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

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Speaker 1: Goals Steelers Nation Radio. We are back. I am Dale Ali.

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Speaker 1: He is Matt Williamson and this is the Drive on

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Speaker 1: Steelers Nation Radio. And Matt it's Tuesday. I know it

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Speaker 1: doesn't feel like a Tuesday. My weeks are all screwed up.

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Speaker 1: I've been doing Wednesday stuff and I'm all messed up.

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Speaker 1: Right now, we have the Dan Hans Has Power rankings

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Speaker 1: here and well there should be some shake ups on

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Speaker 1: here this week. Oh, I would think, yeah, yeah, I

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Speaker 1: mean this should be a fun one. So before we start,

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Speaker 1: we mentioned the Colts a little last segment. Yeah would

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Speaker 1: they be last? For you? Um Houston hundred times? With

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Speaker 1: this current coaching staff and quarterback, there's some contenders and

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Speaker 1: there's contenders. There are some serious, serious contenders. Yeah, but

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Speaker 1: they should be. Yeah, they should be down there. They're

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Speaker 1: gonna be number thirty two down three spots are the

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Speaker 1: Carolina Panthers. It wasn't very good week for the Carolina. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you're asking Baker to come save the day is about

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Speaker 1: as desperate as it kids. PJ Walker, Uh, he will

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Speaker 1: get to start again this week. They play Thursday Night

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Speaker 1: Walker starting this week. Yeah, Thursday play Thursday against Atlanta.

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Speaker 1: I guess maybe they hope that, Hey, he's a familiar opponents. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: he just played them and played them two weeks ago.

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Speaker 1: I mean they sort of have a defense, not the

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Speaker 1: saw it this past week. I don't think they'd be

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Speaker 1: last for me, though, I think Houston and India is worse.

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Speaker 1: India is a defense too, Yeah, it's just their offense. Uh.

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Speaker 1: At thirty one, are those Houston Texans moving up a spot?

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Speaker 1: You'd like to see them play a little bit better.

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Speaker 1: I mean, have they shown any progress in three years? No?

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Speaker 1: I mean how long is this project gonna take? Six

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Speaker 1: and one and one? Yeah? At thirty down two spots

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Speaker 1: are those three five and one Indianapolis Colts. That's pretty

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Speaker 1: generous considering the state of the team. And you know

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Speaker 1: it's the staff capable of winning games. At nine up

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Speaker 1: two spots after big win the two and six Detroit Lions, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I wouldn't. I mean, they're better than teams, but I

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Speaker 1: wouldn't change too much that win. It's twenty eight down

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Speaker 1: a spot the Steelers. Ouch. Wow. I do think these

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Speaker 1: power ranks a little bit out of sight out of

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Speaker 1: mind usually doesn't help you. Um that's a little rough.

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Speaker 1: I I might add, you have to look at the

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Speaker 1: team is currently constructed and one t J one is

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Speaker 1: coming back this week. Like maybe he didn't look that

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Speaker 1: far into it or know that as a fact. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I get maybe you look as well. He hasn't been activated.

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Speaker 1: He's going to be activated. You know that's what happened.

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Speaker 1: I'm sure they are better than the next five teams. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: the Steelers with t J. Watt to me, are probably

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Speaker 1: I mean that's I mean, this is looking too much

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Speaker 1: into it and he's not gonna look at every team

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Speaker 1: like we do, you know, into one. But I'd be

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Speaker 1: shocked if the offense isn't a little better posed by

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Speaker 1: well again, if the defense set you up for some

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Speaker 1: couple of easy scores. The field position, Um, yeah, field

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Speaker 1: position has been a huge. It goes a long long way.

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Speaker 1: You're not starting their average drive this year. I mean

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Speaker 1: I sit and watch this stuff. Everything like nine out

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Speaker 1: of ten drives for the Steelers start from It's insane.

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Speaker 1: It's in my stat pack. The defense is always is

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Speaker 1: last in terms of where they have to trot out

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Speaker 1: on the field, and the offense is like and there's probably.

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Speaker 1: I would be almost be willing to bet that, Like

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Speaker 1: their drives have started inside the opposing ten. I mean,

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Speaker 1: it's you're really limited when that's happened. Yeah, I mean,

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Speaker 1: as if the offense zone is don't have their own issues.

