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

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Speaker 1: on your twenty four to seven home of the Black

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Speaker 1: and Gold Steelers Nation Radio.

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Speaker 2: Welcome back. I'm Dale LOLLI he is Matt Williamson, and

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Speaker 2: this is the Drive on Steelers Nation Radio and it

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Speaker 2: is time for the Fantasy Football Focus and Matt. For

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Speaker 2: the first time this year, our DFS lineup just missed

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Speaker 2: the cut. We just fell short. We finished in a

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Speaker 2: massive tie in two hundred for two hundred and third

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Speaker 2: place with one hundred and forty eight point seven six points.

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Speaker 2: And I started looking at it last night, like.

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Speaker 3: This is a compliment by the way I do.

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Speaker 2: I do as well. So they're like twenty teams in

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Speaker 2: this tournament that we were entered into that had exactly

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Speaker 2: one hundred and forty eight point seven six points.

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Speaker 3: So I started in decimal scoring. Yeah, decimal scoring.

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Speaker 2: So I started looking at their lineups and they were

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Speaker 2: exactly the same lineup that we started.

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Speaker 3: Huh, I wonder why that is.

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Speaker 2: And then and then I started looking at him like, hmm,

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Speaker 2: this one is called this team is called six Packs Stillers,

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Speaker 2: this one is called Go Steal eighty six. This one's

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Speaker 2: Carolina Steeler A, this one is terrible, tehead. I'm like,

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Speaker 2: hm azy Pittsburgh Sports.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, what's the call? Like, Okay, we get okay, I

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Speaker 3: love Matt and Dale came in go some of these

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Speaker 3: other ones.

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Speaker 2: I don't know, but I'm.

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Speaker 3: Guessing, like the coincidence, you've all we we rank you, folks,

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Speaker 3: that's very We appreciate it. Your own tournament.

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Speaker 2: We're sorry for taking you down the wrong path this

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Speaker 2: week and losing.

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Speaker 3: Well, you're still one with us. You're still one if

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Speaker 3: you take the same approach.

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Speaker 2: If we got one more catch from somebody, one more point.

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Speaker 3: All twenty of us would have made a buck or two.

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Speaker 2: We finished with one hundred and forty eight point seven

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Speaker 2: six points. The cutoff to win money was one forty

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Speaker 2: nine point five. Oh so we need a MISSI how

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Speaker 2: far were we off? We're less than one point away?

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Speaker 3: One catch, one couple more yard, yeah.

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Speaker 2: Whatever it maybe it gets right, it's as close as

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Speaker 2: it gets, and we were.

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Speaker 3: The nation would have been much richer today, they much richer.

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Speaker 3: But three whatever.

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Speaker 2: Right, we play, as we say, a five dollars tournament.

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Speaker 3: Just to see if we win or not. But right,

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Speaker 3: so our fault, folks. We got close. We got close

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Speaker 3: team effort this week.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Kieran Williams got the eight tournaments eight point five

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Speaker 2: points last week. Last night he had two catches, both

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Speaker 2: in the second half. He had four targets in the

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Speaker 2: first half and didn't catch any of them. And I

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Speaker 2: noted to you as well during the game he's not

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Speaker 2: even remotely interested in past protectionation.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and he's an overrated receiver.

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Speaker 2: Keep that in mind when the Steelers play the Rams

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Speaker 2: later this year, like, unless he gets massively better at this,

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Speaker 2: like he just not very big. Yeah. He just immediately

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Speaker 2: when the ball he's beside the quarterback when the ball

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Speaker 2: snapped and just immediately runs out of the backfield out there. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: so that's worth keeping an eye on me.

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Speaker 3: He's the number one there, but he's a he's a jag.

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Speaker 3: He's not a starting caliber.

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Speaker 2: Same thing with you. We had DeAndre Swift in the

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Speaker 2: lineup last thing. He got good seventeen point eight points.

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Speaker 2: Strich was good one hundred and thirty rushing yard, which

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Speaker 3: They notoriously don't throw the backs, and I guess that's

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Speaker 2: And obviously he can't get the toush push touchdown.

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Speaker 3: Well, no, that's gonna hurts, right, That's I would have

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Speaker 3: if you if you went wildcat in that situation and

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Speaker 3: you shoved your running back into the into the at

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Speaker 3: least he takes more hits.

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Speaker 2: At least it's your running back. It's not your your

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Speaker 2: fifty million dollars a year quarterback that you're putting at

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Speaker 3: I mean, Hurts isn't a dainty fellow, But no, he's not.

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Speaker 3: And he's taking a lot more snaps in his life,

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Speaker 2: But yeah, So anyways, but we were close, We were close,

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Speaker 2: But no, cigar. We'll get back out of it again this Friday.

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Speaker 2: Maybe I won't announce.

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Speaker 3: What which one we're in.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you'll have to go find it.

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Speaker 3: But use the lineup all you want.

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Speaker 2: We appreciate everybody doing that. We joke. But I just

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Speaker 2: I'm like looking at that last night and I texted Mad,

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Speaker 2: I'm like, there are like twenty people who have the

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Speaker 2: same exact score as us, and I looked at all

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Speaker 2: their lineups and they have the same exact lineup that

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Speaker 3: But you almost have to. I mean, it's hard to

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Speaker 3: build but.

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Speaker 2: It was even in the same order like we used

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Speaker 2: the running back, we use Kiaran Williams is the is

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Speaker 2: the flex play, and they were all set up that

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Speaker 3: Yeah, very cool. We're taking it as a compliment. Absolutely,

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Speaker 3: team here. Absolutely one more point.

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Speaker 2: We led you astray this week, we'll get we'll get

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Speaker 2: back out of it again next week.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's just it.

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Speaker 2: You may have played in a different tournament than we did.

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Speaker 3: And one. Yeah, so there's probably hundreds of you they're saying, Hey,

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Speaker 3: no problem, guys, good for you.

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Speaker 2: So anyways, I hope you did. In fact, I hope

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Speaker 2: you did. I hope you played in a money tournament

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Speaker 2: and did win tons.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, buy some beer, Sarkies.

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Speaker 2: So moving on here looking at this week's pickups, Matt.

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Speaker 3: Depending on your league, there's some really enticing ones, or

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Speaker 3: if your league's pretty full, there's not a lot.

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Speaker 2: Well, I'm looking here at Rodoballer dot com and they

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Speaker 2: have a list of the running backs in order of

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Speaker 2: how they would pick them up. Leading the list is

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think he got a league.

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Speaker 2: These are generally guys that are owned in like less

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Speaker 3: Or ESPN or whatever. I know. That's how a lot

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Speaker 3: of these sites do it. They just go find ownership.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so I understand if it's well, I wish a

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Speaker 2: Chane was available in my league.

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Speaker 3: I get it, of course, of course. But he's gonna

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Speaker 3: be available. I bet in about fifty percent.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: I mean, he hasn't done much and he came in

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Speaker 3: a third string guy. But he's in everything now. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Uh. Number two on the list is Kenneth Gainwell, and

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Speaker 2: he be in every league he was. Yeah, he probably

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Speaker 2: then Swift had the big game.

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Speaker 3: If he's out there, he's still.

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Speaker 2: Going to use him.

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Speaker 3: That looks like a fifty to fifty yeah, which in

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Speaker 2: And they actually do throw him the ball here and

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Speaker 2: the area, which is a little frustrated.

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Speaker 3: It is.

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Speaker 2: It's not like DeAndre Swift is a bad receiver.

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Speaker 3: No, No, I don't get that either.

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Speaker 2: Number three on the list is Jaylem Warren.

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Speaker 3: Even if you don't own nausey, he should be in

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Speaker 2: He should be in the league. I keep seeing stuff. Well,

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Speaker 2: the the snap split was similar this week. Okay, that's fine,

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Speaker 2: but nause hate nausea is still out touching En by

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Speaker 3: But I mean we're coming up on bye weeks, and

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Speaker 3: if this holds true, or even if it's two to

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and he looked this was his best game and

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Speaker 3: he got more of this game. Not the Walkers doing

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Speaker 3: anything wrong. But he's the clear too clear too, and

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Speaker 3: looks good and is being kind of being the Warren.

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Speaker 3: I mean, Walker is not much of a receiver. I

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Speaker 3: mean he'll if you dump Tim will catch it, but

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Speaker 3: he's not a developed receiver. I think Sharbonnay is going

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Speaker 3: to get that, and even more so than Warren. If

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Speaker 3: the lead dog gets hurt, he goes through the wrongers. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Roshawn Johnson next long list. He's actually kind of

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Speaker 2: a fifty to fifty split. They're just an awful team.

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Speaker 3: Nothing his fault. I mean he's impressing coaches. He's great

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Speaker 3: in protection, tough as could be, good special teamer like

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Speaker 3: I wish you a Steeler. He's in the worst offense

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Speaker 2: Uh. Kendrey Miller is next on the list. I thought

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Speaker 2: with Kamara back. I just don't know how much Kamara

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Speaker 3: No, He'll be all the passing down work and ease

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Speaker 3: into it. I'm sure I would hang on to Miller. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: he's a hold, He's a hold. Yeah. I mean I've

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Speaker 3: the second half of the year. Yeah, maybe a Spears

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Speaker 3: Guys like that that aren't you know for not I'm

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Speaker 3: not talk about Road or Bijon. I'm talking about the Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, the midfrone guys, Uh, Tank Bigsby. So they ran

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Speaker 2: atn a lot last week, I know, you know, like

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Speaker 2: probably shouldn't have you in the league.

