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Speaker 1: Your tunes about drive on Home of the Black and

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Speaker 1: Goal Steelers Nation Radio. Welcome back on DLLLI here with

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Speaker 1: Matt Williamson. It is the start of the NFL season.

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Speaker 1: Heck yeah, I love that. Happy the opening day at all.

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Speaker 1: And as we sit here right now, I'm looking at

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Speaker 1: Football Outsiders d v o A rankings to start the season.

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Speaker 1: And what they did was they put stuff out for

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Speaker 1: their book and all that, but they didn't know the

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Speaker 1: Watson situation. And they've been a couple of injuries since then,

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Speaker 1: you know, like the Tyrone Smith injury. They knocked Dallas's

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Speaker 1: offense down a little drastically changed the Browns outlook of course,

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Speaker 1: and if you played the Browns during those eleven games,

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Speaker 1: all your schedule type of stuff too, so there's a

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Speaker 1: big ripple effects. So these are off the date. I

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Speaker 1: think they're pretty talent. I was looking at this morning.

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Speaker 1: They really are, and this gives them more I think,

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Speaker 1: accurate picture of things because they do that. I mean,

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Speaker 1: they do a pretty good job on these things. They

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Speaker 1: analysis into them. So their number one team is Buffalo

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Speaker 1: with the total d v o A of fifteen point eight,

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Speaker 1: number one on offense. And I'm sorry mean wins is

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Speaker 1: ten point six. Their number three on offense, uh, their

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Speaker 1: number four on defense. UH, special teams is for I

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Speaker 1: have no idea how they do special teams. I don't

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Speaker 1: know either. I mean, I know, like some teams are

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Speaker 1: good every year and you're based it off last year,

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Speaker 1: but that changes a lot, you covered, they don't put

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Speaker 1: much weight into it. I'm pretty sure when they do

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Speaker 1: d v o A they do five parts offense, four

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Speaker 1: parts defense, one part special team. Were four three and

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Speaker 1: one something about that too. But yeah, um so they're

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Speaker 1: number one. Number two is Baltimore. They're very high on

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Speaker 1: the Ravens. Ten point seven d v o A. Uh,

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Speaker 1: number twelve one offense, number eight on defense, team, number

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Speaker 1: one on special teams. Yeah, and that's again that's a

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Speaker 1: historical thing. Them and the Patriots and the Rams are

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Speaker 1: another one that could high high marks every year. Third

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Speaker 1: of the Chargers or I'm sorry, the Rams, then the Chargers,

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Speaker 1: then Tampa Bay, Philadelphia. I'm big on the Eagles and

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Speaker 1: I'm really warming up to them. Kansas City then comes

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Speaker 1: in kind of tied with Philadelphia. They're both eight point seven.

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Speaker 1: Then you've got Green Bay at seven point four, New

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Speaker 1: Orleans at seven point three, Minnesota at five point three,

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Speaker 1: Cincinnati all the way down at four point six. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: they're a little concerned about the Bengals. Yeah and yeah,

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Speaker 1: one other note that I haven't heard Aaron Shots talking

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Speaker 1: about quite a bit. He's like this year for whatever reason,

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Speaker 1: and this is true when they redid the d v

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Speaker 1: O as this the other day, teams are closer to

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Speaker 1: five hundred than usual. You know, like everyone knows there's

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Speaker 1: gonna be a thirteen win team of fourteen win team.

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Speaker 1: But when you do projections or you simulate ten thousand games,

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Speaker 1: you're always gonna you're never gonna get, you know, someone

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Speaker 1: that has an average of thirteen or fourteen wins. But

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Speaker 1: he he did, so I don't want to put a

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Speaker 1: whole lot of stock in They're only projecting him to

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Speaker 1: win nine point one games. Well that's pretty good. That's

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Speaker 1: what they ran, like a million million simulationship. So Baltimore

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Speaker 1: came in at ten point one win, Cincinnati comes in

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Speaker 1: at eight point eight. That's actually a pretty big difference,

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Speaker 1: you know, huge difference their scheme. Yeah, after Cincinnati is Dallas.

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Speaker 1: That's curious worse since he's offense defense, Cincinnati's offense comes

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Speaker 1: into eleven. Yes, that's probably lower than most. Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: think that's probably probably a little bit lower, And that

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Speaker 1: than the most I'm trying to think. I listened to

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Speaker 1: the Football Outsider podcast about DFC North, and I think

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Speaker 1: they're a little more concerned about bengals O line than

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Speaker 1: others are, which you and I have been saying kind

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Speaker 1: of like, just because you spend a bunch of money

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Speaker 1: No one's going to fight you on that. But I

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Speaker 1: don't think they look at their own line and think, wow,

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Speaker 1: that's a strength of the team. Is like, is it

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Speaker 1: really any better than the Buffalo's No, I think it's average.

