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Speaker 1: Your tunes about Drive on Home of the Black and

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Speaker 1: Goal Steelers Nation Radio. Welcome back. I am Dale Lally.

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Speaker 1: He is Matt Williamson, and it's time to take a

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Speaker 1: look at the power rankings here on NFL dot Com.

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Speaker 1: He's of course done by Dan Hansas. Let's do it

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Speaker 1: a little differently Matt this week. Let's look at him

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Speaker 1: from the top to bottom. And that's not what we do.

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Speaker 1: It's upside downtime we're in. We know where the bottom

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Speaker 1: teams are gonna be. There's no okay, there's no real drama.

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Speaker 1: That's fine, Okay. So they get a new number one

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Speaker 1: this week. I n whom my number one will ben.

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Speaker 1: But okay, he has San Francisco number one. That's bold.

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Speaker 1: I understand it. Though. Boy they're hard to play against.

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Speaker 1: I mean they're now kiddles, like emerged out of nowhere.

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Speaker 1: I would still the Eagles number one. I saw some thing.

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Speaker 1: I get the emails from from Vegas and they listed

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Speaker 1: the leaders in the clubhouse for uh the different awards

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Speaker 1: they had. Brock Purty now has emerged as a Rookie

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Speaker 1: of the Offensive Brookie of the Year candidate, and Kenny

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Speaker 1: Pickett wasn't listed. Wow. How do you take a quarterback

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Speaker 1: who's got like four starts, he says, the body worked.

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Speaker 1: She shouldn't even be listed. I mean it's a bad year.

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Speaker 1: Don't get without a doubt. I mean all the all

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Speaker 1: the running backs got hurt. It's gonna be Garret Wilson.

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Speaker 1: The love is hurt now, dude. If Purty gets it,

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Speaker 1: I mean, even if they go undefeated, that's what five starts,

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Speaker 1: six starts, it's not enough. What if Pickett gets He'll

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Speaker 1: have twelve starts under his belt, gets the Steelers, and

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Speaker 1: and he gets the Steelers to a winning record. Let's

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Speaker 1: say they don't even make the playoffs. His star, his starting,

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Speaker 1: he would have a winning record. He'd be seven and

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Speaker 1: five as a start, and a year like has he

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Speaker 1: use a strong case, but he's not even listed among

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Speaker 1: the There's guys who have been hurt for months though,

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Speaker 1: are still listed. And right, I mean it's hardly played.

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Speaker 1: It's a quarterback. How do you not list a quarterback

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Speaker 1: if he started every game that he was I mean,

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Speaker 1: he was the starter starting week three for more than

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Speaker 1: three quarters of the season. Right, and if his team

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Speaker 1: ends up with a winning record and his numbers aren't bad,

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Speaker 1: I mean, I mean, if they went to the last two,

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Speaker 1: he's not going to throw three picks in each of them,

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Speaker 1: you know what I mean? If they win the next two.

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Speaker 1: I think he's in the conversation right now. I don't.

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Speaker 1: I don't still I don't think he wins it. But no,

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Speaker 1: I couldn't believe he was to not even be listed, right.

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Speaker 1: He's the only quarterback that was chosen to be this

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Speaker 1: He has his many wins this season as the rest

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Speaker 1: of the rookie quarterback class has combined bet and party

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Speaker 1: wins every game, you know, because he plays on a

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Speaker 1: great team. I was still affilly over to including with

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Speaker 1: if I'm not going to bang him for that loss

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Speaker 1: last week. No, they easily can't win. That came to Yeah, Phillies.

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Speaker 1: Now to Okay, it's bold going Niners. One, I get it.

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Speaker 1: At three is Buffalo. I would have the Bengals number

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Speaker 1: one in the a f C. Well, we get to

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Speaker 1: see that this week. Yeah, that's gonna be a good one.

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Speaker 1: That's Sunday night, right, that's Thursday night, Monday night, Monday night,

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Speaker 1: Monday this week is has me all screwed up? At

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Speaker 1: four are the Bengals? Okay, so, I mean, I'm sure

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Speaker 1: the Chiefs are next. Those three, you're hard to sort out.

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Speaker 1: The Chiefs are at five, Yes, would you have the

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Speaker 1: Niners in the top two? Would you're the Niners over

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Speaker 1: an AFC teams have to I have a tough time

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Speaker 1: with that. I think the Niners. The Niners are still

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Speaker 1: a team that lost to Denver. Yeah, I mean, he's

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Speaker 1: still brought party. I'm sorry. I mean the Eagles will

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Speaker 1: can't make a case for Purty versus Burrow Allen. You know,

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Speaker 1: he's a fine story and that's a really good team.