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Speaker 3: That we're in together. I don't think this is a

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Speaker 3: great secret. You have first waiver claim, which I didn't

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Speaker 3: anybody who really wanted to cut. For a change. Do

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Speaker 3: he's DeVaughn a chan.

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Speaker 2: Well, he should take the e off the end of

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Speaker 3: Then I guess he can pronounce it anyway. Well, call

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Speaker 3: him than thighs.

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Speaker 2: Well, when you have tw hundred rushing yards, you could

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Speaker 2: pronounce it however.

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Speaker 3: You Yeah, right, But I was gonna cut Bigsby. I

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Speaker 3: didn't have anybody really wanted to cut, and I'm like, well,

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Speaker 3: I gotta get rid of somebody.

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Speaker 2: I think he's a hold right now, I think he's

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Speaker 2: a hold.

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Speaker 3: He got a touchdown. I like them, unless their offense

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Speaker 2: I might pick up gain Well or somebody like that.

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Speaker 3: The couple guys higher on the list to me were

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Speaker 3: worth cutting him, but I would rather hang on to him. Yeah, possible.

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Speaker 2: Elijah Mitchell next on that list. He should probably be

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Speaker 2: in leagues anyways. He got more run this week though,

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Speaker 2: because they played on Thursday night.

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Speaker 3: M hm, he's not startable, but yeah McCaffrey missus one

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Speaker 3: This is Trey Palmer's behind a number number one on

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Speaker 2: Here is Tank Dell. Yes, yes, the Steelers will see

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Speaker 3: That is, he'sn't likely he gets opportunities. Yeah, I don't know.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know what their receiver snap count is. Crazy. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: A quality player. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: DeVante Parker, Yeah, DeVante Parker, I'm not buying on that one. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: No, he's catching. He's a like second leading pass catcher

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Speaker 3: They're so bad right now, Why wouldn't Peyton be like,

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Speaker 2: But yeah, Calvin Austin on there like, so Marvin Mims

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Speaker 2: But Austin is on the field constantly right now.

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Speaker 3: Saw, Austin's not gonna go away.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, maybe a no fault of his own. Robinson and

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Right, then you're looking at Rondell Moore.

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Speaker 2: Again, he's on the field. I'll take him over Marvin

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Speaker 3: He's on the field all the time. I think he

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Speaker 2: That's a that's kind of a dice roll, like you

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Speaker 2: constantly there, Ron, I might go Rondell More over some

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Speaker 3: Of them, right, No, I definitely would. He should probably

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Speaker 3: A good play took us out, A really bad injury took.

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Speaker 2: The made the most of his of a situation. Tight

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Speaker 3: Well, I think the injury helps him. Yeah, William's injury. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it could be worse. You could be with me

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Speaker 3: Yeah, or boy, the Pits owners.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, all the Pits owners gonna be try. I'm glad

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Speaker 3: I thought we'd see more through three games. But he's

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but Michael Thomas has been actually pretty good. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, I mean he's gonna be the theiling old man. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: You'll get your ten points every week, and.

441
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Speaker 3: These guys are better than the chigs of the world.

442
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Speaker 3: And well last.

443
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Speaker 2: Week, No, it gets really bad after this Kyle grantson

444
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Speaker 2: Noah Fan Kate Aughton.

445
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Speaker 3: Yeah, those guys aren't usable. But like Sam Laporta, all

446
00:18:53,760 --> 00:18:55,640
Speaker 3: of a sudden, Sam Laporta is like a top five

447
00:18:55,720 --> 00:18:57,919
Speaker 3: tight end, right right, some of these guys are, all

448
00:18:57,920 --> 00:19:00,200
Speaker 3: of a sudden, are super valuable quarterback.

449
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Speaker 2: To add this is a short list, and you know

450
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Speaker 2: in the names. Russell Wilson tops the list.

451
00:19:06,440 --> 00:19:10,119
Speaker 3: Remember one of his big points was that he'll mary

452
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Speaker 3: right and.

453
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Speaker 2: But they're so bad they have to throw the ball

454
00:19:13,800 --> 00:19:20,400
Speaker 2: every every league. Yeah, Matthew Stafford should be in every league.

455
00:19:20,359 --> 00:19:22,600
Speaker 3: In every league. Yeah, neither one those guys run anymore.

456
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Speaker 2: Though, No, they don't.

457
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Speaker 3: C J. Stroud. I think Stroud over both them. Yeah, similar,

458
00:19:27,480 --> 00:19:28,400
Speaker 3: they're all about the same tire.

459
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Speaker 2: Jameis Winston. I'm not picking Jameis Winston up to.

460
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Speaker 3: He's always better for fantasy in the real world, especially

461
00:19:35,320 --> 00:19:38,520
Speaker 3: if interceptions don't count, and he's got weapons.

462
00:19:38,560 --> 00:19:42,439
Speaker 2: But no, Jimmy g he's can cust right now, so

463
00:19:42,480 --> 00:19:45,800
Speaker 2: don't pick him up. Andy Dalton and then Ryan tanney Hill.

464
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Speaker 2: That's what you're looking at the tight end or the

465
00:19:47,560 --> 00:19:50,080
Speaker 2: quarterback position right now, and that some of the top

466
00:19:50,280 --> 00:19:53,080
Speaker 2: rated guys have not played well.

467
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Speaker 3: No, like, would you have pick it over that whole list.

468
00:19:58,280 --> 00:20:01,480
Speaker 2: I mean Sunday was his first two passing.

469
00:20:01,160 --> 00:20:02,680
Speaker 3: Game, and he's running a little bit more.

470
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Speaker 2: But if he's yeah, if he's gonna run a little

471
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Speaker 2: bit more and play like that, yeah I'll take him

472
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Speaker 2: as a fantasy Those guys, yeah, yeah, uh, looking at

473
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Speaker 2: those defenses to stream this week or they're putting them

474
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Speaker 2: down to ad Here, Denver, Seattle, Houston, Tampa.

475
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Speaker 3: Denver just left seventy points.

476
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Speaker 2: I'm not picking up then, but they're playing in Chicago, Chicago.

477
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Speaker 3: Would know you went Chicago or Denver's defense in our

478
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Speaker 3: streaming defense game, nopeky, Yeah, nope, you have seventy.

479
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Speaker 2: Gave up seventy points and seven hundred yards. Yeah, and

480
00:20:34,480 --> 00:20:36,920
Speaker 2: they pulled they pulled back at the end. It could

481
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Speaker 2: have been worse, of course.

482
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Speaker 3: I mean two was on the sideline hanging out, laughing, Like.

483
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Speaker 2: Did you see the Garrett Bowles quotes after that game?

484
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Speaker 3: Yeah, Like, I'm how bad his record was.

485
00:20:47,200 --> 00:20:49,040
Speaker 2: I've been here for so long. I'm tired of losing.

486
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Speaker 2: I kept saying that, like all off season. Oh, the

487
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Speaker 2: Broncos of Sean Payton, They're going to be a playoff contender,

488
00:20:54,400 --> 00:20:57,160
Speaker 2: and like they haven't made the playoffs since twenty fifteen.

489
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Speaker 2: They are bad.

490
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Speaker 3: Yeah, who their stars? I mean, Pertains good Simmons didn't

491
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Speaker 3: play in that game. The offense is okay, but like

492
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Speaker 3: Javonte Williams is borderline cutable for fantasy at this point? Yeah, don't.

493
00:21:08,480 --> 00:21:12,040
Speaker 2: Then their offensive line is overrated and expensive and expensive.

494
00:21:12,119 --> 00:21:14,440
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, they're they're in trouble there.

495
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Speaker 2: Yeah, there might be.

496
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Speaker 3: They're gonna be in the quarterback market. They're gonna be in.

497
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Speaker 2: Play for like a top five pick, and they're married

498
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Speaker 2: to rush through like twenty twenty seven.

499
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Speaker 3: And you can't pass on Drake May if he's there

500
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Speaker 3: or something if you're them.

501
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know what you do.

502
00:21:25,480 --> 00:21:26,880
Speaker 3: They might be a bad team for a long time.

503
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Speaker 2: That's going to do it for the Fantasy Football focus.

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Speaker 2: We're gonna get to a break. He is Matt Williams

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Speaker 2: and I am Dale Lollie. You're listening to the Drive

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Speaker 2: here on Steelers Nation Radio. We love you DFS players

507
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Speaker 2: out there. Keep flushing, falling along at you're listening. We're

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Speaker 2: gonna get to a break. We'll be back with more

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Speaker 2: right after this.

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Speaker 1: He's the Drive with Dale Lolly and Matt Williamson on

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Speaker 1: your twenty four to seven home of the Black and

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Speaker 2: Welcome back. I'm Dale Lollie. He is Matt Williams, and

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Speaker 2: we are fantasy football influencers.

