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

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Speaker 1: on your home of the Black and Gold Steelers Nation Radio.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Drive. I'm Dale only here with Matt

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Speaker 1: Williamson and it is a Tuesday. That means we had

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Speaker 1: Mike Tomlin talk today for the first time in Chiefs

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Speaker 1: week and well before we even get close to that. Uh,

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Speaker 1: the other shoe was has dropped on the Kansas City

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Speaker 1: Chiefs before we even get to that. Okay, to pull

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Speaker 1: the curtain back, We're in this brand new fund studio,

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Speaker 1: I mean a little out of my comfort, Brandy. I

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Speaker 1: don't don't know if it's fun yet fun not yet.

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Speaker 1: I'm a little I feel a little construction here. It's

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Speaker 1: a little tone. I've already don't know where things are at.

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Speaker 1: But we're gonna adapt and over change things up here.

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Speaker 1: Just to pull the curtain back. And what's going on

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Speaker 1: at the old studio you were to my right, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that is a little weird. We need to switch the

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Speaker 1: seats up tomorrow. Okay. I feel strange looking to my

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Speaker 1: This's like we were a married couple, were the wrong side.

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Speaker 1: We're sleeping on the wrong side of the bed. If

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Speaker 1: we walked in here, and I thought it was a

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Speaker 1: monumental conversation to have. I'm like, what, didn't think anything

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Speaker 1: on for eternity and you grabbed that one, and I

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Speaker 1: don't think anything of it. My logic was, I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: be close to the door. I'm in and out, so

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Speaker 1: we might need to rethink that might be on the

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Speaker 1: wrong side of the bed. I'm often like a maybe

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Speaker 1: a mafia member or old gunfighter, where I never want

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Speaker 1: to have my back to the door. They're getting me

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Speaker 1: first to think them in here, right, I'm a bigger target,

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Speaker 1: but I feel strange looking looking to my left at you. Okay,

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Speaker 1: we're not to think of it. It's outside my comfort zone.

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Speaker 1: The other thing too, and I noticed this for Jacob

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Speaker 1: on the way in. I'm more of an obstacle for

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Speaker 1: him to get in and around me coming through that

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Speaker 1: door too. You're a little bit bigger obstacle than me.

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Speaker 1: And I'd like to kind of spread out and get

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Speaker 1: wide and take up a lot of space if there's

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Speaker 1: a a little bit, if there's if there's a fire,

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Speaker 1: Jacob maybe trapped in here, Oh he's in trouble. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: And plus he starts in and out from time to

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Speaker 1: time to take care of things right, and it could

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Speaker 1: be as so we need to think about this. This

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Speaker 1: is a big decision because this is for eternity. This

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Speaker 1: is Yeah, he's a test run, but we might have

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Speaker 1: to switch it up. We may we might have to

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Speaker 1: switch it up after this segment. And look at this,

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Speaker 1: I'm bounce around in my seat. It doesn't squeak. People

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Speaker 1: talk about my squeaky seat all the time. Doesn't You

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Speaker 1: should be able to stay close to the mic. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think so. I mean the night mikes are much nicer.

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Speaker 1: It's clean in here. So we'll see. But well, that'll

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Speaker 1: that'll change. That'll change in the next five minutes whenever

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Speaker 1: Wolf comes in. But tyreek Hill now placed on the

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Speaker 1: COVID nineteen list for the Kansas City Chiefs and others.

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Speaker 1: But he's the big name. Well, obviously Travis Kelsey already

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Speaker 1: on there from yesterday. Matt, you you throughout the stat

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Speaker 1: today they account for exactly fifty of the targets. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: for the whole team, for the whole team, but of

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Speaker 1: the actual production. It's amazing. I mean they deserve it,

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Speaker 1: They're amazing. But there's two sides to that is, you know,

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Speaker 1: drafting Hardman, trading for signing Sammy Watkins, flirting with Juju

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Speaker 1: in the off season, they realize that they need a

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Speaker 1: third guy in a bad way, and even using the

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Speaker 1: first round pick on Clyde Edwards Hilaire recently because of

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Speaker 1: his receiving skills. They are too dependent on Hill and Kelsey.

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Speaker 1: It's not a bad problem to have. It's a it's

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Speaker 1: certainly better than depending on Oh, I don't know, the

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Speaker 1: Kwan treadwell and James O'Shaughnessy. Yeah right, yeah, probably different,

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Speaker 1: a little different, but you know, the Vikings were sorted

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Speaker 1: this way too. They had the feeling, um Jefferson just

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Speaker 1: eating up targets and then everybody else. It was that

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Speaker 1: way when they had before. So right now, correct me

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Speaker 1: if I'm wrong. Kelsey went on yesterday. I can't remember

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Speaker 1: we reported that on the air, and I think we did.

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Speaker 1: It wasn't it happened during the during the show and

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Speaker 1: now Tyreek and that doesn't mean they're gonna miss for sure.

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Speaker 1: But then there's some other names that aren't his big names,

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Speaker 1: but various words A big one. He's important, He's the

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Speaker 1: And the other part of the equation is, you know

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Speaker 1: why Chris Jones missy? Uh? And so they're still having

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Speaker 1: this is a little worrisome if you're kids. The other thing,

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Speaker 1: the other issue with this that I raised to you

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Speaker 1: by the NFL, they're not they're not just automatically testing

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Speaker 1: guys if they've been vaccinated, right. They test guys who

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Speaker 1: are unvaccinated every day. That's that hasn't changed. They randomly

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Speaker 1: test vaccinated players. I don't know, I don't know how many,

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Speaker 1: five to ten per day. The only other way that

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Speaker 1: if you were having symptoms, because because you now, if

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Speaker 1: you're having symptoms, what they're supposed to do is is

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Speaker 1: explained to me. It was technically the training staff are

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Speaker 1: the facility. Okay, the door, and they're asking the player,

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Speaker 1: are you having any any of these symptoms? And if

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Speaker 1: be tested. Okay, yeah, I got sniffles. Boom, you're boom,

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Speaker 1: you're getting tested and maybe you're on the random list anyway. Okay,

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Speaker 1: So because they don't what they don't want to happen

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Speaker 1: there was automatically some people. Why would you do that? Well,

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Speaker 1: you don't want to get everybody in your team sick.

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Speaker 1: There's nothing to gain. This is what happens when when

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Speaker 1: somebody doesn't self report, all of a sudden, now you

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Speaker 1: get somebody in the building. And this this this new variant,

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Speaker 1: the omicron variant, while being less again less deadly, less

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Speaker 1: You don't get as sick, but it's easier to spread, right,

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Speaker 1: So you know you don't want this spreading through your buildings,

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Speaker 1: So don't go in the building if you have if

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Speaker 1: you're having symptoms, it's not because they want a day

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Speaker 1: this is what we know is fact. Then so Kelsey

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Speaker 1: less chance one of the random tests test, but they

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Speaker 1: still tested positive. Yes, with asymptomatic though, But so if

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Speaker 1: chance to get back, to get back quickly if you're

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Speaker 1: necessarily there's a slim chance that that's the case. So

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Speaker 1: chances are all these cases not all, but a higher

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Speaker 1: ones with symptoms. Yes, that's the that's the more of

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Speaker 1: the higher problem percentage of chance, okay, which means there's

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Speaker 1: a less chance that they will get done, you know,

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Speaker 1: he's he's either either had symptoms or he was a

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Speaker 1: random test, and you know he was a day earlier,

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Speaker 1: so he has a better chance than Hill to get on.

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Speaker 1: Of course, even twenty four hours means a lot. But man,

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Speaker 1: if they're missing either of those guys, lit on both

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Speaker 1: of them either. I mean, just talking defending the Chiefs,

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Speaker 1: everyone always talks about, oh, too high safety. You know

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Speaker 1: they've played against Cover two for years. It's you know

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Speaker 1: what we'll talk about that strategy stuff. Was the season

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Speaker 1: goes on or as the week goes on, I'm sure,

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Speaker 1: But to me, the best way to defend the Chiefs

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Speaker 1: is keep my Homes in the pocket and then double tyreek.

