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

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Speaker 1: Home of the Black and Goals Steelers Nation Radio. Welcome

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Speaker 1: to the Drive. A COVID free environment as as we

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Speaker 1: sit here, rare for anybody around the NFL right now.

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Speaker 1: I'm Dale Lollly here with Matt Williamson and uh Man.

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Speaker 1: The last couple of days have been just NFL has

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Speaker 1: been COVID central and it's been pretty good up until

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Speaker 1: the last. What players in the last on Monday and

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Speaker 1: Tuesday and then some more today I'm including Baker Mayfield

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Speaker 1: and Brown's head coach. I mean, it's it's crazy and

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Speaker 1: it's hard to actually keep up with it. Seems like

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Speaker 1: every time my phone blows up. I believe I heard

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Speaker 1: there are now seven teams and intend to protocols. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: something of an outbreak. And a couple of the teams

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Speaker 1: that are having a bad namely the Browns, which is

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Speaker 1: it's almost humorous where they're at, to be honest with you.

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Speaker 1: And then Chiefs Chiefs Chargers is Thursday night, so that's

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Speaker 1: what I'm going like, these guys don't even have the

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Speaker 1: Sunday to prepare. I mean the Browns are Saturday. Yeah, right,

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Speaker 1: they're playing Saturday and they are playing They're playing that game, right.

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Speaker 1: We were talking about that off the air, like Browns

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Speaker 1: fans are wanting this game move because well, the Steelers

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Speaker 1: game got they got the game. The Steelers didn't get

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Speaker 1: a game moved because they wanted it moved. Steelers the opponent. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: they were the ones who got screwed in the deal

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Speaker 1: twice in fact, by these same Titans in in ravens

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Speaker 1: Um you know, you know I mentioned Kansas City that

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Speaker 1: they're out with. Chris Jones is not going to play Thursday,

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Speaker 1: the best defensive player, you know. I mean, it's a

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Speaker 1: big deal. It's a very big deal. And that's why

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Speaker 1: real quick. What's also the thing is, and we talked

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Speaker 1: about it so many times, all these a FC teams,

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Speaker 1: namely the Browns, are playing other a f C team

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Speaker 1: teams that are in the playoff hunt. I mean, the

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Speaker 1: hunt is so convoluted as it is, you know, like

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Speaker 1: I don't think the Raiders are good, but they're not

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Speaker 1: the Jags, Jets or Texans, and so they're still in it.

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Speaker 1: And even though I buried them three weeks ago, if

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Speaker 1: they play a Brown's team that doesn't have any players,

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Speaker 1: the Raiders are still gonna be in the same right.

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Speaker 1: That's the whole thing. Per That's what I was just

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Speaker 1: gonna say that any team that you know, oftentimes, and

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Speaker 1: you always see this, the team that wins the Super

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Speaker 1: Bowl is the one that may not have been the

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Speaker 1: most talented team, but they stayed the most healthy. You know,

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Speaker 1: I've referenced this many times. Football Siders has They don't

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Speaker 1: call it a health index, but they basically chart this

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Speaker 1: stuff and they do. It's a big offseason thing. Generally,

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Speaker 1: rule thumb, if you're one of the healthiest teams in

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Speaker 1: the league, you probably won't be the next year. You'll

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Speaker 1: get back to the league average or whatever. It's. It's

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Speaker 1: it's a hard thing to predict year to year. It's

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Speaker 1: not like, boy, you're good at staying healthy and other

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Speaker 1: teams aren't. Well. To your point, Tampa Bay last year

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Speaker 1: far and away the healthiest team in the league. You know,

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Speaker 1: I mean that goes a long way. Uh, And you know,

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Speaker 1: I mean it's it's it's it's proven time and again

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Speaker 1: end often you know, hey, they caught fire. You know,

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Speaker 1: the two thousand five Steelers they're playing all these bang

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Speaker 1: up teams and all these guys that were hurt, and

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Speaker 1: then they come back and oh wow, they got they

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Speaker 1: were fourteen and one or fifteen and one team the

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Speaker 1: year before then they dealt with some injuries and they

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Speaker 1: got healthy and they got done on a roll. It's

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Speaker 1: honestly one of my favorite things about the sport. You know,

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Speaker 1: it's unfortunately the best team doesn't always win a lot

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Speaker 1: of it's it's just who can avoid bad things at

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Speaker 1: the right times. But such as life, and that's the

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Speaker 1: where it goes. I mean, you know, that's when why

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Speaker 1: when people talk about, well, those Steelers, you know, three

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Speaker 1: playoff wins, two thousand, Okay, let's look at look at

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Speaker 1: each one. Look at each one of them. The only

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Speaker 1: oh they shouldn't have lost that game is the Jacksonville game.

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Speaker 1: And but jackson was a bad match up for them.

