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Speaker 1: Black and Gold Steelers Nation Radio.

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Speaker 2: Welcome back.

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Speaker 3: I am Dale LOLLI he is the Matt Williamson and

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Speaker 3: this is our number two of the Drive here on

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Speaker 3: the Steelers Audio Network. And it's time for the Fantasy

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Speaker 3: Football Focus and Matt, we're gonna have to build our

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Speaker 3: the FS lineup tomorrow tomorrow.

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Speaker 2: Okay. I thought it was springing on me today.

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Speaker 3: I was like, we can do one tomorrow and we

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Speaker 3: can do one Friday. True, Okay, I mean be nice.

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Speaker 3: The way we're going, maybe we'll lose twice, we're gonna rebound.

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Speaker 3: It's coming. It's coming. We're gonna get We're gonna go

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Speaker 3: on a run here.

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Speaker 2: I like it.

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Speaker 3: Okay, let's take a look at this week's top waiver pickups.

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Speaker 3: At running back Tank Bigsby, somehome only rostered in forty

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Speaker 3: seven percent of leagues.

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Speaker 2: I kind of get it.

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Speaker 3: I heard them last week, and then yeah.

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Speaker 2: I considered cutting him at one point too, just because

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Speaker 2: at N actually did good stuff. Injuries have been a

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Speaker 2: bigs By issue, but more than that, it's mac Jones.

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Speaker 2: I don't think Lawrence is going to get back in.

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Speaker 2: I think I mean they're on a buy right now.

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Speaker 2: You know, like, how many more usable weeks of Bigsby

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Speaker 2: do you have? That's the problem. You know. I didn't

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Speaker 2: pull the trigger, but I thought about it.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, to be honest, I'm worried about the Giants running

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Speaker 3: back now, right since they made the quarterback change.

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Speaker 2: And that happens to these terrible teams that they cash

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Speaker 2: out and then you're left with a good fantasy player

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Speaker 2: that's not getting the most out of them.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, because I mean you're just going to load up

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Speaker 3: to stop him. And yeah, right there, Danny DeVito.

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Speaker 2: How many first downs are in the Giants future.

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Speaker 3: I'd rather have Danny de Vito at quarterback right now?

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Speaker 3: Is that just a I mean they all they did

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Speaker 3: was lock yeah the tank?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Yeah, that's a that's a tag. Yeah. Is Jones

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Speaker 2: getting shut that they've announced this? But you think he's

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Speaker 2: getting shut down like car and rusted? I mean, just

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Speaker 2: don't get hurt. I think so.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, because they actually kind to practice squad quarterback today,

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Speaker 3: so they may they ma end up just telling him

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Speaker 3: to stay away from the building. Yeah, he might not ever,

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Speaker 3: be William wants your practicing because we don't want you

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Speaker 3: to get hurt.

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Speaker 2: And locks the two and de Vido gives them the

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Speaker 2: best chance to get the first overall pick.

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Speaker 3: That's how it is, and it makes the Giants fans

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Speaker 3: happy because you know he grew up right down the

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Speaker 3: street from Giants Stadios. Yeah, good luck with that, have

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Speaker 3: fun with it.

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Speaker 2: Tommy Cutler's uh.

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Speaker 3: Gus Edwards twenty eight percent roster though he should be

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Speaker 3: every league.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean he's part of a time share in

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Speaker 2: a pretty good offense.

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Speaker 3: He got goal line touches, he got the whole deal

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Speaker 3: last week.

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Speaker 2: Now fire him up.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Dobbins is still the lead back, but Gus is

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Speaker 3: going to get ten carries a game.

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Speaker 2: They get the Ravens this week, which isn't great, but

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Speaker 2: they have a pretty easy schedule going forward too. Yeah yeah, yeah.

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Speaker 3: After this week, it's Atlanta and then Kansas City and

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Speaker 2: See I didn't know the run defenses. I just know

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Speaker 2: in general, their schedule's not very difficult.

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Speaker 3: Ty J Spears forty eight percent rostered.

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Speaker 2: I think he got hurt again though, Yeah, stuff to

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Speaker 2: trust and how good is that offense? I mean it's

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Speaker 2: not it's actually not horrible. I shouldn't be that hard

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Speaker 2: on Levis.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, he only got five touches last week for eight yards.

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Speaker 3: I know, I don't I don't love it.

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Speaker 2: I think he's closer to cuttable than he is running

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Speaker 3: Roshawn Johnson seven percent rostered got the end zone again

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Speaker 3: last week.

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Speaker 2: He's their big back now, Yeah, I mean I think

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Speaker 2: they at least we have clear roles. Swift is going

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Speaker 2: to be the league guy slash third down dude. Then

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Speaker 2: Roshawan who coaches a door is your grinder.

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Speaker 3: Now there are still some touchdown dependent leagues out there.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so for the rest of the way, Yeah, I would.

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Speaker 3: Think cam Akers seventeen percent rostered. Jones has not always

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Speaker 3: been mister reliable.

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Speaker 2: Right in this past week he wasn't either, And I

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Speaker 2: think there was another small injury or there was something

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Speaker 2: around Jones and I have him in both leagues that

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Speaker 2: prohibited him quite a bit.

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Speaker 3: They obviously like Acres they traded for him.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and he's clearly the two so he might cut

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Speaker 2: into Jones' workload.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, ty Chandler is probably cuttable at this point, Yes,

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Speaker 3: he is, he is. Yeah, uh, Jalen Wright six percent rostered.

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Speaker 2: He's both guys back up in most are turns. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: I usually lean towards young legs late in their rookie

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Speaker 2: year that haven't had anywhere and take like a Chan

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Speaker 2: he's tiny, he's little dud.

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Speaker 3: They don't just they just don't have a physical presence

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Speaker 3: at all on offense.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely not, absolutely, not that I might if I had

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Speaker 2: a roster spot floating around out there, I'd consider.

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Speaker 3: Imagine if they had Derrick Henry right or Tyler Yeah,

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Speaker 3: just you know a guy who is who can catch

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Speaker 3: the ball a little bit.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I mean they should that should have been

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Speaker 2: their draft pick, not.

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Speaker 3: Right, Yeah, counting on Raheem most thirty two old year

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Speaker 3: old Raheem Moster are to continue to be that.

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Speaker 2: He's not even a drag him, he's not a pow mover. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: but he's the best that they got. Yeah yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 2: a mere Abdullah with the Raiders, right, Yeah, yeah, I

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Speaker 2: guess I'd have a really hard time starting them.

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Speaker 3: Their problem is Denver this week, at Kansas City next

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Speaker 3: week and then Tampa Bay.

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Speaker 2: I don't know what this didn't pay much attention to

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Speaker 2: their backfield, and it's early in the week, but mostly

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Speaker 2: I have no interest in any of them.

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Speaker 3: No, I don't either. But if you're really hard up

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Speaker 3: for a bye.

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Speaker 2: Week, yeah, bye week's coming up, huge bye week week.

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Speaker 2: This week, Adula's going He'll get the ball.

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Speaker 3: He's going to get fifteen touches.

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Speaker 2: I'm shocked he's still in the league, and I get

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Speaker 2: I mean that in a good way, like he has

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Speaker 2: survived and reinvented himself and he's okay.

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Speaker 3: I mean, the other options are Dylan Lobb and Vellas Jones.

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Speaker 3: Melis Jones was a wide receiver when training camp started. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 3: So it's not a great situation. Adula's going to get

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Speaker 3: and he can catch. He's been on the block, and

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Speaker 3: I'm sure he's not great in protection, but he's been

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Speaker 3: in the league long enough to'd fine.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Quinton Johnston moving over to wide receivers still only rostered

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Speaker 3: in forty one percent of league's It seems.

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Speaker 2: Pretty clear that Mconkey's the one, Johnston's the two, and

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Speaker 2: he's a deep threat. He's a deep threat and they

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Speaker 2: scheme him up pretty well. And he's been a lot

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Speaker 2: better than he was in his rookie year. Will Disley,

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Speaker 2: I don't know if he's gonna be on there too.

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Speaker 2: It is all sort of relevant. Yeah, yeah, and Herbert's

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Speaker 2: on fire and their throat the ball more than we thought.

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Speaker 3: Johnston got eight targets last week. Now, he only had

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Speaker 3: two catches for forty eight yards, but he got eight

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Speaker 2: He scored touchdowns this year. Yeah, so you could do worse.

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Speaker 3: Speaking of which, Christian Watson forty four percent rostered. He's

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Speaker 2: Team I know, and I usually bite because he's kind

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Speaker 2: of tantalizing, and I don't believe in Romeo Dobbs, and

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Speaker 2: that's really soured on Wicks. I thought he's gonna be

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Speaker 2: more than he is. I'd have to study it, but

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Speaker 2: it feels like Watson and Reed are the top two

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Speaker 2: dudes crafted to use much, you know. I think Dobbs

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Speaker 2: is that's the thing. He's on the field all the time. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: I always sell him.

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Speaker 3: Short, But Watson had a twenty three point five percent

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Speaker 3: target share last week. They only threw the ball seventeen times.

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Speaker 2: I think he should be in leagues.

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Speaker 3: Every time that you pick him up and play him

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Speaker 3: though he gets hurt.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, like I did it in this in our league.

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Speaker 2: I'm like I had an extra quarterback or something picked

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Speaker 2: him up for two weeks, then it cut him now

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Speaker 2: never played him.

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Speaker 3: Elijah Moore eight percent rostered Deep leagues.

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Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, on the field a lot. He's the number three.

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Speaker 2: He gets targets.

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Speaker 3: He's got a twenty three percent target share with Jamis

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Speaker 2: They all do. They're all like right around the same

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Speaker 2: target share, all three of those guys. Yeah, so they

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Speaker 2: throw the ball a lot. They do throw the ball.

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Speaker 2: Jamis is a very friendly assist for goal type guy,

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Speaker 2: and he sets you up.

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Speaker 3: Jalen Coker coming off to buy five percent rostered. They've

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Speaker 3: got Kansas City this week, Tampa Bay next week, then

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Speaker 3: the Eagles. He might actually be good. I think he

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Speaker 3: might be usable against Kansas City and Tampa Bay. I

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Speaker 3: don't know if I want to start him against Philly.

