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

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Speaker 1: your twenty four to seven home of the Black and

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Speaker 2: Welcome to the Drive. I'm Dale LOLLI he is Matt Williamson.

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Speaker 2: And well, Matt, we finally know and was a Biggie

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Speaker 2: Small's that said, you don't know until you know whatever that.

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Speaker 1: Song, I should know that, and I don't.

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Speaker 2: So I'm sure, I'm sure I butchered it. But we

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Speaker 2: all know what the Steelers' schedule is going to be

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Speaker 2: for the for the upcoming season, and well, I'll be

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Speaker 2: honest with you, Matt, looking at the Steelers' schedule sets

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Speaker 2: up pretty well for them, I agreed.

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Speaker 1: And we knew the of course, we knew the opponents,

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Speaker 1: and we knew Homer away and knew that that was

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Speaker 1: going to be pretty favorable, you know. But I also

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Speaker 1: think they got some breaks too of when they land

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Speaker 1: and the sequencing and all those type of things as well.

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Speaker 1: So I guess let's dig right in, you know. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I think they're in a good spot starting with Week one.

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Speaker 1: I think the earlier you could play the Niners, the better.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Absolutely, I will see what their quarterback situation is.

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Speaker 2: I did, Like I can't remember who it was. It

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Speaker 2: might have been Kyle Shanahan earlier this week was quoted

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Speaker 2: as saying, well, if you know Rock Purty, if everything

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Speaker 2: goes all right, he should be he should be fine

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Speaker 2: as long as he can throw the ball like he

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Speaker 2: used to or something along those lines. Well, no kidding more.

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Speaker 2: That's kind of the the big that's kind of the

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Speaker 2: big deal. When you're having elbow surgery and you're a quarterback.

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Speaker 2: We don't know that you're going to be back and

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Speaker 2: be able to throw and do all those things.

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Speaker 1: I mean, that's if you're healthy, he'll play it basically,

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Speaker 1: always said that, yeah, right, essentially, of course, people made

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Speaker 1: a big deal of that.

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Speaker 2: So you get them right out of the gate, obviously

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Speaker 2: their quarterback situation is in a state of flux, and

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Speaker 2: then you get that Cleveland Browns game.

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Speaker 1: Quick before we do, Like, I don't envy Shanahan as

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Speaker 1: to how am I divvying up my pres Oh yeah,

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Speaker 1: you know that's a little Harry, no doubt.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, no doubt about it. You know, are you is?

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Speaker 2: You know you have to get Sam Donald.

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Speaker 1: The Steelers make get Donald, right, and so you better

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Speaker 1: Donald on my podcast, I said, I bet he starts

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Speaker 1: the season because they signed him like day one of

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Speaker 1: free agency. I honestly thought they'd trade Lance and it

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Speaker 1: would be Donald until party's ready. Who knows.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you just don't know. Yeah, which is fine, none

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Speaker 2: of them. I mean, Donald is the most experienced of them,

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Speaker 2: but the Steelers just played him last.

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Speaker 1: Year and he's had the worst career. I don't know

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Speaker 1: if he's had the worst career, but.

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Speaker 2: It's not been a good one.

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Speaker 1: I don't fear any of the three, to be honest,

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Speaker 1: I don't think any of them will be particularly overly prepared,

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Speaker 1: no matter who gets the start.

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Speaker 2: That Week two game against the Browns is one it's

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Speaker 2: interesting to me, and here's why. So when we did

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Speaker 2: the projections with Mike Clay's projections earlier this week, that

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Speaker 2: was a game the Steelers were given a fifty two

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Speaker 2: percent chance to win at home. Now, I thought that

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Speaker 2: was low to begin with.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I remember a saying that.

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Speaker 2: But they're not losing at home on a Monday night

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Speaker 1: Pretty slim chance. I mean, I think they're win per

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean they've they've won twenty consecutive Monday night

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Speaker 2: home games. Mike Tomlin is nineteen and three. Regardless of

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Speaker 2: winning that game.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I one hundred percent agree. And these primetime games

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Speaker 1: as an overriding theme I think set up really well

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Speaker 1: because Tomlin's good at those as well. One small thing

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Speaker 1: I don't love is you get that extra day arrest

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, at least it is a Sunday night game.

