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

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Speaker 1: Goal Steelers Nation Radio. Welcome back. I am Dale Lally.

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Speaker 1: He is Matt Williamson. This is a Drive on Steelers

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Speaker 1: Nation Radio and it's time for the Fantasy Football Focus.

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Speaker 1: And as we do every Monday, Matt will go over

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Speaker 1: our DFS lineup and uh, we got jobbed a little bit.

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Speaker 1: Oh we finished, we have We finished with a hundred

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Speaker 1: and forty four point nine points, okay, which most weeks

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Speaker 1: will get you. It's pretty good, right, we'll get you

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Speaker 1: into the money. We missed out by being of being

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Speaker 1: in the money by uh about a point. There were

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Speaker 1: some teams that had a had big games. Geno Smith

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Speaker 1: kind of led us down a little bit. Uh just

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Speaker 1: fifteen point one points. He was he was owned in

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Speaker 1: thirty point six percent of leagues. That's twice. Now we've

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Speaker 1: lost with Gino Smith. We're not going back to the

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Speaker 1: Geno Smith Wigan. That's the end of that one. But

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Speaker 1: Kenneth Walker was a hit, oh yeah, but he was

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Speaker 1: owned in fifty point one one point one percent of leagues.

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Speaker 1: Josh Jacobs was a hit, but seventy one point two

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Speaker 1: percent leagues, one point two percent ownership just too cheap. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Chris Godwin was owned in twenty five point eight percent

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Speaker 1: of leagues. He got us eleven and a half points.

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Speaker 1: He kind of under underperformed, much like the entire Tampa

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Speaker 1: Bay offense. Uh. Ceedee Lamb was owned in fifty point

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Speaker 1: seven percent of leagues. He got his ten point six points.

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Speaker 1: So he didn't kill us because so many other people

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Speaker 1: had him, but he didn't help us either. We paid

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Speaker 1: a lot for him. Yeah. Alec Pierce Atred was owned

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Speaker 1: in twenty six point six percent of leagues. He got

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Speaker 1: a six point seven points. Try to end up getting

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Speaker 1: here as we had a lot of We had a

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Speaker 1: lot of chalk. Yeah, unfortunately, which which I think hurt

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Speaker 1: us in this In this instance, Uh, we had fire

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Speaker 1: muth in the lineup. That was a nice call. Uh.

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Speaker 1: He was only owned in five point seven percent of leagues.

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Speaker 1: Think about him like some of the chalk guys. Uh

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Speaker 1: you know, Uh Andrews got shut out. Yeah, even Kelsey

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Speaker 1: had an okay day but didn't go crazy. Not great,

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Speaker 1: so five point seven percent ownership, that was good. Bruce

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Speaker 1: Hall was owned in just twenty one percent of leagues.

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Speaker 1: We got thirteen point two out of him. But he

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Speaker 1: got hurt. They got hurt and might be out for

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Speaker 1: the year from how to understand. Yeah, that's a bummer.

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Speaker 1: And then our big call. We paid up for that

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Speaker 1: Buccaneers defense and they got one point. Oh man, I

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Speaker 1: didn't see that coming at all. If we if we

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Speaker 1: just started, you know, I don't know the Jets or

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Speaker 1: the Packers or anybody else. Basically we're probably finished in

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Speaker 1: the money. Probably that's enough. I mean we lost by

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Speaker 1: one point, and again we were real chalky. Um, I

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Speaker 1: just don't want the double check. Breecee always out for

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Speaker 1: the year, so might help Kenny's offensive Rookie of the

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Speaker 1: Year chances. But that's a bummer. I mean an interceptions.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, um yeah, so um, you know, not a

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Speaker 1: not a bad outing for us. So if we had

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Speaker 1: entered in a different contest, maybe we finished the money.

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Speaker 1: The team that finished, uh that is winning this thing

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Speaker 1: as a d ninety seven point five four at Joe Burrow.

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Speaker 1: I had my own I do my own lineup every week.

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Speaker 1: I had Burrow along with Chase right. Yeah, wow, that

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Speaker 1: worked out pretty well. Yeah, I finished in the money

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Speaker 1: and that one for sure. Oh, I'm sure. But they

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Speaker 1: had Walker and Jacobs as the running backs, Mike Williams,

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Speaker 1: who had a nice day, Yeah he did before he

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Speaker 1: got hurt. Ceedee Lamb. They also had Ceedee Lamb and

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Speaker 1: Alec Pierce. How about that they had four of the

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Speaker 1: same guys that we had. We were thinking the same way.

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Speaker 1: Geno verse Burrow is a big difference. That's a huge difference. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: who Kate at all in the tight end position? Sneaky?

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Speaker 1: I like Kate Hunt for sixty four yards in that game.

