1 00:00:03,840 --> 00:00:07,200 Speaker 1: This is the Drive with Dale Lolly and Matt Williamson 2 00:00:07,560 --> 00:00:09,760 Speaker 1: on your twenty four to seven home of the Black 3 00:00:09,800 --> 00:00:12,840 Speaker 1: and GOLDNR Steelers Nation Radio. 4 00:00:16,480 --> 00:00:19,480 Speaker 2: Welcome back to the Drive. This is our number two 5 00:00:19,680 --> 00:00:22,639 Speaker 2: and he is Matt Williamson. I'm Dale Lolly, and as 6 00:00:22,640 --> 00:00:25,400 Speaker 2: we typically do at the top of our number two's 7 00:00:25,400 --> 00:00:28,400 Speaker 2: time for the Fantasy football focus here and I'm looking 8 00:00:28,440 --> 00:00:32,839 Speaker 2: here at the Pro Football focuses sleepers. Okay, they name 9 00:00:32,920 --> 00:00:35,560 Speaker 2: two guys at every position. We're gonna go a little 10 00:00:35,560 --> 00:00:37,519 Speaker 2: bit deeper than that. Maybe names from God of our 11 00:00:37,520 --> 00:00:39,159 Speaker 2: own here, but we'll talk about the guys that they 12 00:00:39,240 --> 00:00:44,839 Speaker 2: have listed as their sleepers and their quarterback sleepers. First 13 00:00:44,880 --> 00:00:49,800 Speaker 2: is will Levis, and their reasoning is Levis is one 14 00:00:49,800 --> 00:00:52,199 Speaker 2: of the few young quarterbacks who is a shored a 15 00:00:52,200 --> 00:00:55,640 Speaker 2: week one starting job and falls outside the top one 16 00:00:55,760 --> 00:00:57,000 Speaker 2: twenty in average draft position. 17 00:00:57,280 --> 00:00:58,880 Speaker 3: I mean these guys are late. I mean he's not 18 00:00:58,960 --> 00:01:02,200 Speaker 3: going in a twelve team league. He's going lately or 19 00:01:02,240 --> 00:01:05,400 Speaker 3: not even drafted. I get it. I mean he will 20 00:01:05,480 --> 00:01:08,440 Speaker 3: run a little bit, which is important. I like his 21 00:01:08,480 --> 00:01:12,040 Speaker 3: pass catchers much better than a year ago. His protection 22 00:01:12,120 --> 00:01:13,600 Speaker 3: should be noticeably better. 23 00:01:13,640 --> 00:01:14,800 Speaker 2: It's gonna be a different offense. 24 00:01:14,959 --> 00:01:19,640 Speaker 3: Yeah, different offense and volumes so important for these guys. 25 00:01:19,720 --> 00:01:22,560 Speaker 3: I mean they were either last or second to last 26 00:01:22,560 --> 00:01:26,040 Speaker 3: and total pass attempts last year. Probably won't keep up 27 00:01:26,920 --> 00:01:28,720 Speaker 3: deep down. If you told me is Levi is gonna 28 00:01:28,720 --> 00:01:30,000 Speaker 3: be a hit in this league or not, I would 29 00:01:30,000 --> 00:01:34,760 Speaker 3: say no. But fantasy is different and he's not bashful. 30 00:01:34,840 --> 00:01:36,479 Speaker 3: I like that part. He will chuck it deep. 31 00:01:36,640 --> 00:01:38,240 Speaker 2: If he goes out and runs for three hundred four 32 00:01:38,280 --> 00:01:39,400 Speaker 2: hundred yards this year. 33 00:01:39,240 --> 00:01:41,720 Speaker 3: Then he'll be a sleeper. Yeah, that's probably enough. 34 00:01:43,440 --> 00:01:47,200 Speaker 2: The other guy on their quarterback sleeper list is Daniel Jones. 35 00:01:47,240 --> 00:01:48,200 Speaker 3: Oh, he was gonna be mine. 36 00:01:48,320 --> 00:01:51,840 Speaker 2: Yeah. You know, he's got better receivers to throw too. 37 00:01:51,880 --> 00:01:52,440 Speaker 2: He will run. 38 00:01:52,480 --> 00:01:54,080 Speaker 3: You know, he's gonna run a lot, and they design 39 00:01:54,120 --> 00:01:57,280 Speaker 3: a lot for him. It's beauty of it. He what 40 00:01:57,480 --> 00:02:00,280 Speaker 3: kills him is he's thrown very few touchdown pass is 41 00:02:00,840 --> 00:02:05,120 Speaker 3: He's not a great quarterback period, but he's also I 42 00:02:05,120 --> 00:02:06,720 Speaker 3: think a lot of us is playing in New York. 43 00:02:06,760 --> 00:02:08,880 Speaker 3: You just blame the quarterback for everything, and he got 44 00:02:08,919 --> 00:02:11,040 Speaker 3: a big contract. I mean their protection was. 45 00:02:11,040 --> 00:02:13,600 Speaker 2: Their protection was bad. Their pass catchers were bad. 46 00:02:13,720 --> 00:02:16,079 Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know many of the quarterbacks we talked 47 00:02:16,080 --> 00:02:18,919 Speaker 3: about the end of segment three would have excelled last 48 00:02:19,000 --> 00:02:19,720 Speaker 3: year at the Giants. 49 00:02:19,760 --> 00:02:21,800 Speaker 2: I mean they went out and got him Darren Waller 50 00:02:21,880 --> 00:02:23,320 Speaker 2: last year and then Waller barely played. 51 00:02:23,400 --> 00:02:25,880 Speaker 3: He wasn't much. Yeah, right, I mean if neighbors as 52 00:02:25,919 --> 00:02:28,600 Speaker 3: a dude and the actual O line goes to average, 53 00:02:29,160 --> 00:02:30,200 Speaker 3: then let's judge the guy. 54 00:02:30,320 --> 00:02:30,519 Speaker 2: Yeah. 55 00:02:30,560 --> 00:02:32,920 Speaker 3: And for fantasy, he's gonna run. I mean he's a. 56 00:02:32,800 --> 00:02:35,600 Speaker 2: Top ten fantasy quarterback a couple of years ago because 57 00:02:35,639 --> 00:02:36,160 Speaker 2: they're running. 58 00:02:36,200 --> 00:02:37,440 Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly, That's all you need. 59 00:02:38,240 --> 00:02:40,880 Speaker 2: I can't think of too many other I was gonna. 60 00:02:40,639 --> 00:02:43,000 Speaker 3: Throw Russell Wilson, Yeah. I mean I don't think he's 61 00:02:43,160 --> 00:02:46,120 Speaker 3: a ton of volume, but you think you'll throw twenty 62 00:02:46,280 --> 00:02:49,960 Speaker 3: plus touchdowns for sure. Yeah, and maybe get to two 63 00:02:50,000 --> 00:02:51,919 Speaker 3: hundred and fifty thre hundred yards rushing. I mean, I 64 00:02:52,200 --> 00:02:54,959 Speaker 3: guess I get there's guys them higher on than others. 65 00:02:55,040 --> 00:02:57,679 Speaker 2: Yeah, to like to me, Jade and Daniels is still 66 00:02:57,760 --> 00:03:01,600 Speaker 2: kind of a like. I think he will outperform some 67 00:03:01,600 --> 00:03:04,000 Speaker 2: of the quarterbacks who get ended up getting drafted ahead 68 00:03:04,000 --> 00:03:06,680 Speaker 2: of him. Yeah, just because I mean he's going like 69 00:03:06,800 --> 00:03:10,080 Speaker 2: nine or ten right now, depending on what you look at. 70 00:03:10,160 --> 00:03:12,959 Speaker 2: And he might run for a thousand yards this year. 71 00:03:13,080 --> 00:03:15,600 Speaker 3: Yeah, and along those lines, the opposite, like, I don't 72 00:03:15,600 --> 00:03:19,920 Speaker 3: look at well, I can't wait for may Or McCarthy 73 00:03:20,000 --> 00:03:22,720 Speaker 3: to get in the lineup. You know, I'm assuming Darnold 74 00:03:22,760 --> 00:03:25,200 Speaker 3: and Bursette will start. It's not like, Oh, the rookie's 75 00:03:25,200 --> 00:03:27,400 Speaker 3: gonna come in and you know, run around like crazy 76 00:03:27,400 --> 00:03:29,760 Speaker 3: and make a ton of plays. I don't know. Yeah, 77 00:03:29,840 --> 00:03:32,280 Speaker 3: I mean, Caleb Williams to me, is probably gonna get 78 00:03:32,280 --> 00:03:35,840 Speaker 3: overdrafted in fantasy too. Kyler Murray's a guy I'm higher 79 00:03:35,840 --> 00:03:39,000 Speaker 3: on the consensus, but I mean he's getting drafted. He's yeah. 80 00:03:39,080 --> 00:03:47,360 Speaker 2: Yeah, the sleeper running backs you're looking at Cheba Hubbard if. 81 00:03:47,200 --> 00:03:51,840 Speaker 3: He starts the season, which is to be determined, But 82 00:03:51,920 --> 00:03:52,560 Speaker 3: that's not bad. 83 00:03:52,920 --> 00:03:55,400 Speaker 2: No. I think he's definitely has a chance to be 84 00:03:55,480 --> 00:03:55,920 Speaker 2: that guy. 85 00:03:56,120 --> 00:03:57,640 Speaker 3: I mean, if you look at running back like a 86 00:03:57,680 --> 00:04:01,240 Speaker 3: week to week position, get me two or three weeks 87 00:04:01,320 --> 00:04:03,680 Speaker 3: till the young guy's healthy and see what happens, and 88 00:04:03,760 --> 00:04:05,520 Speaker 3: other guys will get hurt and I'll pick somebody else 89 00:04:05,600 --> 00:04:07,040 Speaker 3: up and just patch it together. 90 00:04:07,200 --> 00:04:10,760 Speaker 2: Yeah. His average ADP right now is around thirteen. 91 00:04:10,800 --> 00:04:13,160 Speaker 3: Okay, and he's not a bad handcuff If Brooks is 92 00:04:13,200 --> 00:04:15,800 Speaker 3: even the dude, Yeah right, I mean he's there's value there. 93 00:04:16,040 --> 00:04:18,880 Speaker 2: He was valuable last year. Then you're looking at Jalil 94 00:04:19,080 --> 00:04:21,839 Speaker 2: McLaughlin his average again thirteenth round. 95 00:04:22,680 --> 00:04:26,039 Speaker 3: With as many short passes. 96 00:04:26,440 --> 00:04:28,600 Speaker 2: Yeah, that's say. You know, Sean Payton wants to throw 97 00:04:28,640 --> 00:04:29,200 Speaker 2: to the backs. 98 00:04:29,440 --> 00:04:32,920 Speaker 3: So this is is unrelated. But we're on Steel Nation Radio. 99 00:04:34,320 --> 00:04:36,960 Speaker 3: I looked heavily at the you know, the sharp and 100 00:04:37,000 --> 00:04:41,920 Speaker 3: football siders FTN stuff lately, and some Russell Wilson stuff 101 00:04:41,960 --> 00:04:44,920 Speaker 3: was kind of alarming. Is I think everybody knows he 102 00:04:45,000 --> 00:04:48,480 Speaker 3: threw at them behind the line of scrimmage a high percentage, 103 00:04:48,560 --> 00:04:52,160 Speaker 3: very very short throws a high percentage. But he wasn't 104 00:04:52,240 --> 00:04:55,080 Speaker 3: very good at them, to be honest with you, compared 105 00:04:55,120 --> 00:04:59,440 Speaker 3: to other quarterbacks in those lay up areas, and yet 106 00:04:59,480 --> 00:05:02,200 Speaker 3: Sean Pate kept calling them. And the reason I bring 107 00:05:02,200 --> 00:05:05,719 Speaker 3: it up, though, is kind of encouraging is Arthur Smith 108 00:05:05,720 --> 00:05:09,400 Speaker 3: does not ask his quarterbacks to throw the super short stuff. 109 00:05:10,279 --> 00:05:13,560 Speaker 3: I mean hardly at all, let alone here as much 110 00:05:13,560 --> 00:05:17,440 Speaker 3: as Peyton did and Wilson his mid range stuff and 111 00:05:17,480 --> 00:05:19,719 Speaker 3: his deep stuff were some of the better ones in 112 00:05:19,760 --> 00:05:22,440 Speaker 3: the league. Like his short stuff dragged him down and 113 00:05:22,440 --> 00:05:24,640 Speaker 3: that's not what's gonna be asked of him here, still 114 00:05:24,800 --> 00:05:27,400 Speaker 3: kept shoving the round peg in the square hole. 115 00:05:27,480 --> 00:05:29,719 Speaker 2: He was top three on deep passages, yeah. 116 00:05:29,640 --> 00:05:32,640 Speaker 3: Yeah, and even his intermediate stuff outside the numbers, even 117 00:05:32,760 --> 00:05:35,200 Speaker 3: you know, all that stuff five yards and beyond was 118 00:05:35,240 --> 00:05:40,320 Speaker 3: really really good. Yeah. But yet, Peyton, I'm defending Wilson 119 00:05:40,320 --> 00:05:43,599 Speaker 3: more and more. Yes, he's our quarterback and all that stuff, 120 00:05:43,640 --> 00:05:47,040 Speaker 3: But in that whole equation, I'm still thinking, why doesn't 121 00:05:47,080 --> 00:05:48,600 Speaker 3: this coach change at all? 122 00:05:48,760 --> 00:05:50,960 Speaker 2: Yeah, some of it. So this is my system. I'm 123 00:05:50,960 --> 00:05:53,120 Speaker 2: going to run my system, and the hell with. 124 00:05:53,279 --> 00:05:55,160 Speaker 3: Da to the other guy. I mean, he's doing other 125 00:05:55,160 --> 00:05:56,840 Speaker 3: things well, and you're still don't ask him to do it. 126 00:05:58,040 --> 00:06:01,039 Speaker 2: Bucky Irvin with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, since he's going 127 00:06:01,080 --> 00:06:02,200 Speaker 2: in seventeenth round. 