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Speaker 1: You know, in all respect to Kelsey, he's amazing. He

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Speaker 1: might even be the most productive tight end in the

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Speaker 1: history of the world. Why didn't he That's cool, Mike Tomlin.

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Speaker 1: Did they threw this one out? So Mike Tomlin staton

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Speaker 1: right into that this was coming. Kelsey has five hundred

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Speaker 1: and eighty yards after the catch this season. Most tight

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Speaker 1: bet that's down from previous years. Like he is, he's

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Speaker 1: Like they're great advising devising it, Mahomes hit him in

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Speaker 1: something and next you umbling, stumbling, bubbling, as good as

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Speaker 1: we've ever seen after the catch. Really, the only other

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Speaker 1: thing I get, like Mike Dicka when you watch you

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Speaker 1: Mike Dick a highlights where he's running through guys and

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Speaker 1: his average depth of target and yards for reception are amazing,

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Speaker 1: and he's two hundred seventy pounds, but even him, it

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Speaker 1: that's what Tomlin called him. He said, you know what,

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Speaker 1: you can call him the tight end, call him whatever.

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Speaker 1: He's a number one receiver. He's a number one receiver, right,

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Speaker 1: I mean, he's not the blocker Gronk or kid who is.

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Speaker 1: That's why I wouldn't have him over Kiddle as a

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Speaker 1: we've ever seen. Might be the best receiving tight end

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Speaker 1: his five year numbers coming into this year are unprecedented

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Speaker 1: for tight ends. And now he hasn't tipped at all.

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Speaker 1: This for a tight end, right, and we got three

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Speaker 1: games to play. That's wide receiver stuff. I mean, that's

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Speaker 1: it's seven or something. That's all said, and that's what

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Speaker 1: your number one wide You know that the star wide

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Speaker 1: receivers get that much after Oh yeah, right, So let's

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Speaker 1: say he keeps up his average and he ends up

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Speaker 1: with seven hundred yards after the catch you ever take,

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Speaker 1: which is incredible. That's more than There'll be several teams

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Speaker 1: this year that won't have their leading receiver, won't have

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Speaker 1: that many receiving yards. What I was gonna say is

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Speaker 1: that's a starting fantasy tight end in itself. You know.

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Speaker 1: In fact, last night's game is a productive dude. The

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Speaker 1: the game between the Browns and Raiders, which will touch

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Speaker 1: game that was active, the leading wide receiver had twenty

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Speaker 1: three catches. Wow, the of the people's showes let both

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Speaker 1: teams with three catches. I guess he did. I don't

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Speaker 1: Browns wide receivers themselves. And I'm trying to think that

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Speaker 1: three catchers in that game he played, but he didn't

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Speaker 1: I mean so those if either of those two guys

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Speaker 1: placing guys on on the list that we keep seeing names. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Since then, they've had two turnovers against the Giants. The

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Speaker 1: Giants were that was that was they seventeen game, because

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Speaker 1: they're turning the football over. Since then, they've had six turnovers.

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Speaker 1: And you know that all of a sudden, you're putting

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Speaker 1: points on the board because you're not turning the football

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Speaker 1: over because you're gonna move the football with that offense.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, and there's there's some more reasons even why.

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Speaker 1: First off, I think Mahomes was a little loose with

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Speaker 1: the football and not playing particularly well. Um, defenses were

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Speaker 1: throwing some more things up at them as well. Um,

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Speaker 1: they were had some some bad luck. Some of their

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Speaker 1: turnovers were tip balls, They had a lot of drops. Um,

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Speaker 1: the fumble against the ramble against the Ravens. Their fumbles

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Speaker 1: the first seven games, they had a very low percentage

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Speaker 1: that they actually recovered, where now it's about average, you know,

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Speaker 1: So there's some bad luck. Yeah. And the other thing is, Um,

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Speaker 1: I was in aside something so smart to say, and

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Speaker 1: I can't even remember what the heck was, I don't

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Speaker 1: dawn on me at some point this week, but their

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Speaker 1: defense and started forcing turnovers. It's a completely flip flop

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Speaker 1: for him. I mean, they were really bad in turnover Differentially,

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Speaker 1: they've had they forced multiple turnovers in each of their

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Speaker 1: last six games. Well, yeah, you're gonna win those games.

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Speaker 1: The same thing, right, the same thing, huge aspect of

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Speaker 1: this particular matchup, without question. Yeah, you gotta take care

448
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Speaker 1: of the football. Here's what I was gonna say too,

449
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Speaker 1: is like I love my homes. I think he's a

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Speaker 1: transcendent player. I mean, we're so lucky to watch this

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Speaker 1: guy's career. But I will say before this season he

452
00:24:01,880 --> 00:24:04,560
Speaker 1: was a massive risk taker of the football. He was

453
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Speaker 1: bound to come back to the mean a little, you know.

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Speaker 1: I mean, he's not gonna stay at that level that

455
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Speaker 1: no one's ever seen of just throwing the ball in

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Speaker 1: tiny windows and not getting the ball picked up. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I mean, the only guy who's ever done that consistently

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Speaker 1: has really been Aaron rod and Rodgers. Yeah. I mean

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Speaker 1: even like Farv takes chances like those guys, but he

460
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Speaker 1: had a lot of picks him and it's just who

461
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Speaker 1: these guys are. Yeah. So it's gonna be interesting. Um

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Speaker 1: see what happens with the Chiefs and who they get back,

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Speaker 1: who they don't get back. Do the Steelers have any

464
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Speaker 1: people hopefully? I mean, this is this is a nationwide

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Speaker 1: thing at this point, that league wide. Every day you

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Speaker 1: look at there were thirty plus players across the league

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Speaker 1: put on the list yesterday. I haven't seen I haven't

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Speaker 1: seen the total number for today, but it's going to

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Speaker 1: affect things, you know, and We're gonna see two games

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Speaker 1: tonight because of it. Yeah, and hey, I mean you

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Speaker 1: kind of feel for the Browns. I don't know when

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Speaker 1: are und your fields with the Browns, but a huge

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Speaker 1: difference they win that game versus not. And you can't

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Speaker 1: tell me they would didn't have a better chance of

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Speaker 1: winning if they wouldn't have got hit. So, yeah, it's

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Speaker 1: not's so part of it. The Steelers had their season

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Speaker 1: affected by it last year. Uh you know, went on

478
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Speaker 1: a minute there you go, just happening left and right. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: so it's gonna happen, and if you know, you just

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Speaker 1: hope that it doesn't happen to your team. And you know,

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Speaker 1: I don't know that you can really do anything to

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Speaker 1: mitigate that. To you. Guys are going home, they're they're

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Speaker 1: going home to their families. You know, it's a viru

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Speaker 1: of a higher percentage of accinated players the most. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: so we're gonna take a break. He is Matt Williamson.

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Speaker 1: I'm Dale Lally. You're listening to the drive here on

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Speaker 1: Steelers Nation Radio. When we return. Well, there's no power

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Speaker 1: rankings this week, but Matt and I are going to

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Speaker 1: power rank the f C. Since the a F C

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Speaker 1: was done for this week. We'll look at that right

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Speaker 1: after this. H your tunes about drive on Home of

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Speaker 1: the Black and Gold Steelers Nation Radio. Welcome back. I'm

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Speaker 1: Daley here with Matt Williamson and uh Tuesday, we typically

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Speaker 1: take a look at Dan Dansers's power rankings on NFL

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Speaker 1: dot Com, but because there are games tonight, there's no

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Speaker 1: power rankings, no power rankings. Still, do you maybe you

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Speaker 1: could do it tomorrow? Perhaps? How do you like this idea?

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Speaker 1: This is how I do my power ranks as I

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Speaker 1: break them into subsets. Instead of just looking at thirty

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Speaker 1: two teams, I go division by division and I power

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Speaker 1: rank that division. And then whenever I'm gonna do my

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Speaker 1: power ranks, I pick one off the top. You know

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Speaker 1: what I'm saying. I do. But we're just looking at

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Speaker 1: the a f C process. You could do yours that way. Okay,

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Speaker 1: all right, I'm gonna look at this, and I've got

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Speaker 1: the standings here in front of me. The standings to me, though,

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Speaker 1: don't mean diddly poo right, Like the Falcons are decent

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Speaker 1: standings and they would not be high on the Titans

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Speaker 1: right now. Are the three seed in the playoffs, like

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Speaker 1: here's the other. There were six more games left in

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Speaker 1: the season. Yeah, the Titans might not make the playoffs exactly, exactly.

