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Speaker 3: And welcome back. I am Dale Lolly, he is the

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Speaker 3: Matt Williamson and it is time for the Fantasy Football

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Speaker 3: Focus here to kick off our number two And since

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Speaker 3: it's Tuesday, we'll take a look at what's available on

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Speaker 3: the waiver wire. Matt right, and I'm looking here at

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Speaker 3: FAMAP Hot Names Fantasypros dot Com. We'll look at the

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Speaker 3: quarterbacks first. Justin Fields only rostered in thirty three percent

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Speaker 3: of leagues.

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Speaker 1: My main league. I picked them up a week ago,

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Speaker 1: figuring I'm only to get one start out. I only

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Speaker 1: had Anthony Richardson, and I'm like, I don't want to

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Speaker 1: start Richardson Steelers, and good thing I didn't, And so

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Speaker 1: I picked Fields over Richardson. But I had hesitations just

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Speaker 1: because I'm likem I only have this guy for one week.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know, but I'm riding it as

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Speaker 1: long as I can.

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Speaker 3: I had to pick him up on George and Love

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Speaker 3: got hurt in our league, and I've started them in

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Speaker 3: the last three weeks.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, is that a high floor.

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Speaker 3: But now Love is back and they had very so

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Speaker 3: in terms of overall fantasy production, Love was actually better

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Speaker 3: last week.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and similar converse there they're playing the same team

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Speaker 1: or whatever. I would probably pick Love. Yeah, I think

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Speaker 1: the passing numbers will be better, but fields as such

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Speaker 1: a high.

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Speaker 3: Floor he does and great for fantasies like even he

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Speaker 3: even when he wasn't running as much, like last week

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Speaker 3: he didn't run as much, he still got me. I

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Speaker 3: can't remember exactly two weeks too, I should say it

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Speaker 3: was still like eighteen points.

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Speaker 1: That's what I mean. That's like worst case scenario.

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Speaker 3: But Love is you know they're gonna throw the football

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Speaker 3: and they play the rams this week.

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Speaker 1: I didn't even know. The pass defense is not good, No,

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Speaker 1: it's really bad. It's one of the worst defensive league period.

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Speaker 1: So I play Love. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Gino Smith, rostered in thirty seven percent of leagues, shouldn't

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Speaker 3: be He's Leeds a league and passing yardist. He's They're

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Speaker 3: play the ball a lot.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. He through like fifty some attempts last night. I

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Speaker 1: think fifty five fifteen record fifty seven I think really yeah, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'd gladly pick him. Up.

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Speaker 3: Derek Carr rostered in forty nine percent of leagues.

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Speaker 1: They're passing volumes really low low, but is it going

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Speaker 1: to stay that way? They want to run the ball, yeah,

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Speaker 1: and protect the old line a lot, and he won't run.

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Speaker 1: I'd rather have all those names.

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Speaker 3: I'd rather have Fields or Smith.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, agreed, But it's not bad.

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Speaker 3: And Andy Dalton's owned an eleven percent of leagues.

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Speaker 1: Okay, I mean if you'd lose your quarterback, I mean

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Speaker 1: he's a game script.

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Speaker 3: Is going to play well for that one. They're going

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Speaker 3: to have to throw the football most of the you know,

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Speaker 3: most every week. Running back Rico dal Dell owned him

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Speaker 3: forty six percent of leagues. I don't love him this week,

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Speaker 3: and they don't love him. They can get enough volume.

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Speaker 1: He doesn't, But he's the one to own.

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Speaker 3: Kareem Hunt owned in twenty nine percent of leagues. Maybe

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Speaker 3: I know he's your boon this week.

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Speaker 1: You were not have be with Skareem Hunt. Well, I

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Speaker 1: a good offense. Yeah, what used to be a good offense.

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Speaker 1: It still seems like a decent offense. Yeah, pick him up.

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Speaker 1: I especially when he started for.

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Speaker 3: Now Trey Sermon owned him one percent of leagues.

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Speaker 1: I think people are concerned about Taylor's injury, saying it's.

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Speaker 3: A high ankle spring. Yeah, and he's definitely probably doesn't

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Speaker 1: That's enough though. In the running back I don't care

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Speaker 3: Yeah in our league, I just traded for Saquon Barkley,

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Speaker 3: who is on a bye. My issue is and I

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Speaker 3: Saquon Barkley was going on the bye. But I also

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Speaker 1: So you're scrambling now.

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Speaker 3: Now I'm going to pick somebody.

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Speaker 1: Up the same. Yeah, he won't kill you. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: And if he's their lead Taylor's out. If Taylor's out,

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Because Taylor plays, he was getting a high percentage

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Speaker 1: of say yeah, I mean Sermon's worthless of Taylor's back

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Speaker 3: Roshawn Johnson owned in twenty percent of leagues.

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Speaker 1: Swift kind of made a comeback, and I still don't

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Speaker 1: trust that they're going to run the ball well at all,

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Speaker 1: to be honest with you, so monitor them, but I

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Speaker 3: Tank Bigsby owned in nine percent of leagues. He should

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Speaker 3: absolutely that one.

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Speaker 1: And it entices me.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, he can deal him with a shoulder injury.

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Speaker 3: Character and he might just be the better overall player.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Uh, Alexander Madison owned in thirty one percent of leagues.

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Speaker 1: I think it's a mere white might be droppable. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's not real exciting, but no. Well yeah, but like

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Speaker 3: Tyler Algier is only owned in thirty two percent of leagues,

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Speaker 3: And we called that one last Friday when Bjeon Robinson

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Speaker 3: that Algier was going to be a bigger part of

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Speaker 3: the run game. Yeah, Bijean was still going to catch

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Speaker 3: Bijeon last week. Did you pay attention to the injury

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Speaker 3: You know what's going on here, and Algier is good.

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Speaker 1: Algiers good. I mean even on Bijeon's best day, he

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Speaker 1: might be a flex. Yeah, you know, so that's kind

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Speaker 3: And there's some of these guys are really high end

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you drafted Travis ATN I wouldn't have done it,

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Speaker 3: your number one. Why wouldn't you have Tank Bigsby?

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Speaker 3: Is you know, if you drafted Taylor, why once you

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Speaker 1: That one I don't see as much.

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Speaker 1: But you might have had Cuba, you know what I mean,

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Speaker 1: I don't love handcuffs. I don't love handcuffs in general.

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Speaker 3: But if it's my number one back, it's the guy

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Speaker 1: Like a perfect example is Mason and McCaffrey. Yeah, you

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Speaker 3: You drafted McCaffrey number one overall. Shame on you if

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Speaker 3: you didn't then draft him.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, because the offense is so good and you knew.

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Speaker 3: That he was dealing with an injury.

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Speaker 1: anyone that does a little bit of homework knew Mason

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Ty Chandler owned in thirty eight percent of leagues.

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Speaker 1: Jones is really good, but he gets stinged up. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Chandler would be an immediate starter that has value.

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Speaker 3: Ray Davis owned in ten percent of leagues.

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Speaker 1: That's a tougher one. Yeah, you know, I mean, he

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Speaker 1: and I'm not sure he'd be as good as Cook,

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Speaker 3: At wide receiver. Don Tavian Wicks owned in twelve percent.

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Speaker 3: Christian Watson now hurt.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean he should be in every league. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Moves into that third receiver role for them this week.

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Speaker 1: I think hurt. He kind of was the one slash

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Speaker 3: He got a lot of targets last year.

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Speaker 1: But they do like Dobbs. It's probably a one off

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we talked about one del Robinson a lot. Oh

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Speaker 3: and then he goes out and catches eleven balls again,

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Speaker 1: He's got a floor.

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Speaker 3: He's gonna get you at least ten points any PPR league.

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Speaker 1: He could do worse. That's fine, Yeah, right exactly. I

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Speaker 1: mean if people are dealing with a J. Brown erase

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Speaker 1: you Rice and PPR, he's startable.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. Xavier Lagett owned in twenty percent of leagues.

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Speaker 1: Maybe so this sounds weird, but there's already Deontay Johnson

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Speaker 1: trade talk because they don't think they're gonna resign him

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Speaker 1: but Leget's getting very much in the mix as well. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: he's in the top three, and all of a sudden

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Speaker 1: they have a decent passing offense. You can do a

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and again game script is gonna play. Oh yeah, favor. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: We mentioned Darnell Mooney. He's still owned in fifty eight

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Speaker 3: percent of leagues. He should be in every league. I

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Speaker 3: can't go Jerry Judy, he's owning fifty five percent of league.

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Speaker 3: But that passing game is broken.

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Speaker 1: I just don't think there's any ceiling there. Yeah, Like,

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Speaker 1: when are you going to start him? And when's he

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Speaker 3: Josh Dollen's owned him fifteen percent of leagues. Wef are

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Speaker 3: if I knew Flacco was playing every week, Josh Dollens

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Speaker 3: would be He's in. He's in that same number one.

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Speaker 3: He's like one now Robinson. Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly, except

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Speaker 3: he might be a better player.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think he's a better player.

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Speaker 3: But with Richardson, I don't trust that.

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Speaker 1: No, But I wouldn't mind. I wouldn't be cutting him

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Speaker 1: if I owned him, you know, like I'd like to

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Speaker 3: Dobbs, the aforementioned Romeo Dobs only owned in thirty three

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Speaker 1: He's just not flashy, but he but they like him

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Speaker 3: Love seems to like him. That's the biggest thing it is.

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Speaker 3: Alan Lazard owned in thirty eight percent of leagues. Again,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, all these guys are hard to start, yeah, at

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean he's the closest Cooper Cup Nakua type.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's just not exciting. Again with buys this week

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Speaker 3: Yeah at tight end. Tucker Craft owned in five percent.