128 00:06:03,040 --> 00:06:04,960 Speaker 3: There's always one of those guys though, you know, and 129 00:06:05,000 --> 00:06:07,400 Speaker 3: the people ahead of them aren't great. I mean, I'm 130 00:06:07,400 --> 00:06:09,560 Speaker 3: sure White would have to get hurt, but he could 131 00:06:09,600 --> 00:06:12,039 Speaker 3: fumble a couple times in one game, and then Irvin. 132 00:06:11,800 --> 00:06:13,800 Speaker 2: Takes I don't know if they're sold on him as a. 133 00:06:14,000 --> 00:06:16,360 Speaker 3: Yeah, like I doubt they give him money or anything 134 00:06:16,400 --> 00:06:20,200 Speaker 3: like that. I think there's a lot of those rookie 135 00:06:20,320 --> 00:06:23,560 Speaker 3: mid late round guys like Videll with the Chargers that 136 00:06:24,080 --> 00:06:25,880 Speaker 3: I don't have to paint a real hard picture for 137 00:06:25,960 --> 00:06:28,320 Speaker 3: him to start getting carries by Halloween and then just 138 00:06:28,360 --> 00:06:29,200 Speaker 3: never lose a job. 139 00:06:29,960 --> 00:06:32,440 Speaker 2: I can't get on board with this one. Clyde Edwards 140 00:06:32,520 --> 00:06:32,840 Speaker 2: a layer. 141 00:06:33,839 --> 00:06:34,320 Speaker 3: I'm done. 142 00:06:34,600 --> 00:06:36,040 Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm done. I'm out on that. 143 00:06:36,240 --> 00:06:39,120 Speaker 3: I'm done. Yeah, I mean I think McKinnon is a frigin. 144 00:06:39,200 --> 00:06:42,000 Speaker 3: But they could even bring him back. Yeah, they don't 145 00:06:42,000 --> 00:06:44,200 Speaker 3: trust Edwards a laarin protection. He's not a good enough 146 00:06:44,200 --> 00:06:46,560 Speaker 3: receiver to get away with it. So what's he good at? 147 00:06:46,800 --> 00:06:50,160 Speaker 2: Uh? This one we talked about previously, Tank Bigsby around 148 00:06:50,200 --> 00:06:50,760 Speaker 2: twenty one. 149 00:06:51,760 --> 00:06:53,719 Speaker 3: The fact that they didn't go get anybody is the 150 00:06:53,720 --> 00:06:55,360 Speaker 3: best thing you can say about m Yeah, that goes 151 00:06:55,400 --> 00:06:55,839 Speaker 3: a long way. 152 00:06:57,000 --> 00:06:59,720 Speaker 2: I can't think of any other real Kendre Miller's one 153 00:06:59,720 --> 00:07:00,400 Speaker 2: I like a lot. 154 00:07:00,480 --> 00:07:03,279 Speaker 3: Yeah, Yeah, we talked bad about Kamara. I think Jamal 155 00:07:03,320 --> 00:07:05,000 Speaker 3: Williams is shot. 156 00:07:05,680 --> 00:07:08,599 Speaker 2: The kid in uh in Buffalo Radio. 157 00:07:08,720 --> 00:07:09,880 Speaker 3: Oh yeah yeah. 158 00:07:10,040 --> 00:07:11,040 Speaker 2: They may love him. 159 00:07:11,320 --> 00:07:13,840 Speaker 3: I mean everyone loves him. His personality is playing style 160 00:07:14,000 --> 00:07:16,680 Speaker 3: really really works. If I were the owner, I'd be like, 161 00:07:16,720 --> 00:07:18,480 Speaker 3: I don't know. Josh Allen needs to be our short 162 00:07:18,520 --> 00:07:19,680 Speaker 3: yard is back anymore either. 163 00:07:19,800 --> 00:07:20,000 Speaker 2: Yeah. 164 00:07:20,280 --> 00:07:21,880 Speaker 3: I mean he's good at it, but we have this 165 00:07:21,920 --> 00:07:22,880 Speaker 3: students who we really. 166 00:07:22,680 --> 00:07:26,400 Speaker 2: Want to get it right, right you know? Uh, looking 167 00:07:26,440 --> 00:07:31,200 Speaker 2: at the wide receivers they leave with Curtis Samuel His 168 00:07:31,360 --> 00:07:33,040 Speaker 2: ADP is eleventh round. 169 00:07:33,680 --> 00:07:38,240 Speaker 3: Could he outperform Shakir Coleman. I give him as good 170 00:07:38,240 --> 00:07:40,360 Speaker 3: as shot as them. 171 00:07:40,560 --> 00:07:43,920 Speaker 2: I just can't. I can't trust him to stay on 172 00:07:43,920 --> 00:07:44,320 Speaker 2: the field. 173 00:07:44,440 --> 00:07:46,640 Speaker 3: Yeah, there's some inconsistent His style of play is not 174 00:07:47,440 --> 00:07:49,440 Speaker 3: gonna beat you without route after out route either, you know. 175 00:07:49,480 --> 00:07:51,680 Speaker 3: I mean yeah, like, hey, if the Steelers would have 176 00:07:51,680 --> 00:07:53,880 Speaker 3: picked him up at his contract, I'd be like, that's 177 00:07:53,880 --> 00:07:56,320 Speaker 3: a nice addition. They'll use them, you know. But if 178 00:07:56,360 --> 00:07:58,240 Speaker 3: the Bills have to rely on them to be their. 179 00:07:58,080 --> 00:07:59,800 Speaker 2: Best guy one, yeah, that's trouble. 180 00:08:00,040 --> 00:08:00,800 Speaker 3: Different world, right. 181 00:08:01,560 --> 00:08:04,320 Speaker 2: I like this from Brandon Cooks. The ADP is thirteen. 182 00:08:04,560 --> 00:08:06,200 Speaker 3: Yeah, he's just an old guy people was tired of 183 00:08:06,240 --> 00:08:08,320 Speaker 3: drafting and sleep on. But what if he has the 184 00:08:08,360 --> 00:08:10,360 Speaker 3: second most targets on the Cowboys and they lead the team, 185 00:08:10,480 --> 00:08:11,720 Speaker 3: lead the league in pass attempts. 186 00:08:11,800 --> 00:08:15,200 Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, very welcome the case. I think last 187 00:08:15,240 --> 00:08:16,880 Speaker 2: year is the first year he didn't have a thousand 188 00:08:16,960 --> 00:08:19,360 Speaker 2: yards really in like the last eight years. 189 00:08:19,600 --> 00:08:21,720 Speaker 3: He's not like he's slow and old. I mean he's 190 00:08:21,760 --> 00:08:23,920 Speaker 3: not young, but he doesn't looked bad. 191 00:08:24,240 --> 00:08:27,120 Speaker 2: Uh. Jalen Polk with the Patriots the ADPs in the 192 00:08:27,160 --> 00:08:28,080 Speaker 2: sixteenth round. 193 00:08:28,240 --> 00:08:31,000 Speaker 3: I tend to agree, like the whole planet's like, who's 194 00:08:31,040 --> 00:08:34,320 Speaker 3: the next Pooka Nakua? The answer is none. But could 195 00:08:34,360 --> 00:08:37,040 Speaker 3: Polk lead that team in receptions and catch eight balls? 196 00:08:37,120 --> 00:08:37,400 Speaker 2: Yeah? 197 00:08:37,440 --> 00:08:39,160 Speaker 3: You know a lot of it in garbage time and 198 00:08:39,240 --> 00:08:40,360 Speaker 3: his game should translate. 199 00:08:40,400 --> 00:08:44,240 Speaker 2: Here's their wide receiver of depth chart. Oh my god, 200 00:08:44,640 --> 00:08:50,120 Speaker 2: it's rough Man kJ Osborne. He's a four, the Mario Douglas, Okay, 201 00:08:50,840 --> 00:08:57,520 Speaker 2: Jalen Polk, Kendrick Bourne, Juju Smith, Schuster, Javon Baker, Jalen Rager, 202 00:08:58,040 --> 00:09:04,280 Speaker 2: Taekwon Thornton, kayshn b Tay, Kawan Baker, and Jaqui Jackson. 203 00:09:04,640 --> 00:09:07,200 Speaker 3: Those first five names you mentioned. I think we'll all 204 00:09:07,200 --> 00:09:10,520 Speaker 3: make the team and their pecking order is going to 205 00:09:10,600 --> 00:09:14,280 Speaker 3: be who the heck knows. But especially as the season 206 00:09:14,320 --> 00:09:17,120 Speaker 3: goes on, do I need Juju out there? If I 207 00:09:17,120 --> 00:09:19,920 Speaker 3: have Polk or Baker, Like, let's play the young guys. 208 00:09:19,960 --> 00:09:22,319 Speaker 3: That's it's the worst group that's a bad group. 209 00:09:22,400 --> 00:09:25,959 Speaker 2: Yeah. Michael Wilson with the Cardinals, he's going to the 210 00:09:26,000 --> 00:09:26,840 Speaker 2: sixteenth round. 211 00:09:27,040 --> 00:09:30,560 Speaker 3: Yeah. I mean again, there's so many receivers, Like, hey, 212 00:09:30,559 --> 00:09:32,880 Speaker 3: I wish Michael Wilson was a Steeler. He's a success story. 213 00:09:32,880 --> 00:09:35,600 Speaker 3: He's a big, strong dude, plays hard, actually helps on 214 00:09:35,640 --> 00:09:39,080 Speaker 3: special teams, you know at Stanford. But like, what would 215 00:09:39,080 --> 00:09:41,640 Speaker 3: it take for you to start Michael Wilson in fans. 216 00:09:41,720 --> 00:09:43,160 Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm not going to do that. 217 00:09:43,160 --> 00:09:45,920 Speaker 3: That's a long that's a quite the short story you'd 218 00:09:45,920 --> 00:09:47,080 Speaker 3: have to write. 219 00:09:47,400 --> 00:09:50,160 Speaker 2: The Vontes Walker with the Ravens. I can't go there either. 220 00:09:50,240 --> 00:09:53,960 Speaker 3: I don't think a round. Yeah, he's zero help on 221 00:09:53,960 --> 00:09:56,920 Speaker 3: special teams, so he has to be the number three 222 00:09:57,000 --> 00:09:59,400 Speaker 3: there to really even get a helmet. 223 00:10:00,200 --> 00:10:02,359 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, he's. 224 00:10:02,000 --> 00:10:05,360 Speaker 3: Doing for me. Yeah, Bateman and Aguilar and Flowers are 225 00:10:05,360 --> 00:10:06,000 Speaker 3: gonna be ahead of them. 226 00:10:06,040 --> 00:10:07,920 Speaker 2: Yeah. I just can't see that one. I can't play like. 227 00:10:07,960 --> 00:10:09,160 Speaker 2: Shakir's not on here. 228 00:10:09,800 --> 00:10:11,760 Speaker 3: I think he's probably getting drafted too high. 229 00:10:11,800 --> 00:10:14,959 Speaker 2: Probably. I guess they're looking at like rounds ten and later. Yeah, yeah, 230 00:10:15,040 --> 00:10:16,600 Speaker 2: basically what they're looking at here. 231 00:10:17,520 --> 00:10:21,199 Speaker 3: Sticking to the division, I would go with h the kid, 232 00:10:21,200 --> 00:10:24,640 Speaker 3: the Bengals drafted it off the field stuff for Bama. Yeah, yeah, 233 00:10:24,760 --> 00:10:26,120 Speaker 3: he could get a lot of single in a good 234 00:10:26,120 --> 00:10:28,920 Speaker 3: passing game. Doesn't much ahead of them. I mean that 235 00:10:29,080 --> 00:10:32,240 Speaker 3: if you're going late, especially for like a dynasty situation, 236 00:10:32,240 --> 00:10:35,600 Speaker 3: if Higgins is gone, but that's they're not gone. Yeah right, 237 00:10:35,640 --> 00:10:35,960 Speaker 3: you know. 238 00:10:35,920 --> 00:10:38,280 Speaker 2: That's not gonna happen next year. I mean, honestly, I 239 00:10:38,280 --> 00:10:39,920 Speaker 2: could put Van Jefferson on that list. 240 00:10:40,200 --> 00:10:43,640 Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, if he clearly is the two, if that 241 00:10:43,679 --> 00:10:46,400 Speaker 3: becomes clear, he should be considered in deep drafts. 