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

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Speaker 1: on Home of the Black and Gold Steelers Nation Radio.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Drive. I am Dale Lollly here with

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Speaker 1: Matt Williamson. It is a Thursday here in Pittsburgh. Weather

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Speaker 1: turned on us here, Matt. It's kind of nice out.

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Speaker 1: It's so fall kind very falling. Yeah, leaves are falling

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Speaker 1: all around, you know. The time I was on my way,

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Speaker 1: Absolutely sunshine and beautiful. Absolutely, and the Steelers getting their

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Speaker 1: second day of practice in today. It's weird. Yesterday they

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Speaker 1: practiced indoors and they cranked a heat up into the

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Speaker 1: eighties so that players could get accustomed to, uh to

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Speaker 1: what they were going to be experiencing in Miami, even

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Speaker 1: though it's a nightgate game. It's gonna today. They went outside. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I get it, though, I mean, don't get any days

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Speaker 1: like this to go practice, go do it, you know,

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Speaker 1: be outside. Boost morale. Well, this should boost morale. The

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Speaker 1: Steelers practice report Kenny Pickett a full participant once again.

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Speaker 1: There's an expectation that he could be cleared tomorrow. Well,

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Speaker 1: it can be Friday, can be Saturday. I think if

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Speaker 1: you're on the road, if you have an away game.

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Speaker 1: They try to get that done Friday because Saturday's get

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Speaker 1: pretty Yeah, all that stuff in uh Cam Sutton full participant,

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Speaker 1: a Kello Weatherspoon full participant, Levi Wallace full participant, UH

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Speaker 1: make A Fitzpatrick full participant, James Pierre limited participant, Okay

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Speaker 1: Miles Jack full participant, Mason Cole full participant, James Daniels

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Speaker 1: full participant, UH Steven Sims did not practice. Pat Fiarmouth

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Speaker 1: full participant, Chris Wormley full participant. Kim Hayward took the

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Speaker 1: day as a coach's decision and Larry Ogan JOEBI a

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Speaker 1: full when I was a little concerned about how about that? Wow,

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Speaker 1: that's I mean, it's pretty much everybody. Yeah, I'm worried

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Speaker 1: about this guy. No, think there's a lot to worry

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Speaker 1: about there By the sounds of that, that's great. Um

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Speaker 1: full secondary. I mean, I assume you just plug everybody

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Speaker 1: right into their own old roles, even though this last

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Speaker 1: group of guys played well, But maybe you found something

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Speaker 1: and maybe you trust Pierre a little more well. Tara

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Speaker 1: Austin talked about that today and he says, hey, look

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Speaker 1: we we learned it. You know, if it with some

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Speaker 1: of these guys that if something happens down the road,

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Speaker 1: we can count on them to go out and get

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Speaker 1: the job done. Yeah. I feel like Jackson is a

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Speaker 1: keeper now. I mean like I'm not saying he's the

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Speaker 1: next Rong Pison or anything, but the guy some pedigree. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: he's second round pick that has some you know, traits

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Speaker 1: and played well. Keep him around obviously you can learn quickly,

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Speaker 1: right right, right right? So yeah, I mean Nperre stepped up.

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Speaker 1: I mean he started before. That's great. The other group

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Speaker 1: I don't care as much about, to be honest with you,

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Speaker 1: and you know, the other corners that we thrown in there,

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Speaker 1: but maybe you find something those guys. Yeah, absolutely, So

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Speaker 1: that's I mean, that's as good as the injury reports

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Speaker 1: looked as good as it looked in week seven. History

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Speaker 1: of any team in a month, you know, if there

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Speaker 1: are guys on i R, of course, you know, but

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Speaker 1: those guys have been on I R now for you know,

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Speaker 1: sometimes six weeks. You know, if you look back at it,

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Speaker 1: um they started having guys go down really in the

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Speaker 1: Jet game. That's when things started the kind of yeah,

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Speaker 1: you know, and then you know, you so you're missing

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Speaker 1: and you're missing all those guys last week for the

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Speaker 1: game against Patriot or the Pack. Yeah, it's just the

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Speaker 1: Buccaneers and then and now you got everybody back. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's rare when the leaves are falling all around. You know,

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Speaker 1: this time a year to be as healthy as they are.

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Speaker 1: Hopefully that keeps up, of course, but you've got two

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Speaker 1: more until the bye. Um. I think you you learn

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Speaker 1: some things in the meantime. You know you can win

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Speaker 1: in there you didn't see coming. But there's still live.

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Speaker 1: Folks are their game behind in the in the division.

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Speaker 1: You got a good, good young quarterback that thinks ready

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Speaker 1: to you know, really show that he belongs. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I think it's exciting. Yeah. That's the interesting thing about

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Speaker 1: but like, oh you're you're in really you're in deep

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Speaker 1: trouble here the entire league this year, Like yeah, there's

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Speaker 1: you get your and again we talked about we did

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Speaker 1: the power rankings. You got your three or four good

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Speaker 1: teams and then everybody else is kind of bunched there

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Speaker 1: I'm almost certain Titans versus Cults neither which I think

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Speaker 1: Colts are half a game over five because they have

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Speaker 1: a tie, and you know the uh the Titans are

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Speaker 1: what four and two, three and two into okay, right

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Speaker 1: you know, but that's for a f C South supremacy.

