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Speaker 1: Your tunes about Drive home of the Black and Goal

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

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Speaker 1: is Matt Williamson, and this is the Drive on Steelers

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Speaker 1: Nation Radio. And I met before we get into the

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Speaker 1: playoff games for this weekend. Uh just was I clicked

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Speaker 1: on the article on ESPN dot com, uh to to

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Speaker 1: get the playoff their playoff stuff there use every Friday. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and they do this all this stuff based off their

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Speaker 1: Football Power Index. Now I hadn't looked at that in

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Speaker 1: a few weeks on ESPN. Yeah. Yeah, I'm like, where

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Speaker 1: did the Steelers wind up in that? And I'm looking here,

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Speaker 1: ended up in football power When there were two and six,

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Speaker 1: they were like, right, there were stings where they were,

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Speaker 1: they spent a lot of the year. Are deep in

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Speaker 1: the twenties, You're right, which I didn't have even have

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Speaker 1: a problem with then, But that's what they are right now.

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Speaker 1: You know. Like I was just on the air with

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Speaker 1: Staying and he asked me, you know, he knows the answer,

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Speaker 1: but he's saying with the Steelers have a better chance

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Speaker 1: in Buffalo than Miami. Yeah, I mean, I'm not saying

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Speaker 1: they're gonna go up there and win we've seen that

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Speaker 1: game before. But they're better than four playoff teams. They're

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Speaker 1: better than Seattle. Well I'm looking here at the again,

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Speaker 1: I'm looking at the football Power Next is according to

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Speaker 1: ESPN's Football Power Index, the worst team in the playoffs

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Speaker 1: is the Miami Dolphins. Where they come in at They

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Speaker 1: come in at they when they dropped eight spots last week.

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Speaker 1: Right good, I mean that's who they are. They're a

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Speaker 1: bad football team right now. Uh. The other playoff teams

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Speaker 1: who were below the Steelers, the Seahawks come in at nineteen.

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Speaker 1: I agree with that, the Vikings at seventeen. I agree

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Speaker 1: with that. I know the records tremendous. The Giants, yeah right, Um,

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Speaker 1: looking the Ravens below them too, I don't know how

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Speaker 1: they come They come in eleven, so that just ahead

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Speaker 1: of the Steelers. But if we know it's not Lamar. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think the Steelers are better than the Ravens, right so, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean I think twelve is a very legit spot

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Speaker 1: for them. Yeah. I would say higher is better chance

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Speaker 1: than lower. There were people I saw thirty third team

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Speaker 1: and they had the Steelers ten and people were freaking out,

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Speaker 1: Like I get it, Like where the Lions, Lions come

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Speaker 1: I think they're better than those other playoff teams we mentioned,

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Speaker 1: but i've seen them eleven or twelve as non playoff

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Speaker 1: take a hit defensively, they're well rounded. Um, looking at

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Speaker 1: this week's playoff games, you get six games on the

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Speaker 1: schedule here the first game that it really is. It

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Speaker 1: was kind of like making the observation joke whatever, like

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Speaker 1: if this was week twelve would be like, it's a

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Speaker 1: pretty a group of games, but for wild card weekend

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Speaker 1: without two big quarterbacks in there. I'll watch every staff

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Speaker 1: but I'll be some good stuff. But it's not as

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Speaker 1: good as it should be. We're getting short changed a little. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: The first game is on Saturday at four thirty. That

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Speaker 1: is the seventh seeded Seattle Seahawks at the second seeded

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Speaker 1: under his forty two. Yeah, And I mentioned I do

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Speaker 1: this podcast with Brian Peacock, who's a uh guy and

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Speaker 1: we both he's the opposite. He hesitates to always take

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Speaker 1: his team, and he said, his big concern here is

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Speaker 1: just the weather. I mean, it's supposed to be it's

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Speaker 1: it's suposed to stop raining in San Francisco forever. That's

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Speaker 1: gonna be soft. But in neutral, normal circumstances. I don't

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Speaker 1: think this is even a semblance of a game. But

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Speaker 1: maybe you get a bounce, or Party doesn't handle the

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Speaker 1: weather well, or he's forced. Party to me, is the

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Speaker 1: biggest variable in this playoff field. Probably how much can

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Speaker 1: that it comes in this game. Yeah, I don't. I

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Speaker 1: don't know that they've played obviously twice this year, the

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Speaker 1: know that Seattle's offense did very little. But the thing

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Speaker 1: that high scoring. Uh Walter Seth Walter picking the Seahawks

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Speaker 1: nineteen to sixteen, taking the upset, Taking the upset, I

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Speaker 1: mean one thing, I will say, Seattle is a perfect

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Speaker 1: a good football coach? Head coach that I don't know.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I think he's a tremendous mind and has

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Speaker 1: to construct his team. He also has a good front

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Speaker 1: terms of being the man on the sidelines, I think

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Speaker 1: he's above average. But I don't. I think of him

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Speaker 1: more as a schemer than a leader. Yeah, Like I've

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Speaker 1: heard people say he's better coaching Mike Tomlin. Is he

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Speaker 1: I don't think so. I mean, he's this is his

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Speaker 1: sixth now, this is his seventh season, no sixth seasons.

