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Speaker 1: Your tunes about Drive on your twenty four to seven

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

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Speaker 2: Good evening, Steeler Nation. How we doing well? That's good

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Speaker 2: us too much better than our counterparts across the commonwealth

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Speaker 2: in Philadelphia. Who baby our number two here of the

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Speaker 2: Drive on Steelers Nation Radio on a Friday, and that

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Speaker 2: means it is time to continue with a little five

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Speaker 2: Star Friday. We're humbled and excited to be in these

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Speaker 2: five star matchups.

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Speaker 3: Five star metchup. Somebody leaving here with the loss not

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Speaker 3: gonna be a.

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Speaker 2: That's Mike Tomlin and Joe Hayden on that one. This

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Speaker 2: is the second one, yeah, and Joe Hayden. So the

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Speaker 2: first five Star Friday cut is the Shay Townsend and

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Speaker 2: Troy Polamalo. Second one, Mike Tomlin and Joe Hayden. I

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Speaker 2: thought that was fitting since Joe Hayden kind of synonymous.

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Speaker 3: The Gift from the Browns, Gift.

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Speaker 2: From the Browns and synonymous with both of these organizations.

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Speaker 2: Matt Let's spin the block and talk now Brown's offense,

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Speaker 2: Steelers defense. Steelers defense coming off of a for the

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Speaker 2: first eighty eighty five percent of the game, a very

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Speaker 2: strong performance yes, against the Vikings. They have done well

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Speaker 2: in the turnover department. They are getting much better in

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Speaker 2: the sack department. They're creating chaos, explosive play. Differential still

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Speaker 2: not great, but I gotta think that how worried are

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Speaker 2: you about that this week? With the Browns offense? Let's

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Speaker 2: start there, because it feels like three yards and a

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Speaker 2: cloud of dust type off.

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Speaker 3: Well, I don't know if the Steeler to rewind. I

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Speaker 3: don't expect a lot of explosives from the Steeler offense

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Speaker 3: to help the differential, but I also be shocked if

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Speaker 3: they create a lot themselves either. The Browns.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, now I was gonna say, get away from you.

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Speaker 3: I mean, especially as Steelers have been as aggressive as

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Speaker 3: any team in the league with blitz and bringing people

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Speaker 3: line of scrimmage and trusting their corners and you know,

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Speaker 3: trying to create chaos to a really stronger degree than

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Speaker 3: I can remember. I mean, since Lebo era, and even

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Speaker 3: Lebo didn't bring six like these guys, you'd be able

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Speaker 3: the illusion of six. You know who's coming, who's not.

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Speaker 3: But these guys are bringing a lot of pressure. And

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Speaker 3: if you do that on rundowns, and you know you

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Speaker 3: missed a tackle all of a sudden y yeah, yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 3: and that wouldn't be great obviously. The two low hanging

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Speaker 3: fruits to me on this side of the ball for

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Speaker 3: Steeler Keys, though, are rattle the rook totally. And you

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Speaker 3: can't get cashed in in the ground game, you know,

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Speaker 3: like the run defense looked better, but I'm not going

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Speaker 3: to bet everything I own that they've got it fixed.

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Speaker 2: You know they're gonna hold junkins the seventy yards, right.

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Speaker 3: It's that's it's Steed or it's you know, Hampton and

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Speaker 3: Aaron Smith and Keyesol and you know, like.

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Speaker 2: No one's comes Pozzi in the A gap game.

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Speaker 3: I'm not blowing. I'm not sold on that yet. You

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Speaker 3: know that, oh it's fixed. I mean they could get

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Speaker 3: gashed in this game. And Judkins is really good, certainly. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: And he's been getting stronger and stronger every week, which

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Speaker 2: isn't surprising. I mean, the guy played no snaps I

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Speaker 2: don't think in training camp or preseason if signed, it

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Speaker 2: wasn't even signed. Yeah, yeah, so that makes it all

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Speaker 2: the more impressive how quickly he's gotten up the speed.

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Speaker 3: That is he's real good with yards after contact. Too.

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Speaker 3: That's one of the best in the league.

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Speaker 2: You know, so often at this level, at the NFL level,

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Speaker 2: I think we can get guilty of well, if you

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Speaker 2: just slow down this guy on offense, you'll be all right.

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Speaker 3: It's works. It's just everybody could play.

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Speaker 2: Everybody has millionaires and dudes and college Hall of famer

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Speaker 2: Fame and all that different stuff. But this might be

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Speaker 2: as close to that as the Steelers see this season.

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Speaker 2: I mean, they've got talented tight ends. Jerry Judy is good.