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Speaker 1: Steelers are everybody as good as those teams. Yeah, you

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Speaker 1: know what I mean. So they're in it, yeah, you know,

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Speaker 1: so it'll be interesting. I thought we'd take a look here.

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Speaker 1: I noticed, um I was looking today. The Dolphins have

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Speaker 1: seven plays of forty or more yards that they've had

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Speaker 1: in the passing. Wattle and Tyreek have all of them. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Wattle actually ask four of them. Tyreek has three. Um. Now,

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Speaker 1: the Steelers had that issue in the Buffalo game. They

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Speaker 1: give up three such plays in that game. Last week

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Speaker 1: none last week none. They did a great job of

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Speaker 1: just keep everything in front of right. I mean, I

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Speaker 1: don't think they threw anything up Brady he's never seen before.

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Speaker 1: I just think they was an execution based defense, and

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Speaker 1: they executed the only thing that they could throw up

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Speaker 1: they rolled the cards out there with stone wheels like

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Speaker 1: something like that, and they like, I'm like ten years

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Speaker 1: too young for that. Tom just missed the creation of fire.

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Speaker 1: Uh looking here at the d v o A S.

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Speaker 1: We're now six weeks into this thing. Most teams have

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Speaker 1: played six games. Now you're now you're looking at more

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Speaker 1: what what the teams are. So right now they have

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Speaker 1: the Steelers, this would be football Outsiders are at twenty

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Speaker 1: three overall overall. I bet they were eight ish a

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Speaker 1: week ago. According to this, they should have to point

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Speaker 1: four Winsky. Guess who else should have two point four wins?

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Speaker 1: The Miami Dolphins. Yeah, I guess that's understandable. I mean

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Speaker 1: you play that Bills game. If people don't remember, the

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Speaker 1: Bills were falling left and right with the exhaustion. They

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Speaker 1: ran a hundred places should have won the game exactly.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I think any analyst, any stat person will

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Speaker 1: played a hundred times, Miami probably wins three of them.

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Speaker 1: That's how the world works. It's like the Avengers end

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Speaker 1: game here, there's one opportunity for us to come out

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Speaker 1: out Vikings Dolphins from last week, they should probably win

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Speaker 1: that game more than they lose it. But they're terrible

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Speaker 1: in the hidden yardage stuff. I mean, it's something I

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Speaker 1: I think after two games they were like plus three

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Speaker 1: in turnovers. Since then, it's been a disaster. Penalties are awful.

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Speaker 1: Special teams are awful, you know. Yeah, so if you

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Speaker 1: if you look at this, the Steelers offensively are twenty

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Speaker 1: Special teams are only twentieth. I'm kind of surprised by that.

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Speaker 1: I don't get what why they would be that they

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Speaker 1: haven't given up a big return. I mean, unlike the Dolphins.

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Speaker 1: Dolphins get up a big one of Baltimore. They've gotten

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Speaker 1: field goals, but the longer ones. Yeah, but I don't

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Speaker 1: I don't understand why they're twenty in the league. And

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Speaker 1: special teams. I think the coverage units have been pretty good.

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Speaker 1: if I understand that. The thing that really caught my here,

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Speaker 1: So the Steelers passed schedule m second hardest in the league. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: interesting there, mimis was really hard to uh. Yeah, their

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Speaker 1: first the future schedule they both played the Bills. Remember

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Speaker 1: that trend, Yes, that teams are bad past defenses and yeah,

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Speaker 1: schedule stuff. Yeah, they both played Bills. The future schedule,

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Speaker 1: the Steelers fall to thirteen. Now, I want to see

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Speaker 1: what this looks like two weeks from now after they've

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Speaker 1: played Philadelphia. That's a good one. There's a big hurdle

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Speaker 1: They just played Tampa Bay, Tampa base Tampa Bay six

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Speaker 1: Phillies too. Yeah, Tampa Bay was six. Um. New England

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Speaker 1: is twelfth. You've already played them, You've got them once

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Speaker 1: on the schedule both ways. Atlanta's thirteenth right now. I

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Speaker 1: Right now. Miami right now is sixteen. Then you look

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Speaker 1: at you know, some of these other teams that are

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Speaker 1: get Watson. So yeah, I mean, I don't know. They're

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Speaker 1: The Saints are six, they play at night, and they're

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Speaker 1: kind of in shambles. Uh, let's see Indianapolis Caroline is

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Speaker 1: thirty second. These are some of the teams that are

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Speaker 1: You know, you've got a lot of teams that are

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Speaker 1: sixteen and lower remaining on the schedule. I know this

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Speaker 1: But I wonder what the post bikes schedule is. That's

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Speaker 1: But that's those are the three tough games that you

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