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

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

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Speaker 1: Welcome back. I am Dale Lolly, he is Matt Williamson,

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

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Speaker 1: And well, the Steelers getting themselves to seven and eight

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Speaker 1: with their win over the Vegas Raiders on Saturday Night,

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Speaker 1: seven and eight after a six and to start or

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Speaker 1: two and six and six start, right, I mean, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I've seen this show before. You said that all year long.

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Speaker 1: I can tell you this year, this year, this year,

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Speaker 1: this year where it ain't over till it's over, and

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Speaker 1: you're right, and realistically, you know, you mentioned d v

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Speaker 1: O a post by there with seven or something like that,

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Speaker 1: you know, and I'm sure defense is even higher. Therefore

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Speaker 1: four offense is probably ten eleven something like that. And again,

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Speaker 1: the beginning of the season happened. But like the Ravens

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Speaker 1: or in the Browns, this upcoming week, we're gonna watch

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Speaker 1: the Steelers last four games, which is a heck of

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Speaker 1: a lot different than the first four games. I mean,

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Speaker 1: And that's the point. I mean, where are you right now?

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Speaker 1: And that's you know, we always talk power ranks in

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Speaker 1: this segment tomorrow. And that's why I do power ranks,

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Speaker 1: and I don't really care what your record is, it's

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Speaker 1: just what are you as a team right now? I

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Speaker 1: think the Steelers are top twelve team in the league

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Speaker 1: right now. You could make the argument based on how

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Speaker 1: they're currently playing right this minute, round thirty two team,

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Speaker 1: round robin, King of the Ring. There might be eleven

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Speaker 1: guys standing when they get thrown out or wherever that works. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean, I still don't think that they're there with

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Speaker 1: the Buffaloes and Kings of Cities and you know, teams

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Speaker 1: of that nature. I don't think that farewell in the

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Speaker 1: playoffs either, to be very honest. But you know, the

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Speaker 1: reality is, as they're beating the teams, as we said

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Speaker 1: in the first segment, the teams that are in that

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Speaker 1: same segment around them, people that generally considered their peers, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: they're they're whipping up on them. Um So I look

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Speaker 1: at this, and you know, I this is not a

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Speaker 1: team that needs a major overhaul. Now. Had they done

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Speaker 1: what a lot of people wanted to and tanked and

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Speaker 1: won three or four games this year, then you'd be

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Speaker 1: looking at a team that, Okay, you probably needed to

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Speaker 1: to change a lot of stuff. Yeah, I mean, this

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Speaker 1: is gonna be a really interesting offseason because they don't

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Speaker 1: have a ton of big name free agents, but there's

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Speaker 1: guys who want to keep, most notably on defense. But

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Speaker 1: I also don't want the defense to get old overnight

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Speaker 1: either by investing in second term contracts for guys that

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Speaker 1: are good not great. Could they use things, of course.

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Speaker 1: I mean there's five things that I would love to

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Speaker 1: see upgraded, but they all could be. You know, they're

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Speaker 1: not going to draft Orlando Pace with the first pick

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Speaker 1: in the I mean, like the chances of landing a premium,

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Speaker 1: premium prospect. And by the way, Michael Parsons was fift

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Speaker 1: pick in the draft. It's not like you don't get

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Speaker 1: good players right right, So it's not like they have

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Speaker 1: no chance of landing a stud. But you know you're

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Speaker 1: not going to get the your pick of corners or

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Speaker 1: your pick of left tackles. By the way, they are

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Speaker 1: now sixteen. Yeah, and the Bears are firmly at two,

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Speaker 1: fighting for one, fighting all of a sudden, now you've

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Speaker 1: got that thirty second pick. The Miami Dolphins don't have

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Speaker 1: a first round pick this year. Some things are going

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Speaker 1: well for the Bears in that regard to because they're

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Speaker 1: playing tough, but they're losing, which is kind of what

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Speaker 1: they want to do where they're at. But no, they're

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Speaker 1: they're off season could really help this team and they

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Speaker 1: can basically kind of do whatever they want. You want

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Speaker 1: Ogan joebi Um, you want to go get a linebacker

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Speaker 1: from outside the organization or whatever. All that stuff is

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Speaker 1: on the table where there's been so many off seasons

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Speaker 1: can't get that in free agency or they're not gonna

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Speaker 1: get that in the draft. But they're they're in good shape,

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Speaker 1: the foundations in place. To your point, you look at

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Speaker 1: some of the Okay, So the Chicago Bears have now

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Speaker 1: lost eight in a row. The Arizona Cardinals have lost

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Speaker 1: five in a row, as have the Tennessee Titans. Competitive

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Speaker 1: and three. Wow. Four has lost five in row. In

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Speaker 1: Miami has lost four in a row, as have the Jets.

