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

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Speaker 1: Goals Steelers Nation Radio. Welcome back. I am Dale Lally.

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Speaker 1: He has Matt Williamson and this is the Drive off

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Speaker 1: the Steelers Nation Radio and it's time on Tuesday to

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Speaker 1: go through Dan Kansas Power rankings from NFL dot Com,

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Speaker 1: as we do every week at this time, see where

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Speaker 1: things stand at this point and uh a new number

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Speaker 1: thirty two this week. Matt is there about that the

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Speaker 1: Houston Texans slide down a spot, so I figured they

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Speaker 1: were already there. I was thinking, who besides the Texans

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Speaker 1: would be thirty two, like the Raiders for losing to

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Speaker 1: Saturday or what. Yeah, they moved down pretty clear. Yeah yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean they don't do anything well. No, they just

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Speaker 1: claimed Eno Benjamin off of waivers from Arizona, which was

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Speaker 1: a surprising cut. Yeah. I don't know what the story

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Speaker 1: was with there. When we talk fantasy, Kiante Ingram's the guy.

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Speaker 1: But I mentioned Houston doesn't do anything well. Their run

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Speaker 1: defense is like the worst since the Super Bowler. When

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Speaker 1: you say Kiante, do you have to say with some

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Speaker 1: Farva beans? Yeah? Um, at thirty one, moving up a

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Speaker 1: spot only one spot are the Carolina Panthers, going back

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Speaker 1: to Baker, Going back to Baker. Would they be thirty

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Speaker 1: one for you, though? I mean they're bad, don't get

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Speaker 1: me wrong, but they're pretty bad. I guess I can't

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Speaker 1: fight that. Well, we'll see who we would put behind them,

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Speaker 1: coming up here at thirty down four spots. This was

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Speaker 1: a team that started the year in the top ten,

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Speaker 1: the Denver Broncos. Oh they're bad. How about this Broncos

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Speaker 1: stat that I heard today if their offense could have

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Speaker 1: produced eighteen points in every one of their games this year?

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Speaker 1: The yeah, so they're bad. It only half of them

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Speaker 1: are bad. They've got the worst offense in the league.

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Speaker 1: I think. Yeah, I don't think there's no I'm not.

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Speaker 1: I'm not. That's not a question. They have the lowest

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Speaker 1: scoring offense in the league. Yeah, I mean the ep

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Speaker 1: I was just say the Rams with cup moving forward. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: we'll see where they were. Dan Hansons puts them at

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Speaker 1: twenty nine. Another team that started just outside the top

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Speaker 1: ten this year, the Las Vegas Raiders to a f

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Speaker 1: C West teams. Remember, right before the season started, first

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Speaker 1: couple of weeks of season, those teams were all in

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Speaker 1: the top twelve. All four division and four teams in

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Speaker 1: the same division go the playoff? Can they all win

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Speaker 1: double digit games? Like I heard this the other day too,

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Speaker 1: Like right now the Chiefs have the number one seed

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Speaker 1: in the a f C. But oh, everyone talked about

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Speaker 1: their hard schedule, Like if you look at preseason, they

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Speaker 1: got one of the hardest schedules going and someone listed

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Speaker 1: it off. It's like Denver twice the Raiders, Like it's

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Speaker 1: not about at all. That's why each season is into it.

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Speaker 1: You can't just look at things on paper. You have

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Speaker 1: to wait until the season starts to kind of get

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Speaker 1: a field for things. They that's down five spots. I

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Speaker 1: was listening to Michael Lombardi's podcast, who was the GM

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Speaker 1: of the Raiders, and it's tight with the Davis family

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Speaker 1: and all that, and he's like everyone's killing Josh McDaniels,

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Speaker 1: which I get, don't get me wrong, but he's like,

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Speaker 1: please name six good Raiders or go look at their draft.

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Speaker 1: I mean they just cut first round picks all the time.

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Speaker 1: Let's don't forget they were a playoff team. I get that,

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Speaker 1: and I mean their coach got fired mid season their

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Speaker 1: playoff team, but boy, I mean that I think that's

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Speaker 1: the worst defense in the league. Yeah, it's pretty bad.

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Speaker 1: It's down a spot. Jacksonville. I guess they disappoint me.

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Speaker 1: I thought they'd be a nine win team, eight win team,

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Speaker 1: you know, build something with these young picks and stuff.

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Speaker 1: Lawrence would take a bigger step forward. And that's where

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Speaker 1: they belong. Is where they belong. An up three spots.

