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

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Speaker 1: you home of the Black and Gold, Steelers Nation Radio.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back. I am Dale Allly. He is Matt Williamson,

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Speaker 1: and this is the Drive on Steelers Nation Radio. And

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Speaker 1: it's time for the Fantasy Football Focus. And since we

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Speaker 1: were a training camp the last three and a half weeks,

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Speaker 1: we didn't do a whole lot of fantasy here, so

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Speaker 1: we had a lot of catching up here to do

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Speaker 1: for everybody. And uh, we'll start by mock drafting again today.

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Speaker 1: We'll do this every day and we're gonna pick in

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Speaker 1: a different spot. They kind of take everybody through us

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Speaker 1: twelve days. Yeah, because you get a different look no

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Speaker 1: matter where you're at there. And so so that brings

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Speaker 1: me to a quick point. Pull back the curtain a little.

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Speaker 1: Is Dale invited me to an old school this this

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Speaker 1: has been going on twenty some years fantasy. This will

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Speaker 1: be the twenty ninth year nine and it will be

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Speaker 1: my first I guess the spot opened. I'm in and

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Speaker 1: there's been a little smack talk back and forth, and

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Speaker 1: you know, a natural rivalry between the Lollies and Williamson teams.

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Speaker 1: And then we picked numbers this week and it comes

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Speaker 1: out you have six, I have seven. So I kept thinking,

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Speaker 1: I'm like, is our first mock draft? Should we avoid

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Speaker 1: the middle? You know, we're just gonna tell each one

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Speaker 1: exactly what we really or am I gonna hold back

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Speaker 1: a pick in the third round? I'm not gonna tell you.

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Speaker 1: And I decided I'm just gonna be flat out of honest.

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Speaker 1: We've done so many shows together that it doesn't make

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Speaker 1: it doesn't make a difference. We know, we know who

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Speaker 1: each other, each of us likes, who we don't like.

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Speaker 1: I didn't like to get picking next show like and

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Speaker 1: in the odd rounds were also in the same division

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Speaker 1: with three divisions, in the three or four team divisions,

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Speaker 1: and you and I are in the what apparently is

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Speaker 1: the old a f C North here. Because yeah, but

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Speaker 1: I will think, I do think it's interesting when we

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Speaker 1: actually do it, I'm gonna keep track of how many

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Speaker 1: times you stole the guy was about to you know,

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Speaker 1: and it might be half the rounds and you'll do

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Speaker 1: it to me the other thing. You're Yeah, that will

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Speaker 1: be how it goes. I can guarantee you that right now.

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Speaker 1: One theft PPR Snake Draft basic uh, basic uh, one

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Speaker 1: quarterback to running backs, two wide receivers, a tight end, um,

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Speaker 1: then one flex defense, special teams, kicker, and six on

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Speaker 1: the bench. It's a little different from Marvels. We start

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Speaker 1: three wide receivers. But that's fine. Yeah, fair enough, changing

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Speaker 1: too much. I think McCaffrey is the first pick overall.

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Speaker 1: But I think I'm gonna lose that argument, and I'm

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Speaker 1: not going to fight incredibly hard to win the argument. Right. Actually,

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Speaker 1: that's what their suggestion is here. Really, he's starting to

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Speaker 1: gain a little more steave. But I understand Taylor, I

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Speaker 1: mean Taylor safer. I get the injury stuff. I think

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Speaker 1: we had this conversation. I don't think if they if

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Speaker 1: they're both healthy the entire season, I think Christian McCaffrey

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Speaker 1: outscores Taylor because he's gonna probably catch a hundred past. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's what he does. He's scored more than like any

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Speaker 1: running back in history. I mean, he's a ridic Gillis

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Speaker 1: fantasy producer. But the first thing that I said there,

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Speaker 1: if he stays healthy first, you know, that's what we'll

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Speaker 1: take McCaffrey. That's neither one of us have that pick

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Speaker 1: in our in our draft. I wouldn't mind having too

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Speaker 1: and take the one that take the one that doesn't

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Speaker 1: now things get interesting here because well a lot of

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Speaker 1: backs were taken. Uh So it was Taylor one second,

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Speaker 1: then the backs that went in round two Kamara, Aaron Jones,

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Speaker 1: Cam Akers at two, ten, Javonte Williams at two, eleven ouch.

