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

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Speaker 1: Matt Williamson. And Matt we mentioned some of the injury

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Speaker 1: and other issues for the Steelers. Um, let's start with

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Speaker 1: outside linebacker. Obviously a lot of people focusing on the

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Speaker 1: Steelers trading Melvin Ingram a couple of weeks ago. Right,

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Speaker 1: I looked it up today in sixty snaps now for

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Speaker 1: He's played sixty snaps down two games for the Chiefs.

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Speaker 1: Melvin Ingram has two tackles. I said, he made one

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Speaker 1: kind of standout play last night. Someone went by him

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Speaker 1: And that's the only time I of him show up.

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Speaker 1: talk about it more. And he's a good player, but

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Speaker 1: I thought he was a lot more effective early in

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Speaker 1: Then as the season went on, the more he played

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Speaker 1: times you're the second guy to get there right your position,

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Speaker 1: That's why sacks aren't always a wonderful number. Side note

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Speaker 1: T J? He had uh sixty one coming into that game. Stay,

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Speaker 1: That's not exactly how I heard it. Whatever games he's

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Speaker 1: little like Highsmith to me, like, Okay, you're doing some

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Speaker 1: we're counting on you and Bush and like that age

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Speaker 1: you know. Yeah, So it's it's it's fascinating. Um you know,

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Speaker 1: the the a f C as a whole, it is fascinating.

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Speaker 1: in football? Um? Is, Raiders look really bad and they

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Speaker 1: and I think the Chief played good. Right, I mean

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Speaker 1: a month ago we're talking about are they Charges one

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Speaker 1: power rankings right now more with skyrocket them up there

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Speaker 1: and he keeps winning. What are the Broncos? What are

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Speaker 1: the what are the Browns? Right? What are the Colts?

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Speaker 1: What are the you know? Who's you know? A month

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Speaker 1: Bengals arrived? They were a top ten power rankings. They're

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Speaker 1: five and four. All their stock is down. Same with

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Speaker 1: the Ravens. Yeah, and Bengals. I didn't play this week.

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Speaker 1: Their stocks down, you know, the Charger stocks Actually the

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Speaker 1: stock might have gone up because they didn't play. To

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Speaker 1: sit back right, I mean, New England and Kansas City

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Speaker 1: guess it is still up. But the rest of the

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Speaker 1: the Steelers have a lot of them on the schedule.

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Speaker 1: It's interesting. We'll see. That's what they That's again, that's

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Speaker 1: why they play the game. It's gonna be a fascinating

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Speaker 1: second half. We're gonna take a break. He is Matt

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Speaker 1: Williams and I'm Dale Lawley. You're listening to the drive

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Speaker 1: here on Steelers Nation Radio. Um, when we come back,

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Speaker 1: to stop for the fantasy football focus. We'll do that

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