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Speaker 3: Taysom Hill owned in thirty three percent of leagues. We've

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Speaker 3: Hunter Henry.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Hunter Henry owned in thirty six percent of leagues.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Kobe Parkinson owned in thirty percent of leagues.

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Speaker 3: But he's gonna yeah, he's gonna get three for thirty

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Speaker 3: still better than Mark Andrews. What Mark Andrews is going

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Speaker 1: There in zero. I mean, you're not dumping Andrews though.

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Speaker 3: We're four weeks into this thing. Matt, he has what

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Speaker 1: Nothing. It's unbelievable. And now they're winning without a different formula.

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Speaker 1: There's no reason to go back to put him out

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Speaker 3: And you got hardball talking about, well, there's gonna be

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I can't cut him quite yet, but

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Speaker 3: All right, there broke back Mountain quit him. But yeah,

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Speaker 3: that's the state of tight ends right now in the NFL.

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Speaker 3: But I did the kid in Seattle last night.

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Speaker 1: He's interesting. Yeah, the Michigan dude moves well.

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Speaker 3: A couple of nice catches last night. The only thing

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Speaker 1: Yeah, he might be a better player. He might be

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Speaker 3: They were talking last night on the broadcast and guy,

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Speaker 3: And they see a barn Yeah, and they said, hey,

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Speaker 1: Of those third, fourth round tight ends that flashes rookies

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Speaker 3: I'm not saying go pick up a j barner.

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Speaker 1: All right, hard to believe it's already well two days.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, the Jets are at the Vikings.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, let's look at some of these other matchups and

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Speaker 1: Ye. So, Panthers are at the Bears. Bears for sure,

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Speaker 3: Just can't start them.

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Speaker 1: The defense is just too bad. I don't care they play.

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Speaker 3: Ravens are at the Bengals. How many yards are the

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Speaker 1: For? This week? Ton and I went to Ravens D.

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Speaker 3: Bills are at the Texans.

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Speaker 3: Which of those defenses would you rather start neither?

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Speaker 3: But the Jags end up winning that game, though they've

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Speaker 1: That's one of those things, one of those rock paper

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Speaker 3: Dolphins are at the Patriots. The Patriots, the Patriots defense

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Speaker 3: That's the problem. They're already playing a thousand snaps. They're

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Speaker 1: I think enough to start against Miami.

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Speaker 3: And Dougger's not going to play this week.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I heard that too. And bar War is out,

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Speaker 3: To score that game.

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Speaker 1: I hated seeing Jalen Phillips knee last night. That poor guy.

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Speaker 3: But you're not gonna be You're not excited about starting

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Speaker 1: No, I mean, I'm not sure I'm even picking them

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Speaker 3: The Browns are at the Commanders. Neither can the Browns

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Speaker 1: I'm betting they do against the Commanders. So are they

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Speaker 1: I don't think it started either one of those.

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Speaker 3: The Raiders are at the Broncos, Yes and yes, both

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and you're happy about it? Yeah, yeah, especially Crosby

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Speaker 1: I can't get over that. And I bet Adams doesn't play.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Cardinals at the forty nine ers. Forty nine ers

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Speaker 3: Cardinals team. Is that a blip in the row? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: PROBA probably Okay, you know not the Cardinals D. Packers

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Speaker 3: Giants at the Seahawks.

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Speaker 3: When the kid from Alabama their corner, the rookie corner.

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Speaker 1: They took Seattle.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, rookie or no, Detroit, I'm sorry Detroit. Arnold, Arnold, Arnold,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, they get six penalties in three games going into

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Speaker 1: Steelers, I'm not impressed with what the I mean, where

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Speaker 3: I think you start both defenses in that game.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm fine with both. Yeah, that's not bad. We

444
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Speaker 1: got a fair about it, fair more so than I

445
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Speaker 1: think we had last week. Last week was thin when

446
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Speaker 1: we did this this segment. I don't mind either one

447
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Speaker 1: of those ones that the Saints and Chiefs smart thing,

448
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Speaker 1: but I bet that over unders higher than it should be.

449
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Speaker 3: So let's go back and look at that Jets Vikings.

450
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Speaker 3: Was that the one we were talking about was that.

451
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Speaker 1: I don't think we had cart wheels over it, but

452
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Speaker 1: I think we found ones we liked better since then.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so there's some there's some decent streamers this week.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, there are that's not bad at all. So you

455
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Speaker 1: can find ones that are definitely out there too.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's this week's schedule to look ahead.

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Speaker 1: There side question, like one of my leagues, my only

458
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Speaker 1: defense is the Browns. Are they a good enough defense

459
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Speaker 1: that you just stick with them no matter what they

460
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Speaker 1: haven't been? How many defenses are who? Not many? I

461
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Speaker 1: mean I think right now closed Vikings.

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Speaker 3: I'm starting the Steelers every week. I'm starting the Chiefs

463
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Speaker 3: every week. Chiefs, I think I'm starting me unless it's

464
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Speaker 3: just a you're gonna start the forty nine Ers a week.

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Speaker 1: Vikings. Bears isn't bad.

466
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Speaker 3: The Vikings isn't bad, but they've got a slaty like

467
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Speaker 3: they got Detroit and they've got some other tech.

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Speaker 1: I mean, like if you're not even worried about opponent,

469
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Speaker 1: like who are you pretty comfortable with? Almost every week?

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Speaker 1: There's not many right now? Not many?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, not many at all. And you can have

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Speaker 3: a bad week on defenses. We just saw with the

473
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Speaker 3: Steelers oh yeah, yeah, so it happens. But yeah, it's

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Speaker 3: it's it's rough sledding right now. Despite the league scoring

475
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Speaker 3: being down, you would think the defenses would be dominating things.

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Speaker 1: I think sacks are down too, though, yeah, you know,

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Speaker 1: and I don't think. I'm not sure what the turnover

478
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Speaker 1: situation is.

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Speaker 3: Well, I think in some cases holding might be legal

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Speaker 3: and starting it more and more unless it's you know,

481
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Speaker 3: unless it's defensive holding on the back end.

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Speaker 1: So I start right on that too. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Anyways, let's get to a break. He is the Matt Williamson.

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Speaker 3: I am Dale Lolly. You're listening to the Drive here

485
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Speaker 3: in the Steelers Audio Network. That's going to do it

486
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Speaker 3: for the Fantasy Football focus Matt, and now I'll be

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Speaker 3: back with more right after this.

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Speaker 2: This is the Drive with Dale Lolly and Matt Williamson

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Speaker 2: on your twenty four to seven Home of the Black

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Speaker 2: and Gold cast in Steelers Nation Radio.

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Speaker 3: And welcome back. I'm Dale LOLLI he is the Matt

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Speaker 3: Williamson and Matt it is time for the power rankings,

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Speaker 3: yes Tuesday, and we'll look at Eric ed Holmes Power

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Speaker 3: rankings here on NFL dot com. And well there should

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Speaker 3: be quite a bit of movement.

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Speaker 1: Again. I'll say I'm gonna preface this by saying I

497
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Speaker 1: don't have a clear thirty two or a clear number one.

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Speaker 1: There's a lot of candidates for both. There's changes at

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Speaker 1: both spots. Ere Yeah, let's do that at thirty two.

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Speaker 1: I think he had the Titans last week, which I

501
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Speaker 1: thought was harsh.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, down two spots, Jacksonville.

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Speaker 1: I'd consider Miami too. Yeah, how you're playing what you got?

504
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Speaker 1: What are you doing right now? You can't be you

505
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Speaker 1: can't be thinking about what you thought of them in

506
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Speaker 1: the preseason anymore, or what they are in their best day.

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Speaker 3: They're going to be looking at this going. We just

508
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Speaker 3: gave two of money, Yeah, and we just gave large

509
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Speaker 3: and we just gave both of those I'm talking about money.

510
00:22:17,119 --> 00:22:19,639
Speaker 3: And we just gave both of those wide receivers big money.

511
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Speaker 3: And we can't move the ball, and we can't we

512
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Speaker 3: can't throw the ball at all.

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Speaker 1: Right, we got to gimmick everything up and throw them

514
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Speaker 1: passes behind the line of scrimmage. Just get in their hands.

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Speaker 3: I'll bet you next year they spend money on a

516
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Speaker 3: better backup quarterback.

517
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Speaker 1: The better I mean, assuming two was the guy and

518
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Speaker 1: all that.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I guess there was a report out there today

520
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Speaker 3: that he might come back in week eight, but by

521
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Speaker 3: then their season might be over.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, they're they're fortunate that there is a buy in there.

523
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Speaker 3: The buyers don't count when you're it's four weeks of.

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Speaker 1: Four games, four games that I misunderstood.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, the buy doesn't. The buy doesn't factor into the

526
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Speaker 3: into that at all.

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Speaker 1: Their season very well could be over. But no, Yeah,

528
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Speaker 1: you know who they beating right now? They might. I

529
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Speaker 1: haven't looked at the lines. I think they'd be thirty two.

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Speaker 3: I'll bet I'll bet their dogs this week in New England.

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Speaker 1: I would pick the Pats, Yeah, no doubt. And the

532
00:23:07,160 --> 00:23:08,040
Speaker 1: other thing too, is.

533
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Speaker 3: Like they would kill for Jacoby Brissette right now.

534
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Speaker 1: They'd be an okay team, It would be all right

535
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Speaker 1: wherever they are in the power ranks, they would be twenty.

536
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Speaker 3: They could tread water.

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Speaker 1: Yeah yeah with Jacoby Briscent when you maybe steal the

538
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Speaker 1: one last night, Yeah, you know what I mean, that's

539
00:23:21,200 --> 00:23:23,720
Speaker 1: it couldn't do anything. And the other thing about them is,

540
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Speaker 1: let's say two it comes back. How good is Miami

541
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Speaker 1: in November and December? Anyways? You know what I mean?

542
00:23:29,280 --> 00:23:30,680
Speaker 1: Like this is where they got to make all their money.

