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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. He is Matt Williamson. I am Dale Lolly.

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Speaker 2: You're listening to the Drive here on Steelers Nation Radio,

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Speaker 2: and Matt are It's time for the Fantasy football focus.

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Speaker 2: Here nice. We were entered into a DraftKings contest this

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Speaker 2: week that had fifty seven one hundred plus entries.

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Speaker 3: And fifty six hundred of them at the same lineup

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Speaker 3: as us.

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Speaker 2: They did not, but we won. We had one hundred

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Speaker 2: and fifty one point four to four points. The interesting

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Speaker 2: thing here is that of those fifty seven hundred and

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Speaker 2: forty seven entries this week, eighty seven point four percent

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Speaker 2: of the people in that one played Drahem Mosterts.

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Speaker 3: Really we didn't we did, Oh, we did, we did

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Speaker 3: play most We played he went insane.

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Speaker 2: Mostert and Chewba Hubbard Chuba Hubbard own forty two point

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Speaker 2: four percent of leagues like.

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Speaker 3: I wonder if he's the in the same game. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: and they both produced big time. I mean, Tuba did

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Speaker 3: a lot of it. I wonder if he's a starter

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Speaker 3: now in Carolina.

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Speaker 2: He should be.

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Speaker 3: I think he should be. He's a good player.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'd like, you know, just your third downb.

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Speaker 3: You're the guy. Yeah, yeah, go. So what was our lineup?

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Speaker 2: So we had Matthew Stafford. He only get us thirteen

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Speaker 2: point two four points. Wasn't great.

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Speaker 3: I have him in my main league too, and I

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Speaker 3: studied that game heavier obviously because Steelers Nikua dropped an

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Speaker 3: easy touchdown which would have made his game better.

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Speaker 2: Wait, you mean receivers touchdowns?

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Speaker 3: Oh no, nobody, Okay, but Cooper Cup helped a lot too.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Uh, we had We had Raheem Moster he scored

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Speaker 2: three times at thirty seven point two points, Cuba Hubbard

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Speaker 2: at sixteen, which you like at forty three hundred dollars player,

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Speaker 2: did he score?

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Speaker 3: Uh? Yes, he did, okay because they scored early and then.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they were up fourteen nothing and it was uh

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Speaker 2: we had Cooper Cup at nine thousand dollars. He was

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Speaker 2: worth every penny of that thirty point eight zero points.

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Speaker 3: It felt like they threw to him a million times

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Speaker 3: in the first only seven catches. Yeah, I mean, it

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Speaker 3: wasn't just just watching the games, like.

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Speaker 2: I think in the half he had like he was

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Speaker 2: like four for four for one oh five on a touchdown.

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Speaker 3: And then they came out and just randomle Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Michael Pittman had a slow start. Yeah, he was good though,

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Speaker 2: but by the time the game was over it was

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Speaker 2: nine for one hundred and nine and a touchdown.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, he had a really good second half. It

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Speaker 3: was garbage time ish, but that's okay.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Christian Kirk had three for forty nine, but he

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Speaker 2: scored that was thirteen point nine. Good days. He was

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Speaker 3: He owned. I heard some place saying he's gonna be

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Speaker 3: the chalkiest player of the week.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but I guess that was most because he was

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Speaker 2: only fifty four hundred bucks. The one thing that didn't

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Speaker 2: work out for us was Logan Thomas.

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Speaker 3: No, I don't regret that though, I would go back

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Speaker 2: Well it one catch for two yards. Ye had one target.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so did Kittle. I mean, like tight ends are

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Speaker 3: just rough, weird this year. Yeah, it's we're starting to

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Speaker 3: get good. I mean, like what's going on in the world.

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Speaker 2: You know, we had Alexander Madison. Well, it wasn't a

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Speaker 2: great game from he got a ton of he got

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Speaker 3: Lot of catches. Yeah, okay, I kind of say they

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Speaker 3: didn't run the ball very well.

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Speaker 2: He had like six catches for twenty eight yards and

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Speaker 2: forty four yards rush or four receptions for twenty eight yards.

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Speaker 2: I should say. Uh. And then the Saints defense, which

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Speaker 2: lost but only allowed twenty points, two sacks, an interception.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, which was fine. We went cheap on Yeah,

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Speaker 2: And that's you know again when we talk about offenses

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, you know, you don't have to.

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Speaker 2: Pay up for defense.

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Speaker 3: Not today. I mean, I'm a believer that there's about

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Speaker 3: five offenses that I almost don't care who the defense

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Speaker 2: And there's like five offenses I don't want my defense

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and then outside of that, and like pick and

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Speaker 3: choose what the best value is. Yeah, the Saints defense,

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Speaker 3: Steelers defense, Ravens defense, you know that has a decent matchup.

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Speaker 2: The winning lineup in this little exercise had one hundred

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Speaker 3: Guess he completed a lot of balls. He didn't play well.

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Speaker 2: He had sixteen point five six points. Yeah, mostert Chewba Hubbard.

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Speaker 2: Surprise there. Tyreek Hill had thirty one point three points.

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Speaker 2: That was who he paid up. He was ninety three hundred.

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Speaker 2: He only had one, like one more point than Cooper Cup.

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Speaker 3: So we actually left with the hamstring injury for a

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Speaker 3: while and came back and tore him up some more.

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Speaker 2: They Jamar Chase in the lineup. He had six for

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Speaker 2: eighty wasn't a great game?

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Speaker 3: A great game? Right? Sounded like a paid eighty.

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Speaker 2: Three hundred for that. Josh Downs Downs is good five

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Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, so thirteen points there. He had Kyle Pitts

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Speaker 3: He's cheap now and he's better than that.

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Speaker 2: He's thirty five hundred. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: I know I'm a Pits apologist, but he's actually looking

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Speaker 3: healthier the last couple of weeks. He would kind of

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Speaker 2: Had one other guy that I want to talk about here,

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Speaker 2: this being a fantasy segment. He had Adam Thielen at

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Speaker 2: fifty nine hundred.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a good conres.

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Speaker 2: Adam Thielen is like, since week one is like wide

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Speaker 3: Yes, I mean I forget how we described it earlier

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Speaker 3: in the year, but like, okay, you're not getting a

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Speaker 3: lot of targets because justin Jefferson's on the other side,

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Speaker 3: but he's still getting open. And then Hawkinson shows up

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Speaker 3: and hurts his contributions with the Vikings, and then you're

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Speaker 3: in a place like this that is losing all the time.

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Speaker 3: You're a VET, you're a professional receiver, professional receiver. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: Like is he a wide receiver two? Going forward a

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Speaker 2: Right now, he might be a wide receiver one?

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Speaker 3: Like you take him over Wattle, yes, Smith, Yes, I

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Speaker 3: mean yeah. Keenan Allen, Like what neighborhood we.

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Speaker 2: He's in the Keenan Allen conversation now He's like that's

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Speaker 2: the example, yeah, because they just get peppered with with

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Speaker 2: the ball like crazy eleven catches yesterday.

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Speaker 3: Much like a fella coming off into reserve for the

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Speaker 3: Steeler correct route run. I mean he's as old, but

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Speaker 2: A lot and theland's a big target. Yeah, Like he's

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Speaker 2: you know, do you know where he's gonna be. Adam

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Speaker 2: Thielen is an order version of Cooper Cup.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, he's had a really good career. Yeah, a really

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Speaker 3: good career.

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Speaker 2: Okay, so yeah, I mean we see he won't be

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Speaker 2: fifty nine hundred again this week. No, but if he's

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Speaker 2: wide receiver twenty five on the list in terms of value,

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Speaker 2: I'm paying for it.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm all in. Yeah, trust me. I was reluctant.

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Speaker 3: I thought he was shot.

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Speaker 2: I mean, he just gets to and then the defense

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Speaker 2: that they started, three thousand dollars defense got twenty one points.

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Speaker 3: The Vikings are they to return? Yeah yeah, yeah, how

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Speaker 3: about so I'm sure.

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Speaker 2: We'll talk five interceptions, Yeah, a fumble recovery.

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Speaker 3: Like they were all on one player. You probably didn't

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Speaker 3: see this live. Fields gets hurt and it looks like

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Speaker 3: he's going to miss time and he's got a dislocated

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Speaker 2: That's kind of a big deal.

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Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, I mean that could even derail their season.

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Speaker 3: Should we go with Field, should draft on? Who knows?

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Speaker 3: But what old Tyler Badgin comes in? Remember him? He

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Speaker 3: was like six or seven, actually went undrafted. He was undrafted. Okay,

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Speaker 3: what I know most about him was he was at

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Speaker 3: and his dad is an arm wrestling champion.

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Speaker 2: Correct.

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Speaker 3: First snap, sack, fumble, takes it to the house. That's

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Speaker 3: first snap as an NFL player. I mean that helped

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Speaker 2: It was very Nathan Peterman.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and he looked like a little kid out there.

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Speaker 2: So we finished in the money. That's good.

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Speaker 3: How could he be the Bears backup quarterback play? I mean,

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Speaker 3: come on, look at some of the backups around the line. Now,

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Speaker 3: some are horrendous, but that's as bad as it gets. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: it's undrafted rookie.

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Speaker 2: Pretty bad.

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Speaker 3: He's not backing on my homes.

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Speaker 2: Uh. Speaking of quarterback situations, let's go ahead and look

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Speaker 2: at the top performers from this week, of course with

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Speaker 2: the game tonight still pending. Yeah, there were just six

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Speaker 2: quarterbacks you threw for more than three hundred yards this week.

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Speaker 3: We kind of talked about that. In seven to one,

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Speaker 3: I mean, offense is down.

