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

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

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Speaker 1: Welcome back. I'm Dale Alli. He is Matt Williamson, and

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Speaker 1: this is the Drive on Steelers Nation Radio. It is

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Speaker 1: Power Ranking Tuesday, and as we always do every Tuesday,

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Speaker 1: we'll take a look at what Dan hands Us has

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Speaker 1: power ranked the NFL at at on on the NFL

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Speaker 1: dot Com. One thing I wanted to talk about today, Matt.

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Speaker 1: We know the Steelers went four and oh against the

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Speaker 1: NFC South. Okay, One thing I wanted to look at

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Speaker 1: today is do you think the NFC is a bit

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Speaker 1: inflated some of the records over there inflated because the

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Speaker 1: really bad teams. Yeah, for example, I think the I

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Speaker 1: think the a f C to me, is clearly better

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Speaker 1: by leaps and bounds, and the quarterbacks are better, The

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Speaker 1: terrible teams are better, the mid tier teams are better,

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Speaker 1: and the top teams I think are better. Maybe Eagles.

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Speaker 1: Aside to that point, we just kind of briefly said

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Speaker 1: off the air, you know, boy, the Rams are rough.

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Speaker 1: We watched it last night, and I think you're a

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Speaker 1: good point, said, the Rams maybe should be thirty two

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Speaker 1: because they are in the NFC, you still have a

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Speaker 1: terrible record. Houston, who's gonna be thirty two? Everyone knows

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Speaker 1: that they're picking first in the draft. Highly competitive the

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Speaker 1: last two weeks. Yeah, I did a little Houston homework,

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Speaker 1: which wasn't easy to do because you know they're not relevant.

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Speaker 1: They play really hard. I mean they're best players, Pierce Cooks, Stingley,

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Speaker 1: they've all been out, but they bring it like no

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Speaker 1: one told them that they're one in twelve or whatever

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Speaker 1: the heck. Yeah, I mean those type of teams can

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Speaker 1: hang around. They're at number thirty two. They've been basically

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Speaker 1: stationed there all year long. I like their chances against

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Speaker 1: the ram Zoe I do too. Yeah, I think. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: by the way, Baker Mayfield's a little bubble burst less. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I knew the second they're starting center goes out like

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Speaker 1: the second player of the games. That would be good. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: At thirty one are the Colts. I don't agree with that.

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Speaker 1: I don't. I don't think the culture the thirty first

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Speaker 1: team in the league. I mean, we're gonna hold that

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Speaker 1: thirty three point comeback that much against them that they're

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Speaker 1: so horrendous. They built the thirty three point league against

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Speaker 1: the second seed in the NFC right now, right now,

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Speaker 1: I think the Colts aren't even in the bottom five. Uh.

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Speaker 1: At thirty are the Cardinals they deserve they should. They

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Speaker 1: might be the worst team in the league. They've fallen

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Speaker 1: apart and it's over. I mean they got blown out

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Speaker 1: by Denver without Russell Wilson, right, Yeah, it's it's over

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Speaker 1: for them and they're in a bad place big picture.

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Speaker 1: At twenty nine are the Bears. I think they're still

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Speaker 1: at the bottom, you know, Yeah, the Cults are better

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Speaker 1: than Bears. Yeah, I don't know what the Rams are. Yeah, well,

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Speaker 1: I mean the Colts right now. I mean they're without

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Speaker 1: Jonathan Taylor. You get a factor that as well. But

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Speaker 1: I mean Fields is really hard to play against, and

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Speaker 1: they hung around with Philly. So I mean, if anything,

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Speaker 1: I guess they should have went up this week, but

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Speaker 1: I don't think they're particularly good. At twenty eight, is

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Speaker 1: Denver up two spots? They've actually quietly played a little

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Speaker 1: better the last couple of weeks. There's still four and ten.

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Speaker 1: I mean, they're bad, but again I would think they

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Speaker 1: beat the Rams. Yeah. Their their offensive offensive explosion last

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Speaker 1: week was twenty four points against maybe the worst defense

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Speaker 1: By that, I mean their defense of any team we've mentioned.

