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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 to the Drive. I'm Dale Lolly, he is Matt

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Speaker 2: Williamson and Matt. It's like Christmas Eve, Happy drafting Eve

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Speaker 2: to you and to all. We've been talking about this

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Speaker 2: thing for months. We've been waiting for it to come.

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Speaker 2: It is finally here, and nobody knows what the hell

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Speaker 2: is going to go on now.

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Speaker 1: I'm not sure we know a whole lot now that

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Speaker 1: we did months ago, but it's just as much fun.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I can't wait. Steelers are positioned to add

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Speaker 1: a lot of quality talent. There's a lot of different

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Speaker 1: directions they can go. And we have what three segments

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Speaker 1: to talk between now and they start kicking off and

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Speaker 1: then we'll be on the air quite a bit together.

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Speaker 2: Quite a bit. Yeah, as we typically are, you know.

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Speaker 2: But I do believe that this draft I think there's

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Speaker 2: more volatility to it. I agree that maybe in some

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Speaker 2: previous years, I think we all kind of know who

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Speaker 2: the top Tenish guys are.

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Speaker 1: I don't think any of them are gonna be Steelers.

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Speaker 2: But you don't know what order they're going to fall in,

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Speaker 2: other than we know Bryce Young is going to be.

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Speaker 1: Number one, right, that's the anything we know at this point.

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Speaker 2: And then past that, there could be an there could

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Speaker 2: be a bunch of trades in the top ten, there

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Speaker 2: could be no trades in the top ten.

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Speaker 1: And it always comes back to quarterbacks, which fortunately for

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Speaker 1: the Steelers they don't have to they're not in that market.

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Speaker 1: And I'm glad that they're not for this particular class

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Speaker 1: in particular, because I would hate to try to decipher

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Speaker 1: these and you know, can we work around this deficiency

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Speaker 1: or because they all when when I was first exposed

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Speaker 1: to these top five quarterbacks, including Hendon Hooker, all I

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Speaker 1: could see were the glaring weaknesses. And I've warmed up

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Speaker 1: to some more than others, but still they all have

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Speaker 1: huge red flags.

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Speaker 2: Well this is you know. So it goes back to

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Speaker 2: the and I've said this before, the people who wanted

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Speaker 2: the Steelers to just wait and take one next year,

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Speaker 2: right last year, a year ago, at this time, just

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Speaker 2: wait and take one this class, the twenty twenty one

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Speaker 2: class or twenty twenty two class. It isn't very good,

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Speaker 2: So just wait and get your quarterback next year. That

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Speaker 2: class is so deep, right, that's what people are saying. Now,

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Speaker 2: just wait and take one next year because this one's

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Speaker 2: so deep.

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Speaker 1: I mean, Houston's second on the board. They have more

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Speaker 1: draft capital than anyone in the league. And there's an

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Speaker 1: argument to be made to not take any of these

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Speaker 1: be a mistake, which I think is dangerous as could

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Speaker 1: be too, because even if we're right in the North

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Speaker 1: Carolina and the USC dude are transcendent, phenomenal players. Well,

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Speaker 1: no one's trading out of those picks. You have to

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Speaker 1: be one of the worst two.

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Speaker 2: You have to stink again, yeah, really really stick. Now

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Speaker 2: your fan base is really ticked off at you because well,

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Speaker 2: you know, we've stunk now for four straight years. When

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Speaker 2: are we going to be good again?

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Speaker 1: I know, and I understand that there is you know,

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Speaker 1: we're gonna spend the whole time talking about the Texans.

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Speaker 1: But there's finally some optimism in there. Deshaun Watson's gone.

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Speaker 1: I mean, there's a new coach and.

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Speaker 2: That extra draft picks, because yeah, you're.

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Speaker 1: Loaded, can you? But you can't go into that locker

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Speaker 2: How you're telling Laramie tunsl again that you know, hey, Laramie,

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Speaker 2: back there and win.

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Speaker 1: Three games again. Yeah, like I've seen this movie. No thanks,

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Speaker 2: Looking at some of the things that have happened since

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Speaker 2: we were last on the air, Well, the Aaron Rodgers

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Speaker 2: trade finally went through.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, to no surprise. He is a Jet, and.

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Speaker 2: I mean there were rumors that the forty nine ers

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Speaker 1: It was like Belichick could call. Yeah, it'd be a

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Speaker 1: Retal Belichick thing to do. But I thought the Jets

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Speaker 1: gave up more than I expected. So it's a good

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Speaker 1: deal for the Packers and that it's time to take

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Speaker 1: but to their credit, they still have a mid first

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Speaker 2: But next year gets interesting. You know that that picked

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Speaker 2: next year is conditional upon Aaron Rodgers playing sixty five

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Speaker 1: Right, And Aaron.

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Speaker 2: Rodgers, who's thirty nine, might not be playing for the

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Speaker 1: That's what's odd to me is Rogers is an iron man.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I would imagine it'd be a long shot

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Speaker 1: for him not to play sixty five percent of the snaps.

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Speaker 1: Now that doesn't I'm sure the Jets are looking at

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Speaker 1: really late first round pick. And they might be right.

