Jeremy McNichols rostered in one percent leagus. Now we've

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Speaker 2: seen this before. When one of the other two bats

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Speaker 2: like maybe a concussion for him, McNichols would be another rostered.

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Speaker 2: They got to buy. They got Tennessee this week, and

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Speaker 2: then they got to buy. I'll bet they don't play

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Speaker 2: Echeler this week.

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Speaker 3: I bet they don't either Nichols.

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Speaker 2: McNichols has been valuable.

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Speaker 3: I get all your points, but I'm not thrilled about

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Speaker 3: playing McNichols against a good Tennessee defense and then he's

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Speaker 3: on a buy.

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Speaker 2: I hear you.

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Speaker 3: I mean I'm talking you might just pick him up

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Speaker 2: Or again, if if if you have a situation where you're,

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Speaker 2: you're looking for something it's not on the field, I

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Speaker 2: think I might rather have McNichols in this game than

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Speaker 2: Brian Robinson because mc nicholas is as catch.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's not bad. Yeah, if he goes down and

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Speaker 3: catches him to pretty down now, yeah, but.

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Speaker 2: If he goes out and catches three or four balls, Okay,

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Speaker 2: I mean let's say you have echolar and you've been

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Speaker 2: it's not great, it's not great. I don't, like I said,

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Speaker 2: I don't love the waiver wire keyon Coleman rostered and

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Speaker 2: forty three percent of leagues are coming off a bye. Uh,

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Speaker 2: don't forget about him. He missed two games before the bye,

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Speaker 2: so a lot of teams apparently moved on from him.

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Speaker 2: But don't forget in week seven and eight he caught

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Speaker 2: a touchdown on fourteen targets.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it seems like forever ago that he played. But

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Speaker 3: he was coming on pretty strong. So I don't think

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Speaker 3: he's a starter. But I don't think he should be

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Speaker 3: on the waiver wire either.

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Speaker 2: No, he'sld somebody that you want to keep an eye on.

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Speaker 2: Let's see here, there's again really not much here. Adam

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Speaker 2: Thielen was well used last week.

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Speaker 3: The adult in the room.

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Speaker 2: Yeah right, they're gonna probably have to throw that could

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Speaker 2: be a shootout against Tampa Bay. You could certainly do

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Speaker 2: worse than that. And don't forget about Jalen Coker.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, he was inactive last week. I think he's due

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Speaker 2: Yeah mentioned this guy before, and he was actually a

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Speaker 2: in the offseason. Nick Westbrook of Kinney just keeps scoring

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Speaker 2: touchdowns now. He scored a touchdown on thirty five point

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Speaker 3: But he gets he will be like that'll never keep

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Speaker 3: that'll never keep up, you know, touchdown regression, blah blah blah.

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Speaker 3: But if us looks to him in the end zone,

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Speaker 3: there's something to be said for that. Some of them

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Speaker 3: are just him breaking free and there's some busting coverages

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Speaker 3: in there. But oh man, i'd ever I just think

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Speaker 2: But I think I'm more of a DFS dart throw

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Speaker 2: than anything else. Yeah, yeah, that kind of dud.

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Speaker 3: Like the player, you know, Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Devon Vley. We mentioned him yesterday. They got Cleveland this week.

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Speaker 2: Right now, Cleveland really doesn't have a Nickel corner and

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Speaker 3: It could be. I mean, Sutton never leaves the field,

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Speaker 3: other guys. But I do think they like Veley size.

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Speaker 3: But then there's goofy things like the little Jordan Humphreys

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Speaker 3: gets in the mix and slot. It's one too many there.

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Speaker 3: I know. I think he's starting to grab the job

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Speaker 3: for fantasy reasons, you know, the number two receiver there.

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Speaker 3: But I'm just not certain of it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I hear you. I mean it's not.

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Speaker 3: I mean none of these guys are top thirty six receivers.

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Speaker 2: No, no, no, really, what about Noah Gray at the

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Speaker 2: tight end position, he's four rostered. He you know, you

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Speaker 2: think of the Chiefs, you think, oh, Travis Kelsey, Travis Kelsey,

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Speaker 2: Travis Kelsey. Let's great have three touchdowns in the last

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Speaker 2: two weeks.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, all the time, Andy Reid schemes him up because

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Speaker 2: Actually has four touchdowns in the last two weeks. Four

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, that's crazy. Meanwhile, worthy in Hopkins Juju, nobody's

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Speaker 3: getting a dominant snapshare receiver.

438
00:21:50,080 --> 00:21:53,399
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's again it's more maybe of a DFS play,

439
00:21:54,720 --> 00:21:57,280
Speaker 2: But I mean we hit that last week with Schoonmaker.

440
00:21:58,520 --> 00:22:00,600
Speaker 2: Gray is somebody I would keep him. I hate to

441
00:22:00,680 --> 00:22:03,320
Speaker 2: chase touchdowns and that's what you don't know.

442
00:22:03,400 --> 00:22:05,040
Speaker 3: That's the Westbrook Akine thing too.

443
00:22:05,119 --> 00:22:08,720
Speaker 2: Yeah, same thing. But when these guys do it game in,

444
00:22:08,880 --> 00:22:11,000
Speaker 2: you know, a couple of games in a row, you're like, Okay,

445
00:22:11,119 --> 00:22:13,840
Speaker 2: maybe there's something there. Maybe they don't catch two touchdowns

446
00:22:13,840 --> 00:22:16,040
Speaker 2: this week, maybe they get one, but it's still one

447
00:22:16,520 --> 00:22:18,080
Speaker 2: for a guy who's pretty cheap.

448
00:22:19,840 --> 00:22:21,720
Speaker 3: I do like a lot of these names we've mentioned

449
00:22:21,760 --> 00:22:25,480
Speaker 3: in this segment for DFS. Yeah, not many of them

450
00:22:25,600 --> 00:22:29,200
Speaker 3: would I put in any of my redraft leagues, considering

451
00:22:29,240 --> 00:22:31,879
Speaker 3: no one's on buy and all that. But there are some.

452
00:22:33,400 --> 00:22:36,320
Speaker 2: Values here, I think absolutely, Just some of these guys

453
00:22:36,320 --> 00:22:38,520
Speaker 2: that keep in mind and when we're building a DFS

454
00:22:38,600 --> 00:22:43,119
Speaker 2: lineup later. If we need a cheap pivot, those guys

455
00:22:43,119 --> 00:22:46,040
Speaker 2: are certainly worth a look. Let's get to a break.

456
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Speaker 2: That's going to do it for this segment, and Matt

457
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Speaker 2: and I will be back with more. This is the

458
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Speaker 2: Drive on the Steelers Audio Network.

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

460
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Speaker 1: on your twenty four to seven home of the Black

461
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Speaker 1: and Gold cast in Steelers Nation Radio.