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Speaker 1: Buffalo is got a bunch of average guys. Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: think that's a good good parallel. Dallas is after Cincinnati,

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Speaker 1: then Las Vegas, then New England. I forget what he

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Speaker 1: New England's offense is fifteen in the defense twenty six,

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Speaker 1: but the special teams are second. Right, because Aaron I

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Speaker 1: even shout shots I'm talking about I even't referenced him

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Speaker 1: was on the air and they did a pod football

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Speaker 1: sids in a podcast for every division. I listened to

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Speaker 1: him all and he said, I don't believe our numbers

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Speaker 1: He's like, they're not good. I've been to practice. No

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Speaker 1: one knows what the heck is going on on offense.

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Speaker 1: And I think how I phrase it yesterday was something

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Speaker 1: like either Belichick's playing eight dimensional chess or he's losing it,

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Speaker 1: you know what I mean? Like and that shot shots

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Speaker 1: his words. Who's closer to the team than we are?

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Speaker 1: You know? So his numbers brought him up, but he's like,

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Speaker 1: I don't believe our numbers on this one. And the

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Speaker 1: makings or another team, he said, I think are pretty high.

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Speaker 1: That he couldn't quite understand. After Denver or after New

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Speaker 1: England is Denver then Cleveland. It's real curious. What's Denver's

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Speaker 1: defensive d v O A uh defensive vo. Denver's defense

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Speaker 1: on Bangio lost and the defense wasn't tremendous last year

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Speaker 1: and it's not any better, uh then Cleveland at point

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Speaker 1: one and the Steelers at point one. Here's the difference.

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Speaker 1: Though they have the the Browns at seven point seven wins,

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Speaker 1: they have the Steelers at eight point one. I think

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Speaker 1: they're factoring in those five games with Watson. Oh yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: and when the Steelers get to play the Browns and

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Speaker 1: all that stuff too. Yeah, that's exactly what. Here's the

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Speaker 1: interesting thing about out the Steelers, Zoe. You know a

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Speaker 1: couple of things. They have the offenses. I think that's fair,

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Speaker 1: which would be a step up from where it was

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Speaker 1: last year. I said, and done, But right now I

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Speaker 1: have no fight. I'm not gonna fight him on that.

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Speaker 1: The defensive d v o A number one, number one,

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Speaker 1: it took me back looking at that this morning, and

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Speaker 1: no clue. I don't know how you come up with that, um,

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Speaker 1: but I think they'll be better than they've They've been

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Speaker 1: better than pretty much every year. Yeah, Like going back over,

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Speaker 1: I think their lowest ranking under Danny Smith was like

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Speaker 1: to them, they have a good kicker, you know, like

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Speaker 1: I'd be shocked. But the differences is that they get

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Speaker 1: the number one schedule. See that was the column That's

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Speaker 1: totals and you know formula, it's it that way. Well,

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Speaker 1: what football siders does is they figure out everyone's d

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Speaker 1: your seventeen games and they figure out, you know, how

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Speaker 1: tough your schedule is based off how good these teams

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Speaker 1: are right now and Steelers a brutal. I mean, it's

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Speaker 1: just top. But if we're looking at this from odds

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Speaker 1: to make the playoffs thirty five point six, I think

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Speaker 1: those are higher odds and you'll you'll see anywhere else.

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Speaker 1: I just remember looking at that column. But my initial

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Speaker 1: in the top ten. Right football siders disagree strongly about that. Uh,

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Speaker 1: best chance at twelve point seven percent, then Baltimore's at

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Speaker 1: we're looking at this from you're ten chance to win

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Speaker 1: this in terms of straight wins, uh, Philadelphia ten point six,

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Speaker 1: and the Rams at both nine point nine wins. Green

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Speaker 1: Bay at nine point seven wins. That that's your division

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Speaker 1: you get their almanac, they tell you, I think they

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Speaker 1: have a chapter every year of this is what here.

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Speaker 1: Here's a screenshot of what we put out right that

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Speaker 1: we're looking at right now, and here's how things went.

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Speaker 1: And of course you're not gonna get everything right. But

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Speaker 1: the bottom of the league is the Giants, Thereto. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Carolina at seven point one, and a lot of those

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Speaker 1: Atlanta at seven point two, so two NFC cell teams.

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Speaker 1: Can Steelers of course play both of those teams. The

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Speaker 1: Titans at seven point two, they play them. That's amazing

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Speaker 1: that they're the fourth worst team. Seattle, I respect that

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Speaker 1: three or four. Yeah, that's just course of course. But

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Speaker 1: Indianapolis is like the league average team. We're slightly blood

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