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Speaker 1: This is the Drive with Dale Lolly and Matt Williamson

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Speaker 1: on your home of the Black and Gold Steelers Nation Radio.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Drive. I'm Dale only here with Matt

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Speaker 1: Williamson and it is a Tuesday. That means we had

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Speaker 1: Mike Tomlin talk today for the first time in Chiefs

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Speaker 1: week and well before we even get close to that. Uh,

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Speaker 1: the other shoe was has dropped on the Kansas City

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Speaker 1: Chiefs before we even get to that. Okay, to pull

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Speaker 1: the curtain back, We're in this brand new fund studio,

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Speaker 1: I mean a little out of my comfort, Brandy. I

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Speaker 1: don't don't know if it's fun yet fun not yet.

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Speaker 1: I'm a little I feel a little construction here. It's

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Speaker 1: a little tone. I've already don't know where things are at.

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Speaker 1: But we're gonna adapt and over change things up here.

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Speaker 1: Just to pull the curtain back. And what's going on

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Speaker 1: at the old studio you were to my right, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that is a little weird. We need to switch the

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Speaker 1: seats up tomorrow. Okay. I feel strange looking to my

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Speaker 1: This's like we were a married couple, were the wrong side.

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Speaker 1: We're sleeping on the wrong side of the bed. If

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Speaker 1: we walked in here, and I thought it was a

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Speaker 1: monumental conversation to have. I'm like, what, didn't think anything

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Speaker 1: on for eternity and you grabbed that one, and I

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Speaker 1: don't think anything of it. My logic was, I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: be close to the door. I'm in and out, so

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Speaker 1: we might need to rethink that might be on the

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Speaker 1: wrong side of the bed. I'm often like a maybe

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Speaker 1: a mafia member or old gunfighter, where I never want

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Speaker 1: to have my back to the door. They're getting me

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Speaker 1: first to think them in here, right, I'm a bigger target,

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Speaker 1: but I feel strange looking looking to my left at you. Okay,

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Speaker 1: we're not to think of it. It's outside my comfort zone.

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Speaker 1: The other thing too, and I noticed this for Jacob

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Speaker 1: on the way in. I'm more of an obstacle for

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Speaker 1: him to get in and around me coming through that

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Speaker 1: door too. You're a little bit bigger obstacle than me.

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Speaker 1: And I'd like to kind of spread out and get

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Speaker 1: wide and take up a lot of space if there's

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Speaker 1: a a little bit, if there's if there's a fire,

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Speaker 1: Jacob maybe trapped in here, Oh he's in trouble. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: And plus he starts in and out from time to

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Speaker 1: time to take care of things right, and it could

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Speaker 1: be as so we need to think about this. This

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Speaker 1: is a big decision because this is for eternity. This

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Speaker 1: is Yeah, he's a test run, but we might have

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Speaker 1: to switch it up. We may we might have to

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Speaker 1: switch it up after this segment. And look at this,

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Speaker 1: I'm bounce around in my seat. It doesn't squeak. People

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Speaker 1: talk about my squeaky seat all the time. Doesn't You

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Speaker 1: should be able to stay close to the mic. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think so. I mean the night mikes are much nicer.

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Speaker 1: It's clean in here. So we'll see. But well, that'll

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Speaker 1: that'll change. That'll change in the next five minutes whenever

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Speaker 1: Wolf comes in. But tyreek Hill now placed on the

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Speaker 1: COVID nineteen list for the Kansas City Chiefs and others.

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Speaker 1: But he's the big name. Well, obviously Travis Kelsey already

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Speaker 1: on there from yesterday. Matt, you you throughout the stat

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Speaker 1: today they account for exactly fifty of the targets. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: for the whole team, for the whole team, but of

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Speaker 1: the actual production. It's amazing. I mean they deserve it,

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Speaker 1: They're amazing. But there's two sides to that is, you know,

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Speaker 1: drafting Hardman, trading for signing Sammy Watkins, flirting with Juju

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Speaker 1: in the off season, they realize that they need a

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Speaker 1: third guy in a bad way, and even using the

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Speaker 1: first round pick on Clyde Edwards Hilaire recently because of

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Speaker 1: his receiving skills. They are too dependent on Hill and Kelsey.

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Speaker 1: It's not a bad problem to have. It's a it's

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Speaker 1: certainly better than depending on Oh, I don't know, the

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Speaker 1: Kwan treadwell and James O'Shaughnessy. Yeah right, yeah, probably different,

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Speaker 1: a little different, but you know, the Vikings were sorted

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Speaker 1: this way too. They had the feeling, um Jefferson just

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Speaker 1: eating up targets and then everybody else. It was that

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Speaker 1: way when they had before. So right now, correct me

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Speaker 1: if I'm wrong. Kelsey went on yesterday. I can't remember

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Speaker 1: we reported that on the air, and I think we did.

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Speaker 1: It wasn't it happened during the during the show and

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Speaker 1: now Tyreek and that doesn't mean they're gonna miss for sure.

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Speaker 1: But then there's some other names that aren't his big names,

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Speaker 1: but various words A big one. He's important, He's the

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Speaker 1: And the other part of the equation is, you know

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Speaker 1: why Chris Jones missy? Uh? And so they're still having

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Speaker 1: this is a little worrisome if you're kids. The other thing,

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Speaker 1: the other issue with this that I raised to you

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Speaker 1: by the NFL, they're not they're not just automatically testing

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Speaker 1: guys if they've been vaccinated, right. They test guys who

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Speaker 1: are unvaccinated every day. That's that hasn't changed. They randomly

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Speaker 1: test vaccinated players. I don't know, I don't know how many,

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Speaker 1: five to ten per day. The only other way that

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Speaker 1: if you were having symptoms, because because you now, if

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Speaker 1: you're having symptoms, what they're supposed to do is is

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Speaker 1: explained to me. It was technically the training staff are

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Speaker 1: the facility. Okay, the door, and they're asking the player,

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Speaker 1: are you having any any of these symptoms? And if

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Speaker 1: be tested. Okay, yeah, I got sniffles. Boom, you're boom,

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Speaker 1: you're getting tested and maybe you're on the random list anyway. Okay,

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Speaker 1: So because they don't what they don't want to happen

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Speaker 1: there was automatically some people. Why would you do that? Well,

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Speaker 1: you don't want to get everybody in your team sick.