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Speaker 1: The Indianapolis Colts. Okay, I mean, I'm curious what they

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Speaker 1: look like when they don't play the worst defense in

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Speaker 1: the league. And I mean they're wins. They somehow beat

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Speaker 1: the Chiefs, but the other three wins are against the Jaguars,

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Speaker 1: the Texans. They gotta tie against the Texans. Just beat

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Speaker 1: just beat the Raiders. But I bet they win two more.

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Speaker 1: And I'm not saying Saturday is the answer or even

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Speaker 1: a good thing, but I bet they win two more.

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Speaker 1: It's yeah, they play in that division. Yeah right right,

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Speaker 1: probably isn't factoring in, you know, the cup situation. Cup

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Speaker 1: just went on. I r there's a few offensive players,

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Speaker 1: where they're just the entire offense. Yeah, you know. I

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Speaker 1: mean in the world knows he's getting the ball and

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Speaker 1: they can't do anything about it. Nobody else does anything

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Speaker 1: on that offense. I'm sure it's not the way they're built,

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Speaker 1: not the same as the Steelers. But are you rushing

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Speaker 1: Stafford back behind that line at this point? I mean,

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Speaker 1: but then you're gonna look Aaron Donald in the face

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Speaker 1: and say, hey, Aaron, thanks for coming back this year.

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Speaker 1: But I dug into their their cap situation and stuff

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Speaker 1: for next year too. It's unbelievable. I mean, they have

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Speaker 1: so many dudes making twelve million or more, no middle

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Speaker 1: class whatsoever, and hardly anyone under contract. I mean it's

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Speaker 1: really bad. Like they might have to trade Donald and

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Speaker 1: guys like that in season and give me impossible to

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Speaker 1: trade because they make too much money and there, Yeah, exactly,

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Speaker 1: you're not gonna get three first form yeah crazy, it's

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Speaker 1: twenty five up three spots the Steelers. I know, the

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Speaker 1: Steelers over the Saints. I would too, I mean, that

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Speaker 1: was that was a pretty decisive victory. It was. And no,

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Speaker 1: I'm not gonna just because the team one doesn't mean

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Speaker 1: they should be ahead of them. But I think they're

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Speaker 1: better than the same. They pretty much showed that on Sunday. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Saints is currently constructed, are not very good. It's twenty

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Speaker 1: four down five spots the Browns. Brown, Like, the Steelers

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Speaker 1: are better than the Browns right now too. I mean

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Speaker 1: the Browns d is really really bad. Yeah, and he

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Speaker 1: was okay. I mean the Steelers just held the Saints

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Speaker 1: and without making Fitzpatrick. It's a pretty good defense. It's

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Speaker 1: twenty three down just three spots. The Saints. I mean

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Speaker 1: I would have them in this neighborhood, but I would

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Speaker 1: have the Browns and Steelers ahead of them. Yeah, Like,

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Speaker 1: who's better the Saints of the Jags. Yeah, I mean

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Speaker 1: that's their neighborhood at two down, five spots. The Falcons.

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Speaker 1: I think they're really coming back to earth now. This

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Speaker 1: running thing we talked about is great and it's kept

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Speaker 1: their head up. Their defense is atrocious. Defense is so bad.

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Speaker 1: And Marriott is a hard watch. He's awful. Yeah, he's

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Speaker 1: like firing at twelve gauge when he throws the football.

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Speaker 1: You don't know where the baby's gonna end up at. Ye,

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Speaker 1: he's throwing from his back and doing stuff stuff. That

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Speaker 1: was the absolute worst throw of seeing a quarterback, a

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Speaker 1: veteran quarterback especially make maybe ever, Yeah, I mean, what

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Speaker 1: instead of taking a sack? Not even I mean we've

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Speaker 1: talked this to no end, but not lose using London

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Speaker 1: and pits at all either. It's twenty one up eight spots,

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Speaker 1: eight spots the Lions. They beat the Bears and they

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Speaker 1: move up eight spots. They beat the Bears and move

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Speaker 1: I would take my chances that the Steelers would beat

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Speaker 1: the Lions. Yes, yeah, I mean their defense isn't fixed,

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Speaker 1: it's it's probably the worst defense in the league. It's

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Speaker 1: right there, that's for sure. Everybody puts up big yards

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Speaker 1: and points and you often mentioned it. I mean's not

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Speaker 1: no matter what I mean. I've called him a fair

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Speaker 1: weather quarterback forever, without a doubt. In the Dome, it's

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Speaker 1: great and them it's twenty up a spot, up a spot.

