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Speaker 1: This is the Drive with Dale Lolly and Matt Williamson

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Speaker 1: on your home of the Black and Gold SR Steelers

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Speaker 1: Nation Radio. Welcome to the Drive. I am Dale Lally.

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Speaker 1: He is Matt Williamson. We're just marveling here on the

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Speaker 1: Drive over this sixty seven pound gold pig that was

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Speaker 1: found in uh in a pond or lake or somewhere

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Speaker 1: in France. It was caught and released, so they caught it.

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Speaker 1: They caught him him. Yeah, I mean he's like a big, round,

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Speaker 1: happy fellow, like could be on a little on a

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Speaker 1: little bowl in your kitchen, but just a really really

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Speaker 1: big bowl and grew into a sixty seven pound monsters

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Speaker 1: sixty seven pound goldfish are I'm not even sure. Um,

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Speaker 1: you know, typically you give them fish food, but he

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Speaker 1: wouldn't certainly wouldn't do that with the sixties him. Man,

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Speaker 1: you're sitting there. I've caught fish that are almost that big. Um,

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Speaker 1: you know, carp and things of that nature. Um, you know,

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Speaker 1: sixty seven pound goldfishes. It's pretty crazy. It's a monster.

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Speaker 1: It's a big fat goldfish belly on that thing. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: he's around, happy fellow, looks like a pet. Gets to

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Speaker 1: go back in and it must be nice and warm

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Speaker 1: there in France. I guess about many predators had a

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Speaker 1: little kid through his little goldfish in there when he

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Speaker 1: was two inches and then turned in sixty seven pounds later. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: he has not gone belly up and gotten Maybe somebody

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Speaker 1: flushed him down the toilet and he's happy about it.

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Speaker 1: That long and fruitful life. An odd beginning to an

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Speaker 1: odd week here. Yeah, I just saw that on Twitter.

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Speaker 1: I'm like, wow, gold fish. Yeah. Uh so. Uh, Steelers

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Speaker 1: beginning their practice week today for their game Monday night

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Speaker 1: in Indianapolis. Uh. Mike Tomlin is if Thanksgiving week isn't

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Speaker 1: weird enough, now they're playing on Monday Night too, and

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Speaker 1: it's we're gonna be all discombobulated for a week or two.

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Speaker 1: Mike tom eighteen and three. Unbelievable on Monday nights. I mean,

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Speaker 1: is that's remarkable. It's had some great teams, but they're

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Speaker 1: not a powerhouse every year. Yeah right, they often play

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Speaker 1: it's not a fluke. Yeah, and that's you know, that's

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Speaker 1: winning at home. That's what They have a twenty game

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Speaker 1: home Monday night winning streak, which is which is insane.

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Speaker 1: It goes that pre days Bill Kaur, Wow, they haven't

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Speaker 1: lost at home in twenty games. Wow. I mean I

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Speaker 1: knew it was long. I didn't realize it was. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: but eighteen and three or eighteen and three on Monday

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Speaker 1: nights on the road. Uh, that's remarkable. It's just a

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Speaker 1: remarkable streak, and there has to be something to What's

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Speaker 1: really remarkable is their record against the Indianapolis Colts. They

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Speaker 1: have owned this sid Yeah, in my stat pack. That's

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Speaker 1: one of the little things I do. I couldn't believe

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Speaker 1: it was that bad. I mean, I think they have

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Speaker 1: like three or four wins against the Steelers in history. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: team that had Peyton Manning and Andrew Luck's in recent history. Yeah, Like,

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Speaker 1: I didn't think that'd be great against Steeler in the seventies,

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Speaker 1: you know, but since then, you'd think it'd be even

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Speaker 1: or maybe a lean towards the Steelers. And so you're thinking,

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Speaker 1: I can't remember too many Colds victories as a fan

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Speaker 1: watching either. The only one one I can remember off

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Speaker 1: hand is the one in uh two thousand five when

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Speaker 1: the Steelers went there in the regular season, and I

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Speaker 1: think it ended up being twenty eight to seven or

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Speaker 1: something like that. Ike Taylor gets beat on a touchdown

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Speaker 1: on the first play from scrimmage, and then my ears

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Speaker 1: led the rest of the way because they were cranking

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Speaker 1: the music up in there to the point my ears

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Speaker 1: still ring from that. That was like places you've ever

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Speaker 1: in your life. It was the loudest place of every

