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

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

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Speaker 1: welcome back. I'm Dale Lollly here with Matt Williamson and

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Speaker 1: Matt does t J. Watt the best defensive player in

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Speaker 1: football right now? I gotta say yes and people be

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Speaker 1: like Williams, just a couple of weeks ago, you said

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Speaker 1: you'd rather Miles Garrett and I did and it was

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Speaker 1: a fine line though, folks. I mean, it wasn't like, boy,

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Speaker 1: this guy stinks and Miles Garrett's awesome and Myles was

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Speaker 1: off this week. But what Watt's done is just hard

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Speaker 1: to His resume is better, you know what I mean?

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Speaker 1: And I absolutely think that I see a better football

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Speaker 1: player than Aaron Donald. I don't know if I could

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Speaker 1: go there, but he definitely he would. You get my

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Speaker 1: He's now has sixteen sacks in just ten games. Ten games.

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Speaker 1: That ties the Steelers all time record set by James

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Speaker 1: Harrison in sixteen games. Um. I he's the best pass

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Speaker 1: rusher in Steelers history. I think so too, like they've

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Speaker 1: had other really good guys. Joe Order James Harrison. I

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Speaker 1: would have given it to Harrison before this year or

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Speaker 1: last year. Baby, you know. But like, if I had

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Speaker 1: to pick two of those edge guys would be Harrison

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Speaker 1: and Watt. If I'm building an all time Steelers three

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Speaker 1: for nice thing is one comes off the left side,

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Speaker 1: one came off the right side. It's nice to TJ

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Speaker 1: to the left. But I'll think that which first reporter

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Speaker 1: we were first on that. Yeah, yeah, but I think

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Speaker 1: he's better than all the edge guys they've ever had. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean, if you look at it, he already has

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Speaker 1: he still has five games left. He's he's in fifth,

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Speaker 1: fifth all time. I'm in their all time cyclist. He

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Speaker 1: has a shot at the NFL record. He has a shot. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and he's only played He's only played ten games. He's

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Speaker 1: missed two games, missed two and and and basically a

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Speaker 1: full another one with the wh You know when he

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Speaker 1: left those games with the injuries. He left the game

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Speaker 1: against the Raiders, if you remember he left that one

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Speaker 1: Alex Leatherwood. He was gonna get up, he was gonna

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Speaker 1: get about four in that game. Yeah, I might do

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Speaker 1: it tonight just to look because I'm gonna be looking anyway.

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Speaker 1: It's gonna do my VIT stats and his fastest motion.

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Speaker 1: But I tweeted it out like three weeks ago, Garrett

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Speaker 1: versus Watt in terms of their production sack wise and

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Speaker 1: the games amount they had played. And more importantly, this

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Speaker 1: will tell you how many snaps they have rushed the

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Speaker 1: quarterback this year and what was like a sack behind

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Speaker 1: Garrett at the time. That was the crazy thing about

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Speaker 1: yesterday Matt is they were going to that three outside

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Speaker 1: linebacker package. Yeah, and he was playing in the middle.

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Speaker 1: I would say he wasn't even rushing the dropping in

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Speaker 1: the coverage he was, And I think they I don't

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Speaker 1: know if they ever admitted, but my hunch on that

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Speaker 1: the field, so they're gonna overload that left that right side,

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Speaker 1: thinking that you're coming from there, but we're gonna have

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Speaker 1: you come up the middle. Ey or you know, you

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Speaker 1: of Paula asked, you know, back to that tweet I sent, though,

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Speaker 1: like he he had like a hundred fewer pass rush

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Speaker 1: Now that discrepancy is even going to be wider because

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Speaker 1: he's missed games since then and he's got more sacks.

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Speaker 1: He had twelve quarterback pressures yesterday. That's the most in

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Speaker 1: the NFL this season. According to next gens stats. He

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Speaker 1: had he had three and a half sacks, six quarterback hits.

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Speaker 1: Uh and that five tackles for loss or something, And

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Speaker 1: that doesn't even count the way he affected the final

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Speaker 1: play of the Ravens or forced forced an interception, and

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Speaker 1: he forced a bad throw. The biggest plays of the day.

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Speaker 1: We're not on the score sheet for him, and he

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Speaker 1: All right. Now, what he's doing is really remarkable. Another

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Speaker 1: like these are elite play, These are guys that are

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Speaker 1: White did it twice, but he had a down season.

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Speaker 1: What's still seven? I mean he's actually getting better, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean he's better at stripping the ball, he's better

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Speaker 1: in the edge. Pass rushing moves are better than ever.

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Speaker 1: You know, like he's playing the best he's played yet.

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Speaker 1: And why do we think it's not gonna keep getting better? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: I mean he's the thing. He's just relentless. He is relentless,

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Speaker 1: everybody do. They can do those things. That's the crazy

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Speaker 1: thing about yesterday's game is that. And what said this

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Speaker 1: So on every play he's giving up fifty to sixty

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Speaker 1: didn't They ask Tomlin after like should should should he

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Speaker 1: But if you always played by the book, and we

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Speaker 1: Warmley played really well too. That's the old team. But

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Speaker 1: I don't think it's by the book. Mike toldin was

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Speaker 1: it was surprising that montrevious martevious Adams I was able

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Speaker 1: a good camp Heyward interview coming up, but you're right,

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Speaker 1: and we didn't mention Lagou and Witherspoon. And I'm writing

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Speaker 1: probably gonna charge me a fee on top of it. Yeah, well, look,

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Speaker 1: best of luck. Short week the Vikings Thursday night. Let's

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Speaker 1: Let's go. We got work to do a statement win.

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Speaker 1: According to the guys on the DV morning show, We'll

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Speaker 1: see You. But that was Cam Heyward on the DV

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Speaker 1: Morning show earlier today. The Steelers defensive captain obviously in

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Speaker 1: a good mood, much better mood than he was last year,

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Speaker 1: last week at this time you were at the game.

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Speaker 1: I meant to ask you this. In the first segment,

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Speaker 1: it than I can remember, and you know, in quite

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Speaker 1: could go one of two ways. They're gonna be wound up,

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Speaker 1: but if it gets ugly early, don't be surprised if you.

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Speaker 1: I mean, the first half was ugly. The first half ugly. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: second half. They really did. I mean, I couldn't believe

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Speaker 1: it was only seven three going and a half. That's

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Speaker 1: a win if you can weather that kind of storm

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Speaker 1: and still be alive and kicking and not too worn

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Speaker 1: out to play the second half. You know, I just

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Speaker 1: it didn't. But the other thing happened, like you mentioned,

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Speaker 1: you know that. I think some were critical why so

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Speaker 1: off if you can get back, if you can do it, yeah,

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Speaker 1: if you can get people to stick with it, And

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Speaker 1: they were, uh, that's gonna do it for the segment.

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Speaker 1: Matt and I are going to take a break when

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Speaker 1: we come back. It's time for the fantasy football focus.

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Speaker 1: We will do that right after this on the drive

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Speaker 1: times the Black and Gold Live Here seven. This is

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