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Speaker 1: a physical, running team, the wrong type of team for

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Speaker 1: the time too, and that's the beauty of it. I mean,

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Speaker 1: there was a big drop off. There was a big

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Speaker 1: gets us to the Steelers injury reports and real quick,

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Speaker 1: it's I don't think it's a coincidence that every game

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Speaker 1: that t J. Watt hasn't played this year they've lost.

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Speaker 1: I'm not saying they don't won them all, but it matters.

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Speaker 1: It had been the thing. Yes, speaking of which, t J.

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Speaker 1: so they get both of those guys back. If you

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Speaker 1: look at the injury reports, Uh, Roethlisberger did not practice.

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Speaker 1: It's a Wednesday, that's nothing, nothing to do there. Joe

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Speaker 1: Spillane was limited, Alex Higsmith limited. Uh, Carlos Davis a

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Speaker 1: of an illness. I mean, it's not the sexiest conversation,

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Speaker 1: but nose tackle we talked about a lot yesterday. Adams

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Speaker 1: is listed, Davis and Bugs are good. Could we see

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Speaker 1: a rotation or one of the incumbents pre Adams maybe

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Speaker 1: Bugs has been out the last three games. One because

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Speaker 1: He's been part of that. I didn't mention this on

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Speaker 1: it felt like they were sending a message, you know,

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Speaker 1: We're gonna we're gonna be in the the nickel the

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Speaker 1: it and send a message to a young player. Light

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Speaker 1: of Fire under and then the Bengals come out and

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Speaker 1: run all over it, right Like, I bet they regretted

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Speaker 1: that afterwards. Yeah, and again he's not a superstar, but

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Speaker 1: They averaged three seventy seven yards per game with Henry,

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Speaker 1: thirty seven times. Overall, which is third most in the league.

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Speaker 1: You know, A. J. Brown hasn't been in the equation

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Speaker 1: Julio just came back. But Julio's aulit right. And they're

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Speaker 1: our offense coordinator. You know, he's been a good offense

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Speaker 1: But they're they're different than most offenses out there in

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Speaker 1: that they really built around one player, you know, and

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Speaker 1: their special players probably Hall of famers or what I mean.

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Speaker 1: up for it, and especially if Brown's not there, because

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Speaker 1: they were lighted pass catchers my other than Brown too,

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Speaker 1: bad on special teams and oh yeah they are by

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Speaker 1: two punters, and you know, I think I think Karen

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Speaker 1: but this seems like a prime game to get more

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Speaker 1: He's throwing the pick, he's he's fumbled the football. Uh, Young,

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Speaker 1: do that. I mean, I think Tanney Hills has been

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Speaker 1: be big and physical. Again, they built their whole offense

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Speaker 1: of true. But when he's in there that when you

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Speaker 1: I mean you want to play against him? Right? No? No,

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Speaker 1: know there. That's the thing. The teams that have hurt

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Speaker 1: have some success? Right? Like when we talk fantasy, I'm

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Speaker 1: like start Dante Foreman over some other backs because the

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Speaker 1: why you want to come out in this game and

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Speaker 1: throw to get a lead on these guys. Make them

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Speaker 1: They want to play that way there. Yeah, they're built

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Speaker 1: what they want to do. And if you let them,

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Speaker 1: and that's one thing that you don't do well to

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Speaker 1: stop that. So get out there, get a lead and

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Speaker 1: then see where it goes from there that I don't

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Speaker 1: It's amazing, and it's a real problem for how those

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Speaker 1: all right, you know you can live that way, but

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Speaker 1: this team can't. Yeah, try to get a lead in

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Speaker 1: the first half and send a waiting to the fourth quarter.

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Speaker 1: I think you sent me to stat They've they've had

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Speaker 1: their offensive snaps, but really low. If you're snapping the

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Speaker 1: ball losing, you have a different mentality than you're up

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Speaker 1: a couple of points. I think the numbers I ran

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Speaker 1: them today, they've been down by an average score of

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Speaker 1: I think it's eleven point seven two uh seven something

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Speaker 1: points per game over the course of the season in

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Speaker 1: the first half. And then they've given up point and

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Speaker 1: then they've given up forty three points on the opponent's

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Speaker 1: opening drive of the second half, So you know, all

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Speaker 1: of a sudden, you're down to you know, a touchdown

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Speaker 1: this really comes from this a Belichick thing is the

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Speaker 1: hour of real time. Right, if you can control the middleweight,

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Speaker 1: usually win football games. And the Steelers used to do

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Speaker 1: a really good job of that. They've got Roethlisberger, right,

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Speaker 1: But you come out of half, I mean it's a

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Speaker 1: lot of times you differ and you want the ball

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Speaker 1: and you know to start the half and those type

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Speaker 1: that for sure. Yeah. Absolutely, But we are going to

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Speaker 1: take a break. He is Matt Williamson. I'm Dale Lally.

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