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Speaker 1: Your tunes about drive on your Black and Goal. Steelers

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Speaker 1: Nation Radio Welcome back. I'm Dale Welly here with Matt

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Speaker 1: Willimpson and well. Much of the conversation today has centered

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Speaker 1: on the quarterback position, as why wouldn't it It probably

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Speaker 1: will for a few months. Yeah, I would think so.

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Speaker 1: Jeremy Fowler did a thing today for ESPN NFL executive

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Speaker 1: predictions for quarterback shufflings and trades, coaching changes, future teams

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Speaker 1: for Aaron Rodger and Russell Wilson. I don't know if

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Speaker 1: there's I think the future teams for Aaron Rodgers and

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Speaker 1: Russell Wilson are going to end up being the Packers

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Speaker 1: and Seahawks. I tend to think so too. Watson's obviously

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Speaker 1: a massive wild card. Who the heck knows? You know? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: but he's probably the biggest name guy that moves. His

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Speaker 1: first one is Colts will think long and hard about

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Speaker 1: replacing quarterback Carson Wentz, but ultimately decided to keep him.

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Speaker 1: See I agree with that. I haven't seen these things.

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Speaker 1: He gave up a first and third round pick for him, right.

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Speaker 1: I think he'll be a cult next year. I do

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Speaker 1: as well, But is he going to be a cult

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Speaker 1: with Marcus Mariota or is he going to be a

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Speaker 1: cult with Matt Corral You know what I mean, they're

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Speaker 1: picking in the same neighborhood as Steelers. I don't know that.

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Speaker 1: You just say, Carson, you've been so good, you can

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Speaker 1: have the job, even though we gave a lot up

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Speaker 1: for you. I bet there's another name there that's better

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Speaker 1: than Sam Ellinger. Yes, better than That's not a very

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Speaker 1: that's the bar they have to get over. It could

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Speaker 1: be a second round pick, exactly. It's perfectly that this

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Speaker 1: year's Kelvin Man cal trash guy. Uh. The Eagles will

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Speaker 1: shop for a new quarterback in two so they're saying

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Speaker 1: this year. Yeah, I makes feelings on that one. He

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Speaker 1: looked so bad in this last game, and I guess

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Speaker 1: he was playing with a really bad ankle. A lot

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Speaker 1: of the of those quarterbacks who were Kyler Murray looked

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Speaker 1: awful last he looked horrible, too, awful, awful. I mean,

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Speaker 1: obviously they're not in the market. I mean he had

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Speaker 1: he had. I think I texted you this. He had

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Speaker 1: a worse game than Ben Roethlisberger playoffs. Hurts was horrible.

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Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, they I watched that that Murray was

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Speaker 1: just killed the team the interception out of the end zone.

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Speaker 1: I wouldn't expect a grade school kid to make that, right,

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Speaker 1: Absolutely No. I mean, am I worried about him a little?

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Speaker 1: He seems to get hurt late in years and he

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Speaker 1: is a little fella. And I also worried about Kingsbury.

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Speaker 1: But um, you know he's gonna be the quarterback there? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: her hurts. They have three first round picks, all in

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Speaker 1: the top nineteen, So is he better than corral? Pick it?

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Speaker 1: All the names we're gonna say a million times the

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Speaker 1: next time. I don't know. Am I worried about him? Yes,

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Speaker 1: I thought for sure earlier in the year, there's no

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Speaker 1: chance he's gonna be a starter this year. And he

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Speaker 1: was a lot better than that. He was really bad

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Speaker 1: against the Bucks, and it's hard to get that taste

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Speaker 1: out of your mouth. But he wasn't scrambling much as

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Speaker 1: a really tough defense for him to play, so you

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Speaker 1: can kind of excuse it away. I mean, if you

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Speaker 1: use three first round picks on other things, Hurts might

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Speaker 1: look all right, you know what I mean, But or

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Speaker 1: you missed your opportunity. How I would handle it, honestly,

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Speaker 1: is I'd probably used two of those first round picks

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Speaker 1: on a wide out and best defensive player I could

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Speaker 1: possibly get. In the late one I'd like to turn

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Speaker 1: into a future first for that move number nineteen for

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Speaker 1: a second this year, and a future first to bring

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Speaker 1: up if I'm the Steelers. If I'm the Steelers, I'm

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Speaker 1: on the phone with the Eagles on draft day, yeah,

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Speaker 1: right right. If you love somebody, you love somebody, Um

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Speaker 1: asked the Eagles to set free, set set free one

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Speaker 1: if if there's a quarterback there that you have to