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Speaker 2: It's a different conversation. But when a couple of weeks ago,

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Speaker 2: whenever he became a thing, I attacked him in my

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Speaker 2: dynasty leagues. Yeah, like those are a lot deeper, and

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Speaker 2: I've been trying to trade for him since I think

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Speaker 2: he's a long term starting quarter or wide receiver and

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Speaker 2: what in an offense that isn't horrible now? Yeah, so

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Speaker 2: what's that worth for this year? Who knows? But be

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Speaker 2: aware of the guy.

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Speaker 3: In the final and the game before there by last

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Speaker 3: week he had a thirty two percent target share, forty

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Speaker 3: nine point four percent air yard share.

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Speaker 2: He's part of the reason Deante's not there.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and a thirty six point four percent first read share.

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Speaker 3: No, they're steaming everything tim and looking to get the

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Speaker 3: football to him. They know who their receivers are in

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Speaker 3: the future. It's the get and it's him, and they're

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Speaker 3: trying to get them get some trying to build something here.

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Speaker 3: So he's an interesting profile because he's from a really

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Speaker 3: small school, Holy Cross. I don't think he went to

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Speaker 3: the combine and he didn't run well coming out.

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Speaker 2: But he's a slot. But he's a slot and he's big,

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Speaker 2: and he's physical and he'd like a forty two inch

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Speaker 2: vertical like he's a big explosive.

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Speaker 3: He's just not fast. Yeah, he's a good player. Who's

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Speaker 3: the who is the Saints?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he's like a Marquise Coulston.

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Speaker 3: Yeah guy, Yeah, that's what he that's what he is,

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Speaker 3: absolutely and those guys can be effective on the inside.

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Speaker 3: Again if they're a bigger body guy, because most of

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Speaker 2: Type, right right right, he muscles people up, he goes

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Speaker 2: up and gets it. I mean he doesn't play super slow.

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Speaker 2: He just didn't run well.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, uh, I can't go. Wandel Robinson is forty eight

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Speaker 3: percent rostered. That should be a bit about zero percent roster.

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Speaker 2: At this point. I would say so pure slot guy

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Speaker 3: Marquez Valdez Scantling now twenty five percent rostered.

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Speaker 2: I mean I would consider putting a claim in if

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Speaker 3: I think it's more of a DFS play, yeah, where

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Speaker 3: in there because they're cheap, right, and you might get

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Speaker 2: But if you're in a fab league and you got

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Speaker 2: to actually, like, how much do I put on on

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Speaker 2: a league like ours, where it's just a priority waiver thing, Okay,

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Speaker 2: you can put a claim in. If you get him, fine,

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Speaker 2: doesn't cost you much. If he got him the next week,

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Speaker 3: Xavier Laget twenty eight percent rostered coming out of his buy.

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Speaker 2: It's kind of the same same deal talent, and they're

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Speaker 3: Noah Brown ten percent rostered. We talked about him a

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Speaker 3: couple of weeks ago, and since then it's not been

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Speaker 3: quite as good. No.

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Speaker 2: I think he's there too. Their defensive or offenses sputtered.

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Speaker 2: It's been a while since we saw them. Yeah, I'm

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Speaker 2: sure you can do better, but he's okay. Uh.

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Speaker 3: Leading the quarterbacks, bo Next forty eight percent rostered. He's

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Speaker 3: been on fire. I think he's a quarterback one. He's

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Drake May fourteen percent roster. Think he's a borderline quarterback one.

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Speaker 3: They both run.

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Speaker 2: They run.

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Speaker 3: Anthony Richardson at this point is forty seven percent roster.

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Speaker 2: I know, I my other league, I have May and Tua,

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Speaker 2: and Saturday morning, I'm like, I have Juju still sitting

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna go pick up Richardson, who I cut four

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Speaker 3: Him over to or May and then you'll probably en

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Speaker 2: It, possibly possibly us scrambling there.

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Speaker 3: They played Detroit this week, then at New England and

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Speaker 2: The bye week, So okay, I don't know if i'd

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Speaker 2: start against the Lions.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Jamis Winston twelve percent rostered. Here's the here's the problem.

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Speaker 3: They're scheduled down. The stretches defenses that they played the

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Speaker 3: next three weeks is Pittsburgh at Denver at Pittsburgh.

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Speaker 2: I want to pull something up that I found.

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Speaker 3: He could get really ugly, really quick, Jamis.

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Speaker 2: But he is a fantasy friendly player. I mean that

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Speaker 2: is absolutely true. He doesn't run at all, which is bad. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: this is per EPA, but you know, any metric you want,

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Speaker 2: only the Eagles and Bears have faced an easier slate

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Speaker 2: But including this game against the Steelers, only three teams

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Speaker 2: it well, they've had it super easy. Now it's about

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Speaker 2: to get super hard. And I don't know that that

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, big picture, Yeah, they just don't block

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Speaker 3: real well and no.

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Speaker 2: And we know what he is.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, at tight end. Will Disley twenty three percent rostered.

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Speaker 2: Fine with it. I mean I think there's something to

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Speaker 2: be said for how often do we say teams tell

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Speaker 2: you what they think by where they spend their money,

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Speaker 2: and so Harbaught takes over. We have no cap space.

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Speaker 2: I gotta get rid of Mike Williams. Gott get rid

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Speaker 2: of Allan, can't go get anything. The only thing they've

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Speaker 2: bought on the open market was will Disley. They love them,

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Speaker 2: you know. Yeah, he's not a superstar, but you know what.

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Speaker 3: They asks what they got.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Hunter Henry forty five percent rostered.

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Speaker 2: I'd lived with him for a little while when things

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Speaker 2: are bad, and now I've been cutting them. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 2: he is what he is.

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Speaker 3: What he is forty He has at least forty one

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Speaker 3: receiving yards in four or five games.

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Speaker 2: I need to score.

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Speaker 3: That's what you're going for. You're going for the three

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Speaker 3: for forty train uh Jatavian Sanders two percent rostered, panthers

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Speaker 3: on him.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it's it's a youth movement. I mean,

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Speaker 2: I'm sure Brooks is going to get more Sanders, the

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Speaker 2: two receivers not. The Tuba isn't. But we need to

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Speaker 2: grow our skill guys behind a pretty good line with Young.

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Speaker 3: Since Week five, Sanders has averaged one point seventy six

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Speaker 2: And he's talented. I mean, like this time last year

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Speaker 2: people we talking about the first round pick. Yeah, I mean,

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Speaker 2: he's got some pedigree to him. Absolutely.

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Speaker 3: Looking at this week's schedule, obviously we know the Steelers are.

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Speaker 2: The buys again. And you remember you said there was

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Speaker 2: a punch but yeah, let me see here. They want

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Speaker 2: to hear somewhere. If not, that's what figured it out.

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Speaker 2: They're not on here. I don't see them unless.

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Speaker 3: Usually they have them on here, but I'm not seeing

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Speaker 3: them anywhere, all right, Oh no, they're They are Falcons, Bills, Bengals, Jaguars,

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Speaker 2: Six. I was thinking there was only four.

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Speaker 3: It's by him again this week and then week fourteen.

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Speaker 2: Which is playoffs. That's what the raven one.

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Speaker 3: Right, nobody on a buy next week because it's Thanksgiving.

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Speaker 2: Oh okay, that's not weird.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so Falcons weird as week eight Falcons, Bill's Bengals

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Speaker 3: Jaguar Saints not so much.

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Speaker 2: No true, but but six teams is painful this time

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Speaker 3: Absolutely a lot of Yeah, especially if you're in your

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Speaker 3: stretch run here and you're like trying to win.

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Speaker 2: I gotta win this week. Yeah, right right, I need

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Speaker 2: to should a plan for this. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Uh, Steelers are at the Browns. You're starting the Steeler defense.

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Speaker 3: I don't think I'm starting the brown I'm not starting

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Speaker 3: the Browns. Yeah, gladly fire up the Steelers.

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Speaker 2: Chiefs are at the Panthers. That's wonderful. Yes, you're starting

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Speaker 2: the Chiefs defense. But after they just lost, they're going

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Speaker 2: to be mad, you know. Vikings are at the Bears

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Speaker 2: both definitely Minnesota. Their secondary is starting to crumble a

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Speaker 3: It's been troublesome all year, but they dial up all

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Speaker 3: kinds of exotic blitzeres to try to cover up for it.

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Speaker 2: Bears would be a coin for for me. Yeah, it's

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Speaker 2: a good defense. Titans are at the Texans. I like

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Speaker 2: the way Houston plays on defense. They fly around. Maybe

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Speaker 2: Will and Anderson comes back, but no one, no one.

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Speaker 2: The Titans.

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Speaker 3: Lions are at the Colts.

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Speaker 3: Lions, you're gonna play them every week, although they just

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Speaker 3: lost Angeloni too, and the injuries are starting to pile

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Speaker 3: up for him a little bit. Patriots at the Dolphins,

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Speaker 3: start the Dolphins d I think so, I think so.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they get after the passer. Okay, it's not bad.

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Speaker 3: Buccaneers at the Giants where you have to start the

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Speaker 3: Buccaneers defense, right.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it hasn't been that great this year, but I

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Speaker 3: Cowboys are at the Commanders.

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Speaker 2: I guess Washington. Hmm, that's a tough start. I know,

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Speaker 2: I don't love their defense at all. I'm just thinking

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Speaker 2: hurt yeastly. It's troubling, and Lam got backed up late. Troubling. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I just wonder what Dallas is trotting out there this week.

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Speaker 3: It is a rivalry game, but Washington's coming up a

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Speaker 3: bye right, No, they played, they played Thursday nights. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: in a while, I guess you could start them, but

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Speaker 3: I don't love it. No, I mean I like the

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Speaker 3: match up. I don't know that I'm picking them up. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: but maybe in the FS of they're super cheap. There's

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Speaker 3: a lot of good defense, a lot good matchups we

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Speaker 3: have had hard time finding. Broncos are at the Raiders.

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Speaker 3: That's great, that's a great matchup.

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Speaker 2: Great.

