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

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Speaker 1: Goal Steelers Nation Radio. Welcome back to the Drive. I

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Speaker 1: am Dale Lally. He is Matt Williamson and Matt Um.

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Speaker 1: The first coaching acts to fall in the in the

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Speaker 1: NFL happened today. Matt Rule out as the Carolina Panthers

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Speaker 1: head coach. They still own forty millions dollar. Too bad

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Speaker 1: for him over the next forty eight months. Matt Rule

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Speaker 1: will be paid eight D four hundred thousand dollars a

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Speaker 1: month for the next eight months. You're not coach Carolina Panthers.

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Speaker 1: That's how bad he was. And supposedly he's a great

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Speaker 1: guy and all that, and nobody wants he's doing. Okay,

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Speaker 1: don't don't cry for him too much. And I'm sure

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Speaker 1: nine thousand colleges will be beaten down his door. But

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Speaker 1: they're a dismal organization right now. You mean, they're really,

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Speaker 1: really bad. And you know, unlike the Steelers, they really

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Speaker 1: resembling a quarterback that they can count on. Maybe mc

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Speaker 1: corral turns into something. They can't even play him. They

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Speaker 1: can't play him like you can't even turn it. You

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Speaker 1: can't even like go to the to your young guys.

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Speaker 1: See what he has because he's hurt. Because he's hurt, right,

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Speaker 1: I mean like Atlanta could do that with Ritter or

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Speaker 1: Washington with how Even or somebody like that. But um,

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Speaker 1: it's it's bad there. I mean, the Steelers are a

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Speaker 1: low point, but I do believe I could spit off

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Speaker 1: eight teams that are worse, and I'll bet I'm going

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Speaker 1: to roll through the second the schedule. Here a bunch

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Speaker 1: of more on the second half of this schedule. And

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Speaker 1: this is why when people are talking about the Steelers

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Speaker 1: having the number one, Miami's not in the conversation. Well,

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Speaker 1: especially if it's Thompson is Yeah, I mean that's again,

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Speaker 1: that's two weeks from now. There's nothing exactly, you know.

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Speaker 1: So Okay, so they get Tampa this week. I don't

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Speaker 1: think Tampa's playing great, No, but they're a better team,

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Speaker 1: their favorite. Yeah. Then the Steels were at Miami. Again,

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Speaker 1: if it's if it's Thompson at quarterback, I like the

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Speaker 1: Steelers chances in that game. I think I kind of

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Speaker 1: liked it even if it was too that they have

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Speaker 1: they're they'll be in the game. Yeah. Then they're at Philadelphia.

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Speaker 1: I don't like their chances there. They never win in Philadelphia.

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Speaker 1: I've never seen them beat the Eagles in Philadelphia. That

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Speaker 1: could look like yesterday. That one good. But then they

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Speaker 1: get New Orleans at home. They're Taysom hilling it up

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Speaker 1: right now. I mean they're trying to find some things. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I don't know if Winston will be if they should

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Speaker 1: stick with him. Um. I think the Saints are better

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Speaker 1: than the Steelers right this minute, but they're far from

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Speaker 1: out of the woods or where I thought they'd be it. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: but the Steelers are gonna be coming off a bye week. Good.

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Speaker 1: That makes healthy. That makes a difference. You'll be healthier.

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Speaker 1: You got to watch back by then too. I think

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Speaker 1: he's back maybe by the Philadelphia yea. Um. Then you

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Speaker 1: get the Bengals at home. Their offense isn't great, can't

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Speaker 1: run their offensive line. I like the Collins is an issue.

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Speaker 1: Collins is an issue. I can see why the why

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Speaker 1: the Dallas decided to move on from him. He's not

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Speaker 1: he's not worth that kind of money. And people are

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Speaker 1: taking Chase away, you know. I mean, they're they're really

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Speaker 1: doing everything for They're forcing Burrow to check it down

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Speaker 1: like like you did with Mahomes, and especially with the

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Speaker 1: Higgins being in the lineup. It hasn't worked well for him.

