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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 Lolly here with

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Speaker 1: Matt Williamson and uh, well, Matt, how about it? Color

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Speaker 1: us a little stunned here as the Steelers go. Uh

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Speaker 1: Sunday host the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and we're not in

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Speaker 1: a half point favorites. That was the largest spread of

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Speaker 1: the season in which the underdog has won the NFL.

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Speaker 1: That so knocking them off and really led from the start,

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Speaker 1: led from the wire to wire. They were the better team.

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Speaker 1: It wasn't flukey. I mean, I thought it was a

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Speaker 1: pretty evenly played game, but they were the better team.

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Speaker 1: It was deserved. They made fewer mistakes. They were fundamentally sound,

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Speaker 1: um very impressive. I remember when we broke on our

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Speaker 1: last show Friday, a right before prediction times. It came

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Speaker 1: across my phone fryarmouth out make out And didn't even

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Speaker 1: know about the stats the corners and and deep down

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Speaker 1: I just thought they didn't get smoked again. You know

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Speaker 1: this is not gonna go well, this is gonna be

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Speaker 1: a Bills like game. And there's just too many non

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Speaker 1: you know, starters out there for you and to their credit,

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Speaker 1: you know, Cam Hayward and company stepped up and it

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Speaker 1: was very impressive. Yeah, you have to give Mike Tomlin

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Speaker 1: and his coaching staff a lot of credit for that one.

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Speaker 1: I know something there's there's a certain segment of fans

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Speaker 1: that won't do so, of course, but I mean that

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Speaker 1: was that was just a great job of coaching in

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Speaker 1: that game. The only thing I had a problem with

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Speaker 1: was the end of the first half. How they handled that.

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Speaker 1: I thought that was very poor, to be honest. On

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Speaker 1: the side of that, I mean that that was a

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Speaker 1: coaching clinic and knowing the cards in his hand and

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Speaker 1: Finnagel and things, you know, he didn't have much to

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Speaker 1: play with. Didn't have many aces, that's for sure, you know.

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Speaker 1: I mean, uh, the end of the first half, I

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Speaker 1: thought he handed the Bucks three point. Other than that,

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Speaker 1: I had no complaints at all, um, And I think

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Speaker 1: most of the great work was probably done where we

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Speaker 1: couldn't see it as the preparation. Yeah, in the week work.

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Speaker 1: In fact, Miles Jack said yesterday that after the game

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Speaker 1: that you know, when the when the Bucks were in

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Speaker 1: the red zone, Um, they had a pretty good beat

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Speaker 1: on what Tampa Bay was going to run because they

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Speaker 1: had done a lot of film study and the coaching

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Speaker 1: staff had pointed out, you know, the different plays that

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Speaker 1: they're there, go to stuff zone. Yeah, and I mean

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Speaker 1: this organization is familiar with left Witch and they played, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Brady's got a lot of stuff on Tapeo's obviously over

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Speaker 1: the years. You know, he's not mobile. I thought his

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Speaker 1: lack of mobility hurt him. Although when they got him

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Speaker 1: off his spot, he was the ball was going on everywhere. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it was going everywhere, right, I mean you could tell

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Speaker 1: he's not a shell of what he used to be.

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Speaker 1: But it's clearly in decline. Those were passes he used

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Speaker 1: to be able to still hit. You know, when you

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Speaker 1: made him step up in the pocket and get on

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Speaker 1: the move a little bit, he could still he could

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Speaker 1: still hurt you. I don't think he can anymore. I

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Speaker 1: don't know that he can't either. I'm not sure that

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Speaker 1: he's elevating everyone around him like you used to. But hey,

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Speaker 1: you beat Tom Brady and he's not. He's still no slouch.

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Speaker 1: I mean, there's no question about Yeah. I mean, you're

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Speaker 1: not gonna yea And they don't ask you at the

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Speaker 1: end of the year, Oh, hey, did you beat forty

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Speaker 1: five year old Tom Brady or did you beat thirty

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Speaker 1: five year old You beat Tom Brady and he still

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Speaker 1: made some plays, and you weren't going to trick them mentally,

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Speaker 1: and you know all those type of things. I haven't

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Speaker 1: watched the old twenty two, but my hunches there were

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Speaker 1: a lot of vanilla coverages because the new guys you

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Speaker 1: can't just say, hey, we're gonna run all kinds of exotics,

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Speaker 1: you know, right, Yeah, that's that's exactly what I talked

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Speaker 1: to did Josh Jackson after the game? Yeah, and he said, hey,

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Speaker 1: we you know, we ran exactly what we repped in

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Speaker 1: practice all week and we didn't run anything out of

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Speaker 1: than that, you know, so you probably weren't to be

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Speaker 1: confused them anyways. I mean, there might have been that

