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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: Happy start of the NFL season. I'm very happy about it. Happy, happy,

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Speaker 1: very very happy. It's made an awesome game tonight. It

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Speaker 1: could be even the super Bowl preview. Who the heck knows.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's the super Bowl favorite against the Super

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Speaker 1: Bowl champ. Everyone in the world's gonna be watching. I

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Speaker 1: can't wait and we get to actually talk about live football. Absolutely.

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Speaker 1: Uh he is Matt Williamson. I am Dale. Ally you're

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Speaker 1: listening to the Drive here on Steelers Nation Radio and Matt.

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Speaker 1: The Steelers portion of the injury report for Thursday is out.

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Speaker 1: The Ante Johnson limited again today with the shoulder and

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Speaker 1: now a calf issue they cropped up. But I would

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Speaker 1: think he seems to me to be trending in the

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Speaker 1: right direction. Um, you know, if he weren't going to

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Speaker 1: play this week, you just shut him down, yeah right right,

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Speaker 1: And he's still three days yeah right, right right. So

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Speaker 1: I feel pretty confident. And everybody that spoke about Deonte today,

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Speaker 1: including offensive coordinator Matt Canadas, seem to think that you

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Speaker 1: talked about well, we're pretty optimistic. He's gotta plu. There

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Speaker 1: was some reports otherwise, but that's yeah. It's a big

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Speaker 1: deal though. I mean, we discussed what do you do

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Speaker 1: without him yesterday quite a bit, and I think we

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Speaker 1: both kind of came to the conclusion that I really

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Speaker 1: want to leave Claypool in the slot if that means

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Speaker 1: putting Boykin on the outside as opposed to Gunner or

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Speaker 1: somebody else in the slot, or they still may play

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Speaker 1: more twelve. I bet that's in the cards no matter

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Speaker 1: what the situation is this year. But you want your

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Speaker 1: number one receiver out there. It's a huge game. Absolutely, yeah, absolutely.

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Speaker 1: Marcus Allen Back is a full participant with the hamstring injury.

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Speaker 1: But Chokes a quarter four uh, missed today's practice with

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Speaker 1: a back issue. That's news to me. And that's maybe

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Speaker 1: as big a deal as Deante now I think about it.

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Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, I mean, you know, I think you know,

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Speaker 1: if you're looking at the Steelers offensive lineman from from

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Speaker 1: training camp and who had the best camping preseason, I

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Speaker 1: think you'd say Chokes. Oh, I thought. So. It's funny.

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Speaker 1: I was on with Tom and Tim last night and

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Speaker 1: we were talking about chokes and one of the I

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Speaker 1: forget which one was made a good point like, well,

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Speaker 1: a lot of the practice reports on chokes weren't good.

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Speaker 1: And I said, well, that's when he was playing against

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Speaker 1: t J. Yeah, right, you and I and I talked

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Speaker 1: about that, you know, I talked to Chukes about it

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Speaker 1: in the preseason, like, is anybody going to be more

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Speaker 1: getting left with one on one with t J all

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Speaker 1: the time? Yeah, nobody. People just read chokes keeps getting beat. Well,

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Speaker 1: he did against non way defenders, you know, and he

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Speaker 1: and he said that, he's like, I look, I'm you know, really,

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Speaker 1: the games are gonna be easier for him than than

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Speaker 1: practicing a one on one with with no help. Of course,

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Speaker 1: even if even if you're just doing ten snaps of

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Speaker 1: that per practice, yes, like you're gonna look bad on

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Speaker 1: eight of them. I mean, I know there's more right

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Speaker 1: he's the one I would at least want to lose

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Speaker 1: from that line as it stands right now, because he

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Speaker 1: was their best lineman as far I think in two

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Speaker 1: thousand twenty two. I think he's been their best lineman. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and I you know, I don't know that people have

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Speaker 1: appreciated him. Those guys that ended up in the doghouse

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Speaker 1: and never gets out right. Yeah, another one. Well he

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Speaker 1: stays he's not Marquise pouncey Okay, but he's he's a

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Speaker 1: starting right tackle. Yeah, and you're getting better. And the

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Speaker 1: Steelers paid him in the off season. I saw people, yeah,

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Speaker 1: people who were who were poo pooing that. I can't

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Speaker 1: believe they paid Chuke Score for that kind of money. Well,

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Speaker 1: you know what tackles cost. Yeah, that's that's actually might

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Speaker 1: end up being a cheap deal for him, especially a

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Speaker 1: year or two if he gets better as a twenty

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Speaker 1: six year old or whatever. You know. I mean it's so.