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Speaker 2: Welcome back. I am Dale Lolly. He is the Matt

463
00:23:12,400 --> 00:23:15,199
Speaker 2: Williamson and Matt it's time for the take a look

464
00:23:15,240 --> 00:23:17,480
Speaker 2: at the Power Rankings. It is a Tuesday, even though

465
00:23:17,440 --> 00:23:19,919
Speaker 2: it doesn't really feel like a Tuesday. It will take

466
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Speaker 2: a look here at as we do every week at

467
00:23:21,480 --> 00:23:25,240
Speaker 2: Eric ed Holmes Power Rankings on NFL dot com, where

468
00:23:25,280 --> 00:23:27,440
Speaker 2: he takes a look at everybody one through thirty two,

469
00:23:27,480 --> 00:23:30,639
Speaker 2: and at thirty two. They were off last week and

470
00:23:30,680 --> 00:23:33,200
Speaker 2: they're still in thirty second. They are still thirty two.

471
00:23:33,240 --> 00:23:36,240
Speaker 2: That would be your Jacksonville jagbars.

472
00:23:36,520 --> 00:23:39,440
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think they've kind of given up the ship.

473
00:23:39,880 --> 00:23:42,800
Speaker 3: To be honest with you. I was looking at ETA

474
00:23:43,000 --> 00:23:46,040
Speaker 3: numbers just from the last month, and you look at

475
00:23:46,040 --> 00:23:48,960
Speaker 3: the chart and Detroit's in the top top right where

476
00:23:48,960 --> 00:23:51,520
Speaker 3: you want to be. And then there's this little team

477
00:23:51,640 --> 00:23:53,840
Speaker 3: in the bottom bottom left of the last month and

478
00:23:53,920 --> 00:23:56,800
Speaker 3: it's a Jags. I mean, just awful in all regards.

479
00:23:57,119 --> 00:24:00,920
Speaker 2: Yep, it's just a mess. Speaking of which, at thirty one,

480
00:24:01,040 --> 00:24:04,680
Speaker 2: holding steady, the Las Vegas Raiders. How about this little

481
00:24:05,000 --> 00:24:09,359
Speaker 2: nugget in here. In thirty four dropbacks with the Raiders

482
00:24:09,359 --> 00:24:15,680
Speaker 2: this season, Desmond Ritter has taken six sacks and they're

483
00:24:15,720 --> 00:24:20,120
Speaker 2: online mathematician. That's about an eighteen percent sack rate, which

484
00:24:20,200 --> 00:24:23,560
Speaker 2: is way too many, way too many.

485
00:24:23,680 --> 00:24:25,040
Speaker 3: One of the reasons he's not gonna be out there

486
00:24:25,080 --> 00:24:28,200
Speaker 3: and it's gonna be O'Connell and yeah, awful. Yeah.

487
00:24:28,600 --> 00:24:33,560
Speaker 2: At thirty down a spot the New York Football Giants.

488
00:24:34,560 --> 00:24:36,919
Speaker 3: So I was asked today, would you rather be in

489
00:24:37,040 --> 00:24:41,600
Speaker 3: charge of writing the ship for the Jets or Giants? Like, Oh,

490
00:24:41,640 --> 00:24:43,840
Speaker 3: it's like a dead heat equal.

491
00:24:43,640 --> 00:24:45,439
Speaker 2: That's called football purgatory.

492
00:24:46,600 --> 00:24:49,119
Speaker 3: Yeah, but at least for right now, the Jets are

493
00:24:49,160 --> 00:24:51,760
Speaker 3: definitely the better team, you know, I mean the quarterback

494
00:24:51,800 --> 00:24:53,800
Speaker 3: situation for New York is brutal.

495
00:24:54,040 --> 00:24:56,160
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, well it's not going to be great

496
00:24:56,200 --> 00:24:58,639
Speaker 2: for the Jets moving forward either.

497
00:25:00,119 --> 00:25:02,359
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm talking about it. At least this week, but yeah,

498
00:25:02,359 --> 00:25:04,399
Speaker 3: that was part of it. Yeah, that's actually what my

499
00:25:04,400 --> 00:25:07,040
Speaker 3: discussion came down to. I was like, would you rather

500
00:25:07,119 --> 00:25:10,040
Speaker 3: have Rogers or No? One? And I kind of decided

501
00:25:10,119 --> 00:25:11,240
Speaker 3: rather No One.

502
00:25:11,280 --> 00:25:12,440
Speaker 2: And go from those as well.

503
00:25:12,560 --> 00:25:14,200
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'd like to start over.

504
00:25:14,600 --> 00:25:17,760
Speaker 2: I'll take a Curtent number three, Alex uh. Can we

505
00:25:17,800 --> 00:25:21,199
Speaker 2: get number twenty nine down two spots the three and

506
00:25:21,280 --> 00:25:22,720
Speaker 2: nine Patriots?

507
00:25:23,760 --> 00:25:28,159
Speaker 3: Yeah, they sat to make good players. None, that's the problem.

508
00:25:28,359 --> 00:25:31,360
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a bit of an issue. At twenty eight,

509
00:25:31,520 --> 00:25:34,760
Speaker 2: up two spots, coming off a massive upset over Houston,

510
00:25:35,080 --> 00:25:36,560
Speaker 2: you're three and eight Tennessee Titans.

511
00:25:37,920 --> 00:25:39,639
Speaker 3: I've always thought they were a little bit better than

512
00:25:39,680 --> 00:25:43,080
Speaker 3: the total bottom field theaters, and you can look at

513
00:25:43,119 --> 00:25:46,280
Speaker 3: Levis and Bryce Young and they're starting to play a

514
00:25:46,280 --> 00:25:49,600
Speaker 3: little better. Tennessee as a defense. They're not great, obviously,

515
00:25:49,680 --> 00:25:52,320
Speaker 3: but they're clearly better in all these teams. Yeah.

516
00:25:52,480 --> 00:25:56,199
Speaker 2: At twenty seven, up a spot, the Carolina Panthers.

517
00:25:57,400 --> 00:26:00,200
Speaker 3: Okay, I think they have an offense and there's hope.

518
00:26:00,480 --> 00:26:07,359
Speaker 2: Yeah. At twenty six, down two spots the New York Jets.

519
00:26:08,720 --> 00:26:09,960
Speaker 3: Yeah, what is more year?

520
00:26:11,000 --> 00:26:14,399
Speaker 2: This is? This is status quo for the New York teams.

521
00:26:14,440 --> 00:26:18,120
Speaker 2: Like New York likes to act like the game revolves

522
00:26:18,160 --> 00:26:22,800
Speaker 2: around the area of New York. And both of those

523
00:26:22,800 --> 00:26:25,600
Speaker 2: teams are awful. And I don't want to hear any

524
00:26:25,640 --> 00:26:27,879
Speaker 2: stupid nicknames. I don't want to hear all these guys

525
00:26:27,880 --> 00:26:29,920
Speaker 2: called this or that and all these cute little things

526
00:26:29,960 --> 00:26:32,919
Speaker 2: that they say. Your team stink and they have stunk

527
00:26:33,000 --> 00:26:36,199
Speaker 2: for a long time. They're not relevant when you when

528
00:26:36,240 --> 00:26:39,160
Speaker 2: your teams become relevant again, then you can start talking

529
00:26:39,200 --> 00:26:41,600
Speaker 2: smack on the rest of the country. Otherwise, shut the

530
00:26:41,640 --> 00:26:43,359
Speaker 2: hell up there.

