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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 Goal Steelers Nation Radio. Welcome

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Speaker 1: back to St. Pencent College here in beautiful Latrobe, Pennsylvania.

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Speaker 1: I am Dale Lollly, he is Matt Williamson, and we

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Speaker 1: are the Drive on Steelers Nation Radio. We're also simulcasting

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Speaker 1: on ESPN nine seventies, so we appreciate it if you're

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Speaker 1: listening to us there. If you are listening to us

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Speaker 1: on ESPN nine seventy, of course you hear. You hear.

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Speaker 1: Matt and I do a lot of draft coverage here

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Speaker 1: on this very airways during those times, and you're wondering

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Speaker 1: where you can get us on a regular basis, it's

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Speaker 1: on the Drive on on Steelers Nation Radio. We do

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Speaker 1: a show daily throughout the course of the season. UH

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Speaker 1: do shows you three times a week during the off

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Speaker 1: season as well, So if you want to hear us

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Speaker 1: analyzing things, not just for us. Absolutely, we're together more.

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Speaker 1: We're together more than we are with our wives. I

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Speaker 1: think that's just how it goes. UM not complaining about that.

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Speaker 1: Neither is your wife, right, She's happy stay on the

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Speaker 1: State Latrobe as long as you want. Uh, But we

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Speaker 1: also talk about more than just the Steelers. We talked

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Speaker 1: about absolutely league issues as well. But one of the

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Speaker 1: things that facing Steelers this year met has been the

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Speaker 1: transition from not just Ben Roethlisberger to a new quarterback,

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Speaker 1: Kevin Colbert to Omar Kahn. Is absolutely right, there's been

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Speaker 1: some and that's not the only front office change too.

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Speaker 1: There's some new faces there, and yeah, you know, moving

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Speaker 1: along in a different direction totally makes sense. Kevin had

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Speaker 1: So so he's still gonna be yea visible but Omar's

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Speaker 1: job now, yeah, they're still working out you know what

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Speaker 1: They'll figure that out. But as when you we talked

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Speaker 1: He's like, I call him all the time. I'll text

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Speaker 1: you know. So it's an interesting situation because, like anybody,

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Speaker 1: so will that look different? Um? How will their cap

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Speaker 1: Somebody who just who's having a probably pretty good day,

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Speaker 1: You're listening to The Drive live from Steelers training camp

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Speaker 1: right after this. Six He's The Drive with Dale Lolly

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Speaker 1: Kenneth Walker. I wouldn't touch Watson. Yeah, I don't think

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Speaker 1: he's gonna play very much early and I think he's

425
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Speaker 1: got an injury or something that's keeping him off the field. Now.

426
00:21:27,600 --> 00:21:30,600
Speaker 1: Kenneth Walker's interesting, but he didn't have a clear path

427
00:21:31,800 --> 00:21:33,520
Speaker 1: the number one right. We'll get to see him this

428
00:21:33,560 --> 00:21:36,840
Speaker 1: weekend with the Seahawks. But they got Rashot Penny, they

429
00:21:36,840 --> 00:21:39,840
Speaker 1: resigned him, gave him some a little bit of money. Um.

430
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Speaker 1: I think the Walker draft picks a lot, like the

431
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Speaker 1: Nazi draft pick where you take him a year before

432
00:21:44,520 --> 00:21:47,600
Speaker 1: you take the quarterback to help the nest. Yeah, I

433
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Speaker 1: don't think it's necessarily to pick for this year. At

434
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Speaker 1: plus fifteen hundred one guy James Cook. I don't have

435
00:21:53,960 --> 00:21:55,720
Speaker 1: a problem put him a buck on that one. I

436
00:21:55,720 --> 00:21:58,160
Speaker 1: don't know how many touchdowns he'll score, but his teams

437
00:21:58,160 --> 00:22:00,639
Speaker 1: didn't win a lot of games. Me on TV A

438
00:22:00,640 --> 00:22:03,760
Speaker 1: lot on TV a lot. He's a dynamic player. His

439
00:22:03,840 --> 00:22:06,680
Speaker 1: last name doesn't hurt. You know, people remember big brother

440
00:22:07,680 --> 00:22:09,600
Speaker 1: and that's nice. Odd, that's a nice pay day. I mean,

441
00:22:09,600 --> 00:22:12,720
Speaker 1: the buck pays your fifteen, so that's not too shabby. Uh.

442
00:22:12,720 --> 00:22:18,919
Speaker 1: At plus eighteen hundred, Damian Pierce Jamison Williams. Williams might

443
00:22:18,960 --> 00:22:21,080
Speaker 1: not play until halfway through the season. Yeah, I mean

444
00:22:21,080 --> 00:22:22,640
Speaker 1: he has to be like one of the best receivers

445
00:22:22,680 --> 00:22:25,439
Speaker 1: in the league, and he pays if he gets me

446
00:22:25,520 --> 00:22:28,800
Speaker 1: Randy Moss. If he plays ten games, which I don't

447
00:22:28,800 --> 00:22:31,119
Speaker 1: think there's any chance he wins the award, he might

448
00:22:31,160 --> 00:22:33,000
Speaker 1: be a great player, but I don't know how he

449
00:22:33,000 --> 00:22:37,760
Speaker 1: could possibly win the award. Pierce isn't dynamic enough, but

450
00:22:37,800 --> 00:22:41,040
Speaker 1: he could be. Then him and Hall could be the

451
00:22:41,119 --> 00:22:44,320
Speaker 1: number one backs on their team. It's unfortunate that they're

452
00:22:44,359 --> 00:22:46,200
Speaker 1: gonna be the worst team, one of the worst teams

453
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Speaker 1: in the league. That's the problem. But he could be

454
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Speaker 1: the rookie leader in touches and yards at plus two thousand.

455
00:22:53,840 --> 00:22:59,439
Speaker 1: Johan Dotson Romeo doubts. I think Dalves. Dalves has a

456
00:22:59,480 --> 00:23:02,360
Speaker 1: better chance to being a Week one contributor than Watson,

457
00:23:02,359 --> 00:23:04,680
Speaker 1: and he's got Aaron Rodgers Rogers, but he doesn't have

458
00:23:04,680 --> 00:23:07,000
Speaker 1: a real high ceiling. Watson has a higher ceiling. If

459
00:23:07,000 --> 00:23:09,639
Speaker 1: he hits, maybe it starts a little later. Who was

460
00:23:09,640 --> 00:23:13,800
Speaker 1: the other one? The other I think he's too blocked. Yeah,

461
00:23:14,000 --> 00:23:17,840
Speaker 1: I mean I like the player, but especially if Curtis

462
00:23:17,840 --> 00:23:20,880
Speaker 1: Samuel's healthy, is he gonna have a high target share?

463
00:23:21,880 --> 00:23:24,440
Speaker 1: I don't think there hasn't been a lot of good

464
00:23:24,440 --> 00:23:27,840
Speaker 1: news or good reports coming out of Washington about Wentz. No.

465
00:23:28,240 --> 00:23:31,360
Speaker 1: I think Dootson's a fine player, but it would really

466
00:23:31,359 --> 00:23:33,960
Speaker 1: have an uphill climb to win the award A plus

467
00:23:34,040 --> 00:23:40,920
Speaker 1: twenty five hundred. Desmond Ritter, Okay, George Pickens, I can

468
00:23:41,000 --> 00:23:44,720
Speaker 1: kind of understand Ridder as we go through this, he

469
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Speaker 1: maybe he gets in the lineup. We three or four

470
00:23:48,400 --> 00:23:51,960
Speaker 1: and he would, and if he doesn't stink, he might

471
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Speaker 1: be in the conversation could he be a Baker Mayfield?