543
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Speaker 3: Yeah, you saw it with the chan trying to run

544
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Speaker 3: into a brick wall last.

545
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Speaker 1: Wait, that's your goal line. That was all speed and

546
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Speaker 1: they better invests on linemen though.

547
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Speaker 3: At thirty holding steady as Carolina, who was thirty one?

548
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Speaker 3: Thirty one? I'm sorry, Oh they're thirty one. Yeah, I misspoke.

549
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Speaker 3: They're better in Miami, I think so. Yeah, they were

550
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Speaker 3: competitive again last week. Yeah at thirty down five spots

551
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Speaker 3: is Miami?

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Speaker 1: Okay? Good? Yeah, it's hard to do that as a ranker,

553
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Speaker 1: you know, because you have pre conceived notions. But you

554
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Speaker 1: got to look they're playing right now. Yeah, they're really bad.

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Speaker 3: Yeah at twenty nine down two spots, New England. They're

556
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Speaker 3: all bad twenty nine versus thirty this week, but it's

557
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Speaker 3: in New England. Does Jacksonville beat those teams who they're

558
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Speaker 3: playing bad? Right?

559
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Speaker 1: They're really bad? I think I still have them ahead

560
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Speaker 1: of those last couple.

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Speaker 3: Like, at least New England knows what it is and

562
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Speaker 3: what it wants to do now. It has a certain

563
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Speaker 3: game script that it has to play.

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Speaker 1: Under, right, they just don't know the horses.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but you're gonna see a lot of Remondrae Stevenson

566
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Speaker 3: this week.

567
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Speaker 1: Yeah, because Miami's not gonna run and hide on them.

568
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Speaker 3: No, they can run at will basically at twenty eight

569
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Speaker 3: down two spots the Cleveland Browns.

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Speaker 1: I have no problem with them being that neighborhood. No,

571
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Speaker 1: I mean they're not beating bad teams. Yeah.

572
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Speaker 3: Well, if you don't beat the Slappies, you are say, yeah, yeah,

573
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Speaker 3: that's the way that goes.

574
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Speaker 1: They haven't.

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Speaker 3: They haven't surpassed eighteen points in a game this season. Yeah,

576
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Speaker 3: they were up ten to nothing on the Raiders and lost.

577
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Speaker 1: They don't put any way, they don't have lineman, no

578
00:25:06,440 --> 00:25:10,440
Speaker 1: quarterback passing games bad, there's not much hope. I mean,

579
00:25:11,200 --> 00:25:13,520
Speaker 1: the defense has to be awesome, awesome, and it's not

580
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Speaker 1: been awesome awesome. It's been above average. You know.

581
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Speaker 3: Twenty seven up two spots to Giants.

582
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Speaker 1: They were the worst offenses in the league. They are

583
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Speaker 1: the worst offense in the league. I think Miami's worse

584
00:25:22,600 --> 00:25:25,520
Speaker 1: in my opinion. Well right here, statistically they're not. But yeah, right,

585
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Speaker 1: twenty seven up two spots is the Giants. That's where

586
00:25:29,400 --> 00:25:31,440
Speaker 1: they're gonna live. Yeah, but they're better than they're better

587
00:25:31,480 --> 00:25:33,520
Speaker 1: than yeah, yeah, yeah, Yeah, they're not the worst. They're

588
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Speaker 1: they're a tier above those guys.

589
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Speaker 3: Twenty six up six spots the Tennessee Titans. That's a

590
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Speaker 3: big move.

591
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Speaker 1: That's a big move. You told me, if you.

592
00:25:43,240 --> 00:25:45,560
Speaker 3: Told me Mason Rudolph was starting the rest of the season,

593
00:25:45,600 --> 00:25:46,800
Speaker 3: this is where I would have them at.

594
00:25:46,960 --> 00:25:48,840
Speaker 1: Again. I like their defense and there's something to be

595
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Speaker 1: said for that. Yeah, I mean they're gonna win six games.

596
00:25:53,880 --> 00:25:55,600
Speaker 3: Twenty five down two spots.

597
00:25:56,000 --> 00:26:01,880
Speaker 1: Is Arizona defense is pretty terrible? Yeah, and the off.

598
00:26:01,640 --> 00:26:03,439
Speaker 3: Time of that, the offense is good, but it's not

599
00:26:03,600 --> 00:26:05,119
Speaker 3: enough on a week by week basis.

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00:26:05,160 --> 00:26:06,920
Speaker 1: It wasn't against Washington overcoming.

601
00:26:07,400 --> 00:26:09,160
Speaker 3: Nobody's defense has been good against Washington.

602
00:26:09,200 --> 00:26:12,720
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's something to be said. I mean the Arizona offense, Yeah,

603
00:26:12,800 --> 00:26:15,520
Speaker 1: should have lit the should have commanders up. Yeah, they didn't.

604
00:26:15,680 --> 00:26:16,880
Speaker 1: It was alarming.

605
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Speaker 3: I might have been at Kingsbury thing. It could be

606
00:26:19,040 --> 00:26:24,920
Speaker 3: just the personnel at twenty four up four spots the Raiders.

607
00:26:25,880 --> 00:26:27,200
Speaker 1: I think that's where they're gonna be all year.

608
00:26:27,240 --> 00:26:31,320
Speaker 3: They're two and two and they obviously don't believe it.

609
00:26:31,960 --> 00:26:35,000
Speaker 1: They shouldn't. They don't really have a quarterback, their line struggle,

610
00:26:35,000 --> 00:26:35,960
Speaker 1: they didn't run the ball well.

611
00:26:36,560 --> 00:26:38,240
Speaker 3: At twenty three, down four spots.

612
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Speaker 1: Is the Rams okay with that? Their defense is one

613
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Speaker 1: of the worst in the league. Two Yeah, and the

614
00:26:44,800 --> 00:26:48,720
Speaker 1: offense is average at best. Just all on Stafford Shoulders

615
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Speaker 1: and Karen Williams.

616
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Speaker 3: At twenty two, up two spots the Bears.

617
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Speaker 1: I guess they're better than those teams around them. They

618
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Speaker 1: ran the ball a little bit this week. Defense is good.

619
00:27:02,200 --> 00:27:05,680
Speaker 3: At twenty one holding steady Cincinnati.

620
00:27:06,680 --> 00:27:08,840
Speaker 1: Keep thinking you're gonna say the Broncos, which I don't

621
00:27:08,880 --> 00:27:10,879
Speaker 1: have a problem with them not being mentioned yet, but

622
00:27:12,680 --> 00:27:15,159
Speaker 1: since he's d is horrended. Since he's d is really

623
00:27:15,320 --> 00:27:19,399
Speaker 1: that's a problem. Since these defense is the worst unit

624
00:27:19,600 --> 00:27:24,560
Speaker 1: in the division. Also includes the Browns offense, which is

625
00:27:24,600 --> 00:27:29,399
Speaker 1: really hard agree with that. I don't know, but I

626
00:27:29,400 --> 00:27:31,639
Speaker 1: still think burrough carries a lot of weight, like I

627
00:27:31,720 --> 00:27:32,760
Speaker 1: might have them head of Denver.

628
00:27:33,800 --> 00:27:36,840
Speaker 3: Yeah, but where what's their offense rank in terms of

629
00:27:36,880 --> 00:27:39,880
Speaker 3: if we're talking about the the eight units in the division,

630
00:27:42,480 --> 00:27:43,960
Speaker 3: maybe that's wh Why don't we save that for the

631
00:27:44,000 --> 00:27:44,520
Speaker 3: next second.

632
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Speaker 1: The next second we got.

633
00:27:46,920 --> 00:27:51,320
Speaker 3: Four games to look at. Uh at twenty up two spots,

634
00:27:51,440 --> 00:27:53,080
Speaker 3: is Denver okay?

635
00:27:52,720 --> 00:27:54,600
Speaker 1: Well? Right in that ring? Yeah.

636
00:27:54,640 --> 00:27:57,440
Speaker 3: Yeah, at nineteen up a spot is Atlanta.

637
00:27:58,520 --> 00:28:01,119
Speaker 1: That's fine. I think they're though, I think they're getting

638
00:28:01,119 --> 00:28:05,359
Speaker 1: back to where. Yeah, eighteen down, by the way that

639
00:28:05,400 --> 00:28:08,600
Speaker 1: Falcons and Broncos win looks a lot better than people

640
00:28:08,640 --> 00:28:09,520
Speaker 1: want to give it credit for it.

641
00:28:09,640 --> 00:28:15,440
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, eighteen down four spots is the Chargers. Yes,

642
00:28:15,840 --> 00:28:18,560
Speaker 3: I think that's what they are right now. Yeah, i'd

643
00:28:18,600 --> 00:28:19,320
Speaker 3: have a head of Denver.

644
00:28:19,320 --> 00:28:21,080
Speaker 1: I'd have them ahead of the Raiders in their division,

645
00:28:21,640 --> 00:28:23,960
Speaker 1: but not much higher than that, that's for sure.

646
00:28:24,320 --> 00:28:27,080
Speaker 3: At seventeen holding steady is Dallas.

647
00:28:28,359 --> 00:28:31,640
Speaker 1: They got problems. They're very mediocre team.

648
00:28:31,880 --> 00:28:36,240
Speaker 3: Yeah, sixteen up, two spots Indianapolis.

649
00:28:37,400 --> 00:28:42,080
Speaker 1: I'm cool with that. Quarterback situations a little up in

650
00:28:42,120 --> 00:28:43,520
Speaker 1: the air obviously, Taylor.

651
00:28:43,680 --> 00:28:47,800
Speaker 3: You know what's thatcond to mean? Teams that play the

652
00:28:47,840 --> 00:28:49,280
Speaker 3: Steelers end up getting beaten up.