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Speaker 2: I don't think he's great, but he's a good NFL

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Speaker 2: wide receiver. But man, if you can really limit Judkins,

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Speaker 2: you can really make Dylan Gabriel have to make plays

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Speaker 2: very favorable position to have a good outcome on something.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think this version of the Browns has to

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Speaker 3: there'll be a lot of play action. Other than Rogers.

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Speaker 3: He's getting the ball out of his hands as quick

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Speaker 3: what he's good he's a processor, he's a quick you know,

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Speaker 3: even as a rookie, as you kind of alluded to,

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Speaker 3: expect it to be the same. Najoku's their most reliable guy.

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Speaker 2: He did a lot of that when he was at

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Speaker 2: Auburn and organ as well too.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, or sorry, I'm Bonix at Oregon and Oklahoma.

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Speaker 3: Okay, Yeah, they have an infatuation with Fannin that I

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Speaker 3: don't quite understand. But I mean he's a unique chess piece.

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Speaker 3: I mean that they manufacture a lot of touches for him,

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Speaker 3: easy throws. He is willing to throw in the middle

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Speaker 3: of the field. But I also think the Steelers will

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Speaker 3: bat down one point five. It should be the line

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Speaker 3: and passes bat a down at the line of scrimmage.

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Speaker 3: I mean, he is short, and the Steelers the best

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Speaker 3: the middle of field, I mean he's going to have

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Speaker 3: some issues there. He's just not very impressive physically. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I mean he's smaller five eleven.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, on a good day, he's five eleven, and his

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Speaker 3: arm is very average. He's a good athlete. He's not

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Speaker 3: a special athlete. He's not Kyler, you know. Yes, he's

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Speaker 2: I forgot. He spent time at UCF as well. So

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Speaker 2: two years at UCF. Uh sorry, three old yeah, three

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Speaker 2: years at UCF, two years at Oklahoma, and then his

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Speaker 2: last year at Oregon.

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Speaker 3: At Oregon replacing Knicks.

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Speaker 2: Replacing Knicks. Yes, who he was the one who came

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Speaker 2: from Auburn to Oregon, right, Why I was getting that.

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Speaker 3: But he's probably twenty five.

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Speaker 2: He's twenty four. He will be twenty five around the

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Speaker 2: time that Santa Claus is sliding down the chimney in December.

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Speaker 3: He turns to and everyone talks about his maturity and

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Speaker 3: great kid and smart and all those things. Good. I mean,

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Speaker 3: I think he comes.

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Speaker 2: I think he comes with a decent floor to his game.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Like I think he'll be a backup for many years.

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Speaker 3: You know what I mean.

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Speaker 2: You put him on the Vikings offense right now, they

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Speaker 2: would win a lot of games maybe, all right? Yeah? Yeah,

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Speaker 2: yeah to me, I think like he has certainly a

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's the thing.

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Speaker 2: I think that that's.

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Speaker 3: And I bet they heat him up and I'm sure

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Speaker 3: he'll get hit a lot. Now I can make you

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Speaker 3: pay when he's getting hit or the ones he doesn't.

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Speaker 3: You know, I have some issue, you know, I don't

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Speaker 2: No, so, like we said, Judy is okay, but after

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Speaker 3: And I actually I mean Judy's okay. I think he's

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Speaker 3: in over one more over eighted receivers in the league,

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Speaker 3: to be honest with you, and they ask him to

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Speaker 3: You know, he should probably be a complimentary pace.

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Speaker 2: You know, I didn't realize this. Little Wes's stats for you,

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Speaker 2: m hm. Gabriel Is has the career NCAA FBS record

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Speaker 2: Division one record for most career points responsible for.

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Speaker 3: Oh wow.

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Speaker 2: That's also as the most career touchdowns responsible for. And

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Speaker 2: it's tied with case Keenum for most nc double A

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Speaker 3: Wow. But how many years does it say how many

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Speaker 3: years he started at all those stops. He's been quite

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Speaker 2: It was a five played for six years and started

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Speaker 2: basically every year except for his freshman year at UCF.

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Speaker 3: He's a five year college starter, but.

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Speaker 2: He started the last couple games his freshman year at UCF,

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Speaker 2: so like a five and a half year college starter.

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Speaker 2: Mike Tomlin said in his press conference he threw for

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Speaker 2: something like sixteen thousand yards during his collegiate career. I mean,

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Speaker 2: just up right, he's a guy who's got a lot

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Speaker 2: level I mean, UCF, Oklahoma, Oregon, you know, high level programs,

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Speaker 2: but you got you gotta make him bite off a

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Speaker 2: little more than he can chew on Sunday.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, that doesn't mean he's ready for Akischer in

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Speaker 3: Hinesfield and Watt and yeah, etcetera, et cetera. I've never

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Speaker 3: said this on the air, and not because it's like

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Speaker 3: it pretty much holds up now too.

