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Speaker 1: Your tune's about Drive on your twenty four to seven

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

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Speaker 2: Good evening, Steeler Nation. It's the Drive on the Steelers

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Speaker 2: Audio Network. Wes Shuler, Matt Williamson, our number two coming

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Speaker 2: at you here. Our last hour in studio this week

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Speaker 2: before before we fly off to Dublin tomorrow night. Thursday

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Speaker 2: will kind of be a you know, Labs was giving

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Speaker 2: me grief for this. Labs was like, no show Thursday.

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Speaker 2: He's like, but you guys are leaving Wednesday night. What's

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Speaker 2: the problem. Why aren't you doing a show Thursday. I

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Speaker 2: was like, we'll see, Labs. The way our schedule's set up,

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Speaker 2: we're we're gonna have to kill some time. First of all,

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Speaker 2: you have to you have some DVE responsibilities. Yeah, I

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Speaker 2: have to go to Croke Park with our products, with

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Speaker 2: our producer dan Quinland to test all the lines and

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Speaker 2: see our setup and all that stuff is. You know,

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Speaker 2: we're doing a broadcast in a new stadium three thousand

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Speaker 2: miles away that you've never.

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Speaker 3: Been a foreign land.

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Speaker 2: It's in a foreign country. So we have to do

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Speaker 2: that idea.

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Speaker 3: Like what our sleep life will be and when we

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Speaker 3: wake up it's gonna be not good.

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Speaker 2: I mean, gets like five hours of sleep on the

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Speaker 2: plane at best. You know, if we're lucky, it won't

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Speaker 2: be No, it will not. It'll be sitting up, you know,

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Speaker 2: vertically in a chair type sleep.

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Speaker 3: I'm bad at time zones. I mean, erupt you're for here.

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Speaker 3: But there's been so many times in my career that, hey,

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Speaker 3: can you do a hit in Omenha, Nebraska or blah

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Speaker 3: blah blah. Yeah, And I'll be like, tell me that

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Speaker 3: after my first year at ESPN, Like, just tell me

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Speaker 3: the Eastern Standard time because otherwise I've screwed them up

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Speaker 3: way too often and this is gonna mess with my

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Speaker 2: We're five hours ahead of our time zone here, so.

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Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, So what the weird thing is I do

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Speaker 3: is Peacock and Williamson podcast. Yes, and he's on the

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Speaker 3: West Coast in San Francisco.

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Speaker 2: Eight hour time difference, right.

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Speaker 3: I'm like, Oh, I'm like I might be able to

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Speaker 3: do a show for you. I know, Thursday I told

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Speaker 3: him I'm out, you gotta find a placement. Yeah, I'm

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Speaker 3: like maybe Friday after I kind of get the lay

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Speaker 3: of the land, but I'm like I don't know how

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Speaker 3: on earth we're going to coordinate when we are doing

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Speaker 3: an hour with an eight hour time difference. Like I'm

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Speaker 3: not going to ask you to do it at midnight.

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Speaker 3: You're not gonna ask me to do it at four

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Speaker 3: in the morning. Like it's it's just so when we

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Speaker 3: get to the hotel, my little lizard brain can't figure

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Speaker 3: this stuff. Okay, we get to the hotel, what time

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Speaker 3: Irish time?

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Speaker 2: Do you think it will be about ten am? I

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Speaker 2: would guess.

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Speaker 3: Okay, so in their world, we flew overnight the whole time.

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Speaker 2: Correct, We're going to land I think about seven thirty

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Speaker 2: in the morning, and then we'll have to do customs

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Speaker 3: Yeah, not gonna happen.

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Speaker 2: Quick, get our bags and then we have a you know,

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Speaker 2: a bus taking us to the hotel. I think that'll

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Speaker 2: the airports and on the bus to the hotel Thursday,

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Speaker 2: ten am. We can't check into our rooms though, right away,

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Speaker 2: So I think they're gonna like, like, we're gonna have

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Speaker 2: on buses and go to the stadium. I think that's

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Speaker 2: when you and Pursuita are gonna do your show. We're

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Speaker 2: gonna test everything there. We've got to set up. Are

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Speaker 2: not you and I we but the everybody there needs

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Speaker 2: to go to the Fitzsimon's Temple Bar Reminder, where we'll

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Speaker 2: be doing the shows all day Friday and Saturday, to

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Speaker 2: obviously set all that up. So Thursday's kind of like

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Speaker 2: a get there, get our bearings, find out where we're going,

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Speaker 2: get the broadcast set up type day, and then Friday

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Speaker 2: we can really hit the ground run and DV Morning

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Speaker 2: show will be on for four hours before you and

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Speaker 3: So probably none of us will like get to the

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Speaker 3: hotel walk white in our room, false lea. No.

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Speaker 2: Any international time travel or will tell you don't want

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Speaker 3: You can get as much as you can.

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Speaker 2: My my father is you know, violinist in the symphony

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Speaker 2: he's been every he always jokes the only place he

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Speaker 2: he always jokes that. But he came over last night

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Speaker 2: to bring me charger converters in different charger outlets, and

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Speaker 2: got a million of them. So he stopped by last

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Speaker 2: night to drop those off and to say hello to

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Speaker 2: you know, to his grandkids for a few minutes, and

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Speaker 2: he said to me five times, don't go to bed

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Speaker 2: on Thursday. Don't go to bed on Thursday. Don't go

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Speaker 3: When you get there, you get whatever said, go.

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Speaker 2: Fight the urge, because like he's like, you will never

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Speaker 2: get yourself back on track if you go right the

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Speaker 2: bed as soon as you get there. One day, tough day,

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Speaker 2: have one tough day Thursday, go to bed or you know,

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Speaker 3: The you're in bed like nine o'clock their time.

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Speaker 2: Fine, who cares. I got a Guinness. I got a

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Speaker 2: guiness to our Friday morning anyways too. I will be

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Speaker 2: going to bed early Thursday night. But that's kind of

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Speaker 2: to peel back the curtain for everybody what we're looking at.

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Speaker 2: So no shows Wednesday, Uh, for travel. We arrive Thursday,

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Speaker 3: My game on a Thursday show anyway, which log through it,

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Speaker 3: and it'd still be entertaining.

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Speaker 2: You and PURSUITO will have fun doing. I think your

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Speaker 2: your hourship, I mean it be an hour, but you know,

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Speaker 2: you guys will be rightfully, I think pretty gassed as

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Speaker 2: we all will be. Listen, Matt like that kind of

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Speaker 2: travel stuff is tough when you're in your twenties, you know, yeah,

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Speaker 2: it will be a lot of fun. A lot of

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Speaker 2: coffee will be going down Thursday, I think. Also Thursday,

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Speaker 2: I think they're going to take us to lunch while

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Speaker 2: I think we might swing past the You know, the

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Speaker 2: which will be which will be cool. Maybe we can

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Speaker 3: Then we'll be like celebrities in there.

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Speaker 2: The Steelers have their own pro shops set up in

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Speaker 3: They're the only team that does.

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Speaker 2: The Vikings do as well too.

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Speaker 3: Well, okay, Vikings there year round.

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Speaker 2: No, no, no, this is all temporary just for the NFL

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Speaker 2: has one as well. So there's a Steelers Pro Shop,

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Speaker 2: a Vikings Pro Shop, and a NFL Pro Shop in

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Speaker 2: downtown Dublin. Three different apparel places, gotcha, The Vikings and

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Speaker 2: Steelers ones obviously team specific. The NFL one has a

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Speaker 2: ton of Vikings and Steelers stuff, but also stuff you know,

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Speaker 2: you could probably walk in there and get a Garrett

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Speaker 3: There'll be someone in a Mahomes jersey at the game.

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Speaker 2: One million percent.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I bet you'll be probably close to

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Speaker 2: I was going to say, we should try and keep itally.

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Speaker 2: We can see all.

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Speaker 3: Two teams exactly right.

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Speaker 2: There's also a Steelers bar Fitz Simmons Temple Bar, which

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Speaker 2: is going to be our headquarters for all of our

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Speaker 2: shows that Matt and I will do. The DV will

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Speaker 2: The Vikings have their own bar set up where they're

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Speaker 2: doing the same thing. The Packers and the Chiefs also

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Speaker 2: because they are the other two teams with with Ireland rights.

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Speaker 2: If that makes sense, It does to me.

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Speaker 3: It probably doesn't to most and I would do a

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Speaker 3: bad job explaining it. But every team has like territory.

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Speaker 2: Territories where you're allowed to market where you're like, that's

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Speaker 2: why the Steelers are hosting a game in Dublin, and

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Speaker 2: and not and not Germany, Yeah, Brazil or Brazil, you know, Australia, Australia,

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Speaker 3: Steelers have the most or tied for the most territories.

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Speaker 3: I believe that's so popular.

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Speaker 2: I believe like right now, Ireland I think is only Steelers, Packers,

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Speaker 2: the Vikings are Vikings one of them, right, So the.

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Speaker 3: Packers some rumors that maybe the Packer game would be there. Correct,

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Speaker 3: this should be Steelers Packers.

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Speaker 2: To peel back the curtain a little bit. I think

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Speaker 2: part of the reasoning for that is the Packers said, Hey,

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Speaker 2: if we're going to get Ireland rights, we'd rather just

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Speaker 2: host a game there in the next year or two.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, maybe I bet they would.

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Speaker 2: They would. They wouldn't be going to play this game

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Speaker 2: against the Steelers and then be going back there again

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Speaker 2: next year. To host a game like that just doesn't

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Speaker 3: And I know when the schedule came out, Aaron Rodgers

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Speaker 3: was not a Steeler, but would you rather Steelers Packers

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Speaker 3: at nine to thirty Easterns A great point?

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Speaker 2: Sunday night, That's a great but they don't want that

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Speaker 2: west on the West coast, right, they want that on

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Speaker 2: Sunday on Sunday night football. That's a great point by you.

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Speaker 2: But if you're kind of reading the tea leaves then

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Speaker 2: and trying to forecast, I think there's a very good

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Speaker 2: chance you'll see the Packers and the Chiefs playing games

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Speaker 2: in Ireland sooner rather than later. But they have pop

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Speaker 2: up bars for the for the weekend as well too,

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Speaker 2: Packers and chiefs as well. The Dublin map is insane.

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Speaker 2: I think Teresa out.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, checked out tonight.