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Speaker 1: Flatter me with this too. I know it's only sixteen

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Speaker 1: thirty two. Deal, but it's easiest for me to do

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Speaker 1: power ranks, to start at the top, started bottom, and

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Speaker 1: then be stuck with like three or four teams in

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Speaker 1: the middle. Because there's it's the tops and bottoms are easy.

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Speaker 1: The middle is hard. The middle is always hard. In

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Speaker 1: the middle in the a f C as well, ridiculously

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Speaker 1: ridiculously hard. But the bottom is easy. If you knock

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Speaker 1: them out, you start going sixteen down, and then you

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Speaker 1: start from fifteen or one down. Then in the middle

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Speaker 1: you figured out the crazy talk. Well, we'll start at

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Speaker 1: the bottom. You do whatever makes you happen. We'll start

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Speaker 1: the bottom. I always do. Okay, who's the worst team

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Speaker 1: in the a f C. It's Jacksonville. Yeah, they've lost

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Speaker 1: twice now to the Texans have three wins and two

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Speaker 1: of them came against Houston handled them twice. Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: mean just now, I mean again, Okay, I'm making rules

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Speaker 1: left and right, but when you're not abiding any of them,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna look at the power rank is strictly how

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Speaker 1: good are you playing right now? If we were to

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Speaker 1: line up against you on Sunday, how much do I

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Speaker 1: fear you compared to fifteen other teams? Not you got

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Speaker 1: all these winds and you set records back in week two.

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Speaker 1: I don't care about that stuff. Jacksonville now clearly yes,

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Speaker 1: Who's Who's uh? I think the Jets are Who's fifteen?

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Speaker 1: You think, yeah, Houston's showing signs of life? The Jets were.

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Speaker 1: The Jets were competitive with the Dolphins on Sunday. They were,

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Speaker 1: and they caused some turnovers that helped as well. And

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Speaker 1: I'll be honest with you, I'm not so sure that

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Speaker 1: Tennessee shouldn't be down there right I mean, I think

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Speaker 1: they're a pretty bad team right now. I mean I'm

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Speaker 1: not sure that the Raiders don't belong down there, not

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Speaker 1: maybe not that low. But I think this becomes a

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Speaker 1: conversation at I mean, the bottom three are really bad.

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Speaker 1: So who who's fifteen? For you? Is that the Texans

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Speaker 1: or Jets see? A big factor to me is Mills

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Speaker 1: is getting better, Wilson is not getting better at all. Statistically,

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Speaker 1: the Jets are the easiest defense in the league. To

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Speaker 1: play against two. Start all your guys against it for fantasy.

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Speaker 1: I think Houston's defense is okay. Yeah, I agree in

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Speaker 1: Houston over the Jets. Houston said some bad games of late,

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Speaker 1: but they're not good. Yeah, but they've had some competitive games. Yes,

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Speaker 1: and this is what we're talking about. But like for

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Speaker 1: the world of draft, it doesn't hurt them to win

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Speaker 1: a game or two. To me, there's not this transcendent player.

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Speaker 1: It might be more valuable to get some wins and

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Speaker 1: beat Jacksonville and show them you're better than that, you

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Speaker 1: know whatever, and let the Jaguars figure out who should

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Speaker 1: be number one, ye whoever? They like that. Actually, they

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Speaker 1: still won't have it because Detroit is still in that spot.

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Speaker 1: So number one even after winning, um, they have two wins.

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Speaker 1: They get two wins now, actually do Yeah, Jacksonville isn't

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Speaker 1: again back to back number one overalls. What a miserable franchise. Okay,

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Speaker 1: so you get we get the three BOMs. To me,

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Speaker 1: they're on their own tier line. Who's next worst? M

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Speaker 1: M seam sitting here scanning the divisions as if I

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Speaker 1: had broke them down by each How are we doing this?

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Speaker 1: Are we? Are we doing this? As the teams were

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Speaker 1: constituted on this week as what they put on the

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Speaker 1: field this week. Yeah, with the asterix of I would

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Speaker 1: still count like Tyree Hill and Kelsey as chiefs. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean they's they still may play this week I'm

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Speaker 1: talking about, but I'm accounting Henry, right, I mean, you

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Speaker 1: can't play or you know is out. So I think

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Speaker 1: it comes down to the Browns to me, are the

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Speaker 1: worst team in the North. Yes, I don't think Miami's

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Speaker 1: this bad, no, or anyone else in the East. I

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Speaker 1: think the Titans are in the conversation Raiders Broncos. Raiders

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Speaker 1: are worse than the Broncos for me. Now that Drew

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Speaker 1: Locks a quarterback for Denver, I guess we have to

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Speaker 1: count that far. So it's a four team race. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean that makes a difference. It's a big difference.

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Speaker 1: But I'm gonna say Baker is the Browns quarterback. Okay

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Speaker 1: he wasn't this past week. Yeah, but we're talking about

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Speaker 1: right now. I mean I think he's coming back. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I'm not gonna if if what's his face from last

588
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Speaker 1: night is the third string quarterback is the quarterback, then there,

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Speaker 1: But you also then have to factor in that Myles

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Speaker 1: Garrett limped off the field and then he returned, but

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Speaker 1: he wasn't he should not have played right back. And

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Speaker 1: there's something. And they lost Jack McKinley in that game.

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Speaker 1: He's done for the year. He's done all the all

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Speaker 1: the injuries have the factor into equation. I think the

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Speaker 1: Titans are the worst. I think they're pretty bad. I

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Speaker 1: take that back, Well, they'll get a j Brown back

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Speaker 1: this right, I think the I think the Raiders are

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Speaker 1: the word. Think the Raiders are pretty bad too. I mean,

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Speaker 1: they really could have lost to a massive team, had

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Speaker 1: no business losing. Right, that's a shell of the Browns.

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Speaker 1: Let's put the Raiders as the next worst. Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: think I agree with that. I'm gonna go with that. Like,

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Speaker 1: I think Denver beats the Raiders consistently right now. They've

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Speaker 1: showed a lot of heart, they can run the ball

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Speaker 1: no matter who the quarterback is. They might be the

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Speaker 1: best of that group. To me, I think Denver is

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Speaker 1: better than Tennessee right now. I think if Denver played

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Speaker 1: Cleveland right now, Denver, I'd pick. You picked the Broncos.

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Speaker 1: I probably would too. I'd probably go Broncos. Browns. Uh,

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Speaker 1: we're Titans, Raiders in that order for that tier. Okay,

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Speaker 1: so that is seven teams out of it. That leaves

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Speaker 1: us with nine. Now do we start at the top.

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Speaker 1: That's what I would do. Yeah, let's get flip to

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Speaker 1: the top. Who's the best team in the a f

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Speaker 1: C right now as we sit here, I'm gonna say

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Speaker 1: Kelsey and Hill count as Chiefs though not, I think,

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Speaker 1: I honestly think right now the team that's playing the

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Speaker 1: best football in the a f C is Indianapolis Colts.

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Speaker 1: I was gonna say the Chiefs, followed by the Colts.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I think those I think the Colts will

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Speaker 1: be a real problem, yeah, everybody, and it's not. How

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Speaker 1: the Chiefs are constructed is to play a physical, beat

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Speaker 1: you up type of game. The one thing that worries

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Speaker 1: me a little about the Colts is Michael Pittman and

625
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Speaker 1: Kyle Dugger getting a fight in that game, and Pittman

626
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Speaker 1: is not great, but they both get ejected. He's all

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Speaker 1: he got, He's all he got, you know, like all

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Speaker 1: of a sudden, Patriots started coming back. The running game

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Speaker 1: for the Colts isn't quite as good. Put an extra

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Speaker 1: guy in the box, but Pittman's part of the team.

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Speaker 1: It's just they're a little fragile in the passing games.