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Speaker 1: There's nothing to gain. This is what happens when when

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Speaker 1: somebody doesn't self report, all of a sudden, now you

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Speaker 1: get somebody in the building. And this this this new variant,

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Speaker 1: the omicron variant, while being less again less deadly, less

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Speaker 1: You don't get as sick, but it's easier to spread, right,

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Speaker 1: So you know you don't want this spreading through your buildings,

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Speaker 1: So don't go in the building if you have if

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Speaker 1: you're having symptoms, it's not because they want a day

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Speaker 1: this is what we know is fact. Then so Kelsey

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Speaker 1: less chance one of the random tests test, but they

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Speaker 1: still tested positive. Yes, with asymptomatic though, But so if

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Speaker 1: chance to get back, to get back quickly if you're

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Speaker 1: necessarily there's a slim chance that that's the case. So

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Speaker 1: chances are all these cases not all, but a higher

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Speaker 1: ones with symptoms. Yes, that's the that's the more of

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Speaker 1: the higher problem percentage of chance, okay, which means there's

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Speaker 1: a less chance that they will get done, you know,

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Speaker 1: he's he's either either had symptoms or he was a

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Speaker 1: random test, and you know he was a day earlier,

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Speaker 1: so he has a better chance than Hill to get on.

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Speaker 1: Of course, even twenty four hours means a lot. But man,

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Speaker 1: if they're missing either of those guys, lit on both

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Speaker 1: of them either. I mean, just talking defending the Chiefs,

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Speaker 1: everyone always talks about, oh, too high safety. You know

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Speaker 1: they've played against Cover two for years. It's you know

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Speaker 1: what we'll talk about that strategy stuff. Was the season

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Speaker 1: goes on or as the week goes on, I'm sure,

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Speaker 1: But to me, the best way to defend the Chiefs

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Speaker 1: is keep my Homes in the pocket and then double tyreek.

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Speaker 1: You know, in all respect to Kelsey, he's amazing. He

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Speaker 1: might even be the most productive tight end in the

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Speaker 1: history of the world. Why didn't he That's cool, Mike Tomlin.

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Speaker 1: Did they threw this one out? So Mike Tomlin staton

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Speaker 1: right into that this was coming. Kelsey has five hundred

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Speaker 1: and eighty yards after the catch this season. Most tight

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Speaker 1: bet that's down from previous years. Like he is, he's

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Speaker 1: Like they're great advising devising it, Mahomes hit him in

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Speaker 1: something and next you umbling, stumbling, bubbling, as good as

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Speaker 1: we've ever seen after the catch. Really, the only other

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Speaker 1: thing I get, like Mike Dicka when you watch you

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Speaker 1: Mike Dick a highlights where he's running through guys and

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Speaker 1: his average depth of target and yards for reception are amazing,

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Speaker 1: and he's two hundred seventy pounds, but even him, it

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Speaker 1: that's what Tomlin called him. He said, you know what,

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Speaker 1: you can call him the tight end, call him whatever.

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Speaker 1: He's a number one receiver. He's a number one receiver, right,

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Speaker 1: I mean, he's not the blocker Gronk or kid who is.

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Speaker 1: That's why I wouldn't have him over Kiddle as a

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Speaker 1: we've ever seen. Might be the best receiving tight end

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Speaker 1: his five year numbers coming into this year are unprecedented

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Speaker 1: for tight ends. And now he hasn't tipped at all.

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Speaker 1: This for a tight end, right, and we got three

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Speaker 1: games to play. That's wide receiver stuff. I mean, that's

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Speaker 1: it's seven or something. That's all said, and that's what

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Speaker 1: your number one wide You know that the star wide

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Speaker 1: receivers get that much after Oh yeah, right, So let's

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Speaker 1: say he keeps up his average and he ends up

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Speaker 1: with seven hundred yards after the catch you ever take,

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Speaker 1: which is incredible. That's more than There'll be several teams

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Speaker 1: this year that won't have their leading receiver, won't have

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Speaker 1: that many receiving yards. What I was gonna say is

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Speaker 1: that's a starting fantasy tight end in itself. You know.

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Speaker 1: In fact, last night's game is a productive dude. The

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Speaker 1: the game between the Browns and Raiders, which will touch

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Speaker 1: game that was active, the leading wide receiver had twenty

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Speaker 1: three catches. Wow, the of the people's showes let both

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Speaker 1: teams with three catches. I guess he did. I don't

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Speaker 1: Browns wide receivers themselves. And I'm trying to think that

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Speaker 1: three catchers in that game he played, but he didn't

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Speaker 1: I mean so those if either of those two guys

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Speaker 1: placing guys on on the list that we keep seeing names. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's so part of it. The Steelers had their season

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Speaker 1: you know, I don't know that you can really do

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Speaker 1: so we're gonna take a break. He is Matt Williamson.

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Speaker 1: I'm Dale Lally. You're listening to the drive here on

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Speaker 1: Steelers Nation Radio. When we return. Well, there's no power

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Speaker 1: power rank the a f C. Since the a f

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Speaker 1: C was done for this week. We'll look at that

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