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Speaker 1: They don't running game to count on. I don't know

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Speaker 1: the Taylor is a great coach, to be very honest,

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Speaker 1: but I don't know that he is like I mean,

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Speaker 1: I do think the Bengals right now are better than Steelers,

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Speaker 1: but they weren't true true And then I was on

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Speaker 1: the press with them last n h. Then you go

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Speaker 1: to Indianapolis. There there's disaster. There a disaster. Matt Ryan's done.

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Speaker 1: They don't have a left tackle at all. Matt Ryan

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Speaker 1: has shot. The line in general is bad. They don't

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Speaker 1: have much team speed there. I think, worse than Steels

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Speaker 1: right now. Then you're at Atlanta. I give them credit

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Speaker 1: that they hang around in every game, but they are

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Speaker 1: not don't win them. They don't win them. I mean,

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Speaker 1: they played the box, so we're gonna talk a lot,

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Speaker 1: a lot tight, you know, and the roughing pen the

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Speaker 1: quarterback thing didn't work in their favor. They're overachieving, but

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Speaker 1: they're not good. No. Then you get Baltimore at home.

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Speaker 1: Baltimore is some things to work on too. There's no

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Speaker 1: doubt about They've won the last four against Baltimore. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean, you know that's gonna be game. Absolutely. Then

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Speaker 1: you're at Carolina, which just fired its head coach. I

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Speaker 1: think they're the worst team in the league. They're really bad, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: really really bad. Then you get the Raiders at home

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Speaker 1: December and the one and four, the anniversary of the

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Speaker 1: of the Immaculate Reception, and I'm sure the Steelers aren't

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Speaker 1: gonna be cashing in their season by then, or no

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Speaker 1: one's gonna care at that point. There's a rookie quarterback,

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Speaker 1: I mean, they're I think they'll be in that game.

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Speaker 1: Then you're at Baltimore and you get Cleveland in the

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Speaker 1: in the finale at home. I mean, there's definitely some

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Speaker 1: speed bumps there. But I think this team is gonna

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Speaker 1: look a lot different than they do than than now

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Speaker 1: post by than now. I mean, I expect Pickett to

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Speaker 1: start elevating people around him, if he hasn't already. I

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Speaker 1: think the line will be okay. Hey, um, a lot

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Speaker 1: infused defense can't be a bad thing, unless you know,

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Speaker 1: injuries could hit them really hard in the next game.

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Speaker 1: Who knows. We know how the league works, but I

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Speaker 1: don't know. I'm still encouraged with what the final product

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Speaker 1: will be from this season. Will this season be a

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Speaker 1: success after seventeen games in the last whistle blows, I

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Speaker 1: think we're gonna say yes, because they found a quarterback

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Speaker 1: and they now know a lot. Here's what I think

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Speaker 1: is going to happen here. Um. I think the Steelers

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Speaker 1: win a bunch of these games in the second half

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Speaker 1: of this season, and then everybody's talking about Pittsburgh as

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Speaker 1: being the hot team going into next year. They could

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Speaker 1: be the worst the first team or you know, boy,

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Speaker 1: and then they had the tenth picked in the draft

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Speaker 1: and they got the best corner in the draft, and

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Speaker 1: they signed this guy and that guy, and they got

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Speaker 1: a quarterback on a cheap rookie deal. Exactly what I think,

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Speaker 1: because I think they'll be optimism post by. Yeah. So

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Speaker 1: I understand that that you know, everybody is down after

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Speaker 1: a third the eight to three beat down, you should

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Speaker 1: be again. But I think this was rock bottom. I

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Speaker 1: think from here on out, Uh, you know, you get

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Speaker 1: twelve games left. Can they go six and six in

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Speaker 1: I think that's possible here. And you're a good point

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Speaker 1: to if if they could have squeaked it out against

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Speaker 1: the Patriots, win one of those games, beat the Patriots,

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Speaker 1: beat the Jets. When you win both of those games,

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Speaker 1: you're actually not in bad shape right now, right right.