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Speaker 1: They played great defense is and they have terrible starting field,

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Speaker 1: you know, at seven up three spots. The Jacksonville Jaguars

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Speaker 1: guess been a little better lately. Wouldn't you put the

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Speaker 1: team that they just beat, who just got shut out

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Speaker 1: last week by the Saints, right, shouldn't they? They should

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Speaker 1: be below them. They should be below a couple of

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Speaker 1: They're pretty bad. Yeah, they may be in They just

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Speaker 1: cut their starting safety, their former first round pick today, Jonathan. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: they maybe really should be in Houston territory. If there

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Speaker 1: I know that doesn't fit, I think the Raiders should

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Speaker 1: go on at holding steady. The three and five Broncos, well,

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Speaker 1: by trade deadline a little bit. The offense is horrendous.

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Speaker 1: I mean, i'd like to see your chances against the

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Speaker 1: Broncos and a round robin tournament holding steady. The four

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Speaker 1: situation is really bad now, I mean he's not good

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Speaker 1: to Vegas. They've blown three seventeen point leads this year.

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Speaker 1: We talked about it. Yeah, right, that's hard to do it,

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Speaker 1: they've gotten three seven teen point leads. Yeah, we did

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Speaker 1: talk about that yesterday. You think, boy, you have no

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Speaker 1: running game or new no pass rushers. Well that's like

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Speaker 1: the two best things. That's what they had. And they've

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Speaker 1: got Davante Adams and they still can't stop anybody. And

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Speaker 1: Adams said, I think seventeen targets this past week. But

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Speaker 1: if you look in the second half, Cars just forcing

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Speaker 1: umbrella coverages, ren Froze running free underneath, and he's just

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Speaker 1: drilling it into atoms. That's how you lose a seven

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Speaker 1: any point lead, right right right at twenty three, down

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Speaker 1: a spot. The Arizona Cardinals at three and six. They're

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Speaker 1: pretty bad. They're bad. I mean, their defense is real

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Speaker 1: bad and the offensive line is real bad. Kyler Murray,

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Speaker 1: I don't know if Kyler Murray is good either. Average

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Speaker 1: five yards per tempt last week against Seattle, Yeah, which

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Speaker 1: is not It's just not good. The only reason that

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Speaker 1: I think that's the next one. I think. So. The

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Speaker 1: weird thing, though, is ownership loves the GM coach, quarterback,

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Speaker 1: and those three have all this power and that that

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Speaker 1: nobody seems understand. It's twenty two down three spots. The

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Speaker 1: Packers they should probably be lower. They're bad. They should mean,

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Speaker 1: they're flat out bad. You've mentioned the Rams yet the

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Speaker 1: Rams are Bands are bad, right. I mean I keep

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Speaker 1: lumping the Bucks, Packers and Rams together because they've had

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Speaker 1: so much success lately, and they they're old now, you know,

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Speaker 1: I mean, the time has come. But Rams and Packers

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Speaker 1: or Saints aren't even on here yet right now. They're bad.

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Speaker 1: But you even mentioned a good team yet, you know.

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Speaker 1: But that's all I'm saying. Like the Steelers are I

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Speaker 1: think with t J Watt better than these teams. I

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Speaker 1: do too, but I can see I think you want

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Speaker 1: to see it one. I mean, if they beat the Saints,

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Speaker 1: you can easily move up to twenty. I don't think

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Speaker 1: from a national perspective, you know it's twenty one up

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Speaker 1: the Bears. I get the optimism for Fields. Here's the thing.

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Speaker 1: I don't think they're beating him any of those teams

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Speaker 1: we mentioned. So the Steelers go to Miami, lose to

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Speaker 1: the Dolphins sixteen to ten with TWA and they they

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Speaker 1: two again, one score game, and they come up um.

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Speaker 1: A lot of these teams behind him have not helped

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Speaker 1: their case at all in the last week. It's just

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Speaker 1: it's the optics of the offense, get it. I mean

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Speaker 1: he's turned to Corner's still not winning games. Doesn't mean

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Speaker 1: anybody like, I'm worried that Steeler second round pick all

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Speaker 1: of a sudden is going to be the playoffs. No,

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Speaker 1: they don't beat that anybody At twenty down three spots.

