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Speaker 1: Your tunes about Drive seven, Home of the Black and

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Speaker 1: Goals Steelers Nation Radio. Welcome back. I'm Dale Alli here

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Speaker 1: with Matt Williamson and well it's Tuesday, Power Ranking Day.

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Speaker 1: We'll try to keep you updated on what some of

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Speaker 1: these teams have done. Yeah, we through these power rankings.

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Speaker 1: UH At number thirty two this week on NFL dot

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Speaker 1: Com are the Houston Texans. They didn't do anything. They

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Speaker 1: didn't do anything. I thought Cooks might go. I mean,

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Speaker 1: and once in a a while things come well after four,

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Speaker 1: you know, the news will pop. But man, I would

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Speaker 1: have been selling a little bit more. But what's a

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Speaker 1: little weird about the Cooks thing is they just signed

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Speaker 1: him in this offseason, gave him money, and I think

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Speaker 1: he was he was like, I'm happy being here. I'm

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Speaker 1: already he's already been traded like four times. You know,

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Speaker 1: he doesn't want to get traded again. They gave him

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Speaker 1: a personal data today. He didn't. He wasn't at practice.

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Speaker 1: I guess that was a little alarming, like maybe you

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Speaker 1: were listening and for office and he didn't want to

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Speaker 1: be there when they you know, if the if the

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Speaker 1: shoe fell understandable. I don't know about you, but I

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Speaker 1: think they're a distant thirty second. Now I haven't said

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Speaker 1: that at anything. They're the worst run defense in the

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Speaker 1: history of the game, history of the game. Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: mean like giving up like five point six yards of carry.

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Speaker 1: What they threw ten passes with Malik willis maybe twelve.

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Speaker 1: I think it us eleven. I was like five of

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Speaker 1: eleven for fifty five yards. Rabel should have emailed Glovey

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Speaker 1: Smith and said, we're gonna run these five places. We're

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Speaker 1: run this high school offense against and what's the difference. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's horrible, awful. They do have a win though this year,

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Speaker 1: which is surprising. Yeah. Uh, the Detroit Lions, who did

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Speaker 1: trade t J. Hawkinson in the division to the Minnesota Vikings. Uh,

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Speaker 1: they are thirty first at one and six, and well,

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Speaker 1: I mean they fired their defensive backs coach they you know,

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Speaker 1: who was really highly regarded by the way. I'm not

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Speaker 1: sure it was all his fault or you know why.

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Speaker 1: It's an odd fire. But anyway, so they're gonna pick

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Speaker 1: in the top five probably, I would think that's a quarterback.

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Speaker 1: And then Detections and Lions both has to be taking

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Speaker 1: quarter I would assume so. And then from that point though,

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Speaker 1: with all these other picks just defense, defense, defense, defense.

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Speaker 1: You know, I thought Hawkins was a good player, but

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Speaker 1: the defense, he's a lot of work. Yeah, Jackson bille

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Speaker 1: drops the spot to uh just one spot down to thirty.

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Speaker 1: They made the Calvin Ridley deal, but that's for next year.

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Speaker 1: I love that deal for them because they give up

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Speaker 1: like a fourth or fifth's conditional, like he has to do.

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Speaker 1: You know, he has to make it back and he's

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Speaker 1: still on his first contract. He's still young. If he

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Speaker 1: comes back and he doesn't look the same, so be it.

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Speaker 1: And you know they they are definitely a wide receiver away.

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Speaker 1: I like the Kirk more than yeah, but I mean

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Speaker 1: that was gonna be a big priority this offseason anyway.

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Speaker 1: So you're getting established route runner type that can be

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Speaker 1: on the outside teams well with Kirk too. So I

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Speaker 1: like that move a lot. It's for next year, it's

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Speaker 1: for next year. Yeah, they're they're going to be continue

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Speaker 1: to be bad this year at where they find waitings

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Speaker 1: to lose games and twenty nine up a spot the

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Speaker 1: Carolina Panthers. They deserve to go up. They're not as awful.

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Speaker 1: If people think they lost the game, they lost the game.

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Speaker 1: But they have a defense, and do they They just

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Speaker 1: give up seven Atlanta. It's not great. It's not great. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I don't know what to think of them. They're just

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Speaker 1: all over the place, over the place. I mean, they're

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Speaker 1: gonna go with Walker for now. Yeah, mayn't make any

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Speaker 1: other moves, no Burns moves and any of that kind

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Speaker 1: receiving back and I like it. You like Jack Moss.

