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Speaker 1: Welcome to the drive. I'm Dale Ally here with Matt Williamson,

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Speaker 1: and it is Wednesday in Pittsburgh. It is Chiefs Week?

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Speaker 1: Can we call it that week we call the cheek?

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Speaker 1: Can we call it Chiefs Week? I guess we can.

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Speaker 1: We've known the schedule since May. We can call it

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Speaker 1: whatever we want to call. Uh, But obviously COVID nineteen

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Speaker 1: showing a bit. It's an ugly head here a lot

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Speaker 1: this week, UM. Steelers placing three players on the COVID

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Speaker 1: nineteen lists today, including two inside linebackers, Devin Bush and

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Speaker 1: uh Marcus Allen. Also going on the list with Zack Banner.

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Speaker 1: So don't ask me this week about what does a

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Speaker 1: Zach Banner playing. He's in a rough season, man, he

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Speaker 1: has it really did no fault of his own. I mean,

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Speaker 1: he might be a pretty darn good player and we

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Speaker 1: don't quite know it. I mean, and I can understand.

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Speaker 1: I'm not even back in the supporters of Banner has

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Speaker 1: to be the starting right tackle. I mean, I'm not

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Speaker 1: sure what the answer is there, And I'm not gonna

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Speaker 1: be critical of the team for him not getting consistent

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Speaker 1: playing time. I see both sides of it, UM, But

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Speaker 1: hopefully it's just these three. I mean, we always have

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Speaker 1: this conversation because I mean we're taping. This is at

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Speaker 1: like four o'clock on Wednesday, and hopefully you know it's

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Speaker 1: not at the beginning of the title wave, because we've

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Speaker 1: seen some of these teams hit really hard without a doubt,

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Speaker 1: and um, if uh, you know, you just look at this.

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Speaker 1: This is why, um you don't necessarily well hope for

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Speaker 1: the hope the Chiefs don't get this guy back. You

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Speaker 1: don't know what your team's gonna happen on Sunday. That's

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Speaker 1: the Yeah, it's a big deal. I mean, I know

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Speaker 1: Bushes in the doghouse lately. Actually thought he played a

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Speaker 1: little better than by the way, Yeah I wrote that,

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Speaker 1: and just want to call a spade a spade, and

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Speaker 1: you know, call him out when he's bad. But I'm

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Speaker 1: men call him outhen he gets better. He was he was,

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Speaker 1: he was playing more downhill. I think I played more aggressively. Yeah, absolutely,

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Speaker 1: and made some more plays. If he makes that pick,

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Speaker 1: everyone's loving him again, you know what I mean. So,

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Speaker 1: I mean, they're not the three worst guys to lose.

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Speaker 1: I've probably seen enough of the Marcus Allen on defense

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Speaker 1: experiments both. He's a good special teamer though. Uh, Chief's

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Speaker 1: got a couple of guys back today, including Josh Gordon

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Speaker 1: and Willie Gay. Not enough to move the needle there

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Speaker 1: for them. They're high. And Willie Gay though, I mean

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Speaker 1: they are he plays a lot Bolton and Gordon's Gordon's

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Speaker 1: in a big deal. The interesting thing is is that

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Speaker 1: Chris Jones who went on on the fourteenth Gordon went

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Speaker 1: on or Willie Gay went on in the Okay, so

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Speaker 1: Jones was on before him. Yes, and it's still not back. Wow,

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Speaker 1: I just assumed this kind of wrote it off. They'll

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Speaker 1: give him back. Here's the issue. You know, some of

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Speaker 1: these bigger guys, right, you know he's not vaccinated, you know, right,

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Speaker 1: I mean no, that's interesting. Yeah, so but they have

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Speaker 1: they still have a bunch of guys on their Uh

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Speaker 1: what's been ruled out though, is butker But he's a

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Speaker 1: great kicker, absolutely, it's not the plays to kick. Yeah. Um,

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Speaker 1: so you're looking at now Chris Jones, as I mentioned, Uh,

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Speaker 1: Garrig Dieter, who's a wide receiver. That's no big deal, right,

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Speaker 1: It's all I could play with the Reek out or

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Speaker 1: anything either. It's our various ward though, is he is?

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Speaker 1: He is a big household name. But he's a good player.

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Speaker 1: He's starter, He's one of the starters. But can we

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Speaker 1: mentioned Travis Kelsey obviously, but he knows our money. Watts

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Speaker 1: kind of plays a little bit for them. Yeah, he's

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Speaker 1: a rotational guy. Lucas Nyang. Yeah, not a starter though,

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Speaker 1: is he He's played some right right tackle for them,

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Speaker 1: but Kindle Long is also out. Okay, I'm trying to

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Speaker 1: think who's who is the starting right tackle because Brown's

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Speaker 1: is a rotational guy that can play tackle or guard,

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Speaker 1: and they've added so many line it wasn't starting on that. Um. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's a big deal. I mean, he hasn't been bad

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Speaker 1: that Who's he line up opposite right? The right tackle

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Speaker 1: in general? On Steelers, he is a big deal. You know.

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Speaker 1: By the way, it's not like they're gonna they were

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Speaker 1: gonna use Kelsey to block him. No, you're not gonna

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Speaker 1: rookie lineback. He plays something for them, and then Blake

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Speaker 1: Bell the other tight end like their second string titan.

