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Speaker 1: Welcome back. I am Dale Lally. He is Matt Williamson

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Speaker 1: and we do have a little bit of housekeeping stuff

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Speaker 1: the rest of the show. Here Steel has made a

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Speaker 1: hire today. Matt made an official with Yes with Aaron

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Speaker 1: Curry as their inside linebackers coach Jerry Olsavsky, who've been

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Speaker 1: with the team in the last twenty years as as

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Speaker 1: a coach not being brought back. That makes Mike Tomlin's

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Speaker 1: staff is a heck of a lot younger. Now. I

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Speaker 1: didn't think of that in terms of youth and all that.

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Speaker 1: Carl Dunbar's now the he's been here for five years,

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Speaker 1: he's now the senior coach on the staff. Wow, that's amazing.

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Speaker 1: I mean that's a very unstealer like thing through my lifetime,

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Speaker 1: you know what I mean. The Cooke was here for

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Speaker 1: a million years. We talked about coach Mitchell, you know,

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Speaker 1: I mean guys that have been in the long, long

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Speaker 1: term situations as a position coach. Interesting, so Jerry O

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Speaker 1: was the longest tender before this, right, okay, okay um.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if you know anything about Curry I don't,

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Speaker 1: to be honest, with you. I mean at Wikipedia and frankly,

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Speaker 1: his claim to fame, which doesn't mean he's a bad

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Speaker 1: coach or a good coach, was he was the safest

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Speaker 1: prospect in the draft. He's a camp miss guy and

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Speaker 1: he missed. You know, it happens, Yeah, yeah, right, I

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Speaker 1: mean maybe that makes him a better coach. I mean,

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Speaker 1: realizes how what his mistakes for whatever. But that's if

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Speaker 1: you mentioned his name to me two days ago, that

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Speaker 1: would be my first thought. Yeah, yeah, Moving on here,

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Speaker 1: the Football Outsiders, which we often refer to on the show,

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Speaker 1: they put out their way too early twenty twenty three

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Speaker 1: projections interesting for the next year. And of course this

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Speaker 1: has nothing. No draft has happened, no free agency has happened.

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Speaker 1: But here's how they think things are going to break

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Speaker 1: down next season. Okay, and you know, I think a

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Speaker 1: lot of this. The thing that they do on here,

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Speaker 1: which is which is interesting, is a list of teams

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Speaker 1: and their dvoas and everything. Then they list who they

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Speaker 1: think the starting quarterback, yeah, is going to be. In

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Speaker 1: there's a couple of them that are either unknown or traffic, right, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it makes sense which one, but it's going to be

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Speaker 1: young guy. So they have the Bills at number one

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Speaker 1: total DVA of seventeen. Okay, they were super high. I

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Speaker 1: think they ended up one. They were number one, yeah,

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Speaker 1: heading into the season, and then coming out of the season.

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Speaker 1: Kansas City is number two, tied with They love Baltimore.

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Speaker 1: They love Baltimore, and they have Lamar as the quarterback,

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Speaker 1: which I have my doubts about, right, but they have

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Speaker 1: I don't see them in that light. I mean they

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Speaker 1: have them as the fourth best offense, seventh best defense,

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Speaker 1: best special teams. Talking about Baltimore, Yeah, I don't see

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Speaker 1: the fourth best offense even with Lamar. I don't know.

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Speaker 1: I thought the seventh best defense. And here's why. So

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Speaker 1: let's say Lamar is the quarterback of the Baltimore Ravens

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Speaker 1: in twenty twenty three. They have to then figure out

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Speaker 1: a way to get his forty or whatever million dollars

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Speaker 1: guaranteed contract on their roster cap ramifications. Now they've got

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Speaker 1: they've got about twenty five million in cap space right now.

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Speaker 1: But Lamar's eating up all that. You can't fudge that. No, right, right,

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Speaker 1: you know, if he's if he's playing on the franchise tag,

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Speaker 1: So I don't know if they're going to be that high,

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Speaker 1: So they have to sign another quarterback, even though they

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Speaker 1: You know, there's all kinds of stuff that happen. Alice

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Speaker 1: Dallas is a second best defense projected. Yeah, I'm not

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Speaker 1: fine with them being eight. Detroit number nine, You buy

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Speaker 1: Vegas odds will they be over or under the ninth

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Speaker 1: Jacksonville is like thirty million dollars over the cap. Oh. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: they're in trouble. They gotta cut guys. Their days of

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Speaker 1: need Trevor Lawrence to become a superstar. Yes, they do

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Speaker 1: When we come back, he is Matt Williamson, I'm Dale Lalley.

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Speaker 1: We'll be back with more right after this