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

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

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

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Speaker 1: Appreciate everybody dropping by. And you haven't done a show

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Speaker 1: in a couple of days as well. Holiday over the

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Speaker 1: Weeknday Friday was the holiday. Monday was my travel day

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Speaker 1: from hell. It sounded like it was not much fun.

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Speaker 1: Not enviously, but the Kansas City ended up driving back

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Speaker 1: from Detroit. Ye n you would do it, so we

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Speaker 1: are back. Um. Lots transpired since then. I hope everyone

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Speaker 1: had awesome holidays and ho ho ho to all. Doesn't

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Speaker 1: feel like Christmas outside still, it's just kind of wet

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Speaker 1: and warming, you know whatever. Um Steelers took one on

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Speaker 1: the chin to say the least in Kansas City. Um,

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Speaker 1: but it's not that. I mean the world it's not

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Speaker 1: over for the season is not over. Umning is. When

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Speaker 1: that game against the Kansas City Chiefs started, the Steelers

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Speaker 1: were in the seventh spot playoffs because the one o'clock

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Speaker 1: games were dying and you knew some things right. Um now,

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Speaker 1: they fell back to the ten spot. But the reason

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Speaker 1: that they moved into the seventh spot was because well,

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Speaker 1: the Chargers lost again. That was a gift of the

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Speaker 1: whole conference. Without a doubt. The Ravens lost again. They're

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Speaker 1: they're cooked, they're uh, you know, and everything else that happened.

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Speaker 1: Now with Miami winning last night, they bumped up into

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Speaker 1: a spot we had the an f C has opened

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Speaker 1: the door for the Dolphins. Um, but they're not playing

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Speaker 1: our sisters are the poor anymore the two weeks of

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Speaker 1: the season. This week they have the Tennessee Titans in Nashville,

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Speaker 1: and Tennessee looks like they've turned the corner a little.

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Speaker 1: They've got and some guys back, and now they look

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Speaker 1: like formidable. Yeah, they look like the Titans again. I

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Speaker 1: mean the defense is still good even when they played

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Speaker 1: the Steelers, and you know, the offense has now gotten

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Speaker 1: some pieces back. Uh. And then you know they have

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Speaker 1: to finish up think about Thuray. And then you have

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Speaker 1: the Patriots to finish up the season. That one's in

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Speaker 1: Miami Patriots or Miami always plays Patriots. They do, they do,

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Speaker 1: but the Patriots may need that win themselves to get

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Speaker 1: into bed all of a sudden too, right with losing

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Speaker 1: to Buffalo and they've lost two in a row. So, Um,

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Speaker 1: the a f C, I guess outside of the Chiefs

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Speaker 1: really up in the air. And then it comes out

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Speaker 1: today the Cults are probably team playing best Whence is

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Speaker 1: on the on COVID now. Yeah, as of today, so

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Speaker 1: probably gonna miss this week, maybe more, who knows. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: he's I believe he's still unvaccinated. I know he was

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Speaker 1: early in the season in training camp when he went

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Speaker 1: on the COVID list the first time. Um, get Sam

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Speaker 1: Ellinger out there. Yeah, he saw what that kind of

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Speaker 1: stuff looked like. Last night. I got a vent for

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Speaker 1: a minute. I mean, I understand the world of COVID

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Speaker 1: in this pandemic is a lot worse than affecting my

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Speaker 1: football viewing pleasure. I understand that in my fantasy team

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Speaker 1: and all those things. But man, these last two games,

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Speaker 1: we watched the two night games, the Sunday night game

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Speaker 1: in the Monday night game. I mean the Saints in

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Speaker 1: Washington didn't have NFL rosters. I mean, it's really bad,

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Speaker 1: and it's it's a hard watch and a lot of

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Speaker 1: instances right now, and I mean there's nothing you can

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Speaker 1: do about it. The show must go on. But I

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Speaker 1: mean the Saints, they were on their seventh offensive tackle

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Speaker 1: and fifth quarterback, and it felt like as soon as

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Speaker 1: Miami got that pick six, Sean Payton has kind of

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Speaker 1: looked around like, Okay, I guess that's a wrap, you know.

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Speaker 1: I mean he didn't even use Kamara that much, like

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna save him for a day that's not so rainy.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's I can't win this game. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: a lot of that. Yeah, there was a lot of that. Um,

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Speaker 1: that's why you just don't know. Yeah, right, My point

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Speaker 1: is anything could change, and when you think you know,

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Speaker 1: you don't know. I mean it was that way all

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Speaker 1: last week. Colts looked like a you know, a really

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Speaker 1: strong team before today, what now what we're looking at?