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Speaker 2: You're not playing at one o'clock on you know, the

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Speaker 2: maybe an extra meeting in you know, in Vegas before

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Speaker 2: you you play the game that's actually gonna be Las Vegas,

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Speaker 2: the Raiders game in Week three, that's their home opener.

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Speaker 1: Oh is it okay?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they play their first two on the road, so

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Speaker 2: you'll get the Raiders coming off of back to back

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Speaker 2: trying to remember now, I think they might play the

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Speaker 2: to see if I've be't dug that far into it.

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Speaker 1: You know what they are. I have the giant schedule

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Speaker 1: Grood in front of me too. They are at Denver

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Speaker 1: week one, which is the worst thing ever for anyone

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Speaker 1: at Buffalo, then host of Steelers.

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Speaker 2: Okay, so I mean two games that could beat you

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Speaker 1: Absolutely, that's not an easy way to open. I would

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Speaker 1: You mentioned that it is a Sunday night game, and

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Speaker 1: you know, maybe you do get an extra meeting, but

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they're gonna be They're gonna be well rested, you know,

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Speaker 2: The one that's tough to me is then the following

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Speaker 2: week you come back and play at Houston in week four.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you don't love that.

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Speaker 2: Now, that's not a particularly difficult game, right right, right,

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Speaker 2: But yeah, that's that's you know, that's a short week,

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Speaker 2: back to back road games, back to back longer trips.

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Speaker 2: So that doesn't set up super well exactly.

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Speaker 1: I mean, you like that they're not great teams and

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Speaker 1: Houston is still going to be finding themselves even if

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Speaker 2: Yeah, then you come home and play the Ravens in

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Speaker 2: week five. After that Ravens game, this sets up actually

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Speaker 2: of years ago, the Steelers in Ravens the week after

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Speaker 2: the Steelers had a slightly better record, it was slightly

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Speaker 1: And I bet both those teams more often than not

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they were good teams, you know, right, they're good teams,

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Speaker 1: I hadn't thought of that angle, but it is nice

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so you get a little to reassess there. But

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Speaker 2: five games to start the season. That quite frankly, if

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Speaker 2: three and two. You know, I'd be disappointed.

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Speaker 1: I mean, you're favorite against the Texans, no matter what.

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Speaker 2: The line's already out for the San Francisco game. They're

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Speaker 2: actually three point underdogs against San Francisco and the lines

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Speaker 2: that I saw that came out last night.

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Speaker 1: I understand that. But the Niners are a very good team.

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Speaker 2: But I'll take the points.

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Speaker 1: I'll take the points today in the middle of May.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, again, we mentioned that Browns game. That's a game

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Speaker 2: you should win. The game at Las Vegas. I don't

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Speaker 2: know what to you know, what's the line on that

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Speaker 1: Pick them? Pick them. It's gonna be full of black

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Speaker 2: I mean, we just saw that game late last year

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Speaker 2: and the Steelers you know, went out and handled the Raiders.

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Speaker 2: They had the rally to do it, but they still

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Speaker 2: beat them.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I know, traditionally they have not done well

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Speaker 2: But this is a little different than playing yeah, first

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Speaker 2: in Houston.

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Speaker 1: I think the Raiders in Houston might be two of

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Speaker 1: the three worst AFC teams.

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Speaker 2: You can make that argument. Yeah, and then the Ravens

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Speaker 2: at home again. You know, maybe they're underdogs and the Ravens.

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Speaker 2: Have you looked at the Ravens schedule, I've heard it's tough.

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Speaker 1: I'm going to pull it up right now, real quick.

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Speaker 2: Actually, I mean the way they open this season not ideal.

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Speaker 2: Let's put it out this.

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Speaker 1: I mean you mentioned that the Steelers get to buy

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Speaker 2: They gotta go to Europe.

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Speaker 1: They go to London. That's the opposite of a bye.