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Speaker 2: So much going on and gonna be so much fun

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Speaker 2: for everybody there.

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Speaker 3: She has all this stuff laid out on there.

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Speaker 2: She does.

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Speaker 3: Yes, I'm going there.

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Speaker 2: Don't go in there. No, well, too much purple in there.

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Speaker 2: We'll get beat up. No, we will be doing the

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Speaker 2: beating up. Okay, we got Max Starks with us.

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Speaker 3: Baby.

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Speaker 2: Speaking of which, did I did? I? I didn't show

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Speaker 3: I know he's on a terrible towel tour, which is.

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Speaker 2: My My aunt and my two cousins ran into him

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Speaker 2: So so there's kind of a little bit of a

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Speaker 2: Is it a good time if you're someone like me

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think so. Now he could get suspended still

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Speaker 2: It's like there's two Tyreek Hill still stuff up in

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Speaker 3: Ye. Now, Samson was pretty promising before, while Judkins was out.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but I would think I would be comfortable flex

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Speaker 3: But yeah, yeah, it might be the one to see

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Speaker 2: Exactly right. Yeah, be kind of similar conversation, although it's

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Speaker 2: due to the unfortunate injury. Hate to see that for

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Speaker 3: Yeah, two former Steeler running backs out for the year

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Speaker 2: Both and both not like he's gonna miss a couple

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Speaker 3: Though, Yes, and I didn't love him coming out of

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Speaker 3: And he's an okay, a good prospect. He wasn't my favorite,

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Speaker 3: But to his credit, since being drafted, he's become a

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Speaker 3: were really good. Actually in both my leagues. I have him,

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Speaker 3: you know, not because I expected Carror and get hurt.

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Speaker 3: if he does, he's super valuable. Sure, he's a I'm

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Speaker 3: I think he could. I'm not say he's a league

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Speaker 2: For everybody needs depth at running back in their fantasy leagues.

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, and uh you got it if I

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Speaker 2: What if I told you, Matt that I have Judkins,

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Speaker 2: Benson and Omari and Hampton.

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Speaker 3: Okay, well they all got huge bumps this week.

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Speaker 2: I've had a rough start in that league.

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Speaker 3: I bet, because none of them are doing great now.

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Speaker 2: And I don't want to say like all I'm you know,

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Speaker 3: I do think the younger backs in general are about

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Speaker 2: It's time.

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Speaker 3: And another one to mention just is Trevon Henderson with

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Speaker 3: for like ninety percent of snaps against the Steelers. Yes,

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Speaker 2: History though, big time.

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Speaker 2: I mean it's like impossible to ignore. Yeah, it's not

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Speaker 2: just a popcorn issue, as Mike Tomag would say. It's

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Speaker 3: It's been a trend. He's after earn his way back on.

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Speaker 3: So in both my redraft leagues, I have both of them.

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Speaker 3: That wasn't my plan going in. I was really high

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Speaker 3: I'd certainly put Hampton ahead of the guys we mentioned.

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Speaker 3: But part of me, when you have both, you almost

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Speaker 3: I mean, Like if Memandre all of a sudden, I'll

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Speaker 3: that could be That could be a league winner.

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Speaker 2: And on my other big money team, I have both

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Speaker 2: I'm like, let's let's get trade tough.

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Speaker 2: a few of these guys to close down the Fantasy

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Speaker 2: Football focus. Brian Thomas first up. Yeah, he was the

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Speaker 3: Extremely talented. We have a coaching change going on there.

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Speaker 3: For the second year in a row, the Jags lead

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Speaker 3: like last year the Jets had a ton of them.

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Speaker 3: But Jacksonville's the top of league in that, and I

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Speaker 2: I think that's a good way to put it. You

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Speaker 2: rookie running backs, but Ashton genty average drafted, the average

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Speaker 2: thirtieth ranked right now. Give it time, he'll get going

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Speaker 3: There's both. He's a tough one for me because my

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Speaker 3: I mean, I think I said nowhere.

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Speaker 3: It's brutal, and I'm sure they're also at the bottom

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Speaker 3: But if someone's cutting into his third down back work

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Speaker 2: A couple more here, Drake London averaged being the ninth

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Speaker 3: Wid Yeah, that one doesn't worry me at all because

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Speaker 2: He played real bad, he played really poor, and they

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Speaker 3: I think London will be fine. I think Pennix will

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Speaker 2: Last one, I think this one worries some people. Chase

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Speaker 2: He is currently the thirty third ranked.

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Speaker 3: The thing he is going for him is he owns

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Speaker 2: Right.

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Speaker 3: I mean, Jonathan Taylor is one of those guys now

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Speaker 2: No, and now defenses are just gonna que on him.

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Speaker 2: That's a slow down. That run game make Jake Browning

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Now they're just so much easier to play against.

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Speaker 2: same last name, different team A J.

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Speaker 3: Brown He blew up this past week.

439
00:19:48,440 --> 00:19:50,960
Speaker 2: He sure did, right, but that was problemed and he

440
00:19:51,160 --> 00:19:53,800
Speaker 2: I think there's promise there. But he was the average

441
00:19:54,000 --> 00:19:58,479
Speaker 2: tenth wide receiver drafted. He is currently the thirty eighth ranked. Okay,

442
00:19:58,880 --> 00:19:59,760
Speaker 2: not timed to panic.

443
00:20:00,000 --> 00:20:04,399
Speaker 3: No, but him and Smith when you drafted them, if

444
00:20:04,440 --> 00:20:08,919
Speaker 3: you didn't realize that their ADP was baked in that

445
00:20:08,920 --> 00:20:10,720
Speaker 3: there's going to be some games that that team just

446
00:20:10,760 --> 00:20:13,280
Speaker 3: doesn't throw the ball much, then shame on you. You know,

447
00:20:13,359 --> 00:20:16,359
Speaker 3: like if he was in a different situation, he'd be

448
00:20:16,400 --> 00:20:19,159
Speaker 3: there with like Lamb and Chase and all those guys.

449
00:20:19,200 --> 00:20:21,360
Speaker 3: So you get him at wide receiver ten on your draft,

450
00:20:21,920 --> 00:20:24,040
Speaker 3: because there's going to be three or four games a

451
00:20:24,119 --> 00:20:26,199
Speaker 3: year that they just run the ball and win, you know,

452
00:20:26,520 --> 00:20:31,119
Speaker 3: And now it was getting a little scary there before

453
00:20:31,160 --> 00:20:33,920
Speaker 3: this past week, but it was really promising to me

454
00:20:34,119 --> 00:20:38,480
Speaker 3: that when the Rams I'd control that game, they just said,

455
00:20:38,920 --> 00:20:41,080
Speaker 3: we're throwing it to that dude, you know, because he's

456
00:20:41,119 --> 00:20:45,560
Speaker 3: a monster and he is a fantastic player. So my

457
00:20:45,680 --> 00:20:48,840
Speaker 3: thoughts really haven't changed on him since. Like Fantasy Draft.

458
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Speaker 2: Day, there's your fantasy football focus here for your Week

459
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Speaker 2: four action heading into the final week of the September

460
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Speaker 2: slate before we turn the calendar to October. When we

461
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Speaker 2: come back on the other side, it's time for Tuesday

462
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Speaker 2: Power rankings here on the Drive, West Shooler Matt Williamson,

463
00:21:07,920 --> 00:21:10,520
Speaker 2: Steelers Nation Radio on the Steelers Audio Network.

464
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Speaker 1: Your tunes about Drive on your twenty four to seven

465
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Speaker 1: home of the Black and Gold Steelers Nation Radio.

466
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Speaker 2: Power Ranking Tuesdays here on the program. Good timing before

467
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Speaker 2: we take off to get in maybe kind of one

468
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Speaker 2: last around the league view and conversation here on the Drive. Matt,

469
00:22:10,040 --> 00:22:12,600
Speaker 2: as always, you know the drill, The loyal listeners know

470
00:22:12,680 --> 00:22:15,080
Speaker 2: the drill. We start at number thirty two, So.

471
00:22:15,040 --> 00:22:17,880
Speaker 3: What's crazy about these bottom teams. Is we're already three

472
00:22:17,920 --> 00:22:21,520
Speaker 3: games in. Quarterback gets benched, you know, put the rookie

473
00:22:21,520 --> 00:22:27,119
Speaker 3: in play callers getting assignment chains. Right, Yeah, It's just

474
00:22:27,600 --> 00:22:28,760
Speaker 3: it blows me away. Every year.

475
00:22:28,920 --> 00:22:30,960
Speaker 2: It happens very quickly in this league.

476
00:22:31,200 --> 00:22:33,040
Speaker 3: And we went through all the and three teams a

477
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Speaker 3: day on a podcast, and basically Houston's the only one

478
00:22:35,800 --> 00:22:39,080
Speaker 3: I have any hope for of being like close to

479
00:22:39,119 --> 00:22:41,160
Speaker 3: being a potential playoffs.

480
00:22:40,720 --> 00:22:43,040
Speaker 2: And their schedule is crazy difficult in October.

481
00:22:43,119 --> 00:22:43,760
Speaker 3: Yeah, good luck.

482
00:22:43,960 --> 00:22:46,320
Speaker 2: They get Tennessee at home this weekend. That should get

483
00:22:46,320 --> 00:22:48,960
Speaker 2: you a win. Then it's like Baltimore and San Francisco

484
00:22:48,960 --> 00:22:50,880
Speaker 2: and Seattle, a lot of those are on the road.

485
00:22:51,440 --> 00:22:51,920
Speaker 2: Good luck.

486
00:22:52,000 --> 00:22:53,480
Speaker 3: Yeah, they're swimming upstream.

487
00:22:53,840 --> 00:22:56,240
Speaker 2: Number thirty two the New Orleans Saints.

488
00:22:56,880 --> 00:22:57,640
Speaker 3: I'm fine with it.

489
00:22:58,119 --> 00:23:01,280
Speaker 2: I think so too. I I could see Miami here.

490
00:23:01,280 --> 00:23:03,520
Speaker 2: But I also do think that to give them credit,

491
00:23:03,560 --> 00:23:05,560
Speaker 2: they showed some signs of life up and up at

492
00:23:05,640 --> 00:23:06,000
Speaker 2: least that.

