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Speaker 1: a five star matchup because.

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Speaker 2: We're in good evening Steeler Nation. How we do it? Well,

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Speaker 2: that's good us too. Our number two here on the

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Speaker 2: Drive West shouler Matt Williamson down the home stretch, final

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Speaker 2: hour of the week, and you know what that means.

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Speaker 2: It's time for our matchup segment. It's time for a

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Speaker 2: little five Star Friday as I pick the brain of

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Speaker 2: our resident scout and football expert, the wonderful world, the

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Speaker 2: Weird World of Matt Williamson. We're gonna make that an

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Speaker 2: offseason We're gonna make that an offseason weekly thing, the

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Speaker 2: Weird World of Matt Williamson, where we'll come up with

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Speaker 2: something different and obscure to talk about football related every

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Speaker 2: single week. But for now, it's just quite simply five

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Speaker 2: Star Friday. Matt. I know that we talked some of

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Speaker 2: this in the first first segment, but yeah, yeah, it

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Speaker 2: really does feel like the juiciest matchups to sink your

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Speaker 2: teeth into in this one are Chargers offense, Steelers defense. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: and really it starts with the quarterback Justin Herbert, as

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Speaker 2: we discussed at the start of the show. But then

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Speaker 2: I think you go to the talented pass catchers that

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Speaker 2: the Chargers have at wide receiver and tight end. Can

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Speaker 2: you talk a little bit more about those guys.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, so just kind of give you a

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Speaker 3: rundown on each one of them. I mean, Dadson has

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Speaker 3: come on like gangbusters. I mean these last three four weeks,

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Speaker 3: he's like the most productive tight end in the league.

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Speaker 3: He's Syracuse dude. People might remember his dad.

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Speaker 2: Wolf would have loved this.

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Speaker 3: Were talking about.

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Speaker 2: I love talking about a Syracuse tight end man.

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Speaker 3: And he doesn't block anybody. He's a big receiver. I

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Speaker 3: mean he's two hundred and thirty pounds. I mean, that's

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Speaker 3: why he dropped is he's a true tweener. But he

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Speaker 3: was really productive. He's a good football player, and he's

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Speaker 3: come on like gangbusters because he's come on so much.

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Speaker 3: And they like to play multiple you know, tight end

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Speaker 3: sets with like Matt Locke and big blocker bruiser dudes,

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Speaker 3: so they get their blocking elsewhere. But he's cut into

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Speaker 3: like Keenan Allen's usage, you know. I mean, they have

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Speaker 3: too many good pass catchers to get on the field,

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Speaker 3: which was kind of an Indie and Green Bay problem,

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Speaker 3: Like it's nice to have Chase and Higgins and they're

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Speaker 3: always out there world nice and.

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Speaker 2: He traded one of those guys this past week.

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Speaker 3: But yeah, right, right, right, But they have that issue too.

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Speaker 3: So one thing they've been doing lately, so Gadson's really

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Speaker 3: good after catch, He's a dynamic young tight end has

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Speaker 3: wide receiver on the field, which is very rare in

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Speaker 3: this league. I think people know. And it's been Trey Harris,

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Speaker 3: the rookie who's not one of their best guys, but

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Speaker 3: he's a big bodied, tough guy downfield, dude, size, speed,

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Speaker 3: So that's something that's been kind of a new wrinkle

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Speaker 3: a tight end. So Trey Harris is an intriguing young player.

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Speaker 3: I think everyone knows who McConkey is at this point,

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Speaker 3: He's Westwelker. No, he's all the above. I mean, he's

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Speaker 2: He's really made an incredible career for himself.

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Speaker 3: I thought he was done with the Bears. You know,

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Speaker 2: Was one of those things we talked about in training

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Speaker 3: I don't see it anymore. He's still in his he's

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Speaker 2: A first round pick first.

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Speaker 3: Yes, and he's by far having his best season. I

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Speaker 2: Yes, because his last year was that TCU team that

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Speaker 3: Now, I think I don't think Harbaugh drafted him.

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Speaker 2: He probably doesn't like that guy, right, all.

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Speaker 3: Right, Johnson's probably I remember you guys destroy us, all right.

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Speaker 3: I bet that comes up from time to time. But

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Speaker 3: many drops and he does have drop issue. Still, he's

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Speaker 3: And Harbaugh started to figure out last year. Just because

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Speaker 2: Yes.

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Speaker 3: Yes, So they've really gotten a wide variety. I mean

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Speaker 3: I want to point guard. I want a guy it's

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Speaker 3: I went the center. I want a wide variety, and

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Speaker 2: It's why they're able to still be where they're at

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Speaker 3: And that's a Harbaugh thing too. He really recognized is

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Speaker 3: how to put guys in their best situation, how to

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Speaker 2: Hall of Fame, yep. And he used to talk about

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Speaker 3: I mean, especially the college level. I mean that goes

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Speaker 3: I mean, he's going to find matchups to his liking.

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Speaker 2: On Sunday night, let's spin the block here and take

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Speaker 2: a look at the Steelers offense against the Chargers defense.

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Speaker 2: Matt a couple of household names on that Chargers defense

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Speaker 3: Yeah. So first of all, this is also a Harbaugh thing.

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Speaker 3: I think the the whole is greater than the sum

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Speaker 2: That's one thing that he's done from Stanford to San

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Speaker 3: doesn't look like the Khalil Mack everyone that's going to

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Speaker 2: Doesn't Defensive Player of the Year Khalil Mack.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. And I think it's his left arm that he

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Speaker 3: And it's just a side note, but I think I

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Speaker 3: Like he was so good. He's one of the best

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Speaker 3: it doesn't matter how long. Yeah, it just stabs you

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Speaker 3: the league, it nullifies you because no one's arms you know. Yes,

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Speaker 2: And the launch angle right, he's great at that.

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Speaker 3: And I think a lot of it's nullified because he's

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Speaker 2: Rob King, you'll laugh at this. Before we before we

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Speaker 2: you what Rob King will be doing. He'll be on

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Speaker 2: When we come back on the other side, it's time

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Speaker 2: Matt Williamson. It's the Drive on Steelers Nation Radio on

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Speaker 2: the Steelers Audio Network, your two.

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Speaker 1: Weeks about Drive on your twenty four to seven home

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Speaker 2: Time to go around the NFL here on the Drive.

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Speaker 2: It is getting close to Thanksgiving. The road is narrowing.

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Speaker 2: We are in week ten of the NFL season here

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Speaker 2: and some important games across the National Football League. Of course,

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Speaker 2: we all know. We discussed it very briefly the Broncos

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Speaker 2: one and ugly one last night ten to seven over

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Speaker 2: real pretty at eight and two here, heading into a

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Speaker 2: long stretch before they play the Kansas City Chiefs. Matt,

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Speaker 2: let's run the gambit of games here, gives us thoughts

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Speaker 2: like we always do. Across the pond in Germany. Yah,

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Speaker 2: the Falcons and the Colts. The Colts tough loss to

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Speaker 2: I'm sorry any they have, but Berlin. The Colts six

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I like the Colts here, big now overseas and

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Speaker 3: then he's like, let's go to Germany, right, Like all

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Speaker 3: that's all you gotta do this. You know, it's a

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Speaker 3: number one. We're not going to mix up coverages. You

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Speaker 3: just followed Jake around and Drake around in Germany, which

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Speaker 3: London has at least a.

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Speaker 2: Tough time a pedestrian day.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, London doesn't do well in Europe. Ooh, there's some

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Speaker 2: London's calling for sauce, he said, He's just just they

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Speaker 3: to do pretty good things.

