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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Drive. I am Dale Lolly, he is

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Speaker 1: Matt Williamson. And well it's a Thursday. That means the

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Speaker 1: This is the more meaningful practice in terms of, uh,

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Speaker 1: against the UH the Baltimore Ravens at Accreshuer Stadium. And

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Speaker 1: while we have the injury report here, Matt, Yeah, let's

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Speaker 1: start there. Um, interesting injury reports. So Deante Johnson has

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Speaker 1: a little bit of a hip issue. Yesterday he was limited.

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Speaker 1: Today he did not practice. Uh No, I don't expect

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Speaker 1: good sign, you know. I think that's something he's been

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Speaker 1: Najia Harris with the oblique injury did not practice yesterday,

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Speaker 1: I think not to worry about. Malik Reid did not

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Speaker 1: limited today, obviously trending in the right direction, and he

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Speaker 1: is there any of those that stand out? I mean,

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Speaker 1: So the Steelers have played indoors the last two weeks.

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Speaker 1: But we got our guy. You know, I think you

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Speaker 1: Like they're their team that should be interested in Nodell Beckham, right,

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