493
00:23:06,000 --> 00:23:07,959
Speaker 3: Was their best game, where the Saints has played their

494
00:23:07,960 --> 00:23:09,679
Speaker 3: worst game. Right, you know, that's enough of it.

495
00:23:10,320 --> 00:23:12,639
Speaker 2: For a good way to put it. But yeah, Saints

496
00:23:12,680 --> 00:23:16,800
Speaker 2: at thirty two, Dolphins at thirty one. Saints dropped two spots,

497
00:23:16,840 --> 00:23:19,440
Speaker 2: Dolphins move up one. What's interesting to me is that

498
00:23:19,520 --> 00:23:24,919
Speaker 2: the Giants all at number thirty after being number twenty

499
00:23:25,000 --> 00:23:29,840
Speaker 2: eight last week. I I still feel like they are

500
00:23:30,920 --> 00:23:33,880
Speaker 2: not terrible. I do too, but they got to figure

501
00:23:33,880 --> 00:23:35,879
Speaker 2: out what's going on at quarterback and Jackson dark and

502
00:23:35,920 --> 00:23:36,920
Speaker 2: to get a crack out it this week.

503
00:23:37,000 --> 00:23:38,960
Speaker 3: It's as good a time as that any I mean whatever,

504
00:23:39,119 --> 00:23:41,080
Speaker 3: I mean, Wilson's not going to get you where you

505
00:23:41,160 --> 00:23:42,480
Speaker 3: need to be and dig you out of the so

506
00:23:42,640 --> 00:23:45,720
Speaker 3: and three hole. See Dart I guess has been super

507
00:23:45,760 --> 00:23:47,840
Speaker 3: impressive and it might not go well. Who knows.

508
00:23:48,000 --> 00:23:50,199
Speaker 2: But they got the Chargers. That's a tough first matchup.

509
00:23:50,280 --> 00:23:52,360
Speaker 3: They're the hardest schedule in the league too. I mean

510
00:23:53,720 --> 00:23:56,160
Speaker 3: that screams coaching change. And I can't say I'm super

511
00:23:56,160 --> 00:23:57,760
Speaker 3: impressed with their coaching staff either.

512
00:23:58,640 --> 00:24:02,240
Speaker 2: No, I again, in terms of hot seats and things

513
00:24:02,280 --> 00:24:02,600
Speaker 2: like that.

514
00:24:02,840 --> 00:24:04,760
Speaker 3: Yeah, hey, it's warming up fast.

515
00:24:04,800 --> 00:24:08,399
Speaker 2: Pay attention there in East Rutherford number twenty nine, the

516
00:24:08,440 --> 00:24:11,000
Speaker 2: Tennessee Titans. All these teams were still in zero to

517
00:24:11,040 --> 00:24:14,119
Speaker 2: three territory. I don't mind this like they're gonna I

518
00:24:14,119 --> 00:24:16,080
Speaker 2: think the Titans are gonna knock off somebody that we

519
00:24:16,080 --> 00:24:19,120
Speaker 2: don't expect at some point soon it'll be az But

520
00:24:19,440 --> 00:24:21,600
Speaker 2: cam Ward seems to have some juice.

521
00:24:21,920 --> 00:24:25,040
Speaker 3: Yes, Oh, cam Ward to me is really exciting, And

522
00:24:25,880 --> 00:24:28,239
Speaker 3: the same is true for Dart. To be honest with

523
00:24:28,280 --> 00:24:31,040
Speaker 3: you that just as a fan of the sport, I

524
00:24:31,080 --> 00:24:34,480
Speaker 3: hope these teams don't ruin what looked like promising first

525
00:24:34,520 --> 00:24:37,520
Speaker 3: round picks from this year. And by that, I mean,

526
00:24:38,080 --> 00:24:43,000
Speaker 3: could the Giants fire everybody? Probably will happen. The new

527
00:24:43,040 --> 00:24:46,239
Speaker 3: guy says, I don't really like Dart. They have the

528
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Speaker 3: third pick in the draft and they take nuss Meyer

529
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Speaker 3: or something, and then all of a sudden, it's like, dude.

530
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Speaker 2: We've seen a lot of that late.

531
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Speaker 3: Let's happened a million times.

532
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Speaker 2: We've seen the Jets do that. Yeah, I've seen the

533
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Speaker 2: Panthers do.

534
00:24:57,600 --> 00:25:01,199
Speaker 3: That and Tennessee could I mean, they're the ones that

535
00:25:01,240 --> 00:25:04,000
Speaker 3: are making the change in play caller. The head coach

536
00:25:04,080 --> 00:25:06,280
Speaker 3: is no longer calling plays, which probably said the owner

537
00:25:06,480 --> 00:25:09,919
Speaker 3: said you're not calling plays anymore? Probably not his idea. Well,

538
00:25:09,960 --> 00:25:14,119
Speaker 3: that's like step one of your seat being on fire.

539
00:25:15,960 --> 00:25:18,720
Speaker 2: Twenty eight, The New York Jets still looking for their

540
00:25:18,760 --> 00:25:21,359
Speaker 2: first win. Better, I mean, they've they've had you know,

541
00:25:22,320 --> 00:25:24,920
Speaker 2: pretty good performance against the Steelers. Okay, you get blown

542
00:25:24,920 --> 00:25:27,679
Speaker 2: out against Buffalo, the big dog in your division, and

543
00:25:27,720 --> 00:25:32,240
Speaker 2: then you may maybe even should have beat the Bucks. Yeah,

544
00:25:32,280 --> 00:25:34,440
Speaker 2: down in Tampa Bay this past Sunday.

545
00:25:34,200 --> 00:25:35,399
Speaker 3: They were one of those teams that came down to

546
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Speaker 3: the last minute kick.

547
00:25:36,240 --> 00:25:38,239
Speaker 2: And like, I think, I think they're much better than

548
00:25:38,280 --> 00:25:40,600
Speaker 2: the than these other oh and three teams. I don't Okay,

549
00:25:40,600 --> 00:25:43,120
Speaker 2: maybe much better isn't a stretch, but I think they

550
00:25:43,119 --> 00:25:45,359
Speaker 2: are better than the rest of these and three teams.

551
00:25:45,480 --> 00:25:48,320
Speaker 3: Yeah, And the conversation we finished the podcast with today

552
00:25:48,480 --> 00:25:50,159
Speaker 3: was I asked my co host, I'm like, would you

553
00:25:50,280 --> 00:25:53,520
Speaker 3: rather have all the oh and three teams minus the

554
00:25:53,600 --> 00:25:57,600
Speaker 3: Texans or only the Texans? And we both said I'd

555
00:25:57,640 --> 00:26:01,399
Speaker 3: still rather have the Texans. In terms of chances to

556
00:26:01,400 --> 00:26:03,919
Speaker 3: make the playoffs. I got five shots or whatever it is.

557
00:26:04,040 --> 00:26:06,960
Speaker 3: Verse one, I would still take the Texans. But if

558
00:26:07,000 --> 00:26:10,320
Speaker 3: any of the teams we just mentioned turn things around,

559
00:26:11,040 --> 00:26:14,200
Speaker 3: get the nine wins somehow sneak in as a seven seed,

560
00:26:14,320 --> 00:26:15,680
Speaker 3: I would pick the Jets.

561
00:26:16,359 --> 00:26:20,200
Speaker 2: Concur Yeah, twenty seven the New England Patriots.

562
00:26:21,480 --> 00:26:24,040
Speaker 3: I'm sure they're kicking themselves like crazy. And I always

563
00:26:24,040 --> 00:26:27,680
Speaker 3: talk about if this was Patriots Nation Radio. Just can't

564
00:26:27,680 --> 00:26:30,280
Speaker 3: turn them all over. You be in so much better shape.

565
00:26:30,440 --> 00:26:32,760
Speaker 3: I don't think they're particularly good though, I mean, I

566
00:26:32,840 --> 00:26:35,520
Speaker 3: just think their roster leaves a lot to be desired.

567
00:26:35,560 --> 00:26:38,080
Speaker 2: Still, I think they there's a really good chance they

568
00:26:38,080 --> 00:26:42,040
Speaker 2: found the quarterback, yes, but other than that, they need

569
00:26:42,040 --> 00:26:43,040
Speaker 2: a lot of work in the.

570
00:26:42,960 --> 00:26:45,400
Speaker 3: Power ranking world. I think they'll hover around this neighborhood

571
00:26:45,400 --> 00:26:45,800
Speaker 3: all year.

572
00:26:46,119 --> 00:26:53,160
Speaker 2: Yes, twenty six the Las Vegas Raiders after another tough

573
00:26:53,160 --> 00:26:54,320
Speaker 2: one against the Commanders.

574
00:26:54,400 --> 00:26:56,080
Speaker 3: I don't know if any team we mentioned should be

575
00:26:56,080 --> 00:27:01,080
Speaker 3: ahead of them, but I maybe would have the Raiders lower.

576
00:27:01,800 --> 00:27:03,320
Speaker 3: I think they're in a bad place right now. They

577
00:27:03,320 --> 00:27:04,320
Speaker 3: don't run the ball at all.

578
00:27:04,440 --> 00:27:07,560
Speaker 2: They can't run the ball. Ashton genty is just getting

579
00:27:07,680 --> 00:27:09,919
Speaker 2: hit behind the I mean, their offensive line, as we've discussed,

580
00:27:09,960 --> 00:27:12,840
Speaker 2: is terrible. Brock Bowers is not one hundred percent.

581
00:27:12,720 --> 00:27:15,320
Speaker 3: Nine o' close back seven on the defense is maybe

582
00:27:15,320 --> 00:27:18,159
Speaker 3: the worst in the league. Like maybe the Jets go

583
00:27:18,240 --> 00:27:20,720
Speaker 3: past them and A sure mean those type of teams, right.

584
00:27:20,840 --> 00:27:25,160
Speaker 2: Gino Smith respawned after a terrible game in Week two. Yeah,

585
00:27:25,200 --> 00:27:28,840
Speaker 2: he had nearly three hundred yards, three touchdowns, no turnovers.

586
00:27:28,840 --> 00:27:32,199
Speaker 2: It still meant nothing. It meant nothing, right, it meant nothing.

587
00:27:32,600 --> 00:27:36,080
Speaker 3: I was excited about the direction the whole organization was going,

588
00:27:36,800 --> 00:27:38,760
Speaker 3: but it's not showing up on the field yet at all.