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Speaker 1: I mean, again, they don't have star studied offensive lineman,

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Speaker 1: and I'm not suggesting he's on the path to being one,

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Speaker 1: I think he's at the very least league average in

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Speaker 1: Not that Hendrickson's watt, but therefore I think Chucks is

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Speaker 1: probably on Hubbard alone a lot. So his job might

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Speaker 1: even be harder, you know than a chip from nausea

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Speaker 1: or Gentry help or Friar Muth help with had So

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Speaker 1: this is a big game for truths. You actually looked

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Speaker 1: I talked to Damn Moore about his preseason and in

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Speaker 1: the two games against the Bengals last year. I don't.

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Speaker 1: I don't believe More gave up a sack in those games.

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Speaker 1: Although Hendrickson had a pair of sacks in the games

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Speaker 1: against the Suns, but they weren't against More. Apparently they

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Speaker 1: weren't against More. That's Cortney pro football focus. But I

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Speaker 1: have to watch him. I don't if they go left

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Speaker 1: you know not. And you have to remember as well,

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Speaker 1: those games last year. The first one was semi close

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Speaker 1: Tarrell Austin talks talked about, we just got her ass kicked. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it was that close. No, No, I mean they weren't

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Speaker 1: in a three game winning streak. I'm still optimistic. I

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Speaker 1: don't expect to blow out I'm not sure who I'm

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Speaker 1: I'm petty confident on that. I think it'll be closed. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: to those picks on Friday as well as our DFS

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Speaker 1: picks and all kinds of good stuff. But talking little

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Speaker 1: Steelers Bengals. Now, the Bengals still haven't come out with

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Speaker 1: their injury report yet to be interested to see they did. Um,

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Speaker 1: they added wide receiver Trent Taylor to their injury Listening,

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Speaker 1: Devin Asiassi did not practice again for the second consecutive day.

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Speaker 1: I mean that's their third tight end. Yeah. Mitchell Wilcox,

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Speaker 1: then Trent Taylor was limited with a hamstring. So they

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Speaker 1: seem to be pretty healthy. But again they didn't play anybody,

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Speaker 1: I know, if if Deante Johnson doesn't if it turns

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Speaker 1: already questioning, you know, why did Mike Tomlin play his

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Speaker 1: every game. The only guys who don't get hurt of

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Speaker 1: it used to be pretty consensus, you played your guys.

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Speaker 1: he got Liz Frank. Well he just played the game, guys.

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Speaker 1: first round of my fantasy drift. That's yeah, I mean,

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Speaker 1: Cam Heyward, a buddy. Yes, She's like, it seems like

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Speaker 1: so long since real football, real football. Yeah yeah, I

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Speaker 1: bet that does for me too. I mean, like we're

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Speaker 1: all super excited about preseason, but you know that's a

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Speaker 1: then we get excited about mini camp. Oh, mini camp

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's like the Hall of Fame Game. I

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Speaker 1: Game because it's awful, but we're just happy that people

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Speaker 1: But now it's real. So now it's Yeah. I saw

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Speaker 1: a stat, Matt. Now I heard a stat. Fifty three

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Speaker 1: undrafted players made NFL rosters this year. Wow, that was

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Speaker 1: more like undrafted, Brookie. I've been around you, undrafted Brookie.

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Speaker 1: of snaps. I looked at those offensive line snaps left

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Speaker 1: seventy seven snaps in the preseason. I mean that's more

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Speaker 1: played my offensive played my offensive line. Yeah, I mean

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Speaker 1: they had that left guard rotation, going to see who wins.

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Speaker 1: But you gotta play the five of them together, in

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Speaker 1: my opinion, I mean all the simulated pressures. It's a

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Speaker 1: think you'll see a lot of that stuff. A lot

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Speaker 1: want to test these guys mentally. That offensive line, absolutely,

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Speaker 1: communication and that stuff. Absolutely. He is Matt Williamson. I

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