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Speaker 2: Though.

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Speaker 3: When you wrote your scouting report, Dylan Gabriel, Oregon, blah blah,

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Speaker 3: the first sentence is three and a half year starter,

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Speaker 3: two year starter, you know, yes, seven game starter, yes, period,

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Speaker 3: you know, And it's.

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Speaker 2: A lot, that's the thing with And we'll get more

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Speaker 2: But like I love Dante More.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, he's started.

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Speaker 2: He started nine games in his college career, and that

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Speaker 2: could be seventeen or eighteen when he comes out in

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Speaker 2: the draft. That's not many.

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Speaker 3: And the guys that are succeeding the knises and guys

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Speaker 3: that have played a lot. It goes back to the parcels.

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Speaker 2: Ty Ty Simpson from Alabama, who you know that I'm like, what,

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Speaker 2: he started five games in his career, Like you know.

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Speaker 3: That's Trubisky Haskins. Those are some of the guys that didn't.

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Speaker 2: Correct correct, whereas Sellers has a little bit more, Fernando

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Speaker 2: Mendoza has a little bit more, Matier has more. Okay,

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Speaker 2: So that's just something that will continue to kind of

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Speaker 2: keep eye on.

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Speaker 3: Six year guy. Nicks was a six year guy, you know,

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Speaker 3: right Ward was in several spots before being the first

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Speaker 3: world pick last year.

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Speaker 2: Exactly right, exactly right. So I'm not saying that I

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Speaker 2: don't like Dante More or anything like that, but it's

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Speaker 2: it's a notable part of the evaluation process. Okay, a

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Speaker 2: couple more angles for the Steelers defense versus Browns offense

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Speaker 2: that I want to discuss with you. Let's talk about

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Speaker 2: the Steelers defensive front. First. Yeah, I think they had

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Speaker 2: one of their better performances against the Vikings. Granted a

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Speaker 2: Vikings offensive line that went into that game missing a

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Speaker 2: key guard and then very early lost O'Neill their right

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Speaker 2: tackle and Kelly. Yeah, and Kelly as well too. That's right.

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Speaker 2: This Brown's offensive line is not beat up like that.

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Speaker 2: They are really struggling at the left tackle position. However,

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Speaker 2: huge way who who's in line to potentially feast on

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Speaker 2: that Steelers defensive front.

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Speaker 3: Well, for the last five ish years, the Browns of

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Speaker 3: ed one of the best set of guards in the league.

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Speaker 3: No question about center position has never been bad, but

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Speaker 3: the guards have been the foundation.

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Speaker 2: Said this line that twenty twenty year where they beat

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Speaker 2: the Steelers in the wild card game, the COVID year,

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Speaker 2: I mean, they had a very good offensive line to

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Speaker 2: Down the home stretch here on the Drive, penultimate segment

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Speaker 2: on a Friday, that means it's time to go around

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Speaker 2: I love it, Tottenham Hotspurs Stadium, the Jets zero to five,

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Speaker 3: Last sear I was seven and a half, and I

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Speaker 2: cities to go to. We spend a little bit of

435
00:21:10,320 --> 00:21:13,360
Speaker 2: time there. I'm actually so they they're here. I guess

436
00:21:13,400 --> 00:21:16,920
Speaker 2: the first week in November. The Coults are here. I

437
00:21:16,920 --> 00:21:19,480
Speaker 2: I owe some of their broadcast guys a good time

438
00:21:19,560 --> 00:21:22,600
Speaker 2: Saturday night, and we might have to. I might have

439
00:21:22,600 --> 00:21:24,240
Speaker 2: to rope you into that. We might have to. We

440
00:21:24,320 --> 00:21:27,119
Speaker 2: might have to go out and do some some some

441
00:21:27,240 --> 00:21:30,240
Speaker 2: bally hooing with the Colts guys. As they've been. They've

442
00:21:30,240 --> 00:21:33,280
Speaker 2: been such generous hostess to us in Indianapolis plenty of times.

443
00:21:33,280 --> 00:21:35,000
Speaker 2: And they're a good they got a good crew, a

444
00:21:35,000 --> 00:21:37,159
Speaker 2: good group of broadcasters there that we you know, we

445
00:21:37,200 --> 00:21:40,800
Speaker 2: get to holler at at the combine every sing yep.

446
00:21:41,720 --> 00:21:45,520
Speaker 2: Dolphins at home, struggling, hanging on for dear life.