589
00:27:39,080 --> 00:27:42,440
Speaker 2: No, it is not twenty five feeling good about themselves

590
00:27:42,520 --> 00:27:45,280
Speaker 2: up six spots after beating one of the best teams

591
00:27:45,280 --> 00:27:46,840
Speaker 2: in the league, the Cleveland Browns.

592
00:27:47,200 --> 00:27:51,440
Speaker 3: All on defense, I mean, very good defense. It's definitely

593
00:27:51,560 --> 00:27:53,520
Speaker 3: right now, a top five defense.

594
00:27:55,160 --> 00:27:56,320
Speaker 2: Rookies are playing well.

595
00:27:56,440 --> 00:27:59,160
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, they play a lot of man that's aggressive.

596
00:27:59,480 --> 00:28:02,159
Speaker 3: Garrett's are. Yeah, that's where the brown should be.

597
00:28:02,640 --> 00:28:06,320
Speaker 2: Twenty four A I think potential unravel situation. You know,

598
00:28:06,320 --> 00:28:08,200
Speaker 2: we've talked about this a little bit with the Dolphins.

599
00:28:08,240 --> 00:28:10,680
Speaker 2: I think the Cowboys might be in that same boat.

600
00:28:10,720 --> 00:28:12,280
Speaker 2: They're twenty fourth this week.

601
00:28:12,600 --> 00:28:17,000
Speaker 3: Yeah, they're shootout win versus Giants. Doesn't look super impressive.

602
00:28:17,400 --> 00:28:20,520
Speaker 2: I mean they're just Russell Wilson's playing a great game

603
00:28:20,520 --> 00:28:23,199
Speaker 2: against them and then getting benched. Caleb Williams is looking

604
00:28:23,320 --> 00:28:27,520
Speaker 2: bad against everybody else and playing a great game against them. Yeah,

605
00:28:27,560 --> 00:28:30,399
Speaker 2: and with Ceedee Lamb, you know, likely on the shelf

606
00:28:30,440 --> 00:28:34,080
Speaker 2: for a while. Not great, wouldn't call it great. No.

607
00:28:34,880 --> 00:28:37,840
Speaker 2: Twenty three the Houston Texans are at twenty three, zero

608
00:28:37,880 --> 00:28:40,840
Speaker 2: and three. They fall six spots this week and.

609
00:28:40,920 --> 00:28:43,480
Speaker 3: Where they're where i'd slot them. But I think that's right.

610
00:28:43,760 --> 00:28:44,240
Speaker 2: I do too.

611
00:28:44,520 --> 00:28:48,560
Speaker 3: I mean, I I.

612
00:28:46,960 --> 00:28:49,120
Speaker 2: Certainly think like that they're better than the Raiders, even

613
00:28:49,120 --> 00:28:51,240
Speaker 2: though the Raiders are one and two, better than the Cowboys,

614
00:28:51,240 --> 00:28:53,520
Speaker 2: even though the Cowboys are one and two. But they

615
00:28:53,520 --> 00:28:56,640
Speaker 2: got to start stacking some wins, man Like. The defense

616
00:28:56,720 --> 00:28:59,320
Speaker 2: is really nice. I think they have some pieces on offense.

617
00:28:59,400 --> 00:29:02,080
Speaker 2: But you are what your record says you are, Bill Parcells.

618
00:29:02,280 --> 00:29:04,920
Speaker 3: Yeah, and the O line is still a problem. They

619
00:29:04,920 --> 00:29:07,960
Speaker 3: don't run the ball well, I'm worried that they're ruining Stroud,

620
00:29:09,000 --> 00:29:10,760
Speaker 3: but one side of the ball is quite good.

621
00:29:12,120 --> 00:29:14,920
Speaker 2: Down seven spots this week after I think the worst

622
00:29:15,000 --> 00:29:17,040
Speaker 2: performance that we saw of any team in the NFL

623
00:29:17,120 --> 00:29:19,920
Speaker 2: is the Atlanta Falcons. They fall to the Panthers by

624
00:29:19,960 --> 00:29:22,320
Speaker 2: thirty to nothing, down to twenty two.

625
00:29:22,520 --> 00:29:25,440
Speaker 3: Now, this is a weird conversation because I've done power

626
00:29:25,520 --> 00:29:27,640
Speaker 3: ranks and they're way harder than you think, especially once

627
00:29:27,640 --> 00:29:30,720
Speaker 3: you get into the year. Should the Falcons be below

628
00:29:30,800 --> 00:29:35,320
Speaker 3: the Panthers? They just got walloped by them, Yes, so

629
00:29:35,400 --> 00:29:35,880
Speaker 3: I guess.

630
00:29:35,920 --> 00:29:37,880
Speaker 2: So it doesn't mean four weeks from now, they're right

631
00:29:38,120 --> 00:29:39,160
Speaker 2: right right now they should be.

632
00:29:39,320 --> 00:29:42,160
Speaker 3: I mean four days ago they were way ahead of them.

633
00:29:42,160 --> 00:29:45,160
Speaker 3: I assume Panthers were in contention for thirty two in

634
00:29:45,160 --> 00:29:48,520
Speaker 3: my opinion. Agreed, just because they have one good game. Now,

635
00:29:48,520 --> 00:29:50,080
Speaker 3: all of a sudden, they're gonna be higher. You know,

636
00:29:50,480 --> 00:29:53,680
Speaker 3: I'm actually looking over your shoulder. I see that. So

637
00:29:53,720 --> 00:29:55,920
Speaker 3: the Falcons have to have them above them, I guess.

638
00:29:55,960 --> 00:29:59,360
Speaker 2: But yeah, the Falcons dropped seven spots, the biggest drop

639
00:29:59,640 --> 00:30:03,240
Speaker 2: this week. The Panthers up eight spots. The highest climb

640
00:30:03,840 --> 00:30:07,640
Speaker 2: this week, Yeah, because Cleveland was up six spots. So

641
00:30:07,720 --> 00:30:10,120
Speaker 2: highest climb this week for Carolina they're at twenty one.

642
00:30:10,160 --> 00:30:11,760
Speaker 2: After that, she lacking of Atlanta.

643
00:30:12,040 --> 00:30:14,480
Speaker 3: So I say this every year. I mean, it's really

644
00:30:14,520 --> 00:30:17,320
Speaker 3: easy to be critical of power ranks, and I urge

645
00:30:17,360 --> 00:30:19,840
Speaker 3: everyone to do their own because they're really hard.

646
00:30:19,920 --> 00:30:20,440
Speaker 2: They're tough.

647
00:30:20,720 --> 00:30:25,360
Speaker 3: But like if Houston plays Carolina, they're favored by a touchdown.

648
00:30:24,960 --> 00:30:25,680
Speaker 2: Five and a half points.

649
00:30:25,760 --> 00:30:27,560
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, even if it's in Carolina.

650
00:30:28,000 --> 00:30:31,240
Speaker 2: It's that's why these are I think so fun to

651
00:30:31,280 --> 00:30:35,240
Speaker 2: do on a right league basis. Number twenty down four spots,

652
00:30:35,240 --> 00:30:37,640
Speaker 2: and I think they could fall certainly more here it's

653
00:30:37,680 --> 00:30:39,280
Speaker 2: the Cincinnati Bengals.

654
00:30:40,040 --> 00:30:42,120
Speaker 3: Like the Falcons are favored over the Bengals right now.

655
00:30:42,600 --> 00:30:45,760
Speaker 3: Houston's favored over the Bengals right now. Cowboys might be

656
00:30:45,760 --> 00:30:49,760
Speaker 3: favored of Cowboys and that's that would be a total shootout.

657
00:30:49,360 --> 00:30:53,480
Speaker 2: Too bad defenses. But believe Cowboys have the quarterback right now, right.

658
00:30:53,320 --> 00:30:56,160
Speaker 3: I mean, I'll take Dak against Browning totally. They're right.

659
00:30:56,160 --> 00:30:58,760
Speaker 3: I mean, well, Lamb's out, that's not if he weren't.

660
00:30:58,800 --> 00:31:00,720
Speaker 3: But yeah, hairs here.

661
00:31:01,080 --> 00:31:05,240
Speaker 2: Number nineteen the Chicago Bears after so what number the

662
00:31:05,400 --> 00:31:07,640
Speaker 2: ninth show in some life. Yeah, that's a little high

663
00:31:07,720 --> 00:31:08,800
Speaker 2: for me, but I mean.

664
00:31:08,720 --> 00:31:11,840
Speaker 3: I'm okay with that. But boy, twenty to thirty two

665
00:31:12,040 --> 00:31:14,880
Speaker 3: is bad, really mad right now, real bad, worse than

666
00:31:14,920 --> 00:31:15,960
Speaker 3: usual at this point.

667
00:31:15,800 --> 00:31:18,520
Speaker 2: Big time. Yeah, there's a lot of there's not much hope,

668
00:31:18,600 --> 00:31:21,320
Speaker 2: like it'side in Houston. I don't think anybody really has

669
00:31:21,400 --> 00:31:23,360
Speaker 2: much of a prayer of changing their fortunes.

670
00:31:23,440 --> 00:31:26,240
Speaker 3: Like I think Atlanta should still be optimistic of their

671
00:31:26,240 --> 00:31:28,000
Speaker 3: young quarterback. And maybe it's had a.

672
00:31:27,920 --> 00:31:29,920
Speaker 2: Bad day, it might still result in a seven and

673
00:31:30,000 --> 00:31:32,479
Speaker 2: ten record this season, but you're feeling good about your

674
00:31:32,520 --> 00:31:33,560
Speaker 2: future come December.

675
00:31:33,720 --> 00:31:36,040
Speaker 3: Yeah, Yeah, Like I think Atlanta will end up being

676
00:31:36,560 --> 00:31:39,440
Speaker 3: out of that level. They'll be the eighteenth team. It's

677
00:31:39,440 --> 00:31:41,400
Speaker 3: all said and done or whatever. But we just named

678
00:31:41,400 --> 00:31:46,479
Speaker 3: twelve teams that are whoah. Like again, boy, we had

679
00:31:46,480 --> 00:31:49,760
Speaker 3: this conversation deep yesterday. You folks would think the Steelers

680
00:31:49,760 --> 00:31:52,480
Speaker 3: the worst team in the league. The twelve we just

681
00:31:52,520 --> 00:31:56,200
Speaker 3: spit out aren't even close. You know what I mean?