242 00:10:46,840 --> 00:10:50,040 Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean if again, if he can replicate what 243 00:10:50,120 --> 00:10:52,240 Speaker 2: he did two years ago or three years ago now 244 00:10:52,280 --> 00:10:57,400 Speaker 2: in LA and which is basically the numbers that Deontay 245 00:10:57,480 --> 00:10:59,960 Speaker 2: Johnson had last year. Yeah, fifty one catches. 246 00:11:00,480 --> 00:11:05,120 Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, yeah, No, I don't think that's crazy. I 247 00:11:05,160 --> 00:11:08,480 Speaker 3: don't have a ton, to be honest, there's not many receivers. 248 00:11:08,520 --> 00:11:12,480 Speaker 3: I'm way higher than consensus on so many. There's just 249 00:11:12,559 --> 00:11:14,360 Speaker 3: so many, right, I mean, if they're going that late, 250 00:11:14,400 --> 00:11:17,839 Speaker 3: they're wide receiver seventy. Yeah, the chances are you guys 251 00:11:17,880 --> 00:11:18,960 Speaker 3: and your team are to start over. 252 00:11:18,920 --> 00:11:22,600 Speaker 2: Them looking at the tight ends they leave with chake 253 00:11:22,760 --> 00:11:26,439 Speaker 2: On Kwonquo, I know, he's one of your all time Yeah, sour, 254 00:11:26,679 --> 00:11:28,880 Speaker 2: seventeenth round guy, I just don't know that it's ever 255 00:11:28,960 --> 00:11:29,400 Speaker 2: gonna happen. 256 00:11:29,559 --> 00:11:32,439 Speaker 3: That's exactly what I was gonna say. And they're if 257 00:11:33,000 --> 00:11:35,880 Speaker 3: they're off season moves, don't scream. Oh he's ready to 258 00:11:35,960 --> 00:11:36,360 Speaker 3: break out. 259 00:11:38,120 --> 00:11:39,720 Speaker 2: Yeah, there's just too many miles. 260 00:11:39,880 --> 00:11:41,719 Speaker 3: Yeah, they're gonna throw the receivers. Yeah, I mean it's 261 00:11:41,760 --> 00:11:44,760 Speaker 3: the Bengals offense and running backs. They can't throw the 262 00:11:44,840 --> 00:11:48,599 Speaker 3: running backs more too. Ye, those backs are catch a 263 00:11:48,640 --> 00:11:50,880 Speaker 3: lot of balls. But how many tight ends or how 264 00:11:50,920 --> 00:11:54,400 Speaker 3: many passes have Bengals tight ends caught the last three years? Like? 265 00:11:54,559 --> 00:11:56,080 Speaker 3: Not many? Right? 266 00:11:56,840 --> 00:12:00,360 Speaker 2: Uh? Going in round twenty two is zach Ertz. 267 00:12:02,640 --> 00:12:04,800 Speaker 3: He's got to catch a touchdown the matter god. I mean, 268 00:12:04,800 --> 00:12:06,880 Speaker 3: he's not gonna get anything after the catch. He's never 269 00:12:06,920 --> 00:12:09,280 Speaker 3: gonna stretch the field. You could do better than that. 270 00:12:09,400 --> 00:12:11,079 Speaker 3: I might take his teammate over that. I might think 271 00:12:11,120 --> 00:12:12,319 Speaker 3: bensonot before him. 272 00:12:12,880 --> 00:12:17,679 Speaker 2: Uh, this guy's going in around twenty three. Colby Parkinson, 273 00:12:18,520 --> 00:12:19,319 Speaker 2: I kind of get it. 274 00:12:19,679 --> 00:12:22,599 Speaker 3: I mean, it's a total by default thing. If you 275 00:12:22,679 --> 00:12:25,079 Speaker 3: look at his combine, which I care about for tight ends, 276 00:12:25,120 --> 00:12:28,160 Speaker 3: sometimes it takes a while, you know, some of these talented. 277 00:12:28,559 --> 00:12:30,840 Speaker 3: He's talented, he's athletic and big. He's never really had 278 00:12:30,840 --> 00:12:34,599 Speaker 3: an opportunity. I mean he's the sleeper of sleepers, but 279 00:12:34,720 --> 00:12:36,040 Speaker 3: he's got a chance to be. 280 00:12:36,120 --> 00:12:39,520 Speaker 2: The Yeah, I just think, Yeah, I think Tyler Higbee. 281 00:12:39,480 --> 00:12:41,360 Speaker 3: Is ahead of him for now at least, but that 282 00:12:41,480 --> 00:12:43,120 Speaker 3: shit may have sailed. It could be. Yeah, Yeah, I 283 00:12:43,120 --> 00:12:45,040 Speaker 3: don't have any I'm not drafting to Tyler Higbee. 284 00:12:45,240 --> 00:12:45,440 Speaker 2: Yeah. 285 00:12:46,440 --> 00:12:49,840 Speaker 3: I like Jilawnie Woods. Yeah, he's another super talented. 286 00:12:49,559 --> 00:12:51,120 Speaker 2: Big Kate Aughton believer too. 287 00:12:51,240 --> 00:12:53,800 Speaker 3: Yeah, it's not a bad one at all. People are 288 00:12:53,800 --> 00:12:55,800 Speaker 3: starting to catch up on Johnny Smith, but I grabbed 289 00:12:55,840 --> 00:12:58,040 Speaker 3: him everywhere I could, you know. But he was going 290 00:12:58,160 --> 00:13:01,839 Speaker 3: like tight end twenty a month ago. Yeah, Now he's 291 00:13:01,880 --> 00:13:02,760 Speaker 3: like thirteen or fourteen. 292 00:13:02,760 --> 00:13:05,120 Speaker 2: I mean Gasiki had seven hundred and fifty receiving yards 293 00:13:05,120 --> 00:13:05,800 Speaker 2: for them last year. 294 00:13:06,000 --> 00:13:08,920 Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah. Any interest in Koseki, No me neither. 295 00:13:09,120 --> 00:13:09,320 Speaker 2: Yeah. 296 00:13:09,720 --> 00:13:12,760 Speaker 3: Yeah, I think, uh Smith's way better than Koseki. 297 00:13:12,960 --> 00:13:16,800 Speaker 2: Yeah. I think Smith could be uh Yeah, I think 298 00:13:16,840 --> 00:13:18,000 Speaker 2: he is a he. 299 00:13:18,040 --> 00:13:21,480 Speaker 3: Might be yeah in fantasy. Yeah, I think he's still 300 00:13:21,520 --> 00:13:22,280 Speaker 3: a bargain. 301 00:13:22,559 --> 00:13:24,480 Speaker 2: And honestly, Pat Fararmouth falls into that. 302 00:13:24,840 --> 00:13:25,080 Speaker 3: Yeah. 303 00:13:25,200 --> 00:13:28,280 Speaker 2: Yeah, But because he's going outside the top twelve. 304 00:13:29,320 --> 00:13:31,240 Speaker 3: Musgrave is another one I don't mind in that area. 305 00:13:32,080 --> 00:13:35,839 Speaker 3: There's a few, but these deep guys. Johnnie Woods is 306 00:13:35,880 --> 00:13:38,240 Speaker 3: one of my favorites. A couple names there aren't bad. 307 00:13:38,760 --> 00:13:42,240 Speaker 3: What about like a Bellinger in the Giants? Just somebody 308 00:13:42,240 --> 00:13:43,160 Speaker 3: that has no competition. 309 00:13:43,360 --> 00:13:46,240 Speaker 2: Yeah, that's not a bad one. I don't love them, 310 00:13:46,280 --> 00:13:48,640 Speaker 2: but you know, yeah, it's it's it's tough. 311 00:13:50,400 --> 00:13:52,719 Speaker 3: That positions pretty deep though. For fantasy nowadays, it really is. 312 00:13:52,880 --> 00:13:54,480 Speaker 3: You can come up with twenty names you don't mind. 313 00:13:54,800 --> 00:13:57,719 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, for sure that you could. Just again you're 314 00:13:57,760 --> 00:14:00,520 Speaker 2: looking for give me, give me three for forty touchdown 315 00:14:00,559 --> 00:14:02,760 Speaker 2: that week. You can probably get that out of a 316 00:14:02,800 --> 00:14:03,600 Speaker 2: lot of different guys. 317 00:14:03,800 --> 00:14:05,760 Speaker 3: Scan the waiver wire, like boy he's had two good 318 00:14:05,760 --> 00:14:07,400 Speaker 3: games in a row. Put in a little bucks for 319 00:14:07,520 --> 00:14:08,560 Speaker 3: him and hope it's his year. 320 00:14:08,920 --> 00:14:12,360 Speaker 2: Yeah, great, God, that's gonna do it for the Fantasy 321 00:14:12,360 --> 00:14:14,199 Speaker 2: Football Focus, Matt, we're gonna get to a break. He 322 00:14:14,400 --> 00:14:17,280 Speaker 2: is Matt Williamson. I am Dale Lolly. You're listening to 323 00:14:17,400 --> 00:14:20,400 Speaker 2: the Drive here on Steelers Nation Radio. We'll be back 324 00:14:20,440 --> 00:14:21,680 Speaker 2: with more right after this. 325 00:14:25,640 --> 00:14:28,960 Speaker 1: This is the Drive with Dale Lolly and Matt Williamson 326 00:14:29,360 --> 00:14:31,560 Speaker 1: on your twenty four to seven home of the Black 327 00:14:31,600 --> 00:14:34,440 Speaker 1: and Gold Steelers Nation Radio. 328 00:14:38,880 --> 00:14:42,640 Speaker 2: Welcome back. I'm Dale Lolli. He is the Matt Williamson 329 00:14:42,760 --> 00:14:49,000 Speaker 2: and Matt dan Graziano, the senior NFL reporter for ESPN, 330 00:14:49,080 --> 00:14:51,760 Speaker 2: has put together a little thing here judging over reactions 331 00:14:51,800 --> 00:14:55,400 Speaker 2: to the twenty twenty four offseason. The Steelers made the 332 00:14:55,480 --> 00:14:58,080 Speaker 2: list here, and so I thought we'd talk about what 333 00:14:58,280 --> 00:15:00,400 Speaker 2: he has to say here. And the first thing he 334 00:15:00,520 --> 00:15:04,000 Speaker 2: has on here is, and we've talked about this, Dak 335 00:15:04,080 --> 00:15:08,240 Speaker 2: Prescott will sign with a different team next seat next spring. 336 00:15:08,680 --> 00:15:11,400 Speaker 2: And his verdict on that is it's not an overreaction. 337 00:15:12,320 --> 00:15:14,800 Speaker 3: I agree, Like honestly, if I said, yeah, if you 338 00:15:14,920 --> 00:15:17,200 Speaker 3: just say true or false, I think he will not 339 00:15:17,360 --> 00:15:19,160 Speaker 3: be a cowboy if you had to go, I don't 340 00:15:19,160 --> 00:15:21,240 Speaker 3: care what the odds are or any of that stuff, 341 00:15:21,480 --> 00:15:24,200 Speaker 3: or I think he won't be a cowboy after the year. 342 00:15:24,320 --> 00:15:26,200 Speaker 3: And it might be his decision as much as theirs. 343 00:15:26,560 --> 00:15:28,400 Speaker 2: Yeah, you know what I mean. They've kind of put him, 344 00:15:28,560 --> 00:15:31,000 Speaker 2: painted him into this. This is almost the Kirk Cousins 345 00:15:31,320 --> 00:15:32,520 Speaker 2: situation again. 346 00:15:32,600 --> 00:15:34,360 Speaker 3: When he went to Minnesota, they could offer him a 347 00:15:34,440 --> 00:15:36,120 Speaker 3: hundred million a year and if he say no, he 348 00:15:36,200 --> 00:15:38,680 Speaker 3: can say no. Yeah, they can't franchise him. They have 349 00:15:38,800 --> 00:15:42,560 Speaker 3: no power over the situation. And they got other guys 350 00:15:42,600 --> 00:15:42,880 Speaker 3: to pay. 351 00:15:43,000 --> 00:15:44,720 Speaker 2: And he would be foolish not to at least go 352 00:15:44,800 --> 00:15:45,920 Speaker 2: out and test the market. 353 00:15:46,040 --> 00:15:47,440 Speaker 3: You'd have to away right now. 354 00:15:47,560 --> 00:15:49,520 Speaker 2: Yeah, And he could say, well I could. I could 355 00:15:49,520 --> 00:15:52,200 Speaker 2: still go back to Dallas. I like the situation there. Yeah, 356 00:15:52,200 --> 00:15:53,960 Speaker 2: but I'm gonna go test the waters first to see 357 00:15:53,960 --> 00:15:54,480 Speaker 2: what's out there. 