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

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Speaker 1: on your twenty four to seven home of the Black

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Speaker 1: and Gold Steelers Nation Radio.

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Speaker 2: Welcome back. I'm Dale Lolli. He is Matt Williamson, and

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Speaker 2: this is the Drive. It's time for the fantasy football

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Speaker 2: focus here on the Drive, as we do at the

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Speaker 2: top of the five o'clock hour here on the show

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Speaker 2: every week or every day, I should say, and Matt,

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Speaker 2: you sent me this. These are fifteen bold predictions for

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Speaker 2: the fantasy that's interesting.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, this is from JJ Zachariasen.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, he's actually a Pittsburgh guy who went to pit

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Speaker 4: He now lives in Carolina.

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Speaker 3: I know him a little bit.

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Speaker 4: He has his own site, Late Round Quarterback, and he

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Speaker 4: made his way back when he was the first one

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Speaker 4: to say, don't wait forever on quarterbacks, like he wrote

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Speaker 4: this really kind of famous fantasy article, that be the

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Speaker 4: last one in your league to do that. And he's

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Speaker 4: been the first one to say time to change. Don't

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Speaker 4: do that anymore.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, don't do that. Yeah. So his fifteen bold predictions

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Speaker 2: for the fantasy season. I did look at these earlier

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Speaker 2: and if some of these some are pretty bold, some

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Speaker 2: were pretty bold. If they all happen, they all can't happens.

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Speaker 2: That's the thing that I came up with. I'm like, well,

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Speaker 2: that can't happen, and that if that happens, then that

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Speaker 2: can't happen. Anyways, he says, Tony Pollard, this number one,

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Speaker 2: Tony Pollard will finish as this year's top fantasy football

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Speaker 2: running back.

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Speaker 3: I don't think that's insanity.

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Speaker 2: I mean, here's the problem. So I saw this stat

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Speaker 2: and he.

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Speaker 4: Backs these things up with stats and stuff. You know,

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Speaker 4: he's a pretty analytical guy.

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Speaker 2: So Pollard, I believe in his career this dating all

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Speaker 2: the way back to college, has like three career games

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Speaker 2: of more than fifteen carries.

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Speaker 4: I bet, because I'm trying to think who maybe Gibson

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Speaker 4: he was one of those. Pollard a Memphis guy. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: he was a Memphis guy running backs.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and he's never been never been the every down

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Speaker 2: carry the football guy. And so he says, look, you know,

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Speaker 2: Ezekiel Elliott, he averaged he carried the ball sixteen times

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Speaker 2: per game. Every time. When he averaged that, he scored

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Speaker 2: thirty one point two, thirty three point seven, and twenty

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Speaker 2: one point eight PPR points. Well, Paulard has never done that.

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Speaker 2: He's never he's never averaged sixty Yeah, he's never averaged

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Speaker 2: sixteen carries per game. I love the player. I don't

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Speaker 2: know that he can finish number one because of high Yeah.

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Speaker 4: I think he's my running back five or six on

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Speaker 4: the list, you know, I mean, but I mean it's

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Speaker 4: behind Chubb. Yeah, Like I might take him over Barkley

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Speaker 4: or Jacobs or Taylor.

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Speaker 2: Because for him to finish number one, he has to

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Speaker 2: catch about one hundred and twenty.

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Speaker 3: Passes and find the end zone is going to be little,

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Speaker 3: that's going to be ten guys. Yeah, I like him.

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Speaker 2: Though number one. Avoid at all. No, I'm not avoiding him.

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Speaker 2: I just don't think he can finish his RB one one.

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Speaker 3: It's tough.

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Speaker 2: His second bold prediction Rashad White will outscore Travis ATN.

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Speaker 2: I'm kind of warming up to that one at N.

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Speaker 2: I am avoid I don't think think it's because forshawb

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Speaker 2: White's good rights.

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Speaker 4: I mean, his whole argument when reading that one was

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Speaker 4: White is all about volume. He was a really good

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Speaker 4: receiver in college. Four Nette caught a lot of balls.

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Speaker 4: He's out of the equation. They should be losing. I

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Speaker 4: just am avoiding ADN. I'm not sure the I'm moving

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Speaker 2: Number three. Both Deontay Johnson and George Pickens will finish

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Speaker 2: his top twenty four wide receivers.

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Speaker 4: I was a little shocked by that one. I don't

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Speaker 4: think it's crazy. You might want to read it because

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Speaker 4: I think some people. We really come on, man, why

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Speaker 4: this is bold?

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Speaker 2: According to Fantasy pros expert consensus rankings, Johnson is the

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Speaker 2: twenty eighth and Pickens is the thirty sixth wide receivers.

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Speaker 4: I will say I've done nothing to push Pickens up

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Speaker 2: Well if that happened, so really right now, they're both

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Speaker 3: Threes, okay for where they're getting drafted.

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Speaker 2: For where they're getting drafted at, I think they both

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Speaker 3: But that's part of it. He writes in the paragraphs.

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Speaker 2: Why this will happen. We've seen on average four to

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Speaker 2: since twenty eleven. Clearly, the Bengals, Eagles, and Dolphins pass

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Speaker 2: catchers are candidates to get there this year. But what

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Speaker 2: about the Steelers. Historically middle round wide receivers who have

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Speaker 2: expectation at a strong rate. With Johnson and Pickens playing

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Speaker 2: two distinct roles and improved Steelers offense, it's very possible

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Speaker 2: they both get the wide receiver two status.

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Speaker 3: I don't think that's crazy.

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Speaker 4: I mean, he cited some teams you could also bring in,

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Speaker 4: like the Bocks, you know, have consistently at two highly ranked.

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Speaker 4: He's real nerdy about fantasy trends over the last five

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Speaker 4: years or so. Like, if your ADP is like two

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Speaker 4: wide receiver twos and there's nobody ahead of you, there's

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Speaker 4: no Chase Jefferson, blah blah blah. It just indicates that

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Speaker 4: both are good and both have a lot of opportunity.

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Speaker 4: I think Pickens might score a lot of touchdowns. My

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Speaker 4: only reservation here is Austin Robinson Washington Warren, Like, will

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Speaker 4: they both be on the field as much as last year?

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Speaker 2: I think so.

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Speaker 4: I mean, I don't know why they come off, but

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Speaker 4: you're going put five skill guys out there, and if

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Speaker 4: we I think.

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Speaker 2: Those those three in Friarmouth were on the field more

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Speaker 2: than anybody, more than anybody, and then you mix some

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Speaker 2: match the other guys. Harris is still going to get

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Speaker 3: Run running back, Yeah, running back, Yeah, only the one spot.

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Speaker 2: But the other guys are all going to have their turn.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, No, I don't think that's crazy.

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Speaker 2: Number four Deshaun Watson will finish as a top three quarterback.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, he's real into Watson.

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Speaker 2: I don't get it. I just don't see it.

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Speaker 4: I keep dropping them. I have him behind Lawrence, I

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Speaker 4: have them behind Anthony Richardson. I might put Daniel Jones over.

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Speaker 2: I don't know if I can go there with Richardson.

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Speaker 3: I was not a leap of faith.

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Speaker 2: I was not real pleased with what There's going to

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Speaker 2: be a lot of days where Anthony Richardson completes nine

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Speaker 3: I hope he runs ready yard.

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Speaker 2: Yeah right, hope is not a plan.

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Speaker 3: I don't think I want to be in that quarterback neighborhood.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so it's rough. Number five Jaden Reid will lead

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Speaker 2: to Packers and receptions during the second half of the season.

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Speaker 3: Kind of an odd one. I mean a lot of

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Speaker 2: He really putting some restrictions on there.

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Speaker 4: Strange little note though, is looking at this just for Packers.

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Speaker 4: Their opening schedule is really enticing. Now, maybe Aaron Jones

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Speaker 4: they have some real fantasy friendly matchups to start the year.

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Speaker 2: Number six, Sam Howell will finish as a top fifteen quarterback.

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Speaker 2: I don't think that's bomber. That's extremely bold.

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Speaker 4: Though, that's extremely bold. He also takes so many hits.

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Speaker 4: But I like his receivers and he runs. It's kind

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Speaker 2: Is he gonna stay healthy? Though running like that in

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Speaker 2: the NF doesn't protect himself at all. Yeah, I mean

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Speaker 2: he ran one hundred and eighty three times for eight

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Speaker 2: I guarantee you they don't want him running the ball

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Speaker 2: one hundred and eighty three times in Washington.

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Speaker 4: No, he doesn't protect himself in the preseason when I

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Speaker 4: wor Yeah, but I like the guys he's throwing too.

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Speaker 4: He's been one of my there's a couple of those dudes. Actually,

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Speaker 4: I like him, I like Piket and I like love

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Speaker 4: the guys who can get dark cheap As a number two.

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Speaker 2: Number seven bold prediction, Darren Waller will finish behind only

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Speaker 2: Travis Kelcey in tight end scoring. I don't think that

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Speaker 3: I don't think it's that bold.

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Speaker 4: I'm I'm down on Andrews, but I'm really conflicted with

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Speaker 4: don't I might avoid them all. I don't know. We're

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Speaker 4: just take who's last.

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Speaker 2: Number eight, Ty Chandler will outscore Damian Harris. So why

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Speaker 2: this is bold? At the moment, Chandler's RB sixty seven

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Speaker 3: It's odd that he would compare those two. They have

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Speaker 4: Ty Chandler is one of my favorite handcuffs in a

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Speaker 4: Jalen Moore in Lake Fashion. Yeah, I don't think Madison's

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Speaker 4: By week five, Chandler is the guy. Yeah, he's good.

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Speaker 2: Number nine, Jamiir Gibbs will lead all running backs in receptions.

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Speaker 4: I don't think that's insanity. They're really hurting for pass

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Speaker 4: catchers right now, they are, And he was drafted for

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Speaker 3: I don't know. I think out catch Ekler and McCaffrey.

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Speaker 2: But I mean the problem, the problem with Jamiir Gibbs

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Speaker 2: And I think David Montgomery might outsnap Jamiir Gibbs.

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Speaker 4: Montgomery's been more and more of a target of mine too. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: because I think their offense will be good. No one's

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Speaker 4: gonna get the Jamal Williams. You're gonna score eighteen touchdowns.

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Speaker 2: Okay, so he doesn't score eighteen touchdowns, but if he

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Speaker 2: gets ten, you might get ten.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and catch thirty balls, forty balls. I think I'd

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Speaker 4: rather have Gibbs of Montgomery though, Yeah, I mean, but a.

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Speaker 2: But where they're yeah, where they're going in the in drafts,

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Speaker 2: you gotta take Jamior Gibbs.

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Speaker 3: He's riatting the nausey in.

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Speaker 2: Like the twenty in the twenty five range where you

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Speaker 2: get Montgomery like sixty, Yes.

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Speaker 3: I think he's like a six round or four round

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Speaker 2: I'll take that value all day long.

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Speaker 4: If you're loaded in Montgomery's your second running back, I

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Speaker 2: I'll take him easily. He's a great flex mm hmm.

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Speaker 2: I'll take that all day long.

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Speaker 3: But I could see Gibbs catching a lot of passes.