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Speaker 3: No One No on the Raiders. Yeah, forty nine Ers

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Speaker 2: I'm leaning towards No. One. Both. I saw her. I

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Speaker 3: Or not, but yeah, Bosa's banged up. Parties banged up.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Deebo doesn't look the same. I mean, not only

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Speaker 3: Yeah, the Cardinals are at the Seahawks. No, and no,

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Speaker 3: and no, you don't like that.

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Speaker 2: I liked how Seattle's deplayed though this past week, but

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Speaker 2: Arizona's hard to play.

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Speaker 3: Eagles are at the Rams.

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Speaker 2: No One. No, I don't but not with a healthy

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Speaker 2: the Monday night game that's a Sunday night game, by

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Speaker 2: So the Ravens get the extra rest on this game,

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Speaker 3: Carbo Varus Harbaugh, I know that you know that. Oh yeah,

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Speaker 3: Mom liked you best.

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Speaker 2: And I mean the timing's bad to say this, but

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Speaker 2: I'm I've been on the defence or on the side

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Speaker 2: of you don't start any defenses against the Ravens, now,

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Speaker 2: do I change my tune after one game? And this

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Speaker 2: is a good defense. And Harbaugh knows Harbaugh and all

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Speaker 2: that they got a bunch of guys. What Jim Harbaugh

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Speaker 3: They're just yeah, here's what Lamar doesn't like to do.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and this guy was at Michigan with Jim. And

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Speaker 3: But if Rokwan Smith doesn't play, that's a good one.

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Speaker 3: I can't play the Ravens defense because I think the

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Speaker 3: Chargers will control the game.

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Speaker 2: I think Chargers might win.

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Speaker 3: I think the Chargers might win this outright, especially if

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Speaker 3: They're not putting him near the line of scrimmage, and

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Speaker 2: I'm sure the Chargers will run.

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Speaker 3: The Steelers ran for fifty yards against them in the

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so those other linebackers are not good. You're starting either.

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Speaker 3: That was O way And did you give up some

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Speaker 2: I mean, there are other they're they're better. Yeah, they're

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Speaker 2: better standalone. I'm not sure I'm cutting the Chargers though,

441
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Speaker 2: to go pick up a goofy one.

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Speaker 3: The Ravens haven't run the ball as well in the

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Speaker 3: last four weeks. They evers about one hundred and twenty

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Speaker 3: five yards per game in the last five.

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Speaker 2: Weeks, and Lamar hasn't been nearly his potent on I

446
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Speaker 2: doubt they get away from Henry again. Chargers from rush

447
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Speaker 2: to passer. Oh yeah, I don't know what to think.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I guess if I had either one, I'd

449
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Speaker 2: probably just stick with it and live with it, you know. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: I don't think it's going to be a shootout.

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Speaker 3: I don't know if if people have still have the

452
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Speaker 3: Ravens defense though in fantasy a lot of the other

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Speaker 3: Chargers for sure. Yeah, the Ravens have probably been droppable

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Speaker 3: from too many big plays allowed.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, I wouldn't run out to pick them up though, either.

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Speaker 3: But Steelers defense, Chiefs defense, Vikings defense, UH, Texans defense, Denver,

457
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Speaker 3: the Lions defense, Yeah, the Dolphins defense, they're all better matchups.

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Speaker 3: Buccaneers against the Giants. Yeah, and about five of those

459
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Speaker 3: who mentioned are slammed. I think I might rather start

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Speaker 3: to Commanders against the Cowboys.

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Speaker 2: Going back to that, I would just considering the state

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Speaker 2: of the Cowboys, especially if those linemen are really hurt.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, lots of good matchups this week that we can pick.

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Speaker 2: From, despite being six teams on by Yeah. Yeah, Steelers

465
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Speaker 2: are high in the list.

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Speaker 3: Steelers should be very high in the list. I mean,

467
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Speaker 3: forty six sacks the Browns have allowed, ugly, that's by

468
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Speaker 3: far the most in the league by far.

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Speaker 2: Four point six games come on, man, I.

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Speaker 3: Think in the TJ. Watt era when the Steelers have

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Speaker 3: faced a team that is last in sacks.

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Speaker 2: Allowed, yeah, there was some six and sent Today.

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Speaker 3: The Steelers are six and oh in those games and.

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Speaker 2: What has six sacks? Yeah, again not surprising, not surprising.

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Speaker 3: Right, you can try to stop him, but yeah, you're

476
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Speaker 3: probably not going to hold up the entire Gay.

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Speaker 2: I don't like the way they're built the stop sacks.

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Speaker 2: Going back to hour one of who's the chipper, who's

479
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Speaker 2: the six guy? Tackles are bad.

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Speaker 3: We want to run eleven personnel. Well, good luck with that. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: I mean that's what they do. That's their best guys,

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Speaker 3: and it's kind of worked compared to the rest of

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Speaker 3: their offense.

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Speaker 2: This year, not winning.

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Speaker 3: But anyways, that's going to do it for the fantasy

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Speaker 3: football focus. Matt and are going to get to a

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Speaker 3: break when we come back. It feels like later in

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Speaker 3: a week, but it is Tuesday. That's Power Ranking Day,

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Speaker 3: so we'll take a look at those when we come

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Speaker 3: back right after this.

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Speaker 2: At least.

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Speaker 1: He's the Drive with Dale Lolly and Matt Williamson on

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Speaker 1: your twenty four a Home of the Black and Gold

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Speaker 1: Steelers Nation.

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Speaker 3: Radio and we are back.

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Speaker 2: I'm Dale Lalli.

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Speaker 3: He is the Matt Williamson and this is the drive

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Speaker 3: on the Steelers Audio Network and Matt, it's time to

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Speaker 3: look at the power rankings. Should be some shakeups in

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Speaker 3: this one. This one, we would think there's no shake

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Speaker 3: up At number thirty two. Eric at Home on the

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Speaker 3: NFL dot Com, the Jacksonville.

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Speaker 2: Jaguars are at thirty two after they're fifty two to

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Speaker 2: six loss to the Detroit Lions.

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Speaker 3: I was memory, remember that was a thirteen point thirteen

506
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Speaker 3: and a half point spread with the largest of the years.

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Speaker 2: It still wasn't enough. It wasn't even close. I mean,

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Speaker 2: it wasn't competitive at any point.

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Speaker 3: The Lions have done that basically when they play a

510
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Speaker 3: bad team, they're to blow you out. They're going to

511
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Speaker 3: blow you out.

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Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, I mean that's just the mark of a

513
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Speaker 2: great team. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Well, and I think the Campbell's reasoning for that is, hey,

515
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Speaker 3: we're trying to build something here.

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Speaker 2: Oh absolutely, we don't want to win.

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Speaker 3: This in it because he's taken some criticism why you

518
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Speaker 3: still have starters in there late in the game and

519
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Speaker 3: things like that.

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Speaker 2: I mean, obviously, if golf would have got heard or

521
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Speaker 2: Satnay Soul was still in there late in that game. Like,

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Speaker 2: I don't think I would do that personally, I mean

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Speaker 2: I would.

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Speaker 3: I mean, you only have so many spots that you

525
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Speaker 3: can take out.

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Speaker 2: It's hard to You can't just put a whole new

527
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Speaker 2: offensive line.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, but yeah, they'll blow if they get

529
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Speaker 3: if they play a bad team. Just remember that down

530
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Speaker 3: the road here, if they're playing somebody bad, they're.

531
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Speaker 2: Gonna smack them. They don't hesitate. Yeah. Uh.

532
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Speaker 3: At thirty one the two and eight Raiders.

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Speaker 2: They're really terrible now, I mean quarterbacks a mess as,

534
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Speaker 2: very predictable, new offense coordinator, two or three good players. Yeah.

535
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Speaker 3: At thirty holding steady, the Tennessee Titans.

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Speaker 2: I always think they're a little bit better than the

537
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Speaker 2: garbage teams. I think that's a little harsh.

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Speaker 3: I think that is too. I would have them over

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Speaker 3: this next team. At twenty nine, the Giants, Yeah, I'd

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Speaker 3: have them over the Brown with the penguin at quarterback,

541
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Speaker 3: he's that should be his nickname. It should he should

542
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Speaker 3: be Tommy DeVito is the penguin because they love these

543
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Speaker 3: nicknames in New York.

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Speaker 2: He's not short on nicknames though.

545
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Speaker 3: No he's not because that's what they do in New York,

546
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Speaker 3: because everybody's gonna have a nick.

547
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Speaker 2: Danny Dimes is the worst onever.

548
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Speaker 3: I hate it, and I freaking hate it.

549
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Speaker 2: The uh as currently constructed with him as a quarterback.

550
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Speaker 2: They would get beat bad bite.

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Speaker 3: They're going to get crushed week after week. They're trying

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Speaker 3: to lose. Right, Well, Tennessee is behind them in the

553
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Speaker 3: power ranks. Tennessee is much better than them. Yeah, with

554
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Speaker 3: the Vitos a quarterback at twenty eight holding steady the

555
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Speaker 3: Carolina Panthers.

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Speaker 2: Two wins in a row, let's give him a little

557
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Speaker 2: bit of credit. I mean the defense doesn't have anything. No, No, are.

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Speaker 3: They better than the three and eight Patriots.

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Speaker 2: Haven't been mentioned yet? I mean I'm putting the Titans

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Speaker 2: over all these teams we mentioned. Yeah, yeah, I think

561
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Speaker 2: so too. Patriots at twenty seven. At least there's glimpses

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Speaker 2: from the quarterback. It's exciting.

563
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Speaker 3: But yeah, are the two and eight Browns real?

564
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Speaker 2: Quick? I just read this today. You probably did too,

565
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Speaker 2: because the Browns were second on the list. Patriots have

566
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Speaker 2: started eight different O line combinations. Yeah, and Browns are

567
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Speaker 2: at seven? Come on, Steelers are at five. I know,

568
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Speaker 2: I know.

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Speaker 3: One of the amazing things about this season for them

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Speaker 3: is they started five different because you see how the

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Speaker 3: how things are going for the other teams that have

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Speaker 3: started a lot of different line combination of Patriots, right, Yeah,

573
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Speaker 3: they're way down on the list here.

