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

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Speaker 1: Home of the Black and Goals Steelers Nation Radio. Welcome

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Speaker 1: to the Drive. I'm Dailly here with Matt wins in

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Speaker 1: Week two of the NFL is in the books, heading

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Speaker 1: on to week three, Head on to week three. Things

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Speaker 1: happen pretty quick. And we've got a game what two

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Speaker 1: days from now? And you know Steelers are gonna be

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Speaker 1: back at it here preparing for the Bengals, of course.

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Speaker 1: And do you move on? Yeah, yeah, things happen quickly.

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Speaker 1: This is what people you know, the NFL season move

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Speaker 1: so fast. Uh, you get three practices a week to

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Speaker 1: get ready for your next game. It sounds like seven games,

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Speaker 1: but they're seven days. But and it is. But it's

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Speaker 1: really essentially to lead us to the next topic here,

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Speaker 1: like the first two days of that our players getting health,

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Speaker 1: like very healthy and treatment and resting their body, resting

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Speaker 1: their bodies. Yeah, absolutely, obviously you know where you're going

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Speaker 1: with that, because there's a lot of talk about in

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Speaker 1: that front. Absolutely is Mike Tomlin having his press conference

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Speaker 1: today revealing that, in addition to the injuries that we

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Speaker 1: already knew about, Ben Roethlisberger, dealing with a left pectoral

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Speaker 1: muscle injury and Alex Highsmith now listed with a groin

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Speaker 1: injury as well. So that the groin injuries is you know,

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Speaker 1: it's funny, um, and sometimes you'll have a rash of

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Speaker 1: injuries like this at one. It's funny when it's not

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Speaker 1: your growing, Yeah, when it's not you. But I had

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Speaker 1: somebody comment on my story. I wrote about this obviously

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Speaker 1: on the d K Pittsburgh Sports and one of the

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Speaker 1: comments was, the Steelers have more of these groin injuries

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Speaker 1: than any other team historically. I'm like, what that one? Right? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: I actually they blamed Hines Field and all this. I'm like, no,

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Speaker 1: that's they're not conditioned well enough. P J didn't work

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Speaker 1: hard enough in the preseason, and you know, come on,

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Speaker 1: it's just an odd coincidence. It's it's a yeah, exactly,

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Speaker 1: it's a coincidence. You know, it seems you know, it

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Speaker 1: could have just have easily been hamstrings or it could

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Speaker 1: have been It's like when you know a few years

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Speaker 1: around the league. We're suffering, suffering like bicep injuries. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I don't know, it just happens. I am a small believer.

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Speaker 1: I don't like talking injuries because I know I don't know,

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Speaker 1: but I do think there's more strains and pools and

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Speaker 1: the heat, you know, hydration and things like that are

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Speaker 1: a bigger deal. And they're not quite as in good

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Speaker 1: football shape as they are on Week ten and things

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Speaker 1: like that. But it's no different than any other team

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Speaker 1: or any other year. Yeah, I've been I've been asked.

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Speaker 1: I mean, look at the the Raiders injury report last

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Speaker 1: week had nineteen guys on it, right, right, and now

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Speaker 1: they didn't all miss time. And I would expect um

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Speaker 1: that some of the Steeler injuries, the guys who are

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Speaker 1: the course of the we Like I would expect Ben

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Speaker 1: his left than his right. It's a it'll be a

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Speaker 1: pain tolerance, and obviously, I mean, I'm sure throwing a

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Speaker 1: football probably won't feel good early in a week with

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Speaker 1: mean that's a big muscle. I mean your packtoral muscles

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Speaker 1: Once you get yeah, you might be a little stiff,

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Speaker 1: next day you're you're hurting again. Yeah, that's part of

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Speaker 1: being a thirty nine year old quarterback too. So who

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Speaker 1: So you got the growing list which will be the

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Speaker 1: crew here high Smith, Hayden and whom I'm missing Bush?

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Speaker 1: To me, I think Bush might be the most serious one.