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Speaker 1: may work to their advantage. Keeping simple tackle, you know,

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Speaker 1: keep everything in front of you. They didn't let the

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Speaker 1: ball get behind them, you know. The long completion for

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Speaker 1: Brady was a yarnder down the seam to Godwin Um

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Speaker 1: that was on first for second and fifteen. I can't

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Speaker 1: remember now that there was a penalty and Gobwin hit

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Speaker 1: a you know a past or Brady hit a past

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Speaker 1: down the seam, You're like, oh, and then they tightened

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Speaker 1: the red zone, as you mentioned, um, I think he

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Speaker 1: was four or fourteen on third downs. Yeah, I thought

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Speaker 1: that was a big theme. I can't remember Toma mentioned

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Speaker 1: it or not in the press conference, but he often

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Speaker 1: brings up money down, situational football. This was definitely their

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Speaker 1: best game with all those types of and I thought

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Speaker 1: the key series in the game, the Patriots get first

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Speaker 1: and goal. I believe at the four. They get a

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Speaker 1: three yard run from four net on first down to

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Speaker 1: the one, and then Ogan job he blows up the

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Speaker 1: He just he just swam up, swam underny. I guess

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Speaker 1: the guard was pulling and they tried to they tried

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Speaker 1: said he just got got through that tackles four net

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Speaker 1: for a three yard loss. And then on the next play,

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Speaker 1: Heyward gets a sack and they got to kick a

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Speaker 1: field because they were kind of against the ropes there

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Speaker 1: for a minute. Yeah, that's when I thought, ah, this

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Speaker 1: has been a fun story. But I think Tommas Tommy

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Speaker 1: did hit Evans here and then he got trouble, you know,

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Speaker 1: and that's not what happened at all. I mean, they're

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Speaker 1: their red zone and third down stuff was absolutely huge,

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Speaker 1: and the analytics folks will tell you a lot of

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Speaker 1: that stuff does come back to the mean, you know,

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Speaker 1: like good offense is good defenses. Judging them on first

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Speaker 1: and ten is easier than third downs, the red zone

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Speaker 1: and the seater has been on the short end of

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Speaker 1: the stick of a little bit of that stuff. So

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Speaker 1: you mentioned off the air, you know, they were kind

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Speaker 1: of found a regress in a positive way with some bounces,

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Speaker 1: some of the stuff, some of this stuff that had

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Speaker 1: gone wrong. You know, for example, I brought up the

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Speaker 1: Chase Chase Claypool making a twenty six yard catch his

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Speaker 1: his elbow, his his one foot was done down his

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Speaker 1: elbow lands about two inches in bounds. Two inches out

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Speaker 1: of bounds. That's what That's what was happening in the

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Speaker 1: last four games. It was two inches. You know, they

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Speaker 1: throw that make that play and it was two inches

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Speaker 1: out of bounds, absolutely and really means something. The Devin

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Speaker 1: Bush pass breakup on the two point conversion, you know,

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Speaker 1: that was one that Okay, he's in position, but they

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Speaker 1: missed a play or Miles Jack, this great vertical just

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Speaker 1: I I mean it was just one of those games

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Speaker 1: there weren't a lot of you know, bounces that that

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Speaker 1: Steelers made the big plays that the way he plays

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Speaker 1: to your point that the you know, the say, the Patriots,

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Speaker 1: the Bucks just didn't make for whatever reason that those

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Speaker 1: third down conversions of Steelers, did you know they were

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Speaker 1: ridiculously good. Yeah, seven or fifteen on those Um, I

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Speaker 1: think I looked this up after you. I think four

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Speaker 1: of Claypool's catches were on fourth that are on third

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Speaker 1: downs that converted. That might be true. And he was

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Speaker 1: fighting for yards and and you know some of those

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Speaker 1: should have seen his performance coming at least a little

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Speaker 1: bit because their their nickel corner was out right bunting. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Sean Murphy Bunting. Um, you know, so they're in their

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Speaker 1: was a little afraid though. I'm like these linebackers in Windfield.

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Speaker 1: You know, the middle of the fields kind of a

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Speaker 1: no no flies zone. But Claypool kind of had a

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Speaker 1: it's a good way to use them. I mean he's

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Speaker 1: also good on the move too, but I've had more

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Speaker 1: of a tight end feel to him on a lot

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Speaker 1: of those routes which made sense without Friar. Yeah, absolutely

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Speaker 1: so Yeah, I mean the run after the catch or

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Speaker 1: breaking some tackles and making things happen like that and

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Speaker 1: getting a little more depth down the field. That's what

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Speaker 1: I say is is he's driving guys off the ball

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Speaker 1: sits it down, balls right there right. You know, that's

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Speaker 1: something to build on if you can do it against them.