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Speaker 1: The Chiefs have issues too, though the Chiefs are not

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Speaker 1: the old Chiefs. In my opinion, I'm cool with the

634
00:36:39,320 --> 00:36:41,160
Speaker 1: Colts one if we can give me the Chiefs of too.

635
00:36:41,400 --> 00:36:43,440
Speaker 1: I think those are clearly the top two teams in

636
00:36:43,440 --> 00:36:46,480
Speaker 1: the n Let's put them in their own Tier two. Then. Okay,

637
00:36:46,480 --> 00:36:49,120
Speaker 1: so we got Colts, Chiefs. That leave us seven teams

638
00:36:49,120 --> 00:36:51,640
Speaker 1: to sword out. Who's the third best team in the

639
00:36:51,800 --> 00:36:56,960
Speaker 1: FC right now? No one from the North. I think

640
00:36:57,000 --> 00:37:01,920
Speaker 1: the Patriots are better than all the North teams. They

641
00:37:02,040 --> 00:37:04,400
Speaker 1: better than the Chargers. Are they better than the Bills?

642
00:37:04,440 --> 00:37:06,279
Speaker 1: So we're gonna see. We'll find out this week if

643
00:37:06,280 --> 00:37:07,920
Speaker 1: they're better than the Bills. Again, they were better than

644
00:37:07,960 --> 00:37:11,080
Speaker 1: the Bills. That couples doesn't count to me because of

645
00:37:11,160 --> 00:37:13,640
Speaker 1: whether it's two extreme. I mean, that's an outlier game

646
00:37:13,680 --> 00:37:16,360
Speaker 1: in my opinion, just because that's not strong enough resume

647
00:37:16,400 --> 00:37:19,279
Speaker 1: builder that you broke off a long run in a

648
00:37:19,360 --> 00:37:23,000
Speaker 1: terrible situation and had their leg up, you know. But

649
00:37:23,080 --> 00:37:24,480
Speaker 1: I do think they're better than the Bills. I think

650
00:37:24,480 --> 00:37:31,280
Speaker 1: they're more consistent than the Bills. They would be my three. Okay, um,

651
00:37:31,320 --> 00:37:37,120
Speaker 1: so four for three. The Bills are better than the Dolphins. Yes,

652
00:37:38,080 --> 00:37:41,720
Speaker 1: they've they smoked them twice. I think that's not an

653
00:37:41,760 --> 00:37:43,920
Speaker 1: even an argument. So that's something. You know, if you

654
00:37:43,960 --> 00:37:47,239
Speaker 1: look at the Dolphins quote unquote wind streak that they

655
00:37:47,280 --> 00:37:50,960
Speaker 1: put together, they will only win against the team, a

656
00:37:51,000 --> 00:37:53,000
Speaker 1: team that was even considered a quality team at the

657
00:37:53,040 --> 00:37:56,719
Speaker 1: time that they played was over the It was over Baltimore. Yeah,

658
00:37:56,800 --> 00:37:59,239
Speaker 1: the rest has been guarding to Yeah, you know who

659
00:37:59,360 --> 00:38:01,120
Speaker 1: was who was playing above their head at that point.

660
00:38:01,560 --> 00:38:04,000
Speaker 1: If you look at their schedule, what they've done, it's

661
00:38:04,560 --> 00:38:06,160
Speaker 1: they're way better than they were at the beginning of

662
00:38:06,160 --> 00:38:08,200
Speaker 1: the year when they were a bottom five power rank

663
00:38:08,280 --> 00:38:10,080
Speaker 1: type of team. They beat the Patriots, and we here's

664
00:38:10,120 --> 00:38:13,080
Speaker 1: their schedule. They beat the Patriots in Week one, seventeen sixteen,

665
00:38:13,200 --> 00:38:16,600
Speaker 1: Mac Jones first first quarterback right lost to the Bills.

666
00:38:16,600 --> 00:38:21,080
Speaker 1: The next week thirty five nothing nothing uh lost to

667
00:38:21,080 --> 00:38:26,400
Speaker 1: the Raiders, lost to the Colts, seventeen lost to the Buccaneers,

668
00:38:27,000 --> 00:38:31,120
Speaker 1: seventeen lost to the Jaguars. It wasn't all just good

669
00:38:31,120 --> 00:38:33,960
Speaker 1: teams beating them. The lost to the Falcons thirty eight.

670
00:38:35,360 --> 00:38:38,799
Speaker 1: I got smoked again by the Bills eleven. Then they

671
00:38:38,880 --> 00:38:42,960
Speaker 1: beat the Texans seventeen nine. Who Yeah, Then they beat

672
00:38:42,960 --> 00:38:47,279
Speaker 1: the Ravens, they beat the Jets seventeen, they beat the

673
00:38:47,280 --> 00:38:50,600
Speaker 1: Panthers thirty three to ten, they beat the Giants, they

674
00:38:50,640 --> 00:38:52,560
Speaker 1: beat the Jets again, and now they get the Saints

675
00:38:52,560 --> 00:38:55,360
Speaker 1: this week. Are they good or not? I have no idea.

676
00:38:55,480 --> 00:38:57,319
Speaker 1: I guess well, I don't think they're up for this

677
00:38:57,360 --> 00:39:00,360
Speaker 1: spot in the power ranks. But it's they're not the

678
00:39:00,400 --> 00:39:03,920
Speaker 1: super hot team that's gonna everybody like you listen to

679
00:39:03,960 --> 00:39:07,200
Speaker 1: the I get it. Well. Their schedule is remaining is

680
00:39:07,440 --> 00:39:09,919
Speaker 1: at Saints, which will be a problem for them this week.

681
00:39:10,280 --> 00:39:12,800
Speaker 1: That's an interesting game. Yeah, I haven't looked at any spreads.

682
00:39:12,800 --> 00:39:14,839
Speaker 1: I bet that's about to pick them game. Um, yeah,

683
00:39:14,840 --> 00:39:18,360
Speaker 1: it's in New Orleans, so that'll be defense. Then another

684
00:39:18,400 --> 00:39:20,440
Speaker 1: game and don't take the under. That game back on

685
00:39:20,480 --> 00:39:23,680
Speaker 1: the road again to the Titans, which A J. Brown

686
00:39:23,760 --> 00:39:25,719
Speaker 1: will be back, A J. Brown, you know, we'll be

687
00:39:25,719 --> 00:39:28,080
Speaker 1: back for that. Maybe they bring Derrick Henry back. At

688
00:39:28,120 --> 00:39:30,000
Speaker 1: that point, they're talking about week eighteen for them. I

689
00:39:30,040 --> 00:39:31,520
Speaker 1: don't know if they want to wait that long. They

690
00:39:32,080 --> 00:39:34,360
Speaker 1: and then they get the Patriots at home, and we

691
00:39:34,400 --> 00:39:36,359
Speaker 1: talked about it last sight. But I mean they need

692
00:39:36,360 --> 00:39:37,880
Speaker 1: to win out to be in the to get in

693
00:39:37,880 --> 00:39:40,719
Speaker 1: the playoffs or have any chance they might I mean

694
00:39:40,760 --> 00:39:44,000
Speaker 1: maybe New England, the rest their guys, you know, if if,

695
00:39:44,239 --> 00:39:46,000
Speaker 1: but I don't even know if if winning out would

696
00:39:46,000 --> 00:39:49,080
Speaker 1: get them in. Doesn't necessarily because they lose the tiebreaker

697
00:39:49,120 --> 00:39:52,800
Speaker 1: to the Bills. Uh, if they split with the Patriots,

698
00:39:52,840 --> 00:39:55,200
Speaker 1: they would lose, still lose the tiebreaker because Patriots had

699
00:39:55,200 --> 00:39:57,759
Speaker 1: the better division record. They're not on any losses to

700
00:39:57,840 --> 00:40:00,480
Speaker 1: people that they need to lose, and that they lose

701
00:40:00,520 --> 00:40:02,840
Speaker 1: to the Colts. They lose the tiebreaker to the Colts.

702
00:40:03,520 --> 00:40:10,440
Speaker 1: They don't win many tiebreakers. Okay, anyway, we have Colts

703
00:40:10,520 --> 00:40:13,799
Speaker 1: one chiefs too. We don't have a three. I think.