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Speaker 1: Yea Cardinals worst defense in the league. Their numbers against

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Speaker 1: tight ends are ridiculously bad. I mean they don't do anything. Well, no,

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Speaker 1: there's not a thing that they do at twenty seven down.

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Speaker 1: Just one spot are the Rams. I would put Denver

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Speaker 1: ahead of them. They played this week. That's the Monday

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Speaker 1: night game. I think this week. I'm pretty sure it's

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Speaker 1: I know it's a prime time it's like a prime

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Speaker 1: I would definitely put the Colts and Denver ahead of

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Speaker 1: the Rams, which kind of backs up your point at

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Speaker 1: much attention. We have a housefool of people. They're showing

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Speaker 1: up at four Rams and Broncos yuck, yuck, yuck. But

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Speaker 1: what I'm saying is like the Colts and Denver have

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Speaker 1: played against an FC teams this whole time. If they

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Speaker 1: would have had the Rams schedule or whatever, you know,

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Speaker 1: get to play in those teams. I think we look

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Speaker 1: at them in a little bit better light. Rams played

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Speaker 1: the Cardinals twice, the Cardinals. Right at down a spot,

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Speaker 1: the Falcons they should be gradually following, gradually falling. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and they're they're they're rough. They can still go to

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Speaker 1: the playoffs, which is crazy. At up two spots are

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Speaker 1: the playoffs. Yeah, who's your vote to win that division?

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Speaker 1: I still think it's Tampa. They still they have a

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Speaker 1: twenty four, down four spots is Carolina. I think Caroline

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Speaker 1: but when they can't run, they can't do much. And

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Speaker 1: then at down two spots is Tampa Bay. Respect him

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Speaker 1: for putting those four together? Is that? Is that the

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Speaker 1: worst division in the history of football that I can remember?

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Speaker 1: Didn't Seattle go she Handle made in this seven and

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Speaker 1: nine one year? But then they won a playoff game?

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Speaker 1: Yeah right right? That was the beast mode. Yeah, he's

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Speaker 1: quick whatever thing wasn't and that wasn't that bad a team,

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Speaker 1: and they had the legion of boom and yeah, they

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Speaker 1: were building something is that. Are any of these teams

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Speaker 1: building something to get it? Right? Yeah? Uh, six and

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Speaker 1: eight leading that division, they probably win it. This goes back.

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Speaker 1: You know, we talked about this at the at at

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Speaker 1: the break when the Steelers were two and six. We

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Speaker 1: talked about this in the off season when we talked

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Speaker 1: out the Steelers schedule, and that schedule came out and well,

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Speaker 1: they get it. They gotta play Tampa Bay. They get

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Speaker 1: I'm like, you get Tampa Bay in New Orleans at home,

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Speaker 1: you get Carolina in Atlanta on the road. That right

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Speaker 1: at the time, especially, you didn't want it the opposite way. Yeah, absolutely,

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Speaker 1: in New Orleans is not fun for anybody. And as

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Speaker 1: we saw once again, Steeler fans took over the stadium

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Speaker 1: in Charlotte. It was like Steeler fans there. I mean,

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Speaker 1: Atlanta was well represented to Yeah at two up two

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Speaker 1: Let's see who's directly above them. They've won four of

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Speaker 1: their last six games. I'll take my i mean, just

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Speaker 1: off the top of my head, I'll take my chances

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Speaker 1: with the Steelers against Seattle, Patriots, Titans, probably some others

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Speaker 1: that Raiders. Yeah, yeah, right, well, we'll see that one

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Speaker 1: this week. It's a little harsh on the Steelers. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: they went four to five. You said, right, Yeah, at

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Speaker 1: one down five spots are the Seahawk. They should be plummeting. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: they should be. I think, you know, you take Tyler

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Speaker 1: then they're doomed. Yeah they were fragile to begin with. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: they're they're not making the playoffs. No, and I don't

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Speaker 1: want to see him in the playoffs. Their defense is

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Speaker 1: bad much rather like Detroit's better than them by far.