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Speaker 1: He'll do it against anybody, right, So okay, so the

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Speaker 1: narrative is out there now, Matt. You mentioned Shrubisky coming

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Speaker 1: in and playing well very well. Yeah, very wesome. That's

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Speaker 1: kind of what we thought when when they when they

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Speaker 1: got him. Okay, this is this, this is some of

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Speaker 1: the things that he can do, you know, throw on

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Speaker 1: the move and you know, make some out. You know,

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Speaker 1: the twenty six yard pass was was not a scripted thing.

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Speaker 1: know a little bit of improv there. Um. So Kenny

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Speaker 1: Pickett is in concussion protocol, I've already seen things out there. Well,

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Speaker 1: if Kenny pickets cleared clear from concussion protocol, he needs

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Speaker 1: be cleared from concussion protocol. Even if he is cleared,

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Speaker 1: it won't be until Saturday. He's gonna he's gonna take

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Speaker 1: a limited amount of snaps. Well, Miami's the team to

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Speaker 1: look at here. Yeah, you know, like I found it

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Speaker 1: odd until I really dug into it. Why would they

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Speaker 1: name Skyler Thompson the starter on Tuesday or whatever it was,

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Speaker 1: and they weren't sure if those guys are gonna get

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Speaker 1: clear exactly because Bridgewater and two were both in protocol,

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Speaker 1: was not going to happen. They just happened to be

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Speaker 1: the Steelers upcoming opponent. But they've gone three games in

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Speaker 1: a row, losing their starting quarterback and have to go

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Speaker 1: to the number two. But I'm like, well, why wouldn't

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Speaker 1: it be Bridgewater over Thompson Because he's not gonna really

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Speaker 1: practice all weeks. So yeah, so you're not You're not

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Speaker 1: gonna take any reps. He's a veteran quarterback. Kenny Pickett

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Speaker 1: is not going to start next week's game. I don't

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Speaker 1: think so either, right, I think there's two questions here.

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Speaker 1: Who should start when Kenny's ready? I think that's clearly Kenny, right,

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Speaker 1: he's your guy, you right? But who's going to start

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Speaker 1: this upcoming week? I would bet my bottom dollars the

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Speaker 1: bigger question might be who's number two this week? This week? Okay,

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Speaker 1: you know, I see what I'm saying. I have thought

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Speaker 1: about this angles at all, But I don't think it's

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Speaker 1: Rudolph right, because again pick, it's not pick It's probably

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Speaker 1: even if again, if he's limited all week long and

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Speaker 1: then gets cleared. He hasn't done hardly. He's hardly Yeah,

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Speaker 1: he's hardly done anything. Yeah, so you go with you

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Speaker 1: go with your two healthy guys. And a lot of

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Speaker 1: of times. The schedule looks much lighter down this in

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Speaker 1: the second half. I understand, I get it. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I think they have a chance to win a division.

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Speaker 1: I can't believe I'm saying that. I didn't think that

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Speaker 1: win the division. Um, I don't know. I mean, I

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Speaker 1: just think I get your Duck Rudolph comparison. I get

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Speaker 1: these guys are duckings. Yeah, these guys aren't duck and

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Speaker 1: get that. I'm just looking at this as as a

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Speaker 1: pregnant pragmatists. Here. Um, again, if if the idea is

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Speaker 1: to win as many games as possible. And he's playing well,

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Speaker 1: you stick with him. I mean, if he plays like

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Speaker 1: he did yesterday, I think it's an argument. It's it's

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Speaker 1: I think it's if he plays like he did yesterday,

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Speaker 1: it's a no brainer. I just be shocked if he

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Speaker 1: plays that well. I mean that was a high level

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Speaker 1: of play. I mean, it was great to see that

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Speaker 1: he has it. But that's how he played the preseason

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Speaker 1: for I mean, maybe not to that level, but play. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: he played pretty well in the preseason. I mean he did,

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Speaker 1: he did, and he looked very good in camp as well. Um,

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Speaker 1: I hear you. I'd be shocked if Kenny's not the

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Speaker 1: starter when he's healthy. Okay in Philly, Alright, That's why.

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Speaker 1: That's why they play the games, That's why they make

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Speaker 1: that's why Mike tom paid the big bucks to make

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Speaker 1: those kind of decisions. Decision. It's not just to forget

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Speaker 1: about it. It's not no no, right, And I think

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Speaker 1: it's it's gonna be very interesting to see how how

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Speaker 1: Tomlin handles all that stuff and as a go forward here. Um,

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Speaker 1: but I certainly get the impression the team like Strabinsky

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Speaker 1: plays just as hard for him, Like that's a narrative

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Speaker 1: that doesn't exist. Is Kenny comes in and everybody's happy

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Speaker 1: now and they hate the nonsense like no, I mean

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