447
00:21:46,720 --> 00:21:48,960
Speaker 3: There's some really long road trips this week. This is

448
00:21:48,960 --> 00:21:49,280
Speaker 3: one of them.

449
00:21:49,320 --> 00:21:53,040
Speaker 2: This is one of them, Chargers against the Dolphins. The Chargers,

450
00:21:53,040 --> 00:21:55,080
Speaker 2: remember they just did one of these long road trips

451
00:21:55,080 --> 00:21:57,840
Speaker 2: two weeks ago when they played the Giants on a

452
00:21:57,840 --> 00:22:00,199
Speaker 2: one o'clock game and it did not go great. I'm

453
00:22:00,200 --> 00:22:01,920
Speaker 2: gonna give them a little more benefit of the doubt

454
00:22:02,040 --> 00:22:04,159
Speaker 2: this time that they'll be more prepared for it in

455
00:22:04,240 --> 00:22:07,359
Speaker 2: such quick succession. Chargers three and a half points on

456
00:22:07,359 --> 00:22:08,360
Speaker 2: the road down in Miami.

457
00:22:09,400 --> 00:22:11,359
Speaker 3: I'm not fond of either team at the moment, So

458
00:22:11,400 --> 00:22:13,920
Speaker 3: if you're gonna give me home more than a touchdown,

459
00:22:14,240 --> 00:22:16,399
Speaker 3: Miami still moves the ball. They got problems, don't get

460
00:22:16,400 --> 00:22:17,640
Speaker 3: me wrong, They got a lot of problems. They got

461
00:22:17,640 --> 00:22:20,960
Speaker 3: a quarterback or a coach on the hot seat, but

462
00:22:21,080 --> 00:22:23,479
Speaker 3: even with Tyreek out, they move the football. You know,

463
00:22:23,640 --> 00:22:25,960
Speaker 3: at home, whether it's not gonna be a problem. If anything,

464
00:22:26,000 --> 00:22:28,640
Speaker 3: it works in their favor because maybe it's hot over

465
00:22:28,640 --> 00:22:32,080
Speaker 3: a touch, over a field goal. I'm taking points, yeah,

466
00:22:32,119 --> 00:22:34,439
Speaker 3: I'll be honest. So the first two weeks of the season,

467
00:22:35,280 --> 00:22:38,720
Speaker 3: my picks weren't very good, and last couple of weeks

468
00:22:38,720 --> 00:22:41,040
Speaker 3: they've gotten a lot better because Went and Dwald have

469
00:22:41,080 --> 00:22:41,800
Speaker 3: been taking the points.

470
00:22:41,880 --> 00:22:42,120
Speaker 2: Yeah.

471
00:22:42,160 --> 00:22:43,879
Speaker 3: I mean it's just kind of a which is not

472
00:22:43,920 --> 00:22:46,040
Speaker 3: a bad track, no, I mean the league is a

473
00:22:46,040 --> 00:22:47,840
Speaker 3: lot of parody, and I look at that game like

474
00:22:47,880 --> 00:22:48,800
Speaker 3: Miami might win.

475
00:22:50,440 --> 00:22:53,800
Speaker 2: I know the Chargers are beat up. Yeah, I think

476
00:22:53,840 --> 00:22:56,200
Speaker 2: that they're due for a good performance. Though I think

477
00:22:56,240 --> 00:22:58,280
Speaker 2: I might lay the points with l on this one.

478
00:22:58,880 --> 00:23:00,600
Speaker 3: Miami can implode any they can't.

479
00:23:00,680 --> 00:23:02,240
Speaker 2: But they're also kind of I mean, you're right, like

480
00:23:02,280 --> 00:23:05,639
Speaker 2: they're due for a better performance. But I just the

481
00:23:05,640 --> 00:23:08,720
Speaker 2: the body language and the press conferences out of Miami

482
00:23:09,200 --> 00:23:12,320
Speaker 2: just seem I mean, Mike McDaniel his weekly Normally I

483
00:23:12,359 --> 00:23:14,600
Speaker 2: can't stand putting too much stock into these things, but

484
00:23:15,200 --> 00:23:18,080
Speaker 2: he looked like a defeated guy at his weekly press conference.

485
00:23:18,080 --> 00:23:21,359
Speaker 2: I mean he was like stumbling and mumbling through his answers,

486
00:23:21,440 --> 00:23:24,280
Speaker 2: and you know, wasn't you know, talking about how he's

487
00:23:24,320 --> 00:23:27,680
Speaker 2: had meetings with the ownership, and uh, I don't.