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Speaker 2: Yes, it does.

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Speaker 3: there could be more points in that than you think. Though.

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Speaker 3: Chicago's deed is not great.

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Speaker 2: At all, It's not.

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Speaker 2: I'm a little surprised the over under and that's only

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that does seem low. Stay away I wondering weather

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Speaker 2: Know, hey, I don't call it the Wendy City for nothing.

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Speaker 3: It's also a big number. But Miami's run defense is horrible,

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Speaker 2: And you know what, I was just gonna say, maybe

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Speaker 2: yesterday when we were talking about candidates for Offensive Player

435
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Speaker 2: of the Year. I don't think he'll win it, but

436
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Speaker 2: we should have probably been that far off. You should

437
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Speaker 2: have probably he's in the conversation.

438
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean he's it gets better every time I

439
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Speaker 3: watch him. He's impressive. Yeah. And Bills d has been

440
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Speaker 3: playing better. I mean since they're by they've been really

441
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Speaker 3: really good.

442
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Speaker 2: Had a couple of key injuries in that win against

443
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Speaker 2: the Chiefs, but I think they'll be I think they'll

444
00:21:01,000 --> 00:21:02,879
Speaker 2: be able to keep it humming. That is a big number,

445
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Speaker 2: but I think i'd lay the points of buffal I

446
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Speaker 2: could see them winning by ten.

447
00:21:05,880 --> 00:21:07,800
Speaker 3: Yeah. And they tend to blow some teams.

448
00:21:07,520 --> 00:21:10,600
Speaker 2: Out too, they do. They have that tendency about them,

449
00:21:10,640 --> 00:21:13,120
Speaker 2: A big one that all Steelers fans will be keeping

450
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Speaker 2: an eye on. On Sunday afternoon in Minnesota, the Vikings

451
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Speaker 2: host the Ravens. You remember that fun final hour of

452
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Speaker 2: the shows that we had in Dublin with Marquise Pouncy. Yeah,

453
00:21:24,080 --> 00:21:26,240
Speaker 2: and we were doing our best Freddie Mercury at Live

454
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Speaker 2: Aid impersonation and get the crowd all route up. Remember

455
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Speaker 2: with Marquis who said the crowd, how do we feel

456
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Speaker 2: about teams who wear purple?

457
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Speaker 3: People went, Now they're matching.

458
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Speaker 2: Now they're matching each other up. And Baltimore is a

459
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Speaker 2: four and a half point favorite in Minnesota, Minnesota.

460
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Speaker 3: It's an awful place to play.

461
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Speaker 2: That's yeah.

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Speaker 3: I think Minnesota wins.

463
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Speaker 2: I think they might. I'm definitely taking the points.

464
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Speaker 3: I'm definitely taking the points. I mean, I understand the

465
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Speaker 3: Lamar factor is massive, and I have so much respect

466
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Speaker 3: for that, but man, I loved how Flora's defense played

467
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Speaker 3: last week. The Vike so lines healthy. Finally, Aaron Jones

468
00:22:04,240 --> 00:22:07,280
Speaker 3: is back in the mix. I don't love McCarthy, but

469
00:22:07,359 --> 00:22:09,359
Speaker 3: he helped them a lot. He's made plays with his

470
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Speaker 3: legs and was definitely the best quarterback play they've had

471
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Speaker 3: in a while. I don't think it's a good time

472
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Speaker 3: to play Minnesota in their building.

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Speaker 2: I agree with you on that they're feeling good about

474
00:22:18,119 --> 00:22:20,520
Speaker 2: themselves and they know, like we win this, we're back

475
00:22:20,520 --> 00:22:22,680
Speaker 2: above five hundred, we got everything to play for.

476
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Speaker 3: And they could start to get back in the playoff

477
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Speaker 3: picture quickly here. And I still think the Ravens have

478
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Speaker 3: some fundamental issues. Yeah, they don't rush pastor well, you know.

479
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Speaker 2: As good as Lamar is, they still have some issues.

480
00:22:34,000 --> 00:22:35,960
Speaker 2: And they're still pretty banged up elsewhere.

481
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Speaker 3: Yeah they are, they are. I think they have This

482
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Speaker 3: is a very losable game for them. I'm jumping all

483
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Speaker 3: over the points.

484
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Speaker 2: Matt in what we could call maybe the what's the

485
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Speaker 2: opposite of the game of the season, the the I

486
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Speaker 2: don't want to call it the toilet Bowl. Okay, that's

487
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Speaker 2: just me.

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Speaker 3: I think the Saints play the Jets in a week

489
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Speaker 3: or two. It's not much better.

490
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Speaker 2: It's just not much better. I guess maybe it'd be

491
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Speaker 2: like the Jets and the Titans at this point, would

492
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Speaker 2: be the true kind of battle of the bottom of

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Speaker 2: the barrel here.

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Speaker 3: Without quinnen without sauce, you know.

495
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Speaker 2: Lord, the Jets one in seven. They are zero and

496
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Speaker 2: five at home, though still haven't won at MetLife they

497
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Speaker 2: host the Browns. Okay, so the Jets haven't won a

498
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Speaker 2: home game. The Browns haven't won a road game. Something

499
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Speaker 2: has to give, Matt. Unless they end up tying Cleveland,

500
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Speaker 2: a two and a half point favorite there at MetLife

501
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Speaker 2: Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey.

502
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Speaker 3: It's amazing that the Browns are about a field on

503
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Speaker 3: the road, a favorite on the road against anybody. I

504
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Speaker 3: think I think I'm taking the Browns.

505
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Speaker 2: I think I would take the Browns too, and i'd

506
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Speaker 2: lay those points.

507
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, they may win ten to nine and

508
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Speaker 3: you lose a bat.

509
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Speaker 2: You talked a lot about this leading into that season

510
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Speaker 2: opening game where Dallas went to Philadelphia. Yeah, and I

511
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Speaker 2: think you even said on the Wednesday Show, what's the

512
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Speaker 2: morale like on the Cowboys plane when they all get

513
00:23:49,440 --> 00:23:52,280
Speaker 2: on the plane to fly to Philly defending champions and

514
00:23:52,320 --> 00:23:54,600
Speaker 2: they look around and they go, our best player's not.

515
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Speaker 3: Here, where's Mike?

516
00:23:55,480 --> 00:23:56,040
Speaker 2: Where's Michael?

517
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Speaker 3: Exactly?

518
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Speaker 2: What's that due to your morale? You're the Jets and

519
00:23:58,600 --> 00:24:00,919
Speaker 2: you get to that locker room on some and you're like,

520
00:24:01,080 --> 00:24:04,920
Speaker 2: where's Sauce? Where's Quinnin that to me that these guys

521
00:24:04,920 --> 00:24:07,720
Speaker 2: are humans as much as we know robots, these guys

522
00:24:07,760 --> 00:24:08,320
Speaker 2: are humans.

523
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Speaker 3: They know what the organization's thinking. A thousand demoralized, right,

524
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Speaker 3: And I thought Cleveland might move the Joku or Judy

525
00:24:15,960 --> 00:24:18,639
Speaker 3: or somebody, and they didn't. I mean, I'm sure the

526
00:24:18,680 --> 00:24:20,840
Speaker 3: defense will still be playing their best and all that.

527
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Speaker 3: You know. Yeah, the defense is by far the best

528
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Speaker 3: unit in this game.