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Speaker 1: Um like Joe Hayden went out and warm ups on

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Speaker 1: Some of them heal quicker than others, I'm sure, of course,

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Speaker 1: the old time Steelers they did they didn't have these things.

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Speaker 1: if you pretty much every athlete um has some kind

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Speaker 1: know they're not playing the Rams, but conceivably we know

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Speaker 1: like it's it's it's easier for a team to deal

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Speaker 1: We're gonna pass protect accordingly. Yeah, you know you lose

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Speaker 1: Hayden and Bush on Friday. Yeah, the Hayes already in

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Speaker 1: bring everybody back. Hey, guys, we gotta come back and practice,

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Speaker 1: these things. I mean, this isn't a unique problem to

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Speaker 1: it absolutely makes it more difficult, I mean very difficult.

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Speaker 1: And I thought the Racers played great. You can't. That's

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Speaker 1: wonderful institution. But Deonte any thoughts on him? Uh, Tomlin

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Speaker 1: You know, that's just him and oh my god, you

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Speaker 1: know these he can't play, and you know, like you

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Speaker 1: talked about the injured guys, I wouldn't mind adding a

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Speaker 1: little McFarland to the mix. I'd really like to see

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Speaker 1: some to it in the defensive mix, considering the injuries

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Speaker 1: make a big difference. That's a guy coming in on

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Speaker 1: a white horse to save the world. Banner might be better.

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Speaker 1: I don't even know if he's their best right tackle,

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Speaker 1: you know, I mean he's an unknown to me. I mean,

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Speaker 1: it's one more option. Fine, but I don't think the

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Speaker 1: line problems are going to be solved in the next

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Speaker 1: week or two. And there's nobody's sitting out there waiting

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Speaker 1: to be there. Aren't you know offensive lineman who aren't

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Speaker 1: in the league right now waiting to be signed. It's

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Speaker 1: just watch some games around the league. Watch this Bengals

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Speaker 1: team this weekend. I mean, my Ami, we talked about Buffalo.

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Speaker 1: We thought Steelers had a tough time against Buffalo's front

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Speaker 1: Miami guard. They were storming the castle in Miami. In

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Speaker 1: Miami totally owned it. Yeah. In again, you know, in

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Speaker 1: a game in Miami's home stadium. Um, you know, to

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Speaker 1: me the fact that and if you look, I looked

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Speaker 1: at the next gen stats on Roethlisberger. The Raiders fastest

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Speaker 1: sack in that game was like four and a half seconds.

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Speaker 1: I didn't they were coverage sacks. They were coverage. He's

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Speaker 1: been taking some hits, but I haven't thought the protection.

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Speaker 1: You don't just seeing guys get whipped left and right.

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Speaker 1: I mean it's not great again, I mean collectively, it's

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Speaker 1: not fantastic. And there's no star power up front right now.

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Speaker 1: But you're right, it's not like there's no chance for

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Speaker 1: offense to develop because he's getting hit with you know,

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Speaker 1: two seconds, two point five seconds. You know, they just

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Speaker 1: gotta I think it's on on Canada a little bit too.

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Speaker 1: Create some plays here that you know, again, when he

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Speaker 1: was when he was hired for this job, all he's

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Speaker 1: gonna be all creative and he's gonna do all this stuff.

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Speaker 1: And we've seen some of that drifted away from in

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Speaker 1: the second half. But right, a lot of throws from

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Speaker 1: shotguns still, a lot of r p O s, a

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Speaker 1: lot of quick hitting throws, A lot of the deep

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Speaker 1: shots are similar in nature. Do you look at the

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Speaker 1: do you look at the the as you said yesterday,

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Speaker 1: the hot charts, and I looked at him, Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: bet they're similar to the middle of the field. Anything

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Speaker 1: past ten yards in the middle of field is completely ignored.

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Speaker 1: A lot of green that that doesn't have the red. Now,

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Speaker 1: maybe that's the quarterback. Oh, it absolutely could be. It's

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Speaker 1: easy to blame coaches, it's easy to blame um protection.

