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Speaker 1: He's the Drive with Dale Lolly and Matt Williamson on

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Speaker 1: Home of the Black and Gold Steelers Nation Radio. Welcome

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Speaker 1: to the Drive. I'm Dale Ally here with Matt Williamson.

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Speaker 1: It's a Thursday and the Steelers get their second day

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Speaker 1: of practice in this week for the game on Sunday

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Speaker 1: against the Detroit Lions. And UM interesting injury report today, Matt, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I saw it. Let's go through it a little. Uh.

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Speaker 1: Ben Roethlisberger did not practice again. That's a second day

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Speaker 1: in a row this week that he didn't practice. That

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Speaker 1: doesn't shock me. After after Monday night, after the Monday night,

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Speaker 1: or after the the right shoulder injury kind of cropped

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Speaker 1: up last last Friday. UM play Chase Claypool did not

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Speaker 1: practice again today. I don't think it looks good for

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Speaker 1: him to play in this one. I don't know that.

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Speaker 1: I I kind of thought that from the start, like

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Speaker 1: just reading the reports. I mean, I wasn't there like you,

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Speaker 1: but it's like, I bet this is a James Washington

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Speaker 1: day and a lot of double tight ends, maybe even

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Speaker 1: an extra lineman, not a lot of three receiver sets.

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Speaker 1: Featured Deonte feature Nausey feature for Romoth try to get

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Speaker 1: Claypool right. I mean he's made some plays, but the

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Speaker 1: last couple of weeks Claypool hasn't quite been himself. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I'm not saying treat this game like a bye week.

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Speaker 1: That's how you get in trouble. But it's a good

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Speaker 1: one to sit them down for. Yeah, yeah, I think

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Speaker 1: so as well. If you look at this Dolphin or

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Speaker 1: the Dolphins team I'm watching the preca and if you

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Speaker 1: look at this Lions team UM fifteen point three yards

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Speaker 1: per catch to opposing wide receivers. Yeah, there's some astronomical numbers.

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Speaker 1: You should be. Their secondary is terrible, the path which

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Speaker 1: is bad. I mean there's it's really really after you

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Speaker 1: gave up a hundred thirty five yards a game on

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Speaker 1: the ground, I mean by average, they lose every game

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Speaker 1: by fourteen points. I mean, like, there's so many numbers

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Speaker 1: that are just staggering. Really, but the past defense ones

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Speaker 1: are the top of the list of unbelievable numbers. Two

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Speaker 1: interesting ones though this week. The guys who were added

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Speaker 1: to the injury report today. Now, as I mentioned yesterday,

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Speaker 1: the Steelers had a walkthrough. Yeah, so it wasn't it

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Speaker 1: wasn't like they had a full practice today was a

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Speaker 1: full practice nause. Harris limited today with a foot issue.

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Speaker 1: I don't think that's gonna be something that I think

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Speaker 1: that's probably a mate more of a maintenance day than anything. Uh,

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Speaker 1: Kendrick Green with a hamstring. Um. You know, so you

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Speaker 1: got some guys who are a little nicked up coming

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Speaker 1: into that Monday night game. Again, Neither one of those

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Speaker 1: guys were listed on yesterday's injury report, so today they

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Speaker 1: were as fresh injuries. Injuries this week are interesting just

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Speaker 1: because that's not the first time we've dealt with this obviously,

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Speaker 1: but Monday night. But theyn't Eve a bad opponent, you know, like,

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Speaker 1: but she can't. But you can't just be like We'll

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Speaker 1: just said, all these guys and you know it, use

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Speaker 1: this as an extra buy week. It doesn't work. That

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Speaker 1: doesn't work. That's how you get in trouble. And you

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Speaker 1: don't want Green out of lineup, and you certainly don't

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Speaker 1: want Harris out of lineup or Bend or you know,

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Speaker 1: I mean any of these guys. I mean, I guess

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Speaker 1: tomorrow is more like a normal Thursday, correct, you know,

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Speaker 1: just the way they're going to handle things even though

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Speaker 1: they play Sunday. Um, I would imagine tomorrow's when you

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Speaker 1: really get an inclination who who's playing and who's not. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: well tomorrow they got to come up with their final

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Speaker 1: injury report as well, So yeah, you'll you'll know for sure. Uh.

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Speaker 1: Eric Ebron, though, is a full participant today. That to me,

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Speaker 1: that's what you know. I wrote about that earlier in

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Speaker 1: the week. You know, I said, look, if if Claypool

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Speaker 1: can't play, getting Ebron back helps offset that a little bit.

