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Speaker 1: Your tunes about Driven, home of the Black and Goal

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Speaker 1: Steelers Nation Radio. Welcome back to the Drive. I'm Dale

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Speaker 1: Only here with Matt Williamson and Matt um. Well it's

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Speaker 1: uh we we talked about this earlier a week not

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Speaker 1: a great slate of games this weekend, but we do

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Speaker 1: have to go over them a little bit. Yeah, right

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Speaker 1: right before Sunday's schedule here, of course, the Eagles played

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Speaker 1: Detections on Thursday night. Um, they were favored by thirteen

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Speaker 1: and a half in that game. Um. Yeah, I mean

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Speaker 1: it's as big a mismatch as you can imagine. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean, I'm a big believe. It's kind of a

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Speaker 1: list lit miss tests for me. In that is Thursday

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Speaker 1: night football really a lesser product. You know, road teams

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Speaker 1: Thursday Night. If Philly doesn't blow their doors off, it's

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Speaker 1: kind of gonna be an alarm alarm bell for me. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you know, uh, look, looking at Sunday's schedule, you got

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Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills at the New York Jets. The Jets

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Speaker 1: getting eleven and a half points at home. That's who

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Speaker 1: the Bills are. Yeah, kind of like the Eagles. I

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Speaker 1: mean I keep hearing people harp on the fact that

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Speaker 1: the Steelers have, well they're minus seventy seven and point differential. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: they played the Jets and they played they played the

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Speaker 1: Bills and the Eagles. Show me somebody else have played

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Speaker 1: the Bills and Eagles and then we can talk about

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Speaker 1: point differential. Yeah, it's those teams are that good, and

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Speaker 1: I think they're gonna whip the Jets. I do too.

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Speaker 1: I think see Wilson throwing three picks ugly. Yeah, that's

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Speaker 1: what the Bills are like, the one fantasy defense. Maybe

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Speaker 1: the Jets. I'm trying to think if there's anybody else

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Speaker 1: that you don't cut during the by Oh yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: maybe the Niners. Maybe there's a league I'm taking. There's

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Speaker 1: not many, not many. Um, but yeah, I think the

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Speaker 1: Bills just blow their I mean, I think they're getting

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Speaker 1: Treas White back for this game. Yeah, even at him.

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Speaker 1: You know, it's crazy. They're over under forty six and

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Speaker 1: a half in that game, eleven and a half to spread.

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Speaker 1: I think they cover it. I'm more interesting see how

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Speaker 1: sort of close? But I think there's gonna be out

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Speaker 1: the field. I just don't know how you do right, right. Uh.

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Speaker 1: Miami on the road this week at Chicago. Their favored

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Speaker 1: by five, the over under forty five and a half. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think they cover that. I mean, Bears lose their

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Speaker 1: two best defensive players in Morale Has. I mean, sure

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Speaker 1: you get Chase Claypool, that's great, but I don't think

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Speaker 1: he's a difference maker to keep up with Tyreek and Waddle.

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Speaker 1: One that doesn't know that doesn't help you, right, Miami,

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Speaker 1: and he's just getting there this like got there on Wednesday,

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Speaker 1: like how much? Don't even know how much he plays? Um, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Miami is boosted their pass rush too, and they're pretty good.

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Speaker 1: They gave him a hundred ten million. I think they're

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Speaker 1: gonna regret that. I think they are too. Yeah, I mean,

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Speaker 1: I know inflation and everything going up, but everything what

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Speaker 1: got right? All right? I mean, come on, I mean

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Speaker 1: everything they've invested in him in like a Khalil Mack

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Speaker 1: know what is he maybe the fifteenth best edge rusher

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Speaker 1: do that. You also paid Tyreeke and you I understand

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Speaker 1: you're not You're not paying two A yet you can

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Speaker 1: do that kind of stuff, but at some point you

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Speaker 1: have to pay the quarterback as well. And you had

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Speaker 1: three first round picks at one point. Now you have done,

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Speaker 1: Now you have none. They're going to win it. Uh yeah,

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Speaker 1: but I think the Dolphins covered that. Um Minnesota on

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Speaker 1: they get a one loss, just one loss this year.

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Speaker 1: The overun there's only forty three and a half in

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Speaker 1: this game. I'm warming up to Minnesota being legit as

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Speaker 1: a Tier two. I really like to trade for Hawkinson

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Speaker 1: for that too. I think that's a nice stabilizing force,

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Speaker 1: very Cousins friendly. Washington's kind of a mess. That's a

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Speaker 1: stat though. Heineke in his career. I think he's He's

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Speaker 1: made ten starts, eight and two against the spread and

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Speaker 1: his ten career starts, so I can see that he

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Speaker 1: could be the Bridgewater type one sells. I'm sure pretty

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Speaker 1: but this is just a three point spread. That's awfully

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Speaker 1: tough to come in the back door on that one. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: cover seven and a half? I mean, I think p. J.