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Speaker 2: Number ten, Austin Ekelar will fail to finish as a

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Speaker 2: top five running back in points per game.

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Speaker 4: So it's funny I read that headline. I'm like, no, way,

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Speaker 4: he's the top three guy. But he actually makes a

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Speaker 4: pretty strong.

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Speaker 2: But very touchdown dependent yeh Is he gonna score eighteen touchdowns? Again? No?

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Speaker 4: And basically the crux of his argument is his target

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Speaker 4: share goes down dramatically when Williams and Allen are out there. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: you know, it's just he was kind of the last

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Speaker 4: resort last year, and Allen and Williams are sort of

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Speaker 4: similar to like Pickens and Deontay. Yeah, Allen's the Deontay. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: Like he's the route runner almost every game he plays

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Speaker 4: that he's healthy, he's gonna lead that team at targets.

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Speaker 4: The fantasy community hasn't figured that out yet.

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Speaker 4: A PPR in particular, Like he might not have eighty

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Speaker 2: Know number eleven, can he Pickett will outscore Aaron Rodgers.

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Speaker 2: Kind of the point there. If they're both top twenty

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Speaker 4: And I think he cites in there his rushing. I

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Speaker 2: Well, here's what it says. He said. Why this is bold.

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Speaker 2: why this will happen. There's no need to get into

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Speaker 2: the details of importance of rushing at quarterback in fantasy football.

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Speaker 2: Anyone reading this likely understands that by now last season,

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Speaker 2: Pickens Pickett was eleventh in the league and fantasy points

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Speaker 2: per game earned rushing with three point two Aaron Rodgers

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Speaker 2: That's crazy, Yeah, take any more hits, right, Yeah, career

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Speaker 2: Rodgers is a better passer, but Pickett's entering year two

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Speaker 2: it's still possible. It's not out landish aid this one

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Speaker 3: Are two receivers.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, top not right, because are the Jets going to

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Speaker 3: No, I'm not saying I like this.

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Speaker 4: The Jets supporting cast better than the Steelers, I don't,

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Speaker 3: I mean it's pretty good. Corey Davis.

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Speaker 2: Corey Davison helped me retiring that that.

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Speaker 3: All of a sudden, Lazard and Cobb and those guys are.

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Speaker 2: Way more than you like. But pres Holgn, catch Cook

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Speaker 2: Right number twelve, at least one rookie tight end will

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Speaker 4: I've heard more of these analysts talking about the I

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Speaker 4: There was eleven of us back when I was at

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Speaker 4: ESPN that would go to the Fantasy Summit and would

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Speaker 4: is we've never seen him play before, and the whole

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Speaker 4: But lately it's starting the switch.

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Speaker 2: Because they're just big wide receivers.

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Speaker 3: They're not being asked to do it.

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Speaker 2: They're not being asked to block. You're just being asked

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Speaker 4: Like Kyle Pitts had a thousand yards as a rookie,

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean he's running receiver outs.

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Speaker 2: So it's Dalonkin, Kaid, Sam Laporta, Luke Musgrave. Those are

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Speaker 3: The buzz is crazy on Musgrave.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: I was listening to an interview with one of their

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Speaker 4: Beat reporters and unsolicited, he's like, make sure you get

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Speaker 4: Musgrave on your fantasy team, okay, because they're all young.

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Speaker 2: So what you have to understand though about Beat writers,

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Speaker 3: No, I know nothing about Sam Laporter, Like I.

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Speaker 2: Know whenever I've done stuff with serious fantasy and they've

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Speaker 2: things that they're like, wow, you're beat rather than those

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Speaker 2: fantasy football like that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, because most of

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Speaker 2: them just well just yeah, this this fourth string running back,

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Speaker 2: Keep an eye on him. He's never gonna play. No,

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Speaker 2: he has no fantasy relevance whatsoever.

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Speaker 4: and he's naming all these cowboy backs that basically.

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Speaker 3: No one's ever heard of. No, he's gonna have a role,

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Speaker 3: and he's gonna have a role.

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Speaker 2: I'm like, no, they're not.

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Speaker 3: They're not Zeke in his prime, you know, Like, yeah,

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Speaker 2: Number thirteen, sticking with the tight end theme here, Greg

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Speaker 2: Dulcic will outscore Evan Ingram.

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Speaker 3: I know he's down on Ingram.

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Speaker 2: Well, here's the thing with Evan Ingram. So if you

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Speaker 2: Ridley I think, I think he steals the catches from

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Speaker 4: And from what I understand, the two receiver sets are

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean you know they're let's say Trevor Lawrence

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Speaker 3: That's a big number.

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Speaker 2: So if Ridley gets one hundred and twenty five targets,

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Speaker 3: The number one.

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Speaker 2: He's a number one.

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Speaker 2: Also have to get Kirk one hundred targets, and you

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Speaker 2: which isn't asking them. I mean, Firemouth had ninety plus

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Speaker 4: They gave him money though, and he's hitting his prime

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Speaker 4: them all. I think I have Kirk a little low

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Speaker 4: He's hardly even playing, you know, like this is a

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Speaker 3: He's out of the league. Yeah, yeah, matters not representing

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Speaker 3: I mean I like, I like Dulphe or over Dulsage.

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Speaker 4: I'll be honest, though, I've flip flopped Friarmuth and Ingram

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Speaker 4: It's truth gonna get a hundred targets. I think he'll

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Speaker 2: I mean he had he had ninety plus targets last year.

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Speaker 2: He caught sixty balls. Is that his floor?

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Speaker 3: I think so probably. I mean, I think more touchdowns,

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Speaker 3: I think that's logical.

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Speaker 2: But those they're not gonna throw eleven touchdowns like they

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Speaker 2: that number, and therefore everybody eats. You know, number fourteen,

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Speaker 2: Anthony Richardson will finish as a top seven quarterback. Oh,

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Speaker 2: based on legs. I mean, I just can't go there.

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Speaker 4: I can have that it. I mean, you'll get him cheap.

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Speaker 4: I have him ahead of Daniel Jones. I don't think

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Speaker 4: most people have that true. I haven't had a Rogers.

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Speaker 2: My problem with Anthony Richardson is I think he could

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Speaker 3: Ball that much, penalty that definitely hurts him.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, the most quarterbacks are run the ball a lot,

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Speaker 4: Has seven or eight rushing touchdowns. Okay, we bet he has.

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Speaker 2: If that's the case. And I don't want Jonathan Taylor

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Speaker 4: Side note, I think there's a deadline on him at

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Speaker 2: But again, I think there's you know, is Anthony Richardson

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Speaker 3: So where did fields end up per game? Wasn't he

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Speaker 2: He was at such a ridiculous rate to compare for

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Speaker 3: If you remember, fields won't duplicate that.

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Speaker 2: On the ground.

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Speaker 2: just kept hammering the just a field yards is over

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Speaker 2: Like he's the worst? Field Fields is a way better passer.

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Speaker 3: He is, he is, but he was throwing to nobody

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Speaker 2: Because he was scoring sixty yard touchdowns all the time

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Speaker 4: first half he was doing that, and they were the

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Speaker 4: run obvious team in the league.

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Speaker 2: And he's breaking off seventy yard runs and you know,

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Speaker 2: I just don't know that you're gonna.

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Speaker 3: It's probably Field's best rushing year of his career without

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Speaker 3: a dumb just because the long ones won't keep it.

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Speaker 2: And I just don't know that to expect that out

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Speaker 2: of Anthony Richardson, I don't think. I don't think he's

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Speaker 2: as good as a passer. I don't think their weapons

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Speaker 2: are very good. No, I like their best weapon is

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Speaker 2: Jonathan Taylor. Well, if he's running the ball, then Richardson can't.

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Speaker 2: And I just he's not an accurate passer.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't care, though. I really think the cheat code.

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Speaker 2: Is just have at a ten. You can go ahead

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Speaker 2: and start him.

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Speaker 4: I mean, I'm gonna get him late, and I'm gonna

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Speaker 4: back him up with two hours.

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Speaker 2: And you'll be starting that guy most weeks. I have

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Speaker 2: at a ten.

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Speaker 3: I mean, who's gonna out rush him?

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Speaker 2: Welcome to five and twelve. He might, I think I

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Speaker 2: take him.

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Speaker 3: I think i'd take him over.

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Speaker 2: Even if he runs for a thousand yards.

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Speaker 4: Then he's a quarterback one is he? Yeah, he could

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Speaker 4: throw five in five touchdowns. I mean if he rushes

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Speaker 4: for one thousand yards, I mean he's on the field

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Speaker 4: seventeen games, he's going to complete some passes.

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Speaker 2: I just don't know that's going to be enough.

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Speaker 4: I mean it's super unorthodox. It doesn't mean he's good

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Speaker 4: at football, But if he rushes.

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Speaker 2: For that many yards, he's gonna score a ton of

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Speaker 2: because they're gonna be games when he plays. You know,

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Speaker 2: if you look at their schedule, they get some tough.

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Speaker 2: I mean they'll be losing a lot, Like they play

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Speaker 2: the Steelers Championship week. I know that for a fact,

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Speaker 2: I believe. I mean, is he going to run for

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Speaker 2: a bunch of yards against the Steelers who play Lamar

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Speaker 2: all the time? Is he going to take them by

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Speaker 2: surprising enough? Probably not?

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Speaker 3: But against Houston and you know, Jacksonville and Tennessee, I mean, it's.

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Speaker 2: Fine, they don't play them every week.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean if he rushes for who, do you

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Speaker 4: think do you think he out rushes?

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Speaker 3: How many quarterbacks out rush him? I guess his way

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Speaker 3: to answer that question.

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Speaker 4: For the year, like, I think Lamar will be a

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Speaker 4: little down, and I think fields will be a little less.

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Speaker 3: They're the only ones I think are closed. I think

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Speaker 3: those are the top three rushing I just.

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Speaker 2: Think I think you can go too far the other

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Speaker 2: way to say you have to be able to throw

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Speaker 2: for something. If he averages one hundred passing yards per game,

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Speaker 2: he's worthless. Yeah, yeah, I mean I think that might

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Speaker 2: be what he does.

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Speaker 3: It might be. I mean then that you would because

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Speaker 3: he is.

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Speaker 2: An extremely inaccurate.

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Speaker 3: Passer, right, But I just think they're going to throw, and.

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Speaker 2: I think at some point they may look at this.

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Speaker 4: He's not ready, So you're taking Watson over him to

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Speaker 4: probably Rogers Daniel Jones.

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Speaker 2: Again, I think it's I think it's much safer, and

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Speaker 2: I think it's you know, if I'm if I'm gambling, I'll.

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Speaker 3: It's JJ's case here.

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Speaker 2: Folks are hesitant to invest in rookie quarterbacks, and understandably

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Speaker 2: so that's the other thing to remember, Fields didn't do

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Speaker 2: what he did last year in his rookie season.

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Speaker 4: He was awful that Herbert's been like the only relevant

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Speaker 4: rookie quarterback. That's a very good argument.

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Speaker 2: Since twenty twenty eleven, among all rookie signal callers who

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Speaker 2: played at least eight games, just six were able to

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Speaker 2: finish in top twelve.

