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Speaker 1: He is the Drive with Dale Lolly and Matt Williamson

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Speaker 1: Welcome back. I am Dale Lillly, 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: then Matt earlier in the week. Uh. Usually the NFL

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Speaker 1: Power Rankings come out on US Day from Dan Hansas

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Speaker 1: on NFL dot Com, but this week they didn't come

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Speaker 1: to happen with the Cincinnati Buffalo games. So now, I

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Speaker 1: going to do that. We are not going to do that.

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Speaker 1: We're going to go through Dan Hansas NFL Power Rankings

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Speaker 1: now and there is a new number thirty two. There's

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Speaker 1: also a new number one. Okay, number thirty two I

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Speaker 1: learned are the Indianapolis Colts. I agree, there's a handful

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Speaker 1: that are in contention. I think they're gonna lose the

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Speaker 1: Texans who have lived in the basement all year, and

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Speaker 1: they're worse than the Texans right now. I mean their

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Speaker 1: quarterback situations dire yea. The one thing that DeMar Hamlin situation.

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Speaker 1: Did it got Cavon Thibodeaux off the hot seat? Did

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Speaker 1: you see what Cavon Thibodeaux did. No, he's been playing

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Speaker 1: really well. I know that part. So he had an

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Speaker 1: unblocked sack against the Colt against the Colts on Sunday,

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Speaker 1: knocking Nick Foles out of the game. As Nick Foles

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Speaker 1: right next to him, Thibodeaux starts doing a snow angel. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: like for me to you to him as he started

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Speaker 1: a sign like he put him to leap. I didn't

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Speaker 1: know that part. Yeah, I was watching the snow angel alive,

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Speaker 1: going what is going on? Because he made it sound

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Speaker 1: like with the snow angel, he said, oh, I didn't

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Speaker 1: you didn't know he was hurt, you then walked over

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Speaker 1: but when he got off the ground, he certainly when

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Speaker 1: halfway through your snow angel. Yeah. So, but he's playing well,

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Speaker 1: and it was it was a completely unblocked sack by

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Speaker 1: quarterbacks beat up at thirty one down four spots, that's rough.

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Speaker 1: But the Texans I would have the Bears last. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: they're bad, especially with what they're going to put on

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Speaker 1: get the number one, you know, and hopefully they do.

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Speaker 1: But I think the Bears are maybe the number thirty two.

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Speaker 1: Houston plays hard. I mean they played Dallas and k

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Speaker 1: adjust that Denver was like a seven and a half

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Speaker 1: somebody can rush the passer, getting anybody on defense we

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Speaker 1: But they rested all their guys last week, and the

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Speaker 1: I would put the Saints over the Browns. Well, they

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Speaker 1: in that, absolutely, and that it's you could find stuff

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Speaker 1: like Daniel Jones's stock went up dramatically about some of

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Speaker 1: the UFAs coming up, there's a lot of them. I

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Speaker 1: At twenty one down six spots, j E t S, Jets, Jets, Jets.

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Speaker 1: Would you have the Jets or Dolphins higher in power ranks?

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Speaker 1: Miami right this minute? Yeah? I do too. Their favorite

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Speaker 1: head coach to me doesn't know how to handle things. Yeah, right,

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Speaker 1: stuff's hard. Yeah, yep. At nineteen up two spots the Raiders.

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Speaker 1: But the thing about I have a hard time with

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Speaker 1: who they have played. I'm not sure they're better than

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Speaker 1: the number one offensive. Yeah, that's how knock on pickt

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