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Speaker 2: Five of them lost, five of them lost. Yeah, it

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Speaker 2: was Jared Goff, Derek Carr, Gardner, Minshew Gino Smith, Desmond Ridder,

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Speaker 2: Patrick Mahomes. Are you buying this? Desmond Ridder this back

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Speaker 2: to back weeks.

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Speaker 3: Now with three, I think he's got a better chance

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Speaker 3: to get bench than he does to He's bad, Yeah,

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Speaker 3: he's really bad. I mean he threw three three picks

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Speaker 3: from what I remember, Two were horrendous, one looked like

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Speaker 3: a wrong route.

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Speaker 2: This is where the disconnect comes between fantasy and what

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Speaker 2: happens in reality.

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Speaker 3: Who are those six again? Because I think I think

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Speaker 3: Mahomes and Golf are the only good players.

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Speaker 2: Golf, Car Minshew Gino Smith, Desmond, Ridder, Patrick Mahomes.

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Speaker 3: I'm really souring on Car too. I used to think

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Speaker 3: he was the eleventh, the fourteenth best quarterback. Now I

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Speaker 3: think he's just good enough to get your beat. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: so that's not what the league wants. That's not what

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Speaker 3: those teams wanted. Yeah, the segment one conversation.

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Speaker 2: There weren't even many guys. If you just look at

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Speaker 2: the guys who had multiple touchdown passes this week, you

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Speaker 2: had Golf, Ridder, Tua.

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Speaker 3: And nobody saw it. Ridder, C J.

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Speaker 2: Stroud, Joe Burrow. Burrow threw for one hundred and eighty

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Speaker 2: five yards.

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Speaker 3: Though, yeah, say he didn't do much.

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Speaker 2: Trevor Lawrence, who threw for one hundred and eighty one

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Speaker 2: there's two more Josh Allen who threw for one sixty nine.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. These are all low number guys.

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Speaker 2: And Sam Howe had one hundred and fifty one passing yards.

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Speaker 2: He threw for three touchdowns because their defense got some turnovers. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: because they're playing Ritter.

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Speaker 3: And then he gets sacked there other play two and yeah, he.

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Speaker 2: Was fourteen to twenty three for one hundred and fifty

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Speaker 3: He's on pace to take like ninety two sacks.

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Speaker 2: And he had three three touchdown passes.

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Speaker 3: Quick quick question. Is goff an every week starter?

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Speaker 2: Yes?

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Speaker 3: I think so? Is Stroud? I think he's on the cusp.

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Speaker 2: I think he's on the cusp. He threw for one

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Speaker 2: But he's not going to run for anything never, never, ever.

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Speaker 3: Ever ever, Okay, especially with cup back. Yeah, Like I

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Speaker 3: wonder who the top twelve quarterbacks are. Like you didn't

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Speaker 3: mention Jalen Hurts. Yeah, Hurts was awful. He didn't mention

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Speaker 3: Lamar's name, you know. I mean those guys run, so

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Speaker 3: I mean they score, but I don't know who the

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Speaker 2: he'll combine to throw for one hundred and fifty yards.

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Speaker 2: Tyler Bagant was ten to fourteen for eighty three yards,

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Speaker 2: but he had an interception and he lost a fumble.

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Speaker 2: Russell Wilson thirteen to twenty two for ninety five, like

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Speaker 2: he had been playing well and then the wheels just

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Speaker 2: came off again.

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Speaker 3: It's bad.

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Speaker 2: Brian Hoyer, Rock Purty, Sam Howe, Jimmy Garoppolo.

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Speaker 3: I want to say, it's getting to last year where

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Speaker 3: good pace along those lines all of a sudden, I mean,

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Speaker 3: Browns have started three. I'm guessing there's eight to ten

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Speaker 3: that have used two already. I mean, Jets lost Rogers

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Speaker 2: Josh Allen was twenty second in terms of yardage this week. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 2: right ahead it. Right above him was Kirk Cousins. Above

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Speaker 2: him was Trevor Lawrence. Right above him was Joe Burrow.

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Speaker 3: Like, no one cares about my fantasy team. But I

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Speaker 3: Diggs and if they got twenty five points, I was

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Speaker 3: going to lose. So I'm watching that game intently. They

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Speaker 3: should have thrown.

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Speaker 2: The digs twenty five times. Yeah, exactly.

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Speaker 3: I mean he should have got the twenty five He

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Speaker 3: was opened the whole time.

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Speaker 2: Looking at the rushing leaders. Again, this is not It's

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Speaker 2: not like it becomes two one hundred yard rushers this week.

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Speaker 3: Two. The trend isn't. Oh, it's a running league. And

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Speaker 3: and the Bears in Atlanta, teams had no talent. We're

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Speaker 3: just running the ball, as I say, voluminously, you know.

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Speaker 3: And now it's not even.

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Speaker 2: That there were only eight rushers who had more than

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Speaker 2: seventy yards this yearly, wow, And I don't think there's

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Speaker 2: that many committees. Some of it's that some of it,

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Speaker 2: I mean that's.

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Speaker 3: Not new though.

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Speaker 2: But you had Kieran Williams at one hundred and fifty

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Speaker 3: Week, and he's out. He's been a fantasy gold mine.

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Speaker 2: Raheem Moster had one hundred and fifteen and two touchdownsown

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Speaker 2: all right, phenomenal. Would you start looking at him and say, Okay,

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Speaker 2: this isn't going to keep up, He's going he's going

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Speaker 3: I know he's going to get hurt.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm going to trade him away now, like you

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Speaker 2: get two starters for him, he's you're not going to

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Speaker 2: get any more value for him than you're going to

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Speaker 2: get right now.

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Speaker 3: Would you trade him right now for Justin Jefferson?

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Speaker 2: Well, I don't know if Jefferson plays again though this year.

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Speaker 3: I was thinking he's only out like five.

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Speaker 2: There was some talk, Yes, there was talk yesterday.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that bad example then, But would you trade him

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Speaker 3: for I mean you trade him for Tyreek? Of course?

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Speaker 2: Oh somebody offered me that. Yeah, but I'd rather like

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Speaker 2: how about say, would would you trade him for the

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Speaker 2: guy we just talked about? Would you would you dig? No, well,

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Speaker 2: Diggs will be one, yeah, would you trade him? Uh?

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Speaker 3: How about a cup?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: I bet you could get more. You might get cup

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Speaker 3: and nausey.

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Speaker 2: Like you probably couldn't trade him right now for like

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Speaker 2: Davonte Adams.

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Speaker 3: Oh, you get much more than Adams.

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Speaker 2: For right That's what I'm saying Adams, it might be.

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Speaker 3: The deal to move is or give me?

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Speaker 2: Would you trade them for Adam Thielen?

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Speaker 3: Not straight up? But if I can get theeling in

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Speaker 3: the back, you know, if I can get two good

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Speaker 3: starters for him, I think I might.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean running backs right now.

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Speaker 3: A change's gonna be back in three games. It's and

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Speaker 3: they're just runt them for Yeah, just just use them.

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Speaker 2: Why you can, Oh hear your leading rushes.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, let's go through.

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Speaker 2: Karen Williams, Fahem moster, Derek Henry out, Yeah, Derrick Henry.

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Speaker 2: He had one long run long there was a thirty

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Speaker 2: sixty three, got twelve carries in that game. I know,

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Speaker 2: like I didn't lean on nearly enough. Saquon I thought,

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Speaker 3: But he's missed a lot of time already.

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Speaker 2: He had ninety three yards frushing in that game and

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Speaker 3: So you're happy to have him for now.

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Speaker 2: Chewba Hubbard nineteen for eighty eight.

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Speaker 3: That's for example, start him now, or you know, make

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Speaker 2: Jerome Ford had seventeen for eighty four.

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Speaker 3: He's a starter. I think he's still an RB two.

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Speaker 2: Josh Jacobs twenty five for seventy seven.

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Speaker 3: Real quick on Ford. The underreported story of that Niners

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Speaker 3: Browns game. How do you let the Browns run on you? Yeah?

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Speaker 3: I mean to me, that's yeah, sort of coaching malpractice.

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Speaker 3: Put ten in the box.

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Speaker 2: Make PJ. Walker beach again. Yeah, he kept trying to

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Speaker 2: throw the ball to the other team, like.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, and it wasn't like he was good.

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Speaker 2: So Josh Jacobs had twenty five for seventy seven.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, he's catching the ball now. I mean he's back

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Speaker 3: to being worth it.

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Speaker 2: James Cook at fourteen for seventy one.

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Speaker 3: He never scores zone no.

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Speaker 2: Alvin Kamaras six and nineteen for sixty eight.

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Speaker 3: He's getting a lot of touches.

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Speaker 2: Deontay Foreman fifteen for sixty five.

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Speaker 2: Isn't it like they might have to run a more

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Speaker 3: Yeah it was good or bad? Like, isn't there you're

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Speaker 3: gonna get more plunges in that. Yeah, you'll probably run

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Speaker 2: Lamar had thirteen for sixty two. Isaiah Pacheco sixteen for

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Speaker 2: sixty two. Okay, Kenneth Walker nineteen for sixty two. What

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Speaker 2: you're not seeing there is a bunch of a bunch

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Speaker 2: of the guys that were drafted Highmandre Stevenson at ten

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Speaker 2: for forty six in a touchdown.

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Speaker 3: That was his best game of the year.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and you know.

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Speaker 3: Kenneth Walker looks good out there but doesn't produce at

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Speaker 3: the end of the day.

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Speaker 2: Alexander Madison eighteen for forty four, like Bryce Hall twelve

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Speaker 3: A couple of big players as a receiver, and that's it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Joe Mixon twelve for thirty eight, didn't score it.