531
00:26:43,400 --> 00:26:45,760
Speaker 3: And they're bad organizations, you know, I mean, it starts

532
00:26:45,760 --> 00:26:52,440
Speaker 3: at the top. And I bet if Roger Cadell could

533
00:26:52,600 --> 00:26:54,840
Speaker 3: ask for anything for Christmas, it'd be for the New

534
00:26:54,920 --> 00:26:57,080
Speaker 3: York teams to be respectable again, you know what I mean?

535
00:26:57,240 --> 00:26:59,119
Speaker 2: How many weeks do we have to see one of

536
00:26:59,119 --> 00:27:03,879
Speaker 2: these New York teams featured in a standalone game before

537
00:27:04,640 --> 00:27:08,120
Speaker 2: it's nonsensical. They both stink. I don't care if it's

538
00:27:08,119 --> 00:27:11,320
Speaker 2: the largest market in the country. They stink. And I'm

539
00:27:11,359 --> 00:27:13,720
Speaker 2: tired of having the Jets and Giants slam down my

540
00:27:13,800 --> 00:27:16,200
Speaker 2: throat when the only time I get to watch football

541
00:27:16,760 --> 00:27:18,639
Speaker 2: on a weekend and I have to sit and watch

542
00:27:18,680 --> 00:27:21,280
Speaker 2: the you know Giants play or I have to watch

543
00:27:21,320 --> 00:27:21,920
Speaker 2: the Jets play.

544
00:27:21,920 --> 00:27:22,560
Speaker 3: It's awful.

545
00:27:22,680 --> 00:27:25,240
Speaker 2: It's bad football. They're bad teams. Yuck.

546
00:27:26,720 --> 00:27:29,040
Speaker 3: Yeah for getting me on Thanksgiving too, Yeah.

547
00:27:29,200 --> 00:27:33,440
Speaker 2: Same. Twenty five up a spot to Cleveland Browns.

548
00:27:34,760 --> 00:27:37,280
Speaker 3: I bet I'd have them higher than that, I think.

549
00:27:37,320 --> 00:27:39,840
Speaker 3: I mean, if you look at their last month, it's

550
00:27:40,160 --> 00:27:41,720
Speaker 3: league average. Yeah.

551
00:27:43,400 --> 00:27:46,280
Speaker 2: Yeah. They did go down to New Orleans and just

552
00:27:46,320 --> 00:27:49,640
Speaker 2: lay a complete egg down there, so there's that. But yeah,

553
00:27:49,680 --> 00:27:52,120
Speaker 2: I mean they've they beat the Rings, they.

554
00:27:52,000 --> 00:27:55,320
Speaker 3: Beat the Steelers. The end of that game was a disaster. Yeah,

555
00:27:55,359 --> 00:27:58,600
Speaker 3: but I hear you, the offense wasn't bad.

556
00:27:58,920 --> 00:28:02,360
Speaker 2: At twenty four down on a spot, the Saints.

557
00:28:03,520 --> 00:28:05,240
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think I'd have the Saints over the Browns.

558
00:28:05,560 --> 00:28:07,240
Speaker 2: I mean, you have to. They just smoked them two

559
00:28:07,240 --> 00:28:12,359
Speaker 2: weeks ago, right right. At twenty three Yeah, at twenty

560
00:28:12,400 --> 00:28:13,840
Speaker 2: three down a spot you have the Bears.

561
00:28:16,080 --> 00:28:18,080
Speaker 3: No, maybe I'm wrong. I mean these teams that are

562
00:28:18,119 --> 00:28:19,360
Speaker 3: right above the Browns.

563
00:28:19,119 --> 00:28:21,879
Speaker 2: They're all kind of in that same yeah.

564
00:28:22,040 --> 00:28:22,240
Speaker 3: Yeah.

565
00:28:23,920 --> 00:28:28,000
Speaker 2: At twenty two up three spots the Dallas Cowboys.

566
00:28:29,440 --> 00:28:31,840
Speaker 3: Oh, I'd have them below those last three.

567
00:28:32,280 --> 00:28:34,359
Speaker 2: Yeah, I would too. I don't care if they beat

568
00:28:34,480 --> 00:28:37,000
Speaker 2: Washington that was that was the flukiest of all flukes.

569
00:28:38,320 --> 00:28:42,960
Speaker 3: Just, I mean, I urge people on Thanksgiving to just

570
00:28:43,520 --> 00:28:47,320
Speaker 3: pay attention to Cooper Rush's arm strength or lack thereof.

571
00:28:47,480 --> 00:28:50,640
Speaker 3: I mean it's a struggle. Yeah. If you don't think

572
00:28:50,800 --> 00:28:54,760
Speaker 3: arm strength matters, just think what what's the passes he attempts?

573
00:28:56,000 --> 00:29:02,040
Speaker 2: At twenty one, holding steady Cincinnati Bengals.

574
00:29:03,080 --> 00:29:09,040
Speaker 3: Hmm, it's hard to say that they're sixteen or you know,

575
00:29:09,160 --> 00:29:13,080
Speaker 3: even steven when they only beat bad teams and they

576
00:29:13,120 --> 00:29:14,360
Speaker 3: have a losing record.

577
00:29:14,520 --> 00:29:17,760
Speaker 2: Haven't I get it? One and six in one score games,

578
00:29:18,080 --> 00:29:20,680
Speaker 2: and yet somehow they're favored over the Steelers this weekend.

579
00:29:21,680 --> 00:29:22,000
Speaker 3: Mh.

580
00:29:22,920 --> 00:29:24,360
Speaker 2: I just I don't.

581
00:29:24,240 --> 00:29:25,960
Speaker 3: That's proper ranking for them.

582
00:29:26,120 --> 00:29:28,480
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is how they have played this year.

583
00:29:29,560 --> 00:29:31,640
Speaker 3: At twenty I'm not sure if the Browns or Bengals

584
00:29:31,640 --> 00:29:34,280
Speaker 3: are better today right now.

585
00:29:34,360 --> 00:29:36,400
Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree with you. I think the I think

586
00:29:36,440 --> 00:29:40,360
Speaker 2: the Browns are a tougher matchup right now. Yeah, depending

587
00:29:40,400 --> 00:29:42,120
Speaker 2: on what jamis you get, it's.

588
00:29:41,880 --> 00:29:44,560
Speaker 3: Just yeah, I mean he could ruin it.

589
00:29:44,600 --> 00:29:47,640
Speaker 2: But you know, at twenty holding steady the.

590
00:29:47,600 --> 00:29:52,680
Speaker 3: Colts, Okay, I would say they're a league average, but

591
00:29:53,320 --> 00:29:54,560
Speaker 3: they're probably slightly below.