653
00:28:49,960 --> 00:28:54,840
Speaker 1: That's the good takeaway. Yeah, feel glad that the Steelers

654
00:28:54,840 --> 00:28:55,760
Speaker 1: are ahead of the Colts though.

655
00:28:55,920 --> 00:28:58,440
Speaker 3: Yeah, fifteen down two spots are the Jets.

656
00:28:59,480 --> 00:29:01,200
Speaker 1: That was a I'm losing faith.

657
00:29:01,400 --> 00:29:02,880
Speaker 3: That was a horrendous.

658
00:29:02,360 --> 00:29:04,720
Speaker 1: Loss, Really was I'm losing a lot of faith.

659
00:29:04,800 --> 00:29:07,880
Speaker 3: Was that the worst loss in the league this weekend?

660
00:29:09,520 --> 00:29:12,640
Speaker 1: Can't come up with any of that were tragically worse

661
00:29:12,760 --> 00:29:13,200
Speaker 1: at home.

662
00:29:13,480 --> 00:29:15,720
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean you scored nine points.

663
00:29:15,480 --> 00:29:19,120
Speaker 1: Nine points. Yeah, probably West.

664
00:29:18,800 --> 00:29:20,880
Speaker 3: Hall had like four yards rushing on ten carries.

665
00:29:20,880 --> 00:29:23,920
Speaker 1: Like, yeah, it's bad. It's ten touches. They're ten carries too.

666
00:29:24,560 --> 00:29:26,080
Speaker 3: At fourteen, down four spots.

667
00:29:26,120 --> 00:29:30,560
Speaker 1: The Saints defense is better than the offense right now,

668
00:29:30,960 --> 00:29:34,160
Speaker 1: which was a drastic change before two.

669
00:29:34,000 --> 00:29:36,320
Speaker 3: Weeks ago were so well. Saints offense ninety three points

670
00:29:36,320 --> 00:29:38,760
Speaker 3: in two games. I'm cool with that.

671
00:29:40,000 --> 00:29:44,480
Speaker 1: Thirteen we had the Saints behind Tampa down eight spots.

672
00:29:44,080 --> 00:29:48,720
Speaker 3: At thirteen, Philadelphia, they're riding a roller coaster right now.

673
00:29:48,760 --> 00:29:53,800
Speaker 3: There there's anne of scrimmage, not consistent at all.

674
00:29:53,920 --> 00:29:56,120
Speaker 1: I mean they didn't have Lane Johnson, AJ Brown and

675
00:29:56,160 --> 00:29:57,880
Speaker 1: Davante Smith last week. I get it, you know what

676
00:29:57,880 --> 00:29:59,960
Speaker 1: I mean. Yeah, So, but that's who they are. I mean,

677
00:30:00,240 --> 00:30:02,680
Speaker 1: you have to lower them if those guys aren't available

678
00:30:04,320 --> 00:30:06,480
Speaker 1: at twelve, holding steady, the d line isn't what it

679
00:30:06,520 --> 00:30:07,160
Speaker 1: usually is either.

680
00:30:07,240 --> 00:30:10,440
Speaker 3: No, it's not holding steady at twelve? Is San Francisco?

681
00:30:12,240 --> 00:30:15,640
Speaker 1: Hmm? That probably the Niners ahead of the Steelers.

682
00:30:17,320 --> 00:30:18,200
Speaker 3: There get some issues.

683
00:30:18,280 --> 00:30:18,760
Speaker 1: I guess they do.

684
00:30:18,800 --> 00:30:21,520
Speaker 3: They're missing dudes. Fred Warner got hurt and he's now

685
00:30:21,560 --> 00:30:22,120
Speaker 3: out this week?

686
00:30:22,320 --> 00:30:25,160
Speaker 1: Is he out? Yeah? I know he got hurt. Yeah,

687
00:30:25,160 --> 00:30:27,600
Speaker 1: that's a big one. I guess that's it. It's fair.

688
00:30:27,680 --> 00:30:29,240
Speaker 3: They're not as hard to play against when they don't

689
00:30:29,240 --> 00:30:31,440
Speaker 3: have some of those you know, de Trent Williams end

690
00:30:31,520 --> 00:30:32,760
Speaker 3: up playing. Last week, I don't even know.

691
00:30:32,920 --> 00:30:37,640
Speaker 1: Think is Seattle better than San fran Seattle was three

692
00:30:37,680 --> 00:30:39,840
Speaker 1: not so great wins. Yeah. I think last night was

693
00:30:39,840 --> 00:30:40,720
Speaker 1: maybe their most impressive.

694
00:30:40,760 --> 00:30:41,600
Speaker 3: They hung tight last week.

695
00:30:41,640 --> 00:30:41,959
Speaker 1: They were good.

696
00:30:41,960 --> 00:30:43,840
Speaker 3: It's a good Detroit team in Detroit. That's not an

697
00:30:43,840 --> 00:30:44,440
Speaker 3: easy place to go.

698
00:30:44,520 --> 00:30:46,120
Speaker 1: No, I think they shouldn't hang their head at all.

699
00:30:46,160 --> 00:30:48,960
Speaker 3: From well, at eleven is Seattle.

700
00:30:48,520 --> 00:30:50,240
Speaker 1: Okay, I would say, I think they'd be right next

701
00:30:50,240 --> 00:30:50,840
Speaker 1: to each other. Yeah.

702
00:30:51,920 --> 00:30:56,400
Speaker 3: At ten down a spot, the Steelers, I wouldn't ding

703
00:30:56,480 --> 00:30:57,000
Speaker 3: them too hard.

704
00:30:57,240 --> 00:30:59,080
Speaker 1: No, that was again they did some good things, but

705
00:30:59,120 --> 00:31:02,720
Speaker 1: they it's we've gone over to Yeah. Yeah, and I

706
00:31:02,800 --> 00:31:05,080
Speaker 1: think they are ten spots better than the Colts. Yeah,

707
00:31:05,520 --> 00:31:07,400
Speaker 1: well six, I think is that what it was? H Okay?

708
00:31:08,760 --> 00:31:11,880
Speaker 3: At nine down two spots is green Bay.

709
00:31:12,120 --> 00:31:16,040
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, really brutal division right now, but I

710
00:31:16,040 --> 00:31:17,080
Speaker 1: think they're gonna catch fire.

711
00:31:18,640 --> 00:31:24,040
Speaker 3: At eight up seven spots, Tampa Bay seems a little rich.

712
00:31:24,120 --> 00:31:25,600
Speaker 3: Seems about as high as they're gonna go.

713
00:31:25,920 --> 00:31:30,080
Speaker 1: I mean they're better than the Niners. No, I mean

714
00:31:30,160 --> 00:31:32,680
Speaker 1: like if if they played right now, I mean no,

715
00:31:33,200 --> 00:31:35,920
Speaker 1: they can't run the ball. No, I mean I like them,

716
00:31:35,920 --> 00:31:38,120
Speaker 1: but that it's a little high.

717
00:31:38,160 --> 00:31:44,080
Speaker 3: At seven up, nine spots Washington, I'm fine putting them there,

718
00:31:44,080 --> 00:31:45,920
Speaker 3: but that's as.

719
00:31:45,800 --> 00:31:47,440
Speaker 1: High as that's gonna go. Yeah, you know what I mean.

720
00:31:47,480 --> 00:31:49,000
Speaker 3: I mean, they could lose Eddy, but it seems like

721
00:31:49,040 --> 00:31:50,960
Speaker 3: San Francisco, Org. This is where they're gonna be.

722
00:31:51,200 --> 00:31:53,280
Speaker 1: Bays go ahead of them. Yeahah, I bet. I mean

723
00:31:53,280 --> 00:31:54,560
Speaker 1: the Steelers gonna go ahead of them.

724
00:31:55,080 --> 00:31:57,680
Speaker 3: At six up two spots Baltimore.

725
00:31:57,960 --> 00:32:00,720
Speaker 1: I might even have them higher. I'm on board again,

726
00:32:02,840 --> 00:32:05,920
Speaker 1: five up one spot at Houston. They didn't run the

727
00:32:05,920 --> 00:32:10,920
Speaker 1: ball either out of Baltimore over Houston. If I'd say that,

728
00:32:11,440 --> 00:32:13,440
Speaker 1: how they'll finish. But how they're playing right now.

729
00:32:13,440 --> 00:32:15,239
Speaker 3: We'll get to see that game later. Do we get

730
00:32:15,280 --> 00:32:16,360
Speaker 3: to that game later season?

731
00:32:16,360 --> 00:32:17,320
Speaker 1: I think we do. I don't know.

732
00:32:17,440 --> 00:32:18,720
Speaker 3: Yeah, they're both division champions.

733
00:32:18,760 --> 00:32:20,320
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that makes sense. We'll get to see that.

734
00:32:22,560 --> 00:32:26,400
Speaker 3: At four down two spots Buffalo, I think if they

735
00:32:26,440 --> 00:32:29,160
Speaker 3: play the they play the Ravens ten times.

736
00:32:29,640 --> 00:32:30,400
Speaker 1: It's a terrible man.

737
00:32:30,440 --> 00:32:33,040
Speaker 3: They probably they probably end up splitting it. That game

738
00:32:33,160 --> 00:32:37,080
Speaker 3: was oh wait, Joe Brady came out and it was

739
00:32:37,440 --> 00:32:39,160
Speaker 3: as quickly as it got away from it was twenty

740
00:32:39,200 --> 00:32:41,400
Speaker 3: one to ten and Buffalo had the ball at midfield.

741
00:32:42,000 --> 00:32:45,360
Speaker 1: I think I told you I'd live bet the Bills

742
00:32:45,360 --> 00:32:47,880
Speaker 1: in that game. They got plus four twenty when they

743
00:32:47,920 --> 00:32:52,040
Speaker 1: were down, and then they throw the sideways past the past. Yeah,

744
00:32:52,080 --> 00:32:53,960
Speaker 1: and it's then it's just flush it right down on

745
00:32:54,040 --> 00:32:55,640
Speaker 1: the Yeah, you were moving the ball and now you're

746
00:32:55,680 --> 00:32:56,280
Speaker 1: getting goofy.