472
00:23:54,320 --> 00:23:56,240
Speaker 1: Like I start the last ten games in the season

473
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Speaker 1: one right, and no one's paying much attention because my

474
00:23:58,520 --> 00:24:01,160
Speaker 1: team's terrible, as was the case with a Field. He's

475
00:24:01,200 --> 00:24:05,120
Speaker 1: not horrible, and he convinces the Falcons that he's good

476
00:24:05,240 --> 00:24:08,920
Speaker 1: enough to not draft C. J. Stroud or somebody like that.

477
00:24:09,080 --> 00:24:12,080
Speaker 1: Maybe okay, because he's a quarterback. But the Pickens one's

478
00:24:12,080 --> 00:24:14,560
Speaker 1: a great bit. So if you put a five dollar

479
00:24:14,640 --> 00:24:18,320
Speaker 1: bet down on George Pickens to be Rookie of the Year,

480
00:24:18,680 --> 00:24:22,480
Speaker 1: the payout is thirty bucks. Yeah, that seems like a

481
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Speaker 1: bet I would be willing to make after watching him

482
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Speaker 1: day after day here. He wouldn't be my prediction. You know,

483
00:24:28,359 --> 00:24:29,760
Speaker 1: if you said, who, Matt, who do you thinks would

484
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Speaker 1: be Rookie the year? I would not bet Pickens because

485
00:24:32,040 --> 00:24:34,560
Speaker 1: I don't. I mean, he may end up with fifty catches,

486
00:24:35,080 --> 00:24:37,119
Speaker 1: but that might be enough. This year. He might have

487
00:24:37,160 --> 00:24:39,800
Speaker 1: fifty catches and ten touchdowns, you know, or something like

488
00:24:39,840 --> 00:24:43,240
Speaker 1: all over Sports Center and finishes the season like the star.

489
00:24:43,720 --> 00:24:45,879
Speaker 1: He's gonna have some highlight reel catches this year. I

490
00:24:45,920 --> 00:24:47,800
Speaker 1: have no doubt about that in my mind me either.

491
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Speaker 1: I also think he's gonna end up with more than

492
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Speaker 1: fifty catches. Yeah, but it's all said sev games, you know,

493
00:24:52,960 --> 00:24:55,520
Speaker 1: I do. I'm not predicting he's gonna catch more bad

494
00:24:55,560 --> 00:24:58,360
Speaker 1: passes or have more targets than Claypool. But I don't

495
00:24:58,359 --> 00:25:00,840
Speaker 1: think it's crazy to suggest it. I don't think it

496
00:25:00,920 --> 00:25:02,320
Speaker 1: is either. Like we went through this a couple of

497
00:25:02,320 --> 00:25:06,879
Speaker 1: weeks ago, Matt, with the guys that they lost in

498
00:25:06,960 --> 00:25:10,280
Speaker 1: the passing gameable, there's about a hundred and fifty two

499
00:25:10,320 --> 00:25:13,160
Speaker 1: hundred and sixty targets available, and folks, that's the ones

500
00:25:13,200 --> 00:25:17,119
Speaker 1: that went to Washington and McLoud and Juju. Yeah, I

501
00:25:17,119 --> 00:25:19,440
Speaker 1: mean that's almost you know, that's nine a game, basically

502
00:25:19,440 --> 00:25:22,000
Speaker 1: eight or nine a game that that not every one.

503
00:25:22,119 --> 00:25:26,560
Speaker 1: Let's see he gets six targets a game. Well, okay, yeah,

504
00:25:26,960 --> 00:25:28,639
Speaker 1: I would see you know if if if you, if

505
00:25:28,800 --> 00:25:31,240
Speaker 1: I told you right now, George Pickens is gonna get

506
00:25:31,240 --> 00:25:36,080
Speaker 1: six targets a game. He's a viable fantasy option as well. Yeah,

507
00:25:36,119 --> 00:25:38,399
Speaker 1: he's a late round pick that could end up being

508
00:25:38,520 --> 00:25:41,560
Speaker 1: well worth your time, especially if he's scoring touchdowns of course,

509
00:25:41,840 --> 00:25:45,159
Speaker 1: which I think he will, but we don't know it. Um,

510
00:25:45,240 --> 00:25:46,760
Speaker 1: who are some of them? Is there any names after

511
00:25:46,840 --> 00:25:48,480
Speaker 1: him or that, you know, there's there's a couple of

512
00:25:48,560 --> 00:25:51,320
Speaker 1: names here so at at plus three thousand, David Bell,

513
00:25:52,080 --> 00:25:53,879
Speaker 1: I don't think he's even practicing for that. He's got

514
00:25:53,960 --> 00:25:58,480
Speaker 1: a Yeah, he's got some kind of injury. Alec Pierce, okay,

515
00:25:59,040 --> 00:26:02,520
Speaker 1: and Rashad White, Like, it's interesting to me that Vegas

516
00:26:02,560 --> 00:26:06,720
Speaker 1: is lumping Pickens with Pierce and Bell. Yeah, like I

517
00:26:06,880 --> 00:26:11,240
Speaker 1: lum piercing him together as prospects. But they don't throw

518
00:26:11,240 --> 00:26:13,840
Speaker 1: the ball much. You know, Pierce should have a is

519
00:26:13,880 --> 00:26:15,480
Speaker 1: gonna have a tough time win the award. I don't

520
00:26:15,480 --> 00:26:17,800
Speaker 1: think Bell could possibly win the award. No, he has

521
00:26:17,840 --> 00:26:21,199
Speaker 1: to catch like ninety balls. Yeah, And Mashab White is

522
00:26:21,480 --> 00:26:23,840
Speaker 1: kind of buried on the He needs for not to

523
00:26:23,840 --> 00:26:27,480
Speaker 1: get hurt. Yeah, and or at a minimum take over

524
00:26:27,560 --> 00:26:30,399
Speaker 1: all the receiving work for for Net, which is possible

525
00:26:30,440 --> 00:26:32,560
Speaker 1: but still a long shot. A rookie with Brady is

526
00:26:32,600 --> 00:26:34,440
Speaker 1: not going to get the receiving work. And there's actually

527
00:26:34,440 --> 00:26:37,920
Speaker 1: a lot of names still on here. At plus four thousand,

528
00:26:38,040 --> 00:26:44,879
Speaker 1: is Kieren Williams third running right now? Yeah? Plus is

529
00:26:44,880 --> 00:26:49,800
Speaker 1: Isaiah Spiller and Tyrian Davis Price. They're sneaky ones because

530
00:26:49,800 --> 00:26:52,199
Speaker 1: of the payoffs so good that I think they have

531
00:26:52,240 --> 00:26:56,360
Speaker 1: a real distinct path to being one injury away from

532
00:26:56,400 --> 00:27:00,600
Speaker 1: being skyrocketing up this nice you know, on good offensive.