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Speaker 1: And everybody, well, he's not the same. I said, you

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Speaker 1: gotta look at Abron for what he is. You're short

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Speaker 1: on wide receivers. If you're playing the Lions and your

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Speaker 1: top three receivers, did you just missed out of the

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Speaker 1: picture and take Chase Claypool out of the picture now,

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Speaker 1: and all of a sudden you've got Jante Johnson, James Washington,

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Speaker 1: Ray Ray McLeod bumps up to your number three guy,

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Speaker 1: and Cody White your four. That's pretty thin. That's pretty

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Speaker 1: darn thin. And I understand Ray Ray's role here, but

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Speaker 1: when he plays a lot of snaps, he gets exposed

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Speaker 1: and he's not gonna help at all blocking. We know

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Speaker 1: these things as wide receivers go Ebron is a pretty

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Speaker 1: good blocker. He might not be Mark Bruner, you know,

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Speaker 1: That that taking me the juju slot guy, you know,

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Speaker 1: worse off. He lost two of your up three, you

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Speaker 1: know than then Deonte and Washington. But it is nice

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Speaker 1: to have Ebron back. I mean, it's the more past catchers,

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Speaker 1: the better question. I can't terrible past mean, just just

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Speaker 1: imagine that Nase Harris doesn't play as well. I'm not

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Speaker 1: saying that that's going to be the case, but now

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Speaker 1: all of a sudden, it's it's Kaylin Balage and Benny

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Speaker 1: Snell who's touching the ball with Deante Johnson and James Washington.

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Speaker 1: That's that's not a very talented no no players. I

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Speaker 1: know the offense is made some progress, but this isn't

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Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers elevating Valdez Scantling and Alan Lazard week after week.

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Speaker 1: I mean, like there's not much room for air here.

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Speaker 1: And if you're the guys carrying the football are below

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Speaker 1: average at their job. Now I'm worried. Now you get

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Speaker 1: a problem with this windless Lions team. And it sounds like,

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Speaker 1: I mean, if we assume Clay Pools out, Deonte is

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Speaker 1: gonna get more attention. They might not be great players,

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Speaker 1: but they're gonna scheme. They're gonna double lot you know,

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Speaker 1: so you the Washington's and Ebron's in the world, We're

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Speaker 1: going to have to exploit some single coverage. Yeah, um,

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Speaker 1: of course, you know you can also use Fiarmouth in

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Speaker 1: from people who know it's three tight ends a receiver, right.

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Speaker 1: You know, it wouldn't break my heart to see Banner

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Speaker 1: and which would be about the last time as the

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Speaker 1: Lions beat the Steelers at pretty crazy in Pittsburgh nineteen

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Speaker 1: Steelers lead the overall series. I believe it's seventeen fourteen.

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Speaker 1: But again that the Steelers little misleading. The Steelers have

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Speaker 1: dominated that in the modern era the right exactly for you,

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Speaker 1: is a game that you do have to be wary of.

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Speaker 1: little history lesson. So it's tough finding a history. I

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Speaker 1: come into that game at six and three. The Lions

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Speaker 1: and the Steelers made mistakes in that game. If I look, no,

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Speaker 1: That's the bottom line. It just is. I mean, there

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Speaker 1: great teams. Don't play that way anymore. You know, you

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Speaker 1: to come back and you know, um, so the Steelers

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Speaker 1: can't take anyone for granted. Is the bottom line. More

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Speaker 1: I've that game has been referenced a number of times

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Speaker 1: on my list. We're gonna be Lions Ravens that goes

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Speaker 1: the very exact team and Lions rams where yeah, surprise

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Speaker 1: you know, deep dones and things like that. That's what

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Speaker 1: they are. I mean, they're there. They are really rough.

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Speaker 1: They are m you know, so we'll see. I mean, obviously,

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Speaker 1: you know, if the Steelers are down some guys on offense,

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Speaker 1: that's a problem, that question. You know, if Claypool doesn't play, Okay,

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Speaker 1: you you got again with Ebron coming back, you can

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Speaker 1: kind of offset that a little bit. If Harris doesn't play,

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Speaker 1: now you get a problem. Yeah. I mean if you're

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Speaker 1: in Ray Ray and you get into that your offenses

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Speaker 1: far off. You know, it's not like they have the

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Speaker 1: Steelers have this unbelievable offensive line quarterback combination raises all

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Speaker 1: ships no matter what, you know. I mean, if Claypool's

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Speaker 1: fifty fifty, I think I probably sit them and do

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Speaker 1: what we did to start the show and incorporate Ebran

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Speaker 1: and things like that a little bit more. But if

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Speaker 1: they don't have Harris, now all of a sudden, I'm worried. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: they now, all bets are off I was like, okay,

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Speaker 1: which they never really are. All bets are never off,

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Speaker 1: all bets are there's always you can always be my bet. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: so we'll see what that is. I said, there's no

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Speaker 1: homecoming games, but this actually is the Steelers Alumni weekend,

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Speaker 1: or actually the Hall of Honor weekend, I should say,

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Speaker 1: so it is slightly a homecoming but and it's the

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Speaker 1: want to get a win and show all the old

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Speaker 1: guys that we were a pretty respectable team, these are

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Speaker 1: who you bring it down. Yeah. So a heyway, we're

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Speaker 1: gonna take a break. He is Matt Williams and I

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Speaker 1: am Dale Lawley. You're listening to the Drive here on

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