704
00:40:13,920 --> 00:40:17,640
Speaker 1: I think you can say in New England, is um

705
00:40:19,040 --> 00:40:21,920
Speaker 1: are the Chargers for? Are the Bills? I think it's

706
00:40:21,920 --> 00:40:26,000
Speaker 1: the Bills. I think it's a Bill's Bengals Chargers conversation.

707
00:40:26,000 --> 00:40:28,200
Speaker 1: I think I think the Bills have more quality wins

708
00:40:28,200 --> 00:40:32,320
Speaker 1: this year. I would rank those three Bills, Chargers Bengals,

709
00:40:32,760 --> 00:40:37,080
Speaker 1: I think. So Okay, yeah, so we have the top

710
00:40:37,160 --> 00:40:41,960
Speaker 1: six in the bottom seven, so that leaves us with

711
00:40:42,160 --> 00:40:49,200
Speaker 1: three in the middle, Steelers Ravens Miami. Right, that's it.

712
00:40:49,360 --> 00:40:55,640
Speaker 1: That's it, Steelers Ravens Miami. The medal is always the hardest.

713
00:40:55,840 --> 00:40:58,560
Speaker 1: It's just always the hardest. Narrow it down doing it

714
00:40:58,600 --> 00:41:02,120
Speaker 1: this way. Who do we really need to right now?

715
00:41:02,160 --> 00:41:06,239
Speaker 1: I would, Uh, that's tough. I mean, we just saw

716
00:41:06,280 --> 00:41:08,759
Speaker 1: the Steelers beat the Ravens a couple of weeks ago

717
00:41:08,800 --> 00:41:12,439
Speaker 1: with Lamar. Let's say Lamars in the but they also

718
00:41:12,440 --> 00:41:15,040
Speaker 1: had Marlon Humphrey for that game. He's out of the

719
00:41:15,040 --> 00:41:18,719
Speaker 1: equation class. Campbell is Calaiss. Campbell going to be back

720
00:41:18,760 --> 00:41:22,239
Speaker 1: at any time soon. And their corners aren't their owlnes bad.

721
00:41:22,600 --> 00:41:24,799
Speaker 1: They lost and they lost Tavon Young in that game

722
00:41:24,840 --> 00:41:29,680
Speaker 1: the other day too. Right, the Steelers are the healthiest,

723
00:41:29,719 --> 00:41:34,279
Speaker 1: but maybe Miami is. Yeah, I think i'd go Miami

724
00:41:34,440 --> 00:41:39,080
Speaker 1: Steelers Ravens. I might go Steelers Miami Ravens. Okay, so

725
00:41:39,160 --> 00:41:42,279
Speaker 1: we agree on Ravens or the last. You don't think

726
00:41:42,280 --> 00:41:44,279
Speaker 1: they're winning again. I don't know if they win another game.

727
00:41:44,719 --> 00:41:46,439
Speaker 1: I think the Steelers need them to win a game

728
00:41:46,520 --> 00:41:50,200
Speaker 1: this week. They don't need it to happen because because

729
00:41:50,280 --> 00:41:53,359
Speaker 1: Kansas City is probably going to beat Cincinnati and Cincinnati

730
00:41:53,640 --> 00:41:58,480
Speaker 1: in two weeks probably probably, So realistically, you don't you

731
00:41:58,520 --> 00:42:01,080
Speaker 1: don't need to the Ravens to win this week, and

732
00:42:01,120 --> 00:42:02,760
Speaker 1: I don't think they will. You just need to Bengals

733
00:42:02,760 --> 00:42:07,200
Speaker 1: to lose one of their final Actually you need them

734
00:42:07,200 --> 00:42:09,480
Speaker 1: to lose two. So yeah, I mean that would be helpful.

735
00:42:09,760 --> 00:42:13,160
Speaker 1: That would be helpful. Do you think my did you

736
00:42:13,200 --> 00:42:16,000
Speaker 1: say Miami is the best of the three? I said Miami. Second.

737
00:42:16,200 --> 00:42:18,080
Speaker 1: I can't look at any of those wins that they

738
00:42:18,120 --> 00:42:19,960
Speaker 1: got other than that one over Baltimore and say, well

739
00:42:20,000 --> 00:42:22,759
Speaker 1: that was a good win. Yeah, they beat a bunch

740
00:42:22,760 --> 00:42:25,160
Speaker 1: of garbags right now. I mean, you win that many

741
00:42:25,160 --> 00:42:26,719
Speaker 1: games in a row, you have to respect it. But

742
00:42:26,800 --> 00:42:29,120
Speaker 1: it's not a good street. And you know the folks

743
00:42:29,160 --> 00:42:31,520
Speaker 1: out there screaming at the radio, Well, the Steeler's offensive

744
00:42:31,520 --> 00:42:34,440
Speaker 1: line makes them the worst. You haven't seen Miami's offensive

745
00:42:34,440 --> 00:42:36,320
Speaker 1: line play. It's the worst in the league. Yeah, I

746
00:42:36,360 --> 00:42:38,720
Speaker 1: mean I feel very confidence saying that's the thirty second

747
00:42:38,760 --> 00:42:41,520
Speaker 1: rank defense or O line. I'm muchure the Ravens O

748
00:42:41,600 --> 00:42:45,160
Speaker 1: lines were better than the Steelers either. There's that right, Yeah.

749
00:42:45,200 --> 00:42:47,440
Speaker 1: I think the Ravens offense is better than the Steelers

750
00:42:47,440 --> 00:42:52,400
Speaker 1: offense with with Lamar but I get when when the

751
00:42:52,400 --> 00:42:55,560
Speaker 1: two teams play, I'll take the Steelers defense as the

752
00:42:55,560 --> 00:42:58,040
Speaker 1: best unit on the shutting that shutting that unit down

753
00:42:58,040 --> 00:43:00,399
Speaker 1: because I've seen I've just seen it too much. I mean,

754
00:43:00,440 --> 00:43:02,560
Speaker 1: the thing the Steelers have going for him this conversation

755
00:43:02,600 --> 00:43:05,640
Speaker 1: as health. I mean, right, they've finally gotten right. I mean,

756
00:43:05,840 --> 00:43:08,920
Speaker 1: knock on wood, I mean, there's we're not having this

757
00:43:09,000 --> 00:43:11,840
Speaker 1: conversation of this Lamar account? Does this guy count? The

758
00:43:11,920 --> 00:43:15,080
Speaker 1: defense is in pretty good shape. That carries a lot

759
00:43:15,080 --> 00:43:17,480
Speaker 1: of weight in this battle, and it certainly does. I

760
00:43:17,560 --> 00:43:19,200
Speaker 1: can live with them one. I think we agree that

761
00:43:19,320 --> 00:43:24,560
Speaker 1: Ravens are third Miami versus Steelers. I can live with this.

762
00:43:25,160 --> 00:43:27,560
Speaker 1: It's a toss up. Yeah it is. I mean two

763
00:43:27,600 --> 00:43:31,040
Speaker 1: is playing better, but it's really r po ish and

764
00:43:31,239 --> 00:43:33,560
Speaker 1: finesse ish. You know. But if they if they played

765
00:43:33,560 --> 00:43:36,000
Speaker 1: the Steelers right now, would they run for two yards?

766
00:43:36,320 --> 00:43:38,799
Speaker 1: I think I don't think so. No. I mean, Duke

767
00:43:38,880 --> 00:43:41,279
Speaker 1: Johnson and nice game against the terrible Jets, but that's

768
00:43:41,360 --> 00:43:43,680
Speaker 1: kind of lukey too. Yeah. I mean the teams that

769
00:43:43,719 --> 00:43:46,279
Speaker 1: will give the Steelers trouble are the teams that have

770
00:43:46,480 --> 00:43:50,399
Speaker 1: a great running back. Yes they don't. They do as

771
00:43:50,400 --> 00:43:52,640
Speaker 1: bad as stable as in the league. It goes back

772
00:43:52,640 --> 00:43:56,480
Speaker 1: to what I said yesterday. Is okay that the Titans

773
00:43:56,480 --> 00:43:59,400
Speaker 1: said two hundred rushing yards in the game on Sunday,

774
00:43:59,480 --> 00:44:01,640
Speaker 1: But did they really hurt the Steelers with the running game?