747
00:32:56,360 --> 00:32:57,840
Speaker 3: Joe Brady came out and said, yeah, I made a

748
00:32:57,880 --> 00:32:58,840
Speaker 3: bad call in that situation.

749
00:32:58,880 --> 00:33:01,760
Speaker 1: You sure did. Yeah you did. Yeah, that's not even hindsight.

750
00:33:01,800 --> 00:33:05,320
Speaker 1: I'm like, what would you do that You were moving

751
00:33:05,320 --> 00:33:07,800
Speaker 1: the football, right, Josh Allen be Josh Allen.

752
00:33:07,960 --> 00:33:10,880
Speaker 3: Yeah. But if you know they're at midfield, they're let's

753
00:33:10,880 --> 00:33:12,600
Speaker 3: say they go in and scores twenty one to seventeen.

754
00:33:13,160 --> 00:33:18,080
Speaker 3: The Ravens have had issues holding leads. Do they start

755
00:33:18,080 --> 00:33:20,560
Speaker 3: getting tight again? Like, oh here we go again, guys.

756
00:33:21,120 --> 00:33:22,920
Speaker 1: No, that's what I was feeling. That's why I put

757
00:33:22,960 --> 00:33:25,160
Speaker 1: all bucks down on the money line. They thought momentum

758
00:33:25,160 --> 00:33:27,520
Speaker 1: was changing drastically. Then they did something done.

759
00:33:27,800 --> 00:33:30,280
Speaker 3: At three up a spot is Detroit. It was a

760
00:33:30,280 --> 00:33:31,240
Speaker 3: good win for them last night.

761
00:33:31,280 --> 00:33:32,360
Speaker 1: Yeah, they're a good fotball team.

762
00:33:32,400 --> 00:33:34,120
Speaker 3: They didn't have an incomplete pass in that game.

763
00:33:34,200 --> 00:33:36,640
Speaker 1: I know, Golf was through a perfect game and they

764
00:33:36,720 --> 00:33:37,160
Speaker 1: might be one.

765
00:33:37,240 --> 00:33:39,400
Speaker 3: They had to throwback and they completed that.

766
00:33:39,640 --> 00:33:41,920
Speaker 1: Yeah to Golf. Now, my GoF, he catches a touchdown

767
00:33:41,960 --> 00:33:45,360
Speaker 1: and then have any incalletions more touchdown catches than incompletion.

768
00:33:45,000 --> 00:33:47,080
Speaker 3: And he still didn't have a perfect passer rating. I

769
00:33:47,120 --> 00:33:49,080
Speaker 3: don't even know how the team had a perfect passer

770
00:33:49,160 --> 00:33:51,280
Speaker 3: rating because they threw a touchdown pass. He had one

771
00:33:51,360 --> 00:33:53,280
Speaker 3: fifty eight point two. I think one fifty eight point

772
00:33:53,320 --> 00:33:54,040
Speaker 3: three is perfect.

773
00:33:54,200 --> 00:33:57,880
Speaker 1: Okay, they might be number one for me and pretty good.

774
00:33:58,000 --> 00:34:03,640
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah at two down a spot Kansas City, they

775
00:34:03,640 --> 00:34:04,040
Speaker 3: should be.

776
00:34:04,080 --> 00:34:06,240
Speaker 1: The offense is kind of a mess right now. Yeah.

777
00:34:06,400 --> 00:34:09,960
Speaker 1: I mean they don't a Pacheco, they don't have rice,

778
00:34:10,239 --> 00:34:12,880
Speaker 1: and they don't have Parky's brown and they don't have

779
00:34:12,880 --> 00:34:16,000
Speaker 1: any tackles and tackles aren't great either. Yeah, you know, yeah,

780
00:34:16,200 --> 00:34:17,880
Speaker 1: they're gonna have to win with defense and grind it

781
00:34:17,880 --> 00:34:20,040
Speaker 1: out and Mahomes is playing the worst of his career,

782
00:34:20,080 --> 00:34:20,800
Speaker 1: which I'm.

783
00:34:20,680 --> 00:34:23,439
Speaker 3: Not worried about them, but you know it is Taro Again,

784
00:34:23,480 --> 00:34:28,120
Speaker 3: we get a four game sample size here, Kelsey still.

785
00:34:29,040 --> 00:34:31,160
Speaker 1: Yeah, he was good in that game. But will he

786
00:34:31,239 --> 00:34:33,000
Speaker 1: be for long? Yeah? I don't.

787
00:34:33,080 --> 00:34:34,400
Speaker 3: I mean, are they gonna have to lean more on

788
00:34:34,480 --> 00:34:37,000
Speaker 3: him at thirty five almost thirty six? And you know

789
00:34:37,040 --> 00:34:38,360
Speaker 3: what's he gonna look like them by a time to

790
00:34:38,400 --> 00:34:40,480
Speaker 3: playoffs roll around? If he's gotta be out there all

791
00:34:40,520 --> 00:34:43,040
Speaker 3: the time. They were trying to manage his snaps a

792
00:34:43,080 --> 00:34:44,640
Speaker 3: little bit. Yeah, now they can't do that.

793
00:34:44,880 --> 00:34:46,680
Speaker 1: Yeah, No, I think that's a big problem. It's just

794
00:34:46,719 --> 00:34:47,919
Speaker 1: big picture stuff like that.

795
00:34:48,560 --> 00:34:53,640
Speaker 3: And number one up two spots the Minnesota Vikings.

796
00:34:54,719 --> 00:34:59,600
Speaker 1: I don't know who i'd have won. I understand putting

797
00:34:59,600 --> 00:35:04,560
Speaker 1: them there. They're beating everybody. They've beaten good teams handily.

798
00:35:05,520 --> 00:35:07,839
Speaker 1: They're probably playing the best of any team, right That's

799
00:35:07,840 --> 00:35:08,080
Speaker 1: the thing.

800
00:35:08,080 --> 00:35:09,600
Speaker 3: They're playing the best right now.

801
00:35:09,800 --> 00:35:12,120
Speaker 1: That's my rules always on power ranks. How good are

802
00:35:12,200 --> 00:35:15,680
Speaker 1: you right now? And they're probably one.

803
00:35:16,280 --> 00:35:18,400
Speaker 3: The question is going to be can they sustain this?

804
00:35:18,640 --> 00:35:20,880
Speaker 3: I bet once the injuries start to happen, and.

805
00:35:20,760 --> 00:35:23,399
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, they'll figure some things out against them too

806
00:35:23,400 --> 00:35:26,319
Speaker 1: schematically and Darnold and all that stuff too. Yeah, they're

807
00:35:26,360 --> 00:35:29,960
Speaker 1: really impressive, but I don't know that they're even a contender.

808
00:35:30,560 --> 00:35:33,920
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, you know, we're still going to pick the

809
00:35:33,920 --> 00:35:34,840
Speaker 1: Lions to win that division.

810
00:35:34,880 --> 00:35:37,640
Speaker 3: They win enough games and beat enough of these teams

811
00:35:37,680 --> 00:35:40,040
Speaker 3: that are also going to be contenders here, they can

812
00:35:40,120 --> 00:35:41,560
Speaker 3: end up with the number one seed and that is

813
00:35:41,600 --> 00:35:42,880
Speaker 3: not an easy place to go play.

814
00:35:43,000 --> 00:35:45,279
Speaker 1: Oh, no doubt. I mean, they just beat Green Bay,

815
00:35:45,640 --> 00:35:47,879
Speaker 1: what if they beat what if they go three out

816
00:35:47,880 --> 00:35:49,560
Speaker 1: of four versus the Lions and Packers and.

817
00:35:49,520 --> 00:35:51,080
Speaker 3: They got they got the head to head against the

818
00:35:51,080 --> 00:35:51,799
Speaker 3: forty nine ers.

819
00:35:52,239 --> 00:35:54,640
Speaker 1: You know, Oh, they're a great shape, great shape, but

820
00:35:54,680 --> 00:35:57,719
Speaker 1: nobody wants to play. There's one hundred percent true. Yeah,

821
00:35:57,880 --> 00:36:00,960
Speaker 1: I guess I'd have them won tended to, but there's

822
00:36:01,040 --> 00:36:04,040
Speaker 1: I mean, it's not the Chiefs, No, not to chief.

823
00:36:04,080 --> 00:36:06,839
Speaker 3: I feel that they've they've been very fortunate the first

824
00:36:06,880 --> 00:36:09,600
Speaker 3: four weeks, and there's something that creating some good fortune.

825
00:36:09,760 --> 00:36:13,959
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, but they've been fortunate. Baltimo would pretty

826
00:36:14,000 --> 00:36:14,760
Speaker 3: high on my list.

827
00:36:15,040 --> 00:36:17,240
Speaker 1: There's some recency bias there, but there has to be,

828
00:36:17,239 --> 00:36:19,279
Speaker 1: because nobody's a clear one.

829
00:36:19,320 --> 00:36:21,440
Speaker 3: They're still two and two though, I know still a

830
00:36:21,440 --> 00:36:23,480
Speaker 3: team that lost. They lost the Raiders to the Raiders

831
00:36:23,480 --> 00:36:26,359
Speaker 3: at home. I know, still a team that they were

832
00:36:26,400 --> 00:36:30,320
Speaker 3: inches away from, you know, blowing a lead to the Cowboys. Yeah,

833
00:36:30,600 --> 00:36:31,520
Speaker 3: you know again they're.

834
00:36:31,320 --> 00:36:34,320
Speaker 1: The Chiefs are real tough. Blew out the Bills.

