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Speaker 1: Drive on Home of the Black and Goal Steelers Nation Radio.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back. I'm Dale Ally here with Matt Williamson. This

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Speaker 1: is the drive on Steelers Nation Radio, and it is

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Speaker 1: Power Rankings Day, and well we'll dig in here. We

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Speaker 1: always use Dan Hansis's power rankings on NFL dot Com.

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Speaker 1: He had not been kind to the Steelers before this

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Speaker 1: whole situation has I don't imagine he's gonna be real

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Speaker 1: kind to them this week. Let's see where he has

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Speaker 1: them at here. I'm going to count on my hand

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Speaker 1: here how many teams I would have below the Steelers

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Speaker 1: and where he puts them. And I gotta say, there

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Speaker 1: are bad teams in the league. Steelers are wonderful guys. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: they're not playing well. It is a there's ten easily teams.

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Speaker 1: I look, I go, they're bad. Thirty two Is the

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Speaker 1: Houston Texans holding steady? Yeah? Oh three and one? Do

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Speaker 1: they win a game this year? There? Oh three and one? Now?

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Speaker 1: Were they definitely your thirty two? If they're not, it

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Speaker 1: might be the team that they tied and they've got

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Speaker 1: to win right now, so I can't put them. It's

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Speaker 1: pretty bad. Their offenses hideous, hideous, terrible, uh at thirty

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Speaker 1: one down two spots, the Carolina Panthers, I think they'd

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Speaker 1: be thirty one for me. Baker Mayfield stay poorly coached. Um,

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Speaker 1: they have a defense, but it doesn't matter, you know,

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Speaker 1: I mean, it just doesn't really tough to overcome that

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Speaker 1: poor Going back to Donald, Yeah, but he can they can't.

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Speaker 1: He's hurt right now, right, you know it's that they

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Speaker 1: can't even do that, and he was. I didn't think

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Speaker 1: you get worse than with Donald was. And they still

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Speaker 1: can't get Matt Kroll in the no, right, all right?

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Speaker 1: Is it he half of the year? Uh? Oh, that's right, Yeah, yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: he foot injury, that's right. I think there will be

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Speaker 1: a coaching change by the time the Scheelers played them. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's late in the year. And at thirty down three

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Speaker 1: spots there two in two. But the Chicago Bears are

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Speaker 1: not a good football team. They really aren't. They have

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Speaker 1: a little bit of a run game, they got a

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Speaker 1: little bit of a defense. Fields played a little better,

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Speaker 1: but they don't ever throw the ball. And you know,

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Speaker 1: they can't stop the run. You're talking about a team

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Speaker 1: that can't stop the run. They can't stop to run.

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Speaker 1: There there were. They are very bad and they don't

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Speaker 1: have much talent at nine up a spot at one

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Speaker 1: in three, even though they didn't win last week the

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Speaker 1: Washington Commanders. They are a bad football team. Carson Wentz

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Speaker 1: st has shown what he is. He a starter again

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Speaker 1: next year? No, I don't think he is either. I

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Speaker 1: think his starting days are behind him. I don't think

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Speaker 1: he starts seventeen this year. I think how gets in

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Speaker 1: there at some point by week thirteen or something. I mean,

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Speaker 1: if anything, Wentz is a starter for somebody and they

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Speaker 1: draft the first round guy, it shows you how quickly

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Speaker 1: things can spiral on the NFL, how they can spiral

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Speaker 1: just a guy. You know, m v P s the

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Speaker 1: m v P of the league right four years ago,

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Speaker 1: right right? I mean he is all over the place

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Speaker 1: and now nobody wants him at down five spots, the one,

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Speaker 1: two and one Indianapolis Colts. I completely agree with that one.

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Speaker 1: They are much worse than the Steelers. Yes, their offenses hideous.

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Speaker 1: Their thirty second in d v O A. They run

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Speaker 1: the ball unbelievably bad. They don't do anything well. They

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Speaker 1: don't do anything well. Ryan looks shot. Do you think

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Speaker 1: the Steelers o lines bad? Even quentn Nelson's not playing well,

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Speaker 1: but go watch the coltslow line. Wow, does Quentin Nelson

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Speaker 1: get make the Pro Bowl this year? Based off off

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Speaker 1: of his right his reputation. They can't, like you should

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Speaker 1: at least be able to run behind that guy right now.

