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

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Speaker 1: of the Black and Gold Steelers Nation Radio. Welcome to

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Speaker 1: the Drive. I'm Dale Lollly here with Matt Williamson. Matt,

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Speaker 1: it's a Wednesday here in Pittsburgh. Yeah, but it's not

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Speaker 1: a regular practice day for the Stealers. An extra little

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Speaker 1: day off, not that they got. They took the day off.

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Speaker 1: The players were all at the facility today, but not

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Speaker 1: practicing more of a film study. Getting the extra day

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Speaker 1: in makes sense, makes sense. Give their bodies still a break.

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Speaker 1: But um, I wonder what those film sessions are like.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I'm sure they're heavy Bears already because they

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Speaker 1: the coaches don't change their schedule much. I mean, they're

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Speaker 1: they're preparing for the Bears. But maybe is there a

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Speaker 1: little more emphasis on coaching points? You know, your your

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Speaker 1: hands are dropping a little bit, you know, things like that. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you heard Mike tom talking about that on Tuesday during

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Speaker 1: his press conference about the teachable things, things that you've

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Speaker 1: that they've gotten away with. But they need to get

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Speaker 1: better moving on, like like leveraging using your leverage and

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Speaker 1: coverage and things of that nature. It makes sense. Um,

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Speaker 1: you know, just to remind guys, your technique starts to

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Speaker 1: fall off a little bit. Camp it's a lot more

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Speaker 1: technique stuff and you know, working on fundamentals, and at

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Speaker 1: this point you're then it becomes getting ready to play

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Speaker 1: the Bengals, get ready to play the Raiders, to play

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Speaker 1: the getting that meat grinder and sometimes you know those things,

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Speaker 1: those that can slip. So it's a good, good opportunity

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Speaker 1: to do that, get that extra day. Um, speaking of slipping,

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Speaker 1: where the Cleveland Browns done? No, because I think the

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Speaker 1: teams that I actually did a f C Power Ranks

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Speaker 1: today which was really hard, and I had them ninth.

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Speaker 1: Maybe even for the people who aren't aware. Odell Beckham

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Speaker 1: after his father went on Twitter and basically said Baker

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Speaker 1: Mayfield stinks based started quarterback with no response at all

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Speaker 1: from Becker Jr. You know when Brady did that. When

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Speaker 1: that happened a couple of weeks ago, when Tom Brady

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Speaker 1: was getting ready to play the Patriots, and Tom Brady's

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Speaker 1: senior came out whatever I think it is, senior, I

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Speaker 1: don't know anyways, Mr Brady. Yeah, Mr Brady came out

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Speaker 1: and was quoted in a bunch of the papers and

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Speaker 1: and things of that nature, talking about how you know,

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Speaker 1: Brady's gotten the last laugh and his son you know,

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Speaker 1: did this and that. And Brady came out immediately his

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Speaker 1: next press conference and said, I just want you all

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Speaker 1: to note whether it was tongue in cheek or not.

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Speaker 1: He said it that the you know, the thoughts of

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Speaker 1: of my father or not my you know, yeah, he's

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Speaker 1: not speaking for all of us here. It's not the

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Speaker 1: Brady campan just talking about his own stuff. Nothing from

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Speaker 1: from Odell Beckham. The trade deadline passes, Yes, he comes

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Speaker 1: into he comes into the facility today and Kevin Stefanski says,

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Speaker 1: you're not welcome here. Yeah, I mean crazy like not.

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Speaker 1: Why don't you take the day off or let's just

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Speaker 1: give us a day to cool off. It's yeah, you're

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Speaker 1: not really part of the team anymore. He's not a team, right, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's that's how the barb came out that I read today.

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Speaker 1: You want to talk about distractions for a team that's struggling,

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Speaker 1: struggling bad um, It really a position you can't afford to,

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Speaker 1: you know. It's not like they're you know, have a

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Speaker 1: just basket full of playmakers right now. All right, So

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Speaker 1: let's stay get into it. I mean, are they done?

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Speaker 1: I don't think so, because the a f C is

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Speaker 1: just so upside down topsy. Can they win as currently constructed,

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Speaker 1: that's the thing they have. Yeah, there four and four,

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Speaker 1: they're still in it. But given where they are at

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Speaker 1: right now with everything that's happening, when the team, can

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Speaker 1: they win? Yes? Are you gonna pick him to win

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Speaker 1: in Cincinnati this week? No? Right? So then there're four

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Speaker 1: and five right? Right? Right? I mean, can they get

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Speaker 1: it right? Or they can get the nine wins and

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Speaker 1: get in the playoffs and finish the season strong. Yeah? Boy,

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Speaker 1: they got an uphill climb. Um. Let's go back a

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Speaker 1: bit though. You've heard me call the nest, you know,

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Speaker 1: and I talking about quarterbacks. I started that when the

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Speaker 1: Giants dumped Dodell Beckham because Eli was out, everyone in

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Speaker 1: the world knew they were gonna get a young quarterback

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Speaker 1: and end up being Daniel Jones. And frankly, they never

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Speaker 1: came out and said it, but they basically said, this

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Speaker 1: is a better environment for a young quarterback without Odell

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Speaker 1: than with them, because at that point O'Dell was a

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Speaker 1: last really good year. UH. That season his final season

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Speaker 1: seventy seven catches for one thousand fifty two yards, thirteen points,

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Speaker 1: He goes to Cleveland in twenty nineteen. This is Baker

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Speaker 1: mayfield second year. He gets targeted a hundred thirty three

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Speaker 1: to the hunt thousand yards. Yeah, it's always they went

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Speaker 1: out of their way to get him a thousand yards. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I kind of wanted to do the whole Odell timeline

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Speaker 1: because you know that was the off season. Two. Wow,

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Speaker 1: the Browns are up and coming. They got all this,

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Speaker 1: you know, money to spend and resources, and these young

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Speaker 1: first round picks, the Jokus and Wards and Garrets and

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Speaker 1: Mayfield's and all these guys they drafted high are all

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Speaker 1: Um and O'Dell never meshed with this team at all,

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Speaker 1: you know, the numbers bear that out. Injuries are a

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Speaker 1: I mean, he hasn't been great, but he was a

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Speaker 1: three seasons with the Browns, he's played twenty nine games.