682
00:31:56,360 --> 00:31:59,479
Speaker 2: Right, Cardinals at eighteen, Matt, they're a weird one for

683
00:31:59,480 --> 00:32:01,720
Speaker 2: me to have value. Yeah, I mean James Connor being

684
00:32:01,720 --> 00:32:04,800
Speaker 2: out as big Marvin Harrison Junior has still not taken

685
00:32:04,840 --> 00:32:07,320
Speaker 2: off like everyone expected him to out of Ohio State.

686
00:32:08,120 --> 00:32:10,200
Speaker 2: Kyler is Kyler is what he is.

687
00:32:10,320 --> 00:32:13,400
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think that that book's probably written. That's about

688
00:32:13,400 --> 00:32:18,280
Speaker 3: where they belong. And of the NFC West teams, I

689
00:32:18,280 --> 00:32:20,240
Speaker 3: don't know how I would rank them other than I

690
00:32:20,320 --> 00:32:21,680
Speaker 3: know the Cardinals would be last.

691
00:32:23,960 --> 00:32:28,479
Speaker 2: I think that's fair. Yeah, seventeen. The Jacksonville Jaguars up

692
00:32:28,520 --> 00:32:31,720
Speaker 2: six spots this week after taking down Houston. They had

693
00:32:31,720 --> 00:32:35,080
Speaker 2: that disappointing loss in Cincinnati, but they're two and one, Matt,

694
00:32:35,160 --> 00:32:36,480
Speaker 2: Jacksonville moving in the right direction.

695
00:32:36,560 --> 00:32:40,040
Speaker 3: They're in the hunt for playoff stuff, and they're working

696
00:32:40,080 --> 00:32:42,680
Speaker 3: through a lot as well. They're not an easy watch

697
00:32:42,720 --> 00:32:45,640
Speaker 3: at all. Right now, I'm okay with them there. Them

698
00:32:45,680 --> 00:32:47,120
Speaker 3: in Arizona are about the same to me.

699
00:32:47,720 --> 00:32:50,640
Speaker 2: At sixteen and fifteen, the two foes who will face

700
00:32:50,680 --> 00:32:53,800
Speaker 2: off in Dublin on Sunday. The Steelers are at sixteen,

701
00:32:54,080 --> 00:32:57,480
Speaker 2: up four spots from last week. The Vikings are at fifteen,

702
00:32:57,640 --> 00:33:00,080
Speaker 2: also up four spots from last week.

703
00:33:00,440 --> 00:33:02,520
Speaker 3: Okay, that's probably where i'd have the Steelers.

704
00:33:02,640 --> 00:33:04,400
Speaker 2: I think i'd have Minnesota a little bit higher.

705
00:33:04,400 --> 00:33:06,280
Speaker 3: Now. Got hard on Minnesota.

706
00:33:06,440 --> 00:33:08,680
Speaker 2: I know they's wall of Cincinnati like some of the you.

707
00:33:08,720 --> 00:33:10,600
Speaker 3: Know, I'm working on Matt's stats, and some of their

708
00:33:11,120 --> 00:33:15,280
Speaker 3: their year long stuff isn't pretty, you know, yards for

709
00:33:15,400 --> 00:33:18,800
Speaker 3: play and stuff like that. But I think they're better

710
00:33:18,880 --> 00:33:23,080
Speaker 3: now than they've been. They're healthier, and you know, Addison's back,

711
00:33:23,160 --> 00:33:25,760
Speaker 3: and I think that they're harder to play. This is

712
00:33:25,800 --> 00:33:27,560
Speaker 3: the worst week to play them, in my opinion. I

713
00:33:27,560 --> 00:33:28,720
Speaker 3: think they're playing well.

714
00:33:28,800 --> 00:33:31,880
Speaker 2: I completely agree you are getting Minnesota probably.

715
00:33:31,520 --> 00:33:33,240
Speaker 3: The worst rather played them two weeks ago.

716
00:33:33,320 --> 00:33:37,360
Speaker 2: Yes, number fourteen, falling four spots out of the top

717
00:33:37,400 --> 00:33:40,160
Speaker 2: ten for the first time this season. It's the Denver Broncos,

718
00:33:40,480 --> 00:33:43,360
Speaker 2: now just two and eight in one score game since

719
00:33:43,400 --> 00:33:44,400
Speaker 2: the start of last season.

720
00:33:45,400 --> 00:33:48,120
Speaker 3: Nix is struggling, Yes he is. I'm fine with that.

721
00:33:48,560 --> 00:33:50,680
Speaker 2: I am too. I'm not closing the book on them,

722
00:33:50,720 --> 00:33:52,280
Speaker 2: but they're struggling right now.

723
00:33:52,360 --> 00:33:54,880
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, they're figuring things out too, especially on offense

724
00:33:54,920 --> 00:33:55,840
Speaker 3: and with a young.

725
00:33:55,720 --> 00:33:59,120
Speaker 2: Quarterback number thirteen. I think one of the surprise in

726
00:33:59,160 --> 00:34:01,360
Speaker 2: a good way to you of this NFL season it's

727
00:34:01,360 --> 00:34:02,800
Speaker 2: the Seattle Seahawks.

728
00:34:03,040 --> 00:34:05,960
Speaker 3: I want to mention this, so we reference EPA a

729
00:34:05,960 --> 00:34:08,600
Speaker 3: lot here, but I'm also a big fan of DVOA

730
00:34:08,760 --> 00:34:10,319
Speaker 3: and Dale and I have talked about it a lot

731
00:34:10,360 --> 00:34:12,320
Speaker 3: over the year, so our list is probably are familiar.

732
00:34:12,360 --> 00:34:16,000
Speaker 3: But started with Football Siders Aaron Schotts. That's their version

733
00:34:16,040 --> 00:34:19,160
Speaker 3: of doing things and it comes out every Tuesday morning.

734
00:34:19,600 --> 00:34:24,120
Speaker 3: I went to FTN Fantasy, who bought football Siders Seattle's

735
00:34:24,120 --> 00:34:25,640
Speaker 3: their number one team.

736
00:34:26,200 --> 00:34:30,960
Speaker 2: Wow. So based off the forget how they played three game.

737
00:34:30,880 --> 00:34:33,480
Speaker 3: Yep, how they played for three weeks, it's a top five,

738
00:34:34,160 --> 00:34:37,480
Speaker 3: number one, two or three, top five defense and offense.

739
00:34:39,400 --> 00:34:42,200
Speaker 3: That's your loss doesn't look quite as bad through that lens.

740
00:34:43,280 --> 00:34:46,120
Speaker 2: I think Seattle has been one of the more impressive

741
00:34:46,120 --> 00:34:48,759
Speaker 2: teams so far. This season, particularly of the non three

742
00:34:48,800 --> 00:34:50,080
Speaker 2: and OH teams as well too.

743
00:34:50,280 --> 00:34:53,319
Speaker 3: Right, right, right, who's been better than you think? Seattle's

744
00:34:53,360 --> 00:34:54,520
Speaker 3: near the top of that list.

745
00:34:54,400 --> 00:34:57,279
Speaker 2: Right, Seattle and in number one at the top of

746
00:34:57,280 --> 00:35:01,000
Speaker 2: that list, Number twelve undefeated, the only team that has

747
00:35:01,040 --> 00:35:06,080
Speaker 2: beaten Seattle this season, navigating still despite injuries, playing well

748
00:35:06,280 --> 00:35:07,040
Speaker 2: the forty nine.

749
00:35:06,920 --> 00:35:08,600
Speaker 3: Ers, and they just lost Bosa for.

750
00:35:08,520 --> 00:35:10,320
Speaker 2: The year to me though, the big kicker.

751
00:35:10,440 --> 00:35:12,640
Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, I'm not sure how much you can withstand

752
00:35:12,800 --> 00:35:14,680
Speaker 3: the other stuff. You know, you're gonna get kittled back

753
00:35:14,680 --> 00:35:16,600
Speaker 3: in a week or two, and thirty in a week

754
00:35:16,680 --> 00:35:19,920
Speaker 3: or two, and maybe even ayuk, but Bosa is a

755
00:35:19,920 --> 00:35:20,880
Speaker 3: tough one overcome.

756
00:35:21,560 --> 00:35:24,040
Speaker 2: Number eleven in the same spot they were last week,

757
00:35:24,120 --> 00:35:26,680
Speaker 2: finally got their first win to the Kansas City Chiefs.

758
00:35:28,000 --> 00:35:31,920
Speaker 3: Fine, I saw my doubts, but okay, what.

759
00:35:31,920 --> 00:35:35,640
Speaker 2: If Patrick Mahomes hadn't stripped that ball back from Bobby Okareke. Yeah,

760
00:35:35,640 --> 00:35:37,399
Speaker 2: I know, Chiefs might be zero and three.

761
00:35:37,560 --> 00:35:39,319
Speaker 3: I probably wouldn't have moved them either though. They won

762
00:35:39,360 --> 00:35:41,200
Speaker 3: a game they're supposed to win, but it wasn't a

763
00:35:41,239 --> 00:35:44,160
Speaker 3: blowout and they weren't all overly impressive, you.

764
00:35:44,080 --> 00:35:48,719
Speaker 2: Know, Number ten down three spots. I mean, I get it,

765
00:35:48,760 --> 00:35:51,200
Speaker 2: but they also lost to a three and ozho defending

766
00:35:51,200 --> 00:35:53,880
Speaker 2: Super Bowl champion on the road. The Rams at number ten.

767
00:35:54,000 --> 00:35:56,560
Speaker 3: I wouldn't move them down. Sometimes you moved down just

768
00:35:56,560 --> 00:35:57,880
Speaker 3: because other teams have to move.

769
00:35:57,800 --> 00:36:00,719
Speaker 2: Up, like the Colts. Like the Colts, Yeah, they're three

770
00:36:00,719 --> 00:36:02,239
Speaker 2: and oh, but I still don't know if i'd have

771
00:36:02,280 --> 00:36:04,680
Speaker 2: the Colts above the Rams. But maybe you should with

772
00:36:04,719 --> 00:36:06,400
Speaker 2: the way they're playing, because this is supposed to be

773
00:36:06,440 --> 00:36:08,200
Speaker 2: a week the week power rankings. This isn't like a

774
00:36:08,200 --> 00:36:10,520
Speaker 2: big picture now how we feel about the teams, that's

775
00:36:10,560 --> 00:36:11,480
Speaker 2: how they're playing right now.

