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Speaker 1: The Drive with Dale Lolly and Matt Williamson on your

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

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Speaker 1: to the Drive. I'm Dale Lollly here with Matt Williamson.

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Speaker 1: It is a Thursday, meaning we're one day closer to

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Speaker 1: the Steelers versus Raiders on Sunday, the home opener for

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Speaker 1: one season. Um, Steelers will have fans in the stadium,

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Speaker 1: many many fans in the stadium, many rowdy fans in

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Speaker 1: the stadium, pretty and looped up and read a roll.

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Speaker 1: I would think, so it should be interesting. I know

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Speaker 1: a lot of players talking about that, uh this week

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Speaker 1: and and uh one of the other things that was

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Speaker 1: talked about today we had We spoke with Steelers defensive

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Speaker 1: coordinator Keith Butler today and a lot of the questions

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Speaker 1: surrounded make it Fitzpatrick in his uh, well maybe his

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Speaker 1: new role with the Steelers here where they kind of

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Speaker 1: moving him around like a chess piece. It's interesting and

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Speaker 1: I was hoping the conversation. I didn't hear the interview

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Speaker 1: yet with coach Butts, but I thought, boy, I hope

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Speaker 1: it's not. Pro Football Focus had you as the hundred

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Speaker 1: ranked safety in the league in Week one, which road

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Speaker 1: we should go down. You know, how could you possibly

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Speaker 1: have a bad grade on what he did in that game?

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Speaker 1: I mean, he was a super impact player that was

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Speaker 1: doing new things in the run game in the past

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Speaker 1: game he was loser to the best player in the

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Speaker 1: field than a liability. He was awesome in my opinion,

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Speaker 1: he was to me and I wrote this, um, I

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Speaker 1: thought he affected the game by them not But when

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Speaker 1: the Bills came to the line of scrimmage, they broke

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Speaker 1: the they break the huddle, come to line of scrimmage,

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Speaker 1: where's making Fitzpatrick at because you just didn't know, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you just didn't know. He's he's a deep safety on

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Speaker 1: this play. The next play he's in the slot. Next play,

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Speaker 1: he's a dime linebacker. Like, where's that guy at? Because

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Speaker 1: he is a scary guy for opposing quarterbacks. Yeah, and

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Speaker 1: maybe we just kind of reiterated his history too, because

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Speaker 1: that's what he was at Bama, and then that was

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Speaker 1: one of the beauties of him coming out. But then

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Speaker 1: he goes to Miami. That's not exactly the talent that

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Speaker 1: Bama was, and he's not protected and he's taken on

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Speaker 1: guards and they're losing games. And I don't know that

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Speaker 1: he was every quote malcontent or whatever, but he wasn't

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Speaker 1: happy with how things were going. Here's here's was his

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Speaker 1: This was his usage um in two thousand nineteen, in

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Speaker 1: his first two games under Brian Flores, right before he

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Speaker 1: got traded, right before he asked for his first new

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Speaker 1: coaching staff. They come in. He plays forty four snaps

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Speaker 1: in the box as a dime linebacker, which is fine

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Speaker 1: if it's four five. He played thirty three snaps at

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Speaker 1: free safety, which is great at he played twenty six

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Speaker 1: at slot corner, which we're seeing more of, and he

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Speaker 1: played seven snaps on the outside. Okay, so you can.

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Speaker 1: So his biggest usage was in the box. That's what

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Speaker 1: he didn't want that, you know, right, I mean, that's

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Speaker 1: not the best usage if you're a you know, and

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Speaker 1: he's a six ft one, two five pound guy, Okay,

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Speaker 1: you can. Yeah, I can step down there and play

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Speaker 1: you know, dime safety a little bit, but here and there,

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Speaker 1: here and there. I don't want to do it. I

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Speaker 1: don't want that to be the main thing that I do, right.

