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Speaker 1: Nation Radio that sell just played the Cleveland Browns Monday night.

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Speaker 1: Uh that's a well it must win game, forth teams.

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Speaker 1: It's really an elimination game, it really is. We've we've

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Speaker 1: said that a number of times this year, and it

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Speaker 1: never turns out to be the case. And they're not.

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Speaker 1: I mean the Raiders and Broncos and some of these

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Speaker 1: teams too, Miami, and you know, I'm like, boy, they're done.

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Speaker 1: But this time, we really mean it. I think we

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Speaker 1: do really mean it. Two weeks left, yeah, two weeks left.

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Speaker 1: I think both these teams have to win out. Imagine

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Speaker 1: if the if the league, we're still in a sixteen

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Speaker 1: game schedule at this point, yeah right right, like this

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Speaker 1: was it, This was it this week. I mean, there

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Speaker 1: would be a lot to play for. There still a

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Speaker 1: lot to be decided. I'm not sure there'll be many

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Speaker 1: rest your starter teams next week. I mean, who's who's

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Speaker 1: really in that position? Well, I mean at this point one, yeah,

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Speaker 1: you know, you know you don't get to buy um.

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Speaker 1: You could do it if you've wrapped up your division

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Speaker 1: and you don't care who you play in the first round.

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Speaker 1: Think maybe like the Dallas, But that could all come

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Speaker 1: back to bite you because you cost maybe it cost

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Speaker 1: yourself a second home game. Right, If you win your game,

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Speaker 1: you're supposed to win. The only way you do that

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Speaker 1: is if you're kind of locked into the three or

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Speaker 1: four spot and then you know, well, there's not much

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Speaker 1: difference between being four or three until of course it's

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Speaker 1: you against the three seed in the in the championship

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Speaker 1: game and you're going to their place. Right, So overall,

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Speaker 1: I kind of think this system works. Like I think

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Speaker 1: there's an argument that the seventh seed in the a

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Speaker 1: f C or NFC really aren't playoff teams compared to

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Speaker 1: hockey and basketball something. I mean, you just have to

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Speaker 1: be okay, everybody did at least have I think a

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Speaker 1: winning record. Yeah, right right, So that's good enough for me,

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Speaker 1: and I do dislike I think as the NFL does.

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Speaker 1: I don't want to see teams resting starter. I've seen

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Speaker 1: enough good players on the sidelines this year. You know.

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Speaker 1: That's the one thing that the having just won by is. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: So I think the system is better than it was.

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Speaker 1: Looking at this Cleveland Browns team early in the season,

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Speaker 1: they were running the ball well, ridiculously effective, they really were.

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Speaker 1: and since then they had they had a hundred eighty

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Speaker 1: hundred fifty three against the Bengals, then against the Patriots.

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Speaker 1: As we now know, the Steelers and Patriots are not

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Speaker 1: good run stopping teams. No, not at all. I mean,

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Speaker 1: that's the best that either one of those teams has

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Speaker 1: done in a while against the run. I'd have to

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Speaker 1: really study it. But my educated guests on this is

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Speaker 1: teams entered the season fearing the Broncos or Browns passing

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Speaker 1: Mayfield has a reputation, odell as a reputation. These guys

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Speaker 1: it's proven to be the white right ray to play

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Speaker 1: The question to me is does that mean you still

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Speaker 1: teams that are balanced and have and also have a

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Speaker 1: Jarvis Slandry has forty two catches for four hundred fifty

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Speaker 1: Throw the ball to him as much as you want

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Speaker 1: that's he averages four catches for forty five yards a game.

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Speaker 1: That's not gonna beat you. And it's all low a

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Speaker 1: You know, Austin Hooper has thirty six catches for three

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Speaker 1: that's the number two guy. Is that worth twelve million

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Speaker 1: Big picture, the book is written on Landry and Hooper.

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Speaker 1: Is he gonna catch six passes for you know, a

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Speaker 1: he's not gonna. They don't have anybody on their roster

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Speaker 1: capable of that. No, I mean Landry might catch six

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Speaker 1: People's Jones might catch two for a hundred and twenty.

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Speaker 1: That might beat you. But maybe, but it's gonna there's

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Speaker 1: you look at Baker mayfield stats. He's completing sixty two

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Speaker 1: which I haven't looked at the numbers recently. He doesn't

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Speaker 1: throw deep to Landry. I mean those are easy, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's sure you'd be nice to help you.

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Speaker 1: They know the path sketchers they can get, is my point.

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Speaker 1: And he's a good one that you know. Easy throws

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Speaker 1: today's NFL, don't talk Baker first overall pick. That shocks

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Speaker 1: Rookie of the Year, And I thought that was one

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Speaker 1: of the more overrated seasons I've ever seen because there

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Speaker 1: he's putting up good numbers and we're winning games. It

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Speaker 1: doesn't mean yeah, um, but I really think what Baker

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Speaker 1: they didn't have that advantage. So I don't know what

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Speaker 1: it is, I mean a long week, maybe he's a

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Speaker 1: wrecking machine something. Definitely to watch the first couple of

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Speaker 1: series look like, yeah, because that could be the difference

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Speaker 1: in the game. Really, yeah, that's a big enough component.

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Speaker 1: It definitely is. And and again I don't know, the

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Speaker 1: question is is their offense good enough? I mean, it's

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Speaker 1: a it's a very one dimensional offense, it is, But

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Speaker 1: I don't think the mention is one at the Steelers

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Speaker 1: have had issues with. But if if you sell out

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Speaker 1: to stop the run, you would that's the same before.

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Speaker 1: I know they did it against the Browns, So that's encouraging.