358 00:15:54,720 --> 00:15:56,400 Speaker 3: And he's gonna get more than Cousins did a year ago. 359 00:15:56,440 --> 00:15:59,160 Speaker 3: And he's better. Cousins is coming off a major injury, 360 00:15:59,280 --> 00:16:02,520 Speaker 3: he's younger. It might be Steelers quarterback. I mean, I know, 361 00:16:02,560 --> 00:16:04,800 Speaker 3: I keep throwing that out there, but there's I could 362 00:16:04,840 --> 00:16:06,640 Speaker 3: say that for five or six teams that have the 363 00:16:06,720 --> 00:16:09,440 Speaker 3: cap space, the need, you wouldn't have to use a pick, 364 00:16:09,680 --> 00:16:12,680 Speaker 3: you know, Like, Yeah, he's gonna be sought after in 365 00:16:12,720 --> 00:16:13,160 Speaker 3: a big way. 366 00:16:13,200 --> 00:16:15,360 Speaker 2: He'll still be thirty one years old, which is basically 367 00:16:15,560 --> 00:16:16,840 Speaker 2: in this prime as a quarterback. 368 00:16:16,880 --> 00:16:18,840 Speaker 3: I'm a three or four year deal. Yeah, I mean, 369 00:16:18,920 --> 00:16:22,200 Speaker 3: he's I'd love to see him out of Dallas too. Yeah. 370 00:16:22,240 --> 00:16:24,320 Speaker 3: I don't know how great of environment Dallas is with 371 00:16:24,600 --> 00:16:25,600 Speaker 3: such a medalsome owner. 372 00:16:26,440 --> 00:16:29,480 Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a little I mean, there aren't many owners 373 00:16:30,120 --> 00:16:32,600 Speaker 2: in the league who have their own weekly radio show 374 00:16:32,920 --> 00:16:35,440 Speaker 2: exactly where you know Your Dirty Laundry is kind of 375 00:16:35,480 --> 00:16:36,680 Speaker 2: aired on a weekly basis. 376 00:16:36,960 --> 00:16:42,040 Speaker 3: I mean, for how long can national media Dallas fans 377 00:16:42,200 --> 00:16:47,400 Speaker 3: blame Romo Dak McCarthy and maybe it should just go 378 00:16:47,600 --> 00:16:49,280 Speaker 3: keep going up the ladder a little bit. Why you're 379 00:16:49,320 --> 00:16:52,320 Speaker 3: not winning playoff games? Yeah, you've had talented, talented rosters. 380 00:16:54,720 --> 00:16:58,480 Speaker 2: A top wide receiver will get traded before the start 381 00:16:58,520 --> 00:17:02,440 Speaker 2: of the season. This is kind of Steeler relevant. I said, 382 00:17:02,520 --> 00:17:05,720 Speaker 2: new deals for Justin Jefferson and Monroe, Saint Brown, Jaylen Waddell, 383 00:17:05,760 --> 00:17:08,360 Speaker 2: DeVante Smith have kind of made this a great off 384 00:17:08,480 --> 00:17:11,760 Speaker 2: season for wide receivers. There are still few prominent ones 385 00:17:11,800 --> 00:17:14,480 Speaker 2: who are looking for new contracts or don't yet have them. 386 00:17:14,680 --> 00:17:18,800 Speaker 2: That would include Ceede, Lamb, Brandon au Tyreek Hill, T Higgins, 387 00:17:18,840 --> 00:17:21,080 Speaker 2: who the deadline just passed for them to sign him 388 00:17:21,080 --> 00:17:23,840 Speaker 2: to a new deal. Yeah, post, I. 389 00:17:23,960 --> 00:17:26,120 Speaker 3: Don't believe any of those four will be the guy 390 00:17:26,160 --> 00:17:26,720 Speaker 3: that gets traded. 391 00:17:26,800 --> 00:17:29,440 Speaker 2: I don't think so either. You know, Steeler fans, I 392 00:17:29,520 --> 00:17:32,160 Speaker 2: keep getting asked about this, you know, privately or whatever 393 00:17:32,160 --> 00:17:33,800 Speaker 2: you know out in public or what I mean. 394 00:17:33,800 --> 00:17:36,679 Speaker 3: It's enticing. It's a great conversation, absolutely, I. 395 00:17:36,720 --> 00:17:41,000 Speaker 2: Think I think talk radio pushes that envelope with that, 396 00:17:41,119 --> 00:17:43,200 Speaker 2: and they're pushing the buttons with that. And there's also 397 00:17:43,200 --> 00:17:44,400 Speaker 2: a lot of those guys are going to happen. 398 00:17:44,560 --> 00:17:46,600 Speaker 3: And now those people, well not none of those people, 399 00:17:46,640 --> 00:17:49,119 Speaker 3: but a lot of people on talk radio don't understand 400 00:17:49,119 --> 00:17:51,280 Speaker 3: the ramifications and what it would cost and the money 401 00:17:51,400 --> 00:17:54,720 Speaker 3: and everything involved and the topic for them. Nor do 402 00:17:54,760 --> 00:17:56,679 Speaker 3: they look at through the Niners eyes. Yeah, I mean 403 00:17:56,720 --> 00:17:57,480 Speaker 3: that's the thing is. 404 00:17:57,520 --> 00:17:59,560 Speaker 2: You know, why would they if you've carried him this 405 00:17:59,760 --> 00:18:01,720 Speaker 2: far into the season, why wouldn't you just let it 406 00:18:01,760 --> 00:18:02,160 Speaker 2: play out? 407 00:18:02,240 --> 00:18:04,359 Speaker 3: Yeah, for next year's picks, you know, I mean, like 408 00:18:04,440 --> 00:18:05,199 Speaker 3: you're trying to win. 409 00:18:05,320 --> 00:18:05,439 Speaker 2: Now. 410 00:18:05,800 --> 00:18:07,440 Speaker 3: I don't think one of those Niner guys would be 411 00:18:07,480 --> 00:18:09,560 Speaker 3: back next year, but yeah, they might have a ring 412 00:18:09,640 --> 00:18:12,040 Speaker 3: on their finger when they do. I like what Dan 413 00:18:12,160 --> 00:18:16,280 Speaker 3: does here though, he says a top receiver, yes, like 414 00:18:16,600 --> 00:18:21,440 Speaker 3: is Lockett or Sutton? Do they count I think they county? 415 00:18:21,600 --> 00:18:23,320 Speaker 3: And I could see a guy like that getting moved 416 00:18:23,320 --> 00:18:27,120 Speaker 3: that Godwin, maybe a Metcalf, you know, but probably more 417 00:18:27,240 --> 00:18:31,280 Speaker 3: the B minus guy or the aging guy, or you know, 418 00:18:31,520 --> 00:18:33,600 Speaker 3: was Alan Robinson. I guess he was a Steeler at 419 00:18:33,640 --> 00:18:36,280 Speaker 3: this point last year. But I'm better than that, of course. 420 00:18:36,359 --> 00:18:38,280 Speaker 3: But I mean that type of deal where we're tight 421 00:18:38,320 --> 00:18:40,320 Speaker 3: against the cap and move this dude. 422 00:18:40,600 --> 00:18:43,119 Speaker 2: Yeah, that's much more likely to happen than one of 423 00:18:43,160 --> 00:18:46,000 Speaker 2: those guys get because there's such important pieces to their 424 00:18:46,040 --> 00:18:47,920 Speaker 2: current team, some of the best in the league. And 425 00:18:47,960 --> 00:18:50,400 Speaker 2: if you look at those teams, I mean you're talking 426 00:18:50,440 --> 00:18:52,760 Speaker 2: about the Cowboys to your point, the forty nine Ers, 427 00:18:52,880 --> 00:18:55,919 Speaker 2: Miami's Dolphins, and Bengals, they're all trying to win this year. 428 00:18:56,000 --> 00:18:58,239 Speaker 3: Yeah, and they'll have Yeah, I mean everyone's trying to win, 429 00:18:58,320 --> 00:19:01,719 Speaker 3: of course, But Davonte Adam he's like the best one 430 00:19:01,760 --> 00:19:03,199 Speaker 3: I could actually see getting moved, and. 431 00:19:03,240 --> 00:19:06,200 Speaker 2: I could see I don't know what the cap ramifications 432 00:19:06,240 --> 00:19:09,560 Speaker 2: would be for the Raiders. I mean, they just signed 433 00:19:09,640 --> 00:19:11,800 Speaker 2: him two years ago, so there's probably a pretty good 434 00:19:11,880 --> 00:19:12,400 Speaker 2: cap hit. 435 00:19:12,359 --> 00:19:15,919 Speaker 3: Involved with that, probably, but he's like the best player 436 00:19:16,000 --> 00:19:18,440 Speaker 3: I could see getting moved. Yeah, you know, I could 437 00:19:18,480 --> 00:19:20,320 Speaker 3: actually see why the Raiders would or I. 438 00:19:20,359 --> 00:19:22,440 Speaker 2: Mean, you know, could you see the like the Titans 439 00:19:22,520 --> 00:19:24,360 Speaker 2: moving on from DeAndre Hopkins. 440 00:19:25,800 --> 00:19:27,960 Speaker 3: Never looked at that angle I always think like Burks 441 00:19:28,080 --> 00:19:29,720 Speaker 3: or some of the bottom of the league guys, but 442 00:19:30,680 --> 00:19:36,560 Speaker 3: maybe maybe i'd consider him. Yeah, I mean, but these 443 00:19:36,600 --> 00:19:39,160 Speaker 3: aren't first round picked enough. Older. 444 00:19:39,480 --> 00:19:42,080 Speaker 2: Yeah, they're older guys who are still names. 445 00:19:41,880 --> 00:19:44,840 Speaker 3: Right and can make plays. Yeah, I mean I think 446 00:19:44,880 --> 00:19:48,320 Speaker 3: a Robert Woods. I mean, but that's not a top receiver. No, 447 00:19:48,520 --> 00:19:51,119 Speaker 3: it doesn't count for d uh. 448 00:19:51,760 --> 00:19:55,000 Speaker 2: His next one the Steelers will be in the quarterback 449 00:19:55,119 --> 00:19:58,040 Speaker 2: market again next spring. In his verdict is that is 450 00:19:58,160 --> 00:20:00,840 Speaker 2: not an overreaction. Well, that's not exactly. 451 00:20:01,600 --> 00:20:04,320 Speaker 3: I wouldn't phrase it that way because it's an easy answer. Now, Yeah, 452 00:20:04,320 --> 00:20:06,359 Speaker 3: they don't have anybody on a contract for next day. 453 00:20:06,560 --> 00:20:08,720 Speaker 3: I mean, of course they're going to be in the market. 454 00:20:09,240 --> 00:20:12,840 Speaker 3: Is the only way they're not. I can't imagine they 455 00:20:12,880 --> 00:20:16,080 Speaker 3: give Wilson a contract before the season. I think there's 456 00:20:16,119 --> 00:20:19,040 Speaker 3: a slim and an interesting option of giving Fields one 457 00:20:19,119 --> 00:20:22,760 Speaker 3: before the season, and maybe it works out so well 458 00:20:22,800 --> 00:20:25,280 Speaker 3: when they're also happy they just signed Wilson the day 459 00:20:25,280 --> 00:20:27,840 Speaker 3: after the season. Yeah, but that never really happens. 460 00:20:28,240 --> 00:20:28,399 Speaker 2: You know. 461 00:20:28,440 --> 00:20:30,399 Speaker 3: Well, I wouldn't wait either way. They would be in 462 00:20:30,480 --> 00:20:33,960 Speaker 3: the quarterback market, right right, I mean, because maybe the 463 00:20:34,080 --> 00:20:36,560 Speaker 3: day free agency opens, they're not they have it firmed 464 00:20:36,640 --> 00:20:40,680 Speaker 3: up by then, okay, you know, but they're going to 465 00:20:40,760 --> 00:20:44,600 Speaker 3: probably test some kind of waters. I mean, the chances 466 00:20:44,680 --> 00:20:48,680 Speaker 3: that they won't have a quarterback need is pretty slim. 467 00:20:48,800 --> 00:20:51,840 Speaker 2: I mean, if you're sitting there at the end of 468 00:20:51,880 --> 00:20:56,600 Speaker 2: this season, Let's say Russell Wilson has a a decent. 469 00:20:56,400 --> 00:20:59,479 Speaker 3: Year, going ten games and it's good and upgrade from 470 00:20:59,560 --> 00:21:00,639 Speaker 3: last year, and you know. 471 00:21:02,960 --> 00:21:05,480 Speaker 2: But you know, Dak Prescott's might be sitting out there 472 00:21:05,600 --> 00:21:10,280 Speaker 2: right right, or or Kirk Cousins is going to get released. 473 00:21:10,400 --> 00:21:12,680 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, because there will be names that become 474 00:21:12,680 --> 00:21:17,800 Speaker 3: available that actually obvious one or whoever earned the first 475 00:21:17,840 --> 00:21:19,920 Speaker 3: pick has a good quarterback, but they're still going to 476 00:21:19,960 --> 00:21:22,840 Speaker 3: take a quarterback, yeah, Kyler Murray or you know, you run. 477 00:21:22,760 --> 00:21:25,360 Speaker 2: Into a field situation from last year, yeah, exactly. 