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

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

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Speaker 1: Welcome back. I am Dale Lolly, he is Matt Williamson.

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Speaker 1: This is the Drive on Steelers Nation Radio. And it

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Speaker 1: is time Tuesday, as it is every Tuesday, on our

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Speaker 1: second segment, to go over the power rankings on NFL

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Speaker 1: dot Com done by Dan Hansas. And well, we said

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Speaker 1: that last week. It's even it's more convoluted. It's unbelieved.

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Speaker 1: Top three are the only easy thing. And you can

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Speaker 1: I'm make sure what order to put him. So at

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Speaker 1: thirty two this week, down a spot. The Houston Texas

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Speaker 1: at one, four and one. I mean they're a pretty

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Speaker 1: bad team. They don't really have a roster, they don't

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Speaker 1: have a winning history or tradition much or they have

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Speaker 1: a quarterback. I mean they're a pretty bad Yeah, at

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Speaker 1: thirty one, down three spots. I know everybody was in

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Speaker 1: love with his team early, Not so much anymore. They've

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Speaker 1: scored six points in our last two games. The Detroit Lions. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean they were all offense, no defense. Now it's

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Speaker 1: scoring craziness. Now the offense has dried up, brutal I

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Speaker 1: mean played a couple of good defenses. Dallas beat up

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Speaker 1: on them pretty good. Is it time time for Campbell

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Speaker 1: to worry a little bit? Like there four eighteen and

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Speaker 1: one in Dan Camp under Dan Camp. They they have

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Speaker 1: one win this year. I mean when they're when hopes

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Speaker 1: high in Detroit. Five second half turnovers last week five

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Speaker 1: It was several, but I didn't know it was five five.

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Speaker 1: Hard to win that way, Yeah bad. Don't start Jared

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Speaker 1: right saving Yeah, night and day at thirty up two spots.

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Speaker 1: The Carolina Panthers, big Win Walker didn't play bad. He

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Speaker 1: was actually their best quarterback this year. He didn't beat them,

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Speaker 1: He didn't didn't beat himself. They had some big plays

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Speaker 1: in the run game. Defense is good. They even got

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Speaker 1: DJ more involved. Yeah, how about it? So okay, they

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Speaker 1: deserve a little bump. I don't think they'll go much higher,

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Speaker 1: but you know, down two spots. Another team everybody was

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Speaker 1: in love with early in the season, that Jacksonville Jaguars. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Peterson is another one. Back to our conversation before goes

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Speaker 1: for it. Way too much. You know, turns down points,

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Speaker 1: turns down field goals with regularity. He's fine. I mean

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Speaker 1: he's better than Oh he's onderber Meyer. He's great. You know,

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Speaker 1: that doesn't mean he's good coach you or doing you know,

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Speaker 1: getting the most out of the team. He's just giving

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Speaker 1: them NFL coaching. It's an upgrade. But you know, maybe

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Speaker 1: Moore's needed to win the division and Rabel, like he's

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Speaker 1: a better ross than Rabel. Yeah, be five and one

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Speaker 1: with that team up two spots. The Washington Commanders, Okay,

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Speaker 1: they're fragile, but they deserve a bump. Yeah, yeah, it's

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Speaker 1: not yeah, not pretty at seven speaking him, not pretty

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Speaker 1: down three spots. This is a team that started the

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Speaker 1: season in the top ten. Denver Broncos, to their credit,

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Speaker 1: if we were doing a Broncos show, we would be

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Speaker 1: like this poor defense. You know, they're a very good defense,

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Speaker 1: and at that I believe they're a bad football team though.

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Speaker 1: I mean they're talking about mistakes and penalties and oh yea.

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Speaker 1: The offense looked more functional without Wilson. They had Brett Rippion. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: throw the ball forty six times last week, right and

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Speaker 1: come on in a close game, right, times. They got

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Speaker 1: eighty seven running backs on their roster, keeps going through

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Speaker 1: them and their defense keeps them in games. I don't

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Speaker 1: think he's long for his No, I don't think so

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Speaker 1: that started with very high hopes this year, the three

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Speaker 1: three and one Indianapolis Colts, who just benched Matt just

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Speaker 1: here's what it is. There are some clauses in his

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Speaker 1: field again. I knew he was a massive cap hit

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Speaker 1: this year and next year, and I think Atlanta's eating

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Speaker 1: is Sam Ellinger's baby. Now. That means they're punting on

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Speaker 1: the season three three and one. Is that a tank?