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Speaker 1: have and say, look, we're gonna we'll give you, you know,

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Speaker 1: our first this year, maybe the first next year, if

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Speaker 1: you if there's enough stuff inside you know, like yeah,

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Speaker 1: you know, but probably were you know, the first next

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Speaker 1: just from what I know, I'm not giving the twentie

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Speaker 1: That's not exactly what I meant by that, Bowls. I

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Speaker 1: do want two first round picks in the next draft

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Speaker 1: if Hurts is going to be my guy this year,

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Speaker 1: because that's my insurance in case he stinks, I can

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Speaker 1: still be very active to get the next one. So

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Speaker 1: I'm just wondering, wondering if you could make a move

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Speaker 1: then you get two first round picks this year, you

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Speaker 1: take a quarterback and a tackle or whatever it is,

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Speaker 1: possibly take lender Bomb with the first one and then

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Speaker 1: I actually did my first mock draft yesterday sitting around

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Speaker 1: The linder Bomb thing will be really interesting. I got

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Speaker 1: lender Bomb in the first round, and then I got

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Speaker 1: Carson Strong in the second round. Like, I think I'd

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Speaker 1: take that, knowing what I know, right, Yeah, I don't

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Speaker 1: think Carson Strong shodn't be available in the second round.

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Speaker 1: that more will come out on that, but man, he

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Speaker 1: can slan it. Oh yeah, yeah, he's a good prospect.

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Speaker 1: I like him too. I think he's a definite potential riser. Yeah. Uh,

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Speaker 1: Washington will trade forts quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo better than what

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Speaker 1: they got saying let's not saying much back to our

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Speaker 1: previous conversation, much more so than car cousins and especially

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Speaker 1: Jimmy really worry me in a new town that isn't

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Speaker 1: the Kubiak best running game in the league. Type of

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Speaker 1: it in the end with Washington have been better this

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Speaker 1: year with Jimmy. Yeah, but one week still playing? How

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Speaker 1: I think, do you agree that Jimmy would be one

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Speaker 1: Falcons will trade wide receiver Calvin Ridley to a contender.

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Speaker 1: I just heard that today that there's more and more

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Speaker 1: buzz about it. Um. I guess like Atlanta and New York,

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Speaker 1: the Giants are in terrible position and both of their

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Speaker 1: rosters quarterbacks that I mean, Ryan's fine, but then he's

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Speaker 1: not the long term answer. Those two could be picking

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Speaker 1: I mean, Giants at least have two first round picks.

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Speaker 1: But there's who are the who are the first contract

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Speaker 1: lot of teams need. Yeah. Uh, Seattle quarterback Russell Wilson

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Speaker 1: about fifty fifty on that one. I don't think Rogers moves.

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Speaker 1: I don't think he does either. I mean, how could

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Speaker 1: he think that there's a better situation than what he has?

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Speaker 1: Even if they lose Sunday or whatever, Still they win

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Speaker 1: thirteen games every year. You know, Wilson, I can see

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Speaker 1: him looking around and go and this is bad, or

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Speaker 1: or the Seahawks realize we might be picking first next year.

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Speaker 1: they don't care if they have draft picks or not.

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Speaker 1: They they've traded them away in the past. Those two

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Speaker 1: teams have made deals in the as ye Max Hunger. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's all the same people. I could too. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I don't have any idea how they would fit him.

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Speaker 1: Under their cap. They've got like five cents a cap,

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Speaker 1: probably have the trade players as well. Yeah, but they're

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Speaker 1: the aggressive guy that will do it. You know, the

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Speaker 1: Steelers will draft Ben Roethlisberger's eventual quarterback successor. And we

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Speaker 1: just talked to a whole bunch about that. There's a chance. Yeah. Um, again,

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Speaker 1: not a bad spot to get one, yeah, you know

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Speaker 1: there'll be somebody keep bringing up the two thousand thirteen draft,

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Speaker 1: which was EJ Manuel, Geno Smith, Mike Glennon in that one. Um,

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Speaker 1: I think this draft is better than that. I think

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Speaker 1: there's more names that are ej Manuel was a surprise

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Speaker 1: had him say, oh e j Manuel is going to

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Speaker 1: first round. They were undy guy, and people got enamored

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Speaker 1: think about classes that would I can't consimilar. Um. I

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Speaker 1: was gonna say the Baker year because there wasn't a

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Speaker 1: clear number one the year, but there's no one in

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Speaker 1: this class that has Lamar or Alan's gifts. You know,

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Speaker 1: there his tools, you know what I mean. But that class,

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Speaker 1: we didn't know those guys were gonna be MVP type dudes.