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Speaker 1: He doesn't look himself and the left tackle looks really

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Speaker 1: really bad. And they don't they speed, Yeah, I mean

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Speaker 1: they really don't. They don't play makers. That was the

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Speaker 1: problem with with Pittman. I like Pittman coming out, but

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Speaker 1: the deep speed was like, okay, right right, right now,

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Speaker 1: He's he's not gonna beat anybody down the field. You'd

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Speaker 1: love to have Marky's Brown on the other side, you know,

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Speaker 1: I mean some some sort of difference. That's what they

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Speaker 1: That's the way they were always built. Team of team speed.

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Speaker 1: They don't have a dome fast track. Their edge rushers

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Speaker 1: are fast. You know. Everybody in their offenses though, starting

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Speaker 1: with the quarterback. With the quarterback right at seven down

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Speaker 1: a spot, the Pittsburgh Steelers, I figured they'd be about there.

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Speaker 1: I'll be honest. None of the ones that we've mentioned

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Speaker 1: would I have over the Steelers. No, I mean definitely not,

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Speaker 1: and there probably someones we're getting to that I would not.

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Speaker 1: They've been in every game, right, thirteen point point differential

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Speaker 1: it really has been a few bounces. I mean I

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Speaker 1: thought the Browns beat them that the other games were Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and even the Browns game was there to win if

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Speaker 1: you get one of those bounces. Uh at twenty six

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Speaker 1: up five spots the Jets, I guess I would put

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Speaker 1: the Jets over the Steelers. But really they could play

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Speaker 1: ten times. I think the Steelers win more. Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: really do. Yeah, down a spot the Patriots. Same thing

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Speaker 1: that we said about them, that we said about the Jets.

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Speaker 1: So they played the Steelers ten times, the Steelers probably

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Speaker 1: win at least six or seven. Yeah, they're I mean,

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Speaker 1: especially as they're constructed now, right, Yeah, I mean, I

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Speaker 1: mean to their credits. I mean, if you want to

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Speaker 1: say the Steelers were in every game, I mean they

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Speaker 1: have been as well. They were, well, they weren't. They

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Speaker 1: weren't the opener against the Dolphins and smoked in that game.

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Speaker 1: But I mean they've hung around. I mean they went

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Speaker 1: you know, but they're not very They played the Lions

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Speaker 1: this week. I'll take the Lion all day long. And

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Speaker 1: yeah yeah uh at twenty four, Speaking of which, down

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Speaker 1: eight spots, the Lions come on their defenses. It's not good,

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Speaker 1: but the but the Patriots aren't going to exploit that. No, no, no, no,

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Speaker 1: I think the Lions are I want to say contender,

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Speaker 1: but I want to say that they're in the league.

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Speaker 1: You want to talk about point differential. They've scored a

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Speaker 1: hundred forty They've given up a hundred forty one. That's

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Speaker 1: the most by any team in the first four games

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Speaker 1: of a season in NFL history combined. And four Lions

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Speaker 1: games play. Go over in your Lions games. Start all

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Speaker 1: your fantasy dudes in those games. Yeah yeah, they did

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Speaker 1: it without Swift. Yeah, I'm on ross A Brown last week, ugly. No,

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Speaker 1: I think that's I think they're a decent team. I

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Speaker 1: would have Lions over the Steelers twenty three, up five spots.

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Speaker 1: The Seahawks, they played well. Gino's playing well. I would

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Speaker 1: have them over the Steelers. They played a hobble Detroit team,

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Speaker 1: and they're never going to win those games. I mean,

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Speaker 1: they're not a high flying offense, but like they're gonna

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Speaker 1: score for their next they won't score another forty eight

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Speaker 1: I mean I think they're in this name. I'd probably

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Speaker 1: and two Falcons. They hang around too. I don't think

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Speaker 1: it's sustainable. They run the ball so much. Quarterback play

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Speaker 1: is going to be an issue starting to get exposed

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Speaker 1: this past week too, and I think, I think what

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Speaker 1: happens when when a guy hasn't played in a couple

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Speaker 1: of years, Okay, now you're starting to get a little

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Speaker 1: bit of a book on him, you know. I think

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Speaker 1: they're a perfect example too, like Trabisky had played more

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Speaker 1: recently than Mariota. Oh yeah, and a couple of these

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Speaker 1: juries hit, because that's a really well now corderal passisions

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Speaker 1: bit for them. They don't use pits at all, as

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Speaker 1: we all know. At twenty one down four spots the Browns.