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Speaker 1: But I feel like Ryan can't defend himself anymore in

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Speaker 1: the Cleveland Browns. I'm glad they're below the Healer. The

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Speaker 1: to the Ravens on Sunday. The do some coaching, a

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Speaker 1: lot of yelling, and this is before reporters went in.

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Speaker 1: There was a lot of yelling and screaming going on

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Speaker 1: why aren't we playing Nick chub Right, he's our best player? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's a lost season for them. Yeah, there really is.

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Speaker 1: that's fair and we'll see who's right above them. But

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Speaker 1: the Steelers this year that is now they've lost five games.

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Speaker 1: add up all their UH point differentials, there plus one fifty.

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Speaker 1: that doesn't even include the Eagles, who are plus fifty five.

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Speaker 1: they get through this Eagles game, right, it's like they've

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Speaker 1: really really lightens up. It really it's a much different,

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Speaker 1: want to stick with Travisky here, let him run through

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Speaker 1: these this this gauntlet of tough opponents, and then play

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Speaker 1: But I absolutely thought I I thought this at the

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Speaker 1: this is gonna be a brutal stretch of very different defenses.

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Speaker 1: You're probably gonna be losing a lot of these games.

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Speaker 1: You're probably gonna throw some picks. But to me, it

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Speaker 1: The real shame of it is a couple of those

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Speaker 1: I mean they were the Bullies. You never see that

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Speaker 1: The three and four Atlanta Falcons. I think the Steelers

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Speaker 1: trying to win games. And we look at things too

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Speaker 1: doing a good job coaching overall to keep them competitive,

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Speaker 1: It's bad criminal. If I'm if I'm Arthur that part,

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Speaker 1: It's so bad. I mean, now they're competing against Ellender

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Speaker 1: Mills and Lawrence Who's in the hole. You know, like

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Speaker 1: they're gonna win a division. The two souths. I mean,

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Speaker 1: they're talking about bad teams, eight bad teams. I don't know.

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Speaker 1: The Tampa will be a bad team right now, bad

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Speaker 1: team right now. I guess you have to put Tennessee

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Speaker 1: in that neighborhood. Though, I'd have San Frana had a

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Speaker 1: Tennessee at eight, yeah, because records don't seem to matter,

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Speaker 1: and I wouldn't look at records too much. No, I

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Speaker 1: wouldn't either at eight. Holding steady. The Ravens, Okay, they

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Speaker 1: gets a lot of doubts about They get some fundamentals

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Speaker 1: issues that they almost blew it again this week. They

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Speaker 1: almost blew another game in the final in the closing minutes.

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Speaker 1: If Kevin Stefanski wasn't a moron, right gave it to him.

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Speaker 1: I think I'd have him over every team we mentioned,

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Speaker 1: though I don't know if i'd have him over the Niner.

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Speaker 1: The Niners are the one that is I think is

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Speaker 1: noticeably low. They probably win six, four or five five.

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Speaker 1: If they played ten against the Niners, I think they

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Speaker 1: would struggle against Sanci again. San Francisco they would get

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Speaker 1: they would get after him with the four man rush,

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Speaker 1: oh yeah, and then both teams would run the ball

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Speaker 1: and unorthodox and the inside linebackers are quick enough to

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Speaker 1: run the Yeah, I would have trouble. That would not

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Speaker 1: be a good matchup. How about this, and I would

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Speaker 1: have them far from eight. That's where they were right Baltimore. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean they'd be nine or ten at worst. It's

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Speaker 1: seven down three spots even though they were off this

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Speaker 1: week the Vikings. Trust me, I did power ranks. There

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Speaker 1: a better team than Giants. Come on, come on, I

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Speaker 1: mean I always hated the comments. I saw creaking comments

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Speaker 1: early in my ESPN career. But when I would do

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Speaker 1: power ranks, where how can they go backwards even though

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Speaker 1: they're on a BI I'm like, well, it doesn't really

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Speaker 1: work that way. I'm just putting them in the order

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Speaker 1: of what I know. But they're still better than the Giants.