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Speaker 3: Now it's brutal, it's a huge that's a great example.

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Speaker 2: They were all running quarterbacks though. Those five were Deshaun Watson,

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Speaker 2: Cam Newton, Kyler, Murray, Josh Allen, Robert Griffin.

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Speaker 3: But we're going back far right. I mean, I don't

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Speaker 3: think that's a ring.

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Speaker 2: He's not as good a passer as any of those guys. No, no,

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Speaker 2: and he has worse weapons than most of those teams.

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Speaker 3: I just but he's an equal rusher at all those Okay, yeah.

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Speaker 2: Great, but he's not even close to being in their

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Speaker 2: level of passers. And I just remember all the sacks

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Speaker 2: that Fields took as a rookie. Oh it was brutal.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it was brutal.

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Speaker 4: He was an awful There's certainly a case too. Will

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Speaker 4: he last seventeen games?

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Speaker 2: Right?

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Speaker 4: I mean if he but there must be something in

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Speaker 4: that paragraph that's good for him because he has him saying.

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Speaker 2: Oh, he's just talking about the running. It's all about

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Speaker 2: the running, exactly right.

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Speaker 3: Fifteen on the argument for him, it's just I think

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Speaker 3: it's a strong one.

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Speaker 2: His fifteen is Zach Charbonney want to score Kenneth Walker.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm not betting on that.

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Speaker 4: I think I think he even says, hey, I'm not

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Speaker 4: betting on this, but I can tell he says something

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Speaker 4: on the lines of Charbonay does things Walker.

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Speaker 3: Doesn't, which is basically Ketch a ful catch foot. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: and he was a high pick for a reason for it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Well that was Jay Jay's zachar Reeson's his fifteen

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Speaker 2: bold predictions for the fantasy season. Some are pretty bold.

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Speaker 2: Two Steeler ones that If they they do happen, this

543
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Speaker 2: team's gonna be pretty good.

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Speaker 3: Really really good.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and they kind of go hand in hand, Yes,

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Speaker 4: they do. One won't have about the other problem.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely not. But we're gonna get to a break here.

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Speaker 2: He is Matt Williamson. I am Dale Lolly. That was

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Speaker 2: the Fantasy Football Focus. This is the drive. We'll be

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Speaker 2: back with more right after this.

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

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Speaker 1: on your twenty four to seven home of the Black

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Speaker 1: and Gold SNR Steelers Nation Radio.

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Speaker 2: Welcome back. I'm Dale LOLLI he is Matt Williamson, and

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Speaker 2: this is the Drive on Steelers Nation Radio. And I'm Matt.

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Speaker 2: I'm just looking here through some of the early cuts

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Speaker 2: and moves here that have been made around the league

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Speaker 2: thus far.

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Speaker 3: Small trades, a couple of things, and yeah.

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Speaker 2: We'll just go through my team by team here, starting

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Speaker 2: with the AFC East. Here, the Buffalo Bills. Jase Sternberger,

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Speaker 2: the former Steeler gets like.

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Speaker 3: Lea act every one of these. There's gonna be a

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Speaker 3: time of names that aren't.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, looking here at the Miami Dolphins, Kiki ku Te,

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Speaker 2: he already cut.

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Speaker 3: He's been around a little while.

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Speaker 2: They also had to Aubrey Miller was the linebacker liked

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Speaker 2: in the draft this year out of was it Jackson State?

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Speaker 2: Is he Jackson State?

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Speaker 3: Huy? Yeah, I think so interesting guy there. Okay, he

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Speaker 3: got cut.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Jalen Twineman, the former Pitt guy Trace pick sorely

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Speaker 2: gets cut in New England.

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Speaker 3: So he is doesn't surprise me?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, not sticking with that. But they also,

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Speaker 2: as I mentioned, made a couple of trades for offensive

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Speaker 2: lineman that doesn't bode well for them.

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Speaker 4: Like no, I thought they had a lot of linemen.

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Speaker 4: Maybe they didn't have great ones, but they have a

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Speaker 4: lot of linemen.

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Speaker 3: I don't know.

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Speaker 4: That whole offense to me is troubling. There's no star power.

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Speaker 4: Who's their best offensive player? I mean for Andre Stevenson,

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Speaker 4: but that's probably a position you don't want to be

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Speaker 4: the best.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, not not great. The air for the Arizona Cardinals. Actually, McCoy,

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Speaker 2: they did cut Colt McCoy. We talked about that. I

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Speaker 2: can't remember if we did that on the air. Off

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Speaker 2: the air, the Dobbs trade, the Dobbs trade. McCoy was

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Speaker 2: making some money there, and I have to believe they

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Speaker 2: felt like, hey, we can get him back if we

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Speaker 2: want him.

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Speaker 3: I was thinking that too.

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Speaker 2: Who's else is going to sign Colt McCoy.

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Speaker 4: They traded Jones, they traded Simmons. Maybe there's even more

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Speaker 4: names that are going to go off that one.

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Speaker 2: And so they're they're going to run a system that

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Speaker 2: is closer to what they ran in Cleveland, right, And

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Speaker 2: so Dobbs played in Cleveland. Obviously he knows the system,

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Speaker 2: so there's some familiarity there. He just doesn't know the

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Speaker 2: personnel as well.

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Speaker 4: But a big thing I think they want to do,

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Speaker 4: and this isn't a knock on Colt McCoy. I just

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Speaker 4: think they want to get a lot of the losers

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Speaker 4: out of the building. I'm not saying he's a loser.

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Speaker 4: The people who have been around this organization, I mean

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Speaker 4: even their hires.

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Speaker 2: Have always can they fire the owner?

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Speaker 4: I just say they want to facelift the whole thing.

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Speaker 4: So if like Dobbs and McCoy are a tie, I

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Speaker 4: went the new guy. I mean, I just don't want

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Speaker 4: any of the old stink around here. Those Dobbs will

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Speaker 4: be good for Murray or maybe even Caleb Williams over there.

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Speaker 3: He's a super smart guy.

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Speaker 2: Speaking of Kyler Murray, he will remain on the reserve

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Speaker 2: pup list begin the season as he continues to recover.

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Speaker 2: That means he must miss at least the first four

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Speaker 2: games of the season. One the puplist he's probably gonna

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Speaker 2: miss more than that.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, no shock though.

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Speaker 4: Yeah he's not on not done for the year, but

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Speaker 4: we'll see where they're at when he's actually healthy.

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Speaker 2: They also placed offensive lineman pat eflin Elflin on injured reserve.

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Speaker 2: He's kicked around the.

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Speaker 3: League a little the gain he's played a little bit.

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Speaker 2: Take and then as cornerback Garrett Williams, who was the

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Speaker 2: Syracuse kid he was with the injury, he will start

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Speaker 2: with the start the season on a non football injury list.

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Speaker 2: I think they kind of knew that when they drafted him,

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Speaker 2: but I mean the roll of dice.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, he got him cheap on draft day for them

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Speaker 4: though they're not winning anything this year anyway, Yeah, you

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Speaker 4: can forget okay, bring them along in the second half of

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Speaker 4: the season.

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Speaker 2: Looking at the Ravens, quarterback Tyler Huntley with the hamstring

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Speaker 2: injuries not expected to be placed on injury reserve, which

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Speaker 2: means we have to carry him into the regular season

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Speaker 2: on their on their fifty three man roster. I'm not

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Speaker 2: sure if he's even the two right Josh Sjahnson seemed

641
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Speaker 2: to be bad for that. Uh. Tight End Mark Andrews

642
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Speaker 2: is expected to be ready to play in the season opener,

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Speaker 2: So we'll see about that.

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Speaker 4: Here's four or five of these injuries, like McLaurin and

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Speaker 4: that are questionable for Week one.

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Speaker 2: Uh. The Browns made a trade for a kicker, that

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Speaker 2: being Dustin Hopkins. Who was that with Again, that was

648
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Speaker 2: with the Chargers. Nobody has ever traded for a Chargers kicker.

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Speaker 2: Happy with it, but they used a high pick on

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Speaker 2: a kicker recently. Kay York was the kicker they they

651
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Speaker 2: released him. U he was like a fourth rounder last year.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, he was early, he was taken.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and it was you know, he just wasn't good.

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Speaker 3: It wasn't good. Kicker problems.

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Speaker 2: Dustin Hopkins' career kicking percentage eighty four percent. Not great, right,

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Speaker 2: that's fine, actually kind of below average by today's standards.

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Speaker 2: And again, you know, yes, he kicked a long time

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Speaker 2: in Washington, which is kind of the northeast, but not Cleveland. Cleveland, Yeah,

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Speaker 2: not quite Cleveland.

660
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Speaker 3: Especially where their stadium is on the lake.

661
00:29:14,360 --> 00:29:17,200
Speaker 2: Right on the lake. Yeah, it's a different it's a different,

662
00:29:17,200 --> 00:29:18,520
Speaker 2: different animal kicking up there.

663
00:29:18,800 --> 00:29:21,440
Speaker 4: If they get eighty four field goal percentage out of

664
00:29:21,440 --> 00:29:23,320
Speaker 4: whoever their kickers are this year, they should take it.

665
00:29:23,840 --> 00:29:28,720
Speaker 2: Uh. They also released Michael Dunn, who the offensive lineman

666
00:29:28,720 --> 00:29:30,840
Speaker 2: who started some games for them.

667
00:29:30,880 --> 00:29:32,880
Speaker 4: I mean, I think they're happy with Jones, the giant

668
00:29:32,920 --> 00:29:36,160
Speaker 4: kid out of Ohio State and Whippler. I know that

669
00:29:36,200 --> 00:29:38,320
Speaker 4: they're really happy with the center. So they drafted to

670
00:29:38,440 --> 00:29:41,360
Speaker 4: Ohio State linemen that they're pretty confident in.

671
00:29:41,720 --> 00:29:41,840
Speaker 3: Uh.

672
00:29:42,040 --> 00:29:44,920
Speaker 2: Hendon hooker for the Lions, will begin the season on

673
00:29:45,000 --> 00:29:47,320
Speaker 2: the n f I list. He's kind of the same

674
00:29:47,400 --> 00:29:49,600
Speaker 2: thing as what he practice. I don't think he has.

675
00:29:49,720 --> 00:29:51,400
Speaker 3: Yeah, he can if he's on.

676
00:29:51,520 --> 00:29:53,880
Speaker 2: If you can't go on the NFI list if you practice.

677
00:29:55,280 --> 00:29:57,320
Speaker 2: This was kind of they knew that. Yeah, they knew

678
00:29:57,320 --> 00:30:02,960
Speaker 2: that when they drafted him. Looks like Nate Sudfeld also.

679
00:30:02,800 --> 00:30:05,480
Speaker 3: Tore an a c L for them Bridgewaters.

680
00:30:05,520 --> 00:30:07,320
Speaker 2: The Bridgewater is to back up there.

681
00:30:07,720 --> 00:30:08,320
Speaker 3: He might play.

682
00:30:08,800 --> 00:30:13,600
Speaker 2: Yeah. The Packers cut punter Pad O'Donnell.

683
00:30:13,640 --> 00:30:15,160
Speaker 3: He was their guy.