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Speaker 2: It's a really hard thing to overcome. And Steelers a

575
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Speaker 2: great o line injury luck before this year. Yeah, came

576
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Speaker 2: home to roost a little bit. The fact that the

577
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Speaker 2: Patriots and Browns are this high up is just a

578
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Speaker 2: reflection of how bad the league is right now, because

579
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Speaker 2: they're really bad teams.

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Speaker 3: Cleveland had four hundred and forty three yards of offense

581
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Speaker 3: and didn't turn the ball over against the Saints and

582
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Speaker 3: scored fourteen pins.

583
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Speaker 2: Still go be fourteen points? Yeah on four hundred and

584
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Speaker 2: forty three yards and no turnovers and they caused a

585
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Speaker 2: couple turnovers. Yeah, they forced two turnovers both from Taysoon

586
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Speaker 2: Hill and then they gave up three touchdowns to him.

587
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Speaker 2: That's horrible.

588
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Speaker 3: It's really hard.

589
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Speaker 2: You should average if you have four hundred and forty

590
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Speaker 2: you should average basically ten points for ever one.

591
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Speaker 3: Hundred yards that you gain.

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Speaker 2: That's kind of the ratio over the years, right, Yeah.

593
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Speaker 3: So you get four hundred and forty three yards, you

594
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Speaker 3: got to have about forty points with no turnovers unless

595
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Speaker 3: you turned the ball over like five times.

596
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Speaker 2: I mean it's different. You get down the goal line

597
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Speaker 2: and throw to their team or whatever. Right, Really it's

598
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Speaker 2: hard to do.

599
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Speaker 3: They missed every kicker in the AFC North last week

600
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Speaker 3: not named Chris Boswell missed two field goals. Yeah, that

601
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Speaker 3: adds up to Cleveland's kicker, Dustin Hopkins is fourteen to twenty.

602
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Speaker 3: I know, really bad, really bad.

603
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Speaker 2: I think the rest of their special teams is average ish,

604
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Speaker 2: but their kickers terrible, terrible.

605
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Speaker 3: At twenty five down a spot.

606
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Speaker 2: Dallas, Yes again, Cooper rush no one on the old line,

607
00:26:50,280 --> 00:26:54,720
Speaker 2: short on weapons. Parsons came back in the defense. The

608
00:26:54,760 --> 00:26:57,399
Speaker 2: defense played hard, they did. And I don't know how

609
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Speaker 2: much longer you're going to get that.

610
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Speaker 3: They made a game of it for about a half Yeah,

611
00:27:00,480 --> 00:27:03,520
Speaker 3: a little longer. And he's clearly a difference maker. Yeah,

612
00:27:03,560 --> 00:27:07,920
Speaker 3: you know, they're not very good. At twenty four up

613
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Speaker 3: a spot. The Jets, they.

614
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Speaker 2: Think are the Titans better than all these teams? Maybe?

615
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Speaker 2: I mean, and they were like thirty I feel like

616
00:27:18,200 --> 00:27:21,920
Speaker 2: I'm this like Titans supporter. But all these teams are horrible.

617
00:27:22,320 --> 00:27:25,280
Speaker 2: The Jets are really bad, awful. Yeah, they just fired

618
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Speaker 2: their GM today. I mean, like nobody left the fire

619
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Speaker 2: in the building except for Aaron Rodgers. Yeah, and this

620
00:27:30,960 --> 00:27:34,320
Speaker 2: is exactly my area of expertise. But I guess Woody Johnson,

621
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Speaker 2: their owner, has serious Trump ties and he may get

622
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Speaker 2: employed by him, and they don't know who's gonna run

623
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Speaker 2: the team. And what a disaster. Yeah, Like Sauce Gardener

624
00:27:43,160 --> 00:27:45,119
Speaker 2: is not playing well, Like you're doing something wrong with

625
00:27:45,160 --> 00:27:46,360
Speaker 2: saft Gardener's not playing well.

626
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Speaker 3: They scored a season high twenty seven points last week

627
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Speaker 3: and still lost. Yeah at twenty three holding steady.

628
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Speaker 2: Who does want that GM?

629
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Speaker 3: The Saints, Now, nobody's don't want that job.

630
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Speaker 2: Saints were way better than all these teams. Now they're

631
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Speaker 2: back to respectable. Like they're now in the average category.

632
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Speaker 3: At twenty two average, Yeah, twenty two down three spots.

633
00:28:08,600 --> 00:28:11,359
Speaker 2: The Bears, okay, showing signs of life.

634
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Speaker 3: These were the teams early in the season, the Jets,

635
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Speaker 3: the Saints, the Bears that a lot of people this

636
00:28:20,119 --> 00:28:22,000
Speaker 3: is their year. They're really on it this year. And

637
00:28:22,800 --> 00:28:25,360
Speaker 3: now when's the last time it was their year?

638
00:28:25,560 --> 00:28:28,439
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, it just hasn't been that case. At

639
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Speaker 2: least the Bears and the Saints are haven't made golf

640
00:28:32,080 --> 00:28:32,720
Speaker 2: plans yet.

641
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Speaker 3: At twenty one down three spots. The Bengals, Oh, they're

642
00:28:40,880 --> 00:28:42,880
Speaker 3: bad football team, Matt Oh.

643
00:28:42,760 --> 00:28:45,360
Speaker 2: I'm not saying, man, that would use word bad.

644
00:28:45,520 --> 00:28:47,840
Speaker 3: They're a bad football team. You're four and seven. You

645
00:28:47,880 --> 00:28:50,400
Speaker 3: are what your record says you are. The offensively, they're

646
00:28:50,440 --> 00:28:52,200
Speaker 3: a good football team right in.

647
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Speaker 2: Areas and they lose all their loss The offensive line

648
00:28:56,320 --> 00:28:58,160
Speaker 2: is not good, they can't run the football.

649
00:28:58,280 --> 00:29:02,040
Speaker 3: Absolutely, Burrows playing out of his mind. The defense is awful.

650
00:29:02,120 --> 00:29:03,320
Speaker 3: That's a bad football team.

651
00:29:03,600 --> 00:29:06,760
Speaker 2: I just think that's a little low. But let's hold

652
00:29:06,760 --> 00:29:09,240
Speaker 2: out reservation of who's above them. They would definitely be

653
00:29:09,320 --> 00:29:10,640
Speaker 2: ahead of everybody listed for me.

654
00:29:10,720 --> 00:29:12,240
Speaker 3: They're a dangerous football team.

655
00:29:12,280 --> 00:29:16,120
Speaker 2: No question, and they got a superstar quarterback. But losses

656
00:29:16,200 --> 00:29:19,160
Speaker 2: are not explainable. But they're all close.

657
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Speaker 3: To the players I think are getting very frustrated with

658
00:29:21,600 --> 00:29:25,280
Speaker 3: this all. I think Burrow and Chase they're ticking time bombs.

659
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Speaker 2: Absolutely, I think that's one hundred percent. Do you think

660
00:29:28,200 --> 00:29:31,520
Speaker 2: there's actually do you think they make changes? Yes? I

661
00:29:31,560 --> 00:29:32,560
Speaker 2: don't know who they are.

662
00:29:32,600 --> 00:29:34,520
Speaker 3: I don't know what his contract status is.

663
00:29:34,800 --> 00:29:37,080
Speaker 2: That's very important. They don't want pay two. They don't

664
00:29:37,120 --> 00:29:39,120
Speaker 2: pay two. They probably won't pay two.

665
00:29:39,280 --> 00:29:43,360
Speaker 3: Yeah, but there may be some coordinator changes. There may

666
00:29:43,400 --> 00:29:48,480
Speaker 3: be some was the hot name out there.

667
00:29:48,520 --> 00:29:50,840
Speaker 2: I'm not sure he might be a position coach next year. Yeah,

668
00:29:50,840 --> 00:29:52,480
Speaker 2: he might not be back. No, they're in a bad

669
00:29:52,480 --> 00:29:55,479
Speaker 2: spot considering they have an elite QUARTERBA because they fixed

670
00:29:55,520 --> 00:29:58,800
Speaker 2: nothing this season. No, and the old line investments aren't

671
00:29:58,800 --> 00:30:00,320
Speaker 2: paying on. Oh, they got so many thing is wrong

672
00:30:00,360 --> 00:30:04,160
Speaker 2: with them. Yeah, we don't disagree on them. It's they're

673
00:30:04,320 --> 00:30:06,160
Speaker 2: a dangerous football team. Yeah.

674
00:30:06,400 --> 00:30:12,720
Speaker 3: At twenty up two spots, the Colts. Okay, they're about

675
00:30:12,760 --> 00:30:13,920
Speaker 3: the most average team in the league.

676
00:30:14,200 --> 00:30:15,680
Speaker 2: Yeah.

677
00:30:16,080 --> 00:30:18,120
Speaker 3: At nineteen up two spots, the Rams.

678
00:30:18,360 --> 00:30:19,960
Speaker 2: I think I'd have the Colts ahead of the Bengals.

679
00:30:20,040 --> 00:30:22,080
Speaker 2: Maybe there's where they belong. Rams i'd have ahead of

680
00:30:22,080 --> 00:30:24,960
Speaker 2: the Bengals too. Yeah, Rams are playing better. I trust

681
00:30:25,000 --> 00:30:28,360
Speaker 2: them more, the better coached. At eighteen up two spots

682
00:30:28,560 --> 00:30:32,360
Speaker 2: the Dolphins, I'd have the Dolphins above the Bengals. Yeah,

683
00:30:32,360 --> 00:30:32,880
Speaker 2: I would too.

684
00:30:34,120 --> 00:30:36,600
Speaker 3: It's seventeen down three spots Atlanta.

685
00:30:37,960 --> 00:30:42,040
Speaker 2: I'm starting to lose a little luster there too, Like

686
00:30:42,120 --> 00:30:47,240
Speaker 2: the Bengals like Miami, they don't have any physicality. They

687
00:30:47,240 --> 00:30:50,080
Speaker 2: get pushed around a lot. Not a real tough minded

688
00:30:50,120 --> 00:30:54,440
Speaker 2: team or organization, and overall that starts showing up around Thanksgiving.

689
00:30:54,800 --> 00:30:56,960
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's still four to zero in our division.

690
00:30:57,600 --> 00:30:59,560
Speaker 2: Division. They're gonna win the division, yeah, yeah, but they

691
00:30:59,560 --> 00:31:03,160
Speaker 2: have to win certain way. Yeah. I don't love the

692
00:31:03,200 --> 00:31:03,840
Speaker 2: defense either.