776
00:36:11,560 --> 00:36:13,600
Speaker 3: I just think the Rams would probably be favored against

777
00:36:13,600 --> 00:36:13,919
Speaker 3: the Colt.

778
00:36:13,960 --> 00:36:15,600
Speaker 2: I think so too. Yeah, I think the Rams would

779
00:36:15,600 --> 00:36:18,400
Speaker 2: probably be favored against twenty eight teams in the NFL,

780
00:36:18,840 --> 00:36:20,240
Speaker 2: twenty seven teams in the NFL.

781
00:36:20,320 --> 00:36:23,080
Speaker 3: They weren't embarrassing last week. In fact, their stock maybe

782
00:36:23,080 --> 00:36:23,719
Speaker 3: should have went out.

783
00:36:23,920 --> 00:36:26,480
Speaker 2: The Eagles did what Super Bowl champions tend to do

784
00:36:26,600 --> 00:36:30,000
Speaker 2: at home in Philly, in Philly, block a field goal

785
00:36:30,000 --> 00:36:32,879
Speaker 2: final to win the game. But that I don't think

786
00:36:33,000 --> 00:36:35,600
Speaker 2: reflects very negatively on the Rams. They continue to be

787
00:36:35,719 --> 00:36:37,920
Speaker 2: like the one team that really seems to give the

788
00:36:37,960 --> 00:36:40,440
Speaker 2: Eagles trouble. Although the Eagles find a way to get it.

789
00:36:40,400 --> 00:36:41,919
Speaker 3: Done against themselves, they can't finish.

790
00:36:42,160 --> 00:36:44,279
Speaker 2: Yeah, they've won, like I think like the Eagles have

791
00:36:44,320 --> 00:36:46,239
Speaker 2: won like nine of their last ten against McVeigh and

792
00:36:46,280 --> 00:36:50,040
Speaker 2: the Rams. It's spooky. Number nine is the three and

793
00:36:50,080 --> 00:36:51,160
Speaker 2: oh Indianapolis Colts.

794
00:36:52,239 --> 00:36:54,319
Speaker 3: I'm fine with them in this neighborhood, but I would

795
00:36:54,320 --> 00:36:55,520
Speaker 3: have the Rams ahead of them.

796
00:36:56,000 --> 00:36:59,400
Speaker 2: Concur Yeah, interesting one to me. The Commanders are at

797
00:36:59,480 --> 00:37:01,839
Speaker 2: number eight high for me, way too high for me.

798
00:37:01,880 --> 00:37:05,000
Speaker 3: They'd be behind the Rams. They behind the Colts. Maybe

799
00:37:05,040 --> 00:37:09,040
Speaker 3: even a couple of Kansasy Chiefs would be behind them. Yeah,

800
00:37:09,200 --> 00:37:11,040
Speaker 3: Seattle's playing better than Washington.

801
00:37:11,360 --> 00:37:14,759
Speaker 2: They certainly are. Yeah, I realized Mariota had a good

802
00:37:14,760 --> 00:37:17,080
Speaker 2: performance and they kind of beat up on the Rams.

803
00:37:17,080 --> 00:37:19,720
Speaker 2: But I'm still not sold on the Commanders being anywhere

804
00:37:19,760 --> 00:37:21,120
Speaker 2: close to what they were last year. I don't know

805
00:37:21,160 --> 00:37:22,360
Speaker 2: if they're terrible.

806
00:37:22,320 --> 00:37:24,120
Speaker 3: But I don't know, but they would not be in

807
00:37:24,120 --> 00:37:24,920
Speaker 3: my top ten.

808
00:37:24,840 --> 00:37:27,360
Speaker 2: I don't think so. Down four spots to the lowest

809
00:37:27,360 --> 00:37:30,760
Speaker 2: they've been all season. The Baltimore Ravens after man another

810
00:37:30,840 --> 00:37:34,280
Speaker 2: bad turnover by Derrick Henry, another frustrating loss for Baltimore.

811
00:37:34,440 --> 00:37:36,920
Speaker 3: Yeah, And would worry me most for Baltimore is they

812
00:37:36,920 --> 00:37:39,359
Speaker 3: lost to both lines of scrimmage. I mean, how often

813
00:37:39,360 --> 00:37:41,360
Speaker 3: you see lamarget sacks seven times?

814
00:37:41,400 --> 00:37:41,760
Speaker 2: Crazy?

815
00:37:41,840 --> 00:37:45,279
Speaker 3: Yeah, they never never, ever, ever, ever right. And and

816
00:37:45,320 --> 00:37:47,520
Speaker 3: they couldn't run the ball that well, they couldn't stop

817
00:37:47,520 --> 00:37:50,920
Speaker 3: the run. So maybe Baltimore is not quite as good

818
00:37:50,920 --> 00:37:52,080
Speaker 3: as we thought. I mean I thought they were the

819
00:37:52,080 --> 00:37:54,000
Speaker 3: best even league coming in the season, and now they're

820
00:37:54,000 --> 00:37:57,440
Speaker 3: one and two. Both their losses are very excusable. I

821
00:37:57,440 --> 00:37:57,879
Speaker 3: mean they were.

822
00:37:58,120 --> 00:38:00,800
Speaker 2: Great to sure, I get that tight games, yeah.

823
00:38:00,640 --> 00:38:02,160
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, but I don't like losing to the line

824
00:38:02,160 --> 00:38:03,560
Speaker 3: of scrimmage on both sides of the ball.

825
00:38:04,440 --> 00:38:06,680
Speaker 2: Down to number six, I think that's a little harsh.

826
00:38:06,880 --> 00:38:10,040
Speaker 2: But it was a very strange loss for sure for

827
00:38:10,080 --> 00:38:12,440
Speaker 2: the Green Bay Packers down two spots.

828
00:38:12,120 --> 00:38:15,920
Speaker 3: And they lost because they couldn't block the Browns front basically,

829
00:38:16,000 --> 00:38:18,000
Speaker 3: I mean the Browns defense made that into a total

830
00:38:18,080 --> 00:38:23,200
Speaker 3: rock fight. Packers kept losing offensive lineman. I would have

831
00:38:23,239 --> 00:38:25,480
Speaker 3: them a couple spots higher. I still think they're in

832
00:38:25,520 --> 00:38:26,120
Speaker 3: the top tier.

833
00:38:26,280 --> 00:38:30,040
Speaker 2: I think so too, holding steady at number five after

834
00:38:30,160 --> 00:38:32,640
Speaker 2: moving to three and oh and another win the Tampa

835
00:38:32,640 --> 00:38:33,360
Speaker 2: Bay Buccaneers.

836
00:38:33,680 --> 00:38:34,160
Speaker 3: That's great.

837
00:38:34,239 --> 00:38:36,600
Speaker 2: A couple of spots too high for me. May're definitely

838
00:38:36,640 --> 00:38:37,160
Speaker 2: in the top ten.

839
00:38:37,239 --> 00:38:38,960
Speaker 3: Like i'd have him, to have a Washington, i'd have

840
00:38:39,080 --> 00:38:42,200
Speaker 3: them a couple of teams we mentioned recently, but I

841
00:38:42,200 --> 00:38:45,920
Speaker 3: think I'm still having Baltimore and definitely Green Bay Bay them.

842
00:38:45,920 --> 00:38:46,319
Speaker 2: So yeah.

843
00:38:46,520 --> 00:38:48,319
Speaker 3: By the way, they just lost Mike Evans at least

844
00:38:48,320 --> 00:38:50,480
Speaker 3: for a couple weeks a hamstring.

845
00:38:50,239 --> 00:38:54,120
Speaker 2: And remember Kalaijahkantzi's out for the season. Yeah, a couple

846
00:38:54,160 --> 00:38:56,360
Speaker 2: of big losses for Tampa Bay. But they're three and

847
00:38:56,360 --> 00:38:59,640
Speaker 2: oh and they're playing well. The team that is up

848
00:38:59,680 --> 00:39:02,759
Speaker 2: five spots this week, highest they've been this year, I think,

849
00:39:02,760 --> 00:39:04,759
Speaker 2: probably the highest they've been in power rankings for a

850
00:39:04,800 --> 00:39:07,840
Speaker 2: long time. It's the undefeated La Chargers.

851
00:39:09,280 --> 00:39:11,360
Speaker 3: I'd have every when we talked about so far.

852
00:39:11,640 --> 00:39:13,080
Speaker 2: I think so too. I think yeah, I think I

853
00:39:13,160 --> 00:39:16,200
Speaker 2: might even have him ahead of uh, maybe the Detroit Lions,

854
00:39:16,200 --> 00:39:18,080
Speaker 2: who check in at number three here on the list.

855
00:39:18,160 --> 00:39:19,640
Speaker 2: But okay, I'm splitting hairs.

856
00:39:20,000 --> 00:39:21,640
Speaker 3: Yeah, Troit was pretty impressive last year.

857
00:39:22,000 --> 00:39:28,240
Speaker 2: Was very impressive last night hand and impressive the week before,

858
00:39:28,280 --> 00:39:32,960
Speaker 2: putting up fifty plus and beating the Bears by four touchdowns.

859
00:39:33,000 --> 00:39:36,200
Speaker 2: But yeah, like you uh, like you mentioned seven sacks

860
00:39:36,239 --> 00:39:38,279
Speaker 2: of Lamar Jackson, the way that defense is playing, the

861
00:39:38,280 --> 00:39:40,520
Speaker 2: way that they're continuing to run the football despite some

862
00:39:40,640 --> 00:39:43,719
Speaker 2: key losses to that offensive line in the offseason. I

863
00:39:43,719 --> 00:39:47,120
Speaker 2: think people writing the uh writing the obituary for the

864
00:39:47,120 --> 00:39:49,440
Speaker 2: Detroit Lions was a little too premature.

865
00:39:49,120 --> 00:39:52,719
Speaker 3: A thousand per and Goff's numbers weren't mind blowing, but

866
00:39:52,760 --> 00:39:54,520
Speaker 3: he was still quite good too, you know.