515
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Speaker 3: Apparently. Yeah, I gotta read this tweet. This is great.

516
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Speaker 3: This dude checker or I assumes the dude just looking

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Speaker 3: at him, Checker thirty two was very cool. He's like,

518
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Speaker 3: I played your lineup in a similar league and I

519
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Speaker 3: did win, but the same story. I was tied with

520
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Speaker 3: a bunch of others, so instead of doubling up and

521
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Speaker 3: winning ten bucks, I only won six. And because I

522
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Speaker 3: was tied with so many people, So not only was

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Speaker 3: our league flooded with our exact lineup, but apparently others

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Speaker 3: were as well. So there you go.

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Speaker 2: Well that happens.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, he made a buck.

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Speaker 2: He at least got his money back and made made

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Speaker 2: a buck.

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Speaker 3: So twenty percent winner on that. Good work, Good work,

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Speaker 3: that's awesome, Matt.

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Speaker 2: We're now three games into the twenty twenty three season,

532
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Speaker 2: and that means that, like the the DVOA rankings that

533
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Speaker 2: are now on FTN Fantasy gone by same stuff Aaron Schatz,

534
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Speaker 2: they now start to take a little bit of meaning,

535
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Speaker 2: no doubt, no doubt.

536
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Speaker 3: I mean it's Steelers a perfect example, the Niners and

537
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Speaker 3: the Browns, who are going to be right on top

538
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Speaker 3: of the you know, I'm sure the defensive DVA stuff,

539
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Speaker 3: Well that's not the best influence. And then you get

540
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Speaker 3: an easier one against the Raiders. Yeah, the bounces out

541
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Speaker 3: a little bit more but you know, buzz through it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. So right now as we sit here, the Steelers

543
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Speaker 2: are seventeenth overall in DVOA.

544
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Speaker 3: Okay, where were they in the power ranks the last sixteenth? Okay,

545
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Speaker 3: and we would have them the sixteenth. Maybe they might have.

546
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Speaker 2: Been real it's right around where they're.

547
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Speaker 3: Yeah, they're at, and maybe we would have had them

548
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Speaker 3: fourteenth or so, you know maybe. So we're all all

549
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Speaker 3: these different ways are looking at sort of similar to

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Speaker 3: where they're as a team right now.

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Speaker 2: So at number one right now are the Bills at

552
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Speaker 2: fifty five point five total DVOA.

553
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Speaker 3: Okay, doesn't shock me because both sides of the ball

554
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Speaker 3: have been really strong. Yeah.

555
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Speaker 2: Number two is the Dolphins at fifty point one, but.

556
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Speaker 3: That's very very offensive weight.

557
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Speaker 2: Their offense right now is sixty two point three plus

558
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Speaker 2: sixty two point three. That would be historic, that would

559
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Speaker 2: be the highest ever.

560
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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, they're Their offense and the Brown defense are

561
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Speaker 3: almost equally as crazy.

562
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Speaker 2: Right therefore far and away better than everybody else.

563
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Speaker 3: Getting one verse two this week in DA Yeah, and

564
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Speaker 3: maybe thirty one verse thirty two. I don't know where

565
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Speaker 3: Denver and Chicago.

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Speaker 2: So the forty nine ers are at three they're at

567
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Speaker 2: forty eight point seven, so not far behind Miami.

568
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Speaker 3: They were one in my power ranks. Yeah, I mean,

569
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Speaker 3: I think that's where they belong.

570
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Speaker 2: And if you look at their rankings, it's much more balanced.

571
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Speaker 2: Like Buffalo is a plus eighteen Offensively, they're minus thirty

572
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Speaker 2: seven point four defensive.

573
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Speaker 3: I remember, minus is good, Minus is good.

574
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Speaker 2: On defense, whereas the Dolphins are plus two point nine

575
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Speaker 2: on defense. Their defense has not been.

576
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Speaker 3: Great, below average.

577
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's been below average, like zero is average. A

578
00:24:42,680 --> 00:24:47,239
Speaker 2: plus number on defense is bad. At the forty nine

579
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Speaker 2: Ers are twenty four point nine on offense. Plus on

580
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Speaker 2: offense is good. Defensively, they're minus twenty point four. They're

581
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Speaker 2: like the most balanced team, fourth.

582
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Speaker 3: And offense, fourth and defense or something like that.

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Speaker 2: Fourth in defense and second in offense.

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Speaker 3: Okay, okay, right, yeah, top five and both.

585
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Speaker 2: In seventh on special teams.

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Speaker 3: The Dolphins are dead last on specially, but that's one

587
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Speaker 3: of the things about them. That's so they're a little vulnerable. Yeah.

588
00:25:13,119 --> 00:25:16,639
Speaker 2: The Browns are number four on this list. They're forty

589
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Speaker 2: two point three.

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Speaker 3: I bet their offense is not in the top ten.

591
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Speaker 2: Though the offense is eighteenth.

592
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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's how good a.

593
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Speaker 2: The is minus five point six. The defense is number one,

594
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Speaker 2: minus forty eight point two.

595
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Speaker 3: It's been that good, it really has. And and again

596
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Speaker 3: Niners in Browns were both on Steelers schedule, so I

597
00:25:35,240 --> 00:25:39,840
Speaker 3: read some insane stats about their defense. They've faced thirty

598
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Speaker 3: four drives this year, if you don't count like end

599
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Speaker 3: a half meal downs, as you know, real drives where

600
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Speaker 3: they're snapping the ball allow one touchdown. Yeah, one touchdown,

601
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Speaker 3: and there's only been one.

602
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Speaker 2: And that was against the Steelers. That was that was

603
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Speaker 2: this the George Pickens good point seventy yarder.

604
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Speaker 3: And there's been only one snap taken against the Browns

605
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Speaker 3: in the red zone this year. I guess Tennessee last

606
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Speaker 3: week got into the red zone and then they took

607
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Speaker 3: a sack and got out of the red zone and

608
00:26:02,840 --> 00:26:05,120
Speaker 3: never got back. Yeah. I mean it's been a dominant defense.

609
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Speaker 2: They played well game, no doubt. Number five is the

610
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Speaker 2: Eagles at thirty one point nine. They're tenth, Sorry, they're

611
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Speaker 2: in tenth on the offense and seventh on defense.

612
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Speaker 3: I'm not sure they've played their best football yet either.

613
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Speaker 2: But reasonably balanced.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, oh yeah.

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Speaker 2: The Chiefs are at six. They are They were thirteen

616
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Speaker 2: offense pretty high. The defense is actually ninth, yeah, which

617
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Speaker 2: they've played well in the offensive sixth, Like, they're not

618
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Speaker 2: the offensive juggernaut right now that everybody is used to.

619
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Speaker 2: You know, you gotta go to or thirty to beat

620
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Speaker 2: the Chiefs right now, you don't, especially in week one,

621
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Speaker 2: Kelsey wasn't there. Yeah, you know they're working on wide

622
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Speaker 2: receiver situation.

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Speaker 3: At seven are the Cowboys.

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Speaker 2: They were number one last week and dropped the one.

625
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Speaker 2: You dropped the number seven at twenty eight point five.

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Speaker 2: They are now offensively fifteenth.

627
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Speaker 3: Are they the second defense?

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Speaker 2: They're number three on defense?

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Speaker 3: I think San fran was too.

630
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Speaker 2: No, Buffalo's to Cleveland is one. San Fran is number four. Four.

631
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Speaker 3: Yeah. The Ravens somehow come in at eight. This is see,

632
00:27:07,320 --> 00:27:09,879
Speaker 3: this is when the league gets goofy though. Yeah, you know,

633
00:27:10,000 --> 00:27:12,720
Speaker 3: like when we did the power rank conversation, I didn't

634
00:27:12,720 --> 00:27:15,680
Speaker 3: want to put the Brown seven. But these eight and

635
00:27:15,840 --> 00:27:18,879
Speaker 3: downs are pretty I mean eight through eighteen isn't much

636
00:27:18,920 --> 00:27:20,400
Speaker 3: different to me in the league right now, or seven

637
00:27:20,440 --> 00:27:21,720
Speaker 3: through eighteen isn't that much different?

638
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Speaker 2: Offensively right now, the Ravens are eleventh at twelve point nine,

639
00:27:28,119 --> 00:27:31,480
Speaker 2: and defensively they're actually better minus sixteen point five. Now

640
00:27:31,520 --> 00:27:35,600
Speaker 2: that is opponent that's completely based on who they played.

641
00:27:35,840 --> 00:27:38,200
Speaker 3: They don't it might be week four that they start

642
00:27:38,359 --> 00:27:41,359
Speaker 3: adjusting DVOA for opponent because they don't think they have

643
00:27:41,480 --> 00:27:44,440
Speaker 3: enough data to do it yet. So I bet they draw.

644
00:27:45,040 --> 00:27:46,960
Speaker 2: What they do this week, they're going to continue to fall.

645
00:27:47,880 --> 00:27:49,360
Speaker 3: At nine, do they play this week?