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Speaker 1: He's got a hundred and fourteen catches for once the

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Speaker 1: Catching fifty four point three percent of the targets thrown

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Speaker 1: Pro Football Focus for Pro Football Focus for is you know,

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Speaker 1: like we're gonna talk Bears of course a lot this week.

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Speaker 1: You know, guys like Allen Robinson don't have a good

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Speaker 1: you can narrow it down. Who's more a blame of

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Speaker 1: why the why there aren't completions? There's two people to

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Speaker 1: How about this offseason though, Like the Brown's offense got

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Speaker 1: People weren't questioning if Baker's the long term answer. I

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Speaker 1: mean I'm talking like, you know, late in the season

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Speaker 1: better without Odell? And my thought was no, the new coach,

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Speaker 1: the young quarterbacks started to gel he wasn't there. They'll

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Speaker 1: add him into the equation. He'll get his hundred targets

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Speaker 1: And you know the other part of the equation on

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Speaker 1: that is, you know, he's best buds with Jervis Landry.

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Speaker 1: This was supposed to be everybody sitting around the campfire

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Speaker 1: doesn't I don't think he won't play another game. Um

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Speaker 1: there'll be news at some point here that Odell Beckham

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Speaker 1: the day after the trade deadline, the day after clearly

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Speaker 1: Steelers at least got picks, premium picks. They turned it

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Speaker 1: into Deante Johnson. We're Antonio Brown right right right that

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Speaker 1: the world, had done everything in the world, right, sabotaging

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Speaker 1: the team, his style, I mean all the everyone remembers, right, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: somebody that could really use them, you're saying to make

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Speaker 1: not gonna pick up his contract though. I mean it's

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Speaker 1: way too much it's worth you know, it's he's not

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Speaker 1: worth that at all. You've cited the numbers over the

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Speaker 1: last couple of years, throwing the injuries, throwing the attitude.

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Speaker 1: It's not even taking a risk on Julio Jones at

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Speaker 1: his age this offseason. I mean, there, there's there's there's

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Speaker 1: not even a conversation to be had. His base salary

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Speaker 1: this year's fourteen point five million, So you're picking up

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Speaker 1: whatever it mains eight million dollars thirteen point seven five

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Speaker 1: You're just not worth it. Yeah, and there's too many negatives.

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Speaker 1: So I think he'll play football for another team this year.

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Speaker 1: I'm with you. They won't be a Brown I mean

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Speaker 1: the Raiders, the Packers, the Saints, I mean the Henry Ruggson.

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Speaker 1: It might open a door for him whatever. But back

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Speaker 1: to your original question about the Browns. There passing game

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Speaker 1: and particularly their dropped back traditional passing game is really

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Speaker 1: a problem right now. And you could blame a lot

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Speaker 1: of things. You mean, Baker hasn't been healthy. He's played

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Speaker 1: through an injury. I give him credit, you know, but

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Speaker 1: even before he got hurt, it wasn't great. He doesn't

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Speaker 1: see the field very well. I forget who called him

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Speaker 1: so after. It was Nate Tys, Nate Tyson, Mike Tyson kid.

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Speaker 1: He's in the media now. He's been a former quarterback

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Speaker 1: and smart and he knows the stuff. He calls Baker

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Speaker 1: an unathletic Russell Wilson and the kind is I mean,

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Speaker 1: like Wilson has more negative than people realize because of

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Speaker 1: his heights sometimes, but he can shuffle and find a

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Speaker 1: lane know where. Baker's a monotone athlete. He's got real

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Speaker 1: strong tendencies, likes to roll to his right, certain things

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Speaker 1: but he's not an elite one. And the receivers have

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Speaker 1: been hurt. Landry has kind of been the woobie over

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Speaker 1: the years, and he's just a guy running game. He's

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Speaker 1: got nothing. Yeah, I mean there's nothing. It's summer. Spread

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Speaker 1: they're spreading the ball around. You know, tight ends have

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Speaker 1: four targets each in this game, and Hunt's got four,

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Speaker 1: the second half. The key is positioning yourself for that

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Speaker 1: There's a little bit more. There's there's a gotten better.

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Speaker 1: There's gotten better. It was the offensive line said, you

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Speaker 1: I mean there'll be more injuries, they'll be more bumps

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Speaker 1: It's no coincidence. Belichick one last week, Carol won last week,

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Speaker 1: Tom Them one last week, Peyton one last week against

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Speaker 1: in that six or seven seeds. They get rustled back

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Speaker 1: and we got a couple of wins. You go, how

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Speaker 1: do they win that one? Because they've been doing this

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Speaker 1: was going to take a break. He is Matt Williamson.

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Speaker 1: I'm Dale Lally. You're listening to the drive here on

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