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Speaker 1: The three and six Saints Okay, I mean two weeks

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Speaker 1: ago it was great. Last night was horrendous. Raiders. Raiders

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Speaker 1: who could be thirty were completely dysfunctional. Josh McDaniels is

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Speaker 1: nineteen up two spots and the Browns who were off

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Speaker 1: this weekend at three and five, they moved up into

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Speaker 1: the top twenty again not playing Why they're doing nothing?

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Speaker 1: I think that's what about where the Browns belong. But

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Speaker 1: like I think the Browns beat the Rams. Maybe it

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Speaker 1: depends on which Brown's team shows up. Yeah, yeah, they're

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Speaker 1: a little jack one hide. But a lot of teams

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Speaker 1: three and five? I mean some of these teams, including

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Speaker 1: Green Bay or living on their reputation a little bit.

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Speaker 1: I know they've got star power and all that, but man,

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Speaker 1: they're not playing well at seventeen up a spot. The

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Speaker 1: four and five Falcons, I guess they're kind of like

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Speaker 1: the Bears. To me, they're not any good. No, they're

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Speaker 1: not any good. They're hard to play against because they

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Speaker 1: run the ball so well. It's sixteen up four spots

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Speaker 1: to four and five Buccaneers. That's that entire division right there.

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Speaker 1: Who do you think wins that division? Yeah? If the

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Speaker 1: Saints would have looked good last night, I thought maybe

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Speaker 1: they like this week to say the Buccaneers they play

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Speaker 1: in Germany, right, but they play Seattle in Germany? Could

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Speaker 1: there be a longer plane ride? My son did all

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Speaker 1: the math and all the you know everything about it,

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Speaker 1: and we were talking about that because we were watching

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Speaker 1: basically straight from this game almost you know, they're not

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Speaker 1: acclimate in three days, not even close. Like I I

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Speaker 1: don't know what Seattle is doing, but that is asking

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Speaker 1: they're playing someone terrible though. They're playing Tampa Bay. They're

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Speaker 1: playing Tampa. Tampa's gonna win. Yeah, yeah, playing Tampa Bay. Right,

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Speaker 1: that's six am start time for them three days after

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Speaker 1: arriving after a ridiculous they are a team that's accustomed

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Speaker 1: to making long trips. This is beyond this is this

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Speaker 1: is twenty four hours on plane, right, they're gonna be asleep. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Uh At fifteen up a spot the Chargers, Okay, I

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Speaker 1: mean I still think they have a chance to make noise,

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Speaker 1: but they're disappointing. They keep losing guys left and say

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Speaker 1: the injuries are bad. They just keep mounting for that team. Uh.

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Speaker 1: At fourteen down a spot the Patriots, Okay, I mean

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Speaker 1: they're at least consistent. I mean, I don't think there's

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Speaker 1: any splash there. Mac Jones is bad too. I mean

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Speaker 1: that's the underreported story of all the Colts nonsense was

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Speaker 1: Matt Jones was awful? Yeah, and he's been bad all year.

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Speaker 1: At thirteen down two spots the six and two Giants. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: sit around on a by and you know you've won

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Speaker 1: six out of eight. I guess that's where you belong. Yeh.

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Speaker 1: Did you see Davie McKinney heads to I R and

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Speaker 1: it broke his hand while on vacation in Mexico? Who

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Speaker 1: it was? Yeah? Yeah, writing an a TV. This is

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Speaker 1: what coaches weren't. Young players don't go on and do

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Speaker 1: something stupid. Well, he did something stupid, but that's bad

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Speaker 1: at twelve and they're not a contender. Though twelve holding

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Speaker 1: steady is the Dolphins. I might be higher on them

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Speaker 1: than that. Let's see who's above them, but I think

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Speaker 1: they're pretty deep. The defenses is suspect, it's very I'd

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Speaker 1: be worried about at eleven down a spot the Bengals

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Speaker 1: after just destroying a team the Carolina Panthers. I know,

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Speaker 1: but it was still their best game of the year.

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Speaker 1: I mean, they were a dominant team in that game.

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