646
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Speaker 2: You know? Is this week Cleveland Baltimore.

647
00:27:53,080 --> 00:27:57,240
Speaker 3: Must be it's not Baltimore Cincy, No, I think they

648
00:27:57,280 --> 00:27:58,440
Speaker 3: are the division game. Yeah.

649
00:27:58,880 --> 00:28:03,520
Speaker 2: At nine are the Lions. They are. They were seventeenth

650
00:28:03,760 --> 00:28:06,439
Speaker 2: after last week. They're seventh on offense, twelfth on defense.

651
00:28:06,920 --> 00:28:08,280
Speaker 3: Their defense really played well.

652
00:28:08,200 --> 00:28:09,120
Speaker 2: Been pretty balanced. Yeah.

653
00:28:10,400 --> 00:28:13,360
Speaker 3: Ten is the Cardinals. Their offense is really high. Bet

654
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Speaker 3: their offense is eighth considering eighth. What they're playing with

655
00:28:17,320 --> 00:28:18,280
Speaker 3: nobody's when.

656
00:28:18,119 --> 00:28:19,280
Speaker 2: We're talking about Rondell Moore.

657
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Speaker 1: Pick up.

658
00:28:19,640 --> 00:28:22,640
Speaker 3: Rondell More. Dobbs is playing well. Connor had a huge game.

659
00:28:22,680 --> 00:28:24,920
Speaker 3: They're tough to play against. Yeah, their lines kind of

660
00:28:25,000 --> 00:28:26,000
Speaker 3: shaping up, and.

661
00:28:26,000 --> 00:28:29,240
Speaker 2: They're sixteenth on defense and sixth on special teams. I

662
00:28:29,280 --> 00:28:31,359
Speaker 2: mean that's a pretty balanced Ledger.

663
00:28:31,560 --> 00:28:34,200
Speaker 3: Now they've won a game too, and holy holy smokes,

664
00:28:34,240 --> 00:28:35,800
Speaker 3: things are big. Things are happening in the desert.

665
00:28:35,920 --> 00:28:38,959
Speaker 2: The Eagles, by the way, are tenth on offense, seventh

666
00:28:39,040 --> 00:28:41,920
Speaker 2: on defense, fourth and special teams. The only other team

667
00:28:41,960 --> 00:28:44,080
Speaker 2: that's that's uh, well, no, there's a couple of teams.

668
00:28:44,640 --> 00:28:47,320
Speaker 2: The forty nine ers are top ten in all three

669
00:28:47,360 --> 00:28:51,720
Speaker 2: of those things. They're five or two four and seven, Yeah,

670
00:28:51,800 --> 00:28:54,720
Speaker 2: two four and seven. And then the Eagles and the

671
00:28:54,840 --> 00:28:58,600
Speaker 2: Chiefs are six sixth on offense, ninth on defense, ninth

672
00:28:58,680 --> 00:28:59,360
Speaker 2: on special teams.

673
00:28:59,400 --> 00:29:02,320
Speaker 3: And didn't you mention that Baltimore, who's always good on special.

674
00:29:02,080 --> 00:29:06,400
Speaker 2: Team Baltimore is twenty ninth on special teams. It's unbelievable.

675
00:29:06,480 --> 00:29:07,640
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's not their style.

676
00:29:07,880 --> 00:29:10,840
Speaker 2: And right there with him is New England, which is

677
00:29:10,840 --> 00:29:11,920
Speaker 2: always good in special.

678
00:29:11,640 --> 00:29:13,080
Speaker 3: Team thirty second last year.

679
00:29:13,080 --> 00:29:15,400
Speaker 2: New England keeps like six guys on the roster every

680
00:29:15,440 --> 00:29:17,960
Speaker 2: year who are nothing but special teams players.

681
00:29:17,680 --> 00:29:19,800
Speaker 3: And they were horrible on teams last year. Yeah, before that,

682
00:29:19,880 --> 00:29:20,880
Speaker 3: they were always top three.

683
00:29:21,720 --> 00:29:25,720
Speaker 2: At eleven. Are the Saints seventh, right, seventeenth on offense,

684
00:29:26,440 --> 00:29:29,360
Speaker 2: sixth be pretty good, sixth on defense, yeah, and then

685
00:29:29,560 --> 00:29:30,600
Speaker 2: eighth on special teams.

686
00:29:31,000 --> 00:29:32,720
Speaker 3: So that's a good Yeah, it's a good balance.

687
00:29:33,400 --> 00:29:36,600
Speaker 2: The Packers come in at twelve, their ninth on offense.

688
00:29:36,720 --> 00:29:38,320
Speaker 3: I bet their offense ten yeah.

689
00:29:38,240 --> 00:29:41,560
Speaker 2: Tenth on defense, twenty seventh on special teams. Didn't they

690
00:29:41,640 --> 00:29:42,920
Speaker 2: learn their less than a couple of years ago and

691
00:29:42,960 --> 00:29:44,560
Speaker 2: that knocked them out of a playoff game.

692
00:29:44,760 --> 00:29:47,080
Speaker 3: Point But no, that's a pretty balanced team though, I

693
00:29:47,080 --> 00:29:50,280
Speaker 3: mean special teams aside. Yeah, but they're pretty strong on

694
00:29:50,360 --> 00:29:51,280
Speaker 3: both sides of the ball right now.

695
00:29:52,040 --> 00:29:56,000
Speaker 2: The Seahawks come in at thirteen fourth on offense, be

696
00:29:56,120 --> 00:29:58,960
Speaker 2: the d is bad, twenty third on defense, twenty first

697
00:29:59,000 --> 00:30:01,960
Speaker 2: on special teams, fourth on offense though, Yeah, that gets

698
00:30:02,000 --> 00:30:03,440
Speaker 2: you that that's weighted differently.

699
00:30:03,680 --> 00:30:05,960
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's four parts to three parts to one part.

700
00:30:06,120 --> 00:30:08,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, so if the four parts goes to the offense,

701
00:30:08,240 --> 00:30:10,880
Speaker 2: the defense is worth three parts and special teams is

702
00:30:10,920 --> 00:30:11,280
Speaker 2: one to one.

703
00:30:11,360 --> 00:30:13,280
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's how they've divided their pie. I think at

704
00:30:13,360 --> 00:30:13,920
Speaker 3: least they used to.

705
00:30:14,400 --> 00:30:17,240
Speaker 2: The Patriots are fourteenth defense.

706
00:30:17,240 --> 00:30:17,800
Speaker 3: I BET's good.

707
00:30:18,680 --> 00:30:22,680
Speaker 2: They are thirteenth on offense that doesn't pass, that does

708
00:30:22,760 --> 00:30:25,640
Speaker 2: not pass the sniff test, eleventh on defense that does,

709
00:30:26,480 --> 00:30:30,880
Speaker 2: thirty first on special teams. Like that, that's going to

710
00:30:30,960 --> 00:30:34,040
Speaker 2: balance out their offense. They're yeah, I bet they're It's

711
00:30:34,120 --> 00:30:36,840
Speaker 2: more it's more like in the twenty somewhere.

712
00:30:37,760 --> 00:30:39,600
Speaker 3: Then you get the Colts at fifteenth if they ran

713
00:30:39,680 --> 00:30:40,640
Speaker 3: on the Jets they did.

714
00:30:40,800 --> 00:30:44,720
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, you get the Colts at fifteen, twenty first

715
00:30:44,800 --> 00:30:48,600
Speaker 2: on offense, thirteenth on defense, tenth on special teams.

716
00:30:48,720 --> 00:30:50,160
Speaker 3: That's good enough to be middle of the pack. That's

717
00:30:50,160 --> 00:30:52,480
Speaker 3: middle of the any major weaknesses. I mean, they're not

718
00:30:52,600 --> 00:30:55,200
Speaker 3: quite the Cardinals story. But Colts are out kicking their

719
00:30:55,240 --> 00:30:56,160
Speaker 3: coverage right now, right now.

720
00:30:56,280 --> 00:30:59,760
Speaker 2: Yeah, you get the Chargers at sixteen.

721
00:31:00,000 --> 00:31:01,080
Speaker 3: I bet their o' is really high.

722
00:31:02,000 --> 00:31:05,120
Speaker 2: They're third third, the offense is third, the defense is

723
00:31:05,160 --> 00:31:05,760
Speaker 2: twenty ninth.

724
00:31:06,160 --> 00:31:08,680
Speaker 3: I think they're thirty second in EPA, which is often

725
00:31:08,760 --> 00:31:09,320
Speaker 3: very similar to.

726
00:31:09,320 --> 00:31:11,560
Speaker 2: This yea, of course, and twenty third on special teams.

727
00:31:12,160 --> 00:31:15,560
Speaker 2: That's normally, that's normal for them. They're always awful on

728
00:31:15,600 --> 00:31:18,320
Speaker 2: special teams, twenty ninth on defense, So they're spending a

729
00:31:18,480 --> 00:31:20,280
Speaker 2: buttload of money on defense.

730
00:31:19,960 --> 00:31:23,880
Speaker 3: To be a defensive mastermind. That's crazy. Herbert's on fire.