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Speaker 2: That's like Jean Robinson thirteen for thirty seven. They don't.

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Speaker 3: It is. I mean, he's on the field with that

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Speaker 3: on the Baltimore I just don't understand that.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Side note, Devin Singletary did have twelve for fifty

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Speaker 3: He's an interesting Yeah, he I think he out snapped

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's that might be one to keep an eye on,

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Speaker 2: but there's just not much there.

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Speaker 1: Uh.

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Speaker 2: Looking at the receivers, well, there were ten receivers over

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Speaker 2: one hundred yards. It was Tyreek. This is where it

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Speaker 2: gets shocky. It's Chalky Jefferson. Yeah, Tyreek Hill, Cooper, cup

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Speaker 2: Amari Cooper, and Steffan Diggs. Well, those are guys that's

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Speaker 2: drafted high and all drafted high.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. Okay, so London's not there every week, Cooper's not

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Speaker 3: those guys are expensive. So thinking back on it, if

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Speaker 3: would you be more prone to go like receiver receiver

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Speaker 3: receiver and just not deal with the injured running backs

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Speaker 3: time and time again and hope that you get a Tuba,

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Speaker 3: Like you.

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Speaker 2: Have to have like six of these guys that you

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Speaker 3: That running backs. Yeah, exactly.

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Speaker 2: I hope the three of them hits, and I hope

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Speaker 2: That's it's just totally like I'm sitting here, I've got

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Speaker 2: I've got in my in our league and David Montgomery,

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Speaker 2: well you just get Saquon back and now Montgomery's hurting.

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Speaker 2: Like it's just But.

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Speaker 3: If you if your first two picks were Tyreek.

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Speaker 2: And Cup, you're already happy.

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Speaker 3: I mean, you can live with one running backs week.

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Speaker 3: But I'm always gonna have a high floor with a

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Speaker 2: But I don't want to get stuck starting Gus Edwards either. No,

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Speaker 3: But you have a lot of Jalen Warren's on your

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Speaker 2: Warren doesn't do much for me.

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Speaker 3: Well with the intent of he might, though, I'm thinking

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Speaker 2: I'm just looking here at some of the guys who

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Speaker 2: Chris Olave just missed, Garrett Wilson just missed. Kendrick Bourne

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Speaker 3: He's their best receiver.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they just that's what it is though, eight point

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Speaker 3: Can't be showing up on all the trade lists could

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Speaker 3: be traded. I'm like, he's the only guy it's any

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Speaker 3: good for you guys.

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Speaker 2: Rashid Shaheed had two for eighty five in a touchdown.

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Speaker 3: He's exciting, but that's what's good going to be. He's

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Speaker 2: McLaurin six for eighty one, Chase six for eighty, Nico

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Speaker 2: Collins four for eighty, Chris Goblin six for seventy seven,

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Speaker 2: Brandon At four for seventy six. They should have gotten

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Speaker 3: They absolutely should, especially when Debo went down.

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Speaker 3: I think he should be like the hot waiver wire

443
00:18:54,480 --> 00:18:56,919
Speaker 3: tight end pickup. Yeah, they finally realized they drafted him

444
00:18:56,920 --> 00:18:57,560
Speaker 3: in the second round.

445
00:18:57,800 --> 00:19:01,480
Speaker 2: Yeah, him and Trey McBride, like McBride taken over for Ertz.

446
00:19:01,920 --> 00:19:04,520
Speaker 3: Yes, and I could see Art's getting traded tomorrow. Yeah,

447
00:19:04,560 --> 00:19:06,800
Speaker 3: you go to some contender, old man, you know.

448
00:19:07,640 --> 00:19:10,600
Speaker 2: Rashi Rice four for seventy two bad like.

449
00:19:10,800 --> 00:19:12,360
Speaker 3: I mean compared to what we're talking about here.

450
00:19:12,440 --> 00:19:16,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, in that often there they are searching for somebody

451
00:19:17,160 --> 00:19:21,639
Speaker 2: to be the outside receiving threat. And the problem is

452
00:19:22,080 --> 00:19:25,800
Speaker 2: all the other guys on their roster are smurfs except Yeah,

453
00:19:26,040 --> 00:19:29,080
Speaker 2: Justin Watson has been a thing. He's hurting out.

454
00:19:29,280 --> 00:19:29,440
Speaker 3: Yeah.

455
00:19:29,480 --> 00:19:32,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, Like he was getting his two catches down the

456
00:19:32,040 --> 00:19:35,119
Speaker 2: field every week. He was almost like a poor man's

457
00:19:35,160 --> 00:19:37,760
Speaker 2: version of Rashid Shahat. He'd have like two catches for

458
00:19:37,760 --> 00:19:41,440
Speaker 2: forty five yards jal Yatt. Yeah, the stretch of field guy.

459
00:19:41,480 --> 00:19:45,080
Speaker 2: That's what they're looking for here. It's not Marquez Valdez Scantling, No.

460
00:19:44,960 --> 00:19:47,119
Speaker 3: It's not. I mean, he's the old version of stretcher

461
00:19:47,160 --> 00:19:49,480
Speaker 3: field guy. Sky Moore may never be I.

462
00:19:49,480 --> 00:19:51,240
Speaker 2: Think for SHEI Rice could be a blow up guy

463
00:19:51,240 --> 00:19:53,040
Speaker 2: in a second, not maybe not a blow up guy,

464
00:19:53,119 --> 00:19:56,520
Speaker 2: but a good wide receiver three, like wide receiver three

465
00:19:56,600 --> 00:19:58,200
Speaker 2: moving forward. For the rest of the year, he plays

466
00:19:58,240 --> 00:20:01,240
Speaker 2: in with the game's best quarter back. If he gets

467
00:20:01,280 --> 00:20:03,640
Speaker 2: seven targets a game the rest of the way, he's

468
00:20:03,680 --> 00:20:04,880
Speaker 2: well worth having on your roster.

469
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, considering the investment that anyone who's listening

470
00:20:08,440 --> 00:20:11,359
Speaker 3: that owns him invested in him. He could be a

471
00:20:11,640 --> 00:20:13,960
Speaker 3: starting fantasy wide receiver from here.

472
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Speaker 2: On, certainly in a bye week.

473
00:20:15,119 --> 00:20:17,760
Speaker 3: So yeah, you got those coming heavy coming up guys

474
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Speaker 3: with this upcoming week.

475
00:20:18,800 --> 00:20:21,360
Speaker 2: Who I think there's like sixteen, Yes, it's a big one. Yeah,

476
00:20:21,359 --> 00:20:23,359
Speaker 2: they're only two last week in cleaning the Steelers. This

477
00:20:23,400 --> 00:20:26,199
Speaker 2: week is a bunch. Mark Andrews had four for all

478
00:20:26,200 --> 00:20:29,840
Speaker 2: those injuries man four for sixty nine for Andrews again,

479
00:20:30,119 --> 00:20:33,720
Speaker 2: he's just it's yeah. Darius Slayton had four for sixty

480
00:20:33,800 --> 00:20:34,320
Speaker 2: nine Lesson.

481
00:20:34,680 --> 00:20:38,280
Speaker 3: I think he made a big play. Yeah, he's he's okay.

482
00:20:39,200 --> 00:20:43,080
Speaker 2: Wandell Robinson had eight for sixty two. That's what. That's

483
00:20:43,080 --> 00:20:44,560
Speaker 2: what like, that's his ceiling though.

484
00:20:44,720 --> 00:20:47,120
Speaker 3: Yeah, but that I mean that offense is so bad

485
00:20:47,160 --> 00:20:50,840
Speaker 3: and they can't protect that. I thought Wandell and Saquon

486
00:20:51,600 --> 00:20:53,880
Speaker 3: it least at least got them guys that can get

487
00:20:53,880 --> 00:20:57,159
Speaker 3: them layups. Yeah, you know, layup for them has not

488
00:20:57,280 --> 00:20:57,880
Speaker 3: come easy.

489
00:20:58,160 --> 00:21:00,840
Speaker 2: DK Metcalf had four for sixty nine and well, yet

490
00:21:00,880 --> 00:21:02,200
Speaker 2: another stupid penalty.

491
00:21:02,359 --> 00:21:05,040
Speaker 3: He does that every week, by the way, they need

492
00:21:05,040 --> 00:21:05,320
Speaker 3: to lie.

493
00:21:05,440 --> 00:21:07,679
Speaker 2: If I were them, if I'm Pete Carroll, I just

494
00:21:07,680 --> 00:21:10,159
Speaker 2: sit him down because he just cant They had they had,

495
00:21:11,320 --> 00:21:12,919
Speaker 2: they had to catch. It was like a catch for

496
00:21:12,960 --> 00:21:16,320
Speaker 2: like eight yards to lock it. And he gets ticked

497
00:21:16,359 --> 00:21:19,280
Speaker 2: off because he was open down the field and decides

498
00:21:19,280 --> 00:21:21,560
Speaker 2: he's just going to shove the the cornerback to the

499
00:21:21,560 --> 00:21:22,560
Speaker 2: ground who's covering him?

500
00:21:22,600 --> 00:21:23,560
Speaker 1: Like, what are you doing?

501
00:21:23,800 --> 00:21:25,119
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's not his fault.

502
00:21:25,119 --> 00:21:26,440
Speaker 2: The quarterback didn't throw you the ball.

503
00:21:26,520 --> 00:21:28,440
Speaker 3: He's a big Nelson munt.

504
00:21:28,440 --> 00:21:30,160
Speaker 2: He's a jackass.

505
00:21:30,240 --> 00:21:31,240
Speaker 3: Yeah, like, what are you doing?