835
00:36:34,360 --> 00:36:36,200
Speaker 3: That's the one that get so people talk about, well

836
00:36:36,200 --> 00:36:38,600
Speaker 3: they you know they were within inches of beating the Chiefs. Well, no,

837
00:36:38,640 --> 00:36:41,960
Speaker 3: they were with in inches of getting within a point

838
00:36:41,960 --> 00:36:42,759
Speaker 3: of the Chiefs.

839
00:36:42,560 --> 00:36:44,160
Speaker 1: And Hardball was going to go for two. Yeah.

840
00:36:44,239 --> 00:36:46,640
Speaker 3: Yeah, they weren't guaranteed to beat the Chiefs, just if

841
00:36:46,719 --> 00:36:48,960
Speaker 3: it likely gets his toes in No, no, no, right.

842
00:36:49,120 --> 00:36:53,280
Speaker 1: You know that's yeah, that's one percent. And that Chiefs

843
00:36:53,320 --> 00:36:55,640
Speaker 1: that they were inches away from trying a two point convert.

844
00:36:55,719 --> 00:36:57,719
Speaker 3: And the win over the Chiefs doesn't look quite as

845
00:36:57,719 --> 00:36:59,160
Speaker 3: impressed or the win by the Chiefs.

846
00:37:00,440 --> 00:37:03,520
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, they've not been great. I feel like

847
00:37:03,560 --> 00:37:06,160
Speaker 1: we have a good feel for who's good and who's bad. Yeah,

848
00:37:06,280 --> 00:37:07,719
Speaker 1: but I don't think we have a good feel for

849
00:37:07,760 --> 00:37:08,239
Speaker 1: how good.

850
00:37:08,800 --> 00:37:10,480
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a good way to you know what I mean. Yeah,

851
00:37:10,520 --> 00:37:11,120
Speaker 3: that's a good way to.

852
00:37:11,120 --> 00:37:12,560
Speaker 1: Put it, because a lot of the bad I think

853
00:37:12,560 --> 00:37:12,920
Speaker 1: we know.

854
00:37:13,000 --> 00:37:14,680
Speaker 3: I think the league is just so up and down.

855
00:37:14,719 --> 00:37:17,080
Speaker 3: And some of it's the penalties. Oh yeah, once again,

856
00:37:17,120 --> 00:37:20,919
Speaker 3: we saw forty flipping penalties called last night. Wasn't that many,

857
00:37:21,000 --> 00:37:22,719
Speaker 3: it was more than it was actually forty one, but

858
00:37:22,760 --> 00:37:23,320
Speaker 3: who's counting.

859
00:37:23,400 --> 00:37:24,360
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah in two games.

860
00:37:24,360 --> 00:37:24,960
Speaker 3: In two games.

861
00:37:25,040 --> 00:37:26,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, I knew the seat.

862
00:37:26,000 --> 00:37:26,600
Speaker 3: It's insane.

863
00:37:26,719 --> 00:37:30,560
Speaker 1: Crazy, it's insane. It's bad. It's a lesser product when

864
00:37:30,560 --> 00:37:31,280
Speaker 1: you're doing that stuff.

865
00:37:31,360 --> 00:37:33,319
Speaker 3: Yeah, at some point the league's gonna look at this

866
00:37:33,360 --> 00:37:34,120
Speaker 3: and going, what are we doing?

867
00:37:34,200 --> 00:37:35,239
Speaker 1: What are we doing? What do we doing?

868
00:37:35,360 --> 00:37:38,239
Speaker 3: Guys? I put the flags away, call the call the

869
00:37:38,239 --> 00:37:39,520
Speaker 3: stuff that needs to be called.

870
00:37:39,880 --> 00:37:41,680
Speaker 1: But we had this conversation yesterday too. There's a lot

871
00:37:41,719 --> 00:37:46,080
Speaker 1: of false starts and you know, illegal formations, sloppiness, Yeah,

872
00:37:46,080 --> 00:37:48,160
Speaker 1: sloppy football, And I think I think that's a lot

873
00:37:48,200 --> 00:37:51,000
Speaker 1: of that's it's not playing in pre season, yeah, you know,

874
00:37:51,360 --> 00:37:54,480
Speaker 1: and I don't about that. But also when you're the

875
00:37:54,480 --> 00:37:56,960
Speaker 1: same quarterback, he gets everybody a line yeah you know

876
00:37:57,000 --> 00:37:58,840
Speaker 1: what I mean, like and then this guy's out of

877
00:37:58,880 --> 00:38:01,160
Speaker 1: the lineup and he's just to get the play call off.

878
00:38:01,760 --> 00:38:04,080
Speaker 3: On offensive line injuries as well, there's been a lot,

879
00:38:04,360 --> 00:38:06,640
Speaker 3: not just with the Steelers, but around the league and that.

880
00:38:06,680 --> 00:38:10,200
Speaker 1: The last come good ones. Yeah yeah, some serious centers

881
00:38:10,200 --> 00:38:12,319
Speaker 1: going down. Yeah yeah, things of that. Enter's going down

882
00:38:12,360 --> 00:38:13,680
Speaker 1: is always bad. Absolutely.

883
00:38:14,040 --> 00:38:16,400
Speaker 3: But that was Eric at Holmes Power Rankings. The Steelers

884
00:38:16,400 --> 00:38:18,160
Speaker 3: still on the top ten.

885
00:38:18,520 --> 00:38:21,720
Speaker 1: I'm shocked. He I don't know, Eric, but I would

886
00:38:22,040 --> 00:38:24,759
Speaker 1: I expected the Steelers to be lower and that's about

887
00:38:24,760 --> 00:38:27,000
Speaker 1: where I'd have him. So I think he nailed it. Yeah,

888
00:38:27,200 --> 00:38:27,920
Speaker 1: not bad.

889
00:38:28,560 --> 00:38:31,200
Speaker 3: He is Matt Williamson. I am Dale Lolly. You're listening

890
00:38:31,200 --> 00:38:34,120
Speaker 3: to the drive here on the Steelers Audio Network. I

891
00:38:34,200 --> 00:38:37,120
Speaker 3: mentioned that we want to rank power rank the Yeah,

892
00:38:37,120 --> 00:38:39,279
Speaker 3: the units, the units in the division. We'll do that

893
00:38:39,320 --> 00:38:40,600
Speaker 3: when we come back right after.

894
00:38:40,440 --> 00:38:45,320
Speaker 1: This in the least.

895
00:38:45,440 --> 00:38:48,880
Speaker 2: He's the drive with Dale Lolly and Matt Williamson on

896
00:38:48,920 --> 00:38:51,080
Speaker 2: your twenty four to seven Home of the Black and

897
00:38:51,160 --> 00:38:53,880
Speaker 2: Gold Steelers Nation Radio.

898
00:38:57,719 --> 00:39:01,120
Speaker 3: And we are back on Dale LOLLI. He is Matt Williamson,

899
00:39:01,239 --> 00:39:04,640
Speaker 3: and Matt I mentioned we're going to power rank the

900
00:39:04,719 --> 00:39:10,560
Speaker 3: division by unite through eight. Offensive defense. Yeah, we won't

901
00:39:10,719 --> 00:39:11,839
Speaker 3: include special teams there.

902
00:39:11,960 --> 00:39:12,640
Speaker 1: That's crazy.

903
00:39:12,800 --> 00:39:13,960
Speaker 3: So do you want to go from the top, you

904
00:39:14,000 --> 00:39:14,880
Speaker 3: want to go from the bottom.

905
00:39:15,160 --> 00:39:15,840
Speaker 1: Who's the worst?

906
00:39:17,040 --> 00:39:19,440
Speaker 3: I think Cleveland's offense well, no, I think I think

907
00:39:19,440 --> 00:39:23,160
Speaker 3: Bengals D. The Cincinnati defense might be the worst. Yeah,

908
00:39:23,200 --> 00:39:27,759
Speaker 3: if you look at it in terms of yards per game,

909
00:39:27,800 --> 00:39:31,600
Speaker 3: they're only giving up three twenty six per game, almost

910
00:39:31,600 --> 00:39:34,480
Speaker 3: three twenty seven, but they're giving up one hundred and

911
00:39:34,560 --> 00:39:36,239
Speaker 3: forty five and a half yards per.

912
00:39:36,160 --> 00:39:36,880
Speaker 1: Game on the ground.

913
00:39:36,920 --> 00:39:39,799
Speaker 3: I say they they can't stop anybody from running the

914
00:39:39,800 --> 00:39:41,560
Speaker 3: ball twenty six points per game.

915
00:39:41,600 --> 00:39:44,800
Speaker 1: And to me, it's just a helpless feeling where and

916
00:39:44,920 --> 00:39:47,920
Speaker 1: their defensive tackles have been out. I get that, but

917
00:39:47,960 --> 00:39:49,839
Speaker 1: I'm also starting to even just look at personnel and

918
00:39:49,880 --> 00:39:53,600
Speaker 1: be like, who's a well above average starter besides Henderson.

919
00:39:54,160 --> 00:39:56,040
Speaker 1: I mean, like, there's a bunch of dudes that are fine,

920
00:39:56,760 --> 00:39:59,560
Speaker 1: the linebackers and you know, the other edge guys. I

921
00:39:59,560 --> 00:40:03,560
Speaker 1: mean they're all k but like, where's the star power? Yeah,

922
00:40:03,560 --> 00:40:07,000
Speaker 1: there's not much, No, there's not much there. I think

923
00:40:07,040 --> 00:40:08,360
Speaker 1: the Browns offense is seven.

924
00:40:08,480 --> 00:40:11,600
Speaker 3: I think the Browns offense is seventh. They might be

925
00:40:11,680 --> 00:40:14,000
Speaker 3: the worst. They're averaging sixteen and a half points per game.

926
00:40:14,040 --> 00:40:14,880
Speaker 1: It's pretty terrible.