478 00:21:25,560 --> 00:21:27,359 Speaker 3: Or I mean everyone thought the Cardinals are going to 479 00:21:27,400 --> 00:21:29,680 Speaker 3: get Caleb Williams and then someone's gonna trade you know, 480 00:21:29,760 --> 00:21:35,400 Speaker 3: Kyler Williams, Kyler Murray maybe, or is it all right, Russ, 481 00:21:35,480 --> 00:21:37,000 Speaker 3: you're pretty good. How about we give you a two 482 00:21:37,080 --> 00:21:39,719 Speaker 3: year deal and you might draft one around one. Well, 483 00:21:39,760 --> 00:21:43,240 Speaker 3: you're still in the market, yeah, all the market in 484 00:21:43,359 --> 00:21:47,720 Speaker 3: the spring for that statement, most angles are you're still 485 00:21:47,760 --> 00:21:48,440 Speaker 3: in the market. 486 00:21:48,600 --> 00:21:50,840 Speaker 2: The way the way that has written it is. Yeah, 487 00:21:51,000 --> 00:21:54,760 Speaker 2: he's a professional writer. Yeah, same with top Resvera. That's 488 00:21:54,840 --> 00:21:57,000 Speaker 2: very open to interpretation. 489 00:21:57,240 --> 00:21:58,760 Speaker 3: Yes, it is a long time. 490 00:21:59,560 --> 00:22:03,640 Speaker 2: Kirk Cousins will be a one season and done in Atlanta. 491 00:22:03,800 --> 00:22:05,840 Speaker 2: To our point, I'm gonna say, yes, he says, that's 492 00:22:05,920 --> 00:22:06,840 Speaker 2: not an overreaction. 493 00:22:07,040 --> 00:22:09,520 Speaker 3: I think that's well said. I mean, you draft a 494 00:22:09,560 --> 00:22:12,880 Speaker 3: quarterback that high. How often do they sit besides Jordan Love, Yeah, 495 00:22:12,920 --> 00:22:15,880 Speaker 3: I'm a home sat up until the last game. 496 00:22:15,960 --> 00:22:19,080 Speaker 2: With an all new coaching staff and everything's new there. 497 00:22:19,280 --> 00:22:21,639 Speaker 3: Yeah, and Cousins is older. He could have a very 498 00:22:21,680 --> 00:22:23,320 Speaker 3: successful year and you can be seeing his quarterback. I 499 00:22:23,359 --> 00:22:26,080 Speaker 3: mean again, I mean I think he'll be true or false. 500 00:22:26,119 --> 00:22:29,640 Speaker 3: Cousins is a starting quarterback to stay one of twenty 501 00:22:29,760 --> 00:22:30,240 Speaker 3: twenty five. 502 00:22:30,440 --> 00:22:30,680 Speaker 2: True. 503 00:22:30,840 --> 00:22:32,920 Speaker 3: I think true right in Atlanta. I give it a 504 00:22:33,000 --> 00:22:36,360 Speaker 3: fifty percent chance. Yeah. Pennix is going to look good 505 00:22:36,359 --> 00:22:39,199 Speaker 3: in practice. Yeah, that much, I'll promise you. I mean 506 00:22:39,200 --> 00:22:40,800 Speaker 3: he's going to sling the ball around and he's gonna 507 00:22:40,800 --> 00:22:41,480 Speaker 3: look good in practice. 508 00:22:41,480 --> 00:22:43,520 Speaker 2: He is a strong thrower of the football. 509 00:22:43,720 --> 00:22:45,800 Speaker 3: Yep. We'll see what he does in preseason or if 510 00:22:45,800 --> 00:22:47,359 Speaker 3: he ever gets in any games, but he'll look good 511 00:22:47,400 --> 00:22:47,840 Speaker 3: in practice. 512 00:22:47,960 --> 00:22:50,520 Speaker 2: Yeah. So yeah, I definitely think that. You know, you 513 00:22:50,600 --> 00:22:52,960 Speaker 2: could see Dak Prescott, Kirk Cousins. 514 00:22:53,040 --> 00:22:55,199 Speaker 3: On the market next year, or even they turn them 515 00:22:55,240 --> 00:22:57,960 Speaker 3: into a pick. Yeah right, giants say we'll give you 516 00:22:57,960 --> 00:23:01,120 Speaker 3: a second round pick for to pay the bonus, will 517 00:23:01,160 --> 00:23:01,720 Speaker 3: pay the money. 518 00:23:01,840 --> 00:23:03,960 Speaker 2: Who else might be out there? I'm trying to think here. 519 00:23:04,119 --> 00:23:06,280 Speaker 3: I mean definitely like the Daniel Jones is Yeah, I 520 00:23:06,320 --> 00:23:08,399 Speaker 3: mean that they could even have good years and be 521 00:23:08,440 --> 00:23:15,399 Speaker 3: out there. Jan Smith, Yeah for sure. What if like 522 00:23:15,640 --> 00:23:19,119 Speaker 3: Carolina has a bad year and Bryce Young's yeah got 523 00:23:19,240 --> 00:23:19,359 Speaker 3: to go. 524 00:23:19,560 --> 00:23:21,240 Speaker 2: They decide, hey, we're gonna even if he has a 525 00:23:21,240 --> 00:23:23,239 Speaker 2: good year. We got the number one overall pick this year, 526 00:23:23,320 --> 00:23:24,480 Speaker 2: and we actually have it. 527 00:23:24,720 --> 00:23:26,959 Speaker 3: The Justin Field situation, like you laid out, you've got 528 00:23:27,040 --> 00:23:29,440 Speaker 3: an owner. This show doesn't interest me. But I'm just saying, yeah, 529 00:23:29,440 --> 00:23:29,800 Speaker 3: I could go. 530 00:23:29,920 --> 00:23:31,639 Speaker 2: But you've got an owner who's shown that he's not 531 00:23:31,880 --> 00:23:32,479 Speaker 2: very patient. 532 00:23:33,119 --> 00:23:38,280 Speaker 3: Oh that's understatement. Could a Stafford or a Rogers or 533 00:23:40,240 --> 00:23:42,720 Speaker 3: I would be shocked. Yeah, I can't see him changing 534 00:23:42,800 --> 00:23:49,040 Speaker 3: teams again. There's definitely more names, yeah, but I mean 535 00:23:49,040 --> 00:23:51,120 Speaker 3: there's more than you think. Yeah, and if you would 536 00:23:51,160 --> 00:23:52,960 Speaker 3: go team by team and really dig into it, which 537 00:23:53,000 --> 00:23:56,400 Speaker 3: I'm sure we'll do over and over, but team will 538 00:23:56,440 --> 00:23:58,720 Speaker 3: be looking at Russell Wilson fields, right, I mean if 539 00:23:58,760 --> 00:24:02,159 Speaker 3: we were another team right now, Yeah, the Jets, but 540 00:24:02,280 --> 00:24:05,520 Speaker 3: like a Hendon Hooker, you know, someone that they liked 541 00:24:06,320 --> 00:24:08,399 Speaker 3: that this all of a sudden got blocked. Yeah, I mean, 542 00:24:08,400 --> 00:24:09,440 Speaker 3: I'm gonna say, and I want him to be the 543 00:24:09,440 --> 00:24:11,359 Speaker 3: Steelers starter in Week one next year. You're probably not 544 00:24:11,359 --> 00:24:12,320 Speaker 3: gonna know much about him. 545 00:24:12,520 --> 00:24:14,280 Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, this will be a big year for 546 00:24:14,320 --> 00:24:16,480 Speaker 2: him because he didn't get to plane the preseason last year. 547 00:24:16,920 --> 00:24:19,800 Speaker 3: Let's say golf gets hurt in Week six and Hooker's great, Well, 548 00:24:19,840 --> 00:24:22,359 Speaker 3: they just paid golf like crazy. Yeah, they wouldn't bring 549 00:24:22,440 --> 00:24:25,399 Speaker 3: both backs. Costs them nothing, though Hookers cost them nothing, right, 550 00:24:26,240 --> 00:24:26,640 Speaker 3: good point. 551 00:24:27,280 --> 00:24:30,080 Speaker 2: The Jets have jumped ahead of the Bills and Dolphins. 552 00:24:30,520 --> 00:24:33,400 Speaker 3: There's definitely gonna be the Donalds and Brissette picks, you know. Yeah, 553 00:24:33,680 --> 00:24:37,000 Speaker 3: you could see Jameis Winston out there again, even if 554 00:24:37,000 --> 00:24:38,960 Speaker 3: he is a good year. The Jets have jumped ahead 555 00:24:39,000 --> 00:24:41,800 Speaker 3: of the Bills and Dolphins in the AFC East. He 556 00:24:41,920 --> 00:24:46,760 Speaker 3: says that is an overreaction I'm really torn how I'm 557 00:24:46,800 --> 00:24:49,280 Speaker 3: going to predict that division except for the Patriots fourth. 558 00:24:50,119 --> 00:24:52,040 Speaker 3: I can make a really good argument for all three, 559 00:24:53,080 --> 00:24:57,040 Speaker 3: but I trust the Bills organization top to bottom way 560 00:24:57,119 --> 00:24:59,600 Speaker 3: more than the Jets in Miami be in the middle. Yeah, 561 00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:04,399 Speaker 3: and they've Josh Allen, so yeah, I probably will not 562 00:25:04,520 --> 00:25:05,760 Speaker 3: pick the Jets to win the division. 563 00:25:06,119 --> 00:25:08,720 Speaker 2: Yes, are just old, Yeah, they've They've gotten a whole 564 00:25:08,760 --> 00:25:09,919 Speaker 2: bunch of old guys. 565 00:25:09,720 --> 00:25:11,359 Speaker 3: And Sola doesn't impress. 566 00:25:11,440 --> 00:25:13,720 Speaker 2: I just don't know that that's ever worse than the NFL. 567 00:25:14,000 --> 00:25:17,720 Speaker 3: It's a hard gig. I mean, it's not basketball. You 568 00:25:17,760 --> 00:25:20,600 Speaker 3: could put together an old man team and limp through 569 00:25:20,880 --> 00:25:23,359 Speaker 3: this regular season, getting the playoffs, turn it on, you know, 570 00:25:23,680 --> 00:25:26,879 Speaker 3: and win some series. Seat in hockey sometimes, I'm sure 571 00:25:26,880 --> 00:25:29,880 Speaker 3: you could do it in baseball and football, and every 572 00:25:29,920 --> 00:25:32,800 Speaker 3: play is so taxing. I don't know. I don't love it. 573 00:25:33,359 --> 00:25:35,200 Speaker 3: I get credit for pushing their chips in, but I 574 00:25:35,280 --> 00:25:36,240 Speaker 3: bet it doesn't pay off. 575 00:25:36,720 --> 00:25:39,760 Speaker 2: No. I you know, again, the oldest quarterback in the 576 00:25:39,880 --> 00:25:41,600 Speaker 2: NFL coming. 577 00:25:41,400 --> 00:25:43,159 Speaker 3: Off in a major injury. I mean, the chances of 578 00:25:43,240 --> 00:25:46,400 Speaker 3: him and Cousins being good this year one or two, 579 00:25:46,400 --> 00:25:48,800 Speaker 3: won't you know? And they're coming off major injuries and 580 00:25:48,800 --> 00:25:50,760 Speaker 3: they're old. I mean, no matter how talented you are, 581 00:25:51,359 --> 00:25:52,919 Speaker 3: one of them is going to look like they're at 582 00:25:52,920 --> 00:25:54,479 Speaker 3: the end. Yeah, chances are. 583 00:25:54,720 --> 00:25:57,360 Speaker 2: At the same time, I get it when people talk 584 00:25:57,440 --> 00:25:58,320 Speaker 2: about the Bills. 585 00:25:59,440 --> 00:26:00,679 Speaker 3: I mean, I'm all in on them. 586 00:26:00,840 --> 00:26:03,159 Speaker 2: They moved on from stuff on Diggs. Mitch Moore is 587 00:26:03,320 --> 00:26:06,040 Speaker 2: like a high Jordan Poyer. I mean, there's a lot 588 00:26:06,119 --> 00:26:08,960 Speaker 2: of guys who are key contributors over the last few 589 00:26:09,040 --> 00:26:10,280 Speaker 2: years for them that haven't. 590 00:26:10,640 --> 00:26:12,880 Speaker 3: I don't know if they're going to infuse a ton 591 00:26:13,040 --> 00:26:15,919 Speaker 3: this year either, you know what I mean Again, it's 592 00:26:15,960 --> 00:26:19,840 Speaker 3: gonna be Hey, Josh, just be Superman even more. He 593 00:26:20,359 --> 00:26:22,880 Speaker 3: he will be great this year. But it would would 594 00:26:22,880 --> 00:26:25,920 Speaker 3: have shocked anyone if this is his highest turnover year ever, 595 00:26:26,280 --> 00:26:28,959 Speaker 3: because he's gonna have to do more, even more, right, 596 00:26:29,000 --> 00:26:31,600 Speaker 3: and he's already a high turnover guy and the defense 597 00:26:31,600 --> 00:26:32,440 Speaker 3: isn't gonna bail you out. 598 00:26:32,560 --> 00:26:35,000 Speaker 2: Yeah. Then you look at Miami. I mean, no Christian 599 00:26:35,040 --> 00:26:37,879 Speaker 2: Wilkins there, Andrew Van Ginkel was very good for them 600 00:26:38,960 --> 00:26:40,119 Speaker 2: there anymore, Robert. 