506
00:21:31,359 --> 00:21:33,600
Speaker 2: He can't be a jackass and be on my football field?

507
00:21:33,680 --> 00:21:35,560
Speaker 3: Yeah, you're hurting the thing. He does it every week

508
00:21:35,640 --> 00:21:36,520
Speaker 3: every week. Thing like that.

509
00:21:36,960 --> 00:21:38,760
Speaker 2: He's a he's a man child.

510
00:21:38,840 --> 00:21:40,840
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, he's a six.

511
00:21:40,720 --> 00:21:41,960
Speaker 2: Year old out there running around.

512
00:21:42,160 --> 00:21:42,880
Speaker 3: It's getting bad.

513
00:21:44,960 --> 00:21:48,199
Speaker 2: Kylon Granson had three for sixty seven. Tight end for

514
00:21:48,240 --> 00:21:51,679
Speaker 2: the Colts. Yeah, I don't know, I'm running out of the pick.

515
00:21:51,720 --> 00:21:53,840
Speaker 3: Care No, but at least keep on the radar. He's

516
00:21:53,840 --> 00:21:54,920
Speaker 3: more of a moved tight end.

517
00:21:55,000 --> 00:22:00,400
Speaker 2: Yeah, pounds right, slash fullback who's seventy blocker type mentioned

518
00:22:00,400 --> 00:22:02,040
Speaker 2: Trey McBride four for sixty.

519
00:22:01,720 --> 00:22:03,240
Speaker 3: Two, sneaky. Yeah, I'd be interested.

520
00:22:03,640 --> 00:22:06,679
Speaker 2: Michael Wilson had three for sixty two. Yeah, I mean

521
00:22:06,760 --> 00:22:09,840
Speaker 2: he's not. His problem is he doesn't get an volume.

522
00:22:10,359 --> 00:22:13,080
Speaker 2: He probably won't unless they trade some of the other

523
00:22:13,119 --> 00:22:17,840
Speaker 2: you know, if they trade Hollywood Brown around could go that. Yeah,

524
00:22:17,960 --> 00:22:20,080
Speaker 2: opens things up a little bit for Michael Wilson.

525
00:22:20,560 --> 00:22:22,560
Speaker 3: Yeah. Maybe second half the year is just all youngsters.

526
00:22:22,680 --> 00:22:23,600
Speaker 3: Dobbs is capable.

527
00:22:23,800 --> 00:22:28,320
Speaker 2: Yeah, man, hearing nothing about Kyler Murray coming back.

528
00:22:28,200 --> 00:22:31,440
Speaker 3: To No, it's slim pickens right now. I mean, if

529
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Speaker 3: we had six teams on buy and all the injuries

530
00:22:34,320 --> 00:22:36,560
Speaker 3: that just happened, you know, McCaffrey and fields and blah

531
00:22:36,560 --> 00:22:39,760
Speaker 3: blah blah blah, there's be some bad starting fantasy line.

532
00:22:40,520 --> 00:22:41,760
Speaker 3: I'm sure someone will be buying.

533
00:22:43,480 --> 00:22:44,359
Speaker 2: That's the way it goes.

534
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Speaker 3: Yeah.

535
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Speaker 2: Yeah, anyways, we gotta get to a break. He is

536
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Speaker 2: Matt Williamson, I am Dale Lolly. That was the Fantasy

537
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Speaker 2: Football Focus. We'll be back with more right after this.

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548
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Speaker 2: not an opponent that the Steelers see a lot of

549
00:23:36,760 --> 00:23:40,040
Speaker 2: the team, though they are if you look at the

550
00:23:40,040 --> 00:23:43,639
Speaker 2: schedule thus far, beat the Seahawks in Week one in Seattle,

551
00:23:43,800 --> 00:23:48,520
Speaker 2: yeah right, then lost to the forty nine Ers, lost

552
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Speaker 2: to the Bengals, beat the Colts in Indianapolis, lost to

553
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Speaker 2: the Eagles, and then finally got their first home win

554
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Speaker 2: beating the Cardinals this past week twenty six to nine.

555
00:23:59,200 --> 00:24:02,640
Speaker 2: So this is a team that in the previous three

556
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Speaker 2: four years the GM and I can't remember his name

557
00:24:06,080 --> 00:24:06,640
Speaker 2: now is there.

558
00:24:08,200 --> 00:24:10,639
Speaker 3: Whatever? He's pretty good his job, but I forget his name.

559
00:24:10,680 --> 00:24:12,919
Speaker 2: Yeah, came out comes down and says they win the

560
00:24:12,920 --> 00:24:15,560
Speaker 2: Super Bowl. F those f them draft picks. We don't

561
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Speaker 2: need any draft picks. Well they needed them this year.

562
00:24:18,160 --> 00:24:22,480
Speaker 2: Fourteen draft picks this year. Oh yeah, by the Rams.

563
00:24:22,600 --> 00:24:24,840
Speaker 3: Right, So if people don't know much about the Rams,

564
00:24:25,000 --> 00:24:28,000
Speaker 3: I mean, the last time they used a first round

565
00:24:28,040 --> 00:24:31,400
Speaker 3: pick was on Jared Goff, who's like thirty three.

566
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Speaker 2: It's not even the roster anymore.

567
00:24:33,200 --> 00:24:36,440
Speaker 3: So they traded all their picks for Brandon Cook, Jalen Ramsey,

568
00:24:36,520 --> 00:24:37,960
Speaker 3: on and on and on and on. They won a

569
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Speaker 3: Super Bowl, they went all in and great, and I

570
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Speaker 3: really thought, and it still might come that the checks

571
00:24:45,800 --> 00:24:49,359
Speaker 3: would come due this year. And you mentioned the draft picks,

572
00:24:49,480 --> 00:24:52,800
Speaker 3: especially on defense and on the offensive line. They just

573
00:24:52,880 --> 00:24:55,960
Speaker 3: are looking for warm bodies that are cheap because they

574
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Speaker 3: have huge cap ramifications paying the taxes for winning that

575
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Speaker 3: Super Bowl. But now they've cup Stafford Nakua, who's a

576
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Speaker 3: fine from that group and Donald and Frankly McVeigh is

577
00:25:07,840 --> 00:25:10,960
Speaker 3: really good at what he does. Still they're hard to beat.

578
00:25:11,040 --> 00:25:12,920
Speaker 3: I mean, like you mentioned that they're three and three.

579
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Speaker 3: They seem to lose to the really good teams. Not

580
00:25:15,720 --> 00:25:17,720
Speaker 3: that since he's great, but the other two really are,

581
00:25:17,800 --> 00:25:20,520
Speaker 3: you know, since the Philly and San fran they seem

582
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Speaker 3: to handle the bad teams and that's about where they're at.

583
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Speaker 3: So they're gonna be a difficult opponent. The offense is good,

584
00:25:26,680 --> 00:25:27,919
Speaker 3: and Donald's a problem.

585
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Speaker 2: So if you if you look at the breakdown on

586
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Speaker 2: the draft picks even this year, one second round pick, yeah,

587
00:25:34,280 --> 00:25:37,120
Speaker 2: two third round picks, one fourth round.

588
00:25:37,000 --> 00:25:41,560
Speaker 3: Pick, and then a million four fifth round.

589
00:25:41,320 --> 00:25:44,760
Speaker 2: Picks, three and three in the sixth and three more

590
00:25:44,800 --> 00:25:46,600
Speaker 2: in the seventh. So it's a bunch of late.

591
00:25:46,480 --> 00:25:51,200
Speaker 3: Round guys because they were just moving, moving bodies for picks,

592
00:25:51,240 --> 00:25:52,920
Speaker 3: you know, and they got to pick for Allan Robinson,

593
00:25:52,960 --> 00:25:55,720
Speaker 3: you know. I mean, they're they're playing a Kello Weatherspoon,

594
00:25:55,760 --> 00:25:58,600
Speaker 3: they're playing Kevin Dotson just to kind of familiarize with

595
00:25:58,680 --> 00:26:00,439
Speaker 3: you guys, and they're not looking at those guys like

596
00:26:00,440 --> 00:26:03,720
Speaker 3: their long term answers. But there's some spot dudes like that,

597
00:26:03,880 --> 00:26:06,760
Speaker 3: a lot of youth that they're hoping to find. Nikua

598
00:26:06,840 --> 00:26:08,879
Speaker 3: is the obvious example. I mean, I think he was

599
00:26:08,920 --> 00:26:12,080
Speaker 3: a fourth or I think it's a fifth that looks

600
00:26:12,119 --> 00:26:13,880
Speaker 3: like a hit. If they can get three of those

601
00:26:13,920 --> 00:26:18,160
Speaker 3: out of this draft with a huge plethora picks like that,

602
00:26:18,200 --> 00:26:20,760
Speaker 3: and Avelia their first pick. The guard's a good player too,

603
00:26:21,320 --> 00:26:24,320
Speaker 3: So they're looking for cheap stuff and then they'll supplement

604
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Speaker 3: it next year with expensive stuff.

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Speaker 2: Let's go ahead and look at the roster as we

606
00:26:28,440 --> 00:26:30,720
Speaker 2: typically do here, especially on the teams that we don't

607
00:26:31,280 --> 00:26:34,280
Speaker 2: know all that much about. At quarterback is Matthew Stafford

608
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Speaker 2: backed up by Brett Rippian. Obviously they have a quarterback

609
00:26:38,640 --> 00:26:39,199
Speaker 2: advantage there.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. I mean at this stage, and that goes rewind

611
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Speaker 3: a segment one. You have a legit coach and a

612
00:26:48,560 --> 00:26:51,720
Speaker 3: legit quarterback, you're gonna be pretty competitive in this league.

