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Speaker 1: Nation Radio. Well, well, well here we are. Here, we

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Speaker 1: are the Steelers winning in Baltimore sixteen thirteen. I'm Dale Lilly,

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Speaker 1: he is Matt Williamson. To get to eight and eight.

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Speaker 1: I think we might have predicted something along these lines

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Speaker 1: earlier in the season with this thank you know why

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Speaker 1: I also predicted a sixteen Steelers victory last Friday. And

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Speaker 1: coming away with a really flipping the script on the

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Speaker 1: just ran it down their throats, um rushing yards and

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Speaker 1: you know it was with a couple of kneel downs

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Speaker 1: the second half. And it wasn't the flukey is the

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Speaker 1: wrong word, but it wasn't pick it scrambling. I mean

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Speaker 1: keep run the same thing because it keeps working. And

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Speaker 1: Warren played tremendous. I thought that was Nazi's best game

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Speaker 1: He he drifted himself into pressure. Yea, by no means

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Speaker 1: I'm more and more confident about Kenny every time I

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