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Speaker 1: I mean, you knew that that was gonna come back

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Speaker 1: one and four is not a good look. One and

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Speaker 1: seven would be rough, you know, yeah, you know, and

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Speaker 1: steal a win in these next two games, still two wins,

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Speaker 1: you know, and then all of a sudden things you know,

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Speaker 1: if they if they go into that game against the

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Speaker 1: Eagles at three and four, it's a much different feeling. Yeah, absolutely, Um,

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Speaker 1: but you know it's it's but you gotta you gotta

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Speaker 1: do it. You can't just talk about it. And that's

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Speaker 1: that's the you know, the big thing that that I

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Speaker 1: kept hearing in the locker room. Hey, we just can't

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Speaker 1: talk about this stuff. We have to go out and

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Speaker 1: do it. We've gotten to it, no doubt about it.

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Speaker 1: I don't think it's one thing that needs fixed or

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Speaker 1: I guess Tomlin and his press conference was asked, you

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Speaker 1: know you're gonna look at changes, Okay, look at changes.

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Speaker 1: What were you changing to I was just saying, I

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Speaker 1: don't know whether options are out there. You know, maybe

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Speaker 1: louder Milk gets a helmet. I don't think that's going

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Speaker 1: to be the turning point of yourself, you know. I

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Speaker 1: mean maybe your play calling, it gets adjusted in some way,

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Speaker 1: shape or form. Okay, what comes back KZ would be

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Speaker 1: a very welcome addition, you know, But there isn't Larry

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Speaker 1: Burdens and walk through that door or whatever. They Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you're not there's you're not just you know, wait, let's

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Speaker 1: sign you go sign four guys off the off the street,

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Speaker 1: and they're gonna come in and make a difference. That's

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Speaker 1: not the way this is gonna work. No. I mean

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Speaker 1: maybe they're run, pass ratio changes a little, or you

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Speaker 1: play more zone than man or whatever, but there's not

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Speaker 1: gonna be wholesale changes. No. I mean, everybody's already playing.

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Speaker 1: That's the That's the biggest thing is that that you

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Speaker 1: yesterday and that in that final touchdown the first half,

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Speaker 1: and I'm seeing guys out there. It looked like it

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Speaker 1: was a like the third second preseason Yeah, the second

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Speaker 1: It was it was extremely thin. And I get that

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Speaker 1: the Bills were as well, but they had Josh Allen

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Speaker 1: Picke It's gonna be Josh Allen. But I don't think

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Speaker 1: that's a stretch to say that he can be better

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Speaker 1: you know, no, I'm starting. I like, I don't want

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Speaker 1: to set the bar too high for him, but I

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Speaker 1: I've seen enough now between the preseason practices and in these,

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Speaker 1: his ceiling is more is a better than Kirk Cousins.

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Speaker 1: better than that. Yeah, it might be better. It might

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Speaker 1: be it might be more accurate. He might be more mobile.

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Speaker 1: He's definitely more most definitely more mobile. Yeah, And I

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Speaker 1: think that's that's a really determining factor. Yeah it is.

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Speaker 1: It's big. So I meant to say this on these

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Speaker 1: airwaves last week because I rave about Greg Cosell. Anyone

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Speaker 1: I'm great respect on the show. Yeah, yeah, he's awesome.

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Speaker 1: I mean, Ross Stocker calls him the best film watcher

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Speaker 1: in the civilian community. You know that isn't working for

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Speaker 1: a team And the podcast I always listened to that

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Speaker 1: Ross and they asked him, what you know, what do

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Speaker 1: you think of Picket? He's like, oh, he was far

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Speaker 1: and away my favorite one. He's even like him more

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Speaker 1: you rather have Picket or any of the rookies from

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Speaker 1: last year? Trevor Lawrence Jones, Greg then bat nine said

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Speaker 1: I know is this perfect prospect has been perfect, right,

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Speaker 1: And that doesn't mean that that Picket isn't gonna have

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Speaker 1: another touchdowner or two would have been nice. Yeah, but

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Speaker 1: I thought he passed the first test. He was not.

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