867
00:39:55,080 --> 00:39:56,560
Speaker 2: And then locked in at the top here like they

868
00:39:56,560 --> 00:39:58,520
Speaker 2: still have been for the last few weeks. Buffalo stays

869
00:39:58,520 --> 00:40:00,000
Speaker 2: at number two, Philly stays at number one.

870
00:39:59,920 --> 00:40:04,719
Speaker 3: One. Yeah, I mean Philly winning the game to me

871
00:40:04,880 --> 00:40:07,160
Speaker 3: isn't as impressive for their spot to be number one

872
00:40:07,719 --> 00:40:10,680
Speaker 3: as being able to shift into a passing team when

873
00:40:10,760 --> 00:40:14,759
Speaker 3: you had to playing with the lead. They're always they

874
00:40:14,760 --> 00:40:16,959
Speaker 3: always have a lead, you know. And for the first

875
00:40:16,960 --> 00:40:19,040
Speaker 3: time in a while, Oh no, we got to come

876
00:40:19,080 --> 00:40:20,200
Speaker 3: back and they should That.

877
00:40:20,160 --> 00:40:22,479
Speaker 2: Was the big question about that. Yeah, yeah, hurts, and.

878
00:40:22,520 --> 00:40:25,200
Speaker 3: Right right right. We talked about aj Brown the fantasy segment,

879
00:40:25,320 --> 00:40:27,920
Speaker 3: so they showed they could throw when they need to,

880
00:40:28,000 --> 00:40:30,279
Speaker 3: and so that was a box that hadn't quite been

881
00:40:30,360 --> 00:40:31,200
Speaker 3: checked yet this year.

882
00:40:32,200 --> 00:40:36,400
Speaker 2: You know, I've got a lot of friends, family, old

883
00:40:36,480 --> 00:40:39,440
Speaker 2: co workers in Philadelphia from my three years there and

884
00:40:39,960 --> 00:40:46,120
Speaker 2: my wife's home stomping grounds. Boy were they were they

885
00:40:46,200 --> 00:40:49,719
Speaker 2: letting it be known about about some Jalen Hurts disrespect

886
00:40:49,719 --> 00:40:53,120
Speaker 2: in the aftermath of that comeback. Oh okay, everybody that

887
00:40:53,200 --> 00:40:55,920
Speaker 2: I follow from Philadelphia on social media is like poster

888
00:40:56,080 --> 00:40:59,600
Speaker 2: Jalen Hurts passing chart. Now what about the what about

889
00:40:59,600 --> 00:41:01,440
Speaker 2: the Eagles not being able to throw the football? Now?

890
00:41:01,440 --> 00:41:04,880
Speaker 2: What do you gotta say about Jalen? Now, Hey, it's

891
00:41:04,920 --> 00:41:07,680
Speaker 2: it's impressive. It's impressive. Day that was, like you said,

892
00:41:07,719 --> 00:41:09,360
Speaker 2: that was kind of the one can they get it

893
00:41:09,400 --> 00:41:12,399
Speaker 2: done from this type of position? And they prove they

894
00:41:12,400 --> 00:41:14,960
Speaker 2: could not against some shlubs, against another really good team

895
00:41:15,000 --> 00:41:15,840
Speaker 2: as well, and it's.

896
00:41:15,680 --> 00:41:19,200
Speaker 3: Hard to find concerns with that team. They're they're good.

897
00:41:19,320 --> 00:41:23,520
Speaker 2: Hey, top too early, like maybe that's the only concerned.

898
00:41:23,520 --> 00:41:25,839
Speaker 2: But are they just that good and that's who they are?

899
00:41:26,120 --> 00:41:26,920
Speaker 3: Yeah, they're strong.

900
00:41:27,000 --> 00:41:28,680
Speaker 2: I think that I think that might be the case.

901
00:41:28,960 --> 00:41:31,880
Speaker 2: So there's your Week four Power rankings. One more segment

902
00:41:31,920 --> 00:41:35,080
Speaker 2: to go before Matt and I, uh, I don't even

903
00:41:35,080 --> 00:41:36,719
Speaker 2: want to say close it down for a couple of days,

904
00:41:36,719 --> 00:41:39,680
Speaker 2: but just relocate for a couple of days. We'll give

905
00:41:39,920 --> 00:41:43,040
Speaker 2: we'll give some final thoughts before we fly off to Dublin.

906
00:41:43,560 --> 00:41:45,879
Speaker 2: On the other Sidey Sheeler, Matt Williamson, it's the Drive

907
00:41:45,920 --> 00:41:48,520
Speaker 2: on Steelers Nation Radio on the Steelers Audio Network.

908
00:41:55,440 --> 00:41:58,120
Speaker 1: Your teams about Drive on your twenty four to seven

909
00:41:58,160 --> 00:42:01,000
Speaker 1: home of the Black and Goal Steelers Nation Radio.

910
00:42:01,440 --> 00:42:09,479
Speaker 2: Mary final few minutes here from HQ before we move

911
00:42:09,560 --> 00:42:14,560
Speaker 2: this whole operation over to Ireland. A reminder, no shows

912
00:42:14,600 --> 00:42:17,879
Speaker 2: Wednesday or Thursday, but we will have special edition three

913
00:42:17,920 --> 00:42:21,280
Speaker 2: hour shows for you on Friday and Saturday, special guests

914
00:42:21,680 --> 00:42:24,759
Speaker 2: on location at Fitzsimon's Temple Bar right there in the

915
00:42:24,800 --> 00:42:28,600
Speaker 2: Temple Bar district of dan Tan, Dublin. It's going to

916
00:42:28,640 --> 00:42:32,920
Speaker 2: be fantastic. We can't wait. We're excited, Matt. Before we

917
00:42:33,600 --> 00:42:36,319
Speaker 2: close this thing down for a couple of days here

918
00:42:36,400 --> 00:42:39,440
Speaker 2: and relocate, we talked a lot, all right, I don't

919
00:42:39,480 --> 00:42:41,440
Speaker 2: know about a lot, but we talked plenty at the

920
00:42:41,440 --> 00:42:44,520
Speaker 2: start of the show about the huge matchup of Aaron

921
00:42:44,600 --> 00:42:49,560
Speaker 2: Rodgers Brian Flores, the mental aspect of those two and

922
00:42:49,640 --> 00:42:51,440
Speaker 2: what they're going to try and do and counter with

923
00:42:51,480 --> 00:42:54,000
Speaker 2: each other over the course of sixty minutes at Croke

924
00:42:54,080 --> 00:42:56,600
Speaker 2: Park on Sunday. What else is at the forefront of

925
00:42:56,600 --> 00:42:59,960
Speaker 2: your mind as it relates to Hey, whoever has more

926
00:43:00,239 --> 00:43:03,279
Speaker 2: success here is going to have a higher likelihood of

927
00:43:03,280 --> 00:43:03,879
Speaker 2: winning the game.

928
00:43:04,160 --> 00:43:06,880
Speaker 3: It's funny because I was just emailing back the crew

929
00:43:07,000 --> 00:43:10,280
Speaker 3: that we do the video for for we recorded tomorrow Wednesday,

930
00:43:10,320 --> 00:43:12,520
Speaker 3: since we're not going to be here the Hey, I'll

931
00:43:12,520 --> 00:43:16,240
Speaker 3: take Rogers versus Flores, and I'll take the Vikings tackles

932
00:43:16,320 --> 00:43:20,520
Speaker 3: versus Herbig and Watt unless anybody wants them. Next on

933
00:43:20,560 --> 00:43:24,880
Speaker 3: my list of high priorities would definitely be Steelers corners

934
00:43:24,960 --> 00:43:29,279
Speaker 3: versus Vikings. Receivers. I mean, I urge people don't take

935
00:43:29,440 --> 00:43:32,440
Speaker 3: Justin Jefferson the slice bit lightly. I mean, if you

936
00:43:32,560 --> 00:43:35,560
Speaker 3: look in Matt's stats, I mean, not only does he

937
00:43:35,640 --> 00:43:38,640
Speaker 3: have more receiving yards per game than anyone in the

938
00:43:38,680 --> 00:43:41,759
Speaker 3: history of the league. Wow, it's by like four or

939
00:43:41,840 --> 00:43:42,600
Speaker 3: five yards.

940
00:43:42,800 --> 00:43:43,080
Speaker 2: Wow.

941
00:43:43,120 --> 00:43:47,120
Speaker 3: Khukin the Coup is two and he's at like eighty

942
00:43:47,400 --> 00:43:50,200
Speaker 3: and Jefferson's at like eighty five. I mean, we're talking

943
00:43:50,200 --> 00:43:53,080
Speaker 3: about Jerry Rice and Randy Moss. I mean, like the

944
00:43:53,239 --> 00:43:54,719
Speaker 3: history of the league.

945
00:43:54,840 --> 00:43:57,600
Speaker 2: He Kukinakua has a future Hall of Fame quarterback throwing

946
00:43:57,680 --> 00:43:59,600
Speaker 2: him the foot right and Justin Jefferson as.

947
00:43:59,520 --> 00:44:03,120
Speaker 3: He's not a variety. I mean it's insane. Chase is third.

948
00:44:03,200 --> 00:44:05,640
Speaker 3: I mean, like people throw the ball more now. I

949
00:44:05,680 --> 00:44:08,160
Speaker 3: mean we get you know, it's not gonna be you know,

950
00:44:08,719 --> 00:44:11,600
Speaker 3: Stalworth or Largent or somebody from the that era. But

951
00:44:11,640 --> 00:44:15,479
Speaker 3: he's number one by like five yards. Addison comes back.