775
00:44:02,520 --> 00:44:04,560
Speaker 1: They sport their team points. If it was Henry, they

776
00:44:04,600 --> 00:44:08,520
Speaker 1: would have if Henry he might himself, but but they

777
00:44:08,520 --> 00:44:11,800
Speaker 1: didn't have him, right, you know, the Henry verse Cook situation.

778
00:44:11,880 --> 00:44:13,680
Speaker 1: It's the same reason why you give them a puncher's

779
00:44:13,719 --> 00:44:16,960
Speaker 1: chance against the Chiefs, because the Chiefs won't run the football, right.

780
00:44:17,239 --> 00:44:19,480
Speaker 1: The Chiefs actually aren't a bad matchup for the Steelers

781
00:44:19,560 --> 00:44:21,440
Speaker 1: right now. I mean they're a bad matchup for everyone

782
00:44:21,480 --> 00:44:24,440
Speaker 1: because because because they got homes. But they're not a

783
00:44:24,440 --> 00:44:26,640
Speaker 1: bad matchup because of what the Steelers are doing poorly

784
00:44:26,760 --> 00:44:29,720
Speaker 1: right now. You'd rather probably play the Chiefs and the Colts.

785
00:44:29,760 --> 00:44:32,920
Speaker 1: If you're the Steelers, Colts will be a big problem.

786
00:44:33,120 --> 00:44:36,400
Speaker 1: The Patriots would be a problem, would be a problem,

787
00:44:36,480 --> 00:44:38,480
Speaker 1: you're right, I mean the Colts would be the ultimate problem.

788
00:44:38,520 --> 00:44:41,480
Speaker 1: That's like Tennessee with Henry problem. You know that's bad

789
00:44:41,520 --> 00:44:43,520
Speaker 1: because they're just gonna pound you. They're just gonna keep

790
00:44:43,600 --> 00:44:45,719
Speaker 1: running it and running it and running although I'll say this,

791
00:44:46,280 --> 00:44:49,720
Speaker 1: the way the Patriots have played run defensive later Steelers

792
00:44:49,760 --> 00:44:53,120
Speaker 1: to run the ball and them tools. Patriots are actually

793
00:44:53,120 --> 00:44:57,200
Speaker 1: better verse the past and passing the football than people realize.

794
00:44:57,360 --> 00:44:59,440
Speaker 1: You know, they can't stop the run. They can't stop

795
00:44:59,440 --> 00:45:01,319
Speaker 1: the run predict really well, which is a problem for

796
00:45:01,360 --> 00:45:03,160
Speaker 1: them too, which is amazing because they spend a bunch

797
00:45:03,160 --> 00:45:05,920
Speaker 1: of money on those big dudes up front. You know

798
00:45:06,520 --> 00:45:08,080
Speaker 1: what will be really interesting in the a f C

799
00:45:10,000 --> 00:45:12,800
Speaker 1: teams will start to get eliminated, you know, those those

800
00:45:13,440 --> 00:45:19,040
Speaker 1: the Browns, Raiders, Broncos, Dolphins once they lose another we

801
00:45:19,040 --> 00:45:20,960
Speaker 1: we're not gonna talk about them for the playoffs anymore.

802
00:45:21,200 --> 00:45:24,320
Speaker 1: But it's really gonna be interesting of who plays who.

803
00:45:24,400 --> 00:45:26,759
Speaker 1: You know, like styles are gonna make fights in the

804
00:45:26,800 --> 00:45:31,279
Speaker 1: absolutely big, big way, you know. So I think that's

805
00:45:31,280 --> 00:45:33,680
Speaker 1: really interesting to me is how that lines up of

806
00:45:33,840 --> 00:45:36,239
Speaker 1: who do who? Do you get to play? Those power

807
00:45:36,320 --> 00:45:38,560
Speaker 1: ranks weren't easy though, no, I mean it's it's a

808
00:45:38,600 --> 00:45:41,520
Speaker 1: little harder than what you think. And looking at ahead

809
00:45:41,520 --> 00:45:45,400
Speaker 1: at week sixteen schedule, here on who plays who? To

810
00:45:45,440 --> 00:45:50,279
Speaker 1: your point, San Francisco's at Tennessee, Tennessee is gonna they're

811
00:45:50,800 --> 00:45:52,759
Speaker 1: gonna lose that game. That's a tough team to play

812
00:45:52,760 --> 00:45:55,120
Speaker 1: in a short week right now. Cleveland at Green Bay,

813
00:45:55,280 --> 00:45:58,960
Speaker 1: they're gonna lose that game. Indies at Arizona. I don't

814
00:45:58,960 --> 00:45:59,960
Speaker 1: know what to make it. I don't know what to

815
00:46:00,040 --> 00:46:01,719
Speaker 1: make of the card and the Cardinals are in a

816
00:46:01,760 --> 00:46:04,440
Speaker 1: spot right now. That's a night game in Arizona. It

817
00:46:04,440 --> 00:46:06,799
Speaker 1: wouldn't shock me if Arizona blew their doors off and

818
00:46:06,800 --> 00:46:09,040
Speaker 1: everything we thought we knew about the Colts was not

819
00:46:09,120 --> 00:46:12,520
Speaker 1: flushed on the toilet. But questions, Yeah, that's that's to me.

820
00:46:12,640 --> 00:46:16,280
Speaker 1: That's a tough one. Um, Baltimore's at Cincinnati. We already

821
00:46:16,280 --> 00:46:19,040
Speaker 1: talked about that one. That's that's a tough spot. It

822
00:46:19,120 --> 00:46:22,640
Speaker 1: is a spot. I think Baltimore is really in a behind. Yeah,

823
00:46:22,680 --> 00:46:25,560
Speaker 1: the Chargers, Baltimore and Tennessee are really lucky that they

824
00:46:25,600 --> 00:46:27,160
Speaker 1: put a lot of money in the bank early in

825
00:46:27,160 --> 00:46:30,200
Speaker 1: the seat, right because they're not good. How about this one,

826
00:46:30,280 --> 00:46:34,040
Speaker 1: Chargers at many A Vikings. Wow, that they're like the

827
00:46:34,080 --> 00:46:36,879
Speaker 1: same team they are. I mean, I haven't looked lines

828
00:46:38,040 --> 00:46:40,799
Speaker 1: on the on the COVID list. Boss not playing because

829
00:46:40,800 --> 00:46:44,839
Speaker 1: he's unvaccinated, Linsley's out. That's a problem in that game.

830
00:46:44,880 --> 00:46:46,600
Speaker 1: I bet the Vikes are favored right now. I bet

831
00:46:46,600 --> 00:46:49,719
Speaker 1: they are too. Buffalo at New England another huge a

832
00:46:49,880 --> 00:46:53,760
Speaker 1: FC game. These are massive games. Then you get Jacksonville,

833
00:46:53,800 --> 00:46:56,040
Speaker 1: New York. Good. You don't you want to play in

834
00:46:56,040 --> 00:46:59,000
Speaker 1: each other? You have to watch that one. The beauty

835
00:46:59,080 --> 00:47:01,719
Speaker 1: is those teams aren't and teams at the Steelers love

836
00:47:02,040 --> 00:47:04,560
Speaker 1: That's that's nothing. That's the rams at. I hate this

837
00:47:04,640 --> 00:47:07,880
Speaker 1: to l A teams, the Chargers. The Chargers are actually

838
00:47:07,920 --> 00:47:11,960
Speaker 1: at Houston. Yeah, yeah, that's right. I knew that they're

839
00:47:11,960 --> 00:47:13,640
Speaker 1: gonna win that game. Yeah, they're gonna win that one.