488
00:23:27,960 --> 00:23:29,840
Speaker 3: We're in the beginning of the end or the midway

489
00:23:29,840 --> 00:23:30,320
Speaker 3: through the end.

490
00:23:30,440 --> 00:23:31,919
Speaker 2: You know, I would like this a lot more if

491
00:23:31,920 --> 00:23:33,680
Speaker 2: it was one and a half as opposed to three

492
00:23:33,720 --> 00:23:35,600
Speaker 2: and a half. But I think I'm just gonna air

493
00:23:35,720 --> 00:23:37,920
Speaker 2: on the side of Harbaugh and the Chargers on this one.

494
00:23:39,080 --> 00:23:42,720
Speaker 2: Saints at home against the Patriots, who are feeling really

495
00:23:42,760 --> 00:23:45,800
Speaker 2: good about themselves. That one a one o'clock game there

496
00:23:45,840 --> 00:23:49,280
Speaker 2: at the Superdome in New Orleans, New England, three and

497
00:23:49,280 --> 00:23:50,639
Speaker 2: a half point road favorite.

498
00:23:51,040 --> 00:23:52,639
Speaker 3: You said it, and I'm gonna say it's about the

499
00:23:52,720 --> 00:23:56,280
Speaker 3: Jags too. Feeling really good about yourself isn't always good?

500
00:23:56,480 --> 00:23:56,879
Speaker 2: No, it's not.

501
00:23:57,080 --> 00:23:59,680
Speaker 3: Yeah, like, oh, we just beat the Bills. We're here

502
00:23:59,680 --> 00:24:01,840
Speaker 3: to stay. Hey, Saints or nothing. Now we got to

503
00:24:01,880 --> 00:24:04,119
Speaker 3: go all those guys. That place is gonna be loud.

504
00:24:04,600 --> 00:24:08,280
Speaker 3: They're a well coach team. I think they win, But

505
00:24:08,359 --> 00:24:11,840
Speaker 3: I'm just saying they better not be smelling themselves too much,

506
00:24:11,880 --> 00:24:14,040
Speaker 3: thinking they'll think, you know, like, they still got a

507
00:24:14,080 --> 00:24:15,960
Speaker 3: lot of work to do as an organization to learn

508
00:24:16,000 --> 00:24:18,399
Speaker 3: how to win this league. Same with Jacksonville got another

509
00:24:18,440 --> 00:24:20,439
Speaker 3: tight game this week. We beat the Bills, you know,

510
00:24:20,480 --> 00:24:23,280
Speaker 3: we beat these great the Chiefs. Doesn't mean you're out

511
00:24:23,280 --> 00:24:25,680
Speaker 3: of the woods. I'll take the points.

512
00:24:26,720 --> 00:24:28,560
Speaker 2: I'm gonna take the points as well. I am totally.

513
00:24:28,680 --> 00:24:30,320
Speaker 2: This is one where it's like, I think it'll be

514
00:24:30,359 --> 00:24:32,560
Speaker 2: a close game regardless. Soon give me the three and

515
00:24:32,560 --> 00:24:36,119
Speaker 2: a half. The Saints are doing a good job of

516
00:24:36,119 --> 00:24:39,320
Speaker 2: hanging within everyone despite the one and four record. Like,

517
00:24:39,560 --> 00:24:42,080
Speaker 2: I don't think they are a dumpster fire, at least

518
00:24:42,119 --> 00:24:44,840
Speaker 2: not yet. Tough place to play as we all know,

519
00:24:44,880 --> 00:24:48,080
Speaker 2: they're the Superdome Patriots. Maybe feeling a little too good

520
00:24:48,080 --> 00:24:50,880
Speaker 2: about themselves after that big win in Buffalo. Yeah, yeah,

521
00:24:50,920 --> 00:24:53,320
Speaker 2: give me the Saints plus three and a half. Even

522
00:24:53,320 --> 00:24:55,119
Speaker 2: if they lose, I think they'll still find a way

523
00:24:55,160 --> 00:24:55,480
Speaker 2: to cover.

524
00:24:55,600 --> 00:24:57,399
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't think they'll get blown out.

525
00:24:58,520 --> 00:25:02,399
Speaker 2: Panthers two and three at home against the Cowboys, the

526
00:25:02,440 --> 00:25:04,800
Speaker 2: two two to one Cowboys. We know that the Cowboys

527
00:25:04,800 --> 00:25:06,399
Speaker 2: can score a lot of points and give up a

528
00:25:06,400 --> 00:25:09,600
Speaker 2: lot of points. The Panthers have been weird to evaluate

529
00:25:09,760 --> 00:25:12,760
Speaker 2: so funny, Yeah, they strong performances, They've had a couple

530
00:25:12,760 --> 00:25:15,480
Speaker 2: of terrible performances. Bryce Young is tough to get a

531
00:25:15,480 --> 00:25:19,560
Speaker 2: beat on Dallas. We got we got another road favorite,

532
00:25:19,600 --> 00:25:22,680
Speaker 2: another home dog, Dallas a three and a half point

533
00:25:22,720 --> 00:25:24,560
Speaker 2: favorite in Charlotte.