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Speaker 1: Have they been four The Jets have lost four in

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Speaker 1: a row. These were teams that everybody was raving about

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Speaker 1: a month ago. I think somebody's I can't remember what

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Speaker 1: I was watching yesterday. Like these are teams went over December.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if that's ever happened before. That's a

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Speaker 1: longest losing streak in NFL history for a playoff team

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Speaker 1: say in a row, they're not making the playoffs. The

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Speaker 1: Titans aren't making the playoffs, So Jets aren't they? Well,

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Speaker 1: the Jets and Dolphins do play each other, are very

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Speaker 1: like the way the way things are going now, they'll

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Speaker 1: end up tying. It's about where they're both that. Yeah, um,

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Speaker 1: look like you're left for dead. The Seattle's lost three

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Speaker 1: at the most, because they're now playing the tough games. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: this is you know, so when when the Steelers, would

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Speaker 1: at the end because you're not going anywhere in the

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Speaker 1: the playoffs at this point, does anybody trust them? No? No,

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Speaker 1: I mean I thought they turned the corner against Buffalo.

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Speaker 1: They played really well in a losing effort. That was

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Speaker 1: their super Bowl. That's a very Cleveland like moment. Head

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Speaker 1: they end up finishing seven and nine or something like that.

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Speaker 1: and get your butts kicked like seven times in a row.

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Speaker 1: I thought Miami would mop the floor with Green Bay two.

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Speaker 1: It was bad, but I mean no running game either.

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Speaker 1: know how they want to play. Two has his limitations,

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Speaker 1: but you can't take advantage of the run game. You

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Speaker 1: have no CounterPunch, no curveball. And as the you know,

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Speaker 1: that was in a game in Miami. What's right, what's

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Speaker 1: he gonna do in a game in New England? Exactly exactly?

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Speaker 1: You know, those little lob balls that he throws up,

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Speaker 1: And they hung around well in Buffalo. I thought they

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Speaker 1: these are the teams that everybody's looking at. One. You know,

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Speaker 1: then the winning streaks after those three teams, the next

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Speaker 1: best winning streaks are three games in a row. Okay,

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Speaker 1: that's not it's tough to win on a week the

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Speaker 1: six of seven, but they're not on that list, you

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Speaker 1: they've they've won three in a row. But the playoffs

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Speaker 1: or four in a row against good teams. Yeah, against brutal,

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Speaker 1: many contenders are there in the league. I mean absolutely

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Speaker 1: now has won more one score games than any team

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Speaker 1: score games. Yeah, remarkable. I mean, give them credits, took

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Speaker 1: their cap. Yeah. I mean, like, compare the Vikes and

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Speaker 1: I think the Minnesota is better, don't get me wrong,

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Speaker 1: to so many podcasts and Greg Costell is one of

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Speaker 1: harris and they went down this tangent about the Super seventies,

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Speaker 1: and he kind of had this like lightbulb moment. He goes,

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Speaker 1: Something in my mind has been driving me crazy. Who

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Speaker 1: is justin Jefferson? He goes, I finally figured out he's

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Speaker 1: John Stalworth, and I'm like, wow, He's like, if John

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Speaker 1: Stalworth played today, he would be one of the best

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Speaker 1: receivers in the league. He's that angular, do it all,

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Speaker 1: attack all levels, I mean tot not gonna not gonna

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Speaker 1: go out and run a four three, but just gets open,

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Speaker 1: that's pretty cool. I can absolutely see that body type

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Speaker 1: everything about it. But total tangent by Williams and there.

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Speaker 1: But you just never saw you on stalwarth dance like

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Speaker 1: tis a little different. Those guys did celebrate, by the way.

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Speaker 1: The people who who come out and say, well the

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Speaker 1: Steelers are seven, he didn't celebrate. Get out of here

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Speaker 1: with that Elsie shoes and thousand yeah glass shoes, and

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Speaker 1: they were pretty fla. They were flamboyant. You know they

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Speaker 1: did the high fives and the jumping high fives, but yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's no such thing at that time. But it's your point.

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Speaker 1: It's it's so difficult to build anything, to build any

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Speaker 1: is seventeen million dollars of the cap. Interesting, Tennessee is

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Speaker 1: cut Tannehill. The Chargers are eight point five million dollars

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Speaker 1: but you're not adding a lot when you're when you're

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Speaker 1: in that kind of situation. We've seen this with the Steelers.

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Speaker 1: You you can get under the cap and still have

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Speaker 1: enough money to sign your new draft picks, but you're

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Speaker 1: not a Byron for Jacksonville because they're young, they're upstart.