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Speaker 2: It's solid, It's very good. In fact, it's more than solid.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and I'm with you. It is kind of surprising

532
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Speaker 2: that the Browns are a road favored against anybody, right,

533
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Speaker 2: but I will I'll take them to win this one

534
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Speaker 2: by at least three points. I think that that is

535
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Speaker 2: certainly doable. Matt a couple along with Ravens Vikings a

536
00:24:41,720 --> 00:24:44,119
Speaker 2: couple of really interesting games in the one o'clock window. Actually,

537
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Speaker 2: I'm excited to kind of roll out of bed and

538
00:24:46,119 --> 00:24:50,200
Speaker 2: watch these at what will be ten am, California time.

539
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Speaker 2: Patriots and Bucks seven and two, verse six and two.

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Speaker 2: This one's down in Tampa. Tampa's come back to life

541
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Speaker 2: a little bit since they're hot start to the season.

542
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Speaker 3: Coming off a by right now too, which I think

543
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Speaker 3: is helpful for them.

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Speaker 2: The Patriots, maybe other than Denver, the hottest team in

545
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Speaker 2: the NFL right now? Do they come back to life

546
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Speaker 2: a little bit?

547
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Speaker 3: I think they get knocked down a peg?

548
00:25:09,680 --> 00:25:11,720
Speaker 2: How's this one play out? Tampa two and a half

549
00:25:11,800 --> 00:25:13,719
Speaker 2: point favorites at home, so it's a close spread.

550
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Speaker 3: New England doesn't run the ball well. Tampa is really

551
00:25:16,520 --> 00:25:18,600
Speaker 3: hard to run on with Vita Bay in the middle there.

552
00:25:19,000 --> 00:25:22,119
Speaker 3: And I think Bulls will I love May, you know,

553
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Speaker 3: I love May, but Bulls is going to throw stuff

554
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Speaker 3: at me myself.

555
00:25:26,960 --> 00:25:30,439
Speaker 2: Okay, sorry, that was worse than my charged up for

556
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Speaker 2: the Chargers joke.

557
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Speaker 3: I just think Bulls throws a ton at him, you know,

558
00:25:36,119 --> 00:25:39,480
Speaker 3: a young quarterback. And sometimes you just look at these

559
00:25:39,480 --> 00:25:42,400
Speaker 3: teams and like, boy, the Patriots are really out kicking

560
00:25:42,400 --> 00:25:44,439
Speaker 3: their coverage, but this league has a way of just

561
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Speaker 3: knocking it back down.

562
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Speaker 2: You said that a few minutes ago. Yeah, I completely

563
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Speaker 2: agree with you. It happened to the Colts this past Sunday.

564
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Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely. And I think Tampa is good on the

565
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Speaker 3: offensive side of the ball. And I think, you know,

566
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Speaker 3: the New England defense is fine, don't get me wrong,

567
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Speaker 3: but Mayfield coming off of bye. You know, some of

568
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Speaker 3: these guys like Wurfs that were injured, I'm sure they're

569
00:26:03,160 --> 00:26:04,200
Speaker 3: happy about the bye.

570
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Speaker 2: You know, my buddies. I've got some buddies that are

571
00:26:07,240 --> 00:26:10,840
Speaker 2: you know, got some degenerate tendencies. And every Sunday morning

572
00:26:10,880 --> 00:26:12,760
Speaker 2: I get a text from them, what lines do you

573
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Speaker 2: like today? What tell me what the Yeah, Tampa minus

574
00:26:15,600 --> 00:26:16,879
Speaker 2: two and a half is going to be high on

575
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Speaker 2: that list of lines that I like.

576
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Speaker 3: I think off of a bye week, bikes are high

577
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Speaker 3: on that list.

578
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Speaker 2: Yes, Minnesota getting the points is going to be high

579
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Speaker 2: on that list too, But this one, I just off

580
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Speaker 2: the bye week. I think Tampa is prime for a

581
00:26:29,680 --> 00:26:32,800
Speaker 2: solid performance. I think the Patriots are kind of in

582
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Speaker 2: that spot where you said it feels like maybe they'll

583
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Speaker 2: take a little bit of a step back.

584
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Speaker 3: Yeah.

585
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll lay the two and a half with Tampa.

586
00:26:38,040 --> 00:26:40,040
Speaker 3: Yeah. Four steps forward, one step back.

587
00:26:40,119 --> 00:26:41,680
Speaker 2: Sure, they're still going to be in a great spot.

588
00:26:42,119 --> 00:26:43,320
Speaker 2: And I don't I don't think they're going to go

589
00:26:43,359 --> 00:26:46,280
Speaker 2: down there and embarrass themselves, but I think the Bucks

590
00:26:46,280 --> 00:26:50,600
Speaker 2: will win. Saints are in Charlotte to take on the Panthers.

591
00:26:50,680 --> 00:26:52,960
Speaker 2: The Panthers at five and four, talking about a surprise

592
00:26:53,040 --> 00:26:56,040
Speaker 2: team that we didn't think would have much to play for,

593
00:26:56,160 --> 00:26:59,840
Speaker 2: but they do. Matt, this one is intriguing to me

594
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Speaker 2: because it is the second The only game all week

595
00:27:02,160 --> 00:27:04,639
Speaker 2: that has a lower over under is Jets Browns. Okay,

596
00:27:05,040 --> 00:27:07,800
Speaker 2: that adds up. This is the second lowest over under

597
00:27:07,840 --> 00:27:10,400
Speaker 2: of the week. Just thirty eight and a half points

598
00:27:10,600 --> 00:27:13,120
Speaker 2: is the over under. But the Panthers are favored by

599
00:27:13,160 --> 00:27:14,480
Speaker 2: five and a half, which.

600
00:27:14,400 --> 00:27:15,840
Speaker 3: Is another one. It's kind of like the Browns, like,

601
00:27:15,840 --> 00:27:17,680
Speaker 3: should you really be favored by five and a half?

602
00:27:17,760 --> 00:27:20,359
Speaker 2: Usually when you see an over under that small, the

603
00:27:20,440 --> 00:27:21,320
Speaker 2: money doesn't.

604
00:27:21,119 --> 00:27:23,119
Speaker 3: Leave, but yeah, it doesn't leave them. The room to

605
00:27:23,320 --> 00:27:24,280
Speaker 3: you both right.

606
00:27:24,720 --> 00:27:28,240
Speaker 2: I'm surprised by that because I do think Carolina has

607
00:27:28,280 --> 00:27:31,480
Speaker 2: been a positive story and a positive surprise in the

608
00:27:31,600 --> 00:27:34,840
Speaker 2: NFL this year. Yes, but the divisional games there in

609
00:27:34,880 --> 00:27:38,159
Speaker 2: the NFC South are always wonk either always. It's like

610
00:27:38,200 --> 00:27:41,479
Speaker 2: weird stuff happens in that division all the time. I

611
00:27:41,480 --> 00:27:43,720
Speaker 2: think the Panthers win, But five and a half is

612
00:27:43,760 --> 00:27:44,439
Speaker 2: a big number.

613
00:27:44,480 --> 00:27:46,680
Speaker 3: You're taking the taking them taking the point, take.

614
00:27:46,560 --> 00:27:48,960
Speaker 2: The points with the Saints. I don't like that one.

615
00:27:48,960 --> 00:27:50,960
Speaker 2: That'd be the stay away from In fact, I might

616
00:27:51,040 --> 00:27:52,240
Speaker 2: hit the over on that number.