731
00:31:24,120 --> 00:31:27,440
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's seventeen. Are the Steelers Okay?

732
00:31:27,640 --> 00:31:28,200
Speaker 3: Where are they am?

733
00:31:28,640 --> 00:31:35,080
Speaker 2: So they're overall at minus six point four as a team.

734
00:31:35,520 --> 00:31:39,840
Speaker 2: So zero's average, zero's average. The Chargers are a zero, period.

735
00:31:40,280 --> 00:31:42,720
Speaker 2: They're the league average team, which doesn't if you get

736
00:31:43,240 --> 00:31:46,120
Speaker 2: third best offensive twenty ninth, yeah, third worst defense?

737
00:31:46,480 --> 00:31:49,160
Speaker 3: Yeah or yeah? Yeah, So what are the Steelers categories?

738
00:31:49,560 --> 00:31:52,800
Speaker 2: They are twenty seventh on offense, Okay, I think they're

739
00:31:52,840 --> 00:31:55,720
Speaker 2: thirty two after they were thirty two after So you

740
00:31:55,880 --> 00:31:58,840
Speaker 2: just got done playing the defenses that are number one

741
00:31:58,880 --> 00:32:00,960
Speaker 2: and what I say, forty times worth three or four?

742
00:32:01,160 --> 00:32:03,680
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, one by a wide march.

743
00:32:03,600 --> 00:32:05,280
Speaker 2: One by a wide margin in number four.

744
00:32:05,440 --> 00:32:07,200
Speaker 3: So you moved up five spots in a week though

745
00:32:07,560 --> 00:32:11,080
Speaker 3: the defense is eight. Yeah. I thought they'd be tennis

746
00:32:11,480 --> 00:32:12,080
Speaker 3: special teams.

747
00:32:12,120 --> 00:32:12,680
Speaker 2: Their thirteenth.

748
00:32:12,720 --> 00:32:14,400
Speaker 3: I thought they were about middle of the pack special teams.

749
00:32:14,480 --> 00:32:17,800
Speaker 2: Yeah, good, little above average or two plus two point two.

750
00:32:17,880 --> 00:32:20,360
Speaker 3: You want to be plusing over zeros goodyeah.

751
00:32:20,400 --> 00:32:22,800
Speaker 2: Yeah, they've kicked well, they've covered pretty well.

752
00:32:24,040 --> 00:32:25,400
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, that makes that heads up.

753
00:32:26,160 --> 00:32:28,280
Speaker 2: At eighteen are the Rams?

754
00:32:29,120 --> 00:32:30,440
Speaker 3: Okay, start as strong.

755
00:32:31,200 --> 00:32:33,360
Speaker 2: They're twelve, twenty six, twenty.

756
00:32:33,160 --> 00:32:36,720
Speaker 3: Five, twenty six is problematic, yeah, twenty.

757
00:32:36,520 --> 00:32:39,120
Speaker 2: Six on defense. Then you've got the Buccaneers.

758
00:32:40,120 --> 00:32:41,000
Speaker 3: They were right next to each other.

759
00:32:41,240 --> 00:32:43,240
Speaker 2: They were so last week I should say this, the

760
00:32:43,360 --> 00:32:45,800
Speaker 2: last week the Steelers were twenty eighth on this list.

761
00:32:45,920 --> 00:32:50,240
Speaker 2: Oh wow, So they jumped up eleven eleven spots. That's

762
00:32:50,280 --> 00:32:53,440
Speaker 2: a nice yes movee wow. Well, and the Buccaneers were

763
00:32:53,480 --> 00:32:55,840
Speaker 2: eighth last week, so they're going the wrong way. They

764
00:32:55,920 --> 00:32:59,640
Speaker 2: fall to nineteen at that point. Yeah, the Vikings are twentieth.

765
00:33:00,080 --> 00:33:00,840
Speaker 3: Defense pretty high.

766
00:33:00,880 --> 00:33:03,400
Speaker 2: They were sixteenth last week. The offense is only sixteenth.

767
00:33:03,560 --> 00:33:07,080
Speaker 2: They don't run the ball at all. The defense is

768
00:33:07,120 --> 00:33:09,120
Speaker 2: twenty seventh. The special teams are fifteenth.

769
00:33:09,880 --> 00:33:12,560
Speaker 3: That doesn't highs. They are this week's.

770
00:33:12,280 --> 00:33:15,440
Speaker 2: Opponent for the Steelers. The Houston Texans are twenty first.

771
00:33:15,480 --> 00:33:16,560
Speaker 2: They were thirtieth last week.

772
00:33:16,760 --> 00:33:17,760
Speaker 3: They had to jump pretty much.

773
00:33:17,800 --> 00:33:22,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, so overall their twentieth on offense minus seven point one.

774
00:33:24,000 --> 00:33:26,760
Speaker 2: They're twenty fifth on defense at plus ten point one,

775
00:33:27,880 --> 00:33:31,040
Speaker 2: and on special teams their third because they've blocked they

776
00:33:31,080 --> 00:33:34,280
Speaker 2: had a return, they blocked the game. So again, win

777
00:33:34,400 --> 00:33:37,280
Speaker 2: on special teams in this game, don't lose. Don't lose

778
00:33:37,320 --> 00:33:41,480
Speaker 2: it on special winning the margins. Defensively, you've got a

779
00:33:41,520 --> 00:33:46,680
Speaker 2: big advantage your defense against their defense. And offensively, their

780
00:33:46,720 --> 00:33:50,040
Speaker 2: offense isn't better than yours markedly better?

781
00:33:50,200 --> 00:33:53,320
Speaker 3: No, no it's not. And okay, they had a good game.

782
00:33:53,720 --> 00:33:56,200
Speaker 2: They had a good game against the against opponent that

783
00:33:56,360 --> 00:34:01,040
Speaker 2: they know well anyway, So Washington is twenty first.

784
00:34:01,080 --> 00:34:02,800
Speaker 3: Sorry, how far did they jump? Did you say?

785
00:34:03,000 --> 00:34:06,719
Speaker 2: They went from thirty to twenty one? Similar deceilers, similar destealers.

786
00:34:06,720 --> 00:34:08,719
Speaker 2: Sealers went from twenty eight to seventeen. In fact, it's

787
00:34:08,840 --> 00:34:14,600
Speaker 2: the exact same margin at twenty two or Washington, they

788
00:34:14,640 --> 00:34:17,000
Speaker 2: went from eleven down to twenty two in the offense.

789
00:34:17,080 --> 00:34:20,920
Speaker 2: That was an awful game. Nineteenth on offense, nineteenth on defense,

790
00:34:20,960 --> 00:34:22,400
Speaker 2: twenty eighth on special teams.

791
00:34:22,520 --> 00:34:23,200
Speaker 3: They've earned that.

792
00:34:24,360 --> 00:34:27,439
Speaker 2: The Bengals, remember when we were talking about the power

793
00:34:27,520 --> 00:34:29,560
Speaker 2: rankings where they were at they were what eleven?

794
00:34:30,360 --> 00:34:33,240
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I understand why someone would do that based

795
00:34:33,280 --> 00:34:35,279
Speaker 3: on reputation and what they could be, but this is

796
00:34:35,360 --> 00:34:35,839
Speaker 3: what they are.

797
00:34:36,280 --> 00:34:39,239
Speaker 2: This is what they currently are. Twenty third overall, they

798
00:34:39,280 --> 00:34:42,080
Speaker 2: were twenty ninth, So they went up six spots for

799
00:34:42,200 --> 00:34:45,440
Speaker 2: that big win. They were their twenty fifth on offense,

800
00:34:46,560 --> 00:34:51,839
Speaker 2: twenty second on defense, and second on special teams. They

801
00:34:51,880 --> 00:34:53,640
Speaker 2: had a big return against the Ravens in Week one.

802
00:34:53,840 --> 00:34:56,239
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, for a touchdown? Do you agree if there

803
00:34:56,360 --> 00:35:03,840
Speaker 3: was an AFC North owned robin their last Right.

804
00:35:03,719 --> 00:35:06,920
Speaker 2: Now as we speak, they're the worst team in the

805
00:35:06,960 --> 00:35:08,160
Speaker 2: AFC North right now as.

806
00:35:08,040 --> 00:35:10,120
Speaker 3: We speak, a battle royal. They're the first one out.

807
00:35:10,000 --> 00:35:13,600
Speaker 2: Of the ring because all we saw in week one,

808
00:35:13,920 --> 00:35:15,720
Speaker 2: we saw in week two what the what the Ravens

809
00:35:15,760 --> 00:35:17,719
Speaker 2: did to them? Uh if they if they played the

810
00:35:17,760 --> 00:35:20,080
Speaker 2: Steelers right now, the Steelers pass rush with tear Joe

811
00:35:20,120 --> 00:35:24,320
Speaker 2: Burrow apart just like yeah, much like Cleveland did. And

812
00:35:24,440 --> 00:35:27,359
Speaker 2: he can't get out of his own way so much. Yeah.

813
00:35:28,719 --> 00:35:33,879
Speaker 2: At twenty four are the Jaguars twenty third. They're playing

814
00:35:33,960 --> 00:35:37,600
Speaker 2: twenty third on offense, eighteenth on defense, thirtieth on special teams.

