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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. Welcome back. I'm Dale Ali here

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Speaker 1: with Matt Williamson, and we're talking uh Steeler football here

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Speaker 1: on the Drive. And Matt, I wanted to I still

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Speaker 1: keep hearing this conversations nationally that somehow the Steelers quarterback

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Speaker 1: room is a problem. You just you just mentioned it,

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Speaker 1: like you know, I don't get it. Here. So I'm

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Speaker 1: looking at Sharp Football Analysis here Warren Sharp's website and July.

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Speaker 1: This is from July one, so it's not that long ago.

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Speaker 1: Obviously DeShawn Watson hadn't been suspended yet. But so they

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Speaker 1: have the quarterback rankings one through thirty two of their

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Speaker 1: quarterback situations. Okay, and at that point, the Steelers a

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Speaker 1: little vague. I mean, like Steelers quarterback room. One of

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Speaker 1: the least the last words I would say is problem.

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Speaker 1: Like I think it's optimistic. I think it's overachieved so far.

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Speaker 1: That doesn't mean it's mahomes Josh Allen. No, no, no, no,

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Speaker 1: that's not what I'm saying. I really like the state

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Speaker 1: of their quarterback room right now. Okay, So here here

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Speaker 1: we go looking at their rankings at that point. They

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Speaker 1: had the Steelers with the twenty nine best quarterback situation.

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Speaker 1: The only teams behind them the Carolina Panthers, they had

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Speaker 1: not had Baker, the Baker, the Seattle Seahawks, the Atlanta Falcons,

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Speaker 1: and then the Steelers had them behind. The Texans had

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Speaker 1: them behind, the Jets had them behind, Detroit, the Giants, Washington, uh,

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Speaker 1: New Orleans, Chicago, um ah. Let's let's how would we

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Speaker 1: how would you look at this now? Like where would

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Speaker 1: you put them? I mean we could talk about who

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Speaker 1: they're above who when we started the top and say, okay,

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Speaker 1: we're talking about the whole room, and I'm looking at

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Speaker 1: this not even the starter car of the starter carries

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Speaker 1: a lot of right weight, but like Desmond Ritter carries

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Speaker 1: a little bit of weight like he might turn into

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Speaker 1: after the preseasons. Like, so, how some of these guys

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Speaker 1: played and played in the preseason affects things a little bit.

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Speaker 1: Let's do it this way, unless you have any fights.

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Speaker 1: If you were king of the world and the chiefs

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Speaker 1: called you and said we'll trade you our quarterback room

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Speaker 1: for yours, would you say yes or no? Yes? And

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Speaker 1: if we did that with every team? Okay, you know

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Speaker 1: I picked an easy one because everyone's gonna say yes,

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Speaker 1: you know, but he is the Chiefs. The Chiefs are

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Speaker 1: number one. Sure, I'll make that trip. Okay, that the

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Speaker 1: Packers and Buccaneers tied for number two, I don't, but

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Speaker 1: for seventeen games of Brady, I don't want Trask. Trast

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Speaker 1: doesn't even make this team. I mean, i'd rather Rudolphin,

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Speaker 1: and I don't want the other guy of um No, yeah,

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Speaker 1: Gabbert doesn't this team either, right, Yeah, I mean not.

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Speaker 1: I mean pick It's worth way more than all those

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Speaker 1: guys put together. I'm gonna say no. I mean, just

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Speaker 1: did you throw Tom Brady on his team? They win

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Speaker 1: the Super Bowl? Probably not, and they have to do

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Speaker 1: it to make that trade any value. I don't think

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Speaker 1: the Buccaneers win the Super bowls year. I don't either.

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Speaker 1: He may have one for that you went, but you

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Speaker 1: went back for this and you're not even gonna win

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Speaker 1: the super Bowl. We're not going to the super Bowl.

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Speaker 1: Where's they be? Where's Bronk? Where's Mark pet We all

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Speaker 1: these guys that aren't there anymore. I'm gonna say no,

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Speaker 1: but I'll say yes to the Packers. I mean, Jordan's

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Speaker 1: love would be welcome in my building. Yeah he's okay,

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Speaker 1: I mean might be. I don't know. I mean, at

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Speaker 1: least he has some value to get more than the

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Speaker 1: seventeen games out of Rogers. Number four is the Chargers,

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Speaker 1: of course. Yeah. No, uh. Number five is the Bills,

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Speaker 1: of course. Yeah. Those are elite young quarterbacks. Tied for

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Speaker 1: six are the Rams and the Ravens. Yes and yes.