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Speaker 1: We mentioned him yesterday, so it's gonna be interesting to

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Speaker 1: I think I mentioned this yesterday. I counted from the

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Speaker 1: COVID list one fourteen. The game today's game is ONIX,

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Speaker 1: so ten days if he's unvaccinated would be yes, So okay, Well,

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Speaker 1: depending on how they look at that, I'm not sure

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Speaker 1: I say that we don't know if he's fine or not, right, yeah, um,

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Speaker 1: And then to me, then you start looking obviously Kelsey

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Speaker 1: big deals. But and he'll went on a day later

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Speaker 1: than Kelsey. Yes, but the fact that Long and Nyang

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Speaker 1: right are both right. I mean, Long is really a tackle,

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Speaker 1: is better at guard, but done both. He's had a

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Speaker 1: but he's had a good career and he's a quality player.

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Speaker 1: And actually they list him as they're starting right guard. Yeah, okay,

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Speaker 1: I'm looking here on ESPN right now. Wow, the right

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Speaker 1: that would be an issue. Uh. You know, if you

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Speaker 1: not nearly as is troublesome. Obviously, there's three at the

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Speaker 1: moment that we've heard over and one guy in the

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Speaker 1: if you noticed last week, one of the things that

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Speaker 1: out option. Oh yeah, but nobody did it. Nobody did it,

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Speaker 1: but they they did leave the opt out option there.

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Speaker 1: So interesting. Andy Reid was asked about um Hill and

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Speaker 1: are leads me to believe that they're feeling symptoms here,

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Speaker 1: way the question was phrased. He had a real easy

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Speaker 1: they'll be okay. They're doing okay. I talked to Travis,

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Speaker 1: at all. It was more like, we're gonna go with

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Speaker 1: I mean again, it's only Wednesday, and things change better

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Speaker 1: But I wanted to run something by you though, Like

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Speaker 1: at it and says, let's run it all over. But

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Speaker 1: I don't think if they're they're gonna up there run

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Speaker 1: just say, Patty, make everyone better. Why you're making you're

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Speaker 1: making all this money. I think you do that. I

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Speaker 1: think that's more who they are. But yeah, because although

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Speaker 1: and I mentioned this on Monday, running the ball forty

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Speaker 1: two times if you're not breaking off, you know, fifty

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Speaker 1: the Steelers, because well that's kind of the only their

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Speaker 1: And you know that's right. I mean, if you tell

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Speaker 1: me this game is gonna be a three point game,

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Speaker 1: good point, good point. That's okay, that's a big deal. Um.

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Speaker 1: You've mentioned this a couple of times, and I do

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Speaker 1: It's not necessarily the great running games that worry me

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Speaker 1: He's okay, you know, but he's not Cook or what

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Speaker 1: Henry would have done or some of these guys. Recently,

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Speaker 1: it was more like Seattle with Collins, like, yeah, they

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Speaker 1: We're gonna take Lamar running out off the table. We're

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Speaker 1: And we don't want that guy running forty. And it's

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Speaker 1: kind of like when you play the Chiefs, like, well,

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Speaker 1: do we want to get nickel and dime but Kelsey

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Speaker 1: or do we risk Tyreek getting the one over the top.

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Speaker 1: You know, I mean, like you gotta pick and choose

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Speaker 1: your your your outlets. Here, it's the same. It's it's

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Speaker 1: almost a dick Lebouth theory of defense in but with

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Speaker 1: the running a little bit because Lebose lebo stra tackling

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Speaker 1: that drive. Yes, that opens actually a big conversation for me.

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Speaker 1: is begging teams to run right. And seven percent doesn't

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Speaker 1: Everything went to that because anyone watched Super Bowl realized

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Speaker 1: I did that if they didn't want to get Pat killed, right,

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Speaker 1: we're gonna get this dude all. I'm sure the owners

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Speaker 1: I don't know who's gonna be available. There's such a

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Speaker 1: would you rather pull out of the equation? Kelsey, Because

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Speaker 1: I think He's the security blanket. I think you can

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Speaker 1: double Tyrek and live with the other guys trying to

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Speaker 1: But but Kelsey is that guy. He just finds this

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Speaker 1: of course, But is he easier to take away than Kelsey.

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Speaker 1: Let's put it this way. Tyreek has a hundred two

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Speaker 1: last night. Kelsey has five hundred and forty yards after

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Speaker 1: Stealing your numbers here too, he has numbers or four

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Speaker 1: for like a handful of there's nine nine tight ends

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Speaker 1: who have more receiving yards than he has. Yards after

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Speaker 1: it's as good a pair as I can remember, you know,

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Speaker 1: and I think that the differences as well as if

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Speaker 1: Tyreek Hill down the field or try to get him

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Speaker 1: the Steelers pass, right, Yeah, you got to protective. My

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Speaker 1: home is great at buying time, of course, but you

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Speaker 1: gotta you gotta block it up. Yeah. So anyways, we're

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Speaker 1: gonna take a break. He is Matt Williams and I

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Speaker 1: am Dale Lolly. You're listening to the drive here on

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Speaker 1: Steelers Nation Radio. When we come back, it's Wednesday. Usually

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Speaker 1: we have Bob Labriola, but with the new digs here,

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Speaker 1: We'll take a look at power rankings real quick, and

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Speaker 1: then uh well we got the quarterback in next thing.

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Speaker 1: I want to take a look at look okous, we'll

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Speaker 1: tear through both of those right after this