684
00:30:15,320 --> 00:30:17,480
Speaker 2: Yeah. So there's some teams out there that were you

685
00:30:17,480 --> 00:30:21,160
Speaker 2: know when you wonder why the Steelers holding on to Man, Well,

686
00:30:21,320 --> 00:30:23,640
Speaker 2: this is kind of why, Like you know, you just

687
00:30:23,680 --> 00:30:28,920
Speaker 2: don't know. The Houston Texans released linebacker Christian Kirksey an

688
00:30:28,960 --> 00:30:31,320
Speaker 2: the league too. Yeah, he'll be playing. He'll play.

689
00:30:32,480 --> 00:30:34,600
Speaker 3: I assume he's a decent enough special team guy to

690
00:30:34,600 --> 00:30:35,200
Speaker 3: get picked up.

691
00:30:35,680 --> 00:30:40,400
Speaker 2: So yeah. Interesting. Uh. The Colts released wide receiver Brishard Perryman.

692
00:30:40,880 --> 00:30:42,320
Speaker 3: Yeah, it might be on the road for him.

693
00:30:42,440 --> 00:30:44,240
Speaker 2: Yeah. Former first round.

694
00:30:44,160 --> 00:30:47,680
Speaker 3: Draft pick, but always a speed guy. But one trick pony.

695
00:30:50,640 --> 00:30:54,960
Speaker 2: For the Jaguars, offensive tackle Tyler Shatley, who had been

696
00:30:55,000 --> 00:30:57,320
Speaker 2: on blood thinners for an a f ib issue. I

697
00:30:57,320 --> 00:31:00,240
Speaker 2: don't know what that means. Could be ready to go

698
00:31:00,320 --> 00:31:00,960
Speaker 2: in Week one.

699
00:31:01,800 --> 00:31:03,120
Speaker 3: Okay, he's a depth guy though.

700
00:31:03,200 --> 00:31:06,800
Speaker 2: Yeah. And then linebacker Ventrel Miller, who was their fourth

701
00:31:06,840 --> 00:31:08,880
Speaker 2: round draft pick this year and was slated to start

702
00:31:08,920 --> 00:31:12,320
Speaker 2: as a rookie. He tore his achilles. He is out

703
00:31:12,320 --> 00:31:14,320
Speaker 2: for the year. He's going to start for them, He

704
00:31:14,400 --> 00:31:16,240
Speaker 2: was going to start. Yeah, I mean they drafted Lloyd

705
00:31:16,320 --> 00:31:19,800
Speaker 2: last year. They have a couple of dudes. But all right,

706
00:31:19,920 --> 00:31:22,240
Speaker 2: I mean, you hate to have a mid round pick

707
00:31:22,400 --> 00:31:24,400
Speaker 2: lost for the year. Yeah, tough to come back.

708
00:31:24,440 --> 00:31:25,040
Speaker 3: The next year.

709
00:31:26,680 --> 00:31:30,479
Speaker 2: Looks like for the Chargers. Wide receiver Jalen Geiton tours

710
00:31:30,480 --> 00:31:33,720
Speaker 2: ACL last September. He'll begin the season on the reserve

711
00:31:33,800 --> 00:31:34,360
Speaker 2: pup list.

712
00:31:34,840 --> 00:31:37,160
Speaker 4: He was probably fifth on the depth chart now. But

713
00:31:37,240 --> 00:31:40,120
Speaker 4: he's like their speed guy. Yeah, he's their downfield home

714
00:31:40,200 --> 00:31:40,680
Speaker 4: run dude.

715
00:31:40,920 --> 00:31:45,800
Speaker 2: Yeah. With Dustin Hopkins getting traded by the Chargers, Cameron

716
00:31:45,880 --> 00:31:49,040
Speaker 2: Dicker the kicker will be their guy. Nice sticking with

717
00:31:49,080 --> 00:31:49,800
Speaker 2: Dicker the kicker.

718
00:31:49,880 --> 00:31:51,720
Speaker 3: That's a nice place to kick if you're talking about weather.

719
00:31:51,800 --> 00:31:59,760
Speaker 2: Oh yeah. Absolutely mentioned Kiki q earlier for the Vikings.

720
00:32:00,400 --> 00:32:04,240
Speaker 2: They traded and mentioned this as well. Verderian Lowe to

721
00:32:04,320 --> 00:32:07,720
Speaker 2: the Patriots in exchange for a sixth round pick. He

722
00:32:07,800 --> 00:32:10,920
Speaker 2: was a sixth round pick in twenty twenty two offensive lineman.

723
00:32:10,960 --> 00:32:12,920
Speaker 2: He's the offensive linemans. They also made a trade with

724
00:32:12,960 --> 00:32:15,520
Speaker 2: the Browns to get another offensive tackle, so two offensive

725
00:32:15,560 --> 00:32:16,560
Speaker 2: tackles that they added.

726
00:32:16,960 --> 00:32:18,920
Speaker 4: Imagine that, You imagine what we'll be talking abot right

727
00:32:18,920 --> 00:32:21,640
Speaker 4: now with the Steels trade for two offensive tackles.

728
00:32:21,320 --> 00:32:24,280
Speaker 2: Like two days before the Yeah, that's a bad sign.

729
00:32:24,280 --> 00:32:30,120
Speaker 2: It's a really bad sign. Mentioned they released. The Patriots

730
00:32:30,160 --> 00:32:34,240
Speaker 2: released Trace mcsworley. They also released Cordless weightman, the former

731
00:32:34,280 --> 00:32:37,840
Speaker 2: Steelers guy at the end of the road for him

732
00:32:37,880 --> 00:32:43,720
Speaker 2: to the Giants. Tight End Chris Myrek was placed on

733
00:32:43,800 --> 00:32:47,600
Speaker 2: season ending injured reserve. They also cut Wyatt Davis.

734
00:32:48,080 --> 00:32:49,080
Speaker 3: Oh he's been around a little bit.

735
00:32:49,200 --> 00:32:50,760
Speaker 2: Yeah, kind of surprised by that one.

736
00:32:50,920 --> 00:32:53,200
Speaker 3: Yeah, this early. Maybe he hopes on somewhere.

737
00:32:53,280 --> 00:32:57,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, the Jets, we talked about this one a couple

738
00:32:57,200 --> 00:33:00,760
Speaker 2: of weeks ago. Donovan bam Knight was released.

739
00:33:00,800 --> 00:33:02,920
Speaker 3: He was like, a, yeah, I bet he gets picked up.

740
00:33:03,280 --> 00:33:03,920
Speaker 2: I would think so.

741
00:33:03,960 --> 00:33:06,200
Speaker 3: I mean team like Dallas or somebody should grab him.

742
00:33:06,360 --> 00:33:11,160
Speaker 2: Ind They also released wide receiver Alex Erickson, a good

743
00:33:11,200 --> 00:33:11,680
Speaker 2: return guy.

744
00:33:11,760 --> 00:33:14,840
Speaker 3: Yeah's return I can run. He was a Bengal for

745
00:33:14,880 --> 00:33:16,240
Speaker 3: a yeah.

746
00:33:16,600 --> 00:33:19,360
Speaker 2: And Trey Dean, the safety who was kind of liked

747
00:33:19,400 --> 00:33:20,880
Speaker 2: him a little bit in the draft. He was a big,

748
00:33:20,920 --> 00:33:23,600
Speaker 2: strong safety out of Florida, I believe, or Florida State,

749
00:33:24,080 --> 00:33:27,840
Speaker 2: remember which kind of in the box type. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Uh.

750
00:33:27,880 --> 00:33:31,440
Speaker 2: They also placed a cornerback, Jimmy Moreland on injury reserve.

751
00:33:31,800 --> 00:33:33,280
Speaker 2: So his season is done. He's been around the.

752
00:33:33,280 --> 00:33:35,400
Speaker 4: Legal, had a lot of injuries and stuff. They also

753
00:33:35,520 --> 00:33:37,400
Speaker 4: named Mackai Beckton the starting right tackle.

754
00:33:37,600 --> 00:33:37,760
Speaker 2: Yeah.

755
00:33:37,760 --> 00:33:39,240
Speaker 3: That's set and stone at least, But they had a

756
00:33:39,280 --> 00:33:40,720
Speaker 3: lot of things up in the air on that team.

757
00:33:40,760 --> 00:33:44,600
Speaker 2: They sure do. Uh Hassan Reddick with the Eagles, remains

758
00:33:44,640 --> 00:33:47,120
Speaker 2: confident he'll be ready for a week one after undergoing

759
00:33:47,160 --> 00:33:50,400
Speaker 2: surgery for a torn ligament in his right thumb. He said,

760
00:33:50,440 --> 00:33:52,239
Speaker 2: it's a thumb. Wrap it up, go back out there

761
00:33:52,280 --> 00:33:55,920
Speaker 2: and play. That all sounds well and good. Yea in theory,

762
00:33:56,880 --> 00:34:00,000
Speaker 2: I know from you know, having like my right thought

763
00:34:00,080 --> 00:34:03,880
Speaker 2: might have no ligaments in it. I can just I

764
00:34:03,880 --> 00:34:05,040
Speaker 2: can remember when I did that.

765
00:34:06,320 --> 00:34:07,560
Speaker 3: You wouldn't want to play football.

766
00:34:07,680 --> 00:34:11,680
Speaker 2: I would not I finish finish my senior year in

767
00:34:11,719 --> 00:34:14,719
Speaker 2: high school with that, And it affected your shooting and

768
00:34:14,760 --> 00:34:17,840
Speaker 2: affected how you look at everything that's your shooting thumb

769
00:34:17,920 --> 00:34:21,560
Speaker 2: and yeah, and even now at this point where you know,

770
00:34:21,600 --> 00:34:24,040
Speaker 2: if I'm doing something that thumb will catch on something

771
00:34:24,120 --> 00:34:26,279
Speaker 2: and pull back because there's no no ligaments in there.

772
00:34:26,440 --> 00:34:29,919
Speaker 2: Again hurts. It hurts big time.

773
00:34:30,000 --> 00:34:32,480
Speaker 3: Yeah. And if keeps fighting offensive tackles.

774
00:34:32,200 --> 00:34:34,080
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm not wrestling with three hundred pounders.

775
00:34:34,280 --> 00:34:36,680
Speaker 3: So I wonder if you would like club it up. Yeah.

776
00:34:36,880 --> 00:34:39,480
Speaker 3: You don't see people who do the club thing anymore because.

777
00:34:39,280 --> 00:34:40,560
Speaker 2: I don't know if you're allowed to play with that

778
00:34:40,600 --> 00:34:44,120
Speaker 2: as much. Maybe you can't. Yeah, you can't do what

779
00:34:44,160 --> 00:34:46,680
Speaker 2: you need to do now against today's Like if you

780
00:34:46,719 --> 00:34:50,040
Speaker 2: play one handed, which is essentially what you'd be doing against.

781
00:34:49,760 --> 00:34:53,920
Speaker 3: An offensive tackle, you're going to get killed. It might

782
00:34:53,960 --> 00:34:56,160
Speaker 3: be a big deal for him.