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Speaker 2: Wow, it's essentially they're the home team for that game.

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Speaker 2: So they're at Cleveland, then they're at Pittsburgh, then they

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Speaker 1: So they only have eight games in Baltimore. Yes, that's things.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and they also play either they yeah, they I

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Speaker 2: guess they asked for that. Well I get no, because

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Speaker 2: week two at Cleveland and week four at Pittsburgh. In

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Speaker 2: week five, they've got their entire AFC North Road schedules.

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Speaker 1: Out of the way by week five. Wow, but that's

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Speaker 1: not great in this division. No, that could be in

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Speaker 2: And then you're in Tennessee to play or you're you're

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Speaker 2: in London to play the Tennessee Titans, who, regardless of

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Speaker 2: what you think, if the Titans are going to be

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Speaker 2: good or not, that's going to be a physical game.

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Speaker 1: To be a physical game. And you just played the Steelers,

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Speaker 1: an what that Steeler hangover game is?

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Speaker 2: And then you come back and you play the Lions

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Speaker 2: in week seven at one o'clock at home.

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Speaker 1: Say, I hate that Part's like flying home from London.

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Speaker 1: And then I get the Lions. How the team is?

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Speaker 2: They don't even get their bye? When is their bye

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Speaker 2: only thirteen? Wow, that's a late bye, so late bye.

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Speaker 1: They also finished again this season. Last four games are

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Speaker 1: really tough for them at Jags, at Niners, Miami Steelers.

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Speaker 2: Well even the games before there. By week twelve at

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Speaker 2: the Los Angeles Chargers after you host the Bengals in

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Speaker 2: week in week eleven, Yeah, like their scheduled does not

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Speaker 2: set up well for based on the schedule, I might

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Speaker 2: pick the Ravens last in the division.

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Speaker 1: Thinking about that too. And I hadn't realized their home

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Speaker 1: away early versus late division set up until you mentioned it.

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Speaker 1: And I guess you could look at it glass half

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Speaker 1: fool and say, boy, from where's it at here from

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Speaker 1: the wrong calling here from week ten on. Our three

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Speaker 2: Go into that, and you very well might be.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well they better not flounder early, get I think

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Speaker 2: And the Steelers are at home before both of those

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Speaker 2: Yeah. So coming out of that week six bye week,

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Speaker 2: Yeah. So week eight is Jacksonville at home October twenty ninth,

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Speaker 1: If Derrick Henry and Tannehill are not If Dereck Henry

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Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely. Week ten is the Packers at home. Okay,

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Speaker 1: At midnight, late Sunday night, Yeah, late sun on October

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Speaker 2: And then they don't leave. They don't go more than

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Speaker 2: Flight to Indianapolis is about what an hour and fifteen minutes. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: And then you host the Bengals again.

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Speaker 2: And then you host the Bengals, even though that's.

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Speaker 1: A Saturday game, it's a short week, but that's also home.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, all of them. Now, you got to come out

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Speaker 2: But I'll know the Steelers have won down in Baltimore.

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Speaker 2: I believe the last two years.

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Speaker 1: I mean, you can't count on Lamar being hurt, but

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Speaker 2: Yeah, let's just roll through this thing. Matt, forty nine

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Speaker 1: If I'm predicting right now, I'll say.

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Speaker 2: Win, Okay, Cleveland at home in week two, win at

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Speaker 1: Win. But if you said, hey, madd are you going

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Speaker 1: The answer is no, right right, So I'm gonna give

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Speaker 2: That's four wins. Okay at the Rams win, that's five.

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Speaker 2: Jacksonville at home.

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Speaker 1: Extremely winnable. But I'm not gonna just say they just

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Speaker 2: Wow, Okay, Tennessee at home on a short week, I

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Speaker 1: Win.

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Speaker 2: That's six. Green Bay at home in week ten win.

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Speaker 2: That's seven with them either at Cleveland in week eleven, okay,

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Speaker 2: at Cincinnati loss, Arizona at home, easy win, that's eight.

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Speaker 2: Patriots at home.

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Speaker 1: Really tough wins.