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Speaker 3: I mean, a veteran slightly passed. He's one of the

614
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Speaker 3: few that are in the Matt Ryan generation that are

615
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Speaker 3: missing that's still playing. Well. He's not bad like Russell Wilson. Now,

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Speaker 3: I mean I texted you, I don't think this is

617
00:27:05,040 --> 00:27:08,600
Speaker 3: I'm not trying to be, you know, controversial. I think

618
00:27:08,680 --> 00:27:10,560
Speaker 3: right now he's the best quarterback in the NFC.

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Speaker 2: Well, this says a lot about the NFC, though back,

620
00:27:13,880 --> 00:27:16,680
Speaker 2: because right now he's completing sixty one point two percent

621
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Speaker 2: of his passes with six touchdowns and five interceptions. Yeah,

622
00:27:20,240 --> 00:27:22,760
Speaker 2: like his passer ratings eighty three point five.

623
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Speaker 3: I'm sure it's not great. It's not great.

624
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Speaker 2: He will throw the ball to the other He's always

625
00:27:26,720 --> 00:27:28,880
Speaker 2: been that guy. Yeah, he's always been that guy. Will

626
00:27:28,880 --> 00:27:30,000
Speaker 2: throw a couple to the other team.

627
00:27:30,040 --> 00:27:31,520
Speaker 3: And he's not going to run, you know. I mean

628
00:27:31,560 --> 00:27:33,080
Speaker 3: he's you.

629
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Speaker 2: Know where he's going to be at in the pocket.

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Speaker 2: Go get him.

631
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Speaker 3: You should be able to hit him a fair amountain

632
00:27:36,720 --> 00:27:38,960
Speaker 3: this game. They'll scheme things up for Cup and the

633
00:27:39,040 --> 00:27:42,440
Speaker 3: kupa like crazy. I mean, like that's what worries.

634
00:27:42,119 --> 00:27:46,639
Speaker 2: You at running back. Well, Kien Williams is out, Ronnie

635
00:27:46,720 --> 00:27:48,919
Speaker 2: Rivers is he's got already got the D next to

636
00:27:48,920 --> 00:27:51,000
Speaker 2: his name. He's down for with a knee injury. It's

637
00:27:51,040 --> 00:27:54,000
Speaker 2: gonna leave rookie Zach Evans, who's a six round draft pick.

638
00:27:54,119 --> 00:27:58,359
Speaker 3: Okay, Evans's story is he was like a four or

639
00:27:58,400 --> 00:28:02,280
Speaker 3: five star recruit, got himself in trouble with the first school,

640
00:28:03,040 --> 00:28:06,200
Speaker 3: got moved, end up being a sixth round pick. Has

641
00:28:06,240 --> 00:28:09,840
Speaker 3: flashed here and there at like Senior Bowl preseason, but

642
00:28:09,920 --> 00:28:12,040
Speaker 3: hasn't gotten a chance yet. Yeah, I mean, like hard

643
00:28:12,080 --> 00:28:12,520
Speaker 3: to trust.

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00:28:13,600 --> 00:28:18,080
Speaker 2: Yeah. I would think that pass protection would be an

645
00:28:18,119 --> 00:28:18,760
Speaker 2: issue for him.

646
00:28:18,840 --> 00:28:19,800
Speaker 3: I'm certain of it.

647
00:28:19,920 --> 00:28:22,760
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, So the Steelers have an advantage there

648
00:28:23,720 --> 00:28:26,359
Speaker 2: wide receiver. It's Cup, it's Nikua, it's two two at Well.

649
00:28:26,640 --> 00:28:28,520
Speaker 3: Yeah, they traded Van Jefferson. Those are the three.

650
00:28:28,560 --> 00:28:30,280
Speaker 2: Those are the three, and those three are on the

651
00:28:30,280 --> 00:28:31,360
Speaker 2: field pretty much all the.

652
00:28:31,280 --> 00:28:34,399
Speaker 3: Time, all the time. Yeah, and Cup they move all over.

653
00:28:34,520 --> 00:28:37,960
Speaker 3: But is a best as a big power slot. Nikua

654
00:28:38,080 --> 00:28:40,280
Speaker 3: used to kind of have that role. Now he's Robert

655
00:28:40,280 --> 00:28:42,760
Speaker 3: Woods is more of an outside, but they move him around.

656
00:28:43,240 --> 00:28:45,720
Speaker 3: And at Well's there, Deshaun Jackson. You know, they take

657
00:28:45,720 --> 00:28:47,560
Speaker 3: shots to him and he can fly, but he's tiny.

658
00:28:47,920 --> 00:28:48,600
Speaker 3: That's a good trio.

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00:28:48,680 --> 00:28:49,080
Speaker 2: He's tiny.

660
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Speaker 3: Yeah, he's tiny.

661
00:28:50,160 --> 00:28:54,000
Speaker 2: Tight End it's Tyler Higbee, Bryson Hopkins, Davis Allen, and

662
00:28:54,080 --> 00:28:55,400
Speaker 2: Higby's solid. Yeah.

663
00:28:55,400 --> 00:28:57,680
Speaker 3: I think that's a compliment. I think today's tight end world.

664
00:28:57,920 --> 00:29:01,080
Speaker 2: You would give this the Rams the edge a quarterback

665
00:29:01,120 --> 00:29:03,480
Speaker 2: and wide receiver. I think he gave the Steelers the

666
00:29:03,560 --> 00:29:04,360
Speaker 2: edge tight end.

667
00:29:06,080 --> 00:29:08,040
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's gonna you feel good about that.

668
00:29:08,120 --> 00:29:13,480
Speaker 2: Yeah. Offensive line from left to right, it's Alaric Jackson

669
00:29:13,600 --> 00:29:17,480
Speaker 2: at left tackle. Yuck, Steve Avila the rookie, Yeah, he's

670
00:29:17,480 --> 00:29:20,880
Speaker 2: promising at left guard. The center is Brian Allen, the

671
00:29:20,960 --> 00:29:24,840
Speaker 2: right guard is Kevin Dotson, and then the right tackle

672
00:29:24,920 --> 00:29:26,120
Speaker 2: is Rob Havenstein.

673
00:29:26,520 --> 00:29:32,360
Speaker 3: Yeah, and left guard, center, right tackle or fine. The

674
00:29:32,440 --> 00:29:35,680
Speaker 3: other two are questionable. I think Doughtson's played reasonably well.

675
00:29:35,720 --> 00:29:39,560
Speaker 3: I haven't studied them. What's crazy about them? Last year?

676
00:29:40,400 --> 00:29:44,720
Speaker 3: They they played the most combinations of offensive linemen in

677
00:29:44,840 --> 00:29:47,280
Speaker 3: NFL history last year. Like they couldn't go the exact

678
00:29:47,280 --> 00:29:49,959
Speaker 3: opposite of the Steelers of the Steelers last year. I mean,

679
00:29:50,000 --> 00:29:52,080
Speaker 3: I know that's not relevant for this game, but that's

680
00:29:52,120 --> 00:29:53,040
Speaker 3: what they used to deal with.

681
00:29:53,280 --> 00:29:57,480
Speaker 2: Here's the problem that they have. Havenstein against t J.

682
00:29:57,640 --> 00:30:01,520
Speaker 2: Watt is not is not a winning nor is Alaric Jackson.

683
00:30:02,360 --> 00:30:04,840
Speaker 2: No against high Smith.

684
00:30:04,600 --> 00:30:06,800
Speaker 3: Haven't seen had a good career. He's a tough guy.

685
00:30:06,880 --> 00:30:08,400
Speaker 3: He's kind of stiff.

686
00:30:08,400 --> 00:30:10,120
Speaker 2: Se wisconsind too, I believe so.

687
00:30:10,240 --> 00:30:12,360
Speaker 3: I think so. I'm sure they know each other. But

688
00:30:12,680 --> 00:30:14,479
Speaker 3: he's gonna have problem. Here's more of a masher.

689
00:30:14,520 --> 00:30:17,000
Speaker 2: Here's the problem. So what a lot of teams do

690
00:30:17,120 --> 00:30:19,680
Speaker 2: is you get a you know, a tackle plus one

691
00:30:19,800 --> 00:30:23,480
Speaker 2: blocking t J. Watt or maybe you do it with

692
00:30:23,520 --> 00:30:26,040
Speaker 2: both sides. Who's the plus one here?

693
00:30:26,400 --> 00:30:26,520
Speaker 3: Well?

694
00:30:26,560 --> 00:30:28,160
Speaker 2: The other thing is because are you going to keep

695
00:30:28,200 --> 00:30:31,280
Speaker 2: Pigby in? Because I'm not gonna trust Zach.

696
00:30:31,080 --> 00:30:33,880
Speaker 3: Evans is gonna have to get thrust into the fire.

697
00:30:33,720 --> 00:30:35,680
Speaker 2: For that, he'll just be a turnstyle.

698
00:30:35,800 --> 00:30:37,680
Speaker 3: I need to double check it tonight because I always

699
00:30:37,680 --> 00:30:39,479
Speaker 3: do the stuff on Tuesday after the Monday night or

700
00:30:39,520 --> 00:30:42,400
Speaker 3: but I can almost promise they're like first or second

701
00:30:42,440 --> 00:30:45,720
Speaker 3: in the league and eleven personnel. It's always three receivers.

702
00:30:45,720 --> 00:30:47,440
Speaker 3: It's a tight end in a back. I mean, that's

703
00:30:47,800 --> 00:30:50,040
Speaker 3: that's a McVeigh staple. So they're not going to just

704
00:30:50,080 --> 00:30:51,480
Speaker 3: start going double tights all of a sudden.