534
00:25:24,960 --> 00:25:27,159
Speaker 3: I don't feel strong about it because I could definitely

535
00:25:27,160 --> 00:25:30,640
Speaker 3: see this being one of the weeks where boy Panthers

536
00:25:30,640 --> 00:25:33,240
Speaker 3: had a nice offensive game, because kind of everyone does

537
00:25:33,240 --> 00:25:37,400
Speaker 3: against Dallas. I'm gonna take the Cowboys, though, I think

538
00:25:38,359 --> 00:25:40,920
Speaker 3: underrated coach of the Year candidate, well not not coach

539
00:25:40,920 --> 00:25:44,520
Speaker 3: of the year but successful new coaching higher in Dallas.

540
00:25:44,560 --> 00:25:46,800
Speaker 3: I mean, it's Parsons right before, your.

541
00:25:46,720 --> 00:25:48,520
Speaker 2: Best player on defense and your best player on.

542
00:25:48,560 --> 00:25:52,520
Speaker 3: Offense Boom, you know, right, yeah, and line injuries, and

543
00:25:52,560 --> 00:25:56,120
Speaker 3: they're still cracking it out, so I think they'll score enough.

544
00:25:56,320 --> 00:25:59,440
Speaker 2: I think they will too. That's one of the higher,

545
00:25:59,480 --> 00:26:02,520
Speaker 2: if not the highest Chiefs lines, the highest.

546
00:26:03,040 --> 00:26:05,760
Speaker 3: That are like forty nine or higher run and this

547
00:26:05,840 --> 00:26:07,280
Speaker 3: is one of them.

548
00:26:07,320 --> 00:26:09,320
Speaker 2: So I definitely think there'll be some points scored in

549
00:26:09,359 --> 00:26:12,320
Speaker 2: this one. I like the Cowboys to win and cover,

550
00:26:12,400 --> 00:26:15,560
Speaker 2: though there in Charlotte, where let's be honest, it's gonna

551
00:26:15,560 --> 00:26:17,000
Speaker 2: be eighty percent Cowboys fans.

552
00:26:16,840 --> 00:26:17,800
Speaker 3: That's it's not the hardest place.

553
00:26:18,600 --> 00:26:20,400
Speaker 2: I think I've told you this before, but I've got

554
00:26:20,400 --> 00:26:22,879
Speaker 2: a good buddy from college, Luke. I actually got to

555
00:26:22,960 --> 00:26:25,399
Speaker 2: when the Steelers. Every time we go to Charlotte, him

556
00:26:25,400 --> 00:26:26,879
Speaker 2: and I get together the night before the game. So

557
00:26:26,880 --> 00:26:28,320
Speaker 2: when we when we were there, when we were there

558
00:26:28,320 --> 00:26:30,560
Speaker 2: for the preseason game, him and I, it was a

559
00:26:30,600 --> 00:26:32,880
Speaker 2: Wednesday night. I think we went to a brewery there

560
00:26:32,880 --> 00:26:35,520
Speaker 2: and Charlotte. Him and I lived together our freshman year

561
00:26:35,560 --> 00:26:37,480
Speaker 2: and senior year at WV. One of my best friends

562
00:26:37,520 --> 00:26:41,679
Speaker 2: from college. He's from d C. So him and his

563
00:26:41,720 --> 00:26:44,560
Speaker 2: wife their Commanders fans, but they've lived in Charlotte now

564
00:26:44,600 --> 00:26:47,160
Speaker 2: for like six or seven years. They have Panthers season

565
00:26:47,200 --> 00:26:50,960
Speaker 2: tickets because it's just it's fun, fun kids. They take

566
00:26:51,000 --> 00:26:51,879
Speaker 2: their kids to the games.

567
00:26:52,440 --> 00:26:54,480
Speaker 3: But he was telling me, even like late season games

568
00:26:54,520 --> 00:26:55,280
Speaker 3: aren't cold.