815
00:35:38,280 --> 00:35:40,560
Speaker 3: That doesn't yuck, go well for the coaching.

816
00:35:40,600 --> 00:35:46,000
Speaker 2: So twenty five are the Falcons. They're fourteen I'm sorry,

817
00:35:46,280 --> 00:35:49,520
Speaker 2: twenty four to twenty and twenty six. They were fourteenth

818
00:35:49,600 --> 00:35:50,920
Speaker 2: last week. A team like that has be better on

819
00:35:50,960 --> 00:35:53,279
Speaker 2: special teams they have you have to win in the margins. Yeah,

820
00:35:53,280 --> 00:35:55,920
Speaker 2: if you're that type of team with it. Carolina is

821
00:35:56,000 --> 00:35:59,160
Speaker 2: twenty sixth. They are twenty sixth on offense, twenty fourth

822
00:35:59,239 --> 00:36:01,680
Speaker 2: on defense, in a eleventh on special teams.

823
00:36:02,520 --> 00:36:06,440
Speaker 3: The Titans is their offense thirtieth.

824
00:36:06,680 --> 00:36:11,160
Speaker 2: Thirtieth on offense, yeah, fifteenth on defense, fourteenth on special teams.

825
00:36:11,520 --> 00:36:13,480
Speaker 3: These are respectable, but they're always out there.

826
00:36:13,600 --> 00:36:15,600
Speaker 2: Yeah, and they stopped the run. They can't make run,

827
00:36:15,680 --> 00:36:18,200
Speaker 2: can't keep any away from passing the Jets. This is

828
00:36:18,239 --> 00:36:20,400
Speaker 2: what they should this is yeah, this is where they

829
00:36:20,400 --> 00:36:24,000
Speaker 2: should be on power rankings. They were twenty six last week.

830
00:36:24,040 --> 00:36:27,839
Speaker 2: Team they fell down even farther to twenty eighth, thirty second.

831
00:36:27,640 --> 00:36:29,480
Speaker 3: On offense, that's true.

832
00:36:29,520 --> 00:36:33,759
Speaker 2: They are seventeenth on defense, yeah, and number one on

833
00:36:33,840 --> 00:36:36,560
Speaker 2: special teams. That's the only saving grace right now for that.

834
00:36:36,880 --> 00:36:39,040
Speaker 3: Yeah, and the defense I'm sure was much higher. And

835
00:36:39,160 --> 00:36:41,160
Speaker 3: it's just gonna you're asking too much.

836
00:36:41,000 --> 00:36:43,920
Speaker 2: For the Broncos go from twenty one down to twenty

837
00:36:44,040 --> 00:36:47,960
Speaker 2: nine after the giving up a seventy spot time, fourteenth

838
00:36:48,040 --> 00:36:50,720
Speaker 2: on offense, thirty second on defense.

839
00:36:51,040 --> 00:36:53,160
Speaker 3: They might stay there all year long. Now for giving

840
00:36:53,239 --> 00:36:56,640
Speaker 3: up seventy it's seven hundred yards. I guess their offense

841
00:36:56,680 --> 00:36:57,400
Speaker 3: isn't horrible.

842
00:36:57,600 --> 00:37:01,120
Speaker 2: It's not, No, it's not yeah, right, Fifth on special teams.

843
00:37:01,160 --> 00:37:01,799
Speaker 3: Yeah, good for them.

844
00:37:01,920 --> 00:37:05,439
Speaker 2: Yeah, the Raiders go from twenty seven down to thirty.

845
00:37:05,480 --> 00:37:08,279
Speaker 2: They were actually ahead of the Steelers in Dvoa last week.

846
00:37:08,960 --> 00:37:12,880
Speaker 2: They are now twenty eighth on offense, twenty eighth on defense,

847
00:37:13,000 --> 00:37:14,280
Speaker 2: and twelfth on special teams.

848
00:37:15,080 --> 00:37:17,600
Speaker 3: Wow. I thought their offense would be better. It should be.

849
00:37:17,760 --> 00:37:19,160
Speaker 2: Yeah, but they don't run the ball. They can't run

850
00:37:19,160 --> 00:37:23,279
Speaker 2: the ball. Yeah, the Giants, they're really bad. They move

851
00:37:23,360 --> 00:37:25,200
Speaker 2: up a spot from thirty two to thirty one.

852
00:37:25,719 --> 00:37:26,640
Speaker 3: Just because the Bears are so bad.

853
00:37:26,680 --> 00:37:28,760
Speaker 2: Because the Bears are so bad. Twenty ninth on offense,

854
00:37:28,840 --> 00:37:32,839
Speaker 2: thirty first on defense, and twenty second on special teams.

855
00:37:33,760 --> 00:37:36,120
Speaker 3: That low on offense, I don't think they'd be top fifteen.

856
00:37:36,800 --> 00:37:39,640
Speaker 2: And then finally you have the Bears down their overall

857
00:37:39,680 --> 00:37:43,440
Speaker 2: score minus fifty nine, the Giants at thirty one or

858
00:37:43,480 --> 00:37:47,520
Speaker 2: minus fifty two. The Raiders are now minus thirty nine overall.

859
00:37:47,760 --> 00:37:50,160
Speaker 2: Decisively decisively awful.

860
00:37:50,719 --> 00:37:53,960
Speaker 3: Wow. One of the Bears ranks thirty first.

861
00:37:53,800 --> 00:37:57,120
Speaker 2: On offense, thirtieth on defense, seventeenth on special teams.

862
00:37:58,040 --> 00:37:59,560
Speaker 3: We said a segment or two ago, they're one of

863
00:37:59,600 --> 00:38:02,680
Speaker 3: the teams. It is in contention for worst and worst.

864
00:38:02,520 --> 00:38:04,399
Speaker 2: E a corner coopia of suck.

865
00:38:04,640 --> 00:38:08,000
Speaker 3: Yeah, Giants are too far off according to a No,

866
00:38:08,320 --> 00:38:10,320
Speaker 3: I mean I'd not try to play against the Bears

867
00:38:10,440 --> 00:38:12,160
Speaker 3: offense and the Giants offense. Yeah.

868
00:38:12,280 --> 00:38:13,920
Speaker 2: Well, and just running through this real quick. So the

869
00:38:13,960 --> 00:38:15,920
Speaker 2: Steelers still have the Titans on the on the schedule.

870
00:38:16,719 --> 00:38:19,200
Speaker 2: The Steelers still have the Jaguars on the schedule. They

871
00:38:19,320 --> 00:38:21,719
Speaker 2: got the Bengals twice. Now, maybe the Bengals turn that

872
00:38:21,800 --> 00:38:24,960
Speaker 2: around it, but that's Joe Burrow health related and it's

873
00:38:25,239 --> 00:38:27,040
Speaker 2: not going to get better with him playing.

874
00:38:27,680 --> 00:38:30,520
Speaker 3: No. But good for the Bengals. They get the Steelers

875
00:38:30,600 --> 00:38:31,160
Speaker 3: late in the season.

876
00:38:31,280 --> 00:38:33,720
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you still have you still get the Texans

877
00:38:33,760 --> 00:38:35,920
Speaker 2: this week. They're below you. They still have the Rams

878
00:38:35,920 --> 00:38:38,400
Speaker 2: they're below. So there's there's some games here and this

879
00:38:38,480 --> 00:38:40,759
Speaker 2: will continue to change throughout the season. But we'll give

880
00:38:40,760 --> 00:38:42,440
Speaker 2: it to every couple of weeks from here on that

881
00:38:42,560 --> 00:38:45,560
Speaker 2: we'll go back and look at it and see who's

882
00:38:45,600 --> 00:38:48,160
Speaker 2: making big. You won't see a big eleaps after now

883
00:38:48,320 --> 00:38:50,520
Speaker 2: after as you start getting more games into the season,

884
00:38:50,560 --> 00:38:52,840
Speaker 2: you're going to see teams moving seven, eight, nine spots

885
00:38:52,840 --> 00:38:53,399
Speaker 2: in one week.

886
00:38:54,120 --> 00:38:57,360
Speaker 3: Steelers jumped up with eleven spots or nine spots, nine spots. Yeah,

887
00:38:57,400 --> 00:38:59,239
Speaker 3: that's hard to do. Well now you get a couple

888
00:38:59,280 --> 00:38:59,919
Speaker 3: of games in the books.

889
00:39:00,040 --> 00:39:05,040
Speaker 2: Absolutely, But that is Aaron Shatz DVOA rankings on ft

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Speaker 2: Fantasy dot Com. That's what used to be football Siders

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Speaker 2: that has now moved over there. He is Matt Williamson.

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Speaker 2: I am Dale Lolly. You're listening to the drive here

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Speaker 2: on Steelers Nation Radio. We'll be back to finish up

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Speaker 2: the show right after this.

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Speaker 3: He is Matt Williamson.

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00:39:51,960 --> 00:39:54,080
Speaker 2: I am Dale Lolly. You're listening to the drive here

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00:39:54,120 --> 00:39:55,560
Speaker 2: on Steelers Nation Radio.