601 00:26:39,920 --> 00:26:43,000 Speaker 3: Hunt gone, Yeah, and we harp on the same things 602 00:26:43,040 --> 00:26:45,840 Speaker 3: with them too. Is okay, Maybe they can get home 603 00:26:45,880 --> 00:26:48,320 Speaker 3: field all the way through and then I'd love their chances. 604 00:26:48,359 --> 00:26:51,760 Speaker 3: You gotta go to Miami and you know, playoffs or whatever. 605 00:26:52,000 --> 00:26:55,280 Speaker 3: Don't deal with whether, okay, And the other thing that 606 00:26:55,400 --> 00:26:58,520 Speaker 3: we don't talk about a lot is I very much 607 00:26:58,600 --> 00:27:00,440 Speaker 3: believe the way they're constructed is to be a warm 608 00:27:00,480 --> 00:27:03,520 Speaker 3: weather team, and we saw that in Kansas City. But 609 00:27:03,640 --> 00:27:06,280 Speaker 3: the other thing about it too is their their head 610 00:27:06,320 --> 00:27:10,359 Speaker 3: coach slash offensive guru, is so innovative that he is 611 00:27:10,400 --> 00:27:12,159 Speaker 3: going to do things every year at the beginning of 612 00:27:12,160 --> 00:27:14,520 Speaker 3: the year that no one has seen. And then as 613 00:27:14,520 --> 00:27:17,959 Speaker 3: the season goes on, defensive coordinators learn a little more 614 00:27:18,000 --> 00:27:19,840 Speaker 3: from the last one, a little more from the last one, 615 00:27:19,880 --> 00:27:22,639 Speaker 3: you know, like the crazy motions. In formations are very 616 00:27:22,720 --> 00:27:26,520 Speaker 3: creative and they're very useful, but you can't if you 617 00:27:26,800 --> 00:27:29,480 Speaker 3: get a whole summer worth of infusion of those, you 618 00:27:29,560 --> 00:27:31,680 Speaker 3: can't do that from week eleven to twelve. You know, 619 00:27:31,880 --> 00:27:33,639 Speaker 3: you can't add that much more. And people start to. 620 00:27:33,640 --> 00:27:36,440 Speaker 2: Catch on, Yeah they do, And I just don't know 621 00:27:36,520 --> 00:27:39,560 Speaker 2: that their defense is going to be. Their offensive line 622 00:27:40,280 --> 00:27:40,760 Speaker 2: is bad. 623 00:27:41,160 --> 00:27:43,119 Speaker 3: It's not out bad, and that's part of it too, 624 00:27:43,160 --> 00:27:45,840 Speaker 3: And it's dropped back passing game time. Yeah, they don't 625 00:27:45,840 --> 00:27:49,159 Speaker 3: protect or grinding out leads and weather. They don't do that, 626 00:27:50,720 --> 00:27:52,479 Speaker 3: but they could score forty on anybody. 627 00:27:52,880 --> 00:27:56,960 Speaker 2: Yeah you know, yeah, yeah, so we'll see that. 628 00:27:57,040 --> 00:27:58,200 Speaker 3: You have a feeling of who you'd pick in that 629 00:27:58,280 --> 00:27:58,920 Speaker 3: division today. 630 00:28:00,200 --> 00:28:01,160 Speaker 2: Probably still Buffalo. 631 00:28:02,359 --> 00:28:04,360 Speaker 3: I wonder if they only have one team in the playoffs. 632 00:28:04,400 --> 00:28:05,680 Speaker 2: I'd have to look at the schedules. 633 00:28:05,840 --> 00:28:08,480 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, you know, Buffalo's is supposedly the hardest of 634 00:28:08,560 --> 00:28:10,520 Speaker 3: them all. Well, Patriots are the hardest, but no one 635 00:28:10,600 --> 00:28:12,440 Speaker 3: picking them up because they got to play all the 636 00:28:12,480 --> 00:28:16,080 Speaker 3: other other teams. But I mean, just in terms of 637 00:28:16,160 --> 00:28:19,200 Speaker 3: playoff selection prediction time, I don't know if I'll pick 638 00:28:19,240 --> 00:28:22,760 Speaker 3: two teams out of the West or South. Probably end 639 00:28:22,840 --> 00:28:24,720 Speaker 3: up taking two out of the East, but not three. 640 00:28:25,280 --> 00:28:25,960 Speaker 2: Yeah, not three. 641 00:28:26,240 --> 00:28:28,280 Speaker 3: I bet I take three or maybe four out of 642 00:28:28,320 --> 00:28:31,640 Speaker 3: the North when it's all said and done. It's not insane, 643 00:28:31,840 --> 00:28:32,880 Speaker 3: it really isn't. 644 00:28:32,880 --> 00:28:34,280 Speaker 2: I've been picking the North this year. 645 00:28:34,560 --> 00:28:37,880 Speaker 3: Oh brutal. I mean, they could all win ten games. Yeah, 646 00:28:38,440 --> 00:28:40,360 Speaker 3: they were all winning teams. You could, you could, you 647 00:28:40,440 --> 00:28:43,680 Speaker 3: could paint a picture. Chances of having tie breakers of 648 00:28:43,720 --> 00:28:44,760 Speaker 3: workout right. 649 00:28:44,760 --> 00:28:47,400 Speaker 2: That's the rest problem. It will be difficult for any 650 00:28:47,400 --> 00:28:51,000 Speaker 2: of the teams in the AFC North to have home 651 00:28:51,040 --> 00:28:54,080 Speaker 2: field advantage because they got to play each. 652 00:28:53,920 --> 00:28:55,520 Speaker 3: Other like City or Houston. 653 00:28:55,520 --> 00:28:57,840 Speaker 2: And they all tough schedules except for Cincinnati. 654 00:28:58,080 --> 00:29:01,360 Speaker 3: Yeah, and I know that the metrics say Cincinnati's is easy. 655 00:29:02,400 --> 00:29:04,880 Speaker 3: They're still six AFC North games, right, and they're all 656 00:29:05,240 --> 00:29:07,880 Speaker 3: the rest stuff really is rough on them too. That 657 00:29:08,000 --> 00:29:10,880 Speaker 3: one doesn't add up to me all that much. I mean, yeah, 658 00:29:10,880 --> 00:29:13,440 Speaker 3: they have two games against last place teams. There's only two. 659 00:29:13,560 --> 00:29:17,160 Speaker 3: It's only two twenty two at seventeen. There's different, you know, absolutely, 660 00:29:17,600 --> 00:29:18,600 Speaker 3: Let's get to another break. 661 00:29:18,680 --> 00:29:21,720 Speaker 2: He is the Matt Williamson. I'm Dale Lolly. You're listening 662 00:29:21,800 --> 00:29:24,480 Speaker 2: to the Drive here on Steelers Nation Radio. 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He is Matt Williamson. I'm Dale Lelly. 674 00:30:05,680 --> 00:30:08,920 Speaker 2: You're listening to the drive here on Steeler's Nation Radio 675 00:30:09,600 --> 00:30:15,880 Speaker 2: and Matt, we saw Jacobe Jones, former Steeler die over 676 00:30:15,920 --> 00:30:18,400 Speaker 2: the weekend. Of course, he also a former Raven, former 677 00:30:18,480 --> 00:30:22,560 Speaker 2: Texans wide receiver slash kick returner as well. H forty 678 00:30:22,680 --> 00:30:23,160 Speaker 2: years old. 679 00:30:23,360 --> 00:30:25,920 Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, unfortunately, there was a couple of noteworthy 680 00:30:26,040 --> 00:30:29,160 Speaker 3: deaths and things like that over the weekend on sports 681 00:30:29,200 --> 00:30:31,560 Speaker 3: related but like, man, that guy was I remember him 682 00:30:31,560 --> 00:30:32,520 Speaker 3: playing just a couple of years ago. 683 00:30:32,560 --> 00:30:33,120 Speaker 2: It's forty. 684 00:30:33,320 --> 00:30:37,240 Speaker 3: That's terrible forty. And we didn't mention Kyrie Jackson happened 685 00:30:37,280 --> 00:30:39,640 Speaker 3: a while back too. Yeah, he's even younger. I mean, 686 00:30:43,040 --> 00:30:44,960 Speaker 3: I know it could happen anytime. But you know, we 687 00:30:45,040 --> 00:30:49,560 Speaker 3: saw Jordan Addison has a DUI situation this time of year. 688 00:30:50,440 --> 00:30:54,680 Speaker 3: We've been sort of lucky that this season hasn't been 689 00:30:55,360 --> 00:31:02,520 Speaker 3: a lot of catastrophes and you know, legal stuff. But 690 00:31:03,080 --> 00:31:05,120 Speaker 3: I'll tell you every GM and coach is just like 691 00:31:05,240 --> 00:31:07,200 Speaker 3: keeping their fingers crossed right now, you know, like, just 692 00:31:07,280 --> 00:31:09,040 Speaker 3: get me to camp where I can see my guys 693 00:31:09,080 --> 00:31:13,400 Speaker 3: every year, every day, and and I'm not comparing you know, 694 00:31:13,480 --> 00:31:17,000 Speaker 3: losing someone for one game suspension to you know, Jacobe 695 00:31:17,080 --> 00:31:18,840 Speaker 3: Jones dying or something like that. It's a lot bigger 696 00:31:18,880 --> 00:31:21,080 Speaker 3: deal to their families, of course, of course, of course, 697 00:31:21,200 --> 00:31:22,840 Speaker 3: but man it stinks. 698 00:31:22,560 --> 00:31:26,560 Speaker 2: You know, yeah, you know, talking to him over the year, 699 00:31:26,640 --> 00:31:27,840 Speaker 2: you know, a couple of times in you know, a 700 00:31:27,880 --> 00:31:29,640 Speaker 2: few times in the locker room. Get see it for 701 00:31:29,680 --> 00:31:34,880 Speaker 2: one year? Yeah, okay, good guy, Yeah really maker, Yeah, 702 00:31:35,120 --> 00:31:37,160 Speaker 2: just a sad, sad situation there. 703 00:31:37,440 --> 00:31:38,600 Speaker 3: He was a good dude to talk to him. 704 00:31:38,640 --> 00:31:41,400 Speaker 2: Yeah, he was good. He was good. So I'm about 705 00:31:41,400 --> 00:31:43,920 Speaker 2: this little thing. This is from a Pro Football talk. 706 00:31:44,920 --> 00:31:49,720 Speaker 2: The NFL really mandated the release of information on injuries 707 00:31:50,440 --> 00:31:52,200 Speaker 2: seventy seven years ago today. 708 00:31:53,760 --> 00:31:57,840 Speaker 3: Wow, okay, sports betting has been a while around for 709 00:31:57,880 --> 00:31:58,520 Speaker 3: a while, folks. 710 00:31:58,680 --> 00:32:03,360 Speaker 2: Yeah, that kind of nineteen forty seven was the first 711 00:32:03,440 --> 00:32:06,000 Speaker 2: time the NFL issued an injury report. 712 00:32:06,200 --> 00:32:10,600 Speaker 3: I wonder how monitored or accurate they were then, Yeah, 713 00:32:10,760 --> 00:32:11,400 Speaker 3: probably not. 714 00:32:11,680 --> 00:32:12,160 Speaker 2: Probably not. 715 00:32:12,520 --> 00:32:13,840 Speaker 3: That's innovative we've seen. 716 00:32:14,320 --> 00:32:17,640 Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I don't know that even to this point. 717 00:32:18,480 --> 00:32:21,920 Speaker 2: I mean, hockey doesn't really they have like lower lower body, 718 00:32:22,080 --> 00:32:25,720 Speaker 2: upper body. Yeah, thanks, that really narrows it down. 719 00:32:25,840 --> 00:32:28,040 Speaker 3: And it used to be Belichick would just put everybody's 720 00:32:28,080 --> 00:32:28,880 Speaker 3: questionable too. 721 00:32:28,880 --> 00:32:32,200 Speaker 2: Because they got fine for the manipulating the injury report. 