952
00:44:15,600 --> 00:44:18,399
Speaker 3: Hockinson showed new life last year week too. I mean

953
00:44:18,480 --> 00:44:20,880
Speaker 3: middle of the field tight end stuff that they couldn't

954
00:44:20,880 --> 00:44:25,719
Speaker 3: handle with Henry Hawkinson's better. You know, a key that

955
00:44:25,800 --> 00:44:27,640
Speaker 3: I'm gonna speak for Rob that he's brought up a

956
00:44:27,640 --> 00:44:31,120
Speaker 3: few times. He wants to see Steeler tight ends versus

957
00:44:31,719 --> 00:44:35,320
Speaker 3: average linebackers. They're certainly not household names at linebackers. I

958
00:44:35,600 --> 00:44:38,920
Speaker 3: even Pace is a nice player, but there, I think

959
00:44:38,960 --> 00:44:41,320
Speaker 3: the middle of the field is okay for them, you know,

960
00:44:41,400 --> 00:44:42,840
Speaker 3: I mean, and we need to see more of the

961
00:44:42,880 --> 00:44:44,920
Speaker 3: Steeler tight end room. I think that's a good one,

962
00:44:45,960 --> 00:44:48,279
Speaker 3: and I don't think it's really interesting just overall with

963
00:44:48,320 --> 00:44:53,960
Speaker 3: the Vikings, teams don't do this commonly. They totally found

964
00:44:54,080 --> 00:44:57,040
Speaker 3: three new starters on the interior alignement guard center, guard,

965
00:44:57,239 --> 00:44:59,960
Speaker 3: boom All from outside the organization. Two of them are colts,

966
00:45:00,120 --> 00:45:01,680
Speaker 3: one of them is our first round pick this year,

967
00:45:02,200 --> 00:45:04,840
Speaker 3: and two new starters on the total interior D line.

968
00:45:05,040 --> 00:45:07,920
Speaker 3: They go get Javon Hargrave and they get Allen from

969
00:45:08,040 --> 00:45:11,239
Speaker 3: the Commanders. I mean these are big time acquisitions. I

970
00:45:11,239 --> 00:45:12,919
Speaker 3: mean all their beef is new.

971
00:45:13,800 --> 00:45:17,560
Speaker 2: You know, It's like we talked about a lot the

972
00:45:17,680 --> 00:45:19,560
Speaker 2: leading up to the season, Steelers would have a new

973
00:45:19,640 --> 00:45:23,480
Speaker 2: leading passer, new leading rusher, new leading receiver. And how

974
00:45:23,560 --> 00:45:26,279
Speaker 2: rare that is. I imagine that type of turnover on

975
00:45:26,360 --> 00:45:29,760
Speaker 2: both sides of the trenches is pretty rare as all

976
00:45:29,800 --> 00:45:31,759
Speaker 2: new interior alignment on both sides of the ball is

977
00:45:31,760 --> 00:45:36,200
Speaker 2: pretty rare as well too. So can the Steelers defensive

978
00:45:36,200 --> 00:45:37,960
Speaker 2: line maybe take a little bit of an advantage of that?

979
00:45:38,080 --> 00:45:40,120
Speaker 2: Can the Steelers offensive line maybe take a little bit

980
00:45:40,120 --> 00:45:40,880
Speaker 2: of advantage of that?

981
00:45:41,120 --> 00:45:43,200
Speaker 3: I mean they look like upgrades across the board from

982
00:45:43,200 --> 00:45:46,160
Speaker 3: the Vikings that won fifteen games last year, right, And.

983
00:45:46,040 --> 00:45:49,560
Speaker 2: We obviously in this parish, we're familiar with Javon Hargrave.

984
00:45:49,920 --> 00:45:52,279
Speaker 2: You better be familiar with Allen, who's been one of

985
00:45:52,320 --> 00:45:57,040
Speaker 2: the better defensive linemen you know, throughout his time in Washington.

986
00:45:58,239 --> 00:45:58,960
Speaker 2: This is Matt.

987
00:45:59,360 --> 00:46:01,520
Speaker 3: I didn't mention and Wentz on purpose. I just don't

988
00:46:01,560 --> 00:46:03,480
Speaker 3: know where he is in his career what to expect.

989
00:46:04,080 --> 00:46:05,719
Speaker 3: I mean, I think he's in a great situation.

990
00:46:05,760 --> 00:46:07,520
Speaker 2: Expect them to manage the game and not make any

991
00:46:07,520 --> 00:46:10,080
Speaker 2: mistakes and keep them out of bad situations.

992
00:46:10,200 --> 00:46:12,600
Speaker 3: I would imagine he's been a wild card through his career.

993
00:46:12,600 --> 00:46:15,080
Speaker 3: He's been a lot of different teams. But we talked

994
00:46:15,080 --> 00:46:17,279
Speaker 3: about this a lot with like McCarthy, and it's as

995
00:46:17,280 --> 00:46:19,799
Speaker 3: good a nest as there is for a young quarterback

996
00:46:19,840 --> 00:46:22,759
Speaker 3: as you'll ever find, totally, and McCarthy didn't really take

997
00:46:22,760 --> 00:46:25,640
Speaker 3: advantage of it through two games. It's probably a good

998
00:46:25,680 --> 00:46:28,359
Speaker 3: situation for Wentz too, you know. I mean I did

999
00:46:28,400 --> 00:46:30,319
Speaker 3: a long podcastes and we can talk about this in

1000
00:46:30,320 --> 00:46:33,879
Speaker 3: our three hours overseas. There's a lot of examples right

1001
00:46:33,920 --> 00:46:37,520
Speaker 3: now of players that go just to a really good

1002
00:46:37,600 --> 00:46:40,680
Speaker 3: environment that were highly drafted quarterbacks. And Wentz is older

1003
00:46:40,680 --> 00:46:43,319
Speaker 3: than these dudes. But like Daniel Jones spends a year

1004
00:46:43,360 --> 00:46:47,759
Speaker 3: in Minnesota, now he's good. Arnold spends a year with

1005
00:46:47,840 --> 00:46:51,600
Speaker 3: the Niners. Now he's good with the Vikes. Yeah, Baker's

1006
00:46:51,560 --> 00:46:53,600
Speaker 3: is one of the best examples. There's tons of them,

1007
00:46:53,680 --> 00:46:57,279
Speaker 3: these highly drafted quarterbacks that go marinate with a great

1008
00:46:57,360 --> 00:47:01,640
Speaker 3: quarterback mind and then they get their life back on track. Well,

1009
00:47:01,640 --> 00:47:03,799
Speaker 3: Wentz is in a really good situation too. He's older

1010
00:47:03,840 --> 00:47:06,840
Speaker 3: than those dudes, but I mean, those guys all have talent.

1011
00:47:07,000 --> 00:47:09,200
Speaker 3: They weren't drafted in top ten for no reason.

1012
00:47:09,280 --> 00:47:11,720
Speaker 2: You know, it would be very interesting if Wentz strings

1013
00:47:11,760 --> 00:47:15,759
Speaker 2: together a few strong performances and then if he gets healthy. Yeah,

1014
00:47:15,800 --> 00:47:16,480
Speaker 2: what do you do? Then?

1015
00:47:16,520 --> 00:47:16,960
Speaker 3: What do you do?

1016
00:47:17,719 --> 00:47:19,560
Speaker 2: O'Connell was asked about that this week, and as you

1017
00:47:19,560 --> 00:47:21,840
Speaker 2: can imagine, he kind of gave a non answer answer, like,

1018
00:47:21,920 --> 00:47:24,279
Speaker 2: you know, we don't. We don't cross that bridge until

1019
00:47:24,280 --> 00:47:26,480
Speaker 2: we get to it. Yeah, like that's still too early

1020
00:47:26,560 --> 00:47:28,839
Speaker 2: to even put out there as a hypothetical, which he's

1021
00:47:28,840 --> 00:47:29,480
Speaker 2: probably right.

1022
00:47:30,400 --> 00:47:34,080
Speaker 3: But if they I mean, I'm pretty sure that if

1023
00:47:34,080 --> 00:47:39,200
Speaker 3: they blow out the Bengals, beat the Steelers, overseas, stay overseas,

1024
00:47:39,280 --> 00:47:42,759
Speaker 3: beat the Browns, and I don't know how you go

1025
00:47:42,800 --> 00:47:45,239
Speaker 3: away from Wentz If that's what you do, I agree,

1026
00:47:45,239 --> 00:47:46,279
Speaker 3: you know what I mean, you at least got to

1027
00:47:46,320 --> 00:47:47,080
Speaker 3: start rolling with him.

1028
00:47:47,160 --> 00:47:50,799
Speaker 2: I would completely agree. Yeah, especially if they continue to

1029
00:47:50,800 --> 00:47:53,000
Speaker 2: turn in some performances like they did this past Sunday,

1030
00:47:53,320 --> 00:47:55,080
Speaker 2: but hopefully that is not going to be the case,

1031
00:47:55,120 --> 00:47:57,120
Speaker 2: and the Steelers are gonna slam that door shut at

1032
00:47:57,160 --> 00:48:01,040
Speaker 2: Croke Park and have Minnesota questioning where they're going as

1033
00:48:01,080 --> 00:48:03,880
Speaker 2: an offense come next week and come the month of October.

1034
00:48:03,920 --> 00:48:07,120
Speaker 2: But that will do it for us stateside. Matt Yep,

1035
00:48:07,200 --> 00:48:09,400
Speaker 2: I'll see at the airport tomorrow. We will talk to

1036
00:48:09,800 --> 00:48:13,960
Speaker 2: Yinns from Dublin. Come see us again, Fitzsimmons Temple Bar

1037
00:48:14,280 --> 00:48:17,400
Speaker 2: if you're in the area. If not, you can listen

1038
00:48:17,400 --> 00:48:19,960
Speaker 2: along to all of our coverage between us, between the

1039
00:48:20,000 --> 00:48:23,480
Speaker 2: DV Morning Show, between all the other SNR programming. I mean,

1040
00:48:23,480 --> 00:48:26,000
Speaker 2: it's gonna be like seven, eight, nine hours of live

1041
00:48:26,080 --> 00:48:29,400
Speaker 2: shows every single day, so plenty of great stuff to

1042
00:48:29,440 --> 00:48:31,000
Speaker 2: come on the back half of the week and then

1043
00:48:31,040 --> 00:48:33,920
Speaker 2: of course a historic clash between the Steelers and the

1044
00:48:34,000 --> 00:48:37,319
Speaker 2: Vikings at Croke Park in Dublin. Big thanks to Chris

1045
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Speaker 2: Danski for joining us today. Our video producer mister TV

1046
00:48:40,480 --> 00:48:44,040
Speaker 2: Tyler V Happy birthday thirty two years old. Today by

1047
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Speaker 2: the way to our guy, mister TV, hope he has

1048
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Speaker 2: a lovely evening. And for Matt Williamson, I'm Wesheuler take

1049
00:48:50,640 --> 00:48:53,680
Speaker 2: care everybody. We'll talk to you soon from across the pond.

1050
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Speaker 2: As always, you know where to find us. It's on

1051
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1052
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