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Speaker 1: You would think time to go by. They did that

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Speaker 1: bought too expensive, Like they're they're paying ten million a

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Speaker 1: year for z A. Jones at eight or you know,

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Speaker 1: Who else is there? Um the Vikings or seven point

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Speaker 1: point eight million dollars over a rookie contract with the

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Speaker 1: You know. The Bills are three point five million over

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Speaker 1: because Allen's contract really start right. I wrote an article

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Speaker 1: but you know, praising the what Terrell Evans has done

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Speaker 1: to come to because I'm not sure the Bills are

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Speaker 1: where they aren't. Yeah, they're all. I mean when you

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Speaker 1: give Miller von Miller that contract and if you don't

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Speaker 1: win the Super Bowls here this was their best windows Ya,

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Speaker 1: you went for it. They will be better this year

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Speaker 1: Cleveland has jockey, has moved some stuff around during the season. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's so they're not as bad as They've now got

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Speaker 1: three point seven million to play to play with. But

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Speaker 1: doesn't Watson count like fifty? Yeah, like three guys count

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Speaker 1: like over a hundred million dollars. Watson's like sixties and

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Speaker 1: Mary Cooper is one of them. They're not going to

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Speaker 1: move on from Mariy Cooper, but player probably not right right,

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Speaker 1: like between Watson, Garrett and Cooper or a hundred million

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Speaker 1: dollars in their own lines, expensive and very right. They

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Speaker 1: could be a stars and scrub team before long too,

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Speaker 1: without a first round pick. Who's their middle class? And

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Speaker 1: then you get like so you get the Bears with

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Speaker 1: a hundred twenty million dollars to spend. Who wants to

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Speaker 1: go play in Chicago? That's the thing is where do

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Speaker 1: you use that? Then? Yeah? You know, like what's nice

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Speaker 1: about it? If you're the Bears, though, you could be

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Speaker 1: the team that trades for Tyreek or a J. Brown

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Speaker 1: and pay him you know what I mean? You can

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Speaker 1: get a proven commodity, but that's gonna cost you a

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Speaker 1: offensive tackle it always is it offen? Always? Yeah? One

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Speaker 1: are the bears biggest needs, like receiver. Office signed the

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Speaker 1: next Allen Robinson for five million more than he's worth,

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Speaker 1: just to give him. And that's probably why they traded

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Speaker 1: for Claypool mistakenly, but that was their logic behind it

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Speaker 1: is we don't want to buy a receiver in free agencies.

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Speaker 1: There's none to buy. Yeah, we'll take one on his

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Speaker 1: first contract. Maybe he catches fire. And it hasn't happened.

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Speaker 1: And unfortunately for the Bears, they don't have a foundational

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Speaker 1: along yet. What do you do with that money? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: You know, the Steelers have positioned themselves well as they

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Speaker 1: should be. They got a quarterback on a rookie deal

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Speaker 1: that that you know they can add. But it was

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Speaker 1: the best kind of the best of both worlds. They

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Speaker 1: can keep what they want, they can let go who

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Speaker 1: they want. By the way, I have three high draft picks. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Is the draft gonna be next year? Draft shows are

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Speaker 1: gonna be a blast. Yeah, that's gonna be all of

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Speaker 1: a sudden. You you know, if the Bears, the Bears

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Speaker 1: aren't getting out of that, they're not they're not getting

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Speaker 1: any better than third. Steelers gonna pick real early in

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Speaker 1: the second round. Like every year you go into that

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Speaker 1: Day two of the draft, you're like, oh, look at

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Speaker 1: all these you know, these tend these tend to fift

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Speaker 1: team players. That are these guys were all first round,

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Speaker 1: first round guys, and they're you know, they're available, and

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Speaker 1: you're like, yeah, but the Steelers an't gonna have a chance.

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Speaker 1: And because they're picking twenty second in the second round

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Speaker 1: or whatever, you're gonna have them. You're gonna get some quality. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: quality death set it up. If we pick this guy,

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Speaker 1: then maybe we start a run on corners and then

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Speaker 1: we can tackle we want or you know, there's a

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Speaker 1: quarterback sitting there and somebody says, well, you would like

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Speaker 1: to move up to the top of the second one

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Speaker 1: first next year? Yeah, and then they all kinds of

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Speaker 1: fun stuff that you can do with that. Oh yeah,

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Speaker 1: you can turn into a future first easily. Yeah, very

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Speaker 1: worth it. Last Bears No. Two. I mean along those lines,

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Speaker 1: they can be the team though latent free agency that

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Speaker 1: gets a oh they'll get three million dollar middle line,

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Speaker 1: all the bargains, you know, and build a something to

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Speaker 1: build around. Yeah, I agree, absolutely. Uh. You can subscribe

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