705
00:30:51,680 --> 00:30:53,960
Speaker 2: No, that's I mean, that's a that's a real problem here.

706
00:30:54,040 --> 00:30:54,960
Speaker 3: That's gonna be a real problem.

707
00:30:55,040 --> 00:30:59,040
Speaker 2: Yes, So I think the Steelers are actually better on

708
00:30:59,080 --> 00:31:00,120
Speaker 2: the offensive line.

709
00:31:00,360 --> 00:31:02,480
Speaker 3: I do too. The Rams, Yeah, I do too.

710
00:31:03,400 --> 00:31:07,000
Speaker 2: Uh, they're playing a base three four defense.

711
00:31:06,800 --> 00:31:11,040
Speaker 3: So folks, I apologize in advance a lot of these

712
00:31:11,160 --> 00:31:14,920
Speaker 3: names I'm starting to learn five weeks in. But it's

713
00:31:16,200 --> 00:31:19,040
Speaker 3: startling the who they're playing on defense. Just in terms

714
00:31:19,040 --> 00:31:21,400
Speaker 3: of name recognition, you won't know any of them. I'll

715
00:31:21,440 --> 00:31:22,120
Speaker 3: know some of them.

716
00:31:22,560 --> 00:31:25,320
Speaker 2: Uh, you got Jonah Williams at left defensive end. The

717
00:31:25,400 --> 00:31:27,120
Speaker 2: nose tackle is Kobe Turner and.

718
00:31:27,080 --> 00:31:29,320
Speaker 3: It's not Joanah Williams the tackle the Bengals.

719
00:31:29,320 --> 00:31:31,840
Speaker 2: He might be better and then the right defensive end

720
00:31:31,880 --> 00:31:34,520
Speaker 2: is Aaron Donald, the one guy that everybody's heard of.

721
00:31:34,560 --> 00:31:36,080
Speaker 3: And then of course they play a four man front

722
00:31:36,120 --> 00:31:39,120
Speaker 3: a lot. Yeah, Donald doesn't he's not Aaron Smith, but

723
00:31:39,200 --> 00:31:41,560
Speaker 3: they'll move them all over and he's still great. I

724
00:31:41,600 --> 00:31:43,600
Speaker 3: bet he has to lead the league in double teams though,

725
00:31:43,680 --> 00:31:44,360
Speaker 3: I mean he has to.

726
00:31:44,520 --> 00:31:46,840
Speaker 2: The four outside the four linebackers on the edge of

727
00:31:47,960 --> 00:31:52,280
Speaker 2: Jonah Williams, Kobe Turner, and Aaron Donald. Okay, Kobe Turner's

728
00:31:52,400 --> 00:31:53,200
Speaker 2: a rookie this year.

729
00:31:53,280 --> 00:31:55,040
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, he's one of his late round picks that

730
00:31:55,080 --> 00:31:58,680
Speaker 3: they're throwing at the fan. Hope, it's sticks your.

731
00:31:58,520 --> 00:32:01,600
Speaker 2: Week's Your two outside line backers are Byron Young and

732
00:32:01,640 --> 00:32:03,400
Speaker 2: then Michael Hoped.

733
00:32:04,560 --> 00:32:08,120
Speaker 3: I can't speak anything about mister Hote. Byron Young is

734
00:32:08,200 --> 00:32:08,720
Speaker 3: kind of like.

735
00:32:08,640 --> 00:32:11,239
Speaker 2: He was a He was a combine guy, was a

736
00:32:11,240 --> 00:32:14,080
Speaker 2: big combine, like a brand in the four five's.

737
00:32:13,840 --> 00:32:15,640
Speaker 3: But he's a six round pick or something.

738
00:32:16,400 --> 00:32:17,880
Speaker 2: I mean late pick, yeah, late pick.

739
00:32:18,000 --> 00:32:21,400
Speaker 3: But anyways, the two rookies of note you know you

740
00:32:21,440 --> 00:32:23,560
Speaker 3: started this segment with, they made a ton of picks.

741
00:32:24,040 --> 00:32:26,160
Speaker 3: Avelia was a top pick. He's been really good. But

742
00:32:26,160 --> 00:32:29,120
Speaker 3: the two of their fines are Nikua and Young the

743
00:32:29,200 --> 00:32:32,040
Speaker 3: edge guy. He's been really, really good. He was he

744
00:32:32,120 --> 00:32:34,160
Speaker 3: flashed a lot in college. I liked him coming out

745
00:32:34,200 --> 00:32:35,520
Speaker 3: or I think we talked about him a fair amount.

746
00:32:35,600 --> 00:32:38,320
Speaker 3: I looked at him fitting here. Yeah yeah, yeah, I

747
00:32:38,320 --> 00:32:40,760
Speaker 3: mean but he was a mid round guy. This one

748
00:32:40,800 --> 00:32:42,480
Speaker 3: like instead of her big or Yeah, this would be

749
00:32:42,560 --> 00:32:45,320
Speaker 3: essentially like Herbi. He gets the starter now, yeah, the Steelers,

750
00:32:45,320 --> 00:32:47,400
Speaker 3: but he's excelling. I mean him and Donald are the

751
00:32:47,440 --> 00:32:48,680
Speaker 3: only ones that really get any pressure.

752
00:32:48,880 --> 00:32:51,880
Speaker 2: Yeah, but I don't know how he holds up against

753
00:32:51,920 --> 00:32:55,920
Speaker 2: the run. That's you know, I don't know. Yeah. Uh.

754
00:32:56,000 --> 00:32:59,840
Speaker 2: An inside linebacker, you get Ernest Jones and Christian Roseboom

755
00:33:00,280 --> 00:33:00,840
Speaker 2: Rosea Boom.

756
00:33:01,120 --> 00:33:04,680
Speaker 3: Know very little about rose Boom. Jones is one of

757
00:33:04,680 --> 00:33:07,160
Speaker 3: the more underrated linebackers in the league. Like I look

758
00:33:07,200 --> 00:33:09,400
Speaker 3: at their defense and think they have three good players.

759
00:33:09,440 --> 00:33:13,120
Speaker 3: They got Donald, who's a star, Young who's intriguing. Jones

760
00:33:13,200 --> 00:33:18,520
Speaker 3: is a very solid off the ball linebacker who's probably

761
00:33:19,600 --> 00:33:21,160
Speaker 3: slightly better than what the Steelers have.

762
00:33:21,280 --> 00:33:21,360
Speaker 2: Ye.

763
00:33:21,440 --> 00:33:24,320
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean he's a good player. The corners everybody else.

764
00:33:24,360 --> 00:33:30,280
Speaker 2: Yeah. The cornerbacks are Darien Kendrick, Kobe, durant Akello, Weatherspoon,

765
00:33:30,320 --> 00:33:31,280
Speaker 2: Duke Shelley.

766
00:33:31,320 --> 00:33:33,360
Speaker 3: Two young guys that used to have pedigree that have

767
00:33:33,440 --> 00:33:37,920
Speaker 3: had some off the field stuff, and especially Kendrick Weatherspoon's

768
00:33:37,920 --> 00:33:41,360
Speaker 3: played okay for him, yeah, but he's not great.

769
00:33:41,720 --> 00:33:45,080
Speaker 2: And then your safeties Jordan Fuller and Rush Yeast.

770
00:33:45,400 --> 00:33:48,320
Speaker 3: Yeah. I mean again, these are just odd names that

771
00:33:48,360 --> 00:33:52,040
Speaker 3: don't have any category at all. Right, it's a weird group.

772
00:33:52,320 --> 00:33:54,719
Speaker 3: I don't know how the defense isn't worse than it is,

773
00:33:54,960 --> 00:33:55,960
Speaker 3: to be very honest with you.

774
00:33:56,040 --> 00:34:00,360
Speaker 2: One area where they are really bad is on special teams.

775
00:34:01,200 --> 00:34:04,240
Speaker 2: If you look at the d v o A stuff twenty,

776
00:34:04,440 --> 00:34:05,440
Speaker 2: I think they're thirty first.

777
00:34:05,840 --> 00:34:07,160
Speaker 3: I know, they're the only thing I looked at as

778
00:34:07,160 --> 00:34:10,560
Speaker 3: a kicker. He's missed I think four kicks already. They

779
00:34:10,600 --> 00:34:12,960
Speaker 3: couldn't afford Matt Gay. Yeah.

780
00:34:13,680 --> 00:34:16,520
Speaker 2: Well you and all these young guys who aren't starting

781
00:34:16,640 --> 00:34:18,520
Speaker 2: are now on your special teams. You don't have any

782
00:34:18,600 --> 00:34:19,839
Speaker 2: veterans throw into the necks.

783
00:34:20,719 --> 00:34:21,520
Speaker 3: They can't afford kill.

784
00:34:21,600 --> 00:34:23,040
Speaker 2: So your your special teams stink.

785
00:34:23,160 --> 00:34:25,279
Speaker 3: They're going to be all they're trying to find those dudes. Yeah,

786
00:34:25,280 --> 00:34:27,440
Speaker 3: they're all seventh round linebackers, and that makes all the

787
00:34:27,480 --> 00:34:28,279
Speaker 3: sense in the world. Yeah.

788
00:34:28,280 --> 00:34:30,440
Speaker 2: So, I mean that's one area. You know, if the

789
00:34:30,440 --> 00:34:33,719
Speaker 2: Steelers can win on special teams, come up with a

790
00:34:33,800 --> 00:34:35,799
Speaker 2: you know, a block, kick, a block, you know, a

791
00:34:35,800 --> 00:34:36,400
Speaker 2: big return.

