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Speaker 1: Steelers Nation Radio, Welcome back. I am graduation and he

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Speaker 1: says to drive on Steelers Nation Radio, and I met.

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Speaker 1: There are four NFL playoff games this weekend. Lots of

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Speaker 1: good stuff here should be uh for pretty competitive games.

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Speaker 1: I would think what times they start tomorrow? The first

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Speaker 1: game is four thirty tomorrow. That would be the Jaguars

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Speaker 1: at the Chiefs of four seed at the one Kansas City,

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Speaker 1: favored by eight and a half over hundreds fifty two

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Speaker 1: and a half in this game. They played this game

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Speaker 1: back mid midway point of the season. The Chiefs beat

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Speaker 1: the Jaguars seventeen. UM. This continues to bother me, Matt

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Speaker 1: so again. I mentioned earlier in the show that I

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Speaker 1: was watching UM the NFL Network this morning and he

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Speaker 1: was talking about the Giants. The Giants and now the

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Speaker 1: right right teams playing. One of the one of the

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Speaker 1: guys on there said that the Giants turnaround might be

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Speaker 1: the best, the best turnaround in NFL history history. How

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Speaker 1: about the Jaguars what they did this year might be

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Speaker 1: more impressive than what the Giant said? The Giants didn't

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Speaker 1: even win their division. I mean, history is a long time,

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Speaker 1: A long time, yeah, the hundred years of the NFL.

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Speaker 1: I'm not sure it's the best in the last two years.

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Speaker 1: I mean, if you recall the Bengals were should we

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Speaker 1: take Penny or more Chase? This is back to back

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Speaker 1: seasons where the team that had the number one overall

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Speaker 1: pick then turns it around and when's its division. If

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Speaker 1: the Giants get to the super Bowl, it might be

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Speaker 1: better than what the Bengals did. I mean, you've got

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Speaker 1: a lot of games to win, just be even that.

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Speaker 1: It wouldn't be because they didn't have then overall pick, right, right,

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Speaker 1: I mean the Jags to me is a bigger turnaround,

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Speaker 1: and you're right, Hey, give Dave all the credit in

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Speaker 1: the world. He's doing a tremendous job. He's doing a

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Speaker 1: great job with Daniel Jones all that stuff. But same

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Speaker 1: with Jacksonville. Speaking of day Ball, so in my five

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Speaker 1: for Friday Today on Steelers dot Com, I made mention

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Speaker 1: that and Brian day Ball's first three seasons as Buffalo's

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Speaker 1: offensive coordinator, the Bill's average six team points per game,

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Speaker 1: then nineteen points per game, and then thirty two points

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Speaker 1: per game. He didn't get smarter. The quarterback up better, right,

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Speaker 1: Correct me if I'm wrong, though, Allen was there for

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Speaker 1: all three all three of them, yes, together, Yes, So

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Speaker 1: that was Allen's rookie season sixteen points per game, which

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Speaker 1: is kind of pick is. The second season it was

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Speaker 1: that third season it was thirty two points a game.

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Speaker 1: I know you welln't if I don't think you're saying

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Speaker 1: day Balls not a good coach. No, I'm just saying

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Speaker 1: he didn't get smarter. Everybody's saying he's a genius now.

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Speaker 1: But because of what he's doing, well, look at this,

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Speaker 1: and he fixed Josh Allen and he did you know,

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Speaker 1: those first two season is in Buffalo weren't good. Weren't good, right,

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Speaker 1: And I think there's a lot to appeal with that

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Speaker 1: because I think it's very, very impressive. Now he's done

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Speaker 1: it with two different quarterbacks, but he's made them much

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Speaker 1: better than before they met, you know, and Daniel Jones

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Speaker 1: Allen's first couple of years were bad. He couldn't hit

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Speaker 1: the broadside of a barn It was the point of

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Speaker 1: people don't realize the Giants didn't pick up Jones fifth

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Speaker 1: year option, they could have him under contract next year.

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Speaker 1: They didn't expect this either, And not that he's the

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Speaker 1: next one, Tana, but he's a lot better than he was.

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Speaker 1: Um A huge key to me his training for Stefan Diggs.

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Speaker 1: That helped. Yeah, I mean, now was that worth thirteen points?

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Speaker 1: So the Bills Bills also went to much like day

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Speaker 1: they were trading away Sammy Rock, Watkins and Robert Woods

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Speaker 1: I'm sure they thought didn't think they were a playoff

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Speaker 1: And Trevor Lawrence said earlier this week, well, I can't

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Speaker 1: and all the type of things. But yeah, it's gonna

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Speaker 1: be eye opening. Do you get to before I dig

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Speaker 1: feeling that to know success of their own? I feel

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Speaker 1: I think the Chiefs really I think some of that though,

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Speaker 1: was division opponent related. Third time around. I mean that's

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Speaker 1: that's that. Yeah, that third time around for a division

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Speaker 1: you're not gonna surprise those teams since you more so

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Speaker 1: just because the old line injuries. Well that's a problem.