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Speaker 1: You just don't know? Espect it was like that even

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Speaker 1: before the COVID stuff started happening. There was just so

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Speaker 1: much parody this year that you know, any given week,

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Speaker 1: anybody could lose. Yeah, there were upsets and that you

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Speaker 1: hell did that happen? Yeah? How did the Jags beat you.

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Speaker 1: How did you lose the Jets? I mean the Saints

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Speaker 1: team had just shut out the Buccaneers the previous week,

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Speaker 1: right exactly, and their defense looked great. But they have

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Speaker 1: anything that Saints team beat beat the Packers in Week one,

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Speaker 1: blew them out right right right, and they're not a

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Speaker 1: good football team. The Jets beat the Titans, The Jets

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Speaker 1: beat who else? The Jets beat sub Jets beat somebody else?

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Speaker 1: Do that was good. There's two wins are over the

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Speaker 1: if you don't show up with your A game this year,

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Speaker 1: you're going to lose, oh man, And if you don't

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Speaker 1: show up with your A game against, for example, the

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Speaker 1: Kansas City Chiefs, you're gonna get smoked. It was just

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Speaker 1: what happened to the Steelers on Sunday. They've had two

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Speaker 1: games this year. They've lost other games, yeah right right.

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Speaker 1: They've had two games where they really just weren't in

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Speaker 1: the game, that being Cincinnati in the Kansas cityout you know,

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Speaker 1: where they were clear. The other games they got behind,

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Speaker 1: but they fought their way back into Minnesota and in

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Speaker 1: game wasn't a blowout. It wasn't a whitewash, right, No,

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Speaker 1: this one was. And they didn't really even need Tyreek

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Speaker 1: Kill to do it. They didn't have Kelsey defense. Look,

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Speaker 1: I mean, I'm talking about the Kansas City perspective. You know,

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Speaker 1: they look good in all facets. I definitely concede that

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Speaker 1: the Chiefs are an upper tier team and they might

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Speaker 1: be the best team in the a f C. I'm

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Speaker 1: not sure so sure that they're the best team and

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Speaker 1: back to be in a slam down, but they're definitely

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Speaker 1: a high quality opponent. They're a team. They're a team,

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Speaker 1: and if you make mistakes against like it, if you're

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Speaker 1: if you're you lose the turnover battle three nothing, you're

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Speaker 1: gonna lose to them every single time. No, absolutely in

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Speaker 1: their building, without question. And you know, the Steelers are

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Speaker 1: struggling as it is against any opponent at this point,

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Speaker 1: I mean, especially on offense and and the run defense. Really,

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Speaker 1: I mean, and I don't think the run defense was bad.

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Speaker 1: I didn't think it was bad against the Chiefs. I mean,

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Speaker 1: but it's the Chiefs again. It goes back to what

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Speaker 1: we've talked about. Great running backs give them issues. Average

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Speaker 1: running backs. They get, you get average run stopping. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think that's true. You get and to my homes credit.

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Speaker 1: I mean, he wouldn't have played that style of game

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Speaker 1: earlier in the year. We're just quick, you know, quick,

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Speaker 1: group of weapons obviously, but he's playing an extremely high level,

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Speaker 1: all of a sudden, a couple of these quarterbacks are

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Speaker 1: really starting to shine or on the league, you know

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Speaker 1: what you expect. And in the playoffs, you know, I

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Speaker 1: got a lot of you know, well, look, the Chiefs

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Speaker 1: fixed their offensive line in in one offseason. They did,

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Speaker 1: they did, but they also spent a lot of money

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Speaker 1: a team, you know, Yeah, you went you signed Joe

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Speaker 1: Thuney to a five year, eighty million dollar garden the league. Yes,

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Speaker 1: you traded a first round pick for Orlando Brown, so you, okay,

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Speaker 1: you you just you rebuilt the entire left side of

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Speaker 1: your offensive line. You had drafted Lucas Nyang, who didn't

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Speaker 1: right guard who fell into your lap. Yeah, you had done.

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Speaker 1: And he had some medical issues. He was a great

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Speaker 1: player in Tennessee, but he had blood cloud issues. But

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Speaker 1: I mean the studs could taken him around before. You know,

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Speaker 1: there was a risk involved. There was a risk involved,

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Speaker 1: and he maybe in three years if he's on in

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Speaker 1: the league. I hope he is, I don't get me wrong. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: a lot of the medicals when you're in a draft

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Speaker 1: room are Yeah, he'll be fine, just like anybody else.

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Speaker 1: Get you three years. Yeah, you're probably not gonna send

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Speaker 1: up sign was the second contract and things like that.