907
00:39:56,040 --> 00:39:56,520
Speaker 3: And Matt.

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00:39:57,360 --> 00:40:02,480
Speaker 2: The Steelers came out of the game on Sunday relatively healthy.

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00:40:02,719 --> 00:40:05,120
Speaker 3: Yeah, it sounded quite promising. Actually yeah, yeah.

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00:40:05,160 --> 00:40:09,640
Speaker 2: It looks like James Daniels dealing with a hamstring a

911
00:40:09,680 --> 00:40:12,800
Speaker 2: little bit or growing. I'm sorry he'll be slow a

912
00:40:12,880 --> 00:40:16,480
Speaker 2: little bit early in the week. Alan Robinson dealing with

913
00:40:16,560 --> 00:40:18,960
Speaker 2: I think it's a back issue for him he'll be

914
00:40:19,000 --> 00:40:21,400
Speaker 2: slow early in the week, and then Presley Harvin has

915
00:40:21,400 --> 00:40:24,839
Speaker 2: a little bit of a hamstring soreness there again, Well,

916
00:40:25,280 --> 00:40:28,160
Speaker 2: he'll be slow early in the week. He'll let that

917
00:40:28,280 --> 00:40:29,359
Speaker 2: rest and go from there.

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00:40:29,400 --> 00:40:32,239
Speaker 3: But yeah, by Thursday, I'm sure these things will feeling better.

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00:40:32,320 --> 00:40:33,400
Speaker 3: Ye better? Shall I mean?

920
00:40:33,440 --> 00:40:35,680
Speaker 2: He was kicking them all sixty plus yards? Yeah, a lot,

921
00:40:36,719 --> 00:40:39,880
Speaker 2: so stretch that thing out a little bit. Looking around

922
00:40:39,960 --> 00:40:42,279
Speaker 2: the league, here at some other news and notes and

923
00:40:42,360 --> 00:40:47,720
Speaker 2: moves that have been made. The Baltimore Ravens have signed

924
00:40:47,840 --> 00:40:51,320
Speaker 2: Kyle van Noy to their practice squad because they have

925
00:40:51,360 --> 00:40:52,840
Speaker 2: a bunch of injuries at linebacker.

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00:40:53,320 --> 00:40:55,560
Speaker 3: Okay, I didn't realize that, and I thought he was

927
00:40:55,600 --> 00:40:58,359
Speaker 3: with a team still. But he's a versatile dude, I mean,

928
00:40:58,920 --> 00:41:01,840
Speaker 3: ultimate Patriot, the check line up at the line of scrimmage,

929
00:41:01,880 --> 00:41:03,440
Speaker 3: off the ball, do a little bit of everything. But

930
00:41:03,560 --> 00:41:04,640
Speaker 3: he's pretty washed. Yeah.

931
00:41:04,680 --> 00:41:06,000
Speaker 2: Not somebody is going to give them a lot of

932
00:41:06,000 --> 00:41:06,880
Speaker 2: pass rushing.

933
00:41:06,880 --> 00:41:09,600
Speaker 3: What they need. Even his best days, that wasn't really him. Yeah,

934
00:41:09,640 --> 00:41:12,880
Speaker 3: they just they can't rush the passer. No, No, they

935
00:41:12,960 --> 00:41:13,480
Speaker 3: got problems.

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00:41:13,480 --> 00:41:15,880
Speaker 2: They really have to scheme it. They still have to

937
00:41:15,920 --> 00:41:20,400
Speaker 2: scheme it up. I know the safety Hamilton. Hamilton had

938
00:41:20,440 --> 00:41:22,920
Speaker 2: three saxes. But again, if you're if you're blitzing him

939
00:41:22,960 --> 00:41:24,640
Speaker 2: now he's not back in coverage.

940
00:41:24,360 --> 00:41:26,080
Speaker 3: In the corner a week at the moment and you

941
00:41:26,200 --> 00:41:30,120
Speaker 3: lost the game. Yeah. Now they got some injury issues

942
00:41:30,120 --> 00:41:32,719
Speaker 3: and some defensive injuryes across the team. Really. Yeah.

943
00:41:33,400 --> 00:41:37,080
Speaker 2: The Browns signed running back Deon Jackson to their practice squad.

944
00:41:38,160 --> 00:41:40,440
Speaker 2: The Colts got rid of him, they added another back there,

945
00:41:41,160 --> 00:41:45,120
Speaker 2: see how that goes particularly good looking at the Thursday

946
00:41:45,200 --> 00:41:49,520
Speaker 2: night game Detroit. Yeah, they played. They so they had

947
00:41:49,560 --> 00:41:53,320
Speaker 2: their what would be considered their final practice practice for

948
00:41:53,680 --> 00:41:57,799
Speaker 2: Thursday night's game. Uh. Dan Campbell said, David Montgomery has

949
00:41:57,800 --> 00:42:00,600
Speaker 2: a chance to play on Thursday. He said he's starting

950
00:42:00,640 --> 00:42:01,480
Speaker 2: to feel pretty good.

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00:42:01,960 --> 00:42:02,080
Speaker 3: Uh.

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00:42:02,160 --> 00:42:04,680
Speaker 2: He was a limited participant in Tuesday's practice.

953
00:42:05,160 --> 00:42:08,479
Speaker 3: So maybe Lions looked really beat up after last week's

954
00:42:08,560 --> 00:42:09,399
Speaker 3: Oh yeah yeah yeah.

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00:42:09,960 --> 00:42:12,040
Speaker 2: Taylor Decker was he has a chance to play on

956
00:42:12,120 --> 00:42:14,839
Speaker 2: Thursday as well. He's there starting left tackle. He's got

957
00:42:14,880 --> 00:42:18,120
Speaker 2: to be done. He was limited today. Frank Ragnow however,

958
00:42:18,400 --> 00:42:21,120
Speaker 2: did not practice today. They're starting sex center. Yeah, he's

959
00:42:21,160 --> 00:42:24,560
Speaker 2: got a toe. Emmanuel Mosley, one of their cornerbacks, was

960
00:42:24,640 --> 00:42:28,440
Speaker 2: limited and then Kirby Joseph Safety was limited as well.

961
00:42:28,560 --> 00:42:29,600
Speaker 3: He's underrated player too.

962
00:42:29,800 --> 00:42:32,480
Speaker 2: Yeah. On the other side of that game, the Packers

963
00:42:33,280 --> 00:42:38,200
Speaker 2: Aaron Jones, with the hamstring injury, was limited today, which

964
00:42:38,280 --> 00:42:39,839
Speaker 2: is a good sign for him start.

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00:42:40,000 --> 00:42:40,160
Speaker 3: Yeah.

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00:42:40,239 --> 00:42:40,800
Speaker 2: Yeah. A J.

967
00:42:40,960 --> 00:42:45,239
Speaker 3: Dillens looked bad. Yeah, I mean not just he just doesn't.

968
00:42:45,080 --> 00:42:47,160
Speaker 2: Sometimes that's the problem with with the with the real

969
00:42:47,239 --> 00:42:48,080
Speaker 2: big backs like that.

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00:42:48,600 --> 00:42:48,799
Speaker 3: Yeah.

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00:42:49,080 --> 00:42:50,920
Speaker 2: You know, he didn't have any bursts to begin with,

972
00:42:51,120 --> 00:42:51,560
Speaker 2: and now.

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00:42:52,040 --> 00:42:53,759
Speaker 3: There's been a handful of them that have been real

974
00:42:53,920 --> 00:42:57,000
Speaker 3: slow starters this year. Yeah, to twenty five and up

975
00:42:57,080 --> 00:42:57,640
Speaker 3: type guys.

976
00:42:59,360 --> 00:43:01,799
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're more as the season wears on, you start

977
00:43:01,840 --> 00:43:05,839
Speaker 2: to you know, guys start to fall off around him.

978
00:43:06,000 --> 00:43:07,440
Speaker 3: Yeah. That that's the other side of that.

979
00:43:07,960 --> 00:43:11,880
Speaker 2: Christian Watson told reporters, Uh, he plans to play for

980
00:43:11,960 --> 00:43:12,839
Speaker 2: the first time this year.

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00:43:12,960 --> 00:43:14,680
Speaker 3: That's huge news for them, even if they only have

982
00:43:14,800 --> 00:43:17,120
Speaker 3: him out there for twenty snaps running go routes right

983
00:43:17,120 --> 00:43:18,880
Speaker 3: off the bat, nothing like that. While he gets his

984
00:43:18,920 --> 00:43:21,359
Speaker 3: feet under him, he opens up room for everybody else.

985
00:43:21,760 --> 00:43:26,239
Speaker 2: Uh. David Baktiari did not practice. He's dealing with the knee.

986
00:43:26,520 --> 00:43:28,520
Speaker 3: He's had a really weird couple of years.

987
00:43:28,760 --> 00:43:31,640
Speaker 2: He really has Elkton Jenkins with a knee did not

988
00:43:31,760 --> 00:43:34,320
Speaker 2: practice for that out for a stretch where Shaun Gary

989
00:43:34,440 --> 00:43:37,120
Speaker 2: was limited today, as was jay r Alexander. So you

990
00:43:37,280 --> 00:43:37,960
Speaker 2: I guess you'd have a.