783
00:34:56,239 --> 00:35:01,480
Speaker 2: They signed cornerback Isaiah Rogers and then placed him on

784
00:35:01,520 --> 00:35:04,520
Speaker 2: the reserve suspended list. He was suspended by the league

785
00:35:05,280 --> 00:35:08,040
Speaker 2: for the twenty twenty three season for violating the NFL

786
00:35:08,080 --> 00:35:10,440
Speaker 2: Gambling The gambling guys, right, so they went out, they

787
00:35:10,560 --> 00:35:13,759
Speaker 2: signed a guy who's suspended for the year. Yeah, but

788
00:35:13,800 --> 00:35:14,600
Speaker 2: that's kind of shrewd.

789
00:35:14,760 --> 00:35:15,680
Speaker 3: I mean, like is it.

790
00:35:15,800 --> 00:35:18,000
Speaker 2: He was sort of in the mix of start. I mean,

791
00:35:18,000 --> 00:35:20,240
Speaker 2: they're kind of gambling here with him, aren't they gambling?

792
00:35:20,680 --> 00:35:21,279
Speaker 3: Nicely done?

793
00:35:21,280 --> 00:35:22,879
Speaker 2: Because he counts against your salary cap.

794
00:35:22,920 --> 00:35:25,359
Speaker 4: Now, yeah, I don't think he's expensive though, I mean

795
00:35:25,400 --> 00:35:26,440
Speaker 4: maybe he got one cheap.

796
00:35:27,280 --> 00:35:27,480
Speaker 3: Yeah.

797
00:35:27,560 --> 00:35:29,239
Speaker 2: Maybe he's not gonna play all year, not gonna play

798
00:35:29,239 --> 00:35:31,759
Speaker 2: all year, and you're gonna take that hit. And maybe

799
00:35:31,800 --> 00:35:33,520
Speaker 2: he doesn't get ever reinstated.

800
00:35:33,600 --> 00:35:35,840
Speaker 3: No, he might not, or he does something else, don't.

801
00:35:35,680 --> 00:35:41,439
Speaker 2: But yeah, Jackson Smith and Jigba for the Seahawks. Of course,

802
00:35:41,480 --> 00:35:43,880
Speaker 2: one underwent surgery to repair that small broken bone in

803
00:35:43,960 --> 00:35:47,600
Speaker 2: his wrist, expected to begin the season on the active roster,

804
00:35:47,719 --> 00:35:48,720
Speaker 2: So they're not gonna put.

805
00:35:48,600 --> 00:35:51,600
Speaker 3: Him on the yeah thing, I guess.

806
00:35:52,200 --> 00:35:56,399
Speaker 2: It also means I'm assuming that means they're not gonna

807
00:35:56,520 --> 00:35:59,240
Speaker 2: obviously they're not gonna put him on on on injured

808
00:35:59,239 --> 00:36:02,640
Speaker 2: reserve now, but you're gonna carry him into week one probably.

809
00:36:02,920 --> 00:36:04,840
Speaker 2: I assume that also means that he's not going to

810
00:36:04,880 --> 00:36:06,920
Speaker 2: get placed on the injured reserve them, which means he

811
00:36:06,960 --> 00:36:09,640
Speaker 2: doesn't miss the first four weeks, but he's probably not

812
00:36:09,640 --> 00:36:10,520
Speaker 2: playing week one.

813
00:36:10,880 --> 00:36:13,200
Speaker 3: I think that's exactly who we'll go. Yeah, he'll be

814
00:36:13,640 --> 00:36:14,279
Speaker 3: week to week.

815
00:36:14,400 --> 00:36:19,440
Speaker 2: Sometime sometime in September, he probably comes back. But at

816
00:36:19,440 --> 00:36:20,799
Speaker 2: what points you're guessing.

817
00:36:20,680 --> 00:36:23,160
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a tough one. I think he was gonna

818
00:36:23,160 --> 00:36:23,839
Speaker 3: play a lot for them.

819
00:36:25,280 --> 00:36:28,320
Speaker 2: For the Titans, Hasan Haskins has been placed on injured reserve,

820
00:36:28,440 --> 00:36:29,840
Speaker 2: So take him off of your.

821
00:36:30,480 --> 00:36:33,320
Speaker 3: So spears I think is the two slash change of page.

822
00:36:33,360 --> 00:36:34,480
Speaker 2: Haskins had been to two.

823
00:36:34,640 --> 00:36:37,760
Speaker 3: Yeah, he was in the mixes the Banger. If Henry

824
00:36:37,840 --> 00:36:38,400
Speaker 3: go down.

825
00:36:38,280 --> 00:36:42,400
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's kind of a big deal. Treylon Burk's returned

826
00:36:42,400 --> 00:36:44,799
Speaker 2: to practice and took part in individual drills for the

827
00:36:44,800 --> 00:36:47,759
Speaker 2: first time to sustaining a knee injury August sixteenth.

828
00:36:48,160 --> 00:36:48,759
Speaker 3: They need them.

829
00:36:48,840 --> 00:36:50,279
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's I mean, that's a couple of weeks ago.

830
00:36:50,560 --> 00:36:55,600
Speaker 2: They also activated Dylan Reddin's off the physically unable to

831
00:36:55,640 --> 00:36:56,400
Speaker 2: perform lists.

832
00:36:56,400 --> 00:36:58,680
Speaker 3: So he's been bad since he's been the league. They

833
00:36:58,680 --> 00:36:59,200
Speaker 3: need every off.

834
00:37:00,120 --> 00:37:03,240
Speaker 2: Yeah, you talked about team and needs offensive line bay

835
00:37:03,960 --> 00:37:06,880
Speaker 2: uh and Jared Patterson, the running back released by the

836
00:37:06,920 --> 00:37:10,560
Speaker 2: Commanders on Yeah, that doesn't be part of their cuts there, So.

837
00:37:10,600 --> 00:37:13,160
Speaker 3: You didn't mention one. It was on the list there.

838
00:37:13,200 --> 00:37:14,880
Speaker 3: But Ryan Jensen for Tampa.

839
00:37:15,000 --> 00:37:18,520
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, that's that happened over the weekend. Uh, Like

840
00:37:18,560 --> 00:37:19,040
Speaker 2: he has done.

841
00:37:19,360 --> 00:37:21,239
Speaker 4: I bet he's done forever. Now, this is two years

842
00:37:21,280 --> 00:37:22,800
Speaker 4: in a row that one of the better centers in

843
00:37:22,840 --> 00:37:24,920
Speaker 4: the league. But he's up in age, is going to

844
00:37:24,960 --> 00:37:25,759
Speaker 4: miss the whole year.

845
00:37:26,480 --> 00:37:29,040
Speaker 2: There were a lot of people in Pittsburgh who were pushing, Hey,

846
00:37:29,040 --> 00:37:31,040
Speaker 2: the Steelers need to sign him last year because he

847
00:37:31,080 --> 00:37:32,799
Speaker 2: was a free agent last year. I remember he was

848
00:37:32,800 --> 00:37:34,760
Speaker 2: expensive and then they gave him. He gave him money.

849
00:37:34,840 --> 00:37:38,479
Speaker 4: Yeah, he's a foundational leader. Brady loved them tough guy.

850
00:37:38,800 --> 00:37:40,719
Speaker 4: Ravens loved them. Their offensive line is going to be

851
00:37:40,719 --> 00:37:41,280
Speaker 4: a mess.

852
00:37:41,080 --> 00:37:43,359
Speaker 3: To be bad. I mean, their best guy. They're making

853
00:37:43,360 --> 00:37:44,560
Speaker 3: them switch sides too, and.

854
00:37:44,760 --> 00:37:47,440
Speaker 2: He's if I think we talked about it in training

855
00:37:47,480 --> 00:37:51,319
Speaker 2: camp where he was meeting with a sports psychologist to

856
00:37:51,360 --> 00:37:53,160
Speaker 2: deal with the move from right tackle to left. That

857
00:37:53,200 --> 00:37:55,440
Speaker 2: doesn't sound great, No, it doesn't. That doesn't give me.

858
00:37:55,600 --> 00:37:57,080
Speaker 2: That doesn't give me a lot of confidence.

859
00:37:58,520 --> 00:38:00,920
Speaker 4: I think that team is really in for rough year,

860
00:38:00,960 --> 00:38:03,040
Speaker 4: especially on that side of the ball. Their quarterback situation.

861
00:38:03,239 --> 00:38:06,359
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I just think that's going to be an

862
00:38:06,360 --> 00:38:07,000
Speaker 2: issue for them.

863
00:38:07,480 --> 00:38:09,680
Speaker 3: But I bet we see some small trades and stuff though,

864
00:38:09,680 --> 00:38:10,520
Speaker 3: in the next twenty four.

865
00:38:10,360 --> 00:38:12,000
Speaker 2: I would think so. I mean, we've already started to

866
00:38:12,040 --> 00:38:14,560
Speaker 2: see that. Obviously the Steelers made a trade, but we've

867
00:38:14,560 --> 00:38:16,640
Speaker 2: started to see that the Patriots have made a couple.

868
00:38:16,719 --> 00:38:18,879
Speaker 2: You see that the trade for kickers again, That's why

869
00:38:18,880 --> 00:38:20,799
Speaker 2: the Steelers are holding on the man right now in

870
00:38:20,800 --> 00:38:23,840
Speaker 2: case somebody a you might need an upgrade, you might

871
00:38:23,920 --> 00:38:25,600
Speaker 2: need an upgrade at U punter.

872
00:38:25,719 --> 00:38:28,000
Speaker 3: Jonathan Taylor could move. I mean there's a lot of.

873
00:38:29,040 --> 00:38:32,319
Speaker 2: You swap a six round picks with somebody that you

874
00:38:32,320 --> 00:38:33,239
Speaker 2: think is going to be bad.

875
00:38:33,719 --> 00:38:36,839
Speaker 4: It's better than cutting them, yeah, or seventh two years

876
00:38:36,880 --> 00:38:38,359
Speaker 4: from now, right whatever, you can.

877
00:38:38,280 --> 00:38:39,600
Speaker 2: Get that move. R like, you just don't want to

878
00:38:39,600 --> 00:38:40,400
Speaker 2: give guys away.

879
00:38:41,040 --> 00:38:42,719
Speaker 4: I like where they're at with draft picks though right

880
00:38:42,719 --> 00:38:46,400
Speaker 4: now after the Rams move, they didn't make any of

881
00:38:46,440 --> 00:38:48,120
Speaker 4: these like Witherspoon, Malik Reid.

882
00:38:48,360 --> 00:38:49,680
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't say the expert move.

883
00:38:49,760 --> 00:38:52,920
Speaker 2: You're adding, you're adding instead of subtracting. And you're also

884
00:38:54,280 --> 00:38:57,680
Speaker 2: I think that's important because and they know this, you're

885
00:38:57,680 --> 00:38:59,919
Speaker 2: not going to get comp picks because you've signed someone

886
00:39:00,160 --> 00:39:01,240
Speaker 2: guys in recent years.

887
00:39:01,440 --> 00:39:02,240
Speaker 3: In the other last.