592
00:29:54,960 --> 00:29:58,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, at nineteen holding steady. The Rams.

593
00:30:00,760 --> 00:30:03,600
Speaker 3: They seem like they beat up on bad teams. They're

594
00:30:03,680 --> 00:30:04,680
Speaker 3: kind of abused.

595
00:30:04,680 --> 00:30:10,440
Speaker 2: They're kind of the Bengals of the NFC. So scary offense,

596
00:30:11,080 --> 00:30:12,320
Speaker 2: but the defense is awful.

597
00:30:14,040 --> 00:30:15,200
Speaker 3: Back sevens real bad.

598
00:30:15,480 --> 00:30:17,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean they got to you know, Verse in

599
00:30:17,200 --> 00:30:19,640
Speaker 2: Fisca are doing some good things and get Byron Young

600
00:30:19,680 --> 00:30:23,520
Speaker 2: and Kobe Turning. All right, they got some pieces, but yeah,

601
00:30:23,520 --> 00:30:26,280
Speaker 2: it's not great defensively, and.

602
00:30:26,400 --> 00:30:28,320
Speaker 3: The pass protection is starting to crumble a little bit,

603
00:30:28,440 --> 00:30:31,239
Speaker 3: and Stafford can't make up for that anymore. Uh.

604
00:30:31,400 --> 00:30:35,960
Speaker 2: At eighteen, down two spots the San Francisco forty nine ers.

605
00:30:38,800 --> 00:30:44,600
Speaker 3: I'm sitting here thinking that they too high. Still. If

606
00:30:44,600 --> 00:30:47,000
Speaker 3: it's a Party led team, I'll put them there. If

607
00:30:47,000 --> 00:30:49,320
Speaker 3: it's not, then they're lower. Yeah.

608
00:30:49,560 --> 00:30:54,160
Speaker 2: Yeah, I guess Party should be back this week. But

609
00:30:54,160 --> 00:31:00,800
Speaker 2: they're gonna they're gonna lose again in Buffalo. There, No,

610
00:31:00,840 --> 00:31:03,320
Speaker 2: not at all. At seventeen.

611
00:31:03,520 --> 00:31:06,080
Speaker 3: I can't tell if their window, if like there's this

612
00:31:06,080 --> 00:31:09,760
Speaker 3: this era, their window is closing. I just can't tell

613
00:31:09,800 --> 00:31:12,640
Speaker 3: if it's closing quietly or if it's slamming shot.

614
00:31:12,840 --> 00:31:14,800
Speaker 2: They might be slamming shot because you're they're gonna have

615
00:31:14,800 --> 00:31:17,480
Speaker 2: to pay for night and then were right now, now

616
00:31:17,520 --> 00:31:20,400
Speaker 2: you're gonna start letting gonna be and you know, right

617
00:31:22,120 --> 00:31:24,480
Speaker 2: seventeen holding steady is Atlanta.

618
00:31:26,400 --> 00:31:29,040
Speaker 3: I'm fine with that. I mean, they're they're kind of

619
00:31:29,080 --> 00:31:31,000
Speaker 3: really not that much different than the Bengals too.

620
00:31:31,200 --> 00:31:35,320
Speaker 2: No all offense, no defense, yeah, yeah, yep, yeah, no

621
00:31:35,480 --> 00:31:39,800
Speaker 2: pass rush. It's sixteen up two spots, Miami.

622
00:31:41,280 --> 00:31:44,280
Speaker 3: Playing well. I'm convinced that they're one of the seven

623
00:31:44,320 --> 00:31:46,480
Speaker 3: best teams in the AFC, but that doesn't mean they're

624
00:31:46,480 --> 00:31:47,520
Speaker 3: going to end up there.

625
00:31:47,920 --> 00:31:50,280
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's still a team. They're four and three since

626
00:31:50,280 --> 00:31:53,560
Speaker 2: Week five, but the losses are to the Bills and

627
00:31:53,600 --> 00:31:57,200
Speaker 2: the Cardinals and uh they who else? They lost to

628
00:31:57,240 --> 00:31:58,360
Speaker 2: somebody else bad in there.

629
00:31:59,520 --> 00:32:01,240
Speaker 3: I forget when Tua came back though.

630
00:32:01,560 --> 00:32:04,480
Speaker 2: Yeah, well but they lost his first start back to

631
00:32:04,480 --> 00:32:06,560
Speaker 2: a bad team. I can't remember exactly who it was.

632
00:32:06,600 --> 00:32:12,040
Speaker 2: But yeah, at fifteen down three spots, Arizona.

633
00:32:14,720 --> 00:32:19,479
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think that's fair. It's just the talent is

634
00:32:19,480 --> 00:32:23,120
Speaker 3: starting to I mean, some of these teams just don't

635
00:32:23,120 --> 00:32:25,960
Speaker 3: have enough horses. Yeah, as the season goes on.

636
00:32:27,080 --> 00:32:31,800
Speaker 2: At fourteen up a spot, Seattle, they.

637
00:32:31,760 --> 00:32:34,280
Speaker 3: Would definitely be first in that division. I really like

638
00:32:34,320 --> 00:32:39,000
Speaker 3: where their defense is at. They would be above everybody mentioned.

639
00:32:39,040 --> 00:32:39,600
Speaker 3: I'm cool with that.

640
00:32:40,360 --> 00:32:44,160
Speaker 2: Yeah, at thirteen up a spot Tampa Bay.

641
00:32:46,560 --> 00:32:48,760
Speaker 3: I wish they had one more win because then I

642
00:32:48,800 --> 00:32:51,240
Speaker 3: would really like their chances of getting in the playoffs.

643
00:32:51,280 --> 00:32:52,520
Speaker 3: And I think they'd be a tough out.

644
00:32:53,040 --> 00:32:55,600
Speaker 2: Yeah. They're five and six and they lost both games

645
00:32:55,640 --> 00:32:59,680
Speaker 2: to Atlanta. That's gonna hurt them because there are games

646
00:33:00,080 --> 00:33:02,600
Speaker 2: that's gonna kill them. Yeah, they're a game behind Atlanta

647
00:33:02,600 --> 00:33:05,280
Speaker 2: and the standings and they got swept by the Falcons.

648
00:33:05,720 --> 00:33:06,400
Speaker 2: That's a problem.

649
00:33:06,440 --> 00:33:09,920
Speaker 3: Yeah. I was looking at this today because Atlanta only

650
00:33:09,960 --> 00:33:15,760
Speaker 3: has two conference losses, so Tampa. If Atlanta doesn't win

651
00:33:15,800 --> 00:33:17,920
Speaker 3: the division, they have a really good chance to still

652
00:33:17,920 --> 00:33:20,200
Speaker 3: get in. But I don't know how Tampa can win

653
00:33:20,240 --> 00:33:23,040
Speaker 3: the division after losing twice to Atlanta.

654
00:33:23,200 --> 00:33:25,440
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're gonna say that game ahead.