840
00:47:13,800 --> 00:47:16,960
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh at Kansas City, Denver's keeping the Chargers defense around

841
00:47:16,960 --> 00:47:20,040
Speaker 1: for something. That was it Denver's at Las Vegas in

842
00:47:20,120 --> 00:47:26,160
Speaker 1: the elimination. And then uh, that's Miami's at New Orleans

843
00:47:26,360 --> 00:47:29,360
Speaker 1: on the Monday night. I probably will take the Dolphins

844
00:47:29,360 --> 00:47:32,200
Speaker 1: in that game, but that's gonna be a ten nine

845
00:47:32,200 --> 00:47:34,960
Speaker 1: game most all day long. That's the one thing we

846
00:47:35,000 --> 00:47:37,279
Speaker 1: didn't mention when we were power ranking the teams. I

847
00:47:37,280 --> 00:47:40,040
Speaker 1: think Miami's defense is really good. I have questions about

848
00:47:40,080 --> 00:47:41,920
Speaker 1: the O and the running game and the O line.

849
00:47:42,000 --> 00:47:44,040
Speaker 1: I think that's a good d I think it is too,

850
00:47:44,320 --> 00:47:47,920
Speaker 1: but they rushed the pass or they played man, are

851
00:47:47,960 --> 00:47:51,440
Speaker 1: you gonna rush Taysom him? Because they're just gonna run

852
00:47:51,440 --> 00:47:53,680
Speaker 1: the football. Yeah, that matchup. I don't know that the matter.

853
00:47:53,920 --> 00:47:55,919
Speaker 1: You know, who's your number and corner is not gonna

854
00:47:55,920 --> 00:47:59,240
Speaker 1: follow anybody, you know, It's just they're gonna be standing

855
00:47:59,239 --> 00:48:03,239
Speaker 1: out there in the island by themselves. Yeah, right, right right.

856
00:48:03,440 --> 00:48:06,360
Speaker 1: I just think that's a low scoring defensive battle. But

857
00:48:06,520 --> 00:48:08,000
Speaker 1: it's in I'll tell you what. New Orleans is one

858
00:48:08,040 --> 00:48:10,959
Speaker 1: of the tougher places to play in the league because, yeah,

859
00:48:11,080 --> 00:48:14,120
Speaker 1: they pipe noise in. They may not admit it, but

860
00:48:14,200 --> 00:48:18,960
Speaker 1: I mean it's at places loud pregame too, Monday night game,

861
00:48:19,000 --> 00:48:20,640
Speaker 1: that's a really tough place to play. Yeah, I mean

862
00:48:20,640 --> 00:48:23,600
Speaker 1: they blare the music in between snaps and you know that.

863
00:48:24,080 --> 00:48:27,960
Speaker 1: It's just it's my hearing. There have been a couple

864
00:48:27,960 --> 00:48:29,920
Speaker 1: of places over the years where my hearing has been

865
00:48:29,960 --> 00:48:33,040
Speaker 1: tested and my years of my years have been ringing

866
00:48:33,080 --> 00:48:35,960
Speaker 1: for days afterwards. And one was an Indie when they

867
00:48:35,960 --> 00:48:39,160
Speaker 1: were when they were in fact pumping noise in. And

868
00:48:39,160 --> 00:48:41,600
Speaker 1: then the other time was in New Orleans when you're

869
00:48:41,600 --> 00:48:43,640
Speaker 1: sitting up top in the press box and the speakers

870
00:48:43,680 --> 00:48:46,600
Speaker 1: are right there and they're blaring music between every snap,

871
00:48:47,640 --> 00:48:49,000
Speaker 1: like right up to like ten. I think they had

872
00:48:49,040 --> 00:48:51,279
Speaker 1: to shut it off at time, but they you know,

873
00:48:51,320 --> 00:48:54,120
Speaker 1: they would push that at times. Oh. I don't doubt

874
00:48:54,160 --> 00:48:56,719
Speaker 1: that at all. I mean that's I mean, that's a

875
00:48:56,800 --> 00:49:00,279
Speaker 1: very young Miami team's young quarterback. It's a he's only

876
00:49:00,360 --> 00:49:02,959
Speaker 1: new head coach, a lot of draft picks. They haven't

877
00:49:02,960 --> 00:49:05,839
Speaker 1: done these things yet. Yeah, they definitely could lose that game.

878
00:49:06,719 --> 00:49:08,480
Speaker 1: I just don't see them winning ten in a row. No,

879
00:49:08,520 --> 00:49:11,640
Speaker 1: I don't either, And again that one doesn't even factor

880
00:49:11,680 --> 00:49:14,399
Speaker 1: into me for the Steelers. No, but if they lose,

881
00:49:14,480 --> 00:49:16,680
Speaker 1: this is one less team to talk about. True, you'd

882
00:49:16,680 --> 00:49:19,319
Speaker 1: love to see him just disappear. Yeah, can she just

883
00:49:19,440 --> 00:49:22,080
Speaker 1: go away? Teams will start to go away this week.

884
00:49:22,400 --> 00:49:24,359
Speaker 1: This could be the week where you start to see something.

885
00:49:24,440 --> 00:49:27,160
Speaker 1: They won't technically go away because it's seven and eight.

886
00:49:27,160 --> 00:49:30,319
Speaker 1: You'll still technically be in it, but you won't be eliminated.

887
00:49:30,320 --> 00:49:32,960
Speaker 1: But you're gonna be eliminated one of those teams. Cleveland's

888
00:49:32,960 --> 00:49:37,000
Speaker 1: getting eliminated this weekend, I think so. Yeah, Yeah, I

889
00:49:37,040 --> 00:49:41,279
Speaker 1: mean that's that that that game last night buried the Browns. Yeah,

890
00:49:41,560 --> 00:49:44,280
Speaker 1: when you look back, that's the turning point. He misses

891
00:49:44,280 --> 00:49:47,160
Speaker 1: that field goal at the end, Browns are really in

892
00:49:47,200 --> 00:49:49,719
Speaker 1: a good spot. Yeah he didn't. And now now they're

893
00:49:49,760 --> 00:49:54,120
Speaker 1: not that different. As you mentioned it. They went from

894
00:49:54,200 --> 00:49:56,680
Speaker 1: being if they if he misses the field goal there

895
00:49:56,719 --> 00:49:59,960
Speaker 1: in first place, if he makes it there in last place.

896
00:50:00,239 --> 00:50:02,920
Speaker 1: That's how closely FC North this right now? Right, I

897
00:50:02,920 --> 00:50:05,279
Speaker 1: mean all the tiebreakers hurt you and then all that

898
00:50:05,320 --> 00:50:09,239
Speaker 1: type of thing too, and really, you know it hurt

899
00:50:09,320 --> 00:50:11,960
Speaker 1: them to bump that game back. You know if you

900
00:50:11,960 --> 00:50:13,880
Speaker 1: could tell me we would have lost by forty on

901
00:50:13,920 --> 00:50:16,560
Speaker 1: Saturday as opposed by losing by one or two yesterday.

902
00:50:16,520 --> 00:50:17,839
Speaker 1: And now you get a short week when the Green

903
00:50:17,840 --> 00:50:19,920
Speaker 1: Bay get to prepare that much longer for Green Bay

904
00:50:19,920 --> 00:50:22,800
Speaker 1: and get healthier. Okay, you know now Myles Garrett's limping

905
00:50:22,840 --> 00:50:24,560
Speaker 1: around and you know what I mean, like you got

906
00:50:24,600 --> 00:50:27,280
Speaker 1: problems because I mean those guys had to play every

907
00:50:27,280 --> 00:50:29,879
Speaker 1: snap like Garrett's coming out of the injury, the blue

908
00:50:29,960 --> 00:50:35,880
Speaker 1: injury tent back out onto the field. Yeah, save the season. Absolutely,

909
00:50:36,080 --> 00:50:38,160
Speaker 1: they're in a bad spot. I mean even there's no

910
00:50:38,200 --> 00:50:40,440
Speaker 1: relief for Chubb and you know the lineman. Maybe I

911
00:50:40,480 --> 00:50:42,879
Speaker 1: shouldn't have been playing. I mean, yeah, they're I think

912
00:50:43,000 --> 00:50:45,120
Speaker 1: I think them in the and the Ravens are really

913
00:50:45,160 --> 00:50:46,960
Speaker 1: in trouble. I think that. I mean I've said for

914
00:50:47,000 --> 00:50:48,920
Speaker 1: weeks not the Ravens are in trouble, and then you

915
00:50:48,960 --> 00:50:54,279
Speaker 1: know it's proving to coming to fruition here. Um yeah,

916
00:50:54,320 --> 00:50:58,600
Speaker 1: So honestly, it comes down to Steelers versus Bengals. The

917
00:50:58,640 --> 00:51:01,880
Speaker 1: Bengals got the tiebreaker. They're but guess what tiebreaker is

918
00:51:01,920 --> 00:51:04,520
Speaker 1: not gonna matterna mater at the time, unless somehow along

919
00:51:04,520 --> 00:51:07,920
Speaker 1: the way here the Bengals tie somebody, right, and that's

920
00:51:08,000 --> 00:51:12,160
Speaker 1: then now now like that, that sweep comes into into play. Um. So,

921
00:51:12,239 --> 00:51:15,040
Speaker 1: Steeler fans, more than anything, of course, you want the

922
00:51:15,040 --> 00:51:17,919
Speaker 1: Steelers to win. I think you're rooting against the Bengals. Yeah,

923
00:51:17,960 --> 00:51:19,680
Speaker 1: that's what you should be great. I mean, that's the

924
00:51:19,760 --> 00:51:22,359
Speaker 1: number two priority after rooting for the Steelers to win.