533
00:27:00,720 --> 00:27:03,679
Speaker 1: Plus five thousand is Vellis Jones Junior because he shouldn't

534
00:27:03,680 --> 00:27:06,160
Speaker 1: even count as a rookie's twenty five years old. One

535
00:27:06,240 --> 00:27:14,640
Speaker 1: Dell Robinson, Tyler Algier, Trey McBride, Isaiah Pacheco, Malik Willis. Yeah,

536
00:27:14,680 --> 00:27:16,920
Speaker 1: that those are the five thousand dollar guys. Yeah, I

537
00:27:17,040 --> 00:27:19,320
Speaker 1: put a buck on ours year because I think he

538
00:27:19,359 --> 00:27:21,280
Speaker 1: could be there starting running back. I don't think he's

539
00:27:21,320 --> 00:27:24,240
Speaker 1: particularly great, and he's not a good team, but he

540
00:27:24,359 --> 00:27:27,560
Speaker 1: may be the clear starter there before long. At Plus

541
00:27:27,560 --> 00:27:32,200
Speaker 1: six thousand is Zamir White, Okay, I like the player,

542
00:27:32,280 --> 00:27:37,320
Speaker 1: but he's blocked right now. Seventy hundred plus seventy Sam How,

543
00:27:38,200 --> 00:27:42,400
Speaker 1: Tay Kwon Thornton, Matt Carroll, True or false? Sam How

544
00:27:42,440 --> 00:27:49,240
Speaker 1: will start a game this year? Um? True? Okay? That

545
00:27:49,359 --> 00:27:51,639
Speaker 1: they'll choose to play him and that could be a

546
00:27:51,680 --> 00:27:54,000
Speaker 1: Wentz injury. Yeah, I mean if if wins gets hurt

547
00:27:54,040 --> 00:27:56,119
Speaker 1: and weak too, and he has a pretend pensity to

548
00:27:56,119 --> 00:27:59,080
Speaker 1: do that. Yeah, yeah, he has. I would guess that's

549
00:27:59,119 --> 00:28:01,080
Speaker 1: sort of like the Steelers if Wentz would get hurt

550
00:28:01,080 --> 00:28:03,439
Speaker 1: in week two, week three, that they would go to

551
00:28:03,480 --> 00:28:09,760
Speaker 1: Heineke if the season is shot and it's November December

552
00:28:09,800 --> 00:28:11,480
Speaker 1: and they're out of it. I don't think you go

553
00:28:11,520 --> 00:28:14,240
Speaker 1: to Heineke. I think you go to Howe. Yeah. Yeah.

554
00:28:14,440 --> 00:28:16,440
Speaker 1: Do you think Corral starts a game this year? I

555
00:28:16,520 --> 00:28:18,959
Speaker 1: think no. I'm gonna say no because I think at

556
00:28:18,960 --> 00:28:23,520
Speaker 1: Baker Struggles it's Darnald. They go back to DARNALDA. I agree.

557
00:28:24,280 --> 00:28:30,080
Speaker 1: At plus eight thousand, Kyle Phillips Phillips, I don't even

558
00:28:30,119 --> 00:28:33,840
Speaker 1: know who that is. I don't either, and we're draft guys.

559
00:28:34,080 --> 00:28:38,560
Speaker 1: Say he's a lineman safety in the league named Kyle Phillips.

560
00:28:39,240 --> 00:28:46,680
Speaker 1: I don't know who that is. Uh. At plus ten thousand, Ukawana, Uh,

561
00:28:46,760 --> 00:28:53,080
Speaker 1: you got Hassan Haskins, Evan Neil, Ontario Drummond, Charles Cross

562
00:28:53,080 --> 00:28:59,320
Speaker 1: and Calvin Austin the third interesting, So I might put

563
00:28:59,360 --> 00:29:02,680
Speaker 1: a buck on Juana or Neil. If ever, there's a

564
00:29:02,760 --> 00:29:06,680
Speaker 1: year that an old lineman wins it if no rookie

565
00:29:06,760 --> 00:29:11,400
Speaker 1: quarterbacks starts more than a handful of games. Maybe it

566
00:29:11,480 --> 00:29:15,800
Speaker 1: happens this year. I mean, you're not gonna win with

567
00:29:15,880 --> 00:29:19,080
Speaker 1: the Chargers didn't win it last year. Who did win

568
00:29:19,120 --> 00:29:20,640
Speaker 1: the last year? I should not, if tought my head,

569
00:29:20,880 --> 00:29:23,880
Speaker 1: Mac Jones didn't. Because Jones was a good quarterback. He

570
00:29:24,000 --> 00:29:26,480
Speaker 1: was okay, I mean he was a good rookie quarterback.

571
00:29:27,400 --> 00:29:29,320
Speaker 1: I don't think any rookie quarterback while I was good

572
00:29:29,320 --> 00:29:31,160
Speaker 1: at years, Matt Jones and I don't think so either.

573
00:29:31,360 --> 00:29:33,560
Speaker 1: I mean, I think Mac Jones is two thousand twenty

574
00:29:33,560 --> 00:29:36,280
Speaker 1: one season would win it this year to probably unless

575
00:29:36,320 --> 00:29:39,600
Speaker 1: all goes insane or somebody London goes insane. I don't know.

576
00:29:39,600 --> 00:29:42,120
Speaker 1: I just think if there's any year that you told

577
00:29:42,120 --> 00:29:44,240
Speaker 1: me while an offensive lineman one rookie of the year,

578
00:29:44,840 --> 00:29:49,440
Speaker 1: it might be two thousand. Predicting the payoffs of Men's threw,

579
00:29:50,000 --> 00:29:54,520
Speaker 1: you know, a little money down on Breece Hall. You

580
00:29:54,560 --> 00:29:57,880
Speaker 1: know the odds aren't great, uh D. London is interesting.

581
00:29:57,960 --> 00:30:00,400
Speaker 1: London would be a good one. And then my third

582
00:30:00,480 --> 00:30:03,200
Speaker 1: best one I think might be George Pickens. Pickens is

583
00:30:03,280 --> 00:30:05,920
Speaker 1: my favorite bet. Yeah, the favorite, like the best payout,

584
00:30:05,960 --> 00:30:08,760
Speaker 1: like the one that I would put the buck on

585
00:30:09,160 --> 00:30:13,680
Speaker 1: the easiest because I want to pay off, you know, right, Um, yeah,

586
00:30:13,800 --> 00:30:16,400
Speaker 1: I think those are my favorite three and pickings should

587
00:30:16,400 --> 00:30:18,320
Speaker 1: be higher in the list. It's really the bottom line, right,

588
00:30:18,360 --> 00:30:21,360
Speaker 1: I mean, he's here, and I think after the preseason games, like,

589
00:30:21,400 --> 00:30:23,880
Speaker 1: if you want to get that bet in now, now

590
00:30:24,000 --> 00:30:25,680
Speaker 1: is the time to do it. It's not gonna get

591
00:30:25,720 --> 00:30:27,560
Speaker 1: any better because if you wait a couple of weeks,

592
00:30:27,560 --> 00:30:31,120
Speaker 1: he's gonna be like plus or plus a thousand by

593
00:30:31,120 --> 00:30:33,240
Speaker 1: the end of the preseason. I mean, it's not gonna

594
00:30:33,280 --> 00:30:35,640
Speaker 1: get any longer odds than because they're gonna play him

595
00:30:35,640 --> 00:30:38,080
Speaker 1: in the preseason. Well, that was actually my next question.