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Speaker 1: But in the AFC, you still might not even make

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Speaker 1: the playoffs. I mean, if the Jets are in the NFC,

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Speaker 1: I might could the Rogers led Jets are the.

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Speaker 2: Play Are they still any better than third in that division.

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Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean, I think the Patriots are

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Speaker 1: Miami's all in even more than the Jets are, and

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Speaker 1: Bills aren't going away. But so if you're the Packers

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Speaker 1: they don't make the playoffs considering the conference they're in.

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Speaker 1: But if he doesn't make those numbers for whatever reason,

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Speaker 2: If you remember. This is very much like the Russell

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Speaker 2: Wilson trade to me, very much. So where as soon

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Speaker 2: as it's made, everybody starts talking about, oh, there might

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Speaker 2: the playoffs this year. Yeah, yeah, they'll be lucky to

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Speaker 1: This is the way world works.

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Speaker 2: That's the way the world war. Here's the Jets schedule.

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Speaker 2: That's it's awful at home against the Bills, the Dolphins,

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Speaker 2: the Patriots, the Chiefs right right there, the Chargers, the

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Speaker 2: Eagle Wow, the Commanders, the Texans and the Falcons.

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Speaker 1: Wow. So they play the they play the other East,

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Speaker 2: Which is pretty good away games Buffalo, Miami, Patriots at Denver,

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Speaker 2: which is never an easy place, at the Raiders, at

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Speaker 2: the Cowboys, at the Giants, at the Browns.

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Speaker 1: Right right, right, And I'm sure Miami's is just as hard.

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Speaker 1: You know, they're playing base I mean, this is a

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Speaker 1: this is a that's what I means. Chances of three

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I'm looking at that home schedule. I'm like,

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Speaker 2: if they get four wins in that home schedule, that's

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Speaker 2: pretty good. Right, they get five, Okay, good for them.

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Speaker 1: I mean even the division. I mean, you sweep the Patriots.

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Speaker 1: Say what you want about the Patriots, They're.

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Speaker 2: Still tough to get. They're still tough to play against. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: you know, so people celebrating this as well, that the

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Speaker 1: I'm sure I don't see it. I don't really either.

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Speaker 1: I'm planning on doing a ranks after the draft, I mean,

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Speaker 1: just for other outlets or whatever. I'm sure we'll talk

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Speaker 1: about I'm sure we'll talk about it, But I bet

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Speaker 1: eight of the top teams are in the a FC. Like,

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Speaker 2: I mean, you have to look at the top fourteen

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Speaker 2: because seven from each conference go to the playoffs, right.

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Speaker 1: I bet at least ten of them are AFC.

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Speaker 2: Like when you start looking at that schedule like that,

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Speaker 2: then you have to start looking at AFC losses and

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Speaker 1: I mean, if they're three and three in the division

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Speaker 2: You know, the Chargers at homes a toss up, you know,

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Speaker 2: you know. So there's there's a lot of games that

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Speaker 2: you know, people at that well it's the Browns away

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I was thinking that too, Like what if you

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Speaker 1: Cleve in week sixteen.

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Speaker 2: I've done that before.

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Speaker 1: That's fine, right, It's just a tough situation.

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Speaker 2: So it's gonna be interesting to see how that schedule

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Speaker 2: will be released. The other point to this is the

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Speaker 2: Jets had one primetime game last year. Now they're gonna have.

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Speaker 1: Six six thenced well, I mean that's emotion you can

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Speaker 1: get you they're gonna have six primetime games. It's New

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and everybody's talking, well, look at the you know,

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Speaker 2: everybody in New York's excited about the Jets. Good, but

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Speaker 2: Dallas is not an easy.

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Speaker 1: Road trip for sure. And then you get.

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Speaker 2: A fly but you know, fly back and play the Eagles.

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Speaker 1: Yeah right, I mean I'm even think of a lesser team,

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Speaker 1: but the Giants are going to run the ball eighty

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Speaker 1: like that type of thing. And no, you're right, And

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Speaker 1: I always go back to our conversation with labs. You

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Speaker 1: those type of things that people don't think about, like

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Speaker 1: you have five time, Yeah, you of them on the.

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Speaker 2: Road, your Sunday, your Sunday against Miami at home, and

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Speaker 2: then you got to go on a short week and

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Speaker 2: go play the Raiders in Vegas.

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Speaker 1: Or the fact that I keep bringing up the Giants, like

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Speaker 1: maybe you're on the road against the Giants, but it's

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Speaker 1: a home game. You know, that's not an advantage at all,

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Speaker 2: So, and I still believe there are more Giants fans

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Speaker 1: I mean, I think about a year ago, the Raiders,

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Speaker 2: I mean, it's ridiculous, like you better win when you

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Speaker 2: I saw somebody and I can't remember who, put out

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Speaker 2: much better year last year. Now he didn't play as much,

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Speaker 1: Who would rather have? Right now? I mean off the

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Speaker 2: Right You're going to get guys who play, you know,

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, And as we often say, the rosters set

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Speaker 1: Us extremely well. Yeah, extremely well. Right, I mean, could

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Speaker 1: Right. I can play him a little bit in week one,

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