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Speaker 1: That's for for tight end. For the tight end position

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Speaker 1: this year, that's pretty solid, especially for that cheap. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's a good that's a nice picked up by the

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Speaker 1: I don't know how we missed out on this one.

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Speaker 1: They had Damian Peers in there at h uh. He

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Speaker 1: had fifteen points, seven points and they had to tightens defense.

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Speaker 1: Matt Ryan stinks. By the Matt Ryan is dunk. Matt

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Speaker 1: Ryan stinks. And I think the first time you've texted

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Speaker 1: me that that might be uh, that might be the

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Speaker 1: way to go. H from here on out is just

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Speaker 1: whoever's playing against certain offenses and the culture culture definitely

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Speaker 1: one of them. Yeah, like the Patriots tonight, I'm sure

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Speaker 1: we'll do quite fine against the Bears and a couple

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Speaker 1: of those out there. Yeah yeah, looking at the weekend's

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Speaker 1: stat leaders. Obviously, as we mentioned, Burrow had a monster day. Uh,

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Speaker 1: and they just keep throwing the football. They don't care.

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Speaker 1: I think they've kind of I mean, the run games

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Speaker 1: coming along a little, but I think they're just saying

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Speaker 1: our bread and butter, these three receivers, Higgins, healthy browth,

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Speaker 1: back to playing great. In some ways, it's like the

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Speaker 1: Cults early on when they had luck, where they Okay,

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Speaker 1: we're we know our defense isn't great, and we know that.

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Speaker 1: You know, we're not gonna go out we can't run

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Speaker 1: the ball real well, so we're just gonna go out

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Speaker 1: and keep throwing. It might cost us our quarterbacks spleen

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Speaker 1: or the what happened, That's what happened with luck exactly.

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Speaker 1: You know, we'll see how long that's sustainable. But Burrow

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Speaker 1: has the toughness and the mentality to deal with it.

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Speaker 1: He played, he threw for three, already won in three touchdowns.

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Speaker 1: He still was sacked three more times, so you know,

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Speaker 1: it's it's getting to be a you know, a situation

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Speaker 1: if he gets sacked three times every game. Over of course,

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Speaker 1: with a seventeen game season. That's fifty one sacks. That's

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Speaker 1: a lot. That's about where he was last year. I think, yeah,

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Speaker 1: he was slightly over that actually, I mean you start

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Speaker 1: going well over a hundred between the two two years.

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Speaker 1: Series sequence is not good for the body. Side side

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Speaker 1: note the Falcons passing game. You're losing in this thing

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Speaker 1: and you still don't throw here. It's unbelievable and what

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Speaker 1: is going on here? Yeah, let's shorten the game so

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Speaker 1: we don't get beat so badly. It doesn't make any sense.

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Speaker 1: I think three targets they threw, thirteen pass is, thirteen passes,

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Speaker 1: fifteen passes whatever, it was just twelve and they were

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Speaker 1: getting they were they were down seven exactly. I mean,

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Speaker 1: they're gonna do what they do no matter what. So

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Speaker 1: if you've been sitting on quarter Pa Nson, good for you.

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Speaker 1: Don't get rid of them. If you're like us and

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Speaker 1: own a lot of pits or even London too bad,

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Speaker 1: so sad it's not gonna get any better. No, it's not.

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Speaker 1: Um Pat Mahomes at four three and three touchdowns with

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Speaker 1: one interception. Uh, they just destroyed the forty niners. Uh,

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Speaker 1: they sure did, got ju ju and Battles Canceling pretty

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Speaker 1: involved as well. Their defense played great. It was the

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Speaker 1: second half was just a total dominant Chief's performance. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Andy Dalton ended up with the third highest. Wow, it

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Speaker 1: seems like a hundred years ago. But three sixty four touchdowns.

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Speaker 1: He threw three interceptions and two of them got returned

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Speaker 1: for touchdowns. So if you get negative points from those,

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Speaker 1: it hurts you. But if you didn't, I mean this

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Speaker 1: this was like the classic Blake Bortles game. Yeah, it's

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Speaker 1: kind of a Winston type of game. You know, just

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Speaker 1: aggressive downfield throwing. And I don't know if Thomas and

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Speaker 1: those guys who ever get healthy, but Camara and a

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Speaker 1: Lava and even Taysom Hill or highly you usible, although

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Speaker 1: Kamara never finds the end zone. But plus his life.

