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Speaker 1: Is The Drive with Dale Lolly and Matt Williamson on

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

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Drive. I'm deal. The Steelers are just

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Speaker 1: completed the only day quote unquote practice too. Yeah, this

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Speaker 1: week over on the South side, and uh, well we

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Speaker 1: have an injury report from that. I was over there

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Speaker 1: today and well some of this is still guesswork. But

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Speaker 1: listed as a full participant were Ben Roethlisberger and Chase Claypool,

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Speaker 1: as was Trade Turner, who got the coaches d MP yesterday.

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Speaker 1: Even then nobody practiced. Yeah, Kim Heyward back at practice today,

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Speaker 1: and then the guy the only guys that missed practice

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Speaker 1: today where Joe Hayden with that foot, Robert Spelain with

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Speaker 1: the knee. He was activated off the COVID nineteen list yesterday. Uh,

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Speaker 1: he's still a couple more weeks away, uh, b J

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Speaker 1: Finney with the back, and then Isaiah Bugs with the ankle. Okay,

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Speaker 1: um quick, it's not yeah, it's not like it's gotten better.

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Speaker 1: He's just playing through it. Um. You know, his nap

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Speaker 1: count was down this past week and people were hard

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Speaker 1: on him right now, and I mean there's some reason

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Speaker 1: to be, but I think we just need to recognize that.

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Speaker 1: So who do you think the left guard is going

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Speaker 1: to be? Good? Chance is gonna be the glue and

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Speaker 1: it doesn't look I don't think they can get Uh,

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Speaker 1: Joe Hagan is on the COVID list as well. There's

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Speaker 1: I mean he went on I believe last Wednesday, so

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Speaker 1: there's a chance that he could he could be activated

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Speaker 1: before game day. But to have him even if he

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Speaker 1: doesn't start, well they could use the extra lineman. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: but they were pretty happy with La Glue. Remember I

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Speaker 1: remember him in a little you know, well, yeah, because

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Speaker 1: he had the center flexibility. I'm like, oh, he's gonna

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Speaker 1: make the team, is like the fourth center, it'll make

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Speaker 1: the practice squad. And then he stepped in and played well,

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Speaker 1: go down and but no, I thought he handled himself well,

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Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know, I'm not going to jump

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Speaker 1: But I'd like to see more of them, and maybe

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Speaker 1: it's not till next preseason, but um, I consider starting

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Speaker 1: him his cause no, no, I didn't think that was

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Speaker 1: gonna happen. Yeah, and that's I think I think that's

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Speaker 1: more of a past ability there Uh, it's not like

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Speaker 1: the You know that if you look at the the Vikings,

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Speaker 1: and I haven't seen an injury report yet for the

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Speaker 1: Vikings this week. Yeah, they still haven't put anything out yet,

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Speaker 1: but I sent you a note last night. Um, they

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Speaker 1: have the Steelers of thirty seven sacks, which leads league.

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Speaker 1: Vikings have thirty six, which is second. Their sacks have

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Speaker 1: come from sixteen different guys. Yeah, for thirty six sacks

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Speaker 1: from sixteen guys. Their top two guys are out. They've

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Speaker 1: combined for twelve sacks and they're not gonna play the

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Speaker 1: play I think. Yeah, he's out for the year. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: some mental issues, So that's you. They were counting on

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Speaker 1: zimmer Will Blitz but yeah, well so you're looking at

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Speaker 1: DJ one him, Dalvin Tomlins and Michael Pierce and Tay

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Speaker 1: Shawn Bowser. Sheldon Richardson plays a lot. They got Patrick

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Speaker 1: Jones that the pit kid is a rookie. Uh, it's

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Speaker 1: it's not no, no, they're straight up the field kind

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Speaker 1: of guys. Yeah, out of necessity. Yeah, righter than people

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Speaker 1: probably know. But you know Pearce has been out a

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Speaker 1: fair amount too. Yeah, he'll be iffy to play in

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Speaker 1: this game. They just brought him back. I think they

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Speaker 1: just activated him off of injured reserve early last week. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: think he's been actually activated off of i R. And

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Speaker 1: it's probably tough to do in a short week. So yeah,

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Speaker 1: and we don't know what's going on with Anthony Barr,

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Speaker 1: whether he's gonna play or not. He missed less with

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Speaker 1: where Ken Ricks. I mean, they get some guys that

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Speaker 1: you know for a minute because they're kind of like

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Speaker 1: the Bill where I mean almost all teams are like

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Speaker 1: because really the Steelers wish Show Bush were you know,

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Speaker 1: And that's what Bar and Kendricks are. I mean edinbro

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Speaker 1: An article two years ago, I put Kendricks is one

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Speaker 1: of the top absolute linebackers in the league, and with

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Speaker 1: them out, the middle field was a big problem for

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Speaker 1: their defense. I mean, the Lions were a very physical team,

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Speaker 1: their play action games started to work really well. The

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Speaker 1: linebackers are bite more than they should. They weren't real disciplined.