927
00:40:15,440 --> 00:40:17,399
Speaker 3: The average one hundred and fifty one and a half

928
00:40:17,440 --> 00:40:20,839
Speaker 3: yards passing per game in ninety four point eight yards

929
00:40:20,960 --> 00:40:25,239
Speaker 3: rushing per game. They have nothing to hang their head on. Offensively,

930
00:40:27,120 --> 00:40:29,640
Speaker 3: they're averaging two hundred maybe eight, they're averaging two hundred

931
00:40:29,640 --> 00:40:31,920
Speaker 3: and forty six point three yards per game.

932
00:40:33,200 --> 00:40:36,359
Speaker 1: Yards. Yeah, yeah, I think their last Actually, the more

933
00:40:36,400 --> 00:40:37,760
Speaker 1: you talk through it as.

934
00:40:37,560 --> 00:40:40,880
Speaker 3: Bad as as bad as Cincinnati's defense has been, I

935
00:40:40,920 --> 00:40:42,360
Speaker 3: think Cleveland's offense is worse.

936
00:40:42,920 --> 00:40:46,719
Speaker 1: Yeah, which one would you rather try to fix? Like

937
00:40:46,760 --> 00:40:47,920
Speaker 1: if you were a coach, Well.

938
00:40:47,760 --> 00:40:50,640
Speaker 3: At least with Cincinnati's defense, I know the defensive tackles

939
00:40:50,680 --> 00:40:51,479
Speaker 3: might be coming back.

940
00:40:51,800 --> 00:40:53,560
Speaker 1: I mean I was also going to say, well, am

941
00:40:53,560 --> 00:40:55,839
Speaker 1: I allowed to bench Watson and see where I where

942
00:40:55,840 --> 00:40:58,160
Speaker 1: the chips fall? With James think you are? I don't

943
00:40:58,160 --> 00:40:59,560
Speaker 1: think you're allowed, right, I mean.

944
00:41:00,640 --> 00:41:04,080
Speaker 3: Nick Chubb potentially coming in is not going to necessarily

945
00:41:04,160 --> 00:41:05,600
Speaker 3: fix Cleveland.

946
00:41:05,840 --> 00:41:06,160
Speaker 1: I don't know.

947
00:41:06,239 --> 00:41:07,400
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know what he's going to be.

948
00:41:07,840 --> 00:41:10,920
Speaker 1: Right, If he was, they would be much better with

949
00:41:11,000 --> 00:41:13,359
Speaker 1: him in his prime, good play.

950
00:41:13,440 --> 00:41:15,440
Speaker 3: Even with that, They've got all the offensive line engines

951
00:41:15,480 --> 00:41:17,760
Speaker 3: right that are just they can't operate.

952
00:41:17,440 --> 00:41:20,719
Speaker 1: They can't operate, and the quarterback's brutal. I've always thought

953
00:41:20,760 --> 00:41:24,360
Speaker 1: the receivers were overrated too, like Cooper fine, but Elijah

954
00:41:24,360 --> 00:41:27,440
Speaker 1: More and Judy and they're okay, okay, so all right,

955
00:41:27,520 --> 00:41:28,200
Speaker 1: let's call them eight.

956
00:41:28,320 --> 00:41:35,880
Speaker 3: They're eight Cincinnati's defense of seven? What's six? Is it

957
00:41:35,960 --> 00:41:36,440
Speaker 3: the Steelers?

958
00:41:36,520 --> 00:41:37,960
Speaker 1: Steelers though, Yeah.

959
00:41:38,600 --> 00:41:41,800
Speaker 3: But it's a noticeable there's a there's a line of separation.

960
00:41:42,440 --> 00:41:54,640
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, who's five? Five to me would be Browns D.

961
00:41:55,239 --> 00:41:59,239
Speaker 3: I think it's Baltimore's defense. I don't think it's it's not.

962
00:41:59,719 --> 00:42:03,120
Speaker 3: It is what you expect. And I'll give you some

963
00:42:03,120 --> 00:42:03,919
Speaker 3: of the numbers here.

964
00:42:04,040 --> 00:42:05,120
Speaker 1: This is the area that's hard.

965
00:42:05,200 --> 00:42:09,680
Speaker 3: This is the tough part. Baltimore is allowing twenty two

966
00:42:09,719 --> 00:42:14,200
Speaker 3: points per game, okay, two hundred and fifty seven and

967
00:42:14,200 --> 00:42:19,640
Speaker 3: a half passing yards per game, which is were they

968
00:42:20,080 --> 00:42:23,080
Speaker 3: that is even after a good game against Buffalo where

969
00:42:23,080 --> 00:42:27,080
Speaker 3: they it was, it's still the fourth worst pass defense

970
00:42:27,120 --> 00:42:31,480
Speaker 3: in the league. And the run defense is very good.

971
00:42:31,520 --> 00:42:34,040
Speaker 3: But they've played some teams that just absolutely can't run

972
00:42:34,080 --> 00:42:37,680
Speaker 3: the foot right now, they're really but again, they're giving

973
00:42:37,760 --> 00:42:40,480
Speaker 3: up twenty two points per game, and they they've given

974
00:42:40,560 --> 00:42:44,600
Speaker 3: up leads at home against the Raiders. They almost gave

975
00:42:44,680 --> 00:42:46,319
Speaker 3: up the lead to the Cowboys.

976
00:42:48,520 --> 00:42:49,560
Speaker 1: Browns d's not bad.

977
00:42:49,719 --> 00:42:52,719
Speaker 3: The Browns defense is just playing Hamstrong, right now because

978
00:42:52,760 --> 00:42:53,360
Speaker 3: the offense is.

979
00:42:53,360 --> 00:42:55,879
Speaker 1: So bad and you have to put in the context too,

980
00:42:55,960 --> 00:42:59,239
Speaker 1: like the Ravens D gets so much more help from

981
00:42:59,239 --> 00:43:04,560
Speaker 1: their office without Offen. Yeah right, yeah, okay, yeah, I

982
00:43:04,560 --> 00:43:05,440
Speaker 1: think that's pretty clear.

983
00:43:05,920 --> 00:43:07,680
Speaker 3: Yeah, and then I would put and then I would

984
00:43:07,680 --> 00:43:09,880
Speaker 3: have Cleveland's defense right now.

985
00:43:09,680 --> 00:43:13,160
Speaker 1: At four mm hmmm, I think I would two.

986
00:43:14,880 --> 00:43:16,760
Speaker 3: At three, I would have.

987
00:43:18,440 --> 00:43:21,440
Speaker 1: So what's left.

988
00:43:20,480 --> 00:43:26,200
Speaker 3: Steelers defense, Ravens offense, Bengals offense. I think i'd have

989
00:43:26,239 --> 00:43:28,759
Speaker 3: the Bengals offense right now three me too.

990
00:43:29,440 --> 00:43:31,840
Speaker 1: I don't trust their run game. It's okay, yeah, but

991
00:43:31,880 --> 00:43:33,440
Speaker 1: I don't think it's ever gonna be like a strength.

992
00:43:33,680 --> 00:43:34,560
Speaker 1: I think it'll be fine.

993
00:43:34,680 --> 00:43:36,440
Speaker 3: And I don't think Burrow right now is Burrow.

994
00:43:36,840 --> 00:43:42,040
Speaker 1: I think the old line's average. Yeah, probably at best. Yeah,

995
00:43:42,120 --> 00:43:46,200
Speaker 1: I think it's three Ravens over Steeler D.

996
00:43:46,800 --> 00:43:50,040
Speaker 3: Right now, I would say Steelers D, two Ravens offense one.

997
00:43:50,120 --> 00:43:53,200
Speaker 1: I was gonna flip them. I know it wasn't the

998
00:43:53,239 --> 00:43:55,080
Speaker 1: best day and against Indy, but I think if we

999
00:43:55,080 --> 00:43:57,520
Speaker 1: had this conversation a week ago, it would we would

1000
00:43:57,600 --> 00:43:58,439
Speaker 1: even batter an eye.

1001
00:43:58,480 --> 00:44:00,440
Speaker 3: The Ravens right now are averaging four one hundred and

1002
00:44:00,480 --> 00:44:02,760
Speaker 3: twenty nine and a half yards per game that leads

1003
00:44:02,760 --> 00:44:05,879
Speaker 3: the NFL. They're putting up twenty six and a half

1004
00:44:05,920 --> 00:44:09,800
Speaker 3: points per game, which is fifth best in the n

1005
00:44:10,280 --> 00:44:14,400
Speaker 3: near the top. Yeah, they are running the ball like insane,

1006
00:44:14,440 --> 00:44:16,759
Speaker 3: two hundred and twenty yards rushing per game. I mean

1007
00:44:16,800 --> 00:44:18,239
Speaker 3: you have to tip your cap to that.

1008
00:44:19,280 --> 00:44:23,239
Speaker 1: Here would be my counter argument, Okay, do you think

1009
00:44:23,280 --> 00:44:29,600
Speaker 1: they're amongst the top three offenses in the league, because

1010
00:44:29,640 --> 00:44:31,239
Speaker 1: I think the Steeler d is so.

1011
00:44:31,360 --> 00:44:33,920
Speaker 3: Here here's if not one, here are the teams who

1012
00:44:34,000 --> 00:44:37,080
Speaker 3: lead the league in scoring. Right now, you get the

1013
00:44:37,120 --> 00:44:40,120
Speaker 3: Saints at thirty one point eight. That's proven to be

1014
00:44:40,120 --> 00:44:41,360
Speaker 3: over the last couple of weeks.

1015
00:44:41,120 --> 00:44:43,640
Speaker 1: That they maybe hit their defense in that league.

1016
00:44:44,360 --> 00:44:46,560
Speaker 3: The Bills are averaging thirty and a half points per game.

