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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 Goal Steelers Nation Radio. Welcome back.

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Speaker 1: I'm Dale Lolly here with Matt Williamson. This is the

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Speaker 1: Drive on Steelers Nation Radio. This is the the show

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Speaker 1: to listen to the show if you're looking for a

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Speaker 1: podcast that that breaks it down. I mean, just you know,

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Speaker 1: we don't do this often enough, Matt. I was gonna

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Speaker 1: go there. I know, I think I have a hunch

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Speaker 1: of what you're talking about. Here, go for it. Let

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Speaker 1: people know exactly what our backgrounds are. Okay, that wasn't

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Speaker 1: what you expected. No, it wasn't what I was expecting,

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Speaker 1: was I guess? This past week, I don't know exactly

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Speaker 1: how Stitcher works. I don't do my podcast through Stitcher,

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Speaker 1: but my various podcasts, particularly this one, I got a

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Speaker 1: lot of tweets from listeners saying, so, yeah, I can't

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Speaker 1: believe how many hours I listened to you this this

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Speaker 1: year and whatnot, and they greatly appreciate that. Yeah, as

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Speaker 1: I say, that's awesome, I mean certainly to the show. Um, yeah,

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Speaker 1: you know you should understand. We'll start with with with you, Matt. Um.

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Speaker 1: You know Matt's been a graduate assistant what what Duquesne

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Speaker 1: pitt I was a volunteer and can and and then

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Speaker 1: recruiting assistant to an assistant recruiting coordinator whatever I mean

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Speaker 1: way back when. So that was the year before Larry

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Speaker 1: future pros. And then our receiver's coach, Larry's coach, took

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Speaker 1: And one of the Browns guys asked me, like, well,

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Speaker 1: keep an eye out, we're looking for new scouts too.

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Speaker 1: I'm like, well, I got a guy in mind, got

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Speaker 1: that job, and I was only with the Browns for

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Speaker 1: three and sixty five days. That was Ben's rookie year,

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Speaker 1: is the best way I described it to people around here.

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Speaker 1: We were really bad. You guys were really good. I

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Speaker 1: watched as much Steeler tape as I did Brown's tape

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Speaker 1: Ben scouting reports things like that. I said, all my

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Speaker 1: buddies Brown's gear, nobody wanted it, so we all got

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Speaker 1: let go, and I immediately hooked on with ESPN, where

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Speaker 1: I was there for ten years, started out as a

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Speaker 1: scouts guy, if people remember that, way back when podcasts

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Speaker 1: and things before people were new a podcast were. But

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Speaker 1: ten years at ESPN dot com is longer than most

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Speaker 1: people last. So very proud of that. And since then

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Speaker 1: I've been writing it all all sorts of outlets and

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Speaker 1: really more focusing on local stuff. And you guys are listening,

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Speaker 1: you know, so it's been great. Yeah. So that's that's

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Speaker 1: Matt's story and that show. We're both we're both Pitt

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Speaker 1: Johnstone graduates, by the way. We found that out down

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Speaker 1: the road. Yeah, and that initially we were there a

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Speaker 1: little different times. I was there when Met's wife was there,

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Speaker 1: but yeah, she's year older than But yeah, I've been

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Speaker 1: covering the Steelers since home and away every game. That

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Speaker 1: I've been doing this a long time, have seen a

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Speaker 1: lot a lot of Steeler games over the years, uh,

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Speaker 1: covering them on a daily basis. So, um, you can

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Speaker 1: go listen to other podcasts. Oh absolutely, I'm just telling

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Speaker 1: you right now that you're not going to find a

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Speaker 1: more knowledgeable duo. No have to pat ourselves on the

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Speaker 1: back here, but we obviously a little bit about what

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Speaker 1: we're talking about. Yeah, I mean, professional side will be

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Speaker 1: buds forever when we get along well. But I do

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Speaker 1: think you're reporting background being with the team at practice

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Speaker 1: every week, all the travels and things that you've seen

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Speaker 1: to knowledge of this team, and no offense to the

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Speaker 1: rest of the reporters and people in this town. I

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Speaker 1: don't know anybody that knows the rest of the league

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Speaker 1: the Steelers as a beat reporter for the Steelers, and

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Speaker 1: This is Steelers Nation Radio, but we will look at

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Speaker 1: the league in a nutshell because it all affects the Steelers.

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Speaker 1: That's the thing that when I started really down in

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Speaker 1: of the listeners haven't been exposed to Well, this isn't

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Speaker 1: this week's game. Speaking of some bad teams and bad lines.

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Speaker 1: all close games this way. This year they found some

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Speaker 1: and review. Uh. The two writers picked Chargers thirty four,

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Speaker 1: great game to fire up your your fantasy Yeah, guys,

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Speaker 1: already lost seven games, so it's gonna be too little,

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Speaker 1: he might, you know, but I would take the points

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Speaker 1: field and he's due for one of those. He really is. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Josh Allen. He's the m v P right, remember him, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: he's a stud. Yeah, so it could happen. It could definitely.

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Speaker 1: But that's gonna do it for this segment. So we're

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Speaker 1: for the Fantasy Football Focus. Man. I get to take

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Speaker 1: our take our picks uh for our DFS lineup this week,

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Speaker 1: and then we make a pick up for this week's

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Speaker 1: Steelers Ravens game. We'll do that right after this