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Speaker 1: I would have the moved Steelers. I mean they beat

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Speaker 1: them head to head, not their finest moment. Their defense

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Speaker 1: is so banged up. Yeah yeah at twenty down three

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Speaker 1: spots the Jaguars like ten. Yeah, they're gotta be Yeah,

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Speaker 1: they gotta be ahead of the Titans Raiders. And I'm saying, well,

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Speaker 1: the Titans beat the Colt's big deal. I mean they're

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Speaker 1: I could come up with five. We still haven't gotten

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Speaker 1: to the Giants yet. Come on, come on, a good

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Speaker 1: football team. They're gonna win their division. They were so

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Speaker 1: nineteen up three spots the Giants. I don't care if

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Speaker 1: they're three and one or not. They stink. Green Bay

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Speaker 1: is going to stomp a puddle in them this week.

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Speaker 1: I mean, like if the Giants played the Browns a

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Speaker 1: hundred times them, Yeah, I mean they're they're not good.

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Speaker 1: and the bad uh who else they'd be Washington. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: they're like the worst teams in the league. Yeah yeah,

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Speaker 1: and lost of the Cowboys and lost of the Cowboys

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Speaker 1: with the backup quarterback, Like, how did you how did

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Speaker 1: you like to have their schedule? I mean that's pretty

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Speaker 1: It has to get more difficult from here on out.

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Speaker 1: I'm sure they faced the easy schedule in the league,

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Speaker 1: without a doubt, without a doubt. Uh, at eighteen up

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Speaker 1: a spot. I can't do this either. The Saints they're bad.

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Speaker 1: I mean i'd have the Browns certainly. The Jags ahead

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Speaker 1: mean they're they're in trouble. I mean we talked about

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Speaker 1: it yesterday. They might be better off starting Andy Dalton

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Speaker 1: from here on out, maybe and them and watching the

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Speaker 1: Rams last night, those guys are so all in to win.

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Speaker 1: Now it might be time to pay the bills because

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Speaker 1: I don't think either ones a team they expected to be.

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Speaker 1: I texted you at one point the Rams, they only

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Speaker 1: throw the ball like three guys. It's really two up

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Speaker 1: at nineteen targets and Higby at twelve. It's insane. It's inane,

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Speaker 1: and Higby should not be a two. Yeah. Uh, it's

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Speaker 1: seventeen up three spots. I can't bump these guys up

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Speaker 1: to side either. The Cardinals they're not a good team.

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Speaker 1: Cardinals Panthers was videos very equal bad football, preseason football,

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Speaker 1: badly coached teams. They have Kyler, you know, that's kind

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Speaker 1: of it. Yeah, yeah, I agree. It's spend it if

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Speaker 1: I was a jack. Yeah, no kidding. Sixteen down two spots,

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Speaker 1: the two and two Broncos. They stink. Who just lost

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Speaker 1: Juvante Williams for the year. They stink. Their offense is

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Speaker 1: really bad. It's broken. Yeah. I don't think Wilson is

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Speaker 1: a top tier guy anymore. Defense is done well on paper,

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Speaker 1: but it's not a dominant group, you know, and the

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Speaker 1: wins they've gotten are far from impressive too. Uh at

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Speaker 1: of the season, the Raiders. That's because he had the

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Speaker 1: Broncos too high. Yeah, so the Raiders. That's That's one

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Speaker 1: of the things. The power ranks. They if you, if

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Speaker 1: you write power ranks, people will kill you. How can

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Speaker 1: you have the Raiders below the Broncos they just beat them? Well,

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Speaker 1: we can do the transitive property or whatever. This here's

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Speaker 1: the thing. I think the Raiders are a better team

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Speaker 1: than the Broncos right now, but I think the Broncos

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Speaker 1: were too high exactly exactly. That was the problem. I mean,

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Speaker 1: finding bad teams isn't hard. No, I don't know what

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Speaker 1: the Raiders are one of them. Uh at fourteen up

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Speaker 1: a spot the Chargers, they're in a bad spot. I

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Speaker 1: don't know if I trust a coach. Yeah, but they're

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Speaker 1: a playoff team. They play the Browns this week. I

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Speaker 1: think they beat the Browns. Yeah, although the run defense

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