693
00:31:04,520 --> 00:31:11,520
Speaker 3: At sixteen down three spots San Francisco, that's right.

694
00:31:11,880 --> 00:31:13,200
Speaker 2: I think they have some issues.

695
00:31:13,960 --> 00:31:16,160
Speaker 3: All the Kyle Shanahan love out there. What a great

696
00:31:16,160 --> 00:31:17,400
Speaker 3: coach he is, and I think he's a good for

697
00:31:17,600 --> 00:31:20,959
Speaker 3: I think he's a good offensive schemer. I think he's

698
00:31:21,000 --> 00:31:23,040
Speaker 3: a great offensive ski. Yes, I don't know that he's

699
00:31:23,040 --> 00:31:23,800
Speaker 3: a good head coach.

700
00:31:24,320 --> 00:31:27,360
Speaker 2: I think that's a good conversation. Like mcveigh's a great head. Yeah,

701
00:31:27,520 --> 00:31:30,600
Speaker 2: you know, and they always get lumped together. Yeah, I'd

702
00:31:30,640 --> 00:31:33,280
Speaker 2: always lean towards McVeigh. They might be the equal schemers.

703
00:31:33,760 --> 00:31:35,560
Speaker 2: Who do I want to run my organization? Who's in

704
00:31:35,640 --> 00:31:36,720
Speaker 2: charge of my billion dollars?

705
00:31:36,840 --> 00:31:40,840
Speaker 3: Because he has years like this? Yeah, and when they're good,

706
00:31:40,880 --> 00:31:44,400
Speaker 3: they're really good. When they're bad, people don't.

707
00:31:44,240 --> 00:31:47,160
Speaker 2: Talk about Super Bowl hangovers anymore for the losing team.

708
00:31:47,560 --> 00:31:51,440
Speaker 2: But it's a grind man. All those guys wanted contracts.

709
00:31:51,480 --> 00:31:56,600
Speaker 2: They played extra football last year, you know, injuries weren't

710
00:31:56,680 --> 00:31:58,600
Speaker 2: kind to them this year. Yeah, Like they get a

711
00:31:58,600 --> 00:32:00,479
Speaker 2: couple of things that are really hurting them. That are

712
00:32:00,560 --> 00:32:04,280
Speaker 2: unusual for them, is they can't put teams away because

713
00:32:04,560 --> 00:32:07,360
Speaker 2: now with the lead, they have one pass rusher, he's

714
00:32:07,360 --> 00:32:11,560
Speaker 2: got a bad hip. They need hard Grave, they need Armstead,

715
00:32:11,600 --> 00:32:14,080
Speaker 2: they need Buckner, they need they used to have eight

716
00:32:14,120 --> 00:32:16,880
Speaker 2: pass rushers like Steeler like these.

717
00:32:16,960 --> 00:32:19,480
Speaker 3: This is what happens when you're good, though, Yeah, get

718
00:32:19,520 --> 00:32:22,000
Speaker 3: those premium. Those guys are all the guys you're talking about.

719
00:32:22,040 --> 00:32:25,120
Speaker 3: There were either big free agent acquisitions or first round pick.

720
00:32:25,320 --> 00:32:27,440
Speaker 2: First round pick. I mean, it wasn't hard to draft

721
00:32:27,520 --> 00:32:29,760
Speaker 2: Nick Boso, Yeah, you know, I mean it's not hard

722
00:32:29,800 --> 00:32:33,880
Speaker 2: to draft power right exactly. And then all of a sudden,

723
00:32:33,880 --> 00:32:39,560
Speaker 2: their offense like lacks explosion, Debo looks slow. Who's the

724
00:32:39,600 --> 00:32:43,160
Speaker 2: game changer? And I heard a good description of Party too,

725
00:32:43,200 --> 00:32:46,640
Speaker 2: like he's really really good, but he doesn't have a superpower,

726
00:32:47,160 --> 00:32:50,480
Speaker 2: you know, like when the going gets tough, he can't

727
00:32:50,520 --> 00:32:52,480
Speaker 2: attack the entire seis kind of Batman.

728
00:32:53,640 --> 00:32:58,240
Speaker 3: Yeah, Batman doesn't have any superpower, right, Batman's all gadgety exactly. Yeah,

729
00:32:58,280 --> 00:33:01,840
Speaker 3: it's all look at these If Batman doesn't have his toys,

730
00:33:01,960 --> 00:33:02,560
Speaker 3: what's Batman?

731
00:33:02,800 --> 00:33:04,960
Speaker 2: Right? Right? Yeah? Rich?

732
00:33:07,240 --> 00:33:09,440
Speaker 3: What was the line of rich, what are you? I'm

733
00:33:09,760 --> 00:33:13,000
Speaker 3: a rich h That was actually Tony Stark line.

734
00:33:13,120 --> 00:33:14,120
Speaker 2: Oh okay, yeah, what are.

735
00:33:14,000 --> 00:33:17,760
Speaker 3: You without the suit? And he said I'm a billionaire billionaire?

736
00:33:18,000 --> 00:33:21,040
Speaker 2: Boy? Yeah, phlamport rant whatever. The worst things will be

737
00:33:21,040 --> 00:33:22,800
Speaker 2: out there? Yeah. Uh.

738
00:33:23,400 --> 00:33:25,920
Speaker 3: Fifteen up, two spots, Seattle.

739
00:33:27,320 --> 00:33:29,320
Speaker 2: Yeah. I thought they were about to get buried and

740
00:33:29,360 --> 00:33:31,240
Speaker 2: the Niners were going to take over, and I think

741
00:33:31,240 --> 00:33:33,360
Speaker 2: they're going the opposite directions. Yeah.

742
00:33:33,360 --> 00:33:37,760
Speaker 3: It's interesting that they get rid of Terrell Dotson on

743
00:33:37,800 --> 00:33:41,040
Speaker 3: their own and then Connor Williams, their center, retires and

744
00:33:41,080 --> 00:33:43,200
Speaker 3: they still win a game again, they still beat Yeah,

745
00:33:43,320 --> 00:33:48,680
Speaker 3: it's promising. At fourteen up, two spots, Tampa Bay.

746
00:33:50,120 --> 00:33:52,520
Speaker 2: Oh, I'd probably have him behind those last two teams.

747
00:33:52,600 --> 00:33:55,800
Speaker 3: Yeah, I can't do that. Although their next two games

748
00:33:55,840 --> 00:33:57,200
Speaker 3: are against Dallas and Carolina.

749
00:33:58,080 --> 00:34:01,000
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean they're gonna be probably end up in

750
00:34:01,000 --> 00:34:03,719
Speaker 2: this neighborhood the next two weeks. Yeah, I mean are

751
00:34:03,720 --> 00:34:04,959
Speaker 2: they going to bring it? Raise them up? Though?

752
00:34:05,000 --> 00:34:06,360
Speaker 3: When they beat those two bad teams.

753
00:34:07,240 --> 00:34:09,320
Speaker 2: I wouldn't I wouldn't raise them up for being on

754
00:34:09,360 --> 00:34:11,960
Speaker 2: a buy over Seattle or San Francisco. Yeah.

755
00:34:12,840 --> 00:34:15,759
Speaker 3: At thirteen up two spots Denver.

756
00:34:17,360 --> 00:34:20,560
Speaker 2: I would have them head everybody enlisted. They're tough. I mean,

757
00:34:20,560 --> 00:34:23,719
Speaker 2: they're physical. They they're good, good at the line of scrimmage,

758
00:34:24,480 --> 00:34:28,000
Speaker 2: quarterbacks getting better. I think they're going to the playoffs. At

759
00:34:28,040 --> 00:34:36,600
Speaker 2: twelve down a spot Arizona, Arizona or Denver. They couldn't

760
00:34:36,600 --> 00:34:39,400
Speaker 2: be more different. They couldn't be more Cardinals. The Cardinals

761
00:34:39,400 --> 00:34:41,760
Speaker 2: are playing better football. Their offense is good.

762
00:34:42,080 --> 00:34:45,440
Speaker 3: Yeah, and they make They're not easy to play against.

763
00:34:45,480 --> 00:34:46,840
Speaker 2: Oh, they're really well coached.

764
00:34:46,920 --> 00:34:49,120
Speaker 3: Yeah.

765
00:34:49,600 --> 00:34:51,920
Speaker 2: At eleven up a spot. This is why the Cardinals

766
00:34:52,000 --> 00:34:56,839
Speaker 2: moved down the Texans. Yeah, I'm believing that they're back

767
00:34:56,880 --> 00:34:59,520
Speaker 2: to being a contender. Maybe not Super Bowl contender, but

768
00:35:00,760 --> 00:35:03,360
Speaker 2: I like where they're at. Nico coming back goes a

769
00:35:03,360 --> 00:35:03,719
Speaker 2: long way.

770
00:35:03,800 --> 00:35:05,840
Speaker 3: I don't know if I can say that one victory

771
00:35:05,840 --> 00:35:07,840
Speaker 3: over a really.

772
00:35:07,680 --> 00:35:09,360
Speaker 2: I like their I like the health thing, though, is

773
00:35:09,400 --> 00:35:12,360
Speaker 2: trending that they're doing. They're dieting more healthy, give you that. Yeah,

774
00:35:12,719 --> 00:35:14,960
Speaker 2: but the offensive line is still a problem. It's a

775
00:35:14,960 --> 00:35:16,760
Speaker 2: problem still with the penalties.

776
00:35:16,840 --> 00:35:18,960
Speaker 3: The left side of that line is bad. It is,

777
00:35:19,200 --> 00:35:22,960
Speaker 3: and you're paying the left tackle a lot of money.

778
00:35:22,960 --> 00:35:25,279
Speaker 2: I hope for his sake. It's injuries and it's not

779
00:35:25,440 --> 00:35:25,879
Speaker 2: over for.

780
00:35:27,400 --> 00:35:30,440
Speaker 3: At ten down two spots, Washington, Yeah.

781
00:35:30,239 --> 00:35:33,600
Speaker 2: They're treading the wrong way. They're not a big boy. No.