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Speaker 1: They were picked on coverage in the middle of deal,

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Speaker 1: whether it was Hawkinson or whomever, but off and off

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Speaker 1: play action and those two linebackers injury situation. Yeah, Um,

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Speaker 1: shutdown man coverage guy has had a great career, but

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Speaker 1: they've pretty much had four corners that they've had to

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Speaker 1: And it looks like Peterson may have been activated, but

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Speaker 1: maybe not. No, he's not this This is not the

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Speaker 1: guy that Steeler fans were pounding the table to trade

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Speaker 1: for three years ago, years ago. Yeah, he's bounced around

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Speaker 1: a little bit and just isn't special. Yeah. It looks

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Speaker 1: like I'm looking here at ESPN and they've they've got

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Speaker 1: Kendricks and bar both as questionable. Uh, they also have

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Speaker 1: but they also have Dalvin Cook is questionable and he's

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Speaker 1: not playing yeah, dery saw us questionable. Um, they're all

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Speaker 1: lines gotten better. It's an athletic offensive line. They gave

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Speaker 1: Brian O'Neill money. Yeah yeah, and they drafted a center

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Speaker 1: that can move. But it's not a very physical offensive line,

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Speaker 1: like they really struggled at short yardage. It's more of

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Speaker 1: a zone blocking athletic line. And derrisa was playing really

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Speaker 1: guard I forgive his name, also left tackle last week

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Speaker 1: and that was a disaster. I mean, Charles Harris was

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Speaker 1: ripping him up, and I Smith is a better player

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Speaker 1: than him. You know, like these injuries are a big deal,

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Speaker 1: and we haven't been mentioned Theland. Yeah yeah, I mean

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Speaker 1: Osborne is okay. It's okay. Theland catch a touchdown every

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Speaker 1: week and it is a high quality player. And you

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Speaker 1: know they're they're they're not a big three receiver team anyway,

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Speaker 1: so they're you know, they have been put in a

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Speaker 1: lot of investments in their third and fourth receivers um

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Speaker 1: and really they're tight ends aren't great either. For as

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Speaker 1: much twelve and they play with Hey, I'm the fullback

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Speaker 1: and quite a bit Conklin and Herndon. Yeah, they traded

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Speaker 1: it's now it's just Jefferson. He used to be three

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Speaker 1: really strong weapons. What you're saying is it's gonna be

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Speaker 1: a lot like fast Times in Richmond. Catch by Jefferson,

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Speaker 1: touch time by Jefferson, and by Jefferson. Right, yeah, I

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Speaker 1: mean it really is, and he's awesome, but he's get

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Speaker 1: more attention than ever. Yeah, that's yeah, that's what you're

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Speaker 1: gonna do here again in this game. And well, Madison

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Speaker 1: is a is a good backup running back. He Dalvin Cook, No,

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Speaker 1: Cook's a special player. Madison is a good backup. Like

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Speaker 1: you said, that might be the the injury that I

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Speaker 1: couldn't sustain the best though, if I'm the Vikes, you

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Speaker 1: know that losing the left tackles and both your linebackers

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Speaker 1: that's a lot. I think you're getting on Hunt or

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Speaker 1: mean he's I saw the spread for this game today

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Speaker 1: for the first time, it's like three or three and

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Speaker 1: a half. It was four last week. When I don't

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Speaker 1: understand that, I don't get it. I think the Steelers

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Speaker 1: you this last night. The Vikings have led, They've had

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Speaker 1: a I looked it up. They actually had a six

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Speaker 1: point lead against Detroit as well. They scored the first

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Speaker 1: So they've had a six point at least a six

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Speaker 1: and they're five and seven. They're five and seven. I

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Speaker 1: mean they're there are four six and one score games.

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Speaker 1: The Steelers are six one and one. Um. I just

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Speaker 1: wrote about this today on on d K Pittsburgh Sports.