569
00:26:55,160 --> 00:26:57,760
Speaker 2: Exactly right, but he was telling me, he's like, the

570
00:26:57,760 --> 00:27:00,200
Speaker 2: best part is is he's like, one year, every time

571
00:27:00,680 --> 00:27:04,000
Speaker 2: Steelers come here, the Bills come here, the Eagles come here,

572
00:27:04,200 --> 00:27:06,320
Speaker 2: he's like, we sell our tickets and it like pays

573
00:27:07,119 --> 00:27:08,879
Speaker 2: for most of this. And he said to me, he

574
00:27:08,920 --> 00:27:11,040
Speaker 2: was like, I'm definitely doing that. When the Cowboys come

575
00:27:11,040 --> 00:27:13,720
Speaker 2: to town in October, he's like, he's like, it's gonna

576
00:27:13,720 --> 00:27:15,560
Speaker 2: be eighty ninety percent Cowboys.

577
00:27:15,160 --> 00:27:17,840
Speaker 3: Fans good money too.

578
00:27:18,320 --> 00:27:21,040
Speaker 2: You know those those Carolina Cowboys fans who only get

579
00:27:21,040 --> 00:27:22,359
Speaker 2: to see their team every once in a while.

580
00:27:22,640 --> 00:27:24,919
Speaker 3: You're not even a Panthers fan, right, I get to

581
00:27:24,960 --> 00:27:26,000
Speaker 3: go for free the rest of the game.

582
00:27:26,560 --> 00:27:29,440
Speaker 2: I think there's gonna be a large a lot of

583
00:27:29,480 --> 00:27:31,800
Speaker 2: people there with that blue star on their on their

584
00:27:31,880 --> 00:27:34,720
Speaker 2: jersey and on their T shirt and the stands. Certainly

585
00:27:35,440 --> 00:27:38,399
Speaker 2: another team that is feeling good about themselves is certainly

586
00:27:38,440 --> 00:27:40,960
Speaker 2: the Jacksonville Jaguars. This to me, Matt, one of the

587
00:27:41,080 --> 00:27:42,639
Speaker 2: games of the week, Like, if I could, if I

588
00:27:42,640 --> 00:27:45,679
Speaker 2: could only watch one other game across the NFL besides

589
00:27:45,720 --> 00:27:48,200
Speaker 2: the Steelers, Okay, it would be Chiefs Lions, but this

590
00:27:48,280 --> 00:27:52,880
Speaker 2: might be number two. You've got the Seahawks going to Jacksonville,

591
00:27:53,720 --> 00:27:59,080
Speaker 2: another far trip. A Seahawks team that is, I think

592
00:27:59,200 --> 00:28:02,000
Speaker 2: we both agree, one of the better teams in the NFL. Legit.

593
00:28:02,080 --> 00:28:04,000
Speaker 2: But they are three and two and certainly aren't gonna

594
00:28:04,000 --> 00:28:05,639
Speaker 2: want to fall to three and three and you know,

595
00:28:05,680 --> 00:28:08,800
Speaker 2: be behind the Rams and be behind the Niners. Jags

596
00:28:08,840 --> 00:28:11,160
Speaker 2: team four and one, three and zero at home off

597
00:28:11,160 --> 00:28:14,760
Speaker 2: that big win on Monday night against the Chiefs, Seattle

598
00:28:14,840 --> 00:28:17,760
Speaker 2: a slight favorite one and a half points there in Florida.

599
00:28:17,920 --> 00:28:19,679
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I like the Hawks, and that kind of

600
00:28:20,000 --> 00:28:22,040
Speaker 3: just spilled the beans before that. I think the Jags

601
00:28:22,040 --> 00:28:24,280
Speaker 3: and Patriots are in a similar situation. You win a

602
00:28:24,280 --> 00:28:29,920
Speaker 3: big primetime game against a monster organization. I think Seattle,

603
00:28:29,960 --> 00:28:32,359
Speaker 3: like if we were power ranking them, Seattle would be

604
00:28:32,400 --> 00:28:35,000
Speaker 3: a tier ahead of Jacksonville. Both are out kicking their

605
00:28:35,040 --> 00:28:40,240
Speaker 3: coverage this year. But I sometimes there's just you know,

606
00:28:40,320 --> 00:28:42,040
Speaker 3: I like my analytics, and this has nothing to do

607
00:28:42,120 --> 00:28:45,040
Speaker 3: with the analytics or logic. It's just the Jags don't

608
00:28:45,040 --> 00:28:47,520
Speaker 3: look like a five to one team to me. Yeah,

609
00:28:47,640 --> 00:28:49,000
Speaker 3: like that, this doesn't smell right.