782
00:35:33,960 --> 00:35:35,279
Speaker 2: I would probably pick Houston over it.

783
00:35:35,560 --> 00:35:39,000
Speaker 3: Honestly. They're kind of two fluky wins away from being

784
00:35:40,600 --> 00:35:43,920
Speaker 3: five and six Hail Mary in a game against the

785
00:35:43,960 --> 00:35:47,799
Speaker 3: Giants that they had another kicker. It's still a good story.

786
00:35:47,800 --> 00:35:49,560
Speaker 3: It's still those games.

787
00:35:49,640 --> 00:35:53,879
Speaker 2: But it's still a promising year a little bit. Yeah, yeah, yeah,

788
00:35:53,880 --> 00:35:56,080
Speaker 2: when they were five in the league. We'll see how

789
00:35:56,120 --> 00:35:56,719
Speaker 2: they come back.

790
00:35:58,160 --> 00:36:00,560
Speaker 3: At nine up a spot, the Charger.

791
00:36:01,200 --> 00:36:02,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm there with that.

792
00:36:04,880 --> 00:36:10,839
Speaker 3: At eight up a spot, Green Bay, fine. I don't

793
00:36:10,880 --> 00:36:14,439
Speaker 3: know if they're the Juggernaut. No, I think they're good,

794
00:36:14,520 --> 00:36:14,919
Speaker 3: not great.

795
00:36:15,120 --> 00:36:18,239
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is where they'll be this year, but I'm

796
00:36:18,280 --> 00:36:19,520
Speaker 2: not sure any of the teams below them.

797
00:36:19,440 --> 00:36:21,080
Speaker 3: Or I don't know that. I don't know that they're

798
00:36:21,080 --> 00:36:22,719
Speaker 3: a Super Bowl contender this year.

799
00:36:24,160 --> 00:36:25,239
Speaker 2: I lean that way as well.

800
00:36:25,920 --> 00:36:29,560
Speaker 3: I think the quarterback's still throwing way too many interceptions and.

801
00:36:29,520 --> 00:36:32,840
Speaker 2: Who's the stars. Yeah, I mean it's it's a collection

802
00:36:32,960 --> 00:36:34,840
Speaker 2: of good it's not a who's great.

803
00:36:35,920 --> 00:36:39,560
Speaker 3: At seven, down three spots the Ravens.

804
00:36:39,840 --> 00:36:41,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm glad that the Steelers are head of the Ravens,

805
00:36:41,960 --> 00:36:43,960
Speaker 2: and I actually thought about that driving here today. I'm like,

806
00:36:44,000 --> 00:36:47,440
Speaker 2: I would have Pittsburgh ahead of Baltimore. I have to. Yeah,

807
00:36:47,719 --> 00:36:48,879
Speaker 2: they have some chinks.

808
00:36:49,160 --> 00:36:51,399
Speaker 3: At six, up a spot. They only moved up one

809
00:36:51,400 --> 00:36:52,880
Speaker 3: spot the Steelers.

810
00:36:54,200 --> 00:36:55,879
Speaker 2: I guess we could pretty much know who the top

811
00:36:55,920 --> 00:36:57,959
Speaker 2: five is. But I don't have a problem with six.

812
00:36:59,520 --> 00:37:01,200
Speaker 2: I think just Deelers are a better team. I think

813
00:37:01,200 --> 00:37:03,279
Speaker 2: they're better than the Vikings. That's who's at number five. Yeah,

814
00:37:03,280 --> 00:37:03,920
Speaker 2: they're still out there.

815
00:37:03,920 --> 00:37:06,120
Speaker 3: I think the Vikings are kind of getting by on.

816
00:37:06,239 --> 00:37:08,319
Speaker 3: They look like they're running on fumes right now.

817
00:37:08,400 --> 00:37:11,040
Speaker 2: Out of the Vikings, behind the Packers, the Ravens and

818
00:37:11,120 --> 00:37:11,680
Speaker 2: the Steelers.

819
00:37:11,760 --> 00:37:14,279
Speaker 3: Yeah, I know they're eight and two, but the last

820
00:37:14,280 --> 00:37:15,080
Speaker 3: two weeks have not.

821
00:37:15,080 --> 00:37:18,440
Speaker 2: Been No, I don't trust them. I don't trust the quarterback.

822
00:37:18,440 --> 00:37:23,320
Speaker 2: I don't trust the cornerbacks. Yeah, the defense lines. Yeah,

823
00:37:24,160 --> 00:37:26,680
Speaker 2: at four, I feel like they're hanging on a by thread.

824
00:37:27,120 --> 00:37:30,400
Speaker 2: Four up a spot is Philadelphia agreed? They would be

825
00:37:30,440 --> 00:37:34,080
Speaker 2: my four. I think the top four are pretty easy

826
00:37:34,120 --> 00:37:34,439
Speaker 2: to put.

827
00:37:34,440 --> 00:37:39,200
Speaker 3: Their three down a spot Kansas City, Yeah, yeah, I

828
00:37:39,200 --> 00:37:42,400
Speaker 3: think you have a Buffalo ahead of them. Two is Buffalo,

829
00:37:42,719 --> 00:37:46,000
Speaker 3: one is Detroit. Yeah, I have the Steelers five. I

830
00:37:46,040 --> 00:37:47,279
Speaker 3: would have the Steelers five too.

831
00:37:47,400 --> 00:37:49,719
Speaker 2: Yeah, I got no problem with that. I think the

832
00:37:49,760 --> 00:37:53,319
Speaker 2: four ahead of them are deservedly so I'm not sure

833
00:37:53,320 --> 00:37:56,120
Speaker 2: if Philly is a big time contender or not. Yeah,

834
00:37:56,840 --> 00:37:57,440
Speaker 2: we'll see.

835
00:37:58,719 --> 00:38:01,440
Speaker 3: Let's continue this kind of tire in the next segment.

836
00:38:01,600 --> 00:38:04,719
Speaker 3: He is Matt Williamson. I'm Dale Lollie. That was Eric

837
00:38:04,880 --> 00:38:06,880
Speaker 3: ed Holmes Power Rankings.

838
00:38:06,480 --> 00:38:07,120
Speaker 2: For this week.

839
00:38:07,560 --> 00:38:11,640
Speaker 3: There was an analytics guy that posted something on Twitter

840
00:38:11,680 --> 00:38:13,360
Speaker 3: this week. I guess he has his own website and

841
00:38:13,400 --> 00:38:16,280
Speaker 3: it's getting Steeler fans very fired up. We'll talk about

842
00:38:16,280 --> 00:38:18,319
Speaker 3: that next on the Drive.

843
00:38:23,239 --> 00:38:25,880
Speaker 1: And at least he's the Drive with Dale Lolly and

844
00:38:25,960 --> 00:38:28,960
Speaker 1: Matt Williamson on your twenty four to seven Home of

845
00:38:29,000 --> 00:38:39,160
Speaker 1: the Black and Gold Steelers Nation Radio.

846
00:38:41,040 --> 00:38:41,640
Speaker 2: Welcome back.

847
00:38:41,719 --> 00:38:44,760
Speaker 3: I am Dale Lolli and he is the Matt Williamson.

848
00:38:44,800 --> 00:38:49,080
Speaker 3: We're just talking about our inadequacies as well. Anything with shovels.

849
00:38:48,719 --> 00:38:51,919
Speaker 2: Or any kind of bill drive insdruction. I just don't

850
00:38:51,920 --> 00:38:55,239
Speaker 2: see it or anything musical is I am horrific at.

851
00:38:56,200 --> 00:38:58,160
Speaker 2: I have a little musical talent, but that's yeah. I

852
00:38:58,160 --> 00:39:01,360
Speaker 2: know you're here nor there for like listening to Zeppelin,

853
00:39:01,440 --> 00:39:03,960
Speaker 2: guns and Roses. That's about it that I can do.

854
00:39:05,080 --> 00:39:10,480
Speaker 3: I actually got accused my complete aside here of doctoring

855
00:39:10,520 --> 00:39:14,319
Speaker 3: my son's baseball bat one time in baseball because the

856
00:39:14,360 --> 00:39:16,640
Speaker 3: bat came and had these little things on and the

857
00:39:16,719 --> 00:39:19,440
Speaker 3: end of it, and nobody else had the bat I saw.

858
00:39:19,560 --> 00:39:21,560
Speaker 3: I had seen the bat at the Little League World

859
00:39:21,560 --> 00:39:25,640
Speaker 3: Series and everybody's aluminum. People are hitting dingers with it

860
00:39:26,080 --> 00:39:28,120
Speaker 3: at the Little League World Series. I'm like, I'm going

861
00:39:28,160 --> 00:39:29,439
Speaker 3: to try that out for my son.

862
00:39:30,040 --> 00:39:32,279
Speaker 2: We got it. He hit the ball well with it.

863
00:39:32,960 --> 00:39:33,759
Speaker 2: But he was a good player.

864
00:39:33,880 --> 00:39:34,480
Speaker 3: He was a good player.

865
00:39:34,560 --> 00:39:36,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

866
00:39:37,040 --> 00:39:40,280
Speaker 3: And then somebody questioned the bat, and the league president

867
00:39:40,320 --> 00:39:42,279
Speaker 3: came out and had these things on me and he says,

868
00:39:42,360 --> 00:39:45,000
Speaker 3: this Batson doctored. I looked at him. I said, if

869
00:39:45,040 --> 00:39:50,120
Speaker 3: you knew how little, how bad, I said, you can

870
00:39:50,160 --> 00:39:52,319
Speaker 3: come over to my garage and you tell me how

871
00:39:52,360 --> 00:39:54,760
Speaker 3: I doctored this bat. Because I have like five tools,

872
00:39:55,760 --> 00:39:57,520
Speaker 3: like I wouldn't even know how to begin the doctor

873
00:39:57,520 --> 00:39:57,879
Speaker 3: of bat.