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Speaker 1: All those things could be true. Or Ben's not comfortable

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Speaker 1: holding the ball or doesn't throw the ball as well

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Speaker 1: as he used to. I mean, it's a long enough

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Speaker 1: trend that teams tell you what they think of their players,

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Speaker 1: whether it's protection or quarterback. I know it's not the

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Speaker 1: pass catchers, right, That's the one thing I am. I'll

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Speaker 1: say this too. I was I was listening to uh

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Speaker 1: to some serious this morning, and Charlie Weiss was on,

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Speaker 1: and they're just praising up and down Daniel uh or

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Speaker 1: not Daniel Jones, Um, Matt Jones. Okay, you know, oh

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Speaker 1: he you know, he twenty two of whatever. Yeah, he was.

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Speaker 1: He didn't make the big mistake. Keys. He's just dumping

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Speaker 1: it off and throwing the ball where he's That's what

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Speaker 1: Roethlisberger is being killed for. He's getting the ball out

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Speaker 1: of his hands quickly and he's just getting it to

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Speaker 1: his playmate. You know. Yeah, tons of bad pass mac

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Speaker 1: Jones is being lauded for doing this. Roethlisberger is being

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Speaker 1: killed for. Well, the Patriots can run the ball and

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Speaker 1: they have an offensive line, it helps, Yeah, going hand

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Speaker 1: in hand. Mac Jones has been impressive, but more his

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Speaker 1: poison looking like he belongs than what he's actually performing

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Speaker 1: on the field. This past week, his average depth of

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Speaker 1: target was historically low. It was like two point five.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it was unbelievably low and it didn't have

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Speaker 1: to be anymore, so that why act him? But you know,

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Speaker 1: if Ben would have been doing that, that that they wouldn't

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Speaker 1: scored a point I mean, and it would be plaster

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Speaker 1: all over over Twitter. He's done. He can't throw the

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Speaker 1: football ball, you know, that's all that stuff. I mean,

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Speaker 1: he still might throw the ball better. Mac Jones, Which

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Speaker 1: one would you rather have starting for your team right now?

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Speaker 1: Right right? I'm not not five years from to win

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Speaker 1: one game against the Bengals. On Sunday you asked, you

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Speaker 1: asked Belichick, which quarterback would you rather have right now

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Speaker 1: to win next week in whoever, whenever their next year, whenever,

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Speaker 1: whenever they when they play the Bills? Who which one

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Speaker 1: would you rather have? Yeah? Now, But it's a good

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Speaker 1: point on Jones, you know, I mean, he's really game

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Speaker 1: managing to no end, and which is good, I mean

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Speaker 1: for a rookie quarterback that's passing the test and but

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Speaker 1: he's taken no chances none. How about this old guy's

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Speaker 1: quarterback stat I found today too, Only Andy Dalton is

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Speaker 1: attempting passes twenty yards down field or less or more

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Speaker 1: than than Matt Ryan. Matt Ryan is just everything is

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Speaker 1: where's the Matt Ryan hate on that? Right? And I

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Speaker 1: might seeing any of that? That was last year. He

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Speaker 1: was the same guy last year. Like, it's just he

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Speaker 1: might be done and the making it worse. The Falcons

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Speaker 1: have never had a lead all year, so they're always

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Speaker 1: got a bad defense and bad defense. So even if

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Speaker 1: it's not the right move, if you gotta push the

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Speaker 1: ball down, you know, by the way, they had an

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Speaker 1: opportunity this year to draft a quarterback. I think they're

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Speaker 1: gonna have another one and didn't do it. Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: think they're gonna have another one. Yeah. I bet they're

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Speaker 1: picking the top five there close to it. And there's

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Speaker 1: some really bad teams. There are some really bad teams,

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Speaker 1: and we will talk about that next. We're gonna go

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Speaker 1: through its power ranking day. We'll do that. Yeah, let's

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Speaker 1: let's do that right after this. He is Matt Williams

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Speaker 1: and I'm Dale Lally, you're listening to the Drive here

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