596
00:30:39,200 --> 00:30:43,840
Speaker 1: Do you think he's so good that he might even

597
00:30:44,040 --> 00:30:48,960
Speaker 1: barely play in the third game. That's possible. He's gonna

598
00:30:48,960 --> 00:30:51,280
Speaker 1: play a lot. He's gonna play Saturday, He's gonna play

599
00:30:51,280 --> 00:30:54,160
Speaker 1: on the second game for sure. Um and then maybe

600
00:30:54,160 --> 00:30:57,160
Speaker 1: you've seen enough. But if he has you know, six

601
00:30:57,240 --> 00:30:59,360
Speaker 1: catches for a hundred twenty yards and two touchdowns in

602
00:30:59,360 --> 00:31:02,760
Speaker 1: the preseason, yeah, you know, which is certainly possible those

603
00:31:02,840 --> 00:31:06,760
Speaker 1: lunatics that play preseason dfs. He's a he's a good

604
00:31:06,840 --> 00:31:10,040
Speaker 1: bat early on, as is Warren. By the way, if

605
00:31:10,080 --> 00:31:13,360
Speaker 1: you guys are really into is a great gentle Warren.

606
00:31:13,440 --> 00:31:16,360
Speaker 1: You might want to put him on the list. I mean,

607
00:31:16,440 --> 00:31:19,000
Speaker 1: no one, every other some of those other I mean

608
00:31:19,360 --> 00:31:21,080
Speaker 1: some of the other running backs on here that are

609
00:31:21,120 --> 00:31:23,880
Speaker 1: third on their on their depth and those guys. Yeah,

610
00:31:24,760 --> 00:31:26,680
Speaker 1: no one knows who Warren is though, I mean like

611
00:31:27,720 --> 00:31:29,960
Speaker 1: I will in a couple of weeks. They they definitely will.

612
00:31:30,120 --> 00:31:34,160
Speaker 1: And again, anyone playing preseason DFS should be drafting Warren

613
00:31:34,320 --> 00:31:37,120
Speaker 1: very very high. But whoever Kyle Phillips is who? We

614
00:31:37,160 --> 00:31:39,560
Speaker 1: don't know who he is. That's how thirty one other

615
00:31:39,920 --> 00:31:44,480
Speaker 1: radio stations are reacting right now on that list Phillips rookie.

616
00:31:45,200 --> 00:31:47,680
Speaker 1: I don't know who that is. Oh he's the little

617
00:31:47,720 --> 00:31:51,000
Speaker 1: receiver from my u C l A. Oh yeah, chain mover.

618
00:31:53,040 --> 00:31:54,720
Speaker 1: He has no chance of winning it, right, I mean,

619
00:31:56,000 --> 00:31:58,120
Speaker 1: I mean those style players never win it any He's

620
00:31:58,120 --> 00:32:02,080
Speaker 1: with the Titans that parts okay, maybe he's their third receiver.

621
00:32:02,240 --> 00:32:04,920
Speaker 1: Maybe maybe, but they don't throw the ball enough to

622
00:32:05,920 --> 00:32:08,000
Speaker 1: that's amazing he's even on the list. Yeah, okay, yeah,

623
00:32:08,000 --> 00:32:11,400
Speaker 1: I remember who that is. He's fine. Yeah. I never

624
00:32:11,440 --> 00:32:13,280
Speaker 1: would have thought of him as in the offensive rookie

625
00:32:13,320 --> 00:32:16,040
Speaker 1: of the Year, nor would I nor would I. But interesting,

626
00:32:16,400 --> 00:32:19,440
Speaker 1: you know, that George Pickens would be. I think he's

627
00:32:19,480 --> 00:32:23,760
Speaker 1: gonna climb that list. In fact, it would surprise me

628
00:32:24,200 --> 00:32:26,760
Speaker 1: if by the end of this preseason he and he

629
00:32:26,840 --> 00:32:29,440
Speaker 1: and Pikett flip flop. Yeah, I mean if you can

630
00:32:29,480 --> 00:32:31,040
Speaker 1: get him a fifteen to one right now, that's what

631
00:32:31,080 --> 00:32:35,360
Speaker 1: the odds are on Pickings right. Uh, Pickens plus fifteen

632
00:32:35,440 --> 00:32:40,760
Speaker 1: hundred Pickens. Uh, Kenny Pickett is not plus nine hundred Pickens. Oh,

633
00:32:40,800 --> 00:32:46,240
Speaker 1: George Pickens is plus twenty five not even now. There's

634
00:32:46,320 --> 00:32:49,239
Speaker 1: no way it gets greater odds. It's not gonna it's

635
00:32:49,240 --> 00:32:50,840
Speaker 1: still gonna go Yeah, it's not gonna go up. It's

636
00:32:50,840 --> 00:32:54,480
Speaker 1: only gonna go down. Percent. That one's too low. Someone

637
00:32:54,480 --> 00:32:56,840
Speaker 1: could should call Vegas and they tell them they're screwing

638
00:32:56,840 --> 00:32:58,600
Speaker 1: that one, like he'll be. I mean, Jamison Williams is

639
00:32:58,600 --> 00:33:01,000
Speaker 1: plus eighteen hundred right now, Pickens has a better chance.

640
00:33:01,080 --> 00:33:04,920
Speaker 1: After this weekend, George Pickens is going to be plus Yeah,

641
00:33:05,320 --> 00:33:07,400
Speaker 1: he has a better chance in Williams. Yeah. I mean,

642
00:33:07,440 --> 00:33:12,280
Speaker 1: I can see the argument against the Lava, even Burke's London. Sure.

643
00:33:12,880 --> 00:33:17,280
Speaker 1: I mean, they're probably Game one starters on the field

644
00:33:17,320 --> 00:33:19,920
Speaker 1: every snap, Guys, I don't know, they're better football players

645
00:33:19,960 --> 00:33:25,320
Speaker 1: in him plus one one. I don't hate that one either. Yea, yeah,

646
00:33:25,560 --> 00:33:27,760
Speaker 1: I think I mentioned you the other day that I'm

647
00:33:27,760 --> 00:33:31,320
Speaker 1: warming up to Juju a little bit for fantasy, And

648
00:33:31,360 --> 00:33:34,520
Speaker 1: really it's just a good example of smart teams being smart.

649
00:33:34,880 --> 00:33:36,680
Speaker 1: I didn't know this till about a week or so ago.

650
00:33:37,560 --> 00:33:39,520
Speaker 1: One of my biggest knocks on Juju as a player

651
00:33:39,680 --> 00:33:43,120
Speaker 1: was he struggles against press man coverage. Well, do you

652
00:33:43,160 --> 00:33:45,160
Speaker 1: know who saw the mo zone in the league last year?

