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Speaker 1: Is the Drive with Dale Lolly and Matt Williamson on

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Speaker 1: your home of the Black and Goals Steelers Nation Radio.

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

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Speaker 1: It is a Tuesday. That means we spoke to Mike

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Speaker 1: Tomlin today. Yeah, boy, a little bit of you know,

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Speaker 1: lots of actually a lot of news we we didn't

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Speaker 1: We didn't know that make of Fitzpatrick situation yesterday. Had

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Speaker 1: a pretty good inclination. Came down right in the middle

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Speaker 1: of our show. Uh, so here's here's what's going on

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Speaker 1: right now as okay, so um Tomola didn't say this,

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Speaker 1: but uh, from sources, the Ben Roethlisberger took a COVID

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Speaker 1: nineteen tests this morning. He must be feeling better. He

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Speaker 1: doesn't have the symptoms. Symptoms are gone, so now he's

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Speaker 1: feeling better. He took a test this morning. He'll have

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Speaker 1: to probably help to take another test tomorrow. Will you

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Speaker 1: just take him every day until there's two You're gonna

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Speaker 1: get two negatives within a twenty four hour period and

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Speaker 1: then you're you're out. But you think today was his

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Speaker 1: first Today was the first one, all right, Um, so

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Speaker 1: there's no he's even even if that Tomlin said he will,

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Speaker 1: he'll take part in the virtual I think everything will

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Speaker 1: be virtual. He'll do the meetings virtually all that stuff.

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Speaker 1: And if if you know, let's say he's clear Thursday

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Speaker 1: or Friday, whenever, that would be even Saturday, Tomlin says

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Speaker 1: he'll be this, he'll be the starter. That being said,

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Speaker 1: they'll come up there. They're making a game plan right now.

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Speaker 1: That's Mason Rudolph specific. I would think you have to

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Speaker 1: do a little bit of both, you know, I mean,

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Speaker 1: not that there's any difference. That's I don't think there's

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Speaker 1: massive differences, and which is why you have a Mason

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Speaker 1: Rudolph backing up Ben Roethlisberger and not sure it's not

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Speaker 1: flat over not Cam Newton, right right right, right right, Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I do think there's a lot of a lot of

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Speaker 1: value and having a similar style back up, you know,

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Speaker 1: not everyone does. But anyway, um, the steel has got

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Speaker 1: a lot of heat from what I saw. Why wouldn't

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Speaker 1: you change the game plan last week when Ben was out?

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Speaker 1: I'm like, because they found Saturday, they found out Saturday,

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Speaker 1: they practiced all week. You can't just install a game

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Speaker 1: plan in an hour. I mean the other ten guys

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Speaker 1: need to know things too. Now that being said, Saturday night,

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Speaker 1: Matt Canada and Mason Rudolph sit down and come up

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Speaker 1: with their your favorite yeah, which you we wrapped these.

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Speaker 1: He took this. He took the starter snaps Wednesday. Now

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Speaker 1: that was just a walk through, right, remember the coming

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Speaker 1: off Monday night, or he then took He took the

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Speaker 1: a Wednesday, which is Ben's off day. Friday, Ben took

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Speaker 1: the starter snaps Saturday, they had a walk through. Ben

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Speaker 1: comes in, he says, he's sick. You don't know if

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Speaker 1: he's tested positive. It could just be a cold, couldn't

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Speaker 1: be whatever. People get sick, you don't You don't get

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Speaker 1: the results back of the COVID test until later that night,

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Speaker 1: which is why what happened happened. So it's not like,

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Speaker 1: well Ben sick, we better come up with a new

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Speaker 1: game plan. You don't know if he if he's gonna

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Speaker 1: be available or not sure. That's just the COVID world

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Speaker 1: we live in the NFL that it's you don't know

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Speaker 1: what day these things are gonna You know, if this

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Speaker 1: happens two years ago, well, Ben's got the flu. But

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Speaker 1: he's gonna be all right, well yeah play, yeah, he'll

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Speaker 1: be on. He'll come and we'll we'll see pre game

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Speaker 1: how he's feeling, you know, right, or if it was

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Speaker 1: a trip, he would he go with you and he

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Speaker 1: brought a plane season on people. It's you know, yeah, right,

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Speaker 1: the world change. Um yeah, let's get back to today's news.

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Speaker 1: But I just want people to realize just because they

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Speaker 1: didn't make any changes whatsoever. And frankly, you're just looking

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Speaker 1: at the game going this was a bad outcome. We

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Speaker 1: need to blame people sometime. This was a bad outcome.

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Speaker 1: So what what don't we like about, like about what

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Speaker 1: could have been different? You know? And so yeah, I

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Speaker 1: get that, but their prep this week probably, I mean,

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Speaker 1: Ben's gonna be in the meeting. This is the stuff

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Speaker 1: we're trying to attack. They play a lot of cover

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Speaker 1: same way, no matter who's taking the snaps, you know,

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Speaker 1: So you know we'll see Justin Jefferson tore them a

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Speaker 1: I mean, no matter who's taking the snaps, Yeah, for sure. Um,

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Speaker 1: he didn't sound quite as positive about Maca Fitzpatrick. Um,

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Speaker 1: you know Fitzpatrick again, players are tested every Tuesday now

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Speaker 1: every Tuesday. Fitzpatrick shows up on Monday feeling sick, self reports, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: They just can't believe he self reported. You'd rather he

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Speaker 1: team and get everybody sick. Yeah, and then you call

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Speaker 1: some and you get a bunch of contact because they

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Speaker 1: do the contract contact tracing now everybody who sets foot