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Speaker 1: But Stafford's arm really troublesome. And Ben, that's troublesome the

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Speaker 1: especially for a guy like him who threw in your veteran.

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Speaker 1: He throws from all these weird arm angles, throw on

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Speaker 1: the rung. Ben a real beating early in his career.

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Speaker 1: People forget he breaks us back twice. I know, right.

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Speaker 1: I mean, he may retire after this year, especially if

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Speaker 1: they win the Super Bowl. They got nothing else. But

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Speaker 1: I'll take him. No, I'm not gonna do the Rams.

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Speaker 1: I don't think Stafford is long for this world. I

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Speaker 1: don't think he is either. I mean, if you told

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Speaker 1: me one of the guys if Trabisky has a Stafford

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Speaker 1: like season, of course I'd take it. But trading my

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Speaker 1: room for their room because the rest of the room

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Speaker 1: is right. No. Eight is the Bengals. Oh yeah, but

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Speaker 1: the rest of their rooms they got a special guy.

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Speaker 1: Nine is the Cowboys. Yeah. I'm still a very big

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Speaker 1: you take it, So give me the bird in the hand. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Ten is the Broncos. Yes, but I don't think he's

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Speaker 1: But he just signed in a contract extension. But they

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Speaker 1: anything behind him. They do not. There seemed to be

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Speaker 1: a team now that just is content to just go

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Speaker 1: out and get veterans, not because they the Broncos and

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Speaker 1: the Cults are those two teams. Yeah, we're just gonna

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Speaker 1: keep going and just go find whatever vetterans will pay

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Speaker 1: for him. I don't want to develop a guy. I'd

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Speaker 1: still say yes, would you rather have the Rams room

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Speaker 1: or the Broncos room? Because a similar conversations they're about. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: they're almost old, but they're not old yet. There's nothing

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Speaker 1: behind them. They're certainly better than the Steelers players, right. Well,

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Speaker 1: Stafford's making Stafford's making a hell of a lot less

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Speaker 1: than Russell Wilson. That's part of it too. A lot.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I think if we answered no to the Rams,

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Speaker 1: I think you say no to the Broncos, and I

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Speaker 1: bet there's people like, of course you trade all those

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Speaker 1: guys for Russell Wilson, but for two years of Russell Wilson. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I don't know. It's close. I mean you're looking at

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Speaker 1: the long term future, what you think Pickett could be.

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Speaker 1: You'd be better this year if by leaps and bounds,

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Speaker 1: no doubt. But I don't know how much Wilson has left.

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Speaker 1: Eleven is the Cardinals Mm hmm. That's a tough one.

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Speaker 1: I don't know what Kyler Murray is yet. I would

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Speaker 1: never hit my wagon to that guy. But he's better

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Speaker 1: than what the Steelers have. He's young, nobody likes him.

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Speaker 1: Nobody on his own team they don't like him. I'll

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Speaker 1: roll the dice with these guys. I think I would too.

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Speaker 1: Like he could be the best quarterback in the league.

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Speaker 1: I mean, he's a great pastor that no one talks about.

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Speaker 1: That one just talked about a little one fast he is.

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Speaker 1: He's a great passer. He hasn't gotten better. And I

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Speaker 1: don't think he's a leader. I don't think he's a

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Speaker 1: leader at all. The things that I've heard. Yeah, that's

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Speaker 1: not encouraging. Now we've heard off the air. You know,

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Speaker 1: twelve is the Raiders. Do you think Picket will have

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Speaker 1: a Car like career? I think I think, well, going

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Speaker 1: into the draft, I said that was his ceiling. So

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Speaker 1: if I think that's his ceiling, would you take the

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Speaker 1: because Cars older than you think. Oh yeah, he came

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Speaker 1: into Mike Evans draft class. Yeah, I mean he's been

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Speaker 1: around a while. It's like thirty two years old, so

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Speaker 1: you get eight more years of that level of play.

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Speaker 1: So I think there are eleven elite quarterbacks in the league.

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Speaker 1: That includes Watson Lamar and then there's Kyler and Car

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Speaker 1: twelve and thirteen right now, but Cars thirty two, I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna take the Steeler group. Okay, did him doesn't help anything? No?

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Speaker 1: It does not. Is the Vikings? No, I think pick

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Speaker 1: up a better career than Cousins. Yes, I think so

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Speaker 1: to we're just not even talking about him like he exists. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and I have great respect for Kirk Cousins, But when

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Speaker 1: it matters most is when hes Yeah, that's too much

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Speaker 1: for trends for me. YEA. Fourteen is the Browns, of course,

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Speaker 1: not because I don't want that guy in my building,

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Speaker 1: but they have better quarterbacks than the Steelers too. As

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Speaker 1: we sit here today, well not as we sit here today.

