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Speaker 1: At least. He's The Drive with Dale Lolly and Matt Williamson,

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Speaker 1: home of the Black and Gold Steelers Nation Radio. Welcome

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Speaker 1: back to the Drive. I'm Dale Lolly here with Matt Williamson.

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Speaker 1: It is the eve of Well. I guess actually Week

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Speaker 1: two started last night. Yeah, had the last second win

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Speaker 1: by the Washington football team over the Giants. A good game. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: it was a close game. I don't know. It was

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Speaker 1: the entertaining game put down on the wire. We've had

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Speaker 1: some good primetime games. Uh. The Washington defense is overrated. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I tend to agree with you on that. You know

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Speaker 1: that the back sevens of work in progress. I thought

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Speaker 1: it would be much better than what it was two

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Speaker 1: weeks in a row. Now, you know, with some of

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Speaker 1: the ads that they have, they got issues at safety.

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Speaker 1: Landing Collins is just way overpaid. Oh I'm surprised he's

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Speaker 1: back with the team. He doesn't cover anybody. I mean

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Speaker 1: he's kind of a old school thumper linebacker. I mean

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Speaker 1: and then Jamie Davis is the world will probably get better,

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Speaker 1: but you know right, um, Yeah, it's funny because it

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Speaker 1: kind of when the season. Thinking Tampa, the Rams, Washington, Pittsburgh.

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Speaker 1: That's the top tier of defenses. I'm pretty sure the

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Speaker 1: Steelers are. I'm not sure about everybody else. We'll see, yeah,

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Speaker 1: and we'll see everybody else. Kind of a work in progress,

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Speaker 1: right right. Tampa look good, but Denver looks pretty good. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: they do, they do. I think of Steelers right now,

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Speaker 1: kind of stay alone, stayd alone, right right, Not that

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Speaker 1: the Rams or Tampa were bad, but I mean, give

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Speaker 1: up a lot of points. All right, this is the

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Speaker 1: best defense in the league in my opinion. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I'm not sure who's too. They played a really good

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Speaker 1: offense in Week one and gave up sixteen points. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and dominated the game at their place absolutely. Uh. Speaking

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Speaker 1: of those Bills, let's go through this week's slate of games.

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Speaker 1: The Bills oh and one at the Dolphins. Want to know,

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Speaker 1: we talked about what it means to start oh and two. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: if you're the Dolphins and you beat the Bills in

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Speaker 1: this game, now you gotta They're sitting pretty because they've

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Speaker 1: already beating New England in New England. Two division wins

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Speaker 1: would be huge for over the not he didn't beat

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Speaker 1: so you're looking at no worse than four and two

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Speaker 1: in the division. If you win this game, yeah, and

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Speaker 1: Miami's a dog, you'd have two games we win as

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Speaker 1: an underdog to one home one away against good teams.

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Speaker 1: By that note, I'd be a little concerned if I

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Speaker 1: think Buffalo you never say must win games in the NFL,

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Speaker 1: especially in Week two, but man, I mean they're gonna

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Speaker 1: be wearing dark blue jerseys in the sun baking in

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Speaker 1: Week two. Only played one game where they played substantial snaps.

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Speaker 1: You know, a lot of those guys didn't play in

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Speaker 1: the preseason for Buffalo heavily. I mean a big one

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Speaker 1: of my betting rules is don't bet on the away

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Speaker 1: you know what I mean. And it's only a three

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Speaker 1: points spread, so you better. Yeah, the Bills are gonna

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Speaker 1: I don't think this is a gimme for Buffalo at all. No,

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Speaker 1: one against Miami with over fift passing yards and sixties games. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: he's seventeen touchdown passes just four interceptions. That's pretty good.

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Speaker 1: That's pretty good. That would then includes some bad Josh

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Speaker 1: They've kind of gotten better together, So that'll be that'll

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Speaker 1: both those teams are very much in the hunt. Um. Actually,

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Speaker 1: want Buffalo to win that one. Yeah, because you've get

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Speaker 1: That's not an even fight just because of the best

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Speaker 1: or Zack Martin or whomever it is, it's not even close.

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Speaker 1: even game. We've talked all already about this game. Raiders

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Speaker 1: so they've got Smiths issues. How about this one? Over

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Speaker 1: his last twelve starts, Baker Mayfield just four and eight

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Speaker 1: And everybody looks at the game last year in Pittsburgh.

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Speaker 1: They didn't cover the game in Cleveland, right, Okay, because

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Speaker 1: don't think it stinks about They always start slow defensively

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Speaker 1: and then get and get better as the year goes on.