655
00:33:26,680 --> 00:33:29,520
Speaker 3: I say that though, because this is how Tampa's schedule ends.

656
00:33:30,200 --> 00:33:35,920
Speaker 3: At Carolina Vegas at home, at the Chargers at Dallas,

657
00:33:36,280 --> 00:33:40,080
Speaker 3: Carolina at home, Saints at home. It's like the easiest

658
00:33:40,080 --> 00:33:43,560
Speaker 3: scheduled in the league. Yeah, and they're playing pretty well.

659
00:33:45,920 --> 00:33:52,240
Speaker 2: At twelve down a spot, Houston, is that being kind

660
00:33:52,880 --> 00:33:56,440
Speaker 2: might be it might be, but are you gonna really

661
00:33:56,480 --> 00:33:59,880
Speaker 2: throw them behind Tampa or throw them behind Seattle and maybe,

662
00:34:00,920 --> 00:34:03,040
Speaker 2: but I think they're still better than those teams. It

663
00:34:03,200 --> 00:34:05,040
Speaker 2: just kind of shows you where the league is at

664
00:34:05,160 --> 00:34:05,560
Speaker 2: right now.

665
00:34:07,040 --> 00:34:09,600
Speaker 3: I like that they have them behind Denver and the

666
00:34:09,680 --> 00:34:11,840
Speaker 3: Chargers though, yeah, yeah.

667
00:34:11,640 --> 00:34:16,600
Speaker 2: I think you know that's realistic with this, and yeah, yeah,

668
00:34:16,880 --> 00:34:19,880
Speaker 2: they weeks fifteen through seventeen for them, they play the

669
00:34:19,880 --> 00:34:23,120
Speaker 2: Dolphins at the Chiefs and then they host the Ravens.

670
00:34:24,280 --> 00:34:26,600
Speaker 3: And it probably won't matter. They'll probably still be the Force.

671
00:34:26,719 --> 00:34:29,279
Speaker 2: They'll probably still win that division, but they might be

672
00:34:29,520 --> 00:34:31,000
Speaker 2: a nine win team winning.

673
00:34:30,800 --> 00:34:35,520
Speaker 3: That division, limping into the playoffs and the team you

674
00:34:35,560 --> 00:34:37,560
Speaker 3: want to play is the top wild card team.

675
00:34:37,680 --> 00:34:44,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, at eleven down a spot. Washington kind of

676
00:34:44,200 --> 00:34:44,960
Speaker 2: in the same boat.

677
00:34:45,800 --> 00:34:48,840
Speaker 3: But yeah, as I say, what's the difference here, they've.

678
00:34:48,680 --> 00:34:50,640
Speaker 2: Lost three in a row. Again, if you took those

679
00:34:51,280 --> 00:34:53,520
Speaker 2: two kind of flukey wins that they got out of

680
00:34:53,560 --> 00:34:56,080
Speaker 2: the equation, the Hail Mary and then the game against

681
00:34:56,080 --> 00:34:59,200
Speaker 2: the Giants where they Giants didn't have a kicker, they

682
00:34:59,200 --> 00:35:02,200
Speaker 2: lose that game and they'd be five and seven right now.

683
00:35:03,600 --> 00:35:05,680
Speaker 3: I don't think they're favored straight up on a neutral

684
00:35:05,719 --> 00:35:07,080
Speaker 3: field against Tampa.

685
00:35:07,960 --> 00:35:08,879
Speaker 2: I don't think so either.

686
00:35:09,000 --> 00:35:11,080
Speaker 3: I'm not even sure if they would be against like Chicago.

687
00:35:14,280 --> 00:35:15,920
Speaker 2: Well, they did beat them a few weeks ago in

688
00:35:15,920 --> 00:35:19,200
Speaker 2: the hail marg Yeah.

689
00:35:18,200 --> 00:35:21,960
Speaker 3: True out there, but they're trending the wrong way, in

690
00:35:22,000 --> 00:35:22,480
Speaker 3: a big way.

691
00:35:22,719 --> 00:35:27,120
Speaker 2: Here's your top ten. Matt up three spots at number ten.

692
00:35:27,440 --> 00:35:33,760
Speaker 3: Denver fine, kind of by default. I mean Houston getting bad,

693
00:35:33,840 --> 00:35:37,600
Speaker 3: Washington getting bad, Denver being steady, and Nick's looking like

694
00:35:37,640 --> 00:35:39,440
Speaker 3: he belongs. They should climb.

695
00:35:39,880 --> 00:35:45,560
Speaker 2: Yeah at nine charters nine then yeah, nine holding STEADI

696
00:35:45,640 --> 00:35:47,879
Speaker 2: is Los Angeles good?

697
00:35:48,000 --> 00:35:51,120
Speaker 3: Okay, And I think you could make a case Denver

698
00:35:51,200 --> 00:35:53,040
Speaker 3: over LA, but I'm not willing to do that just

699
00:35:53,040 --> 00:35:53,720
Speaker 3: because of Herbert.

700
00:35:53,960 --> 00:35:55,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, they get a half game lead over them in

701
00:35:55,880 --> 00:35:59,480
Speaker 2: the lost column. So yeah, yeah, eight down, two spots

702
00:36:00,320 --> 00:36:02,000
Speaker 2: the Steelers.

703
00:36:04,640 --> 00:36:09,760
Speaker 3: Hmm, it's close.

704
00:36:10,920 --> 00:36:12,799
Speaker 2: I mean they have wins over the Chargers, they have

705
00:36:12,920 --> 00:36:15,960
Speaker 2: win over the Broncos. They haven't win over the Ravens.

706
00:36:17,160 --> 00:36:19,719
Speaker 2: I still think they're better than Minnesota. I just do.

707
00:36:21,400 --> 00:36:24,000
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'll say if it is Minnesota. Next was my

708
00:36:24,120 --> 00:36:24,760
Speaker 3: next question.

709
00:36:24,960 --> 00:36:27,520
Speaker 2: They are not as seven is up? One spot is

710
00:36:27,560 --> 00:36:28,040
Speaker 2: green Bay.

711
00:36:29,239 --> 00:36:33,280
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think I would have green Bay over Pittsburgh today,

712
00:36:34,680 --> 00:36:36,640
Speaker 3: I might have them both over Minnesota, and I know

713
00:36:36,719 --> 00:36:38,520
Speaker 3: that's disrespectful to the Vikings record.

714
00:36:39,200 --> 00:36:42,400
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's six down A spot is Minnesota?

715
00:36:43,760 --> 00:36:46,839
Speaker 3: Okay, how would you rank those three?

716
00:36:47,080 --> 00:36:49,120
Speaker 2: I'd probably have Green Bay, Pittsburgh, Minnesota.

717
00:36:50,680 --> 00:36:51,439
Speaker 3: I think I would too.

718
00:36:52,719 --> 00:36:55,360
Speaker 2: I don't trust Arnold at all. I just don't.