792
00:34:36,880 --> 00:34:39,279
Speaker 3: Harvin should be back, right, Harvin should be back. Yeah,

793
00:34:39,680 --> 00:34:41,880
Speaker 3: I would think a big special teams advantage.

794
00:34:41,440 --> 00:34:45,759
Speaker 2: They're giving up just looking here, Well, it's only that's

795
00:34:45,800 --> 00:34:48,480
Speaker 2: that's for them. They don't have what they're giving up here.

796
00:34:49,280 --> 00:34:52,359
Speaker 2: They're they're there, they're kick returns, they're everything. Fourteen point

797
00:34:52,400 --> 00:34:56,480
Speaker 2: seven yards per kick return, which isn't good. Uh, and

798
00:34:56,719 --> 00:34:59,279
Speaker 2: six point six yards per punt return. They're not going

799
00:34:59,320 --> 00:35:02,600
Speaker 2: to win on and that the punters. The punter Ethan Evans,

800
00:35:03,080 --> 00:35:05,120
Speaker 2: his net average is forty one point two, so they're

801
00:35:05,160 --> 00:35:07,000
Speaker 2: basically giving up eight yards of punt return.

802
00:35:07,440 --> 00:35:08,359
Speaker 3: I've never heard of him either.

803
00:35:08,480 --> 00:35:11,240
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's cheap, just just another jag. And as you mentioned,

804
00:35:11,280 --> 00:35:12,280
Speaker 2: they've missed four kicks.

805
00:35:12,400 --> 00:35:15,719
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, and they're playing at Dome and it's

806
00:35:15,719 --> 00:35:17,359
Speaker 3: not like they're dealing with awful weather time and time

807
00:35:17,480 --> 00:35:17,919
Speaker 3: right either.

808
00:35:17,960 --> 00:35:20,440
Speaker 2: And it's been like he's been good from thirty and

809
00:35:20,480 --> 00:35:23,319
Speaker 2: in he's perfect. He's seven for seven from forty in

810
00:35:23,320 --> 00:35:26,200
Speaker 2: and I should say, but the misses have come between

811
00:35:26,200 --> 00:35:28,439
Speaker 2: that forty and a couple of fifties that he's tried.

812
00:35:28,560 --> 00:35:30,160
Speaker 3: So, folks, I mean to kind of sum it up

813
00:35:30,200 --> 00:35:33,640
Speaker 3: with this roster. Yeah, there's five brand name guys that

814
00:35:33,680 --> 00:35:35,680
Speaker 3: are all playing really well, and like last year, they

815
00:35:35,680 --> 00:35:37,880
Speaker 3: all got hurt and the wheels fell off, and unfortunately

816
00:35:37,920 --> 00:35:39,720
Speaker 3: for them, they didn't have their first round pick to

817
00:35:39,840 --> 00:35:43,520
Speaker 3: you know, exploit that. But they probably have without off

818
00:35:43,480 --> 00:35:45,320
Speaker 3: the top of my head, I bet they have twenty

819
00:35:45,400 --> 00:35:48,800
Speaker 3: guys and maybe more than any team in the league

820
00:35:49,600 --> 00:35:52,359
Speaker 3: that are dirt cheap. I mean that are six round

821
00:35:52,440 --> 00:35:56,279
Speaker 3: rookie picks, undrafted free agents. You know, Nikup isn't making

822
00:35:56,320 --> 00:35:58,319
Speaker 3: any money. I mean, like all those guys, like they

823
00:35:58,360 --> 00:36:02,000
Speaker 3: just they can't invest in any of the side things.

824
00:36:02,320 --> 00:36:04,000
Speaker 3: And I'm just like middle class at all.

825
00:36:04,120 --> 00:36:06,200
Speaker 2: Zach Evans, who's probably going to be their running back,

826
00:36:06,440 --> 00:36:08,200
Speaker 2: He's got four carries for ten yards.

827
00:36:07,880 --> 00:36:10,799
Speaker 3: This way, I mean, yeah.

828
00:36:10,960 --> 00:36:14,120
Speaker 2: I do you just dare them to run the football

829
00:36:14,120 --> 00:36:14,640
Speaker 2: in this game.

830
00:36:15,840 --> 00:36:17,479
Speaker 3: I would put like five guys on Cup.

831
00:36:19,280 --> 00:36:21,640
Speaker 2: It's funny you mentioned that because the last time, the

832
00:36:21,719 --> 00:36:23,600
Speaker 2: last time the Rams were here, which is the last

833
00:36:23,640 --> 00:36:26,719
Speaker 2: time the Steelers played them, Cooper Cup got shut out.

834
00:36:26,840 --> 00:36:29,160
Speaker 3: Yeah, I remember, they didn't have a catch in that game. Yeah,

835
00:36:29,440 --> 00:36:32,520
Speaker 3: and if Nakua and Higbee beaches, so be it. But

836
00:36:32,560 --> 00:36:34,759
Speaker 3: everything's to be schemed. He's a hard guy takeaway. And

837
00:36:34,760 --> 00:36:36,960
Speaker 3: Steelers did do it well. I mean they scheme him

838
00:36:37,000 --> 00:36:38,640
Speaker 3: up really well. The motion of them, they'll bring out

839
00:36:38,640 --> 00:36:41,120
Speaker 3: the slot blah blah blah. But I would somebody follow

840
00:36:41,239 --> 00:36:42,520
Speaker 3: him all over the place.

841
00:36:42,760 --> 00:36:44,280
Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, he's.

842
00:36:44,360 --> 00:36:46,360
Speaker 3: He's really really good, but the rest of that stuff

843
00:36:47,280 --> 00:36:47,920
Speaker 3: isn't It's.

844
00:36:47,800 --> 00:36:50,720
Speaker 2: Not great, Yeah, not great, but should be an interesting,

845
00:36:50,840 --> 00:36:53,400
Speaker 2: uh interesting game here. You're kind of your.

846
00:36:54,840 --> 00:36:58,000
Speaker 3: I would double and triple Cup and Donald every snap

847
00:36:58,239 --> 00:36:59,520
Speaker 3: I want to make and everybody else.

848
00:36:59,520 --> 00:37:01,600
Speaker 2: I want to make Stafford get away from his first

849
00:37:01,680 --> 00:37:04,440
Speaker 2: read every time to allow my pass rush to get home.

850
00:37:04,600 --> 00:37:07,360
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think maybe you play more man coverage, you know,

851
00:37:07,520 --> 00:37:11,440
Speaker 3: really pressed guys, bang him around, let TJ get home.

852
00:37:11,280 --> 00:37:13,040
Speaker 2: Because if he holds the ball, if it's more than

853
00:37:13,080 --> 00:37:15,680
Speaker 2: two point five seconds, you're probably getting home.

854
00:37:16,200 --> 00:37:18,600
Speaker 3: Yes, and again I need to double check this, but

855
00:37:18,640 --> 00:37:21,839
Speaker 3: I'm almost certain he's one of those quarterbacks this year

856
00:37:21,880 --> 00:37:25,120
Speaker 3: where he's really low in the league in terms of

857
00:37:25,160 --> 00:37:27,799
Speaker 3: when pressured and really high in the league when clept clean,

858
00:37:28,239 --> 00:37:30,719
Speaker 3: like not just he's better when clean. Everybody is, but

859
00:37:30,760 --> 00:37:32,960
Speaker 3: he's one way worst when pressure, is one of the

860
00:37:32,960 --> 00:37:33,680
Speaker 3: best when clean.

861
00:37:33,800 --> 00:37:36,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, older quarterbacks don't like to get hit.

862
00:37:36,239 --> 00:37:38,600
Speaker 3: He doesn't mind. He just gets hit a lot.

863
00:37:39,320 --> 00:37:43,000
Speaker 2: Well, it starts to effect it, he'll again, he'll just

864
00:37:43,040 --> 00:37:47,439
Speaker 2: throw the ball side arm And trust me, I watched

865
00:37:47,440 --> 00:37:50,520
Speaker 2: Matthew Stafford for a long time and every once in

866
00:37:50,520 --> 00:37:51,879
Speaker 2: a while he'll make a three and you're like, what

867
00:37:51,960 --> 00:37:52,719
Speaker 2: was he doing there?

868
00:37:52,800 --> 00:37:54,760
Speaker 3: Absolutely, yeah, he's a wild stallion.

869
00:37:54,960 --> 00:37:58,440
Speaker 2: Yeah, so it'll be interesting. I mean, it's just it's

870
00:37:58,760 --> 00:38:01,080
Speaker 2: it's a tough matchup, but it's one I think the

871
00:38:01,080 --> 00:38:01,839
Speaker 2: Steelers could win.

872
00:38:02,040 --> 00:38:04,000
Speaker 3: I do too. I do too. And they've been game

873
00:38:04,040 --> 00:38:05,040
Speaker 3: planning four for two weeks.

874
00:38:05,160 --> 00:38:06,920
Speaker 2: Yeah. Absolutely, we've got to get to another break. He

875
00:38:07,080 --> 00:38:09,680
Speaker 2: is Matt Williamson. I am Dale Lollie. You're listening to

876
00:38:09,719 --> 00:38:12,319
Speaker 2: the Drive here on Steelers Nation Radio. We'll be back

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

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Speaker 1: At least is the Drive with Dale Lolly and Matt

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Speaker 1: Williamson on your twenty four to seven Home of the

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Speaker 1: Black and Gold cast in Steelers Nation Radio.