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Speaker 1: Trevor Lawrence had three ten, no touchdowns, no interceptions, barely

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Speaker 1: completed fifty of his passes. I say he wasn't great again. No,

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Speaker 1: Jimmy Garoppolo had three three on the other side of

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Speaker 1: that forty Niners route, two touchdowns, one interception. He was

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Speaker 1: sacked five times. Yeah, and they got away from the

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Speaker 1: run game and he threw a bad pick, but they

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Speaker 1: got weapons. I mean Ayuka, McCaffrey and Samuel And it

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Speaker 1: wasn't Debo's best day, but Kido had one of his

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Speaker 1: best days. Yeah, Davis Mills, see see a trend here,

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Speaker 1: a lot of losers. Davis Mills had three o t

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Speaker 1: and two touchdowns with an interception. Okay, it's probably his

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Speaker 1: best outing of the season. Nobody started him, of course, nobody.

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Speaker 1: He had Nobody used it. Run out and pick him

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Speaker 1: up justin Flipping Herbert thirty three of fifty one for

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Speaker 1: two yards, two touchdowns, one an interception. He was sacked

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Speaker 1: three times, he lost a fumble. They look a little

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Speaker 1: broken right now, they really do. I don't know exactly

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Speaker 1: what all is wrong. I mean, I think things like

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Speaker 1: having Slater out is hurting them. I think their coach

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Speaker 1: hurts them a fair amount as well. Um I'm not

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Speaker 1: sure if Herbert's but it's kind of like Burrow. Both

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Speaker 1: these guys are just overcoming not great situations, are asked

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Speaker 1: to do a ton at a very early age, and

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Speaker 1: Burrows thriving with it, and Herbert and the Chargers are

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Speaker 1: floundering a bit. Yeah. Tom Brady to nine no touchdowns,

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Speaker 1: no interceptions, and was only sacked once on forty nine

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Speaker 1: pass attempts. They lost. They scored three points. Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: can't run the football at all. And what's crazy is

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Speaker 1: they're allowing a ton of running production now too. I

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Speaker 1: mean that's unbelievably not bucks like there was. You probably

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Speaker 1: didn't see it because you were with the game or

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Speaker 1: you know, traveling and things too. But Evans had a

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Speaker 1: bombumb I guess you would have seen the one o'clock

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Speaker 1: games fires crossed there, Yeah, brill you would have had

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Speaker 1: a bunch of and that was early in the game.

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Speaker 1: They would have put them up seven. Nothing right, It's

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Speaker 1: like a seventy yarder that Evans catches completely a thousand

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Speaker 1: to ended up ninth with to sixty one and one touchdown. Again,

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Speaker 1: I thought the Steelers kept him largely under wraps. And

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Speaker 1: then Jacoby Brissette had to no touchdowns, no interceptions. He

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Speaker 1: was sacked five, count them five times in that game. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: they got problems to their seasons. Over um is to

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Speaker 1: uh and every week starter. Uh, that's a tough question,

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Speaker 1: I think. I mean, we just went through. That's the

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Speaker 1: top ten. There's some guys that obviously we're off this week. Uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, Lamar wasn't up there. Uh herds Yeah. Um,

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Speaker 1: I'm thinking he's he's orderline, borderline. Yeah. Yeah, I don't

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Speaker 1: expect huge days from him. Looking at the rushing leaders.

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Speaker 1: Kenneth Walker twenty three carries for a hundred and sixty

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Speaker 1: eight yards and two touchdowns. He's very real. Yeah. Josh

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Speaker 1: Jacobs a hundred forty three yards and three count them,

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Speaker 1: three touchdowns on just twenty carries. I mean he's one

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Speaker 1: of the best value picks going. You got him in

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Speaker 1: the fifth. He's the league winner. Yeah. Um. Derrick Henry

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Speaker 1: had thirty, didn't score, but again solid. On the other

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Speaker 1: side of that game, same game, Jonathan Taylor gets ten carries.

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Speaker 1: I know. It made me crazy, like these two are

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Speaker 1: sort of carbon copies on one another. You need to

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Speaker 1: run with you need to win with your running back

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Speaker 1: in defense. One team absolutely saw that and embraced it.

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Speaker 1: The other team didn't, and I don't understand it. Well,

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Speaker 1: Matt Ryan had an okay game two weeks ago. What

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Speaker 1: does trust and they're done? Yeah. Dante Foreman fifteen for

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Speaker 1: one eight. Team didn't score, but he had a sixty

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Speaker 1: yard run in there as well. He did Um. They

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Speaker 1: considered Tuba the starter, and Hubbard was fine. He had

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Speaker 1: nine a touchdown. Yeah again tampacauts off the run, which

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Speaker 1: is mind boggling. Um, I think I might rather Forman though.

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Speaker 1: I think he's a better player. Yeah, yeah, they're both.

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Speaker 1: They're both valuable moving forward. That's a bad offense. They

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Speaker 1: just announced that p J. Walker is gonna start again

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Speaker 1: to which actually is a good thing. I mean I

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Speaker 1: thought he played better than any of those other jabrones.

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