617
00:27:52,480 --> 00:27:54,760
Speaker 3: Yeah. I never think of them having a great home

618
00:27:54,760 --> 00:27:58,520
Speaker 3: field advantage either. In Carolina. They just run on everybody.

619
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Speaker 3: Right now, I think I'm going to take the Panthers.

620
00:28:02,040 --> 00:28:05,600
Speaker 3: The Saints have a lesser version of that sauce Quinn

621
00:28:05,720 --> 00:28:08,840
Speaker 3: Mike conversation we just had too, like you just dumped you.

622
00:28:08,840 --> 00:28:12,560
Speaker 3: You know you're obviously not in to win it. It's

623
00:28:12,600 --> 00:28:14,879
Speaker 3: got to be some good mojo going around Carolina right

624
00:28:14,920 --> 00:28:16,840
Speaker 3: now too. I mean, they're all kicking our coverage. But

625
00:28:16,880 --> 00:28:19,040
Speaker 3: I don't feel strong about that game. But I'll take Carolina.

626
00:28:19,840 --> 00:28:24,199
Speaker 2: Carolina right now is the overweight, chubby guy with a

627
00:28:24,240 --> 00:28:28,720
Speaker 2: receding hairline sitting at the bar with somebody that is

628
00:28:28,800 --> 00:28:29,600
Speaker 2: way out of his lead.

629
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Speaker 3: I forget what show is doing the other day, and

630
00:28:33,280 --> 00:28:36,000
Speaker 3: they're like, man, I thought Tampa Bay would have controlled

631
00:28:36,000 --> 00:28:38,080
Speaker 3: this division by now, but Carolina is right in it.

632
00:28:38,200 --> 00:28:41,480
Speaker 3: I'm like, not for long, give it two weeks. You

633
00:28:41,520 --> 00:28:42,520
Speaker 3: want to have that conversation.

634
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Speaker 2: Last one of the one o'clock games, Matt, and it's

635
00:28:45,360 --> 00:28:48,719
Speaker 2: another again, some really intriguing ones in this one o'clock

636
00:28:48,760 --> 00:28:52,320
Speaker 2: slate in Houston, A big one between the Texans and

637
00:28:52,320 --> 00:28:55,400
Speaker 2: the Jags. The Jags looking to stay at kind of

638
00:28:55,400 --> 00:28:58,480
Speaker 2: the forefront of the wild card conversation, Houston looking to

639
00:28:58,560 --> 00:29:01,160
Speaker 2: keep their season on life support with out C. J. Stroud,

640
00:29:01,640 --> 00:29:05,040
Speaker 2: Jacksonville a one and a half point favorite deep in

641
00:29:05,080 --> 00:29:05,920
Speaker 2: the heart of Texas.

642
00:29:06,000 --> 00:29:09,880
Speaker 3: I'm not a huge Jags believer, but without Stroud and

643
00:29:10,760 --> 00:29:13,440
Speaker 3: still massive o line problems, I'm a little shocked that

644
00:29:13,440 --> 00:29:17,920
Speaker 3: that's not a bigger line. Me too. Yeah, Houston's d

645
00:29:18,120 --> 00:29:20,440
Speaker 3: is great. They definitely could keep us in close, and

646
00:29:20,440 --> 00:29:22,520
Speaker 3: if it's a real low scoring game, I understand the

647
00:29:22,520 --> 00:29:26,000
Speaker 3: small line and Mills isn't the worst backup in the world,

648
00:29:26,160 --> 00:29:30,480
Speaker 3: but still it's like, I think this is the end

649
00:29:30,560 --> 00:29:31,560
Speaker 3: for the Texans.

650
00:29:31,680 --> 00:29:35,240
Speaker 2: I think so too. I would lay those points with Jacksonville.

651
00:29:35,240 --> 00:29:37,040
Speaker 2: I know home dogs are always dangerous.

652
00:29:37,200 --> 00:29:40,360
Speaker 3: I know division home dogs in particular special Yeah yeah.

653
00:29:40,040 --> 00:29:42,960
Speaker 2: But it just this feels like the Sunday where it

654
00:29:43,040 --> 00:29:47,880
Speaker 2: starts to go downhill for the Houston Texans. Unfortunately into

655
00:29:47,880 --> 00:29:49,000
Speaker 2: the four o'clock slate of games.

656
00:29:49,120 --> 00:29:51,200
Speaker 3: Total coincidence, but my phone just lit up and said,

657
00:29:51,200 --> 00:29:54,600
Speaker 3: Brian Thomas Junior will miss Sunday's game against the Houston Texans.

658
00:29:55,080 --> 00:29:56,600
Speaker 2: Well, that's not good for jackson all right.

659
00:29:56,640 --> 00:29:58,720
Speaker 3: I mean they's trade for Myers. I assume they saw

660
00:29:58,760 --> 00:30:03,760
Speaker 3: that coming. Yeah right, Travis Hunter is still out correct, Yeah,

661
00:30:03,840 --> 00:30:04,720
Speaker 3: but probably.

662
00:30:04,520 --> 00:30:06,320
Speaker 2: Short term, might be a good week to have Jacobe

663
00:30:06,360 --> 00:30:07,520
Speaker 2: Myers on your fantasy team.

664
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I guess run right in the mix.

665
00:30:10,120 --> 00:30:15,120
Speaker 2: In the four o'clock slate, out West Seahawks host the Cardinals.

666
00:30:16,000 --> 00:30:18,920
Speaker 2: Matt is this a little rat poison? Seattle? I realized

667
00:30:18,960 --> 00:30:21,040
Speaker 2: six and a half that's I mean, that's not nothing,

668
00:30:21,880 --> 00:30:24,880
Speaker 2: but Seattle. I feel weird saying only a six and

669
00:30:24,920 --> 00:30:27,000
Speaker 2: a half point favorite when it's a when it's a touchdown.

670
00:30:27,120 --> 00:30:28,960
Speaker 2: But yeah, that's one of the ones that I would

671
00:30:28,960 --> 00:30:30,440
Speaker 2: have thought would be more like eight and a half

672
00:30:30,520 --> 00:30:31,160
Speaker 2: for Seattle.

673
00:30:31,240 --> 00:30:33,640
Speaker 3: I thought same thing. I just think they're way better,

674
00:30:33,760 --> 00:30:38,080
Speaker 3: way better. And I wonder if that line reflects a

675
00:30:38,120 --> 00:30:40,880
Speaker 3: lot of people watched Arizona Dallas and like, well they

676
00:30:40,920 --> 00:30:43,200
Speaker 3: didn't go back to Murray, that Arizona's got it all

677
00:30:43,200 --> 00:30:44,600
Speaker 3: figured out, And I like, is.

678
00:30:44,600 --> 00:30:47,280
Speaker 2: A occasional game too, like weird stuff happens.

679
00:30:47,640 --> 00:30:50,600
Speaker 3: I just think playing against Dallas' defense is a lot

680
00:30:50,680 --> 00:30:53,560
Speaker 3: different than playing against Seattle, is it ever? Yeah, I'm

681
00:30:53,560 --> 00:30:54,560
Speaker 3: taking Seattle there.

682
00:30:55,160 --> 00:30:58,560
Speaker 2: I think so too. I that's what the Nick Saban

683
00:30:58,640 --> 00:31:00,960
Speaker 2: line of like rat poison, you know, like that's like

684
00:31:01,000 --> 00:31:03,000
Speaker 2: I told you last week. I was like that Falcons

685
00:31:03,160 --> 00:31:05,480
Speaker 2: are How are the Patriots only favored by five against

686
00:31:05,480 --> 00:31:08,320
Speaker 2: the Falcons? That feels like rat poison. The Falcons score

687
00:31:08,360 --> 00:31:10,760
Speaker 2: ten points late to you know, to cover.