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Speaker 1: This knee is really you know, balky isn't gonna hold

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Speaker 1: up for the long term. Okay, so drop them two

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Speaker 1: rounds anyway, Good for them. On that pick, I mean

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Speaker 1: that pick worked out great, but it also helps having

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Speaker 1: the pressure and made it play. I haven't saying this

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Speaker 1: that should give Steeler Nation a little bit of optimism,

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Speaker 1: the draft and look a lot different. And it doesn't

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Speaker 1: have to be you know, signing the guard to a

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Speaker 1: five year, eighty million dollar contract. No, right, you can

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Speaker 1: do it much cheaper than that. Not cheaper than that,

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Speaker 1: I mean even the Browns, I mean the Brown's bill

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Speaker 1: aligned with money as well. I mean, if if that's

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Speaker 1: your dedication, you can do it, yea. And the Seals

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Speaker 1: are good we could possibly do it this year too, absolutely,

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Speaker 1: So you know, and again you have a draft with

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Speaker 1: which to fix these things. You can. You're gonna add picks,

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Speaker 1: and you're gonna have you know, salary cap space. So

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Speaker 1: you know this this can get turned around quickly. Somebody,

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Speaker 1: as I did a live chat today on the on

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Speaker 1: d K Pittsburgh Sports and and somebody asked me, Um,

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Speaker 1: you know, is this is this fixable in one year? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: I'm looking at the Patriots right now, right. They were

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Speaker 1: awful last year. I mean, they won't go on a

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Speaker 1: Patriot spending spree. I mean that was kind of funny

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Speaker 1: money and not real smart in my opinion, they be

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Speaker 1: wiser than that about a little more frugal about it

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Speaker 1: you can do a lot. You can hand pick. Okay,

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Speaker 1: we want this guy, and we want that you've got

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Speaker 1: money to do it. It's been so long since we've

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Speaker 1: seen that here that they couldn't have done this past offseason.

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Speaker 1: Like I've been hearing, well, the Chiefs rebuilt their line

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Speaker 1: white to see those are the exact same thing this offseason,

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Speaker 1: like well, they didn't have the resources they were over

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Speaker 1: they could have done it. Yeah, they could have taken

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Speaker 1: Creed Humphrey instead of friar Muth or taking them ahead

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Speaker 1: instead of let's talk about that. Okay, Creed Humphrey, we

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Speaker 1: both liked him in the draft. We both when when

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Speaker 1: most snaps on our offensive line too, right right, I'm sure, yeah,

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Speaker 1: it makes perfect sense. I mean, I'm sure he's played

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Speaker 1: the most snaps of any offensive lineman on the team,

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Speaker 1: including preseason by leaps and bounds. Yeah right, I mean

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Speaker 1: it's it's it's hard to keep your body where it

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Speaker 1: needs to be in that rookie year. Not make excuses.

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Speaker 1: They're not very good right now, I'm not saying they are.

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Speaker 1: You know, that coincides largely with because I thought that

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Speaker 1: they were making progress throughout the early part of the season,

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Speaker 1: early to mid part of the season. Yeah, they're starting

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Speaker 1: to run the ball when they never knew they were

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Speaker 1: going to run it. And right, Kevin Dotson got hurt.

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Speaker 1: I know, I actually wrote that in an article today. Boy,

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Speaker 1: I hope to see him for two more games and

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Speaker 1: just see what that looks. They've used five different guys

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Speaker 1: to replace Kevin Dotson. The last three games, it's been

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Speaker 1: John Leglue, who God love him. He's made himself money.

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Speaker 1: He'll be in the league now for the next camp

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Speaker 1: next year, and it probably makes the team because he

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Speaker 1: can play everywhere on your offensive line. But but he's

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Speaker 1: a jack of all trades and master of and he's

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Speaker 1: starting between two rookies. So you got you know, you

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Speaker 1: got a guy who's who now has three career starts

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Speaker 1: under his belt, starting next to two guys who were

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Speaker 1: getting who are true rookies? Are true rookies very much

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Speaker 1: learning on? Are we surprised at that struggles? Right? No

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Speaker 1: think thoughts and I don't anybody argument is their best lineman,

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Speaker 1: is the most consistent guy. He's the most valuable guy

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Speaker 1: going forward. Would be great to plug him in even

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Speaker 1: these just these two games they don't make the playoffs

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Speaker 1: or not, and just see how much different it looks.

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Speaker 1: Just give me one rock, right, yeah, give me something

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Speaker 1: I can run behind on on third and one. You know,

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Speaker 1: give me somebody who's not going to blow an assignment

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Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, you know, somebody's running free

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Speaker 1: to the to the quarterback. Here, it's just one other

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Speaker 1: thing out Are you too, because I'm not standing on

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Speaker 1: the table for this guy or trying to be a

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Speaker 1: hot take or just trying to you know, candy coat everything.