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Speaker 1: so if somebody tests positive, they then trace it back

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Speaker 1: in contact with for more than fifteen minutes. He was

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Speaker 1: just been near someone that was. So of course you're

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Speaker 1: that's Aaron Rodgers monumental. Yeah, you can end up. That's

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Speaker 1: how you end up. That's how that's how the Broncos

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Speaker 1: end up with no quarterbacks, right exactly, right, exactly exactly. So, yeah,

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Speaker 1: sympting whatever the first report was. I'm like, h no,

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Speaker 1: does that mean the whole quarterback rooms wiped out? You know,

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Speaker 1: then that game is even worse. I mean, I mean,

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Speaker 1: saw what you see with Roethlisberger. So he tests positive Saturday,

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Speaker 1: it so it took it took him basically three days

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Speaker 1: terms of looks like Trey Turner has a good chance

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Speaker 1: but Finney was an active losson Hour as your backup center.

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Speaker 1: and Finney's been pretty good over the years when he's

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Speaker 1: First off, I thought Kevin played really well before his injury,

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Speaker 1: thirteen of their passes came in overtime. Okay, yeah, that

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Speaker 1: makes sense. So you know, the whole narrative that you

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Speaker 1: one run in overtime. Gret a limited time frame there.

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Speaker 1: Clay poll back, it looks like they're gonna have Turner Hayden.

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Speaker 1: If I had to guess, I'm guessing he probably shits

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Speaker 1: Hayden if it's a fifty fifty call, or you know,

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Speaker 1: if it's a playoff game, he would have played. If not,

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Speaker 1: you know what I mean, I think Pierre's fine. I mean,

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Speaker 1: their receivers are really good. I mean, that's a worry

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Speaker 1: Williams up right now. He's I got some numbers about him.

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Speaker 1: I mean he's had knee injury. The first four weeks

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Speaker 1: Pierre's enticing. Yeah, absolutely, especially against a guy like Williams

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Speaker 1: So every home game this season, there have been at

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Speaker 1: I know their attendance is lowered on the NFL spectrum. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: on the road. Those people make those plans for the

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Speaker 1: for their trail, make it last week. They're not just

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Speaker 1: you know in l A. No, those plans are made

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Speaker 1: chance to go see their favorite team. Yeah, and they

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Speaker 1: get one out of town. I mean you look at me, like,

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Speaker 1: We're gonna go to the Steeler game in l A.

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Speaker 1: I bet they represent well, so I would expect, you know.

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Speaker 1: That's that's why they're their road crowds are always seemingly

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Speaker 1: to me, nothing nothing against the Steeler fans at home.

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Speaker 1: At home games, but it gets to the road crowds

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Speaker 1: I think that makes it times. I mean, you're spending

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Speaker 1: more money to go. It's a it's a it's a

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Speaker 1: one time every year thing for you, as opposed to

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Speaker 1: I'm going out there. I'm gonna go to five of

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Speaker 1: the eight games that I have tickets for this year. Hey, hon,

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Speaker 1: do you care if I go to l A four

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Speaker 1: months from now and I'm gonna make some asign you

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Speaker 1: know you're gonna make it, make it count, just like

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Speaker 1: any vacation. I mean as opposed to I got season tickets,

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Speaker 1: I'm goody go down there, or the Lions are in town.

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Speaker 1: It's freezing. I'm not watch this one from home, right,

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Speaker 1: I mean you can understand that. I completely understand it, um,

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Speaker 1: you know. But anyway, so that's the something is interesting

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Speaker 1: to surround the league. Yeah, we'll see if it evens

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Speaker 1: out here over the next few weeks. And again, as

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Speaker 1: you mentioned, the weather starts to change and and some

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Speaker 1: teams are built for it, you know, yeah, New England

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Speaker 1: and some of these teams. It's just such a tough

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Speaker 1: like our our friend Mike pursuita UM friend, friend of

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Speaker 1: do you like the Rams tonight? And I said, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I like the Rams, But given every the way the

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Speaker 1: league is going, I'm picking the Forts, because right, that's

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Speaker 1: just the way this season is gone. Lo And behold,

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Speaker 1: not only dot Is win that game, they dominated a game,

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Speaker 1: pushed them around, you know. Right, anytime you think you

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Speaker 1: know something this year, forget about forget about go the

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Speaker 1: other way. Well, that's why I hurt. I mean, I'm

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Speaker 1: sure we'll talk about more and we do power ranks

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Speaker 1: next segment, but like fifty eight percent of the dogs

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Speaker 1: are hitting, you know, like because there's more parody than

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Speaker 1: you think. You know, these teams don't deserve point. Rosel

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Speaker 1: is presiding wherever Pete Roselle is at right now looking

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Speaker 1: at this, and she's just smiling. Yeah. I mean, even

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Speaker 1: think of last year she was one defeated. You know,

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Speaker 1: like there's no one even like in that realm right now.

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Speaker 1: You know, Arizona just got crushed, you know, yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: the Miami Dolphins said the seventy two guys are all

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Speaker 1: they popped those corks early this year. Yeah, there isn't

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Speaker 1: a team that even resembles that. No, no, there's there.

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Speaker 1: I don't know who's who's the dominant team right now.

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Speaker 1: I guess we'll figure it out next. We'll talk about

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Speaker 1: that in the next segment. He is Matt Williamson. I'm

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Speaker 1: Dale Lullet. You're listening to the drive here on Steelers

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Speaker 1: Nation Radio. We'll be back with the power rankings right

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Speaker 1: after that. A lot of the stillers we are always

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