719
00:36:56,640 --> 00:36:58,960
Speaker 3: I think they're a little fragile too. Just yeah, they've

720
00:36:59,200 --> 00:37:01,359
Speaker 3: they've set up a lot of the defensive players either.

721
00:37:01,400 --> 00:37:03,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, to their credit, they found a way to win

722
00:37:03,239 --> 00:37:06,080
Speaker 2: some of these games, but they're gonna get exposed to

723
00:37:06,080 --> 00:37:07,960
Speaker 2: get into the playoffs like these. A few years ago

724
00:37:07,960 --> 00:37:11,040
Speaker 2: when they were whatever won all those close games. I

725
00:37:11,120 --> 00:37:14,800
Speaker 2: just don't know that that's a real good football team.

726
00:37:15,400 --> 00:37:17,440
Speaker 3: They might be one of my favorite teams or my

727
00:37:17,520 --> 00:37:20,200
Speaker 3: favorite team to bet against in the first round of

728
00:37:20,200 --> 00:37:20,879
Speaker 3: the playoffs.

729
00:37:21,080 --> 00:37:23,800
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm with you, whatever the spread is, you know,

730
00:37:23,800 --> 00:37:25,360
Speaker 2: I mean, they're gonna be They're probably they're gonna be

731
00:37:25,360 --> 00:37:25,799
Speaker 2: on the road.

732
00:37:26,719 --> 00:37:28,279
Speaker 3: They'll be on the road and be a dog, but.

733
00:37:28,280 --> 00:37:31,320
Speaker 2: They'll probably end up going to Tampa or Tampa Atlanta.

734
00:37:31,360 --> 00:37:33,720
Speaker 2: And I don't know that I love them even against

735
00:37:33,719 --> 00:37:38,840
Speaker 2: those two teams. Yeah, we mentioned a long time ago,

736
00:37:39,800 --> 00:37:44,799
Speaker 2: maybe yeah. At five up two spots is Baltimore.

737
00:37:46,680 --> 00:37:49,879
Speaker 3: Okay, I'm okay with it. I know some Steeler fans

738
00:37:49,920 --> 00:37:51,879
Speaker 3: are saying the Steelers beat Baltimore, they should be ahead

739
00:37:51,880 --> 00:37:54,080
Speaker 3: of them. Doesn't always work that way.

740
00:37:53,920 --> 00:37:54,760
Speaker 2: You know, not always.

741
00:37:54,840 --> 00:37:56,120
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know.

742
00:37:57,440 --> 00:38:01,320
Speaker 2: At four down a spot, Kansas City just low of

743
00:38:01,360 --> 00:38:02,719
Speaker 2: the Chiefs have been in a long time.

744
00:38:04,000 --> 00:38:05,640
Speaker 3: I think that's where they belong. I think the three

745
00:38:05,680 --> 00:38:07,440
Speaker 3: above them are clearly above them.

746
00:38:07,600 --> 00:38:11,399
Speaker 2: Yeah, I do too. At three up a spot, Philadelphia.

747
00:38:11,560 --> 00:38:14,040
Speaker 2: We get to see Philadelphia at Baltimore this week.

748
00:38:16,080 --> 00:38:19,640
Speaker 3: I might have Buffalo at three. Buffalo versus Eagles is top.

749
00:38:19,680 --> 00:38:21,880
Speaker 2: I can understand it. But Buffalo didn't do anything wrong.

750
00:38:22,760 --> 00:38:24,799
Speaker 2: They didn't play last week, and they're still they're nine

751
00:38:24,800 --> 00:38:28,480
Speaker 2: to two as well. They're at nine and two. They're

752
00:38:28,520 --> 00:38:29,520
Speaker 2: on a bit of a bit.

753
00:38:29,840 --> 00:38:31,600
Speaker 3: Like Dave, as much of momentum as the Eagles. The

754
00:38:31,600 --> 00:38:33,640
Speaker 3: Eagles have what like a seven or eight game winning streak.

755
00:38:34,080 --> 00:38:36,480
Speaker 2: Yeah, I hear you. And then number one is Detroit.

756
00:38:37,800 --> 00:38:41,880
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, yeah, So with it this week, no.

757
00:38:41,719 --> 00:38:43,480
Speaker 2: Not so much. I mean there's some teams you look

758
00:38:43,480 --> 00:38:45,399
Speaker 2: at and then you start getting into it and it's like, oh,

759
00:38:45,480 --> 00:38:49,440
Speaker 2: maybe they're not that's kind of right. I mean you

760
00:38:49,480 --> 00:38:52,880
Speaker 2: know that that. Again, the top ten in the NFL

761
00:38:53,000 --> 00:38:56,719
Speaker 2: right now is really kind of the top ten that

762
00:38:56,719 --> 00:38:58,359
Speaker 2: they are who they are. I mean, some of these

763
00:38:58,360 --> 00:39:01,200
Speaker 2: teams are trending in the right direction, some not. And

764
00:39:01,320 --> 00:39:04,000
Speaker 2: you know, when people look at the Steelers, the Steelers

765
00:39:04,000 --> 00:39:06,120
Speaker 2: are clearly a top ten team in the league. They're

766
00:39:06,160 --> 00:39:07,920
Speaker 2: probably a top seven team in the league.

767
00:39:08,960 --> 00:39:11,200
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, And you can say, oh, they're not treading

768
00:39:11,239 --> 00:39:13,880
Speaker 3: the right direction. They're only coming off one loss. They

769
00:39:13,960 --> 00:39:14,759
Speaker 3: won five in a row.

770
00:39:15,280 --> 00:39:18,560
Speaker 2: Somebody made that note on on our YouTube the Steelers

771
00:39:18,560 --> 00:39:21,000
Speaker 2: just aren't consistent enough. I'm like, dude, they won five

772
00:39:21,040 --> 00:39:21,520
Speaker 2: in a row.

773
00:39:21,920 --> 00:39:26,520
Speaker 3: What if you phrase it this way, the Steelers have

774
00:39:26,560 --> 00:39:29,160
Speaker 3: won five of their last six, You'd say, wow, they're

775
00:39:29,200 --> 00:39:33,440
Speaker 3: really hot, they're climbing. Yeah, well they have one five

776
00:39:33,600 --> 00:39:35,080
Speaker 3: the Yeah.

777
00:39:35,160 --> 00:39:39,279
Speaker 2: So I don't know. I mean, I understand fans get

778
00:39:39,280 --> 00:39:42,319
Speaker 2: caught up in a loss, and I get it, But

779
00:39:42,360 --> 00:39:44,080
Speaker 2: you've won five at you know, to your point, you

780
00:39:44,120 --> 00:39:46,880
Speaker 2: won five out of six. Now if you go losing

781
00:39:46,920 --> 00:39:49,520
Speaker 2: Cincinnati this weekend, well, now you've won five out of seven.

782
00:39:49,760 --> 00:39:51,480
Speaker 2: Doesn't see it doesn't sound as good. You lost two

783
00:39:51,520 --> 00:39:53,640
Speaker 2: in a row. But if you avoid that, if you

784
00:39:53,680 --> 00:39:56,719
Speaker 2: win this game, that doesn't mean you know, you haven't

785
00:39:56,719 --> 00:39:59,040
Speaker 2: been playing inconsistently. You've been pretty consistent.