991
00:43:38,000 --> 00:43:40,680
Speaker 3: Lot of star power there. Yeah, the teams are talking about.

992
00:43:40,400 --> 00:43:42,879
Speaker 2: Without a doubt it's a game. Yeah, no doubt.

993
00:43:43,400 --> 00:43:43,480
Speaker 3: Uh.

994
00:43:43,840 --> 00:43:48,360
Speaker 2: The Chargers placed Mike Williams on injured reserve and they

995
00:43:48,480 --> 00:43:51,640
Speaker 2: signed to their active roster off the Steelers practice squad

996
00:43:52,040 --> 00:43:52,880
Speaker 2: Simmi Fojoco.

997
00:43:54,160 --> 00:43:55,239
Speaker 3: Interesting, Okay, I.

998
00:43:55,239 --> 00:43:56,880
Speaker 2: Think that's where he came from. I think he was

999
00:43:56,920 --> 00:43:59,719
Speaker 2: with the Chargers in the preseas, right, Yeah, they know him. Yeah,

1000
00:44:00,160 --> 00:44:02,200
Speaker 2: so he was on their active rusher. They have to

1001
00:44:02,280 --> 00:44:04,080
Speaker 2: keep him on the active rusher now for three games.

1002
00:44:06,800 --> 00:44:09,120
Speaker 2: The Vikings cut running back Miles Gaskin.

1003
00:44:09,960 --> 00:44:13,120
Speaker 3: Interesting, they're making room for Acres and Chandlers there.

1004
00:44:13,160 --> 00:44:19,839
Speaker 2: And the Patriots placed defensive lineman Daniel Uh.

1005
00:44:21,480 --> 00:44:22,400
Speaker 3: That right was.

1006
00:44:27,800 --> 00:44:31,680
Speaker 2: On injury preserve. He's got a bicep injury. But yeah,

1007
00:44:32,239 --> 00:44:35,400
Speaker 2: another news, Max Jones isn't expected to be suspended for

1008
00:44:35,719 --> 00:44:39,400
Speaker 2: allegedly Can we call this alleged when there's video showing

1009
00:44:39,480 --> 00:44:43,200
Speaker 2: him doing it, hitting Sauce Gardener in the groin now

1010
00:44:43,239 --> 00:44:45,799
Speaker 2: whether it was an accident or not, there's a video

1011
00:44:45,960 --> 00:44:52,000
Speaker 2: out there showing him doing it. Jones said Monday that

1012
00:44:52,120 --> 00:44:55,279
Speaker 2: nothing was intentional. Okay, we can that that doesn't have

1013
00:44:55,360 --> 00:44:57,000
Speaker 2: to be alleged. We can, we can talk about that,

1014
00:44:57,080 --> 00:44:59,879
Speaker 2: but it wasn't alleged that actually happened. There's on video. Yeah,

1015
00:45:02,520 --> 00:45:05,520
Speaker 2: the Saints are signing quarterback Jake Luton to their active

1016
00:45:05,600 --> 00:45:07,359
Speaker 2: roster off the Panthers practice.

1017
00:45:07,000 --> 00:45:10,880
Speaker 3: Squad out a couple of games. Yeah, speaking of that,

1018
00:45:11,000 --> 00:45:11,440
Speaker 3: I saw.

1019
00:45:11,320 --> 00:45:13,560
Speaker 2: A thing that the Patriots this year have had like

1020
00:45:13,680 --> 00:45:16,759
Speaker 2: six different quarterbacks on their roster this year.

1021
00:45:16,920 --> 00:45:18,520
Speaker 3: Remember they started the season with one.

1022
00:45:19,280 --> 00:45:23,880
Speaker 2: After final cuts, just keep turning quarterbacks hoping something works. Uh.

1023
00:45:24,040 --> 00:45:26,960
Speaker 2: For the Giants, Yeah, dudes.

1024
00:45:27,000 --> 00:45:27,160
Speaker 3: Yeah.

1025
00:45:27,239 --> 00:45:29,960
Speaker 2: Running back Sakuon Barkley with the ankle injury remains day

1026
00:45:30,000 --> 00:45:32,040
Speaker 2: to day as the Giants prepared to face the Seahawks

1027
00:45:32,080 --> 00:45:33,040
Speaker 2: at home on Monday Night.

1028
00:45:33,400 --> 00:45:37,920
Speaker 3: The fact that that's a Monday night game, thoughts.

1029
00:45:36,680 --> 00:45:39,600
Speaker 2: Gives him an extra day. You'll know by Saturday or Sunday.

1030
00:45:39,640 --> 00:45:42,279
Speaker 2: If he starts practicing, there's a good like even if

1031
00:45:42,320 --> 00:45:45,560
Speaker 2: he's limited on on Saturday, that's a good sign.

1032
00:45:46,280 --> 00:45:49,840
Speaker 3: Yeah, but it's promising that he's gonna be back probably

1033
00:45:50,040 --> 00:45:50,759
Speaker 3: the latest.

1034
00:45:50,719 --> 00:45:52,719
Speaker 2: Sooner rather than later when because there's well, it's a

1035
00:45:52,800 --> 00:45:58,279
Speaker 2: high ankle spring, good ankle spray. What Andrew Thomas with

1036
00:45:58,360 --> 00:46:01,080
Speaker 2: the hamstring is making progress if missing last week's game,

1037
00:46:01,920 --> 00:46:05,280
Speaker 2: and left guard Ben Brettison is out of the concussion

1038
00:46:05,360 --> 00:46:07,480
Speaker 2: protocol according to Brian Dables, so that's a good sign

1039
00:46:07,520 --> 00:46:11,080
Speaker 2: for them. The Jets have signed Trevor Simeon to their

1040
00:46:11,160 --> 00:46:11,840
Speaker 2: practice squad.

1041
00:46:12,160 --> 00:46:14,719
Speaker 3: He might start in a week or two. I mean, like,

1042
00:46:14,800 --> 00:46:17,839
Speaker 3: I don't know how much longer you can Simon. Would

1043
00:46:17,920 --> 00:46:18,840
Speaker 3: you rather sign Wentz?

1044
00:46:19,440 --> 00:46:22,640
Speaker 2: I would hope, I would think. But Trevor Simeon was

1045
00:46:22,680 --> 00:46:26,600
Speaker 2: with the Bengals in the preseason and got caught.

1046
00:46:27,000 --> 00:46:30,680
Speaker 3: Yeah, a lot of quarterback between the Jets, Bengals, and Patriots.

1047
00:46:31,000 --> 00:46:37,520
Speaker 2: It's just like, yeah, musical quarterbacks. The Tennessee Titans signed

1048
00:46:38,400 --> 00:46:41,759
Speaker 2: offensive lineman Justin Murray to their active roster off their

1049
00:46:41,800 --> 00:46:46,239
Speaker 2: practice squad. Their offensive line is a mess, yeah, and

1050
00:46:46,360 --> 00:46:49,680
Speaker 2: they placed running back Julius Chestnut and safety Mike Brown

1051
00:46:49,800 --> 00:46:55,320
Speaker 2: on injured reserve but not huge. But now they're shuffling

1052
00:46:55,360 --> 00:46:59,719
Speaker 2: the deca on their offensive line and any anybody that

1053
00:47:00,360 --> 00:47:04,200
Speaker 2: hey walk around downtown Nashville. Hey, you're three hundred pounds

1054
00:47:04,200 --> 00:47:06,000
Speaker 2: you you ever blocked anybody before?

1055
00:47:06,400 --> 00:47:07,799
Speaker 3: Scarnsky didn't play this past week.

1056
00:47:07,840 --> 00:47:09,480
Speaker 2: He did not. He should be back soon. He had

1057
00:47:09,840 --> 00:47:11,839
Speaker 2: that was an appen deck to me. So that's usually

1058
00:47:11,880 --> 00:47:13,840
Speaker 2: a couple of weeks until that heals up enough to

1059
00:47:15,160 --> 00:47:17,839
Speaker 2: yeah stuff, yeah, yeah, to start wrestling with the other

1060
00:47:17,880 --> 00:47:18,760
Speaker 2: three hundred pounders.

1061
00:47:19,440 --> 00:47:21,920
Speaker 3: So they're not a very good team. That's gonna do it.

1062
00:47:21,960 --> 00:47:25,000
Speaker 2: For today's show, Matt, nice, good one. We appreciate that

1063
00:47:25,120 --> 00:47:28,120
Speaker 2: everybody listening out there. Obviously you are because you played

1064
00:47:28,120 --> 00:47:34,440
Speaker 2: our fantasy football. Uh So, for my partner Matt Williamson,

1065
00:47:34,800 --> 00:47:37,359
Speaker 2: for Brian Lamartine here on site keeping us on the air,

1066
00:47:37,440 --> 00:47:40,399
Speaker 2: I'm Dale Lollie. We appreciate you listening to this edition

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Speaker 2: of The Drive on Steelers Nation Radio