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Speaker 1: That's a big car on that team than I was

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Speaker 1: Lawrence is close to Mahomes level at this point. This

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Speaker 1: gonna be a way, way harder test than beating the Titans,

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Speaker 1: outright against the spread, is an underdog this season. That's

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Speaker 1: time for the most underdog wins in a single season

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Speaker 1: Sean Hokiles crew is doing the game yuck. They second

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Speaker 1: a roughing the passer call or something. Speaking. We haven't

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Speaker 1: guess I missed that because if that's true, then it's

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Speaker 1: not allowed to hit the quarterback in the head. It's

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Speaker 1: a cutting, dry move. Maybe they should have explained it

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Speaker 1: That would have made a big difference. But I guarantee

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Speaker 1: you that's what it was called for because the way

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Speaker 1: call every time. So back to the path rush. Huge

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Speaker 1: key with Mahomes is don't blitz him. You know, can

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Speaker 1: a player. Oh me too. Yeah, his highs are unbelievably high,

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Speaker 1: third and eight for him. Yeah, no, no doubt looking

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Speaker 1: at this. Eric Moody picking the Chiefs thirty seven twenty seven,

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Speaker 1: Seth Walter picking the Chiefs thirty seven. But you didn't

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Speaker 1: mention is the Chiefs like the worst team in the

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Speaker 1: league against the Ready they are? Yeah, I mean they

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Speaker 1: are not blowing anybody out. No, they could in this one,

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Speaker 1: but I say that every week. But even then, again,

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Speaker 1: that first game was a ten point game. Um, so

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Speaker 1: I think the Chiefs win. Yeah. Um, the way it's

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Speaker 1: I'll take two and a half. Ye uh. You have

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Speaker 1: the six seeded Giants at the first number one seeded Eagles.

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Speaker 1: That's the eight fifteen game Saturday night, Philadelphia, favored by

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Speaker 1: seven and a half, the over under forty eight. Speaking

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Speaker 1: of moving that line six points. I get the division

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Speaker 1: game stuff and beating a team the third time and

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Speaker 1: all that, Um, that always kills me. It's not so

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Speaker 1: hard to beat a team three straight times if you

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Speaker 1: were the better team, right, I mean, it's still sixty

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Speaker 1: team I've seen. I've seen the Steelers do it a

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Speaker 1: whole bunch of times with division opponents. And it's also

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Speaker 1: a misnomer that the team that won the first two

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Speaker 1: usually wins the third one. It's not like it's even history.

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Speaker 1: I mean, there's not that many instances in the fifty

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Speaker 1: it's really really hard to beat a team three times. Well,

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Speaker 1: history says not so much, because you're really beating him

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Speaker 1: really have to beat them once to make this app

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Speaker 1: So that makes me crazy because the numbers don't back

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Speaker 1: playoff wins Dallas is stretches are crazy. It's insane. This

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Speaker 1: is like the first time in basically eight min era

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Speaker 1: It's their first road win last week in forever. I

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Speaker 1: mean some of their playoffs stuff is remarkably barren. Yeah. Absolutely,

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Speaker 1: you're taking them to win. I'm taking them to win outright.

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Speaker 1: I think they'll be very close, and I think there

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Speaker 1: will be new problems for the young quarterback Eric Moody

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Speaker 1: picking thet Seth Waller picking. Ok, how about the the

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Speaker 1: FBI FPI predictions on this one? Dallas point two percent

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Speaker 1: of the time. Really, I wonder if it's a bad matchup.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I think I like Dak better than you,

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Speaker 1: But he played quarterback, he played well. If if that

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Speaker 1: of Scott plays like he did last week, the win

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Speaker 1: and he's capable, And I think they can run the ball,

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Speaker 1: and I think that old line can hold up as

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Speaker 1: well as any can against San fran And the kind

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Speaker 1: of under reported story is I think the Niners are

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Speaker 1: probably the best defense in the league, but it's not

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Speaker 1: a dominating especially the last month or so. Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: mean they destroyed some bad teams that you cited at

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Speaker 1: the end of the year, but since it's been good.

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Speaker 1: But it's not like, Wow, this is an impenetrable defense,

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Speaker 1: and you can throw the ball on them and then

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Speaker 1: their corners and you get to play the run against

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Speaker 1: the Cowboys. If you don't play the run, they're going

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Speaker 1: to run on you. So you have to dedicate guys

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Speaker 1: to stopping that. And I'm sure we'll put a DFS

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Speaker 1: line up together next segment, but I think it should

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Speaker 1: be a much heavier Pollard game than z. Yes, it's

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Speaker 1: not keep the Jerry we had Jerry. We're good here,

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Speaker 1: but we gotta win this game. We need the explosive.

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Speaker 1: I think he was markedly better. Yeah, it's not even close.

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Speaker 1: And I get it. If it's if it's third and one,

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Speaker 1: put zeke it, I get, you know, bring Betters in

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Speaker 1: for you. Yeah, But if it's first and ten, I

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Speaker 1: want Pollard in the game. If it's of the situations, yes, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean that's just where they're obvious to anybody who

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Speaker 1: watches the Cowboys. There gonna throw screens to him on

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Speaker 1: both side. And you know, I mean he didn't get

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Speaker 1: the ball kind of Christian McCaffrey light. Yeah, very similar.

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Speaker 1: And he's becoming a free agent. He's get paid a lot. Yeah. Um,

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Speaker 1: I am Dale Alli. You're listening to the Drive here

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Speaker 1: on Steelers Nation Radio. As Matt alluded to there a

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Speaker 1: minute ago. You allude to it, you actually said it.

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