786
00:40:00,560 --> 00:40:02,480
Speaker 3: So and you can also play well and lose.

787
00:40:02,680 --> 00:40:06,960
Speaker 2: You know, Oh absolutely, that happens to a lot of teams. Anyways,

788
00:40:07,080 --> 00:40:10,160
Speaker 2: let's get to a break. He is the Matt Williamson.

789
00:40:10,200 --> 00:40:12,120
Speaker 2: I'm Dale Lollie. You're listening to the Drive here on

790
00:40:12,200 --> 00:40:15,239
Speaker 2: the Steelers Audio Network. When we come back, we're gonna

791
00:40:15,280 --> 00:40:18,120
Speaker 2: hear from Steelers linebacker Alex high Smith what he had

792
00:40:18,120 --> 00:40:21,200
Speaker 2: to say after practicing today after getting in a I

793
00:40:21,239 --> 00:40:23,360
Speaker 2: haven't seen they haven't don't have to list of practice

794
00:40:23,360 --> 00:40:25,359
Speaker 2: report for today, but I assume since he was out

795
00:40:25,400 --> 00:40:28,040
Speaker 2: there running around as he said, if they had to

796
00:40:28,040 --> 00:40:30,279
Speaker 2: list them, he would have been listed as limited. So

797
00:40:30,640 --> 00:40:36,680
Speaker 2: here from Alex high Smith right after this, at.

798
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Speaker 1: Least he's the Drive with Dale Lolly and Matt Williamson

799
00:40:40,280 --> 00:40:42,480
Speaker 1: on your twenty four to seven Home of the Black

800
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Speaker 1: and Gold Steelers Nation Radio.

801
00:40:48,400 --> 00:40:51,160
Speaker 2: And we are back on Dale Lolly. He is the

802
00:40:51,280 --> 00:40:54,080
Speaker 2: Matt Williamson and Matt got a chance to talk to

803
00:40:54,280 --> 00:40:57,160
Speaker 2: the Alex high Smith earlier today and he, as I

804
00:40:57,200 --> 00:40:59,080
Speaker 2: mentioned earlier in the show, he was out there doing

805
00:40:59,120 --> 00:41:02,600
Speaker 2: some straight line running and things of that nature on

806
00:41:02,640 --> 00:41:04,239
Speaker 2: the field there, and he said he felt pretty good.

807
00:41:04,480 --> 00:41:06,919
Speaker 2: But Mike PURSUITA and I and a couple other guys

808
00:41:06,960 --> 00:41:09,080
Speaker 2: caught up with him. Let's let's hear what he had

809
00:41:09,120 --> 00:41:09,439
Speaker 2: to say.

810
00:41:09,840 --> 00:41:12,200
Speaker 4: Status right now is still the same, I think, questioning,

811
00:41:12,280 --> 00:41:14,680
Speaker 4: but you know, well see it's the week progresses, but

812
00:41:14,800 --> 00:41:17,000
Speaker 4: it's feeling better day by day. So I can't really determine,

813
00:41:17,000 --> 00:41:19,160
Speaker 4: you know, what the status is yet, but it's feeling

814
00:41:19,160 --> 00:41:19,680
Speaker 4: better every day.

815
00:41:19,760 --> 00:41:21,759
Speaker 2: What did they involved for you?

816
00:41:22,120 --> 00:41:24,320
Speaker 4: Just straight ahead running, you know, a little bit of

817
00:41:25,160 --> 00:41:27,319
Speaker 4: a little bit of louderal stuff, but less he's still

818
00:41:27,360 --> 00:41:29,920
Speaker 4: straight ahead. So, like I said, it's feeling better, progressing

819
00:41:29,920 --> 00:41:32,160
Speaker 4: every day. So that's just the goal, just to get

820
00:41:32,160 --> 00:41:34,160
Speaker 4: better day by day, just you know, see how it feels.

821
00:41:34,160 --> 00:41:36,360
Speaker 4: So but like I said, just from where it was,

822
00:41:36,400 --> 00:41:37,680
Speaker 4: you know, a few days to go to where it

823
00:41:37,680 --> 00:41:40,040
Speaker 4: is now, it's better, So it's get better every day.

824
00:41:40,239 --> 00:41:42,319
Speaker 2: It had to be a pretty scary one for you,

825
00:41:42,360 --> 00:41:44,440
Speaker 2: and look like maybe even the side of the ankle

826
00:41:44,480 --> 00:41:44,960
Speaker 2: touch the ground.

827
00:41:45,040 --> 00:41:47,120
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean I think it did, but you know,

828
00:41:47,160 --> 00:41:49,680
Speaker 4: it's it was definitely definitely dodged a bullet with it

829
00:41:49,680 --> 00:41:52,239
Speaker 4: only being like a low ankle, just a spring and so,

830
00:41:52,960 --> 00:41:54,520
Speaker 4: like I said, it's feeling feel much better. And so

831
00:41:54,520 --> 00:41:57,200
Speaker 4: I've really been attacking rehab every single day and I've

832
00:41:57,200 --> 00:41:58,719
Speaker 4: been here and doing doing next year and doing as

833
00:41:58,800 --> 00:42:01,040
Speaker 4: much as I can, just trying to get back. So,

834
00:42:01,120 --> 00:42:02,799
Speaker 4: like I said, just continue to progress this week and

835
00:42:03,000 --> 00:42:03,759
Speaker 4: I'll see where I'm at.

836
00:42:04,080 --> 00:42:06,120
Speaker 2: Has it been frustrating, I mean the second time?

837
00:42:06,600 --> 00:42:08,719
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean, you know, it definitely is.

838
00:42:09,239 --> 00:42:11,239
Speaker 4: But also too, you know, I just wanna continue to

839
00:42:11,280 --> 00:42:13,600
Speaker 4: be the best teammate, the best leader that can be

840
00:42:13,640 --> 00:42:15,800
Speaker 4: for this team while I am out just helping the guys,

841
00:42:16,680 --> 00:42:18,560
Speaker 4: you know, while they're in there. You know. Unfortunately it

842
00:42:18,600 --> 00:42:21,160
Speaker 4: wasn't able to go to the game on Thursday, but

843
00:42:21,320 --> 00:42:24,560
Speaker 4: you know, he just through throughout practice and throughout the week, Uh,

844
00:42:24,640 --> 00:42:26,319
Speaker 4: just trying to be the best team that I could

845
00:42:26,320 --> 00:42:27,799
Speaker 4: be for the guys and trying to help them in

846
00:42:27,880 --> 00:42:30,319
Speaker 4: them in different ways. And so so like I said,

847
00:42:30,320 --> 00:42:32,399
Speaker 4: I'm just ready to be back and just progressing every day.