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Speaker 1: But I'll take my chances with Joe. I mean, I get,

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Speaker 1: you know, the forty Niners have won a bunch of

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Speaker 1: games in a row, but they still started three and

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Speaker 1: get that matter. But they lost to the Bears. I know, um,

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Speaker 1: bad loss or two, don't they. Chiefs lost the Colts,

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Speaker 1: I mean, I look at who they've who they've beaten over,

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Speaker 1: it's the Commanders, it's the Seahawks, it's the Buccaneers. They

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Speaker 1: did beat the Dolphins, but that was at home. They

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Speaker 1: signature win there. I mean, they're they're they're beating they're

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Speaker 1: beating the teams that they're supposed to beat, which is

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Speaker 1: fine pretty badly, but I think we have different methods

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Speaker 1: to get there. But I think we both have them five. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I can't put them ahead of some of these other

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Speaker 1: that's well and good, but who are you beating, Like, well,

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Speaker 1: then shouldn't Minnesota be second or whatever? I mean, they

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Speaker 1: have two loss. I mean the Steelers have won five

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Speaker 1: of the last seven, shouldn't they be you know, twelve?

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Speaker 1: Then if by that theory, uh, five is Kansas City? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Six is Dallas kind of stand alone. At six, I'm

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Speaker 1: not sure. I think after that it gets a little foggy.

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Speaker 1: Who I picked next. Seven is Minnesota. I guess they've

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Speaker 1: earned it. I don't have a problem with that, but

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Speaker 1: I think there's a line. I mean, we thought Dallas

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Speaker 1: I can't disagree the Chargers at eight good. The power

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Speaker 1: I'm like, that's not fair compared to some of these

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Speaker 1: the charge it along. At nine are the Jaguars. It's

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Speaker 1: a little risk. The Jags better than the Ravens well,

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Speaker 1: I think the Jaguars are favored. I guess. I guess

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Speaker 1: how they're playing right now. Uh yeah, but it's a

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Speaker 1: little I mean, I'm not sure I can go nine.

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Speaker 1: At ten, are the Ravens up two spots? Remember they've

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Speaker 1: I guess I get that. I mean Lions are Steelers

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Speaker 1: Steels won't show untill twenty or something. I know this

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Speaker 1: whole neighborhood is where the Steelers belong to me. Same

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Speaker 1: up any minute now. At thirteen is Miami. They're thirteen,

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Speaker 1: and they've lost, they've lost four in a row, and

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Speaker 1: their quarterbacks out and the quarterbacks at right, you know

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Speaker 1: what I mean, you're probably with the backup quarterback too

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Speaker 1: I'm pretty certain the Steelers is better than the Giants.

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Speaker 1: Giants Giant in stacks the opposites the Giants stacks. Some

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Speaker 1: though they're not winning every game. Who I'd pick for

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Speaker 1: that's until it's definitely a tough one. I'd either go

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Speaker 1: Philly or Giants. But there's five other teams that have cases. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Tennessee is a case. You know, Atlanta has a case.

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Speaker 1: Maybe not, maybe Peterson Winds the a f C South. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Goes from from having the you know, the first overall

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Speaker 1: Excuse me at fourteen and fourteens of Giants at fifteen

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Speaker 1: down one spot the Jets. They've lost five in a

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Speaker 1: row five. Would you have the Jets over the Giants

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Speaker 1: or Giants over Jets? I mean they should be right

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Speaker 1: be like twelve a fourth string quarter Most teams don't

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Speaker 1: They've gone to four deep already. They pulled them up

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Speaker 1: I just had them run around and do Taysom Hill stuff. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: they're in a bad comical and they've been won along.

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Speaker 1: They haven't wanted them over a month. At sixteen down

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Speaker 1: a spot, Washington, I'm fine with think that's where they

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Speaker 1: pulled their quarterbacks. They just dumped their quarterback. I'm thinking Steelers.

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Speaker 1: Over those last five teams at seven team, we have

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Speaker 1: the Steelers up five spots. Good. I'm glad they went

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Speaker 1: I say the Steelers are like twelve to fourteen, that

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Speaker 1: isn't even saying boys are really good. They got all

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Speaker 1: then it's just right. I mean, every one of those

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Speaker 1: every one of those teams in that group is like

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Speaker 1: sparmenting at quarterbacks. It's like, how many wins do they

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Speaker 1: have in December? Collectively? The five teams out of the

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Speaker 1: Steelers unbelievable at eighteen holding steady the Patriots, I guess

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Speaker 1: in the status of the league, I'm glad they're behind

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Speaker 1: the Steelers. Yeah. I texted you over the weekend during

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Speaker 1: by four. Team points. They can't score. Their offense is

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Speaker 1: real bad. I mean, that was not a hard question.

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Speaker 1: Last segment, of which offense you'd rather have at nineteen

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Speaker 1: up five spots? The Panthers, they might be higher for me.

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Speaker 1: They would be above Patriots, they'd be above the Commanders.

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Speaker 1: I'd have a hard time Panthers versus New York teams.

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Speaker 1: They are the highest ranked NFC South team. Good ranks.

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Speaker 1: I saw I had Tampa like fourteen, and I just

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Speaker 1: because they have Tom Brady and they want Tom Brady.

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Speaker 1: take care of the rest. We're gonna take a break

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Speaker 1: and we come back, it's time for the fantasy football focus.

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Speaker 1: We will do that right after this