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Speaker 1: I like Zack Moss. Right, Apparently everybody likes Zack Moss

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Speaker 1: except for the coaching staff. And the Buffalo wants a pounder. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: him putting them a twenty seven right now. I mean,

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Speaker 1: they got blown out by a really good team. Um,

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Speaker 1: you can't reward them for that, obviously, but I do

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Speaker 1: believe that will be the lowest they are at any

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Speaker 1: point this season. Um, speaking of that, I dug up

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Speaker 1: some numbers last and I was working on on something here.

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Speaker 1: So the the Bills, in the in the Eagles, yes

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Speaker 1: They beat the Titans seven. The Titans are Now this

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Speaker 1: I think the Cowboys and Vikings are in that conversation

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Speaker 1: of who's number four on the power you know, like

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Speaker 1: there are some of the best teams in the league,

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Speaker 1: they're not the top tier, and people are freaking out.

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Speaker 1: People are freaking out the other team. So that they've

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Speaker 1: But that's how they've beaten everybody. They've beaten up on

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Speaker 1: everybody every other game the Steelers have played this season,

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Speaker 1: They've been either leading or within one score with two

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Speaker 1: minutes remaining in the game. And you and I have

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Speaker 1: been talking about this, and I stole your idea and

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Speaker 1: it's just facts. Seel has had the hardest schedule in

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Speaker 1: I'm not making excuses that power power, right, But I

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Speaker 1: threw some facts out there. They're pretty rough, just like

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Speaker 1: you did. And I stole a little bit of your information,

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Speaker 1: by the way, Thank you. Um, but let's just pretend

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Speaker 1: in pretend world the Steelers schedule didn't have the Bills

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Speaker 1: you know what I mean. I mean, they were brutal,

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Speaker 1: but they're they're gonna everybody. Those two teams have beaten everybody,

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Speaker 1: like everybody, especially at home, and they might do it

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Speaker 1: that goes a neutral site. Neither any one will be

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Speaker 1: at home at six the Denver Broncos who were sellers.

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Speaker 1: They got rid of Bradley Chubb. Chubb is now a Dolphin.

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Speaker 1: They did something else there. Oh they made Edmonds came

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Speaker 1: they've done. Yeah, okay, but they got serious picks trading

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Speaker 1: Bradley Chubb. I was listening to NFL dot Com on

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Speaker 1: Arm serious and they said they acquired elite pass rusher

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Speaker 1: Bradley Chubb. And I'm like, elite. I don't know if

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Speaker 1: But the Broncos certainly did not get better there. No,

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Speaker 1: remember they lost picks for Wilson. They're trying to recoup

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Speaker 1: some some stuff. Yeah. At twenty five up three spots Washington,

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Speaker 1: Colts team on the last play of the game with Heineke.

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Speaker 1: I'll take my chances against Washington if I'm the Steelers.

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Speaker 1: Washington's next two opponents are the Vikings and Eagles. They'll

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Speaker 1: come back their reality then right, chuck them up for

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Speaker 1: but they're they're thinking big picture. They weren't gonna they

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Speaker 1: the thing about the Roquan Smith trade. Everything I've heard

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Speaker 1: describing that trade, well, they got the the NFL's leading tackler.

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Speaker 1: That's fine. Have you have you seen the Bears defense.

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Speaker 1: They couldn't stop the run to you know, if if

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Speaker 1: in the world. Tackles are Tackles are meaningless? I don't know. Yeah, okay,

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Speaker 1: so you had you had seventeen tackles all eight yards down,

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Speaker 1: or you know, I mean, it doesn't mean anything. But

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Speaker 1: he's a quality player. I mean, I'm not saying, but

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Speaker 1: don't tell me, well he's good because he leads to

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Speaker 1: readjusted it. The Raiders and that was as bad a

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Speaker 1: were horrible. Had one catch for three yards for three

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Speaker 1: McDaniels just might be a coordinator At two down two

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Speaker 1: just where they belong. You know, they make splashes and

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Speaker 1: Hopkins and yeah, you know, and Rondel Moore's rolls growing

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