888
00:39:02,120 --> 00:39:03,759
Speaker 2: Couple of years, you've signed a bunch of guys from

889
00:39:03,760 --> 00:39:05,600
Speaker 2: the outside you're not getting You're not in the comp

890
00:39:05,640 --> 00:39:06,240
Speaker 2: game anymore.

891
00:39:06,400 --> 00:39:09,080
Speaker 4: No, and this isn't a problem. I almost said it's

892
00:39:09,080 --> 00:39:11,799
Speaker 4: a problem. But there's not many guys set to leave

893
00:39:11,840 --> 00:39:14,080
Speaker 4: after this year either. I mean, you're pretty locked up

894
00:39:14,120 --> 00:39:15,919
Speaker 4: on your I think you want to keep.

895
00:39:16,000 --> 00:39:18,960
Speaker 2: I think they have eleven guys who are free agents

896
00:39:19,000 --> 00:39:22,080
Speaker 2: to be free agents, to be who are lining you

897
00:39:22,080 --> 00:39:23,080
Speaker 2: know in your line again.

898
00:39:23,440 --> 00:39:27,160
Speaker 3: And he signed, he's signed more than one year one

899
00:39:27,200 --> 00:39:27,760
Speaker 3: year deal.

900
00:39:27,680 --> 00:39:29,560
Speaker 2: With some of those other you know guys like Chukes

901
00:39:29,560 --> 00:39:31,319
Speaker 2: and people of that nature that you have to make

902
00:39:31,360 --> 00:39:32,040
Speaker 2: decisions on.

903
00:39:32,960 --> 00:39:35,239
Speaker 3: I'm not going to break the bank. Is a one

904
00:39:35,320 --> 00:39:37,160
Speaker 3: year deal? Some of those type they did a lot

905
00:39:37,200 --> 00:39:38,440
Speaker 3: of that. That's not real hard to find.

906
00:39:38,480 --> 00:39:40,239
Speaker 2: Yeah, you can turn your roster that way as well.

907
00:39:40,320 --> 00:39:41,880
Speaker 2: I think teams are starting to figure that out. You

908
00:39:41,920 --> 00:39:44,080
Speaker 2: see a lot more than one and two year deals

909
00:39:44,080 --> 00:39:46,319
Speaker 2: for guys as opposed to those four year deals we

910
00:39:46,400 --> 00:39:46,920
Speaker 2: used to see.

911
00:39:46,960 --> 00:39:48,480
Speaker 4: But it used to I mean this time last year

912
00:39:48,560 --> 00:39:50,120
Speaker 4: was well you got to get high Smith signed. I

913
00:39:50,200 --> 00:39:51,239
Speaker 4: mean like there's none of those.

914
00:39:51,440 --> 00:39:53,800
Speaker 2: Yeah, nothing like that. We're gonna take another break. He

915
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Speaker 2: is Matt Williams and I am Dale. I'll let you're

916
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Speaker 2: listening to the Drive. You're on Steelers Nation Radio. We'll

917
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Speaker 2: be back to finish up the show right after this.

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

919
00:40:08,880 --> 00:40:11,080
Speaker 1: on your twenty four to seven home of the Black

920
00:40:11,120 --> 00:40:16,480
Speaker 1: and Gold Steelers Nation Radio.

921
00:40:17,719 --> 00:40:20,759
Speaker 2: Welcome back. I'm Dale Lollie. He is Matt Williamson. This

922
00:40:20,880 --> 00:40:23,640
Speaker 2: is the Drive on Steelers Nation Radio. And Matt, we

923
00:40:23,640 --> 00:40:26,640
Speaker 2: were talking about this one before the show today. Mark

924
00:40:26,680 --> 00:40:28,440
Speaker 2: Madden brought it up this while we were waiting here

925
00:40:28,440 --> 00:40:32,040
Speaker 2: for the show and I didn't realize it was I

926
00:40:32,080 --> 00:40:36,400
Speaker 2: didn't realize it was Kelly Stafford who revealed Matthew Stafford

927
00:40:36,440 --> 00:40:40,120
Speaker 2: needed he had their equipment people come out and make

928
00:40:40,200 --> 00:40:44,839
Speaker 2: up a basically a yearbook type thing, a cheat sheet

929
00:40:44,920 --> 00:40:47,719
Speaker 2: so he could figure out who his new teammates were

930
00:40:47,760 --> 00:40:50,200
Speaker 2: with the Rams. That's a bit of an issue.

931
00:40:50,239 --> 00:40:51,520
Speaker 3: It's a bit of an issue.

932
00:40:51,680 --> 00:40:59,120
Speaker 4: And okay, in full disclosure, I bet any given year, Rogers, Stafford,

933
00:40:59,239 --> 00:41:04,440
Speaker 4: even Brady ben et cetera, these established stud quarterbacks probably

934
00:41:04,520 --> 00:41:07,000
Speaker 4: don't know the ninetieth guy on the roster, you know

935
00:41:07,080 --> 00:41:08,560
Speaker 4: what I mean, Like, you're not going to be super

936
00:41:08,600 --> 00:41:12,160
Speaker 4: tight with every beautfa that comes in. That's just trying

937
00:41:12,160 --> 00:41:14,279
Speaker 4: to make the team. And there is a lot of shuffling.

938
00:41:15,040 --> 00:41:17,879
Speaker 4: But to my two takeaways from hearing this, the first

939
00:41:17,880 --> 00:41:19,840
Speaker 4: I heard it was when Mark Mattin told was before

940
00:41:20,000 --> 00:41:21,400
Speaker 4: you know, I guess you'd heard it before, and I

941
00:41:21,440 --> 00:41:24,400
Speaker 4: didn't know his wife was the one involved. My initial

942
00:41:24,400 --> 00:41:27,480
Speaker 4: thought was, don't let that get out, you know, you

943
00:41:27,520 --> 00:41:30,399
Speaker 4: and I shouldn't be gave it up right right right?

944
00:41:30,440 --> 00:41:31,120
Speaker 2: Oh my god?

945
00:41:31,600 --> 00:41:35,919
Speaker 4: Con come on, you know, and no team has more

946
00:41:36,040 --> 00:41:38,839
Speaker 4: change than they do. I mean, just bringing in any

947
00:41:38,880 --> 00:41:39,879
Speaker 4: warm body they could.

948
00:41:39,920 --> 00:41:42,960
Speaker 2: Well, this may not even be about just the not

949
00:41:43,080 --> 00:41:45,080
Speaker 2: knowing the other offensive guys. He probably doesn't know three

950
00:41:45,160 --> 00:41:46,319
Speaker 2: quarters of the defensive guys.

951
00:41:46,520 --> 00:41:49,359
Speaker 4: I bet they're mostly defensive players that are gonna make

952
00:41:49,400 --> 00:41:52,640
Speaker 4: the team. Yeah, they will be an interesting team. Maybe

953
00:41:52,680 --> 00:41:55,360
Speaker 4: we should do that tomorrow. Is just spend ten minutes

954
00:41:55,400 --> 00:42:00,160
Speaker 4: looking at what rams defensive players made the cut and

955
00:42:00,160 --> 00:42:02,320
Speaker 4: how many of them we could tell you anything about

956
00:42:02,880 --> 00:42:04,200
Speaker 4: that aren't named Aaron Donald.

957
00:42:04,280 --> 00:42:05,320
Speaker 2: I mean, it's that bad.

958
00:42:05,600 --> 00:42:08,279
Speaker 4: And if you look at like they had a lot

959
00:42:08,280 --> 00:42:10,440
Speaker 4: of draft picks, not particularly high ones, but they drafted

960
00:42:10,480 --> 00:42:12,799
Speaker 4: a lot of six and seventh rounders, and then they

961
00:42:12,840 --> 00:42:15,640
Speaker 4: spent more than any team in the league on their

962
00:42:15,719 --> 00:42:18,280
Speaker 4: udfa's just trying because there's spots available.

963
00:42:18,360 --> 00:42:20,880
Speaker 3: Yeah, because they don't have spots to give up. Yeah,

964
00:42:20,960 --> 00:42:23,359
Speaker 3: so not good. No, that shouldn't come out.

965
00:42:23,560 --> 00:42:27,319
Speaker 2: No, it's just you're the leader of the team. Who

966
00:42:27,360 --> 00:42:28,160
Speaker 2: are these guys?

967
00:42:28,280 --> 00:42:30,360
Speaker 4: I just picture of them with like this binder, you know,

968
00:42:30,680 --> 00:42:32,200
Speaker 4: leafing through it, Like who's that dude?

969
00:42:32,200 --> 00:42:34,400
Speaker 3: Like now he's got a mole on his left that's it.

970
00:42:35,200 --> 00:42:37,160
Speaker 3: And he's sitting in the cafeteria like the table next

971
00:42:37,160 --> 00:42:39,359
Speaker 3: to year talking to you. Yeah, so back in the day,

972
00:42:40,000 --> 00:42:41,120
Speaker 3: shouldn't have it on your phone.

973
00:42:41,640 --> 00:42:43,440
Speaker 2: Back in the day, the Steelers used to put a

974
00:42:43,840 --> 00:42:47,480
Speaker 2: little media pamphlet like that, this is Johnny, this is

975
00:42:47,840 --> 00:42:49,520
Speaker 2: not for the media, but for the players.

976
00:42:50,200 --> 00:42:53,480
Speaker 3: Oh really, this is Dale, this is my Yeah, okay, okay.

977
00:42:53,520 --> 00:42:55,680
Speaker 2: No, I don't know that the players actually looked at it.

978
00:42:55,840 --> 00:42:59,400
Speaker 3: They might throw it right, maybe be interested if I

979
00:42:59,400 --> 00:43:00,080
Speaker 3: was a players, But.

980
00:43:00,360 --> 00:43:01,480
Speaker 2: I don't know if they still do that. I have

981
00:43:01,560 --> 00:43:03,719
Speaker 2: to ask Bert Lawton about that, their PR director. But

982
00:43:04,400 --> 00:43:06,200
Speaker 2: I know back in the day they used to do that,

983
00:43:07,040 --> 00:43:07,799
Speaker 2: and I guess.

984
00:43:07,520 --> 00:43:08,280
Speaker 3: That makes some sense.

985
00:43:08,360 --> 00:43:10,279
Speaker 4: I mean, anyway you can make a player's life a

986
00:43:10,320 --> 00:43:12,080
Speaker 4: little more comfortable.

987
00:43:12,320 --> 00:43:12,520
Speaker 3: You know.

988
00:43:12,800 --> 00:43:15,480
Speaker 2: Well, I bring us up because after the game, he

989
00:43:15,600 --> 00:43:15,719
Speaker 2: was this.

990
00:43:15,760 --> 00:43:18,279
Speaker 3: Dude hanging around my locker, like at least who he is?

991
00:43:18,360 --> 00:43:21,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, after the game on what was that last Friday night,

992
00:43:21,800 --> 00:43:25,680
Speaker 2: Thursday night down in in Atlanta, there were a couple

993
00:43:25,719 --> 00:43:28,520
Speaker 2: of us standing there. There weren't very many Pittsburgh media

994
00:43:28,560 --> 00:43:30,000
Speaker 2: down there. I think there were only four or five

995
00:43:30,000 --> 00:43:30,359
Speaker 2: of us.