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Speaker 1: You know, at twenty up three spots or the Browns?

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Speaker 1: M hm, did they do anything to deserve that? Out

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Speaker 1: nineteen down four spots are the Titans. They're terrible. They

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Speaker 1: bad against the past. I mean, I don't get it.

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Speaker 1: I mean, they're they're really bad. I'm not sure they're

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Speaker 1: better than they're gonna play Houston this week. Well, Houston,

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Speaker 1: Houston might beat them. If that's like a ten point game,

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Speaker 1: I want to point, no matter what, three and a half,

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Speaker 1: I want to point, I'm Houston. It's hard to play

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Speaker 1: against all of a sudden. Uh. At eighteen down five

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Speaker 1: of them, especially for recent play, based on how they're

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Speaker 1: five spots are the Packers. I may even have them

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Speaker 1: a little higher. And I'm definitely have some recency bias

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Speaker 1: because they did some good things last night. But I

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Speaker 1: on my podcast today I was saying, I bet they're

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Speaker 1: kicking themselves a little bit. I mean, they're six and

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Speaker 1: eight if they were got one more win. Kind of

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Speaker 1: spot the Steelers at right now exactly in the NFC,

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Speaker 1: that's very attainable. I mean, I thought their defense is

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Speaker 1: Like I thought we he had them way too high.

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Speaker 1: A couple of weeks ago, they get the flukiest of

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Speaker 1: flukey winds at home against a bad Patriots team. I

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Speaker 1: would say, Raiders, Brown's Pats, how would you power it? Oh? Yuck?

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Speaker 1: I think over all them, yeah, I don't think any

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Speaker 1: average football teams. Yeah, the Raiders best day is better

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Speaker 1: just flukey a win Sunday as you can get. Uh.

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Speaker 1: At fifteen, down a spot are the Commanders. Tough loss.

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Speaker 1: It's been a solid year for them, though they got

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Speaker 1: the line and they got receivers. At fourteen, I might

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Speaker 1: put this team down in the other bracket down lower

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Speaker 1: the Jets down two spots. I'd leave him here. I'd

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Speaker 1: have him over every team we've mentioned based on the defense.

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Speaker 1: You're offense stinks, sad. The thing that body talks about

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Speaker 1: everybody kills Zack Wilson. They even run the ball for

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Speaker 1: like a month. They're asking him to do everything. They

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Speaker 1: have no foundation running game, but they have skilled guys.

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Speaker 1: They scored seven team points at home against the Lions,

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Speaker 1: who have one of the worst defenses in the league.

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Speaker 1: And I know Detroit's gotten better defensively, but they're not

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Speaker 1: that better. No, no, no, they're not. They're still a

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Speaker 1: bottom ten. But I still think they're better than the

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Speaker 1: Raiders and Patriots, Titans at thirteen up six spots the Giants,

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Speaker 1: I think that's the hardest team to rank. I mean,

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Speaker 1: they haven't beaten anybody all year and anybody, but they

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Speaker 1: just beat the Commanders. They tied them two weeks before that.

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Speaker 1: I get you have to put them ahead of the Commanders,

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Speaker 1: I guess. But they're not a good football team, no,

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Speaker 1: not at all. Like I don't want them in the playoffs.

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Speaker 1: They're gonna get destroyed. They're gonna be in They're gonna

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Speaker 1: get this well. I mean, you know, unless they played Tampa,

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Speaker 1: which which they won't. Yeah, they're gonna go play, you know,

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Speaker 1: play the Niners or a team like that and get destroyed. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I don't know where i'd rank them, though, Like I

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Speaker 1: think the Jets are better than them. I think Washington is,

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Speaker 1: but you can't put him over Washington. Yeah. They played

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Speaker 1: the play him watching and played him in back to

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Speaker 1: I am Dale Lali. You're listening to the Drive here

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Speaker 1: on Steelers Nation Radio. It's time for the Fantasy Football

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Speaker 1: Focus after this. We'll be back with that right after this.