1017
00:44:47,560 --> 00:44:49,239
Speaker 1: I'm not sure who the best offense in the league is,

1018
00:44:49,280 --> 00:44:50,439
Speaker 1: but I don't think either one of them are.

1019
00:44:50,560 --> 00:44:52,479
Speaker 3: The Commanders are averaging thirty point three.

1020
00:44:53,000 --> 00:44:54,840
Speaker 1: They've been offense in the league.

1021
00:44:55,080 --> 00:44:57,319
Speaker 3: Yeah, is that sustainable?

1022
00:44:57,680 --> 00:44:58,480
Speaker 1: Yeah, my doubts.

1023
00:44:59,280 --> 00:45:03,040
Speaker 3: The Vikings are averaging twenty nine points per game, and

1024
00:45:03,040 --> 00:45:04,920
Speaker 3: then you get the Ravens at twenty six and a half,

1025
00:45:05,080 --> 00:45:08,000
Speaker 3: just ahead of Detroit. Now, I think Detroit's are a

1026
00:45:08,040 --> 00:45:08,600
Speaker 3: good offense.

1027
00:45:08,600 --> 00:45:13,720
Speaker 1: I would say like Detroit and San Francisco are probably

1028
00:45:13,760 --> 00:45:18,560
Speaker 1: better offenses, maybe not the second, but if for ranking units,

1029
00:45:18,680 --> 00:45:20,560
Speaker 1: I mean, kind of giving it a little more.

1030
00:45:20,600 --> 00:45:22,520
Speaker 3: We're gonna get to see this twice. And I know

1031
00:45:22,600 --> 00:45:26,160
Speaker 3: that the Steelers defense matches up well with Baltimore's offense.

1032
00:45:26,920 --> 00:45:28,640
Speaker 1: Yeah, but that's irrelevant for that. I mean, we're not

1033
00:45:28,640 --> 00:45:30,200
Speaker 1: doing matchups here, I know, you know.

1034
00:45:30,239 --> 00:45:32,040
Speaker 3: But I'm just throwing that out there, and I think

1035
00:45:32,080 --> 00:45:33,080
Speaker 3: Baltimore's offense.

1036
00:45:34,040 --> 00:45:36,080
Speaker 1: I feel more confident that the Steelers are a top

1037
00:45:36,160 --> 00:45:39,319
Speaker 1: two unit out of thirty two on defense, Okay than

1038
00:45:39,360 --> 00:45:43,879
Speaker 1: I am that the Ravens are. Okay, wasn't the best day.

1039
00:45:44,160 --> 00:45:46,240
Speaker 3: Wasn't the best day, but they are second in scoring

1040
00:45:46,280 --> 00:45:49,719
Speaker 3: defense still, Yeah, despite everything that happened there, thirteen point

1041
00:45:49,719 --> 00:45:53,120
Speaker 3: three points per game, and if you look at yards

1042
00:45:53,120 --> 00:45:55,680
Speaker 3: per game right now, they are fourth at to sixty

1043
00:45:55,680 --> 00:45:58,759
Speaker 3: one point three. I mean they've had Baltimore's offense, it

1044
00:45:58,840 --> 00:45:59,560
Speaker 3: leads the league.

1045
00:45:59,680 --> 00:46:02,080
Speaker 1: Yeah yards, it's a good I mean, it's a good

1046
00:46:02,080 --> 00:46:06,239
Speaker 1: conversation for fifteen quarters. Though, I think the Steeler D

1047
00:46:06,400 --> 00:46:10,239
Speaker 1: has been eight to a plus, you know.

1048
00:46:10,560 --> 00:46:14,440
Speaker 3: I mean, even in that they didn't get from in

1049
00:46:14,480 --> 00:46:18,520
Speaker 3: the second and third quarters of that game on Sunday,

1050
00:46:18,280 --> 00:46:20,320
Speaker 3: they forced like six straight three and outs.

1051
00:46:20,400 --> 00:46:22,319
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what I mean, Like they they had a

1052
00:46:22,320 --> 00:46:25,399
Speaker 1: bad start, but the rest of these wasn't bad. I mean,

1053
00:46:25,400 --> 00:46:27,319
Speaker 1: the rest of the game wasn't bad at all, and in fact,

1054
00:46:27,360 --> 00:46:29,120
Speaker 1: it was pretty good. Yeah, and I thought they were

1055
00:46:29,120 --> 00:46:30,319
Speaker 1: starting to take the game over a little bit.

1056
00:46:30,360 --> 00:46:33,240
Speaker 3: Did give up the touchdown drive that hurt, that carried

1057
00:46:33,280 --> 00:46:36,839
Speaker 3: from the third quarter into the fourth movement, helped by

1058
00:46:36,840 --> 00:46:38,920
Speaker 3: a penalty that yeah, like Tomlin said he spoke to

1059
00:46:38,960 --> 00:46:41,040
Speaker 3: the league about and the league agreed that he had.

1060
00:46:41,000 --> 00:46:43,080
Speaker 1: The makeup shouldn't have been a penalty, Okay, Yeah, the

1061
00:46:43,440 --> 00:46:47,080
Speaker 1: stereotory didn't think so either. Yeah, but stuff happens.

1062
00:46:47,440 --> 00:46:50,640
Speaker 3: Yeah, much much harder to kind of mesh out the top,

1063
00:46:50,680 --> 00:46:51,600
Speaker 3: I think than the bottom.

1064
00:46:51,920 --> 00:46:54,440
Speaker 1: Yeah, in the middle wasn't easy either, and I bet

1065
00:46:54,480 --> 00:46:56,040
Speaker 1: it's one of the harder divisions to do that in

1066
00:46:56,560 --> 00:46:58,439
Speaker 1: probably so, I mean, because I mean there's a couple

1067
00:46:58,520 --> 00:47:01,960
Speaker 1: that are horrible. Yeah, I mean, like like Washington would

1068
00:47:01,960 --> 00:47:03,520
Speaker 1: be great because you could put in one and eight.

1069
00:47:03,880 --> 00:47:06,480
Speaker 3: Yeah, but the line of the line of the delineation

1070
00:47:06,840 --> 00:47:10,880
Speaker 3: between the bottom two, which was Cincinnati's defense and Cleveland's

1071
00:47:10,920 --> 00:47:14,319
Speaker 3: offense to the Steelers offense much similar to.

1072
00:47:14,239 --> 00:47:14,719
Speaker 1: One and two.

1073
00:47:16,080 --> 00:47:20,600
Speaker 3: Those were, but there wasn't a line from Cincinnati's offense

1074
00:47:20,760 --> 00:47:24,560
Speaker 3: necessarily to the Steelers defense and the Ravens offense like

1075
00:47:24,600 --> 00:47:26,080
Speaker 3: there was that line of delineation.

1076
00:47:27,440 --> 00:47:30,360
Speaker 1: I kind of look at this way like it seems

1077
00:47:30,400 --> 00:47:33,400
Speaker 1: like we're pretty clear who seven and eight were, Yeah,

1078
00:47:33,920 --> 00:47:36,120
Speaker 1: in either order. It seems that we're pretty clear who

1079
00:47:36,160 --> 00:47:38,359
Speaker 1: one and two are in either order.

1080
00:47:39,000 --> 00:47:42,360
Speaker 3: Cincinnati's offense could get there, though it's still a scary offense.

1081
00:47:42,640 --> 00:47:45,080
Speaker 3: Like if they if Borrow starts playing like Burrow.

1082
00:47:46,360 --> 00:47:48,400
Speaker 1: Could the Steelers oh end up in the seven to

1083
00:47:48,400 --> 00:47:50,560
Speaker 1: eight neighborhood? I don't think. I don't think. I don't

1084
00:47:50,560 --> 00:47:54,200
Speaker 1: think a lot of line injuries. Yeah, and they were

1085
00:47:54,239 --> 00:47:57,680
Speaker 1: six right, Yeah, they'd have to really fall to get

1086
00:47:57,719 --> 00:47:59,719
Speaker 1: to that level. Though those units are bad.

1087
00:48:00,000 --> 00:48:02,680
Speaker 3: Eveland's offense keeps playing the way it is. Cleveland's defense,

1088
00:48:02,880 --> 00:48:05,440
Speaker 3: the Steelers, the Steelers offense could pass that.

1089
00:48:05,680 --> 00:48:08,960
Speaker 1: Yeah, they have an anchor wraptor on their.

1090
00:48:09,560 --> 00:48:10,440
Speaker 3: They're sinking fast.

1091
00:48:10,520 --> 00:48:13,680
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's not their fault necessarily. I think it's a

1092
00:48:13,680 --> 00:48:16,240
Speaker 1: pretty solid list. Yeah. The middle is pretty good though.

1093
00:48:16,080 --> 00:48:17,880
Speaker 3: The middle is good, probably more.

1094
00:48:17,719 --> 00:48:19,839
Speaker 1: So than a lot is one of the best last year,

1095
00:48:19,880 --> 00:48:23,360
Speaker 1: and you know, yeah, Steelers offense is league average, I

1096
00:48:23,400 --> 00:48:26,520
Speaker 1: would say right now, which is an upgrade and getting better.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so interesting, Matt. That's going to do it for

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Speaker 3: the show today.

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Speaker 1: Sure is.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you sounds sad. You want to keep talking. We

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Speaker 3: keep talking, but they won't pay us for it, so

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Speaker 3: we probably shouldn't.

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Speaker 1: I got two more podcasts to do and maybe I'll

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Speaker 1: actually see my wife tonight. There you go.

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Speaker 3: H But that's going to do it for the show.

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Speaker 3: So for my partner Matt Williamson, for Justin Miller here

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Speaker 3: on site keeping us on the air, and for Tyler

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Speaker 3: viitt Meyer making sure our video gets out there for

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Speaker 3: all INDs to watch. I am Dale Lolly. We thank

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Speaker 3: you for listening to this edition of The Drive on

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Speaker 3: the Steelers Audio Network.