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Speaker 1: You couldn't hear the guy sitting next to you in

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Speaker 1: the press box. You couldn't have a conversation. You couldn't

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Speaker 1: You had to scream in each other's ears, and you

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Speaker 1: still couldn't hear. Yeah, and you still couldn't hear in

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Speaker 1: the press box. No, it's an open yeah. Um. So yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's a place that's obviously you know, every player is

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Speaker 1: familiar with. Yeah. There. We we go there every year

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Speaker 1: as well, like our trips to Indie. I don't think

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Speaker 1: that has anything to do with it that the Steelers

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Speaker 1: successor because not everybody has that kind of success there,

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Speaker 1: but the Steelers have. And I made note to this

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Speaker 1: last sent it, texted you about it. These stats on

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Speaker 1: these two teams, particularly on offense, are eerily the same. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: very similar. I mean, when you look at the course

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Speaker 1: you know, I mean, but the last couple of weeks.

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Speaker 1: Things are picking up and things have changed for them

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Speaker 1: with a new coach, you know, the Steelers post by Um,

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Speaker 1: it is interesting. I mean there are a lot of similarities.

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Speaker 1: That's a good defense they have to. I found it

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Speaker 1: a little funny because I think a lot of people

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Speaker 1: when the Saturday move was made, just when oh, everyone's

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Speaker 1: gonna roll all over the Colts. And I'm not saying

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Speaker 1: they're powerhouse, but they were three five and one when

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Speaker 1: the coaching change was made, and they had played two

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Speaker 1: games with Ellinger, who's not an NFL quarterback. They've beating

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Speaker 1: the Chiefs. I mean, they have some good things going on,

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Speaker 1: you know. And I don't think Saturday has been the

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Speaker 1: magical Licks or either. No. I just think he went

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Speaker 1: back to Matt Ryan. He started giving, you know, Jonathan

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Speaker 1: Taylor the football pretty simple formula. You know, put an

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Speaker 1: NFL quarterback in, they get it out of his hands

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Speaker 1: super quick, and give your best player of the football. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you know, I mean that's what they're built to do

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Speaker 1: in the beginning. And the line is playing a little

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Speaker 1: better too. If you look at this Colts team, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: nineteen turnovers this year. Matt Ryan is a big part

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Speaker 1: of that he is. He is. But if you look

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Speaker 1: at this Colts team, um, the one thing that they

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Speaker 1: don't do, which has kind of been the Steelers achilles

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Speaker 1: heel this season. Let's go down the field. Down the field,

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Speaker 1: they have three interesting receivers that are all very very different.

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Speaker 1: Pittman's there one, but he's not Julio Jones. Just like

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Speaker 1: ten yards of catch, ye and you'll look at it,

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Speaker 1: I'm sure tonight or whatever, but in that stat pack,

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Speaker 1: it's very obvious what they do with these guys. Pierce

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Speaker 1: has like all the all the twenty yard deeper throws.

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Speaker 1: Pittman's average depth, the targets very short, but he's a

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Speaker 1: high volume guy. He's a big, powerful receiver. Then another

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Speaker 1: situation would probably be doing better, to be honest. And

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Speaker 1: Campbell's kind of the after the catch. I don't say gimmicky,

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Speaker 1: but he's really good with the ball in his hands.

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Speaker 1: He might get a jet sweep. So they're all three

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Speaker 1: are really different. The tight ends don't really exist, and

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Speaker 1: the tight ends don't exist, and you know they're gonna

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Speaker 1: run Taylor times in this game, whether it's you know,

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Speaker 1: you know the key is making sure, particularly against this team,

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Speaker 1: is that you stopped to run. If you let you

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Speaker 1: let Matt Ryan get into third and four situations, he

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Speaker 1: gonna convert those. Yeah, if you watch Colts Eagles from

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Speaker 1: this past week, you might think man Colts hung around

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Speaker 1: pretty well there. Well, the first drive they basically went

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Speaker 1: in the middle of his defense. And Taylor had like

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Speaker 1: thirty more yards the rest of the year the rest

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Speaker 1: of the game on fifteen carries. Like then, they didn't

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Speaker 1: really have a CounterPunch, you know. So if Ryan's gonna

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Speaker 1: beat you by thinking and dunking, so be it. It

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Speaker 1: looks a little like the Steeler offense last year in

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Speaker 1: terms of quarterback being smart and getting it out of

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Speaker 1: his hands, but doesn't have second reaction ability. You know,

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Speaker 1: right where he's right right, A lot of defenders near

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Speaker 1: the line of scrimmage and when they take shots, they're

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Speaker 1: kind of yeah, calculated or easy to spot max protecting. Okay,

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Speaker 1: we're gonna send somebody deep he pierced on the sideline.