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Speaker 1: They're super well coached on the side the ball, and

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Speaker 1: they got some dudes. But I don't know that that's

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Speaker 1: going to happen this year. I don't know that they

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Speaker 1: can win the time possession battle by eight minutes a

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Speaker 1: week and things like that. That have been their offense tremendous,

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Speaker 1: tremendously and it's a great defense over the years. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I'm not picking on the Ravens when they're dead well yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean kick them when they're down a little because

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Speaker 1: they're down. Yeah, it's it's not a it's not a

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Speaker 1: super talented defense, especially against my homes and guys like that.

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Speaker 1: It's going to pick them apart. I'm curious where they'll

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Speaker 1: be if we were to do a defensive rankings after

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Speaker 1: two weeks or so. I'm guessing maybe we'll do that

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Speaker 1: next week. Maybe Well, I like, I bet we both

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Speaker 1: would pick the same number one. If things I would

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Speaker 1: be willing to bet. Yeah, but I bet the Ravens

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Speaker 1: are twelve or usually they're six. You know what I mean,

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Speaker 1: I don't even know if they over four init yarts

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Speaker 1: passing in that game. I mean Waller drops. We didn't

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Speaker 1: talk about that very often. He had a million targets

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Speaker 1: and could have caught four more of them. Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: mean they got carved up pretty well in the secondary.

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Speaker 1: They can't play defense the way they want to play,

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Speaker 1: which is the the cover on the back end and

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Speaker 1: blitz like crazy. Well, that's great if you've got good cornerbacks.

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Speaker 1: They don't there. They got some foundation issues with that team.

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Speaker 1: On both the final game of the weekend, this is

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Speaker 1: Monday night, Lions own one at Packers and one pair

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Speaker 1: of OM one teams in Green Bays favor by eleven,

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Speaker 1: and I think that they cover that spread. And yeah,

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Speaker 1: just my new theory about the Texans and Lions covering

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Speaker 1: back door and playing hard in the fourth quarter, I'm

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Speaker 1: not applying that to this one, not this one. I

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Speaker 1: think the package gotten embarrassed so badly last week that

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Speaker 1: they just want to come out and okay, let's get

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Speaker 1: rid of all that. I mean, who's who's gonna I

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Speaker 1: forget the stat we were talking about my podcast today.

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Speaker 1: But the Lions last six or seven games, they've allowed

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Speaker 1: like an average of forty points. I mean it's well

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Speaker 1: over thirty. I don't know what the number is. They

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Speaker 1: don't have a kuda, they don't have any talent on defense.

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Speaker 1: And to your point, I just think that organization, especially Rogers,

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Speaker 1: that home field home opener Monday night and every eye

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Speaker 1: America's watching, they're gonna put it on him and win

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Speaker 1: by thirty. Here's okay, a couple of things here. First

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Speaker 1: of all the Packers, there's one of the stat to

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Speaker 1: know on this one. The Packers offense was bad and

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Speaker 1: Week one, but maybe there's a silver lining in two

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Speaker 1: games following a twenty five point loss under coach mount

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Speaker 1: the floor, he's only been there for three Like there

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Speaker 1: shouldn't be that many five point loss. They got blown

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Speaker 1: out by Tampa last year too. Yeah, like, holy mackerel.

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Speaker 1: He said this is the third one then, right, he's

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Speaker 1: had three years, He's been thirteen and three in each

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Speaker 1: year when they lose, they lose. I'm blown out once

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Speaker 1: a year and each had to sailor fans like, when

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Speaker 1: have you ever said, boy after that twenty five point

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Speaker 1: loss that Mike Tomlin had, like it doesn't happen, doesn't happen.

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Speaker 1: I don't look Lafourd is a good coach or not.

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Speaker 1: I really don't. Well, we'll find out when he's done

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Speaker 1: to Baron Rodgers anymore. I mean, okay, if you have

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Speaker 1: one point loss in two thousand one and it's week

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Speaker 1: one and the rest of the season goes great. If

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Speaker 1: there's more than one, you got some issues. You got

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Speaker 1: some issues. I mean, they're not gonna lose bad the Lions,

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00:25:26,240 --> 00:25:29,440
Speaker 1: we know that, But I didn't see the Saints game

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Speaker 1: coming for them. Uh. And I mentioned the local writers

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Speaker 1: picks Eric Woodyard, who was the Detroit guy pick the

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Speaker 1: Lions to win this game. Okay, dude, okay, how long

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Speaker 1: you've been in Detroit because the Packers beat the Lions.