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Speaker 1: Chukes has gotten a little better lately, you know, like

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Speaker 1: right now, Chukes is their best officer. He's the most

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Speaker 1: best offensive lineman right now, you know. I mean, so

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Speaker 1: I know the Banner talks out there, and I got

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Speaker 1: no problem with Banner, but the right tackle has gotten

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Speaker 1: better as the season's gone on. I mean, just be

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Speaker 1: aware of it. Which woman would you rather move forward with? Chukes?

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Speaker 1: Are Banner? Yeah? Probably Chokes. He's been a Banner can't

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Speaker 1: stay on the field and say I don't know enough

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Speaker 1: about Banner. And he's he's older. He's older, and frankly,

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Speaker 1: he's very heavy and probably hard on his joints and

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Speaker 1: things like that. They may you know what I mean.

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Speaker 1: Jukes has been fine. I mean, he was everybody's whipping

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Speaker 1: boy early in the season because he's you know, he's

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Speaker 1: the guy that everybody hated from last year, right right, right, Well,

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Speaker 1: he's been good. No, I mean he's not gonna be

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Speaker 1: you know, a pro bowler hall, but he's a league

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Speaker 1: average off right tackle. And those guys don't drow on trees,

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Speaker 1: you don't. Yeah, find me a bunch of league average

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Speaker 1: of offensive lineman and you've got to if you had five,

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Speaker 1: If you had five league average offensive lineman, you're you're

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Speaker 1: probably have about the tenth best offensive line in the league.

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Speaker 1: Exactly one plus one equals three, you know, because there's

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Speaker 1: just not enough of them are on the league, you right,

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Speaker 1: there's too many little blues out there, right right, I

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Speaker 1: mean that's what most people, most teams are starting. You know,

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Speaker 1: guys can't stay healthy. So if you have five average guys,

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Speaker 1: you're the collective. You'll take it is better? Yeah, you'll

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Speaker 1: take it. If you told me they could have five

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Speaker 1: average guys next year, I mean, it's kind of like

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Speaker 1: what Buffalo happens, right, I don't have a star. No,

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Speaker 1: there's a lot of lines like that, really, you know

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Speaker 1: they don't, don't guys. Yeah, you can absolutely win that way,

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Speaker 1: especially with a quarterback that's in a better place. You know,

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Speaker 1: I meant mobility better and yeah, it's the last thing

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Speaker 1: I wanted to mention. We've now seen a couple of

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Speaker 1: flashes of Mason Rudolph this year. Everybody said, he's he

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Speaker 1: can't run, he's mobile, he moves better now he ever did.

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Speaker 1: So here's the thing. His his first year as a starter,

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Speaker 1: they told him not to run the ball because they

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Speaker 1: didn't want him taking hits. Throw the football, throw it away,

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Speaker 1: do whatever, because all you have behind you is Duck Hodges. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: we can't let you get hurt. He's playing a little

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Speaker 1: more freely and he's taken off and showing some mobility.

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Speaker 1: He is, and I'm glad you brought that up because

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Speaker 1: it's not just running. But he looks lighter on his feet,

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Speaker 1: he looks less robotic, because after that first year that

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Speaker 1: the thing that the book on him was, well, he's

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Speaker 1: not he's not mobile at all. He's doing less mobile

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Speaker 1: than I don't know. Yeah, somebody Ryan Tanney Hill or

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Speaker 1: some of these other guys that I mean, if there's

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Speaker 1: a they're they're not great runners, but they can take

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Speaker 1: off and run. They're not gonna be on Sports Center

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Speaker 1: making people miss, but you know they're to have at

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Speaker 1: least that they'll get fifteen yards if there's fifteen yards there. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: can you side step out a blitzer and you know

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Speaker 1: you just can't have a big heavy feet, right, you know,

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Speaker 1: I think he has must he must have been working

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Speaker 1: on it. And it's shocking me too. I mean, Haskins

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Speaker 1: to me was a battleship and we got here. Like

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Speaker 1: he moves better than he did at Ohio State. Or

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Speaker 1: you know, he's not in mobile either, right right right now.

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Speaker 1: Maybe we're just guys were just looking at that compared

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Speaker 1: to Ben Roethlisberg. But I see I see a lot

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Speaker 1: of quarterbacks. I see different quarterbacks, you know, like these

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Speaker 1: guys are not statues in the part they're not and

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Speaker 1: I thought they all three of them would be. And

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Speaker 1: one is he's got a nice body of or maybe

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Speaker 1: they'll put a statue of him outside of very well

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Speaker 1: could Yeah. Anyways, we're gonna take a break. He is

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Speaker 1: Matt Williamson. I'm Dale Lali. You're listening to the drive

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Speaker 1: here on Steelers Nation Radio. H When we come back,

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Speaker 1: it's Power Ranking day already. How about and the Thursday

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Speaker 1: game this week either, so it's going to be a

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Speaker 1: strange week. But we'll get to that right after this