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Speaker 1: I would love to take a back with one of

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Speaker 1: end up yeah, stuck. I think we have to take

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Speaker 1: and Pitts is gonna hurt. That's a pretty good foundation though.

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Speaker 1: him all that money to not use him. He's gonna

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Speaker 1: catch passes. It's just it's just not gonna be like

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Speaker 1: We have back to back drafts. He doesn't last, right,

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Speaker 1: Dalton Schultz is a top tight end available, So we

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Speaker 1: did miss out on that. I figured there's five that

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Speaker 1: go pretty quick. Yeah, why do seiver the top guys available?

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Speaker 1: Courtland Sutton, Brandon Cook's, DK metcalf, Allen Robinson. I think

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Speaker 1: think it's early for me for a quarterback, and I

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Speaker 1: But I don't think any of those guys are worth

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Speaker 1: me let me throw this at you, Lamar Jackson here

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Speaker 1: Do we know? At this point? Herbert Alan Herbert and

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Speaker 1: I might lean towards Brandon Cooks is one of those

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Speaker 1: It's a double off the fence. You know what, He's

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Speaker 1: gonna take him Ever metcalf I don't want that. The

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Speaker 1: betting on talent. They may be the worst offense in

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Speaker 1: the league. Like I trust to Houston. He might catch

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Speaker 1: three passes a game now once every other every other game.

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Speaker 1: whereas I know Cooks is gonna he's end up with

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Speaker 1: yards like every year. You know. Okay, I'm an Alan

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Speaker 1: Robinson believer. I don't like what we're looking at though.

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Speaker 1: I don't love using up all three of our receivers

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Speaker 1: That's how I kind of like. Okay, Lamar's sitting there,

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Speaker 1: we won't get you know, that value at quarterback. It's

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Speaker 1: one of the things I don't like my picking on

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Speaker 1: the ends, right, Like Tom Brady just went like there

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Speaker 1: guy of still available, so better than ye. I mean,

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Speaker 1: Russell Wilson is now the top quarterback available. I wouldn't

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Speaker 1: be comfortable with Wilson, Dak Prescott, Trey Lance, Matthew Stafford.

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Speaker 1: I wouldn't mind a Lamar and Trey Lance as a okay,

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Speaker 1: every week unless Trey Lance is an absolute star. So

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Speaker 1: we're up again. We are up again. Here the running

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Speaker 1: a J. Dillon is still sitting. Yeah, I mean that's

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Speaker 1: a that's a no brainer. That considered him last time

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Speaker 1: because they're going so fast, that's a no brain. It

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Speaker 1: was too early. And then we got the wide receiver

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Speaker 1: positions still open here. Let's see what's available for Seoan Bateman.

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Speaker 1: We could stack that. We could stack that, uh, Juju Smith, Schuster,

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Speaker 1: like he's truly the one, although they're already working on

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Speaker 1: that knee. I hate him play this last week even

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Speaker 1: all the starters did. I think Bateman is a pick.

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Speaker 1: Drake London still available. He's below those guys, but this one,

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Speaker 1: Christian Kirk Kirk's pretty high on my list too. Kirk

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Speaker 1: vers Jujus a conversation. That's a conversation. I think Kirk's

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Speaker 1: can be their number one. I prefer Bateman, but Kirk

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Speaker 1: would be fine with me. I think that offense will

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Speaker 1: be better than people think, and he's gonna get a

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Speaker 1: lot of I wouldn't mind getting both of those guys.

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Speaker 1: The question is are you going to get both of

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Speaker 1: the Like if you don't take Bateman here. You probably

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Speaker 1: gonna get it, all right. We'll take Bateman. That's fine.

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Speaker 1: Kark would been all right too. Now we get that

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Speaker 1: on the clock. Top receivers available Chris o lave A,

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Speaker 1: Chase Claypool, Russell Gauge, Tyler Boyd. Claypool is my favorite

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Speaker 1: of that group, Garrett Wilson, Jacoby Myers, sky More, you know, Marquez, Valdes, Scantling.

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Speaker 1: I like Claypool the most of those. Savante Parker. What

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Speaker 1: about the tight end situation? Yeah, we should probably do

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Speaker 1: that at some point here, Like I Godard or Hawkinson

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