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Speaker 1: Break it up, you know, Um, yeah, I mean, so

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Speaker 1: it's it's gonna be an interesting game and a chess

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Speaker 1: match in that regard. I know people are now down

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Speaker 1: on the Steelers defense. They've been down on the Steelers offense. Um. Again,

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Speaker 1: on this stuff, Um, Steelers are two and a half

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Speaker 1: point underdogs in this game. Um. I mean, I will

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Speaker 1: say the Colts defense is probably the best unit of

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Speaker 1: the four, certainly statistically through the season. But let's not

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Speaker 1: forget they get to play Houston a couple of times,

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Speaker 1: they get to play Jackson, you know, so I think

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Speaker 1: I take the Steelers over. They have more playmakers. That's

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Speaker 1: the problem with the problem with the Colts defense. Don't

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Speaker 1: take the ball away. They don't take the ball away. No,

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Speaker 1: I mean Gilmore Well Buckner is a good player. They

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Speaker 1: don't blitz at all. Yeah, I mean they're very vanilla.

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Speaker 1: They're the last remaining Cover three Seattle type team and

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Speaker 1: it's working for them. But they don't have a lot

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Speaker 1: of splash. Yeah. Uh. Talking with yeah, talking with Kenny

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Speaker 1: Pickett today, he talked about, you know, the Steelers, we

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Speaker 1: need to move the ball or we need to move

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Speaker 1: Deonte Johnson more around on the in the formation. Um,

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Speaker 1: Gilmore does follow. I don't expect him to follow Deante

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Speaker 1: only played five snaps in the slot this year, right,

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Speaker 1: so he doesn't go inside. If the Steelers, you know,

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Speaker 1: they're talking yeah, if the if the if the Steelers

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Speaker 1: more and they're gonna play cover three. Well, they're not

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Speaker 1: gonna play a lot of man and man defense. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: just you know, move him to the slot, get him

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Speaker 1: in the bunch packages and and get you get him

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Speaker 1: in situations where he can run after the catch. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: they're not gonna get a lot of blitz. I think

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Speaker 1: they'll be able to protect reasonably well. But their front

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Speaker 1: is talented. Buckner's their best guy, Quity Pay and some

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Speaker 1: of these you know, Yonnington, doc Way and these guys

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Speaker 1: they should be able to hold up. But I'm with you.

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Speaker 1: I mean, i think it's it's key to move these

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Speaker 1: receivers around a little bit more pre snap motion bunches,

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Speaker 1: things like that that you mentioned, and get him in

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Speaker 1: space if possible. Yeah, I mean, I think that's very feasible.

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Speaker 1: The other thing I noticed when do my research was

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Speaker 1: the Colts do a really good job statistically against receivers,

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Speaker 1: but not tight ends. Yeah. Well, because you play a

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Speaker 1: lot of that zone and and you're gonna give that up.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's like what you know, when when the

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Speaker 1: Bengals were good, when they were a good team, they

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Speaker 1: did that a lot. They play that umbrella and you know,

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Speaker 1: you'd look up in Heath Miller to have ten catches

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Speaker 1: for ninety yards at the end of the game. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I don't think they have any real answer for him.

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Speaker 1: Their linebackers are decent in coverage, as are their safety

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Speaker 1: But to your point that the style of play allows

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Speaker 1: for a lot of tight end productions, you know, and

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Speaker 1: your veteran receivers should be able to sit down and

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Speaker 1: find open spots in his zone and do those kind

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Speaker 1: of things. So interesting, Uh, you know, it's an interesting matchup,

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Speaker 1: it really is. It's like a boring one a couple

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Speaker 1: of weeks ago, and it's not. Yeah. I also expect

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Speaker 1: the Steelers defense, even though Ryan's getting the ball out quickly. Um,

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Speaker 1: I would expect them to get pressure on Matt Ryan.

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Speaker 1: I would too. They're a line is far and away

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Speaker 1: the highest PAIDO line in the league, Like it's not

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Speaker 1: even close. And that makes some sense. I mean, Nelson's

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