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Speaker 1: It was any other year and it was they're gonna

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Speaker 1: sell out to stop the run. Well, the teams are

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Speaker 1: gonna run on them, you know. This year, I'm like,

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Speaker 1: is that enough, right? I mean, okay, so they hold

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Speaker 1: him to a hundred yards, you know, they have eight

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Speaker 1: nine in the box and it's still I mean, stifle

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Speaker 1: three and ounce or you know, to that point. I

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Speaker 1: thought the game against the Chiefs was a little encouraging

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Speaker 1: because the Chiefs didn't run the ball super well in

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Speaker 1: that game. They it was like, you know, they were

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Speaker 1: for most of the game averaging three points something, you know,

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Speaker 1: per run um. They didn't win the game on the

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Speaker 1: ground if you do that against the Browns. But you

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Speaker 1: also have to play the pass against the Chiefs, you know,

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Speaker 1: making Fitzpatrick's playing, you know, thirty yards downfield over top

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Speaker 1: of Tyreek because it doesn't want him to get over

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Speaker 1: top when it mattered and Tyreek was out there being scary.

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Speaker 1: So you know, can you do that again this week?

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Speaker 1: And you know, because Chump's gonna make you miss. Sometimes

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Speaker 1: Chubb will hurt you. Oh, he's gonna hurt you. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean even last week he hurt the Packers and

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Speaker 1: they were seven yards of carry. Yeah, and he looked

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Speaker 1: great doing Yeah, he can get a lot of ardage

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Speaker 1: on his own. And Baker's comparing I'm killing Baker, but

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Speaker 1: I'm not, and it's unfair to compare him to my homes.

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Speaker 1: But he's not gonna turn Pringle and no One Gray

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Speaker 1: and those guys into players that beat you. I mean,

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Speaker 1: it's not gonna happen. A few guys can. Yeah. And

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Speaker 1: even with that, I mean they're running the ball effectively

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Speaker 1: and well they scored twenty two points. Mayfield turned the

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Speaker 1: ball over four times. They were seven yards of carry,

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Speaker 1: seven yards of carry. This is what we want. This

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Speaker 1: is our bread and butter, and we're doing it well.

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Speaker 1: But then one holding penalty and you're behind the sticks,

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Speaker 1: you know exactly, and Steelers know that feeling. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I don't know what the over under in this game is,

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Speaker 1: but it's got to be low. I still made lean

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Speaker 1: on it. I mean, it's probably gonna be a lot

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Speaker 1: it was under the first time. I mean, unless there's

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Speaker 1: big plays or defensive scores or things like that. I

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Speaker 1: don't think either one of these offenses gonna have, you know,

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Speaker 1: sustained success. It's it's gonna be difficult. I think the

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Speaker 1: Browns defense is good, yeah, I mean they've they do

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Speaker 1: a good job there um there Garrett aside, though their defense,

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Speaker 1: again it goes back to how they spend their money

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Speaker 1: and their resources. Is really a Woasu Corey Moora and

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Speaker 1: lighter or where they want. They're very analytically driven. They

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Speaker 1: want to stop the pass. They want to beat the Chiefs,

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Speaker 1: they want to play Nicol, they want to play dime.

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Speaker 1: You know. They they they're paying three or four corners,

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Speaker 1: three or four safeties. You know, fast little guys. You

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Speaker 1: know is is I get that. I don't know if

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Speaker 1: it fits the division though, Yeah, I'm not sure it either,

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Speaker 1: you know, based on you know, Joe Mixon, if j K.

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Speaker 1: Dobbins comes back, Harris is a big back, you know,

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Speaker 1: the Ravens just in general. I mean, but again, they

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Speaker 1: spent the entire off season talking about how they were

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Speaker 1: gonna beat the Chiefs, right, they we're gonna be the Chiefs.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna beat the Chiefs. Well, you gotta get to

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Speaker 1: the playoffs first, before you get that second meeting with

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Speaker 1: the Chiefs that they were talking about in August. They

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Speaker 1: just you gotta win your division first and foremost, and

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Speaker 1: this is always gonna be a very physical, black and

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Speaker 1: blue type division. Analytics are wonderful, and you can't overlook

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Speaker 1: the step that takes to get to the Chiefs and

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Speaker 1: really the Bills too. You know. I think the Steelers

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Speaker 1: learned that the hard way to in two thousand and seventeen.

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Speaker 1: I guess the Jaguars they built their team, We're gonna

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Speaker 1: we gotta beat the Patriots. We gotta get past the Patriots. Well,

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Speaker 1: the Jaguars come along and the physical running game and

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Speaker 1: they beat you. Yeah, that's a good point. It's kind

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Speaker 1: of where they're at. But the total flip of it,

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Speaker 1: you know, right, So again back to our previous conversation

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Speaker 1: in the in the first segment, getting Kevin Dotson back

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Speaker 1: would certainly help the Steelers immensely in this game. If

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Speaker 1: you want to be physical. We think he's back. I

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Speaker 1: think so. Yeah, we haven't talked a whole lot of practically,

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Speaker 1: there's not much practice practice, is there anyone you're super

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Speaker 1: worried about? Not really like Friar Muth has a good

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Speaker 1: shot to be back. Um think who else was missing Bush?

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Speaker 1: I mean COVID guy. COVID guy should have a chance

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Speaker 1: to get back. And so yeah, they should be COVID rules.

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Speaker 1: I wish I knew them. I just keep up. If

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Speaker 1: somebody goes on and they tell me he's coming off, okay, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I've gotten to that point too. I'm not gonna try

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Speaker 1: to explain the COVID rules because I change it changed him. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I keep changing them. So I know it's more favorable

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Speaker 1: now than ever to get guys back on the field.

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Speaker 1: Leave it at that, we're gonna take another break. He

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