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Speaker 1: I Mean, if you're against four wide from Buffalo, that's

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Speaker 1: a little different than against twenty two personnel. Against the

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Speaker 1: Patriots with defensive line and they can't protect you. You know,

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Speaker 1: you don't have questions. You're getting run over. You're like,

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Speaker 1: I'm not gonna make it through this season, right, I mean,

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Speaker 1: I think there's a little self preservation there too. I

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Speaker 1: am only two hundred pounds taken on three hund pounders

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Speaker 1: over and over in big tight ends and Gronka that's

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Speaker 1: not fun and nor is it the best use of him.

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Speaker 1: And I will to think that he's a super competitive

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Speaker 1: Bama captain type of guy that probably wasn't thrilled with

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Speaker 1: how things were going on a bad team and so

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Speaker 1: all that aside why he wanted out. Well, the Steelers

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Speaker 1: get a mid season. He didn't have him in camp,

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Speaker 1: and Wolf brought this up there there, you brought it

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Speaker 1: up a couple a while ago. He's never been to Latrobe,

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Speaker 1: that guy has never been. He's never been to Lae

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Speaker 1: for three years. And of course the Steelers have stuck

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Speaker 1: him basically in deep middle, and they do other things

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Speaker 1: that he drops back and surveys the field, but he

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Speaker 1: got extremely good at it. In fact, I think he's

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Speaker 1: the best deep middle safety in the league, and we

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Speaker 1: talked about this a lot. You'll find some safety linebacker

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Speaker 1: hybrids floating around, but there aren't many. You just trust

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Speaker 1: again the best at it, and he takes the ball away,

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Speaker 1: which is amazing. But the thing about that position is

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Speaker 1: We just won't throw his way. We can nickel and

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Speaker 1: dime the Bosticks of the world and the Vince Williams,

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Speaker 1: which is why you had to get better at the

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Speaker 1: linebacker as well. You know. Plus the ball has to

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Speaker 1: come out because the pass rush is so good. We're

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Speaker 1: not gonna have a lot of deep post routes and

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Speaker 1: things like this designed against the Steelers. So there's probably

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Speaker 1: a lot of snaps by football standards where he's not

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Speaker 1: real involved, you know what I mean. It's just the

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Speaker 1: nature of the business. Anyway you cut it and read

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Speaker 1: was like that at times two, I mean, and that's

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Speaker 1: what you want. You don't want your deep middle guy

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Speaker 1: involved snap after snap after snapper, bad things will probably happen,

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Speaker 1: be right, People definitely avoid him so I think this year,

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Speaker 1: you know, one more year in the books, and um,

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Speaker 1: he's going back to against only one game, but he's

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Speaker 1: going back to showing remember, I can do a lot

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Speaker 1: of stuff, you know. And you brought up a really

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Speaker 1: good point. I guess it was Monday after the game

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Speaker 1: one that was kind of the beauty of Norwood. You

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Speaker 1: know that they can bring what they could break the

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Speaker 1: huddle and Okay, which one is gonna be at free

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Speaker 1: safety and who's gonna be in the slot or who's

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Speaker 1: gonna be the dime linebacker here because they both can

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Speaker 1: do both, because they can do both and Cam and

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Speaker 1: you also have Cam Sutton on the field who can

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Speaker 1: do all those things as well if you want to.

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Speaker 1: So it gives you, you know, again the quarterbacks stepping up.

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Speaker 1: First of all, if you also noticed in the game, um,

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Speaker 1: the Steelers defensive front was moving around a lot more

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Speaker 1: than they usually. You know, you're they're stacking a linebacker outside.