874
00:39:58,080 --> 00:40:01,480
Speaker 2: And my father in law has passed away. Is the

875
00:40:01,560 --> 00:40:03,680
Speaker 2: total opposite. I mean that that side of the family

876
00:40:03,760 --> 00:40:06,080
Speaker 2: is wonderful at it, Like when I asked my wife's

877
00:40:06,120 --> 00:40:07,959
Speaker 2: hand in marriage, Like after I teach you to weld,

878
00:40:07,960 --> 00:40:12,359
Speaker 2: I'm like, that ain't happened it. Yeah, he has anything

879
00:40:12,400 --> 00:40:14,359
Speaker 2: about football, and you know it. It was fine. We got

880
00:40:14,360 --> 00:40:14,839
Speaker 2: along great.

881
00:40:14,880 --> 00:40:17,600
Speaker 3: But yeah, this leads me into analytics.

882
00:40:18,080 --> 00:40:20,000
Speaker 2: How do you cork a bat?

883
00:40:20,440 --> 00:40:22,160
Speaker 3: I wasn't with the wooden bet.

884
00:40:22,200 --> 00:40:24,680
Speaker 2: I guess you drilled cork in the middle to make

885
00:40:24,680 --> 00:40:27,400
Speaker 2: it lighter, more balls or whatever, and then you'd But

886
00:40:27,840 --> 00:40:30,040
Speaker 2: all you're doing is making the bat lighter. I thought

887
00:40:30,080 --> 00:40:31,759
Speaker 2: it gave it a little more spring or something too.

888
00:40:31,880 --> 00:40:34,640
Speaker 3: Well, you're but it's making the beat lighter. Seeking because

889
00:40:34,760 --> 00:40:37,960
Speaker 3: wooden bats are drop threes usually, or the weight is

890
00:40:38,400 --> 00:40:40,640
Speaker 3: so if it's a thirty two inch bat, it's twenty

891
00:40:40,719 --> 00:40:41,240
Speaker 3: nine ounce.

892
00:40:41,480 --> 00:40:43,879
Speaker 2: I was all proud of myself that I know that much.

893
00:40:43,920 --> 00:40:46,000
Speaker 2: But I put water in my whiffleball bat and sealed

894
00:40:46,000 --> 00:40:49,040
Speaker 2: the bottom. So you did doctor, I did doctor, because

895
00:40:49,040 --> 00:40:50,719
Speaker 2: it sits here and then when you swing, it goes

896
00:40:50,719 --> 00:40:51,200
Speaker 2: to the top.

897
00:40:51,360 --> 00:40:56,520
Speaker 3: Yeah boom. Yeah, So analytics. A guy named Kevin Cole

898
00:40:56,880 --> 00:41:00,480
Speaker 3: who in his bio. I know that name said he.

899
00:41:00,520 --> 00:41:04,800
Speaker 2: Used to be previously a data scientist at PFF. Okay,

900
00:41:05,160 --> 00:41:07,279
Speaker 2: stats are numbers, numbers are nerds. This is what he

901
00:41:07,280 --> 00:41:10,000
Speaker 2: says in his bios. Stats are numbers, Numbers are nerds.

902
00:41:10,120 --> 00:41:14,040
Speaker 2: Nerds are losers. Therefore stats are losers. Then he puts

903
00:41:14,080 --> 00:41:17,440
Speaker 2: out a stat that says the Steelers are on a

904
00:41:17,560 --> 00:41:20,799
Speaker 2: run of luckier results since Russell Wilson took over as

905
00:41:20,800 --> 00:41:23,440
Speaker 2: a starter. Three of the four wins were losses if

906
00:41:23,480 --> 00:41:27,239
Speaker 2: you go by my adjusted scores. Okay, but taking this

907
00:41:27,400 --> 00:41:30,920
Speaker 2: a little far now, I mean there's times that you

908
00:41:31,000 --> 00:41:33,600
Speaker 2: win games you shouldn't, or you get a bounce or

909
00:41:33,640 --> 00:41:36,839
Speaker 2: something like that. But for the most part, to quote

910
00:41:36,880 --> 00:41:39,120
Speaker 2: you a little bit ago into quote partselves, you kind

911
00:41:39,120 --> 00:41:41,680
Speaker 2: of are what your record is. You know, I think

912
00:41:41,680 --> 00:41:46,560
Speaker 2: there is lucky stretches and unlucky stretches. But I have

913
00:41:46,600 --> 00:41:49,680
Speaker 2: a hard time with that phrasing. Yes, you know, like this.

914
00:41:49,520 --> 00:41:53,480
Speaker 3: Is where the analytics people get themselves into trouble.

915
00:41:53,680 --> 00:41:57,080
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I mean, are there stronger eight and twos

916
00:41:57,560 --> 00:42:01,080
Speaker 2: versus other eight and twos? Absolutely who you played and

917
00:42:01,080 --> 00:42:03,960
Speaker 2: how it went and the Giants didn't have a kicker,

918
00:42:04,040 --> 00:42:05,920
Speaker 2: you know, what I mean things like that, no question.

919
00:42:06,520 --> 00:42:08,839
Speaker 3: So his the three games that he's talking about are

920
00:42:08,880 --> 00:42:11,800
Speaker 3: against the Ravens. He said the Steelers should have lost

921
00:42:11,800 --> 00:42:15,520
Speaker 3: that game twenty one to seventeen. How he comes to that,

922
00:42:15,600 --> 00:42:17,839
Speaker 3: I have no idea. He has some different numbers there,

923
00:42:17,840 --> 00:42:19,920
Speaker 3: and that's all well and good. They won the game

924
00:42:19,960 --> 00:42:20,800
Speaker 3: eighteen sixteen.

925
00:42:20,920 --> 00:42:23,920
Speaker 2: See. I wonder when people do these things like, well,

926
00:42:23,920 --> 00:42:26,320
Speaker 2: he should have caught that interception. Yeah, but he didn't.

927
00:42:26,480 --> 00:42:26,960
Speaker 2: But he didn't.

928
00:42:27,239 --> 00:42:30,319
Speaker 3: There's a human factor which the analytics nerds don't take

929
00:42:30,360 --> 00:42:31,000
Speaker 3: into account.

930
00:42:31,040 --> 00:42:32,080
Speaker 2: Exactly right, right.

931
00:42:32,160 --> 00:42:34,760
Speaker 3: He had them losing the Commanders, the game against the Commanders,

932
00:42:34,800 --> 00:42:38,279
Speaker 3: which they won twenty eight twenty seven, losing that one

933
00:42:38,320 --> 00:42:41,160
Speaker 3: twenty five twenty two. Again, I don't know why.

934
00:42:41,640 --> 00:42:44,319
Speaker 2: Yeah, how trying to react to this and explain it,

935
00:42:44,360 --> 00:42:47,880
Speaker 2: But I don't know how. I'd like the explanation from him.

936
00:42:48,400 --> 00:42:51,320
Speaker 3: Even more baffling to me is he had them losing

937
00:42:51,320 --> 00:42:53,799
Speaker 3: the game against the Jets, which they won thirty seven

938
00:42:53,880 --> 00:42:58,880
Speaker 3: to fifteen handily. He had them his adjusted score had

939
00:42:58,920 --> 00:43:01,120
Speaker 3: the Steelers losing that one's twenty one twenty.

940
00:43:01,760 --> 00:43:03,879
Speaker 2: But they won by a time, but they won by

941
00:43:03,880 --> 00:43:09,839
Speaker 2: twenty points. They won by more points than he had

942
00:43:09,840 --> 00:43:13,200
Speaker 2: the Jets scoring in his adjusted score. I'm trying to

943
00:43:13,320 --> 00:43:15,759
Speaker 2: do the Godfather think as those around you think. I mean,

944
00:43:15,840 --> 00:43:17,960
Speaker 2: is he saying like at one point in the game,

945
00:43:18,040 --> 00:43:20,799
Speaker 2: if they just make this fourth down, then the rest

946
00:43:20,800 --> 00:43:24,279
Speaker 2: of the game butterfly effect, everything's different. I have no

947
00:43:24,400 --> 00:43:27,799
Speaker 2: idea that sounds like predicting things that you really here's

948
00:43:27,840 --> 00:43:28,520
Speaker 2: the thing to predict.

949
00:43:28,560 --> 00:43:30,279
Speaker 3: And I hate to even bring it up because this

950
00:43:30,400 --> 00:43:33,200
Speaker 3: is basically trolling. For He's trolling Steeler fans, is what

951
00:43:33,239 --> 00:43:33,680
Speaker 3: he's doing.

952
00:43:33,840 --> 00:43:36,120
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, and we're helping them and we're helping him. Yeah.

953
00:43:36,160 --> 00:43:38,440
Speaker 3: But if you're going to be that moronic about things,

954
00:43:39,120 --> 00:43:40,320
Speaker 3: you deserve to be trolled.

955
00:43:40,440 --> 00:43:45,240
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, Like I look at some postgame stuff,

956
00:43:45,320 --> 00:43:49,840
Speaker 2: like some PFF even does, like an adjusted score based

957
00:43:49,880 --> 00:43:52,719
Speaker 2: on time and possession and different stuff, and I take

958
00:43:52,719 --> 00:43:54,279
Speaker 2: it with a grain of salt, but I look at it.

959
00:43:55,040 --> 00:43:57,279
Speaker 2: Maybe I can learn something. But like that, Jets one

960
00:43:58,000 --> 00:43:59,440
Speaker 2: loses all credibility to me.

961
00:44:00,000 --> 00:44:01,839
Speaker 3: I won the game by twenty two points, and you're

962
00:44:01,880 --> 00:44:04,440
Speaker 3: saying that they were lucky to win, that they should

963
00:44:04,440 --> 00:44:06,760
Speaker 3: have lost at twenty two to twenty one or twenty

964
00:44:06,800 --> 00:44:08,879
Speaker 3: one to twenty. Get out of here with that.

965
00:44:09,160 --> 00:44:12,719
Speaker 2: Right, I mean, if you Cynthia Freud freedland it and

966
00:44:12,800 --> 00:44:15,200
Speaker 2: say if they played one hundred times, this is the

967
00:44:15,200 --> 00:44:15,960
Speaker 2: one outlier.

968
00:44:16,800 --> 00:44:20,040
Speaker 3: Okay, amazing to me how all the Jets games have

969
00:44:20,120 --> 00:44:22,759
Speaker 3: been the outlier then this year, right, Like at some

970
00:44:22,880 --> 00:44:26,360
Speaker 3: point human factors into this, the humans fact.