688
00:31:10,960 --> 00:31:12,200
Speaker 3: Yeah, and that could be the case.

689
00:31:12,280 --> 00:31:14,280
Speaker 2: That could be the case here, but I just I

690
00:31:14,320 --> 00:31:16,000
Speaker 2: don't know. That to me feels like it should be

691
00:31:16,000 --> 00:31:17,720
Speaker 2: more like eight and a half Seattle. So I will

692
00:31:17,800 --> 00:31:20,000
Speaker 2: lay the points with the Seahawks to win that one

693
00:31:20,040 --> 00:31:23,080
Speaker 2: by at least a touchdown against on.

694
00:31:23,040 --> 00:31:25,920
Speaker 3: The road though totally, which is wild.

695
00:31:25,680 --> 00:31:28,840
Speaker 2: Destroyer of worlds. They're two and two at home, four

696
00:31:28,880 --> 00:31:31,680
Speaker 2: and oh on the road Seattle. Another one out there

697
00:31:31,680 --> 00:31:35,320
Speaker 2: in the NFC West, another important one for playoff positioning.

698
00:31:35,400 --> 00:31:38,960
Speaker 2: Here in November, the six and three Niners host the

699
00:31:39,000 --> 00:31:43,000
Speaker 2: six and two Rams the Battle of California. The Rams

700
00:31:43,000 --> 00:31:45,800
Speaker 2: are a four and a half point favorite.

701
00:31:46,920 --> 00:31:51,040
Speaker 3: I'm taking the Rams very reluctantly. I just think they're

702
00:31:51,160 --> 00:31:52,920
Speaker 3: way better than the Niners.

703
00:31:52,960 --> 00:31:55,240
Speaker 2: I think Niners a few weeks ago when they played

704
00:31:55,240 --> 00:31:58,640
Speaker 2: on Thursday Night, but the written the Niners one he

705
00:31:58,800 --> 00:31:59,960
Speaker 2: things happen on Thursday Night.

706
00:32:00,560 --> 00:32:04,280
Speaker 3: Shanahan beats McVeigh a lot more often than the other

707
00:32:04,320 --> 00:32:07,600
Speaker 3: way around. And there's something to it. There's a little

708
00:32:07,600 --> 00:32:10,960
Speaker 3: bit of like Raven Steelers feel to that game. And

709
00:32:11,000 --> 00:32:13,840
Speaker 3: I've made that comparison with my my co host, Brian Peacock,

710
00:32:13,880 --> 00:32:17,040
Speaker 3: who does Niners. And I'm like, do you think it's

711
00:32:17,040 --> 00:32:20,160
Speaker 3: smart BP to just take the points in this game?

712
00:32:20,200 --> 00:32:22,560
Speaker 3: No matter what? He's like, yep, Like that's what if

713
00:32:22,560 --> 00:32:25,160
Speaker 3: I pick Raven Steelers. It could be twenty thirty one.

714
00:32:25,640 --> 00:32:28,440
Speaker 3: Just give me the points, you know what I mean, Like,

715
00:32:28,520 --> 00:32:33,680
Speaker 3: it doesn't matter, just give me the point, right. It's

716
00:32:33,680 --> 00:32:36,480
Speaker 3: like it's gonna be close. These teams know each other too. Well,

717
00:32:36,640 --> 00:32:39,600
Speaker 3: nobody's gonna blow out the other. But I am taking

718
00:32:39,600 --> 00:32:41,600
Speaker 3: the Rams, and I'm going against everything I just said

719
00:32:41,680 --> 00:32:43,840
Speaker 3: because I think Stafford's way better and I think that

720
00:32:44,040 --> 00:32:45,520
Speaker 3: Rams just don't have any weaknesses.

721
00:32:45,600 --> 00:32:48,240
Speaker 2: Right now, we kind of keep waiting for that shoe

722
00:32:48,280 --> 00:32:50,720
Speaker 2: to drop for the Niners. I know, maybe this is

723
00:32:50,720 --> 00:32:53,320
Speaker 2: the week. Just keep losing players left, right, Shanahan all

724
00:32:53,320 --> 00:32:54,960
Speaker 2: the credit in the world, made big time. He's done

725
00:32:54,960 --> 00:32:58,400
Speaker 2: this year, But eventually that attrition wears you down.

726
00:32:58,560 --> 00:33:00,400
Speaker 3: Yeah and a half.

727
00:33:00,440 --> 00:33:02,280
Speaker 2: I'd like it more if it was three and a half.

728
00:33:02,680 --> 00:33:04,800
Speaker 2: Maybe two and a half. But I'm with you in

729
00:33:04,880 --> 00:33:07,000
Speaker 2: San fran right, and it's in Santa Claric.

730
00:33:07,200 --> 00:33:10,840
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I guess the Steelers are using the building

731
00:33:11,280 --> 00:33:11,960
Speaker 3: on Sunday and.

732
00:33:12,040 --> 00:33:15,840
Speaker 2: Correct, correct, I'm with you on that one. Wouldn't shock

733
00:33:15,920 --> 00:33:18,120
Speaker 2: me if the Niners win. But I think it's I

734
00:33:18,200 --> 00:33:20,360
Speaker 2: think the Rams. I think it's there. I think it's

735
00:33:20,360 --> 00:33:23,000
Speaker 2: their turn we turn the favorite. I do too, Yeah,

736
00:33:23,040 --> 00:33:25,520
Speaker 2: I do too. And finally, Matt, before we take a

737
00:33:25,520 --> 00:33:28,360
Speaker 2: break and get to our final thoughts on Steelers, Chargers,

738
00:33:29,400 --> 00:33:31,479
Speaker 2: the Commanders at home in a tough spot.

739
00:33:31,680 --> 00:33:33,520
Speaker 3: No, we'll save the Monday night or the Monday.

740
00:33:33,600 --> 00:33:38,480
Speaker 2: We'll save the Monday Night Eagles. Baby. Heck yeah. Commanders

741
00:33:38,480 --> 00:33:42,280
Speaker 2: hosting the Lions. A beat up, kind of downtrodden Commander's team,

742
00:33:42,840 --> 00:33:45,880
Speaker 2: a Lions team that's kind of by their standards, coming

743
00:33:45,880 --> 00:33:50,240
Speaker 2: off an embarrassing performance Detroit seven and a half point

744
00:33:50,280 --> 00:33:51,080
Speaker 2: favorite on the road.

745
00:33:51,400 --> 00:33:53,400
Speaker 3: I know if you saw. But Washington gid gets some

746
00:33:53,440 --> 00:33:56,160
Speaker 3: good news about Daniels that it's not as bad as

747
00:33:56,160 --> 00:33:58,680
Speaker 3: originally thought. I don't think he is. He's gonna be

748
00:33:58,680 --> 00:34:01,000
Speaker 3: out for a while, but it's not I don't think

749
00:34:01,040 --> 00:34:03,400
Speaker 3: he needs surgery. It's not as bad as originally thought.

750
00:34:04,160 --> 00:34:05,440
Speaker 2: Was glad to hear that me too.

751
00:34:05,480 --> 00:34:07,520
Speaker 3: I was like, he went to that guy back out there.

752
00:34:07,840 --> 00:34:11,200
Speaker 3: I still think they're a wounded animal though, and actually

753
00:34:11,320 --> 00:34:14,879
Speaker 3: the Lions of the wounded animal and the way they're constructed.