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Speaker 1: Walker has escalated the offense from the worst in the league.

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Speaker 1: And here's the other thing has happened with the Panthers

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Speaker 1: let's run the football. Was this guy getting hurt. We're

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Speaker 1: ball in space, So let's throw on the ball instead

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Speaker 1: of running it. Yeah. And I think Horn and company

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Speaker 1: will do fine against the Chase list group of receivers

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Speaker 1: and Burrow's gonna get hit. They're gonna pressure the quarterback

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Speaker 1: you know Cincinnati's coming off a short week too. I

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Speaker 1: didn't think of that. Um. The Packers minus three and

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Speaker 1: forty nine and a half. Obviously, the overunder in Detroit

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Speaker 1: games hitting like left and right. Um, the Packers won't

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Speaker 1: one bombs away. So right, here's what kind of style

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Speaker 1: this game is. I would think Rogers covers this. Don't

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Speaker 1: you think I have a much faith in it never

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Speaker 1: I mean the receiving corps for the Packers is worrisome,

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Speaker 1: as it was supposed to be, very disappointing. Um, Detroit

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Speaker 1: but their defense is awful. It's really bad. The Chargers

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Speaker 1: like Keenan Allen's gonna miss another damn game. Does he

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Speaker 1: play football anymore? It's bad? So in fun today on

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Speaker 1: my podcast, broke breaking this down with my co host,

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Speaker 1: and I originally said it's now Herbert's time to shine,

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Speaker 1: prefacing this game going like when the season started, I

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Speaker 1: under under performs. No Bossa, no Slater, no Williams, no Allen.

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Speaker 1: They can't stop the run. And I would say Atlanta

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Speaker 1: think they're going to They might lose this game. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's not a cake walk. No. In fact, the money

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Speaker 1: line on that is Atlanta plus one thirty five. Is

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Speaker 1: it interesting you're getting three at home, getting three country

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Speaker 1: coming off the by though, which is why it's really

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Speaker 1: That's why I said that about Herbert. I think, you know,

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Speaker 1: he's probably healthy finally, right, you know, but a second

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Speaker 1: getting five and a half at New England. The over

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Speaker 1: you know, Vegas expecting forty point games, are expecting to

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Speaker 1: is so high because it's Belichick verse Allinger, you know.

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Speaker 1: But it's five and it's still like the Pats to win.

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Speaker 1: in a low scoring game. Yeah, that has a good defense.

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Speaker 1: They both have good defense. Yeah, and they both turned

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Speaker 1: the ball over too much. Right Matt Jones hasn't played

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Speaker 1: The over under is forty eight. The Jags are favored.

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Speaker 1: The Jags are favored again. Okay, I don't trust either

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Speaker 1: tough games. Raiders were abysmal last week. I think the

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Speaker 1: the Jaguars for favorites. They're getting a point. I thought

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Speaker 1: Now they have at least equal weapons. That's the four

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Speaker 1: that's the four o'clock Showdown, the only four o'clock game.

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Speaker 1: This week, there's like nine one o'clock. Yeah, it's crazy,

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Speaker 1: and then there's one the four thirty game, which everybody

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Speaker 1: kind of like the Seahawks there. I think they're in

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Speaker 1: a better place right now. But are they good enough

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Speaker 1: back to the pack a little bit. That's just the way.

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Speaker 1: I don't either, But those division games in the NFC

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Speaker 1: West tend to be different the game the national game.

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Speaker 1: The Rams are getting three points at the Buccaneers. The

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Speaker 1: that spread up early before the season started. Yeah, the

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Speaker 1: over undernet game is probably fifty two and a half.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, like we kind of mentioned, not the greatest

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Speaker 1: this is how these two teams are playing. This will

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Speaker 1: carry the week. This is gonna be an all time

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Speaker 1: great matchup, you know, Brady versus the Super Bowl champ.

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Speaker 1: I don't think the box. I really don't want any

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Speaker 1: know this could be a very low scoring game. Shack

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Speaker 1: Almost feels like a loser leaf down match. You know,

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Speaker 1: Come back. We'll do a little Fantasy Football focus. We

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Speaker 1: have to pick our DFS team, Matt. Yeah, we don't

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Speaker 1: have to steer. We don't have to pick a Steelers score.

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Speaker 1: But you know what we're gonna look like, here's what

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Speaker 1: we're gonna do though. We're gonna pick a record for

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Speaker 1: the rest of the season. I just sprung this on

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Speaker 1: you here. You get the break to think about it all. Wait,

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Speaker 1: all right, we'll do that when we come back. More

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Speaker 1: than after this