996
00:43:30,360 --> 00:43:31,040
Speaker 3: Not a huge event.

997
00:43:31,680 --> 00:43:34,520
Speaker 2: Yeah, preseason game, so there are four or five of

998
00:43:34,600 --> 00:43:36,880
Speaker 2: us waiting there to talk to Nausey might even been

999
00:43:36,880 --> 00:43:38,960
Speaker 2: fewer than that. And one of them was myself and

1000
00:43:39,040 --> 00:43:43,560
Speaker 2: Jerry Dulac, and Jerry asked Nogi Harris a question, and

1001
00:43:44,160 --> 00:43:48,800
Speaker 2: Nage looked at Jerry and he's like, did you write

1002
00:43:48,880 --> 00:43:52,319
Speaker 2: something about me? I'm like, Jerry's like, no, it wasn't me.

1003
00:43:53,480 --> 00:43:55,680
Speaker 2: He's like, are you sure I thought I remember something?

1004
00:43:56,719 --> 00:43:57,959
Speaker 2: This is the problem, like.

1005
00:43:57,960 --> 00:44:01,040
Speaker 3: You know, umps all you guys together, Yeah, and you

1006
00:44:01,080 --> 00:44:01,480
Speaker 3: know some of.

1007
00:44:01,560 --> 00:44:04,640
Speaker 2: Us do kind of kind of look alike, you know.

1008
00:44:04,760 --> 00:44:08,719
Speaker 2: But I did figure out who he thought Jerry was,

1009
00:44:09,160 --> 00:44:11,200
Speaker 2: and I told Jerry in the press box afterwards, because

1010
00:44:11,239 --> 00:44:14,720
Speaker 2: there was somebody that wrote something a little damning about nausey.

1011
00:44:14,800 --> 00:44:17,400
Speaker 2: But uh, this is the problem that you have. Like,

1012
00:44:17,520 --> 00:44:20,320
Speaker 2: for example, if you saw the thing last week with

1013
00:44:20,400 --> 00:44:25,640
Speaker 2: Joe Mixon. Okay, so Joe Mixon, who hasn't I guess not.

1014
00:44:25,760 --> 00:44:28,759
Speaker 2: He doesn't speak to the media and hasn't spoken to

1015
00:44:28,800 --> 00:44:31,440
Speaker 2: the media in Cincinnati. I think the last couple of years.

1016
00:44:31,800 --> 00:44:34,160
Speaker 2: How this hasn't become a bigger issue. I have no idea,

1017
00:44:34,840 --> 00:44:36,440
Speaker 2: because that is part of your contract.

1018
00:44:36,840 --> 00:44:38,000
Speaker 3: Would ever fly around him?

1019
00:44:38,040 --> 00:44:42,480
Speaker 2: No, it's party of contrast an thing. Yeah, huh, You're

1020
00:44:42,480 --> 00:44:43,760
Speaker 2: expected to speak to the media.

1021
00:44:43,840 --> 00:44:46,440
Speaker 4: So he was meeting I could kind of see it

1022
00:44:46,560 --> 00:44:50,160
Speaker 4: with him as a rookie considering all all the stuff. Yeah, right, Like,

1023
00:44:50,320 --> 00:44:52,520
Speaker 4: I don't want to be asked that question, so we'll

1024
00:44:52,560 --> 00:44:54,799
Speaker 4: avoid it. But yeah, okay, that's odd though.

1025
00:44:55,480 --> 00:44:59,560
Speaker 2: So apparently he didn't then decide he was talking to

1026
00:44:59,560 --> 00:45:01,600
Speaker 2: the media. This is the first time he'd spoken all

1027
00:45:01,600 --> 00:45:04,160
Speaker 2: the training camp to the media. But he wouldn't speak

1028
00:45:04,160 --> 00:45:08,800
Speaker 2: to four guys, four specific guys, because they had written

1029
00:45:08,840 --> 00:45:11,040
Speaker 2: bad things about him, things that he didn't like. Isn't

1030
00:45:11,080 --> 00:45:13,040
Speaker 2: that also just part of the deal, part of the job.

1031
00:45:14,160 --> 00:45:19,000
Speaker 2: You can't if you're going to if you're going to

1032
00:45:19,040 --> 00:45:22,000
Speaker 2: play professional football or professional sports of any nature, or

1033
00:45:22,120 --> 00:45:25,440
Speaker 2: do what we do, right, you can't have rabbit ears

1034
00:45:25,920 --> 00:45:30,320
Speaker 2: regarding people saying bad things about you, like on social media.

1035
00:45:31,400 --> 00:45:34,319
Speaker 2: If some like I'll have some back and forth with

1036
00:45:34,360 --> 00:45:36,680
Speaker 2: somebody on something. If you disagree with me, fine, you

1037
00:45:36,920 --> 00:45:39,400
Speaker 2: don't have to agree with it. You don't get blocked

1038
00:45:39,440 --> 00:45:42,000
Speaker 2: unless you call me a name, you start name calling

1039
00:45:42,040 --> 00:45:45,160
Speaker 2: and things of that nature. We're done. Like you're getting blocked, right.

1040
00:45:45,040 --> 00:45:46,640
Speaker 3: I mean for us to get a comment, we don't like.

1041
00:45:47,120 --> 00:45:48,120
Speaker 2: Everything happens every day.

1042
00:45:48,440 --> 00:45:51,880
Speaker 4: Yeah, so I was I took a different path to

1043
00:45:51,920 --> 00:45:52,920
Speaker 4: the media than most.

1044
00:45:52,960 --> 00:45:53,160
Speaker 3: You know.

1045
00:45:53,360 --> 00:45:56,280
Speaker 4: I went from the Browns to ESPN, and I remember

1046
00:45:56,280 --> 00:46:00,719
Speaker 4: my first couple articles at ESPN. I'd down, I'd read

1047
00:46:00,719 --> 00:46:02,840
Speaker 4: the comments and dot com there's.

1048
00:46:02,680 --> 00:46:06,000
Speaker 2: A lot of comments and probably not many of them

1049
00:46:06,000 --> 00:46:06,399
Speaker 2: are good.

1050
00:46:06,920 --> 00:46:07,920
Speaker 3: And I go to my editor.

1051
00:46:07,920 --> 00:46:10,839
Speaker 4: I'm like, I apologize, man, I guess I'm not doing

1052
00:46:10,880 --> 00:46:13,880
Speaker 4: a very good job, you know, like people don't seem.

1053
00:46:13,640 --> 00:46:15,600
Speaker 3: To like my work. He's like, why do you say

1054
00:46:15,600 --> 00:46:17,560
Speaker 3: that we're loving what you're doing. I'm like, well, read

1055
00:46:17,600 --> 00:46:19,600
Speaker 3: the comments. He's like, oh, don't read the comments.

1056
00:46:19,800 --> 00:46:21,360
Speaker 2: Don't do that. Do that.

1057
00:46:23,640 --> 00:46:26,040
Speaker 4: You weren't a real scout, you were them The Browns

1058
00:46:26,040 --> 00:46:29,839
Speaker 4: would hire anybody. The big one is you've never watched

1059
00:46:29,880 --> 00:46:32,799
Speaker 4: football in your life, you know, or I mean, some

1060
00:46:32,840 --> 00:46:35,480
Speaker 4: of them are nasty, like how does how does your

1061
00:46:35,520 --> 00:46:38,560
Speaker 4: family even tolerate you because you're so stupid or whatever

1062
00:46:38,600 --> 00:46:41,120
Speaker 4: it is. And then my editor flight, I'll say, so,

1063
00:46:41,280 --> 00:46:42,480
Speaker 4: don't read the comments.

1064
00:46:43,719 --> 00:46:47,640
Speaker 3: Whatever you do, don't do that right, Okay, But it.

1065
00:46:47,719 --> 00:46:51,880
Speaker 2: Just it just amazes me when when professional players do

1066
00:46:52,040 --> 00:46:52,880
Speaker 2: read the comments.

1067
00:46:53,040 --> 00:46:54,440
Speaker 4: As I say, I don't know if I would or not.

1068
00:46:54,480 --> 00:46:56,640
Speaker 4: It'd be hard not to because you are a human

1069
00:46:56,680 --> 00:47:00,680
Speaker 4: and you're twenty three. They've only known social media whole life.

1070
00:47:00,920 --> 00:47:05,400
Speaker 4: You know, like you can write Naugie Harris and Twitter

1071
00:47:05,440 --> 00:47:07,200
Speaker 4: and then something's gonna come up all the time. Of

1072
00:47:07,200 --> 00:47:12,200
Speaker 4: course our livee's different that way, of course, but man,

1073
00:47:12,600 --> 00:47:13,560
Speaker 4: most are gonna be bad.

1074
00:47:14,000 --> 00:47:16,200
Speaker 3: Yeah, and most people don't know what's wrong about anyways.

1075
00:47:16,520 --> 00:47:18,239
Speaker 2: That's the big thing is if they don't know what

1076
00:47:18,239 --> 00:47:22,560
Speaker 2: they're seeing, you know, you just it's it's it's different.

1077
00:47:23,360 --> 00:47:27,959
Speaker 2: I can remember and I can remember last year Kevin

1078
00:47:28,040 --> 00:47:31,799
Speaker 2: Dotson was getting some nasty stuff and so I pulled

1079
00:47:31,840 --> 00:47:34,279
Speaker 2: him aside practice. We were just talking about it and

1080
00:47:35,080 --> 00:47:37,120
Speaker 2: I said, hey, I can remember a game and maybe

1081
00:47:37,160 --> 00:47:41,359
Speaker 2: you remember this game, And it was Emmanuel Sanders down

1082
00:47:41,400 --> 00:47:46,000
Speaker 2: in in uh Baltimore. The Steelers scored late, they went

1083
00:47:46,080 --> 00:47:50,799
Speaker 2: for two, and the past wasn't exactly online. So he

1084
00:47:50,880 --> 00:47:52,799
Speaker 2: kind of went to his back to try to catch

1085
00:47:52,800 --> 00:47:56,200
Speaker 2: the ball and missed the two point conversion catch. The

1086
00:47:56,239 --> 00:47:58,600
Speaker 2: stuff that people were saying to him on social media

1087
00:47:58,840 --> 00:48:02,680
Speaker 2: was wrong. It was just ridiculous. What he did was

1088
00:48:02,719 --> 00:48:06,200
Speaker 2: he just started retweeting all the stuff hmm, I hope

1089
00:48:06,239 --> 00:48:09,319
Speaker 2: you die and that kind of stuff. Folks don't do that.

1090
00:48:10,360 --> 00:48:13,239
Speaker 4: It's actually a pretty good approach. Yeah, anders, like here

1091
00:48:13,280 --> 00:48:14,120
Speaker 4: you go, this is what you.

1092
00:48:14,080 --> 00:48:14,400
Speaker 3: Want to be.

1093
00:48:14,440 --> 00:48:15,840
Speaker 2: You want to be a moron on Twitter?

1094
00:48:15,960 --> 00:48:16,240
Speaker 3: Yeah?

1095
00:48:16,280 --> 00:48:19,360
Speaker 2: Here, let all here, We'll let thousands of people see.