653
00:33:45,440 --> 00:33:48,000
Speaker 1: The Chiefs. Yeah, you know, so they liked them a

654
00:33:48,000 --> 00:33:50,200
Speaker 1: little bit more than most teams do because they see

655
00:33:50,280 --> 00:33:52,960
Speaker 1: it in all the time, because they're petrified of my

656
00:33:53,000 --> 00:33:55,520
Speaker 1: homes killing them and they don't see blitz. I wonder

657
00:33:55,560 --> 00:33:57,960
Speaker 1: how much I wonder if they see more man though

658
00:33:58,000 --> 00:34:00,600
Speaker 1: this year without I think they will, Yeah, I think

659
00:34:00,640 --> 00:34:01,920
Speaker 1: they will. I think one of the reasons you don't

660
00:34:01,920 --> 00:34:04,000
Speaker 1: play man against them is because Tarik may take to

661
00:34:04,040 --> 00:34:06,080
Speaker 1: take the top off your defense real quick, right right

662
00:34:06,160 --> 00:34:07,960
Speaker 1: right now? I bet they do. But no one ever

663
00:34:08,000 --> 00:34:11,080
Speaker 1: blitzes my homes, you know, have one plays the deep shell,

664
00:34:11,560 --> 00:34:14,200
Speaker 1: at least until further notice. So smart teams go out

665
00:34:14,239 --> 00:34:16,640
Speaker 1: and find out you know what, you know what, how

666
00:34:16,719 --> 00:34:19,600
Speaker 1: teams are playing us and you get guys accordingly, and

667
00:34:19,640 --> 00:34:22,360
Speaker 1: they got your due a good deal. He is Matt Williamson.

668
00:34:22,440 --> 00:34:24,440
Speaker 1: I am Dale Lolly. You're listening to the Drive here

669
00:34:24,440 --> 00:34:27,320
Speaker 1: on Steelers Nation Radio and ESPN nine seventy and we

670
00:34:27,360 --> 00:34:30,719
Speaker 1: appreciate Matt coughing into the microphone there. I think he

671
00:34:30,800 --> 00:34:33,520
Speaker 1: swallowed a bug as we sit out here on the

672
00:34:33,680 --> 00:34:37,120
Speaker 1: deck at chuck Nollfield on the campus of St. Vincent College.

673
00:34:37,880 --> 00:34:44,080
Speaker 1: We will be back with Moore right after this. He's

674
00:34:44,160 --> 00:34:48,759
Speaker 1: the Drive with Dale Lolly and Matt Williamson on home

675
00:34:48,840 --> 00:35:00,600
Speaker 1: of the Black and Goal Steelers Nation Radio. Welcome back.

676
00:35:00,640 --> 00:35:02,960
Speaker 1: I'm d l Ally here with Matt Williams, and we

677
00:35:03,000 --> 00:35:07,520
Speaker 1: are live from St. Vincent College here in beautiful Retrobe, Pennsylvania,

678
00:35:07,560 --> 00:35:10,600
Speaker 1: where the Steelers are holding their training camp. They practiced

679
00:35:10,640 --> 00:35:13,239
Speaker 1: at ten thirty a end this morning to I just

680
00:35:13,440 --> 00:35:18,600
Speaker 1: avoid the rain. But I didn't know that. But you know,

681
00:35:18,680 --> 00:35:21,239
Speaker 1: as you mentioned, it was smart to take the bird

682
00:35:21,280 --> 00:35:22,880
Speaker 1: in the hand there. You don't want it to be

683
00:35:23,080 --> 00:35:25,960
Speaker 1: to thirty three o'clock and the skies open up and

684
00:35:26,040 --> 00:35:27,880
Speaker 1: then you're stuck. You're stuck, and you're stuck, but then

685
00:35:27,880 --> 00:35:29,959
Speaker 1: you gotta move somewhere else. But for my personal reason,

686
00:35:30,000 --> 00:35:32,120
Speaker 1: I hope they do tomorrow afternoon because I would like

687
00:35:32,160 --> 00:35:34,399
Speaker 1: to sit here with you for three hours and kind

688
00:35:34,400 --> 00:35:37,239
Speaker 1: of talk about what we see live. Absolutely, Um, we're

689
00:35:37,239 --> 00:35:42,080
Speaker 1: going through some different uh propositions here on the Draft

690
00:35:42,160 --> 00:35:44,839
Speaker 1: Kings sports book, and man I caught up the thing here.

691
00:35:45,480 --> 00:35:48,759
Speaker 1: You can bet on a season special team with the

692
00:35:48,800 --> 00:35:52,840
Speaker 1: most wins for the regular season. Okay, so that's not

693
00:35:52,880 --> 00:35:56,080
Speaker 1: necessarily the best team. That's who's gonna end the best record.

694
00:35:56,120 --> 00:35:58,080
Speaker 1: You know, who's gonna have the most wins. Tennessee ended

695
00:35:58,120 --> 00:35:59,719
Speaker 1: up with the one seed. I don't think any of

696
00:35:59,840 --> 00:36:01,080
Speaker 1: us out they were the best team in the a

697
00:36:01,160 --> 00:36:04,080
Speaker 1: f C when the playoffs open. Correct. Okay, so the

698
00:36:04,120 --> 00:36:07,359
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills are plus four fifty right now. I wish

699
00:36:07,440 --> 00:36:09,960
Speaker 1: I had Warren Sharp's strength of schedule in front of me,

700
00:36:10,000 --> 00:36:11,760
Speaker 1: But I do know who some some of the tougher

701
00:36:11,800 --> 00:36:14,480
Speaker 1: ones are the teams in the West. The a f

702
00:36:14,560 --> 00:36:17,160
Speaker 1: C North has tough schedules, as you'd imagine. You know

703
00:36:17,239 --> 00:36:21,240
Speaker 1: the teams that you know in your division. Uh, what's

704
00:36:21,320 --> 00:36:24,120
Speaker 1: what did your bet? The Bills a f C East

705
00:36:24,360 --> 00:36:27,440
Speaker 1: record will be five and one probably? I mean I

706
00:36:27,440 --> 00:36:30,320
Speaker 1: don't think there's any pushovers or you know, slam dunks.

707
00:36:30,440 --> 00:36:32,200
Speaker 1: I think the Jets are better than they have been,

708
00:36:32,920 --> 00:36:37,080
Speaker 1: but the four or five at worst, Yeah, yeah, I

709
00:36:37,080 --> 00:36:38,880
Speaker 1: mean I think the Bills are probably pretty clearly the

710
00:36:38,960 --> 00:36:42,560
Speaker 1: number one. Tampa Bay is second at plus five hunds. Funny,

711
00:36:42,560 --> 00:36:44,799
Speaker 1: that's I was thinking Tampa Green Bay just because here's

712
00:36:44,800 --> 00:36:47,960
Speaker 1: why I wouldn't. Here's why I wouldn't take Tampa Bay though.

713
00:36:49,120 --> 00:36:50,759
Speaker 1: I know for a fact that the a f C

714
00:36:51,560 --> 00:36:55,840
Speaker 1: North faces off against the NFC South this year. Yes,

715
00:36:56,200 --> 00:36:58,040
Speaker 1: in crossover games. That's that means you're gonna get at

716
00:36:58,120 --> 00:37:02,040
Speaker 1: least three tough games. Yeah, you're a Buccaneers. The Saints

717
00:37:02,080 --> 00:37:04,239
Speaker 1: always have their number two, and the Saints always beat

718
00:37:04,280 --> 00:37:06,200
Speaker 1: them defensively. Like, I don't think they're going six and

719
00:37:06,239 --> 00:37:09,279
Speaker 1: oh in that division. They probably sweep Atlanta. Wouldn't shock

720
00:37:09,320 --> 00:37:11,200
Speaker 1: me if carolinfe I bet to go four and two

721
00:37:11,239 --> 00:37:12,840
Speaker 1: in the division. I mean, the Saints are always a

722
00:37:12,840 --> 00:37:16,879
Speaker 1: hard matchup for them, and I don't think Carolina stinks um.