925
00:51:22,440 --> 00:51:24,399
Speaker 1: And I don't want to hear this, well, I don't

926
00:51:24,440 --> 00:51:26,319
Speaker 1: want them to get into the playoffs because that's gonna

927
00:51:26,360 --> 00:51:28,279
Speaker 1: hurt their draft position and they're they're not gonna do

928
00:51:28,280 --> 00:51:31,160
Speaker 1: anything anyways. The idea when you start the season, I

929
00:51:31,239 --> 00:51:34,520
Speaker 1: hate that, is to get into the playoffs. The only

930
00:51:34,560 --> 00:51:37,040
Speaker 1: time i'd even think about that way, and I don't

931
00:51:37,080 --> 00:51:40,120
Speaker 1: think that way is if it's a difference between getting

932
00:51:40,160 --> 00:51:44,040
Speaker 1: Trevor Lawrence or being eliminated in the first round of

933
00:51:44,040 --> 00:51:48,160
Speaker 1: the draft, and folks, that's like two picks difference, that's

934
00:51:48,200 --> 00:51:51,560
Speaker 1: like eight wins different. That's not like should we try

935
00:51:51,600 --> 00:51:53,080
Speaker 1: to go for two here and where you're gonna get

936
00:51:53,120 --> 00:51:54,879
Speaker 1: Lawrence or go to the playoffs? You know, like it's

937
00:51:55,040 --> 00:51:59,279
Speaker 1: that's a massive situation where you're probably riddled with injuries

938
00:51:59,640 --> 00:52:03,160
Speaker 1: and the season shot by mid season. Okay, let's put Rudolphin,

939
00:52:03,320 --> 00:52:07,239
Speaker 1: see what we got, not tank, but maybe not give

940
00:52:07,280 --> 00:52:09,759
Speaker 1: ourselves the best chance to win. That's the only time

941
00:52:09,800 --> 00:52:12,399
Speaker 1: that even comes into a play. And there's not even

942
00:52:12,440 --> 00:52:15,920
Speaker 1: close to that quarterback in this draft when Lawrence are

943
00:52:16,000 --> 00:52:18,640
Speaker 1: luck here to gain And this is a yeah, this

944
00:52:18,719 --> 00:52:21,960
Speaker 1: is a deep draft. It's not necessarily top heavy to

945
00:52:22,000 --> 00:52:23,839
Speaker 1: begin with, Like who would you pick if you had

946
00:52:23,840 --> 00:52:25,279
Speaker 1: the third pick in the draft. You're not getting the

947
00:52:25,280 --> 00:52:27,200
Speaker 1: third pick in the draft, you know, like go to

948
00:52:27,200 --> 00:52:30,000
Speaker 1: the playoffs? Established a culture, win game, that's the thing

949
00:52:30,080 --> 00:52:33,240
Speaker 1: what happens, you know with this it's a young football team.

950
00:52:33,280 --> 00:52:35,080
Speaker 1: You know, if you can get into the playoffs. All

951
00:52:35,080 --> 00:52:37,280
Speaker 1: those rookies are gonna get a playoff game that experience.

952
00:52:37,680 --> 00:52:41,399
Speaker 1: Maybe you win one. Maybe you win one, because I mean,

953
00:52:41,400 --> 00:52:44,560
Speaker 1: look at who you've you've beaten this season, You've beaten it.

954
00:52:44,760 --> 00:52:47,359
Speaker 1: Could you you know, if the Bills lose this week,

955
00:52:47,760 --> 00:52:49,040
Speaker 1: maybe you get a shot at the Bills in the

956
00:52:49,239 --> 00:52:50,560
Speaker 1: in the first round of the playoffs. That's not a

957
00:52:50,560 --> 00:52:53,200
Speaker 1: bad matchup. Maybe, you know, I mean, you don't want

958
00:52:53,200 --> 00:52:55,520
Speaker 1: to win this way, but maybe your first round opponents

959
00:52:55,600 --> 00:52:58,000
Speaker 1: riddled with COVID and you just roll over and get

960
00:52:58,360 --> 00:53:01,560
Speaker 1: you get a playoff win that you know that you

961
00:53:01,600 --> 00:53:04,160
Speaker 1: get that argument too well. The Steelers only three playoff

962
00:53:04,160 --> 00:53:07,160
Speaker 1: wins in the last decade have have been over such

963
00:53:07,160 --> 00:53:09,400
Speaker 1: and such quarterbacks. I don't care, I don't care. That

964
00:53:09,400 --> 00:53:11,719
Speaker 1: doesn't matter. Did you win a playoff game? Okay, right,

965
00:53:12,120 --> 00:53:14,680
Speaker 1: We're gonna go over every Brady playoff victory and be

966
00:53:14,719 --> 00:53:17,200
Speaker 1: like that one doesn't count. That doesn't count enough. You

967
00:53:17,239 --> 00:53:21,040
Speaker 1: know you said how many Super Bowls you win? Right right? Yeah,

968
00:53:21,239 --> 00:53:24,680
Speaker 1: So it's all relative. You want to get into the playoffs,

969
00:53:24,719 --> 00:53:28,280
Speaker 1: you want that experience, you know, you want that moving forward.

970
00:53:28,320 --> 00:53:32,440
Speaker 1: This is again a young roster that maybe won't have

971
00:53:32,560 --> 00:53:35,640
Speaker 1: that veteran quarterback next year leading the way to to

972
00:53:35,640 --> 00:53:38,839
Speaker 1: to lean on in a playoff type atmosphere. So you

973
00:53:38,880 --> 00:53:41,279
Speaker 1: want to get that experience. Now, that's one of the

974
00:53:41,320 --> 00:53:44,360
Speaker 1: reasons why you brought Ben Roethlisberger back, is to season

975
00:53:44,440 --> 00:53:47,040
Speaker 1: your team a little bit more. I mean, probably some

976
00:53:47,080 --> 00:53:49,080
Speaker 1: of our listeners don't remember this, but this isn't the

977
00:53:49,120 --> 00:53:54,120
Speaker 1: Penguins bringing up a goalie who couldn't stop anything to

978
00:53:54,200 --> 00:53:58,040
Speaker 1: help get Lemu. You know, like, that's not the situation here, folks. Yea,

979
00:53:58,280 --> 00:54:01,320
Speaker 1: Andrew Luck is not in this draft right and you

980
00:54:01,320 --> 00:54:03,319
Speaker 1: wouldn't be in this position to get him anyways. But

981
00:54:04,200 --> 00:54:06,279
Speaker 1: we're gonna take another break. He is Matt Williams and

982
00:54:06,320 --> 00:54:08,680
Speaker 1: I am Dale Lolly. You're listening to the Drive. You're

983
00:54:08,719 --> 00:54:11,920
Speaker 1: on Steelers Nation Radio. We come back. It's time for

984
00:54:11,920 --> 00:54:14,640
Speaker 1: the Fantasy Football Focus. We will do that right after

985
00:54:14,680 --> 00:54:14,759
Speaker 1: this