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Speaker 1: The Bears, I guess they're excited about fields, their defenses

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Speaker 1: and their defense stinks too. I would not have their

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Speaker 1: fields is doing all this stuff right, and they're not winning,

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Speaker 1: and that's they're not winning, which is great for the Steelers. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's the Bear route against the Bears. I would take

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Speaker 1: the Steelers over the Bears too. I mean, I'll take

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Speaker 1: the Browns over the Bears too. Yeah. Yeah, a couple

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Speaker 1: of those teams. I mean, I'm mu sure the Colts

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Speaker 1: don't beat the Bears a pretty good chance. I mean, yeah,

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Speaker 1: those teams don't know how to win, right, there's something

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Speaker 1: to be said for that. At nineteen up, four spots,

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Speaker 1: the Cardinals just by beating the Rams, No, no, no, no, no.

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Speaker 1: I mean this neighborhood is not easy to rap. I

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Speaker 1: get a lot of these are don't smell great. You know.

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Speaker 1: At eighteen down three spots, the Chargers, they're they're not

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Speaker 1: a good team right now there. Yeah, it looks like

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Speaker 1: Mike Williams and Keenan Allen could come back this week.

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Speaker 1: That would be great. That helps some of the problems.

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Speaker 1: I was actually, you know that the defense actually played

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Speaker 1: okay last week quite well. Yeah, they did not keep

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Speaker 1: blown off the ball. I thought Niners are run for

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Speaker 1: eight million yards Chargers hung in there pretty well. I'm

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Speaker 1: still a massive Herbert believer. But that's where they belong.

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Speaker 1: I mean, that's what they're playing like. I mean, they're

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Speaker 1: throwing everything sideways. They've turned him into a checkdown Charlie.

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Speaker 1: They don't trust their offensive line at all. They don't

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Speaker 1: want him getting hit because they've already seen what happens.

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Speaker 1: At seventeen up eight spots. Washington they're five hundred, they're

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Speaker 1: five and five. I mean, if you look at the NFC,

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Speaker 1: there's seven clear teams that should be in the playoffs.

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Speaker 1: There's Washington right in the middle, and then they have not.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I don't think they're Would you go to

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Speaker 1: winz or Heineke. I'd stick with Haneke. Gives you a

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Speaker 1: better chance to win. Things have been better with him

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Speaker 1: than when so I guess whence it is practicing this

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Speaker 1: the McLaurin. It's been great instead of the other team team.

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Speaker 1: But he also Heineke, there's five throws. You go, whoa, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: he's he's limited. Yeah yeah, but he's um At sixteen

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Speaker 1: up six spots the Packers, Okay, did they right? The

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Speaker 1: ship last week. That's strong, but it was a big win.

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Speaker 1: They ran the football Okay, at fifteen down a spot,

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Speaker 1: did they have something in Christian Watson Maybe? Yeah, Man,

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Speaker 1: I believe it. I get to see it more than once.

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Speaker 1: He also had like three drops in that game. At

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Speaker 1: fift down a spot despite being on a bye. Were

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Speaker 1: the Patriots. Yeah, I would say they're about the most

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Speaker 1: average team in the league, and there's some so many

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Speaker 1: bad ones that they're probably slightly above At fourteen down

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Speaker 1: four spots the Seahawks. It's a rough loss, but man,

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Speaker 1: I think that travel had a lot one Yeah. I

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Speaker 1: think they'll get back to being so, I don't know

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Speaker 1: if they they gotta buy then they play the Raiders,

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Speaker 1: so maybe it does get better. I don't know. And

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Speaker 1: I think they're playoff team. Yeah. I mean, here's the

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Speaker 1: thing we talked in the preseason about this. The NFC

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Speaker 1: the n f C West is massively under performing. Right,

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Speaker 1: so some of those Seattle it looked like a tough road.

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Speaker 1: It's not nearly at least you know what you are

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Speaker 1: and what you want to do. Some of those teams

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Speaker 1: and they're not as bad as Raiders and Broncos. At

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Speaker 1: thirteen holding steady the Giants, I guess that is the

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Speaker 1: worst seven and two, and maybe in the history of

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Speaker 1: the game, it really is. I think they're well coached.

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Speaker 1: At twelve up four spots and the Giants better than

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Speaker 1: the Patriots, didn't they beat him this year? I think

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Speaker 1: I'll be um At twelve up four spots the Buccaneers.

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Speaker 1: Like you know what they're looking for. The Steelers pick

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