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Speaker 1: This is a sixth season as an NFL head coach

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Speaker 1: and three losing seasons, and it's every other year, I think, right, well,

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Speaker 1: it's his first two years six and ten, four and twelve,

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Speaker 1: thirteen and three, right, six and ten, and then last

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Speaker 1: Mm hm, I mean yes. And he was also the

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Speaker 1: guy who blew that game for Atlanta in the Super Bowl.

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Speaker 1: Let's not forget that. Yeah, I mean I have questions

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Speaker 1: about the Tomlin aspects, you know, the leading an organization,

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Speaker 1: the leader of men handling the team, that type of

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Speaker 1: thing that I don't have an answer to. But when

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Speaker 1: I did my coaches ranks, I had San Francisco second

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Speaker 1: behind Kansas City of the teams in the playoff teams

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Speaker 1: on defensive coordinator offensive scheme as well as head coaching prowess.

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Speaker 1: And that's where the Niners made their money was schemes

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Speaker 1: a halfs a lot. It's a ton sloppy weather in

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Speaker 1: playoff familiar foe, yeah, and everybody's played in this this

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Speaker 1: matchup before, which weren't interesting. Uh, you got the fifth

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Speaker 1: fifth seeded Chargers are at the four seeded Jaguars. Mike

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Speaker 1: It won't be an easy night game for you know,

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Speaker 1: and very often I think Jacksonville wins this one. But

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Speaker 1: I had to bet it. They played this back in

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Speaker 1: But again, not having Mike Williams is a big deal.

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Speaker 1: number three of their number three receiver, Palmer um Moody

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Speaker 1: picking did Ag Walter picking the Charger. That's the kind

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Speaker 1: it's gonna be close. I would just take the points

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Speaker 1: you have. The Sunday games now, yeah, the seventh seeded

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Speaker 1: bet Miami looks at this thing and says, until we're

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Speaker 1: losing by three touchdowns, we're gonna run, run, run, run, run, run, run,

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Speaker 1: defensive pass interference or bombs with Tyreke, and we're gonna

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Speaker 1: blitz Alan like crazy. And hope he throws us a

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Speaker 1: this stad also comes into play in that San Francisco

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Speaker 1: Seattle game. Since two thousand and fourteen, underdogs are eight

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Speaker 1: division opponents meet in the playoffs, like the third one point. Yeah, okay,

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Speaker 1: kind of changes things. Yeah, so would you say double

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Speaker 1: digit dog? No, just underdogs period. So they're saying take

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Speaker 1: the Ravens hot, saying take the points. But I'm not

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Speaker 1: taking two points with backup quarterbacks and in this case

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Speaker 1: maybe third string quarterbacks. I might consider it. If not

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Speaker 1: with this guy Moody picking to Bills thirty five to twenty,

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Speaker 1: you will. Come on, man, you're walking into a buzz. Absolutely. Uh.

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Speaker 1: The four thirty game on Sunday is the six seeded

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Speaker 1: that's the highest over under the weekend. Then a little

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Speaker 1: how how how much they're dumbing it down. Jimmy's Jimmy's better. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: but if you didn't get Jimmy's best day, And what's

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Speaker 1: just because I want to see what he picks. That

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Speaker 1: reminds me of Bledsoe. Brady. Yeah, where Brady was Brady,

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Speaker 1: he was unknown dude, playing playoff games like and you're

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Speaker 1: he didn't do that though against the Steelers. If you remember,

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Speaker 1: Bledsoe got hurt in that game and then Brady came in.

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Speaker 1: But then you have a super Bowl converence. They both

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Speaker 1: I think that's what it came down. I don't know

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Speaker 1: the Bledsoe is healthy, and I thought he was a

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Speaker 1: He definitely dressed, but there was no there was no

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Speaker 1: there was no double bye weekend there because because of

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Speaker 1: nine eleven and two thousand one. Yeah, Bledsoe got knocked

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Speaker 1: out of that game and couldn't return. No, I'm sure

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Speaker 1: it was it the other way around. I get that backwards.

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry Brady started that game and got hurt. Bledsoe

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Speaker 1: came in and won it. I got that. Yeah, that's

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Speaker 1: he didn't play. He didn't play his rookie I can't believe.

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Speaker 1: I get that backwards. Sure, there are people out there

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Speaker 1: It is gutsy for sure. I hope she I han't

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Speaker 1: that's that's a tough one. Tell me a lot about Partie.

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Speaker 1: It is a tough one. Um. You can now listen

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Speaker 1: to get our information correct here. Thirty years of memories

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Speaker 1: here with the with with you know, I got my

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Speaker 1: wires cross go way back with this. But yeah, I'll

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Speaker 1: be honest when when I'm on the air with him,

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Speaker 1: Ben's he remembers every play of every game, and my

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Speaker 1: mind doesn't work that way. I think I think more

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Speaker 1: in four and I'm like, no, I don't remember that right.

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Speaker 1: It amazes me how much he knows about that stuff. Yeah, um,

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Speaker 1: and he was We're gonna take a break. He is

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Speaker 1: Batt Williamson. I am Dale Alli. You're listening to the

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Speaker 1: drive here on Steelers Nation Radio. When we come back, Well,

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Speaker 1: it's time to pick our yea every game right DFS here. Um,

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Speaker 1: Let's let's not just do Sunday or Monda. Let's do

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Speaker 1: all six. Let's do all six games and pick pick

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Speaker 1: a team here and see where it takes us. We'll

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Speaker 1: do that right after this