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Speaker 1: I don't don't know the last time Lions won a

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Speaker 1: game against them, Right, They're gonna get the Christians had

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Speaker 1: a better record against the Lions back in the Uh.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I mean, frankly, if the if the Packers

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Speaker 1: don't wipe the floor with them, I'm worried about Green Bay. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you know, after what happened against the Saints, I think,

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Speaker 1: how do you pick the Lions in that game? Come on, man,

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Speaker 1: they came back strong against the Niners. That's a sign

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Speaker 1: of things to come. No, it's not. I know it's not.

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Speaker 1: Got some weird bounces and we were covered an onside

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Speaker 1: kick and right team that was going through the motions.

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Speaker 1: That Lions team is awful. They're terrible awful, without a doubt.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, that's the that's what which slate of games.

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Speaker 1: It's like, Yeah, there's a couple of big lines there

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Speaker 1: that you would expect aren't close. But you know, but

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Speaker 1: Steelers Raiders is actually probably one of the better matchups

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Speaker 1: of the weekend. Yeah, I mean, Raven Sheaf isn't as

510
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Speaker 1: good as it looked in the preseason or when they

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Speaker 1: drew it up. Um. Who are some of the other

512
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Speaker 1: good ones? Buffalo, Miami's a good flow, Miami's a good one. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean, I guess Seattle in or Seattle, Tennessee and

514
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Speaker 1: Rams the important games, but I don't know if they're

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Speaker 1: going to be closed. The NFC West team looks a

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Speaker 1: lot better than the ce South teams, that's for sure. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Saints Panthers, I guess will be. Yeah, that's Arizona, Minnesota

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00:27:08,040 --> 00:27:10,200
Speaker 1: could be, could be, could be? Well, that one could.

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00:27:10,240 --> 00:27:12,480
Speaker 1: I mean, if you're looking at at two or three,

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00:27:12,920 --> 00:27:16,159
Speaker 1: maybe even four teams combining for playoff contention in the

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Speaker 1: NFC West. This could be a big game and tiebreakers. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and I think in Minnesota sneaking in as one of

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Speaker 1: the seven playoff teams in the in the the NFC,

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Speaker 1: which probably only has about six teams that are worth

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Speaker 1: it unless a team like Arizona is really really good.

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Speaker 1: I mean that West is good. It's pretty good. Although

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Speaker 1: they're they're playing the n f C South this year,

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00:27:35,840 --> 00:27:38,359
Speaker 1: so stiff to tell. I mean, it's I mean, we

529
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Speaker 1: shouldn't talk about playoff pictures. But outside the NFC West,

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Speaker 1: I'm not sure that there's gonna be a deserved wild

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Speaker 1: card team, yeah, you know what I mean, like Atlanta's maybe,

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Speaker 1: I mean, Tampa and the Saints could be one. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I don't think Minnesota will probably be worth it. Like

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Speaker 1: Steelers were in the NFC this year, they're one of

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Speaker 1: the best set it would be. Yeah, they'd be a

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Speaker 1: slam dunk if they're better. I mean again, if three,

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Speaker 1: if four teams come out of the West, which is

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00:28:07,880 --> 00:28:09,840
Speaker 1: hard to do. It's hard to do, right, But I

539
00:28:09,880 --> 00:28:12,639
Speaker 1: think the Steeler is better than everyone else that you know,

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Speaker 1: in the other divisions that aren't division winners, probably I'd

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Speaker 1: probably picked the Steelers against the Cardinals on a neutral field. Probably.

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Speaker 1: I'm open to the idea that the Cardinals are really good, though.

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Speaker 1: I also I'm opened the idea that I'm over reacting

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Speaker 1: like crazy. Yeah, I've been burned. Any time after week

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Speaker 1: one the team looks great. You've got a very open mind, Matt. Yes,

546
00:28:32,160 --> 00:28:34,840
Speaker 1: everybody says about you, But I mean a team like

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Speaker 1: the Cardinals, like they're not throwing to Dan Arnold anymore.

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00:28:37,440 --> 00:28:41,400
Speaker 1: They have four Kyler is healthy, and you know, I'm

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00:28:41,440 --> 00:28:43,480
Speaker 1: open to the fact that they might have been, that

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00:28:43,520 --> 00:28:46,360
Speaker 1: they figured it out finally. Yeah, but anyway, we're gonna

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Speaker 1: take it. I'm really wrong. We're gonna take another break.

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Speaker 1: Here he is Matt Williamson, wishy washy as he is.

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Speaker 1: I'm Dale Lally. You are listening to the drive here

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Speaker 1: on Steelers Nation Radio. We're gonna take a break. When

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Speaker 1: we come back, it's time for the fantasy football ocus.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna pick our DraftKings team this week. This was

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Speaker 1: going to be a winner, baby, and we're gonna and

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Speaker 1: we'll make right after this