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Speaker 2: Slash the Thursday night game.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what I like best about it is short

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Speaker 2: Yeah, what's that eight? Nine? Nine? Yeah, that's nine at Indianapolis.

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Speaker 1: I fear this game way more than you do. And

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Speaker 1: I think the Colts are going to have a more

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Speaker 2: That would be ten. Mm Cincinnati at home.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna say the last three or losses, okay, pretty

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Speaker 2: That's still ten. Still ten wins. I either but Seattle,

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Speaker 2: I don't know what Baltimore is going to be. No,

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Speaker 2: and either way, that's ten. That's ten wins going into

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Speaker 1: Yeah, right right, Yeah. If you're ten and well I'm

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Speaker 1: But that seems a little rich. No matter what I mean,

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Speaker 2: The Steelers could be this year. This Steelers team could

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Speaker 2: be this year's Giants team better, only a better football team.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Like the Giants and Vikings to me were kind

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Speaker 2: Oh you're playing yeah yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, like they

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Speaker 1: And you might and they might have eleven wins? Who knows,

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Speaker 2: I think they're I think, you know, to me, I

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Speaker 1: I mean again, I'm not predicting there'll be ten and

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I you know what I mean. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: You would you would think not because it's a game

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Speaker 1: But it's looming, you know, right like they could be

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Speaker 1: dreading that trip to I gotta get you know, all

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Speaker 2: Yeah. So I think that sets up well for the

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Speaker 1: So they have a three game road swing, yeah, at Vegas,

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Speaker 2: And if you look at that, I believe one of

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Speaker 1: You are wrong about that?

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Speaker 2: Vegas? Okay, No, They're all Sundays. Yeah, yeah, but that's

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Speaker 1: That's a Thursday night thing though. Week one they host Dallas,

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Speaker 2: Maybe that's where I was thinking that they were, Yeah,

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Speaker 2: stay in Arizona somewhere and just train and just stay

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Speaker 2: out there because they get another game on the coast

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Speaker 2: that schedules brutal.

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Speaker 1: And they do have two Thursday night games, both on

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Speaker 1: the road at San fran and Week three at Cleveland

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Speaker 1: and week seventeen. Yuck.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's brutal.

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Speaker 1: That's pretty rough to do to a team. You have

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Speaker 1: three you got a three game road stretch, which they

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Speaker 1: try to never do. Both your Thursday games are on

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Speaker 1: the road too. Good luck?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, and you go in week five at

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Speaker 2: Miami and you followed it up at Buffalo the fall Uffalo,

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Speaker 2: and you know, we.

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Speaker 1: And everyone in the division. Does you still have to

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Speaker 1: go to Dallas and Philly? You know?

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Speaker 2: I mean, if you that's that's coming out of that

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Speaker 2: stretch of at Arizona at San Francisco, then you're home

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Speaker 2: for Seattle, then you're back on the road again at

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Speaker 2: Miami at Buffalo. That's forty your first five games.

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Speaker 1: I have all the respect in the world for Brian Day.

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Speaker 2: Ball.

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Speaker 1: But I don't think he's gonna being Coach of the

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Speaker 1: year conversation. I mean, this is that's not his fault.

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Speaker 2: You know, just look the way the schedule falls. Yeah, right,

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Speaker 2: because the schedule does matter. All these people that that's what.

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Speaker 1: Kills bad teams either that.

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Speaker 2: Well, yeah, and last year, you know, they I think

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Speaker 2: they took advantage of some They played the AFC South.

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Speaker 2: They took advantage of that. Whi's good for them. I mean,

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Speaker 2: you got to beat who's on your schedule, and we'll

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Speaker 2: talk about that all season along with the Steelers. For sure,

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Speaker 2: you got to beat who's on your schedule.

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Speaker 1: But I mean they also played the NFC West, so

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Speaker 1: they get the Rams and Cardinals. But other than that,

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Speaker 1: I mean they play their East. They play the other East,

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Speaker 1: which is awful, and there's like no easy games on

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Speaker 1: the schedule, let alone the logistics and travel of it

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Speaker 1: all are horrendous.

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