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Speaker 1: They don't have better quarterbacks in the building. They're paying

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Speaker 1: better quarterbacks than the Steelers are, So let's not bring

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Speaker 1: that one up football wives. I'd rather have their guys.

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Speaker 1: Fifteen is the Titans. No, you wouldn't take tanny Hill

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Speaker 1: would take tanny Hill for Mason Rudolph. Yeah, that would

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Speaker 1: be about it. That's about it. I would if they

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Speaker 1: offered me tanny Hill for Trabisky straight up. I wouldn't

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Speaker 1: say wouldn't do it. I wouldn't do it, And I

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Speaker 1: wouldn't do it for Willis for picket now. So no,

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Speaker 1: the Dolphins, Willis Is gonna be their starter, and like

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Speaker 1: I think he like I got a thing the other day,

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Speaker 1: I said that, Um, I get an odds thing that

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Speaker 1: sent from to me from Vegas? Who's the first quarterback? Benched?

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Speaker 1: And Tanny Hill odds were really long. He's like four

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Speaker 1: years old. That's the one I would bet on because

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Speaker 1: it's like plus one thousand, like Drabinsky was like plus

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Speaker 1: seven seventy five. I'm like, that's not happening. We did that.

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Speaker 1: Are locked on Dynasty podcasts a couple of days ago,

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Speaker 1: and we were talking about quarterbacks super flex leagues. I'm like,

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Speaker 1: I'm buying how Ritter willis. Everyone's already on the picket train,

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Speaker 1: but like, these these rookies aren't as bad as people think,

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Speaker 1: and they could easily be Week thirteen starters. And then

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Speaker 1: who knows. Um The Dolphins no, easy, No, that's a

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Speaker 1: hard no. Yeah, hard no. The Colts, No, if you're

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Speaker 1: not gonna how much sin or Stafford, you can't take Ryan.

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Speaker 1: I don't know how much longer Ryan plays, right right right?

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Speaker 1: You got two years at most, and Nick Foles would

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Speaker 1: make this team. No, so no. The Jaguars, Yeah, all

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Speaker 1: day long and twice on Thursday and Sundays. Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: think he's a special guy. The forty Niners, Yeah, you're

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Speaker 1: a Lance believer. I get Jimmy now too. Yeah, but

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Speaker 1: some one year a Jimmy Jimmy Jimmy doesn't I mean

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Speaker 1: he counts something. I'm talking about Jimmy like where the

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Speaker 1: when the sign falls show? Jimmy doesn't like that I

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Speaker 1: won a lot of games. Though Jimmy's won a lot

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Speaker 1: of games. Jimmy's as good as cousins Lance as well.

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Speaker 1: I'm not a Lance believer, get less of a Lance believer.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's not a home run. But if Jimmy

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Speaker 1: were gone, I'd say no. With Jimmy there, I say yes. Okay,

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Speaker 1: the Eagles no. I kind of like minshe though, but

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Speaker 1: a little. I like Minshew more than Rudolph, not more

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Speaker 1: than Trabisky, And I'll take my chance with those guys

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Speaker 1: overheards the Patriots. That's a tough one because I know

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Speaker 1: what's Matt Jones ceiling? Well, what's tis or what's pickets ceiling? Well,

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Speaker 1: if we said pickets ceiling? As cousins can, can mac

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Speaker 1: Jones be cousins? The more to think about, I think

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Speaker 1: both of them can be better than cousins or not

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Speaker 1: Cousin's car that's a little different. My only reservation for

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Speaker 1: saying yes on this one is I'm certain that mac

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Speaker 1: Jones is going to be a tenure starter. He may

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Speaker 1: not be a Hall of Famer. I don't think he's

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Speaker 1: gonna be a bottom ten guy. I don't think it's

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Speaker 1: a top ten the guy I don't know pick it

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Speaker 1: will be. So I think I'll take door number two,

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Speaker 1: which in this case is the Steelers. Yea, but right

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Speaker 1: now they have two of those guys. At least they

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Speaker 1: have two of them, and in the Hoawyer doesn't count.

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Speaker 1: Rudolph at least has some value. But if you said

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Speaker 1: and and pick it comes in as a mac Jones

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Speaker 1: rookie year, I think we'd all take it. We'd all

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Speaker 1: take it. But I don't think that's even far fetched. No,

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Speaker 1: I mean it kind of would be my expectation, right,

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