1096
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Speaker 3: This as opposed to me just burying.

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00:48:21,160 --> 00:48:23,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, we're getting ticked off about it or you know.

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Speaker 3: Boggles my mind. I like the stones people have behind

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00:48:29,200 --> 00:48:31,920
Speaker 3: the walls of social media or whatever.

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Speaker 4: Like that would never happen back in the day. No,

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00:48:33,960 --> 00:48:36,839
Speaker 4: and that's the yeah, go Santo's face see all that goes.

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00:48:37,400 --> 00:48:39,759
Speaker 2: Yeah, I just I don't understand, Like, I get it.

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00:48:39,800 --> 00:48:41,160
Speaker 2: If you're a fan, I get it. You're a fan,

1104
00:48:41,239 --> 00:48:44,440
Speaker 2: you're a fanatic. But I appreciate it the no end. Absolutely,

1105
00:48:44,440 --> 00:48:46,480
Speaker 2: guys without you, you don't have a job, no doubt.

1106
00:48:46,560 --> 00:48:49,719
Speaker 2: But at the same time, you know, telling guys to

1107
00:48:49,800 --> 00:48:53,759
Speaker 2: go die or you know it's insanity. No, it's insanity

1108
00:48:53,800 --> 00:48:54,000
Speaker 2: to me.

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00:48:54,360 --> 00:48:58,000
Speaker 3: Yeah, Or people being afraid to leave their house or

1110
00:48:58,160 --> 00:49:00,480
Speaker 3: you know, like come on, man, it's crazy, it's insane.

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00:49:00,600 --> 00:49:01,319
Speaker 2: It's crazy to me.

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00:49:01,400 --> 00:49:03,240
Speaker 3: But I'm also not in their shoes.

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00:49:03,480 --> 00:49:05,919
Speaker 4: In terms of how much attention would I spend would

1114
00:49:05,920 --> 00:49:08,400
Speaker 4: I pay to the media, like if I was the

1115
00:49:08,480 --> 00:49:11,759
Speaker 4: nausea example, some of it has to rub off on you.

1116
00:49:11,920 --> 00:49:14,480
Speaker 4: But I would do my best to just not have

1117
00:49:14,560 --> 00:49:18,480
Speaker 4: it exist. But then there's the ones walking out of

1118
00:49:19,080 --> 00:49:21,320
Speaker 4: I don't know, your restaurant with your kids, chuck e

1119
00:49:21,400 --> 00:49:23,520
Speaker 4: cheese you're walking out of and someone yells at you

1120
00:49:23,920 --> 00:49:29,520
Speaker 4: suck blah blah, Like really, come on, man, a twenty

1121
00:49:29,560 --> 00:49:31,759
Speaker 4: three year old dude with a young daughter and you're

1122
00:49:31,840 --> 00:49:34,839
Speaker 4: yelling at me about I dropped the pass ten years ago.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I just I just wanted to the whole thing

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00:49:38,600 --> 00:49:42,600
Speaker 2: here with with recognizing your teammates, we're recognizing the media,

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00:49:42,600 --> 00:49:44,720
Speaker 2: that kind of stuff, Like, I get it, and people

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00:49:45,400 --> 00:49:48,480
Speaker 2: do recognize us, and we appreciate that, you know.

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00:49:48,680 --> 00:49:49,479
Speaker 3: Very kind of Yeah.

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00:49:49,920 --> 00:49:52,400
Speaker 2: You know again, without without the listeners out there, we

1129
00:49:52,400 --> 00:49:54,919
Speaker 2: don't have a show. If without the Steelers, we don't

1130
00:49:54,920 --> 00:49:55,359
Speaker 2: have a show.

1131
00:49:55,600 --> 00:49:59,600
Speaker 3: No one's comparing us to no, not even close.

1132
00:49:59,640 --> 00:50:03,080
Speaker 4: I times aren't even I could never recognize, which is fine,

1133
00:50:03,120 --> 00:50:03,279
Speaker 4: you know.

1134
00:50:03,360 --> 00:50:06,640
Speaker 2: Yeah, but yeah, I just I mean, now the training

1135
00:50:06,640 --> 00:50:08,560
Speaker 2: camp is over, and I think that it's one of

1136
00:50:08,600 --> 00:50:12,960
Speaker 2: the big things I think the Steelers do that. I

1137
00:50:13,040 --> 00:50:14,960
Speaker 2: love the fact that training camp is open like that

1138
00:50:15,440 --> 00:50:18,040
Speaker 2: so fans get an opportunity to interact with these guys.

1139
00:50:18,040 --> 00:50:18,879
Speaker 2: And see them on a.

1140
00:50:18,960 --> 00:50:19,880
Speaker 3: It's a great environment.

1141
00:50:19,920 --> 00:50:20,600
Speaker 2: It really is.

1142
00:50:20,680 --> 00:50:21,160
Speaker 3: It really is.

1143
00:50:21,200 --> 00:50:25,920
Speaker 4: And you would hope that a fan then might recognize

1144
00:50:25,960 --> 00:50:29,120
Speaker 4: these people, these athletes as human beings too, Like you

1145
00:50:29,120 --> 00:50:31,239
Speaker 4: see him working after practice, you see him interacting, and

1146
00:50:31,280 --> 00:50:32,480
Speaker 4: you see their kids on the field.

1147
00:50:32,680 --> 00:50:34,480
Speaker 2: And I bring this up at this time of year

1148
00:50:34,480 --> 00:50:37,920
Speaker 2: as well, because you have to understand like people, Well,

1149
00:50:37,960 --> 00:50:40,399
Speaker 2: I I don't think Kendrick Green can play. I can't

1150
00:50:40,400 --> 00:50:42,720
Speaker 2: wait for the Steelers to cut him good. They'll be

1151
00:50:42,840 --> 00:50:45,600
Speaker 2: if that happens. Yeah, he needs to be cut and

1152
00:50:46,160 --> 00:50:49,560
Speaker 2: you know, shipped into the into the monitor, right, like

1153
00:50:50,320 --> 00:50:51,279
Speaker 2: these are people.

1154
00:50:51,040 --> 00:50:52,480
Speaker 3: These are people, and he's working hard.

1155
00:50:52,840 --> 00:50:55,240
Speaker 2: I mean, he didn't ask to be drafted. I remember

1156
00:50:55,280 --> 00:50:57,680
Speaker 2: Kevin Kolbert talking about this when he was still a

1157
00:50:57,680 --> 00:51:00,759
Speaker 2: Steelers general manager, Like I can't remember which for it

1158
00:51:00,880 --> 00:51:03,480
Speaker 2: might have been Jarvis Jones or something like, he didn't

1159
00:51:03,960 --> 00:51:06,000
Speaker 2: he didn't ask to be drafted in the first round.

1160
00:51:06,360 --> 00:51:08,719
Speaker 2: We did that. We made him a first round draft pick.

1161
00:51:08,800 --> 00:51:12,600
Speaker 2: We screwed that up. He didn't, right, Yeah, the player

1162
00:51:12,640 --> 00:51:14,560
Speaker 2: has no control over that kind of stuff.

1163
00:51:15,160 --> 00:51:17,120
Speaker 3: Like Hayward Baye's a perfect example.

1164
00:51:17,280 --> 00:51:19,560
Speaker 4: Like all of us at the time rolled our eyes

1165
00:51:19,560 --> 00:51:22,240
Speaker 4: when the Raiders took him because he had a great forty.

1166
00:51:22,680 --> 00:51:24,640
Speaker 4: He should have been a second round pick, and he's

1167
00:51:24,680 --> 00:51:27,000
Speaker 4: a second round pick. He might not even be considered

1168
00:51:27,040 --> 00:51:28,960
Speaker 4: a bust, like okay, he was okay number two. He

1169
00:51:29,040 --> 00:51:31,440
Speaker 4: starts to feel and make the plays, you know, and

1170
00:51:31,480 --> 00:51:35,000
Speaker 4: then we hate the human being for being the ninth

1171
00:51:35,000 --> 00:51:36,640
Speaker 4: pick in the draft instead the thirty ninth.

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00:51:36,680 --> 00:51:40,439
Speaker 2: Again, I understand fans being fans, and it's wonderful. It's great.

1173
00:51:40,520 --> 00:51:41,600
Speaker 3: Ninety percent, it's wonderful.

1174
00:51:41,680 --> 00:51:46,320
Speaker 2: Yeah, we enjoy it. We appreciate them. Maybe Matthew Stafford

1175
00:51:46,320 --> 00:51:49,160
Speaker 2: appreciates his teammates, but he just doesn't know who they are.

1176
00:51:49,480 --> 00:51:52,880
Speaker 2: That's to bring it back around everything that's that's hilarious.

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00:51:53,040 --> 00:51:54,960
Speaker 2: And it was his wife who outed him with it.

1178
00:51:55,800 --> 00:51:59,479
Speaker 4: I wonder how that popped up. I'm sure Matthew's fine

1179
00:51:59,480 --> 00:52:01,560
Speaker 4: with it. I'm sure missus staff he might.

1180
00:52:01,480 --> 00:52:02,880
Speaker 2: Not have wanted that one out there. I don't know.

1181
00:52:02,960 --> 00:52:07,160
Speaker 3: I wouldn't. But it also is the state of the Rams,

1182
00:52:07,719 --> 00:52:08,359
Speaker 3: it really is.

1183
00:52:08,440 --> 00:52:11,279
Speaker 4: That's what that franchise is doing right now, is trying

1184
00:52:11,280 --> 00:52:13,640
Speaker 4: to bring in I bet no team in the league

1185
00:52:13,640 --> 00:52:17,480
Speaker 4: has more roster turnover from last year to this one.

1186
00:52:17,520 --> 00:52:20,600
Speaker 3: They may have. I'm just guessing twenty thirty new players. Yeah,

1187
00:52:20,719 --> 00:52:21,959
Speaker 3: I mean there aren't. We're on the roster.

1188
00:52:22,200 --> 00:52:25,200
Speaker 2: F them picks. That's what they said. They got a ring.

1189
00:52:25,320 --> 00:52:28,520
Speaker 2: Now we'll see. Yeah, now you're dealing with it anyways.

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Speaker 2: That's going to do it. Schedule here though they are.

1191
00:52:30,719 --> 00:52:32,520
Speaker 2: That's going to do it for today's show. We'll be

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Speaker 2: back again tomorrow. Remember Matt and I doing shows every

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Speaker 2: day from here on out through the end of whenever

1194
00:52:37,840 --> 00:52:38,480
Speaker 2: the season ends.

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Speaker 3: Tomorrow be rocking.

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00:52:39,800 --> 00:52:42,160
Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, we'll have cuts to talk about and all

1197
00:52:42,160 --> 00:52:43,880
Speaker 2: that good stuff. We'll have a full roster. Will go

1198
00:52:43,920 --> 00:52:46,360
Speaker 2: down that roster and break it down for you. I

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Speaker 2: like it position by position. But for my partner Matt Williamson,

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Speaker 2: for justin here on site keeping us on the air,

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Speaker 2: I am Dale Lolly. We thank you for listening to

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Speaker 2: this edition of the Drive on Steelers Nation Radio.