848
00:42:32,680 --> 00:42:34,640
Speaker 3: How big a game is just for you guys coming

849
00:42:34,680 --> 00:42:35,960
Speaker 3: off the loss.

850
00:42:35,680 --> 00:42:37,520
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a huge game. I mean every game from

851
00:42:37,560 --> 00:42:40,760
Speaker 4: here on out, especially as A's North game against against

852
00:42:40,880 --> 00:42:43,600
Speaker 4: the Bengals, you know, one of our rivals, and so uh,

853
00:42:43,640 --> 00:42:45,160
Speaker 4: we just you know, we just gotta start fast, and

854
00:42:45,239 --> 00:42:46,680
Speaker 4: we just gotta jump on them early. And so I

855
00:42:46,719 --> 00:42:48,440
Speaker 4: think there's gonna be a big game. You know, it's

856
00:42:48,480 --> 00:42:50,080
Speaker 4: our first game against them this year, but just to

857
00:42:50,080 --> 00:42:52,560
Speaker 4: bounce back after a loss, it's just gonna be huge

858
00:42:52,560 --> 00:42:55,080
Speaker 4: for us. And so we know the type of games

859
00:42:55,120 --> 00:42:56,360
Speaker 4: we had the rest of this year, and this is

860
00:42:57,760 --> 00:43:00,600
Speaker 4: just another North Road battle and so we just got

861
00:43:00,680 --> 00:43:03,800
Speaker 4: to bring it that being the case, you know, especially

862
00:43:04,520 --> 00:43:07,160
Speaker 4: eager to get out Yeah, I mean absolutely, I'm definitely

863
00:43:07,239 --> 00:43:08,919
Speaker 4: very eager to get out there, and like I said,

864
00:43:08,920 --> 00:43:10,480
Speaker 4: working my butt off to try and get back out

865
00:43:10,480 --> 00:43:12,560
Speaker 4: there as fast as I can. But you know, I

866
00:43:12,600 --> 00:43:15,360
Speaker 4: know that I gotta be you know, feeling confident, you know,

867
00:43:15,440 --> 00:43:18,120
Speaker 4: with with what I'm doing, especially that it being the

868
00:43:18,160 --> 00:43:19,920
Speaker 4: left ankle and that's the side that I've been off of.

869
00:43:20,040 --> 00:43:21,960
Speaker 4: So like I said, I just got to be confident

870
00:43:21,960 --> 00:43:24,440
Speaker 4: with it. But I'm getting that confidence every single day

871
00:43:24,440 --> 00:43:26,040
Speaker 4: and it's getting better and better. Is there a needle

872
00:43:26,080 --> 00:43:27,680
Speaker 4: you can thread where like, Okay, maybe you're not one

873
00:43:27,760 --> 00:43:30,000
Speaker 4: hundred percent fully back, but you should get out there

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Speaker 4: and give them a certain compliment of snaps, you.

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Speaker 3: Know what I mean.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, we know, we haven't haven't talked about that yet.

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Speaker 4: Like I said, I think, uh, later this week, you know, Thursday, Friday,

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Speaker 4: that'll really be more determined. Yeah, you know what, what

879
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Speaker 4: I'll be able to do. So just just progressing every

880
00:43:44,640 --> 00:43:46,279
Speaker 4: day is my goal. And like it's you know, it

881
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Speaker 4: is as you know better, So I am ready to

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Speaker 4: you know, I am eager to try and get back

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Speaker 4: out there. So like I said, I just got to

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Speaker 4: be confident and make sure that you know I can

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00:43:55,160 --> 00:43:56,919
Speaker 4: play on it. So I'm just getting better every day.

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Speaker 3: Undefeated.

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Speaker 4: When you do play to three when you don't, I mean,

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00:44:01,160 --> 00:44:03,480
Speaker 4: it's like kind of a weird thing of it shows

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00:44:03,480 --> 00:44:05,160
Speaker 4: your value, but at the same time as it makes

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Speaker 4: it more frustrating when you do. After this time, I mean,

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Speaker 4: I don't think that really no matters of the grand

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Speaker 4: scheme of things. And I just, like I said, I

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Speaker 4: just want to do what do what I can to

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Speaker 4: get back out there and help my team. That's how

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Speaker 4: that matters to me. And when I'm out there, just

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00:44:19,880 --> 00:44:22,120
Speaker 4: be the best version of myself. And that's why I

897
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Speaker 4: gotta have that confidence to know that when I am

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Speaker 4: out there, I need to be given the best version

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Speaker 4: of myself. And so I just want to continue to

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Speaker 4: get better and better every single day. Like I was

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Speaker 4: saying earlier, you know, Saturday was a little a little

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Speaker 4: if you just running and stuff, but for the way

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Speaker 4: I was running a day was much better. And so

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Speaker 4: I'm just progressing, and like I said, later this week,

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Speaker 4: I'll be more determined on my status.

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Speaker 3: I know you guys are early in Cincinnati prep, but

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Speaker 3: what have you seen out of this version of Cincinnati's

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Speaker 3: out there?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, you know, there's still the dynamic and

910
00:44:49,200 --> 00:44:52,480
Speaker 4: great offense that they've always been, you know, like Joe's

911
00:44:52,560 --> 00:44:56,840
Speaker 4: Joe's playing grades, I think to be that for this

912
00:44:56,920 --> 00:45:01,879
Speaker 4: game as well, and so yeah, it's there. They're dangerous offense. Look,

913
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Speaker 4: they have been in the past few years, and so

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Speaker 4: we know that we got to get after especially up front.

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Speaker 4: You know, we gotta get to lay him down and

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Speaker 4: cause a lot of pressure. And so I think that's

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Speaker 4: just the goal is just really start fast and jump

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Speaker 4: on them early. Because times where we have been successful

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Speaker 4: going there is when we've taken the ball away and

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00:45:17,520 --> 00:45:20,120
Speaker 4: we get sacks and forced turnovers. So that's what we

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Speaker 4: got to do. We just got to be reallyentless on

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Speaker 4: the defensive side because they got a lot of weapons

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Speaker 4: in their good offense, so I always got to.

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Speaker 3: Get after them.

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Speaker 2: That was Steelers outside linebacker Alex high Smith with myself

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Speaker 2: and Mike Pursued and a couple other guys earlier today

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Speaker 2: after he had gone out and gone through a little

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Speaker 2: bit of a practice today. As I mentioned, the Steelers

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Speaker 2: two and three without Alex high Smith in the lineup,

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Speaker 2: So we'll see if he's able to get back this week,

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Speaker 2: and maybe there's six and oh when he does play,

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Speaker 2: So that's kind of a big deal. But Matt, that's

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Speaker 2: going to do it for our show today. So for

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Speaker 2: my partner Matt Williamson, for CJ. Woofley here on site

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Speaker 2: making sure I stay on the air, and for Justin

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Speaker 2: Miller back in the studio making sure where all the

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Speaker 2: bright buttons get I am Dale, Lollie. We thank you

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Speaker 2: for listening to this edition of the Drive on the

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Speaker 2: Steelers Audio Network.