722 00:32:32,360 --> 00:32:36,560 Speaker 3: Yeah, I think. I mean, who knows. We just did 723 00:32:36,600 --> 00:32:39,960 Speaker 3: the quarterback rank thing on ESPN, and if you read 724 00:32:40,040 --> 00:32:42,080 Speaker 3: through them and to no shock, you know, guys like 725 00:32:42,200 --> 00:32:46,320 Speaker 3: Jalen Hurts and Lawrence played with a lot of injuries 726 00:32:46,440 --> 00:32:49,320 Speaker 3: last year and they're not alone, and every position could 727 00:32:49,360 --> 00:32:50,960 Speaker 3: state it's more magnified a quarters. 728 00:32:50,960 --> 00:32:53,600 Speaker 2: You get ten weeks into an NFL season. Yeah, anybody 729 00:32:53,640 --> 00:32:56,680 Speaker 2: who's played, you know, eighty percent of the snaps in 730 00:32:56,760 --> 00:32:59,120 Speaker 2: a game's got something going on. Even if they haven't 731 00:32:59,120 --> 00:33:00,920 Speaker 2: played eighty percent of this they that's something. 732 00:33:00,760 --> 00:33:03,880 Speaker 3: That are going on. Yeah, and some of them have 733 00:33:04,200 --> 00:33:07,080 Speaker 3: extreme things going on too. And yeah, it might be 734 00:33:07,120 --> 00:33:09,520 Speaker 3: in the or in the practice report or injury report 735 00:33:09,600 --> 00:33:15,400 Speaker 3: that he's questionable with X, but he might have five 736 00:33:15,520 --> 00:33:18,600 Speaker 3: things and X might be really bad and he's just 737 00:33:18,720 --> 00:33:21,000 Speaker 3: getting limping into the game. You know, that happens all 738 00:33:21,080 --> 00:33:24,280 Speaker 3: the time. I don't go in locker rooms anymore, but 739 00:33:25,000 --> 00:33:29,520 Speaker 3: walking through Pitt or Akron or locker room on a 740 00:33:29,600 --> 00:33:34,680 Speaker 3: Tuesday or Wednesday, or strolling by the medical area, it's 741 00:33:34,840 --> 00:33:35,960 Speaker 3: like all out. 742 00:33:37,040 --> 00:33:39,400 Speaker 2: I mean again, these guys are dealing with just to 743 00:33:39,960 --> 00:33:43,640 Speaker 2: be ready to play again. Yeah. The next week is we. 744 00:33:43,720 --> 00:33:46,800 Speaker 3: Talked about field maintenance to start the show. I mean 745 00:33:47,000 --> 00:33:49,720 Speaker 3: the doctors and the training staff, the way that they 746 00:33:50,200 --> 00:33:53,480 Speaker 3: start their process basically the second the game ends, you know, like, 747 00:33:53,560 --> 00:33:55,400 Speaker 3: how do I get this guy to the next game? 748 00:33:56,280 --> 00:33:59,280 Speaker 3: Is a You're gotta have the outline lined out just right, 749 00:33:59,360 --> 00:34:01,959 Speaker 3: and hopefully he's this point by Wednesday and we can 750 00:34:02,440 --> 00:34:06,080 Speaker 3: get full range of motion by Thursday, and yeah, whatever 751 00:34:06,120 --> 00:34:07,400 Speaker 3: else you gotta do on you guys are. 752 00:34:07,320 --> 00:34:11,120 Speaker 2: Doing accuput puncture. They're doing the cups and those kind 753 00:34:11,120 --> 00:34:13,120 Speaker 2: of things. I mean, all kinds of stuff that they 754 00:34:13,200 --> 00:34:16,440 Speaker 2: do on their own to get themselves ready as well. Massages. 755 00:34:16,640 --> 00:34:19,920 Speaker 2: Oh yeah, you know, just it's it's a grind. 756 00:34:20,120 --> 00:34:23,040 Speaker 3: It's a grind, and needless to say, all that stuff. 757 00:34:23,080 --> 00:34:25,839 Speaker 3: So a bazillion times better than seventy seven years ago. 758 00:34:26,640 --> 00:34:28,680 Speaker 3: But I wonder if those guys played with they didn't 759 00:34:28,719 --> 00:34:31,200 Speaker 3: have millions in the bank either, Like, yeah, I'm just 760 00:34:31,200 --> 00:34:33,919 Speaker 3: gonna sit this one out, coach, Okay, don't get paid 761 00:34:33,920 --> 00:34:36,839 Speaker 3: by yeah, by the game, don't come back then either. 762 00:34:36,880 --> 00:34:38,000 Speaker 2: That or I'm selling insurance. 763 00:34:38,120 --> 00:34:41,840 Speaker 3: Yeah, go back to rufin or whatever. Right, it's crazy. 764 00:34:42,120 --> 00:34:45,600 Speaker 2: So the injury report. I can remember when we first 765 00:34:45,640 --> 00:34:49,400 Speaker 2: started doing fantasy football. Yeah, you had to wait for Wednesday, 766 00:34:50,200 --> 00:34:53,439 Speaker 2: really when the first injury reports came out, so everybody would. 767 00:34:53,760 --> 00:34:55,960 Speaker 2: I was working at the Observed Reporter in Washington at 768 00:34:56,000 --> 00:34:57,600 Speaker 2: that time. I think I may have told the story 769 00:34:57,640 --> 00:34:59,000 Speaker 2: before in the front of the air, but I'll tell 770 00:34:59,000 --> 00:35:02,480 Speaker 2: it again. Sure, So I happened to, you know, get 771 00:35:02,640 --> 00:35:04,719 Speaker 2: be the first one into the office on a Wednesday 772 00:35:05,440 --> 00:35:07,359 Speaker 2: and the injury report come out. He usually came out 773 00:35:07,400 --> 00:35:10,759 Speaker 2: around you know, two thirty three o'clock on Wednesday. And 774 00:35:10,840 --> 00:35:13,520 Speaker 2: so yeah, imagine I was playing one of the other 775 00:35:13,600 --> 00:35:15,000 Speaker 2: guys in the office that week. 776 00:35:15,160 --> 00:35:16,440 Speaker 3: No, I haven't heard a story. Yeah, that's good. 777 00:35:16,520 --> 00:35:19,400 Speaker 2: And so I went through and put every guy on 778 00:35:19,560 --> 00:35:23,520 Speaker 2: his roster onto the injury report on the AP wire, 779 00:35:26,360 --> 00:35:27,960 Speaker 2: with the head injury as questionable. 780 00:35:28,200 --> 00:35:32,239 Speaker 3: Well, with the headed his entire roster, his entire roster, everybody. Yeah, 781 00:35:32,440 --> 00:35:34,680 Speaker 3: so he comes in obviously didn't publish this or anything. 782 00:35:35,239 --> 00:35:37,960 Speaker 2: It was just on the way. I just you know, now, 783 00:35:38,000 --> 00:35:39,759 Speaker 2: if he'd have looked at it, he just said he 784 00:35:39,800 --> 00:35:42,640 Speaker 2: would have seen that I had edited if he dug 785 00:35:42,680 --> 00:35:44,320 Speaker 2: into it. If he dug into it, but he didn't. 786 00:35:44,960 --> 00:35:46,440 Speaker 2: You were playing him that week. I was playing him 787 00:35:46,440 --> 00:35:48,720 Speaker 2: that week. So he comes in his desk is across 788 00:35:48,800 --> 00:35:50,839 Speaker 2: the aisle from mine, and I you see him. I'm 789 00:35:50,840 --> 00:35:52,360 Speaker 2: watching him at the corner of my oon and he 790 00:35:52,400 --> 00:35:53,960 Speaker 2: sits down. The first thing he does, as fire as 791 00:35:54,040 --> 00:35:55,880 Speaker 2: up it starts looking at the injury report. That's what 792 00:35:55,920 --> 00:35:56,239 Speaker 2: we all did. 793 00:35:56,320 --> 00:35:57,919 Speaker 3: I'm not the same time. Every day. He could write 794 00:35:57,960 --> 00:36:04,719 Speaker 3: right and I hear him, oh oh and his back, 795 00:36:05,200 --> 00:36:06,719 Speaker 3: oh right right there. 796 00:36:06,800 --> 00:36:08,960 Speaker 2: You're like, oh my god, my whole team's hurt this week. 797 00:36:09,400 --> 00:36:10,879 Speaker 3: I wonder if how long it took him to put 798 00:36:11,160 --> 00:36:14,000 Speaker 3: head injury, head injury head of your back. Yeah. I'm like, 799 00:36:14,520 --> 00:36:15,200 Speaker 3: you're just chuckling. 800 00:36:15,480 --> 00:36:17,520 Speaker 2: I'm just chuckling away, and I let it go for 801 00:36:17,600 --> 00:36:19,120 Speaker 2: about fifteen minutes and he's over there. 802 00:36:19,560 --> 00:36:20,560 Speaker 3: This is unbelievable. 803 00:36:21,520 --> 00:36:25,680 Speaker 2: Hey, did you notice they're all head injuries? And everybody's 804 00:36:25,760 --> 00:36:27,120 Speaker 2: question if you told. 805 00:36:27,080 --> 00:36:28,799 Speaker 3: I'm sure you sold by him, like your team look 806 00:36:28,880 --> 00:36:32,879 Speaker 3: kind of banged up if you hadn't looked yet, Like yeah, yeah, 807 00:36:33,000 --> 00:36:33,239 Speaker 3: but the. 808 00:36:33,280 --> 00:36:35,480 Speaker 2: Injury report's a bit like what's a massive deal? 809 00:36:35,640 --> 00:36:38,600 Speaker 3: Yeah, think about the frankly, the money that changes hands 810 00:36:38,640 --> 00:36:41,160 Speaker 3: in Vegas because of it too, or the line changes 811 00:36:41,200 --> 00:36:41,760 Speaker 3: and all that stuff. 812 00:36:41,800 --> 00:36:42,319 Speaker 1: You know, one of the. 813 00:36:42,320 --> 00:36:45,399 Speaker 2: Reasons we talk fantasy football. One of the big things 814 00:36:45,440 --> 00:36:49,240 Speaker 2: we do during the season for Fantasy foot Every Wednesday 815 00:36:49,280 --> 00:36:51,279 Speaker 2: we talk about the injury Thursday we talk about the 816 00:36:51,360 --> 00:36:53,680 Speaker 2: injury report. Yeah, how this affects things? 817 00:36:53,880 --> 00:36:58,400 Speaker 3: I wonder, how do the thirty two teams. Did they 818 00:36:58,440 --> 00:37:01,439 Speaker 3: have somewhat one guy on staff that's really in charge 819 00:37:01,480 --> 00:37:04,920 Speaker 3: of the opponent's injuries like I would. I don't know 820 00:37:04,960 --> 00:37:05,239 Speaker 3: if they do. 821 00:37:05,320 --> 00:37:08,960 Speaker 2: At the same time, talk to the coaches and they 822 00:37:09,000 --> 00:37:12,600 Speaker 2: all say this, like they may watch the injury report, 823 00:37:13,800 --> 00:37:15,600 Speaker 2: but unless a guy's listed his out. 824 00:37:15,600 --> 00:37:17,279 Speaker 3: As I say, how much you really trust it? How 825 00:37:17,360 --> 00:37:20,680 Speaker 3: much can you take advantage of it? I mean, more 826 00:37:20,719 --> 00:37:24,279 Speaker 3: of it's probably on tape, like, yeah, this guy's something, 827 00:37:24,520 --> 00:37:26,000 Speaker 3: or he's really having a hard time going to his 828 00:37:26,120 --> 00:37:30,239 Speaker 3: left or Christian Watson has one leg bigger than the 829 00:37:30,280 --> 00:37:32,239 Speaker 3: other and can't play off one side, so we're gonna 830 00:37:32,280 --> 00:37:33,919 Speaker 3: lean the other way. I mean, those are the stuff 831 00:37:33,960 --> 00:37:37,400 Speaker 3: that you notice on tape, the fact he's questionable, but. 832 00:37:37,560 --> 00:37:39,600 Speaker 2: You tell you that, Yeah, you always assume, like if 833 00:37:39,640 --> 00:37:42,120 Speaker 2: a guy's questionable, I think you'll lean towards well, he's 834 00:37:42,160 --> 00:37:45,120 Speaker 2: gonna play. And then if he doesn't play, okay. 835 00:37:45,000 --> 00:37:47,120 Speaker 3: Then you and they probably know what coaches play more 836 00:37:47,160 --> 00:37:48,560 Speaker 3: games than others, and you. 837 00:37:48,600 --> 00:37:50,880 Speaker 2: Know that's that all goes into the analytics. And I 838 00:37:50,920 --> 00:37:54,880 Speaker 2: don't think that the analytics that's not bad analytics like no, no, no, 839 00:37:55,480 --> 00:37:59,440 Speaker 2: this guy, if he lists his players questionable seventy percent 840 00:37:59,480 --> 00:38:00,520 Speaker 2: of the time, the guy doesn't play. 841 00:38:00,800 --> 00:38:03,000 Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly. And that's just as a coach thing, if 842 00:38:03,040 --> 00:38:05,160 Speaker 3: the coach has been around long enough. I'm sure Horrballs 843 00:38:05,239 --> 00:38:07,720 Speaker 3: is different than Tomlins is different to Belichicks and Carols 844 00:38:07,800 --> 00:38:09,360 Speaker 3: or you know what I mean. And there's trends that 845 00:38:09,400 --> 00:38:09,640 Speaker 3: are right. 