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Speaker 1: Either they would went they wouldn't have went thirty two,

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Speaker 1: you know in seven or eight or whatever, Allen did

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Speaker 1: you know? I mean, but it was darnald um many people.

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Speaker 1: Their top five didn't jive with the other experts top

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's just all depends on you still have

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Speaker 1: it's these guys have a lot more of their scouting

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Speaker 1: report to write yet too. I mean, yeah, there's a

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Speaker 1: lot more to go off. Um, a major coaching change.

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Speaker 1: Pete Carroll, Sean Payton or Sean McVeigh we'll leave for TV. McVeigh. Yeah, uh,

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Speaker 1: every year there's some sort of Peyton cowboy talk. I know,

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Speaker 1: he's got one year left on his deal. I mean,

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Speaker 1: what's kind of interesting to me? And I guess this

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Speaker 1: forget who was listening to that we're talking about it,

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Speaker 1: But a ten year stretch for a really good head

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Speaker 1: ten years, Walsh. You know, it's not that they're unhappy

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Speaker 1: What happened is this is this as we go along here,

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Speaker 1: the league. Of course we've got games to talk about

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Speaker 1: still again this week. This really I mean, if you

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Speaker 1: biggest one is six. Can you guess which game that is?

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Speaker 1: Probably Niners. Yeah, but they beat them. That's that's not

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Speaker 1: the team that the Packers want to play. It was

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Speaker 1: And I don't like the Niners are petrified to go

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Speaker 1: the best, but the rest of them are all three,

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Speaker 1: three and a half to even. I think the Bills

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Speaker 1: But are the Rams going to Tampa? Yeah, okay, that's

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Speaker 1: where it was at. I think that's a three point spread.

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Speaker 1: And then the I think the Bengals are three and

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Speaker 1: a half point underdogs. Look good last night they did.

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Speaker 1: They ran the ball well. Stafford didn't this out during

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Speaker 1: I hadn't thought about that, but they were not competitive.

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Speaker 1: I was really not happy without Arizona played. I mean,

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Speaker 1: that's the wrong way the point the Patriots and Cardinals

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Speaker 1: got bloon out, they got crushed, I mean embarrassed. As

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Speaker 1: bad as the Steelers did or as bad as Philly did.

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Speaker 1: You know, without question, Arizona's offensive performance was the worst

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Speaker 1: And that's a team that they played twice and beaten once. Right,

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Speaker 1: and we're very familiar with division opponents. Um create one

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Speaker 1: of the crazy stats I've heard in a long time today,

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Speaker 1: Tom Brady's record in the divisional round fourteen and two. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'll bet all fourteen of those were at home. I

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Speaker 1: bet most of them are and probably coming off of bye.

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Speaker 1: But he beat a team that won a playoff game

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Speaker 1: the week before. It wasn't a chump, you know, but

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Speaker 1: as we saw as we saw in some of those games,

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Speaker 1: so that buy is huge. How many times you see

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Speaker 1: this guy's getting taken off the field. There were there

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Speaker 1: were some big injuries over the week. You mentioned Packers,

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Speaker 1: like what if Boston and Warner can't go now and

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Speaker 1: the Packers are getting baked ther back and you know,

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Speaker 1: I mean, those are two big injuries for them, massive, right,

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Speaker 1: So no buys big in a way. I kind of

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Speaker 1: wish two teams were getting it still, But I do

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Speaker 1: like this format. It's interesting. I would I would prefer

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Speaker 1: no teams get to buy. Everybody just played. Put eight

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Speaker 1: teams and make it nice and even half the league

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Speaker 1: goes right, Yeah, more playoffs, sequels, more football to watch. Yeah, right,

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Speaker 1: we got a lot of them back to back to back,

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Speaker 1: I mean seven or six in a row. Whatever that was.

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Speaker 1: It was a good weekend, it was, and he was

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Speaker 1: that's gonna do it for today's show. Will be back

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Speaker 1: again tomorrow to see what lies the Steelers are going

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Speaker 1: to make Dwayne Haskins and Mason Rudolph both available, so

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Speaker 1: we'll see what they have to say. Um, we'll give

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Speaker 1: you a wrap up on all that and what they

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Speaker 1: have to say. But for my partner Matt Williamson, for

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Speaker 1: Jacob Breck here on site keeping us on the air,

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Speaker 1: I'm Dale Lally. We appreciate you listening to this edition

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Speaker 1: of the Drive on Steelers Nation Radio.