754
00:34:15,920 --> 00:34:17,879
Speaker 3: I just think that this is a type of game

755
00:34:17,920 --> 00:34:22,359
Speaker 3: where they're going to be pissed with how they played embarrassed.

756
00:34:23,000 --> 00:34:25,400
Speaker 3: Not that you know, it wasn't an embarrassing loss. The

757
00:34:25,480 --> 00:34:28,200
Speaker 3: Vikings aren't bad, but they just seem to respond to

758
00:34:28,239 --> 00:34:30,560
Speaker 3: these games by like winning by twenty the next week.

759
00:34:30,640 --> 00:34:31,879
Speaker 2: Yes, that's what they do.

760
00:34:31,960 --> 00:34:34,840
Speaker 3: That's what they do, right, Emier Gibbs is like one

761
00:34:34,920 --> 00:34:37,959
Speaker 3: hundred and eighty yards after having nothing last week, you know.

762
00:34:38,080 --> 00:34:42,040
Speaker 2: It was a long night at home on was it

763
00:34:42,200 --> 00:34:44,399
Speaker 2: mon No? Was it Sunday night football last week? When

764
00:34:44,640 --> 00:34:46,680
Speaker 2: when the Seahawks went in there? Was it Monday night?

765
00:34:46,719 --> 00:34:50,839
Speaker 2: I can't remember if that, but regardless it was, it

766
00:34:50,880 --> 00:34:54,120
Speaker 2: was a long night for the Commanders last week at home.

767
00:34:54,160 --> 00:34:55,560
Speaker 2: I think this is going to be a long one

768
00:34:55,600 --> 00:34:59,040
Speaker 2: for them again. I mean Seattle and Detroit back to back,

769
00:34:59,080 --> 00:35:01,000
Speaker 2: two physical each you up defenses.

770
00:35:01,080 --> 00:35:01,680
Speaker 3: That's a good point.

771
00:35:01,880 --> 00:35:05,800
Speaker 2: I I don't think this one's gonna pretty for the McLaurin.

772
00:35:05,880 --> 00:35:07,080
Speaker 3: You're not Daniels.

773
00:35:07,160 --> 00:35:08,640
Speaker 2: You know it's a big number. But that might be

774
00:35:08,640 --> 00:35:10,560
Speaker 2: another one of my my picks that I send my

775
00:35:10,560 --> 00:35:13,239
Speaker 2: buddies is Detroit minus seven, especially if you could tease

776
00:35:13,239 --> 00:35:16,120
Speaker 2: it down with something else to five and a half. Yeah,

777
00:35:16,239 --> 00:35:18,759
Speaker 2: get it under seven seems like a really smart play.

778
00:35:19,440 --> 00:35:23,480
Speaker 2: That's it for our around the NFL every Friday segment. Here,

779
00:35:23,520 --> 00:35:26,399
Speaker 2: just one game left to talk about the Steelers and

780
00:35:26,440 --> 00:35:29,440
Speaker 2: the Chargers in prime time. We'll give our thoughts and

781
00:35:29,480 --> 00:35:32,040
Speaker 2: our predictions on that one before we get up out

782
00:35:32,040 --> 00:35:34,960
Speaker 2: of here. On the other side, well, Shuler, Matt Williamson,

783
00:35:35,000 --> 00:35:37,239
Speaker 2: it is the Drive on Steelers Nation Radio on the

784
00:35:37,239 --> 00:35:38,400
Speaker 2: Steelers Audio Network.

785
00:35:44,920 --> 00:35:47,560
Speaker 1: Your tunees about Drive on your twenty four to seven

786
00:35:47,640 --> 00:35:50,160
Speaker 1: home of the Black and Goal Steelers Nation.

787
00:35:50,120 --> 00:36:12,720
Speaker 4: Radio final segment.

788
00:36:12,760 --> 00:36:15,319
Speaker 2: Here on a Friday, we have got to get to

789
00:36:15,360 --> 00:36:17,960
Speaker 2: our final predictions between Steelers and Chargers. But Matt, it's

790
00:36:18,000 --> 00:36:21,279
Speaker 2: been a couple of weeks. I always forget to ask

791
00:36:21,320 --> 00:36:23,960
Speaker 2: you this, and I will not forget today before we

792
00:36:24,040 --> 00:36:26,080
Speaker 2: get to the line and our predictions and our score

793
00:36:26,320 --> 00:36:29,640
Speaker 2: predictions and final thoughts and all that simple question for you.

794
00:36:29,719 --> 00:36:32,200
Speaker 2: Excuse me as I burped some coffee up here. Nice,

795
00:36:33,160 --> 00:36:35,440
Speaker 2: the Steelers win, if the Steelers lose.

796
00:36:35,480 --> 00:36:39,319
Speaker 3: If the lose, I was going to open with, is

797
00:36:39,680 --> 00:36:43,239
Speaker 3: we might come back here on Monday that a lot

798
00:36:43,280 --> 00:36:46,719
Speaker 3: too and be like, man that justin Herbert, dude's good.

799
00:36:47,280 --> 00:36:50,320
Speaker 2: You know you didn't win the turnover battle and lay.

800
00:36:50,360 --> 00:36:52,640
Speaker 3: Right like he picked you apart just when you thought

801
00:36:52,680 --> 00:36:55,439
Speaker 3: you had on me, escaped and had that thirty yard

802
00:36:55,480 --> 00:36:58,279
Speaker 3: run that broke your back. And man, he spread the

803
00:36:58,280 --> 00:37:01,080
Speaker 3: ball around and could quite get to him.

804
00:37:01,719 --> 00:37:04,480
Speaker 2: He converted a third and fourteen with his legs. Yeah,

805
00:37:04,560 --> 00:37:05,840
Speaker 2: key moment or something.

806
00:37:05,600 --> 00:37:08,439
Speaker 3: Like that kind of feel like if they win, he's

807
00:37:08,480 --> 00:37:11,040
Speaker 3: the MVP, and we all just go, Man, we lost

808
00:37:11,080 --> 00:37:14,120
Speaker 3: to a really good quarterback and that's been there, you know.

809
00:37:14,200 --> 00:37:17,399
Speaker 3: I mean, it's that's brutal. And I could also see

810
00:37:17,400 --> 00:37:19,960
Speaker 3: the Steelers running game struggling too, you know, like not

811
00:37:20,000 --> 00:37:22,160
Speaker 3: getting a lot of rhythm on offense, you know, not

812
00:37:22,200 --> 00:37:25,160
Speaker 3: getting that running game going, getting away from it a

813
00:37:25,200 --> 00:37:28,160
Speaker 3: little bit, and then Herbert beats you. You know that,

814
00:37:28,320 --> 00:37:31,640
Speaker 3: That's how I think you could lose it. But to

815
00:37:31,640 --> 00:37:33,440
Speaker 3: cut to the chase, I'm picking the Steelers to win.

816
00:37:33,960 --> 00:37:35,040
Speaker 3: I'm picking them win twenty eight.

817
00:37:35,120 --> 00:37:37,879
Speaker 2: Twenty gosh, we're not far off again. Really, last couple

818
00:37:37,880 --> 00:37:39,120
Speaker 2: of weeks, we've been almost spot on.

819
00:37:39,200 --> 00:37:41,200
Speaker 3: Did I ever tell you this? Damn?

820
00:37:41,040 --> 00:37:42,759
Speaker 2: And I have a stretch of like five or six

821
00:37:42,800 --> 00:37:44,320
Speaker 2: straight weeks where you picked the same score.