723
00:37:16,920 --> 00:37:18,480
Speaker 1: I was worried about the box this morning, and you

724
00:37:18,520 --> 00:37:20,560
Speaker 1: probably didn't see this because you're in the practice field.

725
00:37:21,200 --> 00:37:25,440
Speaker 1: Their backup center Hanzi got carted off and then they

726
00:37:25,440 --> 00:37:27,440
Speaker 1: said it was just cramps of some sort, that he's

727
00:37:27,440 --> 00:37:29,200
Speaker 1: gonna be Okay, maybe he'll miss a day or so.

728
00:37:29,320 --> 00:37:32,400
Speaker 1: But I'm like, man, I mean, if their top four

729
00:37:32,640 --> 00:37:35,480
Speaker 1: interior lineman from last year and Gronk and a B

730
00:37:35,640 --> 00:37:38,799
Speaker 1: and these other old dudes all aren't back, maybe it's

731
00:37:38,840 --> 00:37:40,400
Speaker 1: just not the Bucks year. But it looks like they

732
00:37:40,440 --> 00:37:44,080
Speaker 1: avoided disaster on that one. Green Bay is plus six fifty.

733
00:37:44,480 --> 00:37:46,160
Speaker 1: They'd be a strong bet to do that. They win

734
00:37:46,200 --> 00:37:49,319
Speaker 1: a lot of regular season games. If here, here's a

735
00:37:49,400 --> 00:37:53,080
Speaker 1: similar conversation. If I told you you could pick one

736
00:37:53,200 --> 00:37:56,919
Speaker 1: team to win their division, would it be green Bay?

737
00:37:57,360 --> 00:37:59,600
Speaker 1: Might be Buffalo? Would it be Buffalo, would be Tampa?

738
00:38:00,000 --> 00:38:02,480
Speaker 1: Wouldn't be Filly or Dallas? To me, wouldn't be a

739
00:38:02,520 --> 00:38:06,360
Speaker 1: North team. Green Bay is a pretty solid green solibetto.

740
00:38:06,440 --> 00:38:09,000
Speaker 1: They seem to always do in Kansas City, always finds

741
00:38:09,000 --> 00:38:11,479
Speaker 1: a way. I just don't like their competition is harder

742
00:38:11,480 --> 00:38:13,719
Speaker 1: than usual, you know, Yeah, I mean I just said

743
00:38:13,719 --> 00:38:16,960
Speaker 1: Green Bay is pretty close to a slam dunk to

744
00:38:16,960 --> 00:38:20,000
Speaker 1: win in that division. The Rams are plus seven fifty.

745
00:38:20,120 --> 00:38:24,120
Speaker 1: The Chargers in Chiefs are both plus eight hundred. Okay,

746
00:38:24,480 --> 00:38:26,680
Speaker 1: I'd be shocked if any of those teams win the

747
00:38:26,719 --> 00:38:30,320
Speaker 1: most games. I like this one. The Cults are plus

748
00:38:30,320 --> 00:38:33,160
Speaker 1: sixteen hundred. It's not bad. They could be five and

749
00:38:33,160 --> 00:38:35,040
Speaker 1: one division. They could be that. They could have a

750
00:38:35,080 --> 00:38:37,920
Speaker 1: Tennessee Titans like season this year, roll through the a

751
00:38:38,040 --> 00:38:41,200
Speaker 1: f C South thirteen and four, losing the first round.

752
00:38:42,440 --> 00:38:44,960
Speaker 1: Baltimore comes to town and beat some or Since or

753
00:38:45,280 --> 00:38:48,160
Speaker 1: somebody else. Yeah, that's not bad. I mean, consider what

754
00:38:48,160 --> 00:38:50,719
Speaker 1: the payoff is. Yeah, the division is not super tough.

755
00:38:50,760 --> 00:38:54,520
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, uh, Denver's also plus sixteen hundred,

756
00:38:54,560 --> 00:38:58,640
Speaker 1: Dallas is plus sixteen hundred, The Ravens are plus sixteen hundred,

757
00:38:59,120 --> 00:39:02,400
Speaker 1: forty Niners are plus sixteen hundred. None of them stand

758
00:39:02,400 --> 00:39:03,959
Speaker 1: out to me, but they all should be in about

759
00:39:04,000 --> 00:39:05,960
Speaker 1: the same tier. I'd say, I don't think i'd bet

760
00:39:06,000 --> 00:39:08,279
Speaker 1: on any of those. This is where it gets kind

761
00:39:08,320 --> 00:39:10,920
Speaker 1: of interesting to me. You even mentioned the Eagles. The

762
00:39:10,960 --> 00:39:14,080
Speaker 1: Eagles are plus eight three hundred plus eighteen hundred. The

763
00:39:14,160 --> 00:39:18,680
Speaker 1: Browns are plus eighteen hundred. The Bengals are plus two thousand.

764
00:39:18,680 --> 00:39:21,480
Speaker 1: How are the Bengals behind the Browns in that? I

765
00:39:21,520 --> 00:39:23,840
Speaker 1: would put a buck on the Bengals like they wouldn't

766
00:39:23,880 --> 00:39:25,479
Speaker 1: be my pick to win the most teas in the league,

767
00:39:25,560 --> 00:39:28,560
Speaker 1: but if a third in the a f C North,

768
00:39:28,960 --> 00:39:33,080
Speaker 1: that's amazing to me. I mean the Browns are wrong. Yeah,

769
00:39:33,160 --> 00:39:35,520
Speaker 1: that's just even if he gets six, they're not gonna

770
00:39:35,520 --> 00:39:38,040
Speaker 1: win the most games. They may be good, but they're

771
00:39:38,040 --> 00:39:39,680
Speaker 1: not gonna win the most games if you get six.

772
00:39:39,840 --> 00:39:42,120
Speaker 1: The team that we're not getting too, here's the Steelers.

773
00:39:42,120 --> 00:39:46,440
Speaker 1: They are plus ten thousand. Wow. The only teams a

774
00:39:46,440 --> 00:39:49,560
Speaker 1: couple of bets. I kind of like our Eagles Bengals,

775
00:39:49,600 --> 00:39:51,319
Speaker 1: and you haven't mentioned Saints, so they must be a

776
00:39:51,320 --> 00:39:54,920
Speaker 1: long shot. The Saints are at where the heck are

777
00:39:54,920 --> 00:39:58,440
Speaker 1: the Saints there? Plus six thousand? Wow? I mean again,

778
00:39:58,600 --> 00:40:01,880
Speaker 1: that's below I think it's gonna happen. That's below the Cardinals,

779
00:40:02,080 --> 00:40:05,759
Speaker 1: the Titans, the Raiders, and the Patriots. Oh. I think

780
00:40:05,760 --> 00:40:07,759
Speaker 1: the Saints is a decent bet there. They could be

781
00:40:07,760 --> 00:40:10,840
Speaker 1: five and one in their division. Yeah, and they have

782
00:40:10,920 --> 00:40:13,880
Speaker 1: the league's best record because as I mentioned again, probably

783
00:40:13,920 --> 00:40:16,000
Speaker 1: not I don't think also match up against the a

784
00:40:16,080 --> 00:40:20,439
Speaker 1: f C North in their crossover. Yeah, but to them

785
00:40:20,480 --> 00:40:23,799
Speaker 1: not being mentioned, and I think that they're a playoff team,

786
00:40:23,840 --> 00:40:26,640
Speaker 1: there's a possibility what Brady stumbles a little bit, they

787
00:40:26,640 --> 00:40:29,040
Speaker 1: could win that division. Yeah, where it gets hurt, right,

788
00:40:29,080 --> 00:40:34,399
Speaker 1: that's in anyway, right, fewest wins. The Houston Texans by

789
00:40:34,440 --> 00:40:37,000
Speaker 1: far the leader at plus two seventy five. Division is

790
00:40:37,000 --> 00:40:40,880
Speaker 1: not that bad. No, they should win. They could win division. Right.