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Speaker 1: They're better than the Giants. Yeah, they're better than the Giants. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: come on, this is this is I would be almost

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Speaker 1: willing to bet the Dan hanss is from New York,

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Speaker 1: New Jersey area. I don't I don't know a thing

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Speaker 1: about them, but he's always been higher on those than

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Speaker 1: the New York teams. And we've said that all along.

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Speaker 1: At six we finally get to the Giants. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I knew their point differential before last week was plus

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Speaker 1: thirteen and this week didn't help by what two points

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Speaker 1: or something, So they're combined wins are by like fifteen

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Speaker 1: or sixteen. I think they won by five because because

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Speaker 1: the Jaguars, who he killed and moved them down to

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Speaker 1: like thirty two. The Jaguars were throwing into the end zone.

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Speaker 1: While they were throwing just short of the end zone

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Speaker 1: to Christian Kirk, he got tackled inside the one. It

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Speaker 1: was like the Rams Titans Super Bowls, and it would

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Speaker 1: and if he gets in, he would have won. Yeah. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean they're going to the playoffs. Uh, they're losing

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Speaker 1: this week. Who they go? I think they play. They've

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Speaker 1: got to go to Seattle. That's stuff game. I would

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Speaker 1: definitely pick Seattle. Yeah. I thought the Jags should have

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Speaker 1: been favored in that game, and they right and they lost.

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Speaker 1: So I mean there is something to not losing games,

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Speaker 1: and they don't. Damion Jones isn't playing bad. The Giants

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Speaker 1: are six and one this season despite being the only

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Speaker 1: team in the NFL without a wide receiver who surpass

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Speaker 1: two hundred yards this season. That totally adds up, totally

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Speaker 1: adds up, and then they lost their tight end to

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Speaker 1: his promising Llinger. It's insane anyone to catches pass as

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Speaker 1: it gets hurt. At five holding steady, the Bengals, I

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Speaker 1: think they are a top five. Who the hell did

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Speaker 1: he bump ahead who else? Because he bumped obviously he

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Speaker 1: bumped the Giants ahead of the Vikings because they moved

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Speaker 1: down from Cincinnati ahead of him. No, Cincinnati to't move, No,

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Speaker 1: they didn't move. He moved the Cowboys ahead of them.

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Speaker 1: I would have the Cowboy Cowboys and Bengals to me,

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Speaker 1: are my are my four's? I'm not sure who I

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Speaker 1: would pick it four? Yeah, he has all boys at four.

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Speaker 1: I watched that game. They didn't play. They didn't play great. Again,

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Speaker 1: the Lions turned it over five times, and it wasn't

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Speaker 1: like that. It wasn't like they were always you know, Dallas, yeah,

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Speaker 1: making things happen here. No, it was there was a

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Speaker 1: Lions playing badly. I do think it's a very very

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Speaker 1: good defense, and I think that coming back, that's more

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Speaker 1: of a projection for me. At four is what they

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Speaker 1: could be. Um, but they would I would either have

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Speaker 1: the Bengals or Cowboys at four. Cincinnati's playing well, let

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Speaker 1: me see two, okay, So he moved the Giants and

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Speaker 1: the Cowboys ahead of them. That's why they dropped three

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Speaker 1: spots because the Vikings had been at number four. But

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Speaker 1: they should be ahead of the Giants, Minnesota should be. Yeah. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that leaves us in at the Chiefs at three. Still

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Speaker 1: go with the Chiefs at three. It's close. So I

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Speaker 1: think Press are really close. The Eagles in it too,

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Speaker 1: and of course the Buffalo Bills at one. Yeah, and

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Speaker 1: I think those three standalone. I don't know who's four

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Speaker 1: quite yet, but I certainly think the Super Bowl champ

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Speaker 1: will come out of those three. And the Eagles have

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Speaker 1: a very easy road. Yeah, yeah they do. Um, you know,

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Speaker 1: maybe the Steelers catch them Nappen this week. Never, um,

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Speaker 1: I think they have trying to think of who they

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Speaker 1: play next week. I was looking at that and I'm like, oh,

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