971
00:44:26,280 --> 00:44:29,839
Speaker 2: Forget which week the Raiders beat the Ravens, but that's

972
00:44:29,880 --> 00:44:32,719
Speaker 2: probably in the top five percent of outcomes, right, you

973
00:44:32,719 --> 00:44:35,000
Speaker 2: know what I mean. But that's happens. But it happened,

974
00:44:35,040 --> 00:44:35,200
Speaker 2: you know.

975
00:44:37,360 --> 00:44:43,000
Speaker 3: Against Washington. The Steelers didn't force the Commanders to jump

976
00:44:43,000 --> 00:44:45,040
Speaker 3: off sides on a fourth down.

977
00:44:44,960 --> 00:44:47,520
Speaker 2: Play, but they had some effect. They had an effect

978
00:44:47,600 --> 00:44:51,360
Speaker 2: on it though, Right, But the analytics, by analytics standards,

979
00:44:51,400 --> 00:44:55,000
Speaker 2: the Steelers should go for that. I know. That's another

980
00:44:55,000 --> 00:44:58,040
Speaker 2: one that bugs me too with analytics is I really

981
00:44:58,080 --> 00:45:00,319
Speaker 2: really like EPA And I was fiddling with their site

982
00:45:00,400 --> 00:45:02,279
Speaker 2: more than I have last night just to kind of

983
00:45:02,320 --> 00:45:06,000
Speaker 2: even learn more. And they have a section of just

984
00:45:07,239 --> 00:45:10,200
Speaker 2: how often did every team make the right call on

985
00:45:10,320 --> 00:45:13,880
Speaker 2: fourth down? And I clicked on it and I didn't

986
00:45:13,920 --> 00:45:17,880
Speaker 2: even look through it, but I just thought, this is

987
00:45:17,920 --> 00:45:22,160
Speaker 2: not the best use of analytics. Yeah, there's too many variables.

988
00:45:22,200 --> 00:45:25,640
Speaker 3: Well, for example, the wind or you know, the Browns

989
00:45:25,640 --> 00:45:29,040
Speaker 3: have attempted how about this twenty four to fourth down

990
00:45:29,080 --> 00:45:32,600
Speaker 3: places I showed a time they're fourteen to twenty four.

991
00:45:32,640 --> 00:45:35,640
Speaker 3: But because they're losing a lot, not because they're analytically driven.

992
00:45:35,840 --> 00:45:38,799
Speaker 2: No, right, it's not Dan Campbell who's analytically driven is

993
00:45:38,800 --> 00:45:40,680
Speaker 2: going to go fourth on fourth down. That's his philosophy

994
00:45:40,760 --> 00:45:42,839
Speaker 2: or stately with the Chargers when he took over. As

995
00:45:42,880 --> 00:45:46,240
Speaker 2: part of the reason he got hired, the analytics folks said, Okay,

996
00:45:46,280 --> 00:45:48,319
Speaker 2: we're buying into this go forward on fourth down.

997
00:45:48,360 --> 00:45:49,359
Speaker 3: How'd that work out for him?

998
00:45:49,880 --> 00:45:52,600
Speaker 2: Well? And even the Lions, I mean they lose some

999
00:45:52,640 --> 00:45:55,440
Speaker 2: games because of that stuff, including the playoff game. Now,

1000
00:45:55,880 --> 00:45:58,719
Speaker 2: it helps when you pay soool. You know, if you

1001
00:45:58,800 --> 00:46:00,799
Speaker 2: have fourth and two and I'm gonna behind Panney soool

1002
00:46:00,800 --> 00:46:04,399
Speaker 2: with Montgomery or throat to Saint Brown or whatever, then

1003
00:46:04,400 --> 00:46:06,160
Speaker 2: you should go for it, you know. Right. Tomlin went

1004
00:46:06,200 --> 00:46:07,960
Speaker 2: for it more when he had Ben and Bellow and Brown.

1005
00:46:08,000 --> 00:46:10,360
Speaker 3: Yeah, when they were clicking as the offensively, you.

1006
00:46:10,440 --> 00:46:12,879
Speaker 2: Going more for it now than they did last year? Right?

1007
00:46:13,120 --> 00:46:16,520
Speaker 2: You know? Again, tell me the play call, tell me

1008
00:46:16,640 --> 00:46:20,720
Speaker 2: the wind and rain and field conditions is Aaron Donald

1009
00:46:20,760 --> 00:46:23,279
Speaker 2: on the field. You know, yeah, is it against the

1010
00:46:23,280 --> 00:46:26,439
Speaker 2: steel curtain. Maybe you shouldn't go for it, you know.

1011
00:46:26,640 --> 00:46:29,600
Speaker 3: But please, Kevin Cole, get out of here with these

1012
00:46:29,680 --> 00:46:30,479
Speaker 3: lucky wins stuff.

1013
00:46:31,120 --> 00:46:32,520
Speaker 2: The Jets one, I mean, if you wouldn't tell me

1014
00:46:32,520 --> 00:46:35,279
Speaker 2: the other two, I can write a story that they

1015
00:46:35,280 --> 00:46:38,400
Speaker 2: should have lost that game. I'm not saying they should have,

1016
00:46:38,640 --> 00:46:39,880
Speaker 2: but the Jets one could have.

1017
00:46:40,000 --> 00:46:41,959
Speaker 3: It could have, right, They were close. They were close

1018
00:46:42,000 --> 00:46:44,640
Speaker 3: football games. But you can't tell me that a thirty

1019
00:46:44,680 --> 00:46:47,880
Speaker 3: seven to fifteen beat down, right was now somehow a

1020
00:46:47,960 --> 00:46:49,040
Speaker 3: twenty one to twenty loss.

1021
00:46:49,080 --> 00:46:50,719
Speaker 2: Well, as I say is they also could have beat

1022
00:46:50,760 --> 00:46:53,120
Speaker 2: the Cowboys at cold correct, you know they were.

1023
00:46:53,120 --> 00:46:54,960
Speaker 3: There were some bad luck in those games, yeah.

1024
00:46:54,800 --> 00:46:58,680
Speaker 2: Exactly right. I don't get that part. And the Jets

1025
00:46:58,680 --> 00:46:59,399
Speaker 2: ones where you lost.

1026
00:46:59,440 --> 00:47:01,960
Speaker 3: This is where the analytics crowd gets themselves into trouble

1027
00:47:02,160 --> 00:47:06,959
Speaker 3: trying to push ridiculous analytics right right.

1028
00:47:07,000 --> 00:47:09,680
Speaker 2: And I do think that's one of the problems with

1029
00:47:09,719 --> 00:47:12,600
Speaker 2: the analytics community right now is everyone wants to come

1030
00:47:12,680 --> 00:47:17,399
Speaker 2: up with something new, right. Yeah, I'm gonna don't work,

1031
00:47:17,440 --> 00:47:19,680
Speaker 2: but mine's better. You know, e p A is great,

1032
00:47:19,760 --> 00:47:22,360
Speaker 2: but mine's better. I've you know created the wheel, I

1033
00:47:22,440 --> 00:47:23,480
Speaker 2: created fire, you.

1034
00:47:23,440 --> 00:47:27,560
Speaker 3: Know, like I don't think Tom Hanks on the beach

1035
00:47:29,200 --> 00:47:32,480
Speaker 3: fire right, dancing around? No, you you've all these things.

1036
00:47:32,280 --> 00:47:34,799
Speaker 2: Come up with something more on it, right, Like I

1037
00:47:34,840 --> 00:47:38,280
Speaker 2: remember when I was you know, in the league, yards

1038
00:47:38,320 --> 00:47:40,480
Speaker 2: per attempt was a big thing or yards per play,

1039
00:47:40,680 --> 00:47:44,600
Speaker 2: you know, like people didn't think that way. That's that's great,

1040
00:47:44,680 --> 00:47:47,319
Speaker 2: that's a good. Now we can think even further and

1041
00:47:47,360 --> 00:47:50,840
Speaker 2: next year we'll learn more. But you're not gonna be

1042
00:47:50,960 --> 00:47:53,920
Speaker 2: able to That was joking, like why we play the games, right,

1043
00:47:54,560 --> 00:47:55,000
Speaker 2: you know what I mean?

1044
00:47:55,000 --> 00:47:57,600
Speaker 3: Why even you don't have to because here's here's what

1045
00:47:57,600 --> 00:47:58,080
Speaker 3: it should be.

1046
00:47:58,160 --> 00:48:00,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, there, Derek Henry is a bad I don't give

1047
00:48:00,600 --> 00:48:02,200
Speaker 2: them the ball, you know. I mean there's a lot

1048
00:48:02,239 --> 00:48:05,000
Speaker 2: going on here. Absolutely, But Matt, that's going to do

1049
00:48:05,000 --> 00:48:08,359
Speaker 2: it for the show today. Good one, Absolutely, Marl. We're

1050
00:48:08,360 --> 00:48:12,000
Speaker 2: making picks, and tomorrow we're making picks. Yeah. One pick.

1051
00:48:12,560 --> 00:48:14,600
Speaker 3: We'll be back again on Friday after the game on

1052
00:48:14,680 --> 00:48:18,400
Speaker 3: Thursday night, so we'll continue previewing the Steelers versus Browns,

1053
00:48:18,400 --> 00:48:20,440
Speaker 3: will get even a little bit more into it. We'll

1054
00:48:20,440 --> 00:48:23,920
Speaker 3: have an injury report to deal with officially at that point,

1055
00:48:24,160 --> 00:48:28,440
Speaker 3: but Cleveland on the Road to Cleveland on the Road again.

1056
00:48:29,600 --> 00:48:33,279
Speaker 3: But for my partner Matt Williamson, for Justin Miller here

1057
00:48:33,320 --> 00:48:36,520
Speaker 3: manning the Justin Miller Hotline, and for Tyler viitt Meyer

1058
00:48:36,560 --> 00:48:39,759
Speaker 3: making sure our videos get out on YouTube, which you

1059
00:48:39,800 --> 00:48:43,440
Speaker 3: should check out. And thanks more shots at Matt I

1060
00:48:43,480 --> 00:48:46,040
Speaker 3: am Dale, Lolly. We thank you for listening to this

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Speaker 3: edition of The Drive on the Steelers Audio Network.