846 00:38:09,760 --> 00:38:12,440 Speaker 2: But the one thing that Tomlin has done over the 847 00:38:12,520 --> 00:38:15,160 Speaker 2: last couple of years, after they took away the probable 848 00:38:15,400 --> 00:38:18,960 Speaker 2: because it used to be probable, questionable, doubtful out Yeah, 849 00:38:19,160 --> 00:38:21,239 Speaker 2: when they took the doubtful away and just made it 850 00:38:21,360 --> 00:38:25,960 Speaker 2: probable or questionable and out. One thing in the last 851 00:38:26,000 --> 00:38:29,719 Speaker 2: couple of years is if a guy goes into Saturday's 852 00:38:29,760 --> 00:38:34,680 Speaker 2: practice who is questionable, and then he does. 853 00:38:35,120 --> 00:38:38,520 Speaker 3: He'll downgrade him to out okay, or he'll upgrade. 854 00:38:38,239 --> 00:38:38,960 Speaker 2: Him to probable. 855 00:38:39,719 --> 00:38:41,840 Speaker 3: Okay, so he makes a move Saturday morning with a 856 00:38:41,880 --> 00:38:43,719 Speaker 3: lot of questions. Yeah, it's one way or not one 857 00:38:43,719 --> 00:38:45,759 Speaker 3: way or the other. So I should the. 858 00:38:45,800 --> 00:38:47,719 Speaker 2: League forces them to do that? I know, I know 859 00:38:47,840 --> 00:38:50,640 Speaker 2: the league puts out mandates every year on what teams 860 00:38:50,680 --> 00:38:52,560 Speaker 2: are supposed to do with that stuff, and they're very. 861 00:38:52,920 --> 00:38:54,040 Speaker 3: They strongly suggested. 862 00:38:54,120 --> 00:38:56,640 Speaker 2: I know, like if a guy works on the side, 863 00:38:57,480 --> 00:39:01,000 Speaker 2: even that counts. That counts as asnticipating in practice. 864 00:39:01,040 --> 00:39:02,960 Speaker 3: Some of those guys just ride the bike like one 865 00:39:03,040 --> 00:39:03,480 Speaker 3: mile out. 866 00:39:03,560 --> 00:39:05,320 Speaker 2: Yeah, you know where he's over there working with trainers, 867 00:39:05,440 --> 00:39:07,400 Speaker 2: you know, right, Like you're supposed to list that is, 868 00:39:08,280 --> 00:39:09,840 Speaker 2: you know, participated in practice. 869 00:39:10,040 --> 00:39:13,280 Speaker 3: And I will tell people like Dale being at practice 870 00:39:13,360 --> 00:39:17,040 Speaker 3: on Friday is way more insightful than what comes across 871 00:39:17,120 --> 00:39:19,520 Speaker 3: the ap WA. You get a much better Yeah, that 872 00:39:19,600 --> 00:39:22,520 Speaker 3: guy's pretty far. You can call him questionable all you want, 873 00:39:22,640 --> 00:39:25,399 Speaker 3: but he's not blocking Aaron Donald today. 874 00:39:25,600 --> 00:39:28,279 Speaker 2: No. Yeah, a pretty good idea based on what guys 875 00:39:28,320 --> 00:39:30,279 Speaker 2: are doing over the course of the week, whether they're 876 00:39:30,280 --> 00:39:31,560 Speaker 2: going to play or not it and once you see 877 00:39:31,960 --> 00:39:33,840 Speaker 2: if the guy's still in a walking boot, he's probably 878 00:39:33,920 --> 00:39:36,760 Speaker 2: not gonna you know, even team might you know, other teams, 879 00:39:36,920 --> 00:39:39,279 Speaker 2: they might list the guys this or that. I just 880 00:39:39,440 --> 00:39:43,400 Speaker 2: I just know that Mike plays it pretty straightforward. 881 00:39:42,880 --> 00:39:45,839 Speaker 3: On Saturday morning, yeah, or Saturday after practice going into 882 00:39:46,520 --> 00:39:49,279 Speaker 3: And I should you about saying I should know this. 883 00:39:49,360 --> 00:39:53,160 Speaker 3: I'm a little rusty if Steelers or whoever lists someone 884 00:39:53,239 --> 00:39:57,040 Speaker 3: on as out on Saturday, can they still play legally? 885 00:39:57,560 --> 00:39:59,239 Speaker 3: You switch that on now. 886 00:39:59,560 --> 00:40:01,399 Speaker 2: I think if once you're out here, once you declare 887 00:40:01,440 --> 00:40:02,000 Speaker 2: it out, you're out. 888 00:40:02,080 --> 00:40:05,719 Speaker 3: Okay, like pulling a picture, you're done. Okay, yeah, okay. Yeah. 889 00:40:05,760 --> 00:40:08,279 Speaker 2: The league is cracked down on that a lot. 890 00:40:08,400 --> 00:40:09,360 Speaker 3: I know that they hate that. 891 00:40:09,680 --> 00:40:11,680 Speaker 2: Yeah, they don't want teams gaming. 892 00:40:12,680 --> 00:40:15,680 Speaker 3: Yeah, the the world he's out, well he's out. 893 00:40:15,840 --> 00:40:18,640 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, okay, because I do think that the league 894 00:40:18,680 --> 00:40:23,719 Speaker 2: does care about those things a lot of its integrity. Yeah, 895 00:40:23,840 --> 00:40:27,160 Speaker 2: it has tons to do with it, folks. But to 896 00:40:27,239 --> 00:40:28,880 Speaker 2: your point to the integrity of the league and the 897 00:40:28,960 --> 00:40:30,719 Speaker 2: integrity of that injury report. 898 00:40:30,560 --> 00:40:32,759 Speaker 3: Yeah don't. We don't want you lying to us, you know, 899 00:40:32,920 --> 00:40:34,479 Speaker 3: because what flat out is sometimes That's. 900 00:40:34,400 --> 00:40:36,279 Speaker 2: Why Belitari I think he got find a million dollars 901 00:40:36,360 --> 00:40:39,000 Speaker 2: for it. I mean it was a big fine because 902 00:40:39,040 --> 00:40:40,719 Speaker 2: he gained it, Like, oh, what do you mean, Tom 903 00:40:40,760 --> 00:40:43,480 Speaker 2: Brady's practiced all weekend. Now he's not playing. 904 00:40:44,000 --> 00:40:46,120 Speaker 3: It's a big deal for I spent a whole Wednesday 905 00:40:46,120 --> 00:40:48,640 Speaker 3: and Thursday practice assuming he was going to play. There's 906 00:40:49,760 --> 00:40:53,640 Speaker 3: but then he took it the opposite direction. Yeah, everybody, right, Yeah, yeah, 907 00:40:53,960 --> 00:40:55,839 Speaker 3: because and you can make in week eight, you can 908 00:40:55,920 --> 00:40:59,080 Speaker 3: make a case that everyone should be questionable. Yeah, someone's 909 00:40:59,080 --> 00:41:01,759 Speaker 3: got somebody or something's got something. You know, they don't play, 910 00:41:01,840 --> 00:41:04,040 Speaker 3: but someone's got something at that point if they've been 911 00:41:04,120 --> 00:41:07,440 Speaker 3: regular contributors. Yeah, I mean that's like the Beejeon Robinson 912 00:41:07,600 --> 00:41:09,680 Speaker 3: situation we talked was weird on you know, when he 913 00:41:09,800 --> 00:41:10,239 Speaker 3: was sick. 914 00:41:11,239 --> 00:41:14,160 Speaker 2: There was a report out that he actually got sick Saturday, 915 00:41:14,600 --> 00:41:17,520 Speaker 2: and they never added them to the injury report. Use 916 00:41:17,520 --> 00:41:19,399 Speaker 2: I think he practiced all week If he didn't take 917 00:41:19,480 --> 00:41:22,360 Speaker 2: part in the Saturday practice because of an illness, they 918 00:41:22,400 --> 00:41:24,799 Speaker 2: should have put him on. They could at least it's 919 00:41:24,840 --> 00:41:27,360 Speaker 2: probably you know, if he did not practice, you know, 920 00:41:27,440 --> 00:41:30,239 Speaker 2: participate today and you know, and now he sits out 921 00:41:30,280 --> 00:41:32,360 Speaker 2: the next day, that affects everything. 922 00:41:32,440 --> 00:41:35,319 Speaker 3: That affects everything, And wonder like do you address him 923 00:41:35,920 --> 00:41:39,680 Speaker 3: knowing that he's a shell of himself just because he 924 00:41:39,880 --> 00:41:40,680 Speaker 3: wasn't that's. 925 00:41:40,560 --> 00:41:42,960 Speaker 2: Why they did dress him, so they avoided the fine. 926 00:41:43,120 --> 00:41:44,600 Speaker 3: That's what I was wondering, like, Yeah, I mean, I'm 927 00:41:44,600 --> 00:41:46,520 Speaker 3: sure you catch on pretty quick that he's a decoy. 928 00:41:46,680 --> 00:41:48,640 Speaker 3: I mean, if he's not out then he's a too 929 00:41:48,719 --> 00:41:51,719 Speaker 3: big a prominent player. That he plays two snaps in 930 00:41:51,760 --> 00:41:54,439 Speaker 3: the first quarter, which is basically the pace he was on. Yeah, 931 00:41:54,560 --> 00:41:56,279 Speaker 3: and they don't give him the ball or feature him 932 00:41:56,280 --> 00:41:59,279 Speaker 3: at all. There's something wrong here. Yeah, but maybe they 933 00:41:59,360 --> 00:42:01,560 Speaker 3: had to dress him just to say, we don't want 934 00:42:01,600 --> 00:42:01,799 Speaker 3: to lie. 935 00:42:01,960 --> 00:42:03,759 Speaker 2: You know, we didn't want we didn't want to We 936 00:42:03,840 --> 00:42:07,160 Speaker 2: wanted to avoid a fine because but yeah, he shouldn't 937 00:42:07,160 --> 00:42:07,479 Speaker 2: be out. 938 00:42:07,360 --> 00:42:09,200 Speaker 3: There, shouldn't be out there because he didn't do anything 939 00:42:09,239 --> 00:42:11,319 Speaker 3: that day. Yeah, that was as a weird one. 940 00:42:11,680 --> 00:42:16,919 Speaker 2: It certainly was. Yeah, cool, absolutely so a good show, Matt. 941 00:42:17,080 --> 00:42:19,400 Speaker 3: Yeah, rolling along here, camps right around the corner. 942 00:42:20,080 --> 00:42:22,640 Speaker 2: Hard to believe. So we'll do Wednesday show. Wednesday will 943 00:42:22,640 --> 00:42:25,719 Speaker 2: be a week out from the report from reporting day. 944 00:42:25,760 --> 00:42:26,120 Speaker 3: Awesome. 945 00:42:26,400 --> 00:42:29,320 Speaker 2: I can't wait. Yea in camp and ready to go. 946 00:42:29,400 --> 00:42:31,560 Speaker 2: We're getting ready to gramping up for the twenty twenty 947 00:42:31,600 --> 00:42:36,120 Speaker 2: four NFL season, Baby, and then it's all drive all 948 00:42:36,160 --> 00:42:36,520 Speaker 2: the time. 949 00:42:36,920 --> 00:42:39,319 Speaker 3: Absolutely, We're back at it. Yep, I'm ready to get 950 00:42:39,360 --> 00:42:40,719 Speaker 3: busy again. Yeah, let's do it. 951 00:42:41,080 --> 00:42:41,880 Speaker 2: Well, don't talk. 952 00:42:41,719 --> 00:42:45,719 Speaker 3: About what you keep your personal life out of this, Williams. 953 00:42:45,640 --> 00:42:49,120 Speaker 2: Yes, please, Yeah, but that's going to do for today's show. 954 00:42:49,160 --> 00:42:52,359 Speaker 2: So for my partner Matt Williamson, for Brian Lamartina here 955 00:42:52,440 --> 00:42:55,360 Speaker 2: on site keeping us on the air, I'm Dale Lallie. 956 00:42:55,440 --> 00:42:57,520 Speaker 2: We thank you for listening to this edition of the 957 00:42:57,640 --> 00:42:59,680 Speaker 2: Drive on Steelers Nation Radio.