791
00:40:41,880 --> 00:40:45,840
Speaker 1: The Atlanta Falcons plus four d I think they're I

792
00:40:45,840 --> 00:40:47,480
Speaker 1: think them in the Bears or who are or maybe

793
00:40:47,480 --> 00:40:51,279
Speaker 1: even Seattle. Seattle's plus seven fifty. I would put a

794
00:40:51,320 --> 00:40:53,719
Speaker 1: buck on Seattle at that price. Their quarterback situation is

795
00:40:53,760 --> 00:40:55,960
Speaker 1: worse than those other teams. Yeah, the Jets are plus

796
00:40:55,960 --> 00:41:00,680
Speaker 1: eight fifty. They have a really tough schedule, but they're okay.

797
00:41:00,800 --> 00:41:02,640
Speaker 1: I don't think the roster is really bad. It all

798
00:41:02,680 --> 00:41:08,040
Speaker 1: depends on fighter. Right. The Bears are plus thousands. Bears

799
00:41:08,040 --> 00:41:10,040
Speaker 1: in Seattle for the price I think is a good bet.

800
00:41:10,200 --> 00:41:13,520
Speaker 1: The Jaguars are plus eleven hundred. I think they'll win games.

801
00:41:14,080 --> 00:41:17,480
Speaker 1: The jagg I'm sorry. The Lions and the Panthers are

802
00:41:17,480 --> 00:41:20,600
Speaker 1: plus twelve hundred. It would blow me away if they

803
00:41:20,600 --> 00:41:24,000
Speaker 1: were the first pick in the draft. Yeah, the Giants

804
00:41:24,000 --> 00:41:26,239
Speaker 1: are plus fourteen hundred. They could be first pick in

805
00:41:26,239 --> 00:41:28,200
Speaker 1: the draft. They could, they could, they could fall I mean,

806
00:41:28,200 --> 00:41:31,160
Speaker 1: they just can't stay healthy. Then you've got the Steelers

807
00:41:31,200 --> 00:41:33,440
Speaker 1: at plus eighteen hundred. I would not make that. I

808
00:41:33,440 --> 00:41:36,760
Speaker 1: would not make that bet in any way, shape or form.

809
00:41:36,800 --> 00:41:39,440
Speaker 1: So if this is kind of a dumb but the

810
00:41:39,440 --> 00:41:41,440
Speaker 1: Browns on this one, the Browns are raid after them

811
00:41:41,440 --> 00:41:44,239
Speaker 1: plus thirty undred, so they're there. You can bet on them.

812
00:41:44,280 --> 00:41:46,319
Speaker 1: They have the most, and they got decent odds to

813
00:41:46,320 --> 00:41:50,680
Speaker 1: be the highest wind total. There's also one of the lowest.

814
00:41:50,840 --> 00:41:53,400
Speaker 1: The payoff is so good that I think I would

815
00:41:53,400 --> 00:41:56,600
Speaker 1: put a buck on Watson never plays a game this

816
00:41:56,719 --> 00:41:58,640
Speaker 1: year and the Browns end up with the first pick

817
00:41:58,680 --> 00:42:00,400
Speaker 1: in the draft, which would then go to Houston in right,

818
00:42:00,960 --> 00:42:03,319
Speaker 1: just because the payoff so good. Again not predicting it,

819
00:42:03,400 --> 00:42:05,520
Speaker 1: but I mean I look at these things like what

820
00:42:06,239 --> 00:42:09,799
Speaker 1: where is Vegas a little off? You know where? You

821
00:42:09,840 --> 00:42:13,359
Speaker 1: know what could I envision happening? And I could see

822
00:42:13,400 --> 00:42:15,480
Speaker 1: the wheels falling off in Cleveland to the point where

823
00:42:15,520 --> 00:42:18,360
Speaker 1: they win four games. I mean, I think that's possible.

824
00:42:18,560 --> 00:42:21,400
Speaker 1: And my predictions just all kinds of stuff here that

825
00:42:21,440 --> 00:42:24,279
Speaker 1: you can you can bet on. So um looking here,

826
00:42:25,320 --> 00:42:29,880
Speaker 1: the highest scoring team this season most points, most points.

827
00:42:29,920 --> 00:42:33,600
Speaker 1: The Bills are number one plus five fifty. I don't

828
00:42:33,640 --> 00:42:35,439
Speaker 1: know if they're slam dunk should be number one. Yeah,

829
00:42:35,480 --> 00:42:38,160
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay is second. I've been on Tampa Bay second,

830
00:42:38,200 --> 00:42:41,520
Speaker 1: and along with the Chargers, they're both plus eight hundred.

831
00:42:41,560 --> 00:42:44,320
Speaker 1: Chargers came to mind immediately. That's the first time properly

832
00:42:44,560 --> 00:42:48,879
Speaker 1: properly probably ranked there. Um, how about the Bengals. The

833
00:42:48,920 --> 00:42:52,759
Speaker 1: Bengals are plus fourteen hundred, so they're like fifth or

834
00:42:52,760 --> 00:42:56,200
Speaker 1: six probably something like. Yeah, they're eight. Yeah, that's a

835
00:42:56,239 --> 00:43:00,239
Speaker 1: bad bat. The Packers at plus und their receiver away

836
00:43:00,239 --> 00:43:05,040
Speaker 1: from being the conversation. But again, the Browns are plus Again,

837
00:43:05,040 --> 00:43:07,640
Speaker 1: they're at the top. They're screwed up here, I mean, yeah,

838
00:43:07,680 --> 00:43:09,640
Speaker 1: there's I don't know. I think Vegas written knows right

839
00:43:09,640 --> 00:43:12,640
Speaker 1: now where to put them. Man, I'd be betting against

840
00:43:12,719 --> 00:43:16,840
Speaker 1: them and all these manners though. Yeah, the lowest scoring

841
00:43:16,920 --> 00:43:21,160
Speaker 1: team in the league Atlanta. The Falcons are plus five.

842
00:43:21,920 --> 00:43:25,560
Speaker 1: Bears would be pretty low. Houston is plus five fifty.