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Speaker 1: of roaming around behind the behind them. And then at

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Speaker 1: Now I got that. Where the hell's making Fitzpatrick? I

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Speaker 1: used to? Now I don't, And he's a much different

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Speaker 1: player in Paulamalu. But any quarterback that used to face

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Speaker 1: forty where's right? So if you can just bring that

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Speaker 1: think about. And you know, he steals one ball away

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Speaker 1: throughout the course of the year that he wouldn't know

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Speaker 1: because of that and that that's tremendous And it's just

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Speaker 1: it's it's all motlement to Norwood. Yeah, it's all about

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Speaker 1: making a quarterback a uncomfortable and be hold the football

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Speaker 1: maybe a half second longer. Like you know, this is

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Speaker 1: not outside the norm for Fitzpatrick. His rookie year with

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Speaker 1: with Miami played three uh he played three seventy nine

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Speaker 1: he was one of the better slot cornerbacks in the league,

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Speaker 1: physical one that also isn't bad changing directions. Yeah. By

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Speaker 1: the way, but you happen to play Darren Waller this week. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's hard to deal with. And the Steelers did a

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Speaker 1: great job taking away the Bills best player for best

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Speaker 1: this up one there Tuesday, that the Bills feature Digs

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Speaker 1: in a similar way that the Raiders feature Waller. They're

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Speaker 1: not the same, of course, but if you can limit

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Speaker 1: the damage these they do, you know, I mean, Digs

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Speaker 1: do that, it's a win. You make. You make those guys,

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Speaker 1: you make Darren Waller, Hunter, renfro Bo, that's gonna win

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Speaker 1: the football in pretty darn shape. Yeah, as long as

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Speaker 1: Ruggs isn't beating you over the time, you know, running

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Speaker 1: twenty yards past your your corners, um, and he hasn't

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Speaker 1: shown the pension for doing that yet in his career.

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Speaker 1: So no, I think that's pretty interesting. What's hard watch

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Speaker 1: And then sometimes I almost feel like a quarterback he's

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Speaker 1: is I mean the play that he had on the

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Speaker 1: last layer of the fence, you know, I mean not

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Speaker 1: that that's Evans a strong safety. I mean, so it

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Speaker 1: gives you one more wrinkle there, you know, third and

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Speaker 1: in real longs things like that too. So No, it's

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Speaker 1: it's We've talked about this in a lot in the

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Speaker 1: off seasons. Two is it better just to let mank

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Speaker 1: be the best free safety in the league and be

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Speaker 1: a phenomenal player or start doing these things? And I'm

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Speaker 1: not sure there's a wrong answer, right, But they didn't

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Speaker 1: have a Norwood before to even make it a possibility. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: they didn't have that third stade. They didn't have that

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Speaker 1: safety could be a free yeah, because nor can play

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Speaker 1: slot to freezing. Slots aren't the same thing, not at

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Speaker 1: all both. I mean, Hilton couldn't do that. He's a

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Speaker 1: really good slot but he couldn't do that. Yeah, right. Um,

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Speaker 1: So I think it's interesting if you looked at his

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Speaker 1: played eighty five defensive snaps in the game. By the way,

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Speaker 1: he had forty eight snaps at free safety, so over

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Speaker 1: half the time he was at free safety. Um, it's

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Speaker 1: not like he's getting away from the right now, you're

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Speaker 1: still using that. He had twenty two snaps in the slot,

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Speaker 1: so about a quarter of his snaps were in the

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Speaker 1: slot against a lot he had thirteen in the box. Uh,

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Speaker 1: and then he had even a few on the defensive

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Speaker 1: every every time he was in the box, was that

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Speaker 1: And some of those we mentioned I would not trade

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Speaker 1: think it's very, very high. Tampa has a good offensive line.

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Speaker 1: you watch that game? No, Yeah, it isn't. It isn't.

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Speaker 1: And I don't think the Raiders has a good offensive line.

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Speaker 1: They thought they did a year ago. Yeah, so interesting. Um,

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Speaker 1: but the Steelers should have an advantage just about every

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Speaker 1: to you at some point happen. But at least there's

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Speaker 1: up your sleeve still too. Yeah, still coming here. So yeah,

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Speaker 1: we'll see how that that works out. But we're gonna

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Speaker 1: take a break. That's gonna do it for segment number one.

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Speaker 1: So um, when we come back, we'll talk more a

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Speaker 1: little bit about tonight's game. Some news and notes from

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Speaker 1: around the league will do that. He is Matt Williamson,

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Speaker 1: um Dale, Lali. You're listening to the drive here on

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