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Speaker 2: Fans, you can check out Yin's Chat's regular season challenge

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Speaker 2: each week, answer Steelers trivia and make game day picks

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Speaker 2: for a chance to win signed helmets, jerseys, footballs, or

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Speaker 2: even a trip to the twenty twenty four NFL Draft

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Speaker 2: that's in Detroit this year. Log into the Steelers Mobile

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Speaker 2: a football signed by Jalen Warren. I believe this this

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Speaker 2: goes through today because we have a question for today.

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Speaker 2: We haven't gotten to this one, Matt, Willie Parker were

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Speaker 2: Lewis Lips the Steelers season record holder for the most touchdowns.

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Speaker 3: I'm going Willy on that. Okay. I feel like I

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Speaker 3: get these wrong every time because you just give me

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Speaker 3: these faces like I know the answer and you have

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Speaker 3: no clue Williams.

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Speaker 2: And I know the exact number of touchdowns as well, because.

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Speaker 3: I'm just pulling it out of my rear end. The

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Speaker 3: questions are hard.

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Speaker 2: Well, some of them are, some of them are pretty

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Speaker 2: that's your question for today. Log onto the Steelers Mobile

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Speaker 2: app and go ahead and enter into that. Hopefully you

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Speaker 2: can get that chance to win a sign Jalen Warren ball, Matt.

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Speaker 2: That seems to be another thing here. So last year

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Speaker 2: at the bye we saw the Steelers come out of

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Speaker 2: the bye week and just pound the rock a lot.

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Speaker 3: A lot, a lot and good success.

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Speaker 2: Uh do you expect something similar to that this time around?

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Speaker 3: I don't know. I mean, I think it's a great

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Speaker 3: way to look at things. Let's get back to the

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Speaker 3: found foundation. Let's be a physical football team. Takes pressure

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Speaker 3: off your young quarterback. We've been stressing no turnovers, don't

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Speaker 3: beat yourself. But you got good weapons.

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Speaker 2: That's the problem.

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Speaker 3: That's not a problem, that's the opposite of the problem. No,

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Speaker 3: you're right if Pickens is out there a much more

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Speaker 3: developed football player overall than he was at the bye

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Speaker 3: last week, Johnson returns what's going on with Friarmouth this year?

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Speaker 3: But I don't think he got bad all of a sudden.

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Speaker 3: I think he's a weapon. You got good receiving backs.

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Speaker 3: I want to take shots to Calvin Austin, you know,

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Speaker 3: I mean like you got dudes I want to see

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Speaker 3: and I don't know that you have to be super

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Speaker 3: run heavy. But it worked.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. I'm just looking at the stats for this Rams

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Speaker 2: team and they're allowing one hundred and twenty two point

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Speaker 2: two rushing yards per game, four point three yards to carry.

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Speaker 2: I think you can run the football against this team

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Speaker 2: pretty effectively.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I do too.

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Speaker 2: I mean it's a great way to tire Aaron Donald

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Speaker 2: out too.

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Speaker 3: That poor guy. I mean can keep.

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Speaker 2: Hitting them with double teams, and.

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Speaker 3: That's been his whole career. But it's gonna be more

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Speaker 3: this year than ever. I mean, you should be able

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Speaker 3: to handle their front seven in one on one matchups

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Speaker 3: not named Donald.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you should be able to maybe push these guys around. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: I mean I think they have like six sacks for

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Speaker 3: the years, maybe seven or eight.

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Speaker 2: I got that here in front of me as well.

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Speaker 3: Between Young and Donald, I think they have five and

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Speaker 3: a half.

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Speaker 2: Correct, Young has three, Donald has two and a half. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: then you're looking at a bunch of one. Ernest Jones

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Speaker 2: has one, Jonah Williams as when Kobe Turner has won.

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Speaker 3: So they have ten sacks this year, right, pretty sure?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? Ten sacks they've given up sixteen.

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Speaker 3: Yeah in six games they have ten sacks and six games,

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Speaker 3: you know, and they've Aaron Donald who So you should

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Speaker 3: be able to protect and drive the ball down the

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Speaker 3: field against that secondary too, Like on paper, Yeah, there's

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Speaker 3: not much scary about their defense besides Donald.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I just think you need you need to come

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Speaker 2: out if you if you do establish that running game

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Speaker 2: in this one, it makes it makes life easier for Picket. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: the play action stuff then works in this defense. To me,

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Speaker 2: it kind of reminds me a little bit of of

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Speaker 2: the Raider Raiders defense. There's one stud. If you control

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Speaker 2: him the rest of it, you should be able to

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Speaker 2: and you should be able to run the ball against.

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Speaker 3: And you won't control him, No, no, no, he'll control Donald.

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Speaker 2: You'll have two or three plays in a game that'll just.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, will scheme around him like crazy, and he'll still

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Speaker 3: be a problem. That's just who they those guys are.

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Speaker 3: They're both top ten defensive talents that are studs. And

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Speaker 3: maybe Donald's not quite the best player on the planet,

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Speaker 3: maybe he's only eighth, but he's still a problem.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, no, I agree.

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Speaker 3: You know, but of course you're going to scheme around

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Speaker 3: those guys. But that's a good way of putting that. Like,

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Speaker 3: we can't name a lot of Rams and Raiders starting defense.

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Speaker 3: I mean, they're may be the most non descript defenses

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Speaker 3: in the league, with the exception that are two stars.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I just I just think that I

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Speaker 2: think they should be able to run the football against

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Speaker 2: this team.

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Speaker 3: You don't want to get behind. I mean, it's a

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Speaker 3: lot of the same stuff we say every week.

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Speaker 2: I mean, and I think you know. I'm just looking

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Speaker 2: here at the touchdowns that the Rams have allowed this year.

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Speaker 2: There's only been one big one. Moley Cox had a

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Speaker 2: thirty five yard pass from Anthony Richardson. Everything else is

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Speaker 2: DK Metcalf ten yards, Christian McCaffrey fourteen yards, Brock Purty

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Speaker 2: one yard, Deebo Samuel eleven yard run, Joe Mixon fourteen

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Speaker 2: yard run, which tells you a little bit there. They

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Speaker 2: gave up a fourteen yard run to Mix and Anthony

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Speaker 2: Richardson one yard run, Andrew Ogletree five yard pass, Dallas

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Speaker 2: Godter six yard pass, Jalen Hurts one yard rush.

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Speaker 3: Their defensive coordinator again Threeheem Reheim. Yeah, he's really good

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Speaker 3: friends with coach Solomon, so I think they're going to

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Speaker 3: know each other. Morris Morris very very well respected Super

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Speaker 3: Bowl winner, I mean, defensive coordinator. I know him and

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Speaker 3: coach are very tight.

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Speaker 2: They have great respect for one coach with each other

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Speaker 2: in Tampa.

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Speaker 3: I'm not sure they have some ideas what the other

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Speaker 3: one's up to you know. I mean, I think they've

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Speaker 3: been on defensive staffs together and Tampa and all that.

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Speaker 3: I'm sure the name will come up a bunch this

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Speaker 3: week because he deserves it.

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Speaker 2: Nobody going to know how to attack that. That's Tom.

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Speaker 3: Think you have a good clue. And my hunch is

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Speaker 3: because Morris is so smart and Ben around the block,

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Speaker 3: it's probably Ben. But don't break, you know, like you

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Speaker 3: mentioned the long touchdowns. I bet when we really start

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Speaker 3: to study their defense, it's I'm not going zero and

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Speaker 3: man coverage.

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Speaker 2: Yes, please don't take any chances. Let them make them

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Speaker 2: matriculate the ball down the field, because otherwise, if we

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Speaker 2: try to blitz and do things like that, we don't

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Speaker 2: have the dudes to do it.

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Speaker 3: They don't have the dudes. They have a dude, they

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Speaker 3: don't And I'm sure coach Morris is smart enough to

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Speaker 3: be like, no long touchdowns go from there. So the

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Speaker 3: Sealers will probably have to sustain drives. Don't go backwards,

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Speaker 3: and I think that's possible.

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Speaker 2: Run the football. Yeah, they're going to let you run

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Speaker 2: the football. Run the football.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. If you're seeing a lot of too high then

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Speaker 3: run the football.

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Speaker 2: So that's what I expect this week. We'll talk more

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Speaker 2: about this game as the week goes on, like to.

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Speaker 3: Talk about a matchup though, Yeah.

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Speaker 2: That was tough. It's always my weeks are always weird.

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Speaker 3: They're always weird. But you sneaking an extra nap here

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Speaker 3: and there, and he recharged the batteries a little bit.

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Speaker 2: But here we go, ready to go, and the Steelers

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Speaker 2: are ready to go. I mean, everybody's basically healthy except

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Speaker 2: for Cam Hayward phenomenal.

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Speaker 3: I didn't expect it to be there, and he should.

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Speaker 2: Be back soon. I would expect him. I'm gonna say

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Speaker 2: maybe when next time next week we're talking about the

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Speaker 2: Steelers opening the window for Cam Hayward.

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Speaker 3: Who's the next opponent Jacksonville? I believe here? Yeah, yeah, okay,

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Speaker 3: that'd be great.

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Speaker 2: And Trevor Lawrence was on a bockie knee player.

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Speaker 3: They'll be coming off a long week, no, they.

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Speaker 2: Love the extra extra rest, are coming off that Thursday game.

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Speaker 3: Gonna be fun though. Absolutely game to night too.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, we'll get We'll talk a little bit more about

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Speaker 2: that one tomorrow as well. But that's going to do

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Speaker 2: it for our show today. So for my partner Matt

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Speaker 2: Williamson for Justin Miller here on site keeping us on

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Speaker 2: the air. I'm Dale Lelly. We appreciate you listening to

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Speaker 2: this edition of the Drive on Steelers Nation Radio