822
00:37:44,400 --> 00:37:47,319
Speaker 3: It was like seven or eight. We had to I

823
00:37:47,360 --> 00:37:50,280
Speaker 3: had to like write down my score to prove, to prove,

824
00:37:50,440 --> 00:37:52,719
Speaker 3: and we weren't even like on video back then, and

825
00:37:52,760 --> 00:37:54,840
Speaker 3: I'd be like, I'd show to it and he'd the

826
00:37:54,880 --> 00:37:57,520
Speaker 3: one time he like spit out his diet coke, He's like,

827
00:37:57,560 --> 00:38:00,319
Speaker 3: that's my exact same score. And I haven't proved, you know,

828
00:38:00,360 --> 00:38:01,680
Speaker 3: like we would do it beforehand.

829
00:38:01,719 --> 00:38:02,320
Speaker 2: It's hilarious.

830
00:38:02,360 --> 00:38:04,640
Speaker 3: It was unbelievable. We were the exact same score for

831
00:38:04,680 --> 00:38:05,799
Speaker 3: like seven or eight weeks in a row.

832
00:38:05,840 --> 00:38:07,279
Speaker 2: Is not we haven't had the same one, but we've

833
00:38:07,280 --> 00:38:10,320
Speaker 2: been like we've been closed. You said twenty six twenty,

834
00:38:10,560 --> 00:38:13,000
Speaker 2: I did twenty eight, twenty eight twenty. I'm going twenty

835
00:38:13,080 --> 00:38:15,400
Speaker 2: seven to twenty Steelers. Okay, so we are.

836
00:38:15,200 --> 00:38:17,359
Speaker 3: We are just about and it's not like we're just

837
00:38:17,440 --> 00:38:19,840
Speaker 3: like picking it right off the spread and Steelers Steelers

838
00:38:19,840 --> 00:38:21,880
Speaker 3: are dogs, you know. I mean that doesn't match the

839
00:38:22,440 --> 00:38:25,239
Speaker 3: if we weren't, if this wasn't the Steeler segment, this

840
00:38:25,280 --> 00:38:26,680
Speaker 3: would be one of my favorite bets of the week.

841
00:38:26,719 --> 00:38:28,839
Speaker 3: Like you're gonna give me points and what's basically going

842
00:38:28,880 --> 00:38:31,360
Speaker 3: to be a home game away from home. I just

843
00:38:31,400 --> 00:38:34,440
Speaker 3: think it's a terrible time or a great time from

844
00:38:34,480 --> 00:38:36,640
Speaker 3: this perspective to play the Chargers all.

845
00:38:36,520 --> 00:38:38,560
Speaker 2: About the old line, completely agree.

846
00:38:38,640 --> 00:38:41,720
Speaker 3: I just think they're really not able to block people.

847
00:38:41,920 --> 00:38:44,719
Speaker 2: We we talk about how the ebbs and flows of that.

848
00:38:44,840 --> 00:38:47,880
Speaker 2: Sometimes you get teams at the wrong time. Yes, sometimes

849
00:38:47,880 --> 00:38:49,480
Speaker 2: you get them at the right time. And I do

850
00:38:49,480 --> 00:38:51,400
Speaker 2: feel like they're getting the Chargers at the at the

851
00:38:51,440 --> 00:38:53,799
Speaker 2: best time. You could be getting them right now as

852
00:38:53,840 --> 00:38:56,640
Speaker 2: they are just trying to patchwork, throw that offensive line together,

853
00:38:57,120 --> 00:38:59,960
Speaker 2: and when you're coming off the just wrecking ball performing

854
00:39:00,160 --> 00:39:02,040
Speaker 2: that your defense had last week as well too.

855
00:39:02,320 --> 00:39:04,879
Speaker 3: Yeah, and you and Missy had a good point too

856
00:39:04,920 --> 00:39:07,960
Speaker 3: about if crowd noise can actually work to your advantage,

857
00:39:08,440 --> 00:39:11,920
Speaker 3: Like those tackles have never heard Herbert's cadence or know

858
00:39:12,040 --> 00:39:14,840
Speaker 3: any of that kind of stuff. And the communication with

859
00:39:14,920 --> 00:39:17,840
Speaker 3: O line is so important. None of those dudes have

860
00:39:17,880 --> 00:39:20,560
Speaker 3: played together let alone. They're just not as good as

861
00:39:20,680 --> 00:39:23,680
Speaker 3: TJ and Hysmith and Cam and you know what I mean.

862
00:39:23,680 --> 00:39:27,680
Speaker 3: They're just overmatched physically, but the mental and communication stuff

863
00:39:27,719 --> 00:39:30,040
Speaker 3: I think could be really tough on them. And I'm

864
00:39:30,040 --> 00:39:32,200
Speaker 3: sure Harball will have some I wouldn't be shocking me

865
00:39:32,239 --> 00:39:33,640
Speaker 3: if he like fakes a punt or you know it

866
00:39:33,680 --> 00:39:37,799
Speaker 3: does something goofy. But I also keep coming back to

867
00:39:37,840 --> 00:39:42,480
Speaker 3: that that graph that I posted about turnovers and special

868
00:39:42,520 --> 00:39:45,120
Speaker 3: teams are such in the Steelers favor too.

869
00:39:46,200 --> 00:39:48,120
Speaker 2: I think that's enough, and in a close game like

870
00:39:48,160 --> 00:39:50,719
Speaker 2: this that quite often ends up being the difference. Yeah,

871
00:39:50,800 --> 00:39:55,680
Speaker 2: my Steelers lose if they're not at least even in

872
00:39:55,680 --> 00:39:56,560
Speaker 2: the turnover battle.

873
00:39:57,160 --> 00:39:59,560
Speaker 3: Sure, and we can say that just about every week

874
00:40:00,200 --> 00:40:01,080
Speaker 3: with that question, you know.

875
00:40:01,280 --> 00:40:03,600
Speaker 2: And and they and they let Herbert run wild.

876
00:40:04,320 --> 00:40:07,320
Speaker 3: Herbert has been turned the ball over and they turnovers

877
00:40:07,320 --> 00:40:09,080
Speaker 3: aren't real friendly of this team either.

878
00:40:09,120 --> 00:40:11,040
Speaker 2: Another way they could lose is if the Chargers possessed

879
00:40:11,040 --> 00:40:12,960
Speaker 2: the ball for thirty six thirty seven minutes.

880
00:40:13,080 --> 00:40:15,120
Speaker 3: That's actually my biggest concern. I should have kind of

881
00:40:15,120 --> 00:40:18,400
Speaker 3: opened with that too, along with Herbert being awesome. But

882
00:40:18,440 --> 00:40:22,000
Speaker 3: if they're real physical with those big, heavy packages and

883
00:40:22,040 --> 00:40:23,920
Speaker 3: the Steelers are three and out, three and out and

884
00:40:24,000 --> 00:40:26,839
Speaker 3: the Steelers d starts to look like, oh we let

885
00:40:26,920 --> 00:40:29,839
Speaker 3: up a lot of yardage, like and maybe make big

886
00:40:29,880 --> 00:40:32,239
Speaker 3: plays maybe not, that would worry me. Yeah.

887
00:40:32,400 --> 00:40:35,600
Speaker 2: Yeah, I also think like turnover differential obviously a big one.

888
00:40:35,640 --> 00:40:38,000
Speaker 2: Steelers winning the sack differential again, I think would go

889
00:40:38,040 --> 00:40:38,520
Speaker 2: a long.