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Speaker 1: Ben Roethlisberger is a huge advantage in this game for

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Speaker 1: the Steelers from the fact that that this is what

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Speaker 1: he does, win one score games. What I'm saying right,

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Speaker 1: the Vikings play a one scoring game every week. I

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Speaker 1: mean a lot like the conversations we had with the Ravens,

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Speaker 1: they're more of the average. Look at it this way,

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Speaker 1: and I asked, so, if you look at Roethlisberger, UM,

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Speaker 1: he has a thirty nine career fourth quarter comebacks, which

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Speaker 1: ranked second to Peyton Manning and Tom Brady. Ever, yeah,

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Speaker 1: Manning has forty three, Brady has forty one. Uh he

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Speaker 1: He is also fifty one times where he's engineered a

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Speaker 1: third most all time. Of those, Manning has fifty four

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Speaker 1: The The interesting thing about it is that Roethlisberg has

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Speaker 1: a hundred and sixty two career wins, so thirty one

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Speaker 1: five percent of his wins have been right, have been

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Speaker 1: where he's led the team back and put them ahead.

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Speaker 1: And you know it's not just handing it then Jerome's

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Speaker 1: belly over and over just squashing teams. Of his wins

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Speaker 1: have been fourth quarter comebacks. That's almost it's one. It's almost,

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Speaker 1: so almost a quarter of his career victories of time

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Speaker 1: If you think about what's happened this year with the Steelers,

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Speaker 1: they have the third highest they have the third highest

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Speaker 1: scoring offense in the league in the fourth quarter, do

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Speaker 1: they really Interestingly enough, I have not run the numbers

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Speaker 1: Matthews today, this two hours ago, and in the course

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Speaker 1: of the video, she cited a stat that I didn't

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Speaker 1: know that over the last x am on the games

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Speaker 1: I forget, how many the Vikings have allowed X amount

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Speaker 1: of second half points? Well, obviously they're given up second

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Speaker 1: really big number. They're losing. Therefore, therefore, in six and

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Speaker 1: I mean, she asked me, because I didn't know that.

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Speaker 1: She said, so, why you know, here's the stats of

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Speaker 1: over the last X amount of games, they're allowing a

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Speaker 1: get done here, and she's like, well, why do you

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Speaker 1: think that is? I'm like, the defensive depth has just

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Speaker 1: They've just been going through defensive lineman left and right.

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Speaker 1: I mean, the linebacker injuries are new. Their look, they're

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Speaker 1: is they don't have a leven that they trust. And

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Speaker 1: Like if the Ravens lose this week, they still have

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Speaker 1: in deep trouble. But is that more reason to root

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Speaker 1: for the Ravens to win? They win this one and

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Speaker 1: you look, you count on the Ravens to lose a

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Speaker 1: earlier that yesterday, I should say that that Ravens Steelers

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Speaker 1: game in Week eighteen could be for a playoff berth Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and maybe the division. So if that's that's the case,

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Speaker 1: then you want the Ravens to lose. Yeah, I see

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Speaker 1: what you're saying. I mean, I think teams are definitely

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Speaker 1: I don't think he can get above nine wins. That's

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Speaker 1: the thing there. They them in Miami just really did

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Speaker 1: here's what, here's the Browns have left. We didn't really

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Speaker 1: go over this. So they play the they host the Ravens,

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Speaker 1: then they host the Raiders. That's an elimination game. Then

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Speaker 1: they got to travel to Green Bay. That is an

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Speaker 1: elimination yea. Then they have the Steelers here, and then

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Speaker 1: they host the Bengals. What's funny is none of these

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Speaker 1: So if their Browns beat the Ravens this week, I

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Speaker 1: Then they play the Raiders. Okay, they even if they

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Speaker 1: win that, they're eight and six. They're not beating the

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Speaker 1: Packers in Green Bay. I think you convinced me we

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Speaker 1: want the Browns to win. Yeah. Then they come to Pittsburgh,

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Speaker 1: so you get a chance to take care of business

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Speaker 1: on and then they get to play the Bengals. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and the Bengals are a better team. Bengals are the

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Speaker 1: best team of all of them. Am. You had an

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Speaker 1: interesting thought because we were talking about last night's crazy game.

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Speaker 1: All of us just assumed the Bills are going Yeah,

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Speaker 1: they may not, there's seven and five now seven, and

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Speaker 1: pulled themselves back to the past just because we think

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Speaker 1: they were good to start the season. They're not. I mean,

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Speaker 1: don't I don't think their schedules as bad as some

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Speaker 1: think they have the Jets still or you know, they

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Speaker 1: have some divisional games that aren't too but they have

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Speaker 1: the Patriots again. I'm not sure we should just Pennsylvan

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Speaker 1: build this week. They're going to Tampa. Yeah that Tampa

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Speaker 1: and Patriots are probably not probably, but quite possibly two

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Speaker 1: but they're not a shoe win. No, no, especially I

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Speaker 1: mean notre Davious White the rest of the way. It's

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Speaker 1: kind of a big deal. But I think you're rooting

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Speaker 1: against the Bills. Yeah, we gotta take a break. He

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