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Speaker 1: They receivers, Oh, and I don't know if that offense

844
00:43:29,120 --> 00:43:31,480
Speaker 1: would be bad bad. My bet would be the Seattle

845
00:43:31,520 --> 00:43:34,240
Speaker 1: Seahawks at plus seven fifty. The other problem with Seattle

846
00:43:34,680 --> 00:43:37,440
Speaker 1: they don't run any plays. They don't very slow. They

847
00:43:37,480 --> 00:43:40,319
Speaker 1: don't run a lot of plays. Um, you know, I

848
00:43:40,360 --> 00:43:42,399
Speaker 1: assume that's going to keep up because that's really that

849
00:43:42,400 --> 00:43:44,840
Speaker 1: that limits the the time you get beat. You know,

850
00:43:44,960 --> 00:43:47,239
Speaker 1: it keeps games a little closer. That's actually one of

851
00:43:47,280 --> 00:43:50,160
Speaker 1: my problems with Green Baby and so High is I

852
00:43:50,160 --> 00:43:52,440
Speaker 1: could see them running the ball more, taking the ball

853
00:43:52,480 --> 00:43:54,080
Speaker 1: at the air, out of the ball a little bit more.

854
00:43:54,520 --> 00:43:56,480
Speaker 1: Same with Kansas City compared to what they've been the

855
00:43:56,560 --> 00:43:58,000
Speaker 1: last couple of years. I mean, they're still gonna be

856
00:43:58,080 --> 00:44:00,840
Speaker 1: high scoring teams, but maybe they play the game a

857
00:44:00,840 --> 00:44:04,120
Speaker 1: little differently. Trust the defense is a little more and

858
00:44:04,280 --> 00:44:06,279
Speaker 1: manage the game a little more, which probably means you

859
00:44:06,280 --> 00:44:09,200
Speaker 1: don't lead the league in points. So that you so

860
00:44:09,320 --> 00:44:12,680
Speaker 1: you get the Falcons, the Texans, the Bears, the Seahawks

861
00:44:12,760 --> 00:44:16,319
Speaker 1: is the four lowest odds. I think Houston's the best

862
00:44:16,360 --> 00:44:18,279
Speaker 1: offense of that group. Yeah, but then you get the

863
00:44:18,320 --> 00:44:21,880
Speaker 1: Steelers and the Jets plus twelve hundred next. They're selling

864
00:44:22,280 --> 00:44:25,440
Speaker 1: very short, they really are. I don't get that the

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Speaker 1: Browns will be closer to that than the Browns are

866
00:44:27,640 --> 00:44:32,000
Speaker 1: plus two thousand. No, the way down the list, like

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00:44:32,000 --> 00:44:34,160
Speaker 1: I'm looking at the Lions offense and thinking Wow, it's

868
00:44:34,160 --> 00:44:36,239
Speaker 1: a lot better. I really like what they're building here.

869
00:44:36,640 --> 00:44:38,719
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's better than the Steelers. I mean,

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00:44:38,719 --> 00:44:43,800
Speaker 1: that was horrible last year. Washington's offense, like Washington is

871
00:44:43,840 --> 00:44:49,160
Speaker 1: bad Giants right their plus you're backing on a lot

872
00:44:49,239 --> 00:44:53,560
Speaker 1: of improvement the Patriots. The Patriots plus eight hundred unless

873
00:44:53,560 --> 00:44:56,040
Speaker 1: they're defense and special teams at a lot to that. Again,

874
00:44:57,680 --> 00:44:59,799
Speaker 1: I think they scored more points than you think less.

875
00:44:59,800 --> 00:45:01,600
Speaker 1: They well, they had three games where they broke like

876
00:45:01,640 --> 00:45:03,680
Speaker 1: fifty because Belichick will run the score up on you

877
00:45:03,719 --> 00:45:06,640
Speaker 1: if he came. Um. But and they also scored on

878
00:45:06,719 --> 00:45:09,000
Speaker 1: defense and things too, which I assume they're not counting,

879
00:45:09,040 --> 00:45:10,839
Speaker 1: but I don't know if they are not. We think

880
00:45:10,880 --> 00:45:12,960
Speaker 1: the Steelers aren't going to score in defensive No, No,

881
00:45:13,000 --> 00:45:14,920
Speaker 1: that's all I'm saying, right right, right, I hear you.

882
00:45:15,200 --> 00:45:16,960
Speaker 1: I just think that's that's the way under selling the

883
00:45:16,960 --> 00:45:22,680
Speaker 1: Steelers in these situations. Carolina's offense statistically was like the

884
00:45:22,680 --> 00:45:26,760
Speaker 1: worst in the league. It was just awful. I expect

885
00:45:26,840 --> 00:45:29,640
Speaker 1: them to be better, but they should probably still be

886
00:45:29,800 --> 00:45:32,359
Speaker 1: near the bottom just in terms of what they did

887
00:45:32,440 --> 00:45:35,799
Speaker 1: last I think the Bears in the Seahawks are the

888
00:45:35,800 --> 00:45:38,520
Speaker 1: top two bets there. You think Atlanta is better than them,

889
00:45:38,760 --> 00:45:43,239
Speaker 1: the stores more points in the Yeah, Seattle would be

890
00:45:43,280 --> 00:45:45,600
Speaker 1: my bet. They don't run any plays and they have

891
00:45:45,600 --> 00:45:47,120
Speaker 1: the worst quarterbacks in the league. Right, that might be

892
00:45:47,160 --> 00:45:50,359
Speaker 1: all we needed. That's a pretty bad But I don't

893
00:45:50,360 --> 00:45:52,120
Speaker 1: think they're going to run more plays than they did

894
00:45:52,200 --> 00:45:54,600
Speaker 1: last year. If so, it's still gonna be the bottom league.

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00:45:55,200 --> 00:45:58,960
Speaker 1: They ran the fewest plays per game since Football Outsiders

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00:45:59,000 --> 00:46:02,400
Speaker 1: has been created. Yeah, that's like thirty years ago, like

897
00:46:02,680 --> 00:46:06,080
Speaker 1: fifty offensive plays a game. Yeah, the Ravens ran three

898
00:46:06,160 --> 00:46:10,200
Speaker 1: games more plays than Seattle. If you if the average

899
00:46:10,200 --> 00:46:12,440
Speaker 1: games like sixty five offensive plays a game or sixty

900
00:46:12,480 --> 00:46:14,800
Speaker 1: somewhere in that neighborhood, they ran like a hundred and

901
00:46:14,880 --> 00:46:18,840
Speaker 1: eighty five more plays us. It's nuts. Like when we

902
00:46:18,840 --> 00:46:20,560
Speaker 1: talk fantasy, you gotta know that kind of stuff and

903
00:46:20,640 --> 00:46:22,799
Speaker 1: the teams that run plays, you don't have to be

904
00:46:22,880 --> 00:46:25,360
Speaker 1: super productive. Just one more catch here and there, you know,

905
00:46:25,880 --> 00:46:29,040
Speaker 1: five yards of play. Well, I mean that's two more

906
00:46:29,080 --> 00:46:31,680
Speaker 1: catches for your top receiver. Five five yards isn't even

907
00:46:31,719 --> 00:46:34,520
Speaker 1: gonna get you into the top right, right, right, right,

908
00:46:34,560 --> 00:46:37,840
Speaker 1: I mean you're running sixty some more plays than average.

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00:46:37,880 --> 00:46:40,879
Speaker 1: Is a Ton. Yeah. Absolutely, we are going to take

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Speaker 1: another break. We'll be back with our number three of

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Speaker 1: the Drive here on Steelers Nation Radio and ESPN nine seventy.

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Speaker 1: In just a moment. He is Matt Williamson, I am Dale.

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Speaker 1: Lolly will be back live from training camp right after

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