890
00:40:38,360 --> 00:40:40,120
Speaker 3: Way and be shocked if they don't.

891
00:40:40,160 --> 00:40:41,239
Speaker 2: I'll be shocked if they don't.

892
00:40:41,360 --> 00:40:43,120
Speaker 3: Yeah, And it's you know, it's.

893
00:40:43,440 --> 00:40:45,400
Speaker 2: It's so funny. I'll give a shout out to His

894
00:40:45,480 --> 00:40:50,160
Speaker 2: name's Jordan. He's my oldest daughter, Olivia. Our daughters go

895
00:40:50,200 --> 00:40:51,000
Speaker 2: to daycare together.

896
00:40:51,400 --> 00:40:53,680
Speaker 3: Oh okay, so he's a dad, he's a dad, yeah.

897
00:40:53,560 --> 00:40:56,560
Speaker 2: And his daughter and my daughter are like bestie's and

898
00:40:56,600 --> 00:40:59,080
Speaker 2: he's a Steelers diehard. He has season tickets, and so

899
00:40:59,120 --> 00:41:01,399
Speaker 2: every time we see each other dropping off the kids

900
00:41:01,440 --> 00:41:03,319
Speaker 2: or picking up the kids, he's always picking my brain.

901
00:41:03,880 --> 00:41:05,440
Speaker 3: I'm sure he's happy.

902
00:41:05,520 --> 00:41:07,239
Speaker 2: I like talking to him. He likes talking to me

903
00:41:07,360 --> 00:41:09,560
Speaker 2: type thing. He's a good dude. He's actually on a

904
00:41:09,600 --> 00:41:11,160
Speaker 2: flight right now to LA to go out there for

905
00:41:11,160 --> 00:41:13,160
Speaker 2: the week and go to the game. And I saw

906
00:41:13,239 --> 00:41:15,439
Speaker 2: him this morning and he was like, he's like, I'm

907
00:41:15,480 --> 00:41:18,600
Speaker 2: just worried. He's like, we should absolutely dominate that offensive line,

908
00:41:18,600 --> 00:41:19,680
Speaker 2: which makes me think we won't.

909
00:41:19,800 --> 00:41:22,280
Speaker 3: Yeah, of course, And I get that way of thinking.

910
00:41:22,320 --> 00:41:24,920
Speaker 3: I mean, if you don't, we do all this analysis

911
00:41:25,000 --> 00:41:27,520
Speaker 3: and we don't know. Yeah, we don't know.

912
00:41:27,680 --> 00:41:29,760
Speaker 2: That's what That's why we love football. So yeah, yeah,

913
00:41:29,760 --> 00:41:32,319
Speaker 2: that's that's why we all get it in Sunday and

914
00:41:32,400 --> 00:41:34,280
Speaker 2: spend twelve hours sitting on the couch.

915
00:41:34,719 --> 00:41:36,800
Speaker 3: But it's a mess of a line.

916
00:41:37,000 --> 00:41:38,080
Speaker 2: It is, it really is.

917
00:41:38,360 --> 00:41:40,040
Speaker 3: Playing is the point where I feel bad for.

918
00:41:40,160 --> 00:41:42,319
Speaker 2: Playing this team in week two or week three versus

919
00:41:42,360 --> 00:41:45,120
Speaker 2: now is a world of difference. It's a complete one.

920
00:41:44,960 --> 00:41:48,240
Speaker 3: Eighty and you never should do this, but like schedule release,

921
00:41:48,320 --> 00:41:50,680
Speaker 3: I'm like, oh, I don't. I probably take the Chargers

922
00:41:50,680 --> 00:41:52,120
Speaker 3: in that game, you know, even though I knew it

923
00:41:52,160 --> 00:41:54,120
Speaker 3: was gonna be a ton of Steeler fans back in

924
00:41:54,200 --> 00:41:56,759
Speaker 3: July one, you know. But still it's like they're a

925
00:41:56,800 --> 00:41:57,560
Speaker 3: pretty solid team.

926
00:41:57,640 --> 00:41:59,720
Speaker 2: I mean, if they're completely healthy, Like they're an offense

927
00:41:59,760 --> 00:42:02,439
Speaker 2: that is built to neutralize what the Steelers do well

928
00:42:02,440 --> 00:42:02,960
Speaker 2: on the defense.

929
00:42:03,000 --> 00:42:04,400
Speaker 3: Yeah. Man, it's like Slater and all.

930
00:42:05,400 --> 00:42:07,120
Speaker 2: He can put those guys on an island.

931
00:42:06,920 --> 00:42:10,480
Speaker 3: Right name. They can probably handle TJ by himself, you know, right, Yeah.

932
00:42:10,200 --> 00:42:12,600
Speaker 2: But that is not the case. And hopefully the Steelers

933
00:42:12,600 --> 00:42:15,640
Speaker 2: will take advantage and I'll be low on sleep but

934
00:42:15,760 --> 00:42:18,200
Speaker 2: not grumpy when we're back here to uh to break

935
00:42:18,239 --> 00:42:20,799
Speaker 2: down a victory Monday. And man, if the Steelers moved

936
00:42:20,800 --> 00:42:23,800
Speaker 2: to six and three, get a little help from the Minnesota.

937
00:42:23,440 --> 00:42:24,879
Speaker 3: Vikings, yeah, now you're talking.

938
00:42:24,960 --> 00:42:26,800
Speaker 2: I get by with a little help from my friends,

939
00:42:27,239 --> 00:42:29,920
Speaker 2: and we could be in a good position on Monday.

940
00:42:29,960 --> 00:42:32,799
Speaker 2: But regardless of what happens matt win, loser, draw, we

941
00:42:32,840 --> 00:42:34,799
Speaker 2: will be back here Monday to break it down for

942
00:42:35,000 --> 00:42:39,560
Speaker 2: everybody on Steelers Nation Radio. For Missy Matthews kind enough

943
00:42:39,560 --> 00:42:41,400
Speaker 2: to give us some of her time. Big thank you

944
00:42:41,440 --> 00:42:44,040
Speaker 2: to her of course, to our video producer Tyler V

945
00:42:44,200 --> 00:42:47,000
Speaker 2: mister TV for making us look handsome on the YouTube,

946
00:42:47,239 --> 00:42:49,560
Speaker 2: and young Nathan in here training and learning the ropes.

947
00:42:49,960 --> 00:42:53,320
Speaker 2: He's Matt Williamson. I'm West Yuler. Enjoy the weekend, everybody.

948
00:42:53,600 --> 00:42:56,160
Speaker 2: If you are one of those West Coast Steelers fans

949
00:42:56,239 --> 00:42:59,120
Speaker 2: or traveling Steelers fans, make sure you make some noise

950
00:42:59,160 --> 00:43:02,000
Speaker 2: and race. Yeah you gotta pardon this, raise some hi

951
00:43:02,000 --> 00:43:04,719
Speaker 2: double hockey sticks there at Sofi Stadium and have those

952
00:43:04,719 --> 00:43:08,360
Speaker 2: guys on a silent count at home and help demoralize

953
00:43:08,400 --> 00:43:11,359
Speaker 2: that Chargers offense and offensive line. And we'll be back

954
00:43:11,360 --> 00:43:13,360
Speaker 2: here on Monday to break it all down. As always,

955
00:43:13,360 --> 00:43:15,439
Speaker 2: you know where to find us. It's on your twenty

956
00:43:15,480 --> 00:43:17,920
Speaker 2: four to seven Home of the Black and Gold Steelers

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