610
00:28:49,840 --> 00:28:51,440
Speaker 2: I agree with you on that. I think they are

611
00:28:51,440 --> 00:28:53,520
Speaker 2: moving in the right direction. Yeah, I think they are

612
00:28:53,560 --> 00:28:55,840
Speaker 2: better than we all thought they'd be. But yeah, I

613
00:28:55,920 --> 00:28:58,160
Speaker 2: don't see a five and one team there in Jacksonville.

614
00:28:58,160 --> 00:28:59,960
Speaker 2: And hey, if they did, I think I'll start believe

615
00:29:00,280 --> 00:29:03,160
Speaker 2: sure be a big win. I'm gonna lay the one

616
00:29:03,240 --> 00:29:04,800
Speaker 2: and a half with Seattle for them to win a

617
00:29:05,120 --> 00:29:08,200
Speaker 2: three or four points they win one there in Jacksonville.

618
00:29:08,240 --> 00:29:08,880
Speaker 2: The Seahawks do.

619
00:29:09,120 --> 00:29:11,040
Speaker 3: Defense is good, Matt.

620
00:29:11,080 --> 00:29:12,480
Speaker 2: A game that a lot of Steelers fans will be

621
00:29:12,560 --> 00:29:14,960
Speaker 2: keeping an eye on. It is the one in four

622
00:29:15,400 --> 00:29:19,400
Speaker 2: and almost cooked Baltimore Ravens at home against the Rams.

623
00:29:20,240 --> 00:29:24,000
Speaker 3: I know, smart practice, He's not gonna.

624
00:29:23,760 --> 00:29:26,040
Speaker 2: Play similar thing last week. I think Houston was a

625
00:29:26,040 --> 00:29:27,320
Speaker 2: five and a half or a six and a half

626
00:29:27,320 --> 00:29:30,200
Speaker 2: point favorite going into Baltimore. We never see that the

627
00:29:30,360 --> 00:29:34,200
Speaker 2: Rams are. This is a West Coast team coming to

628
00:29:34,200 --> 00:29:36,520
Speaker 2: the East Coast for a one o'clock game. Again, it's

629
00:29:36,560 --> 00:29:39,760
Speaker 2: like a thirty percent win percentage in the twenty first century.

630
00:29:39,520 --> 00:29:40,480
Speaker 3: Alone in Baltimore.

631
00:29:41,080 --> 00:29:43,760
Speaker 2: Seven and a half point favorites. The Rams are. When

632
00:29:43,800 --> 00:29:45,959
Speaker 2: was the last time that the Ravens were more than

633
00:29:46,000 --> 00:29:50,160
Speaker 2: a touchdown dog at home? That's crazy to see. But

634
00:29:50,240 --> 00:29:51,920
Speaker 2: I think this is an easy I'll lay the seven

635
00:29:51,960 --> 00:29:53,760
Speaker 2: and a half with the Rams. I think they the

636
00:29:53,840 --> 00:29:55,200
Speaker 2: Ravens are gonna get blown out again.

637
00:29:55,400 --> 00:29:57,360
Speaker 3: I just say the same thing. I still think it's

638
00:29:57,400 --> 00:29:58,080
Speaker 3: an easy pick.

639
00:29:58,400 --> 00:29:58,720
Speaker 2: Easy.

640
00:29:58,840 --> 00:30:01,760
Speaker 3: I mean the Rams are really good, really well coached.

641
00:30:02,400 --> 00:30:07,760
Speaker 3: I can see Ravens Nation being unhappy. And I told

642
00:30:07,800 --> 00:30:09,480
Speaker 3: you you go back and watch that game last week

643
00:30:09,480 --> 00:30:10,120
Speaker 3: against Houston.

644
00:30:10,280 --> 00:30:13,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, and it turned. It looks like a it looks

645
00:30:13,920 --> 00:30:16,840
Speaker 2: like a spring training game. I mean there's no one.

646
00:30:16,880 --> 00:30:18,520
Speaker 2: They all left. I mean they were there at the start,

647
00:30:18,520 --> 00:30:22,720
Speaker 2: but they all left. I think it could get ugly

648
00:30:22,760 --> 00:30:24,640
Speaker 2: there at M and T Banks Stadium in Baltimore. There

649
00:30:24,680 --> 00:30:26,560
Speaker 2: could be a lot of boo birds. That one could

650
00:30:26,560 --> 00:30:27,720
Speaker 2: be over at halftime.

651
00:30:28,920 --> 00:30:31,720
Speaker 3: I don't know who they go there by after this Baltimore,

652
00:30:31,720 --> 00:30:33,440
Speaker 3: and I don't know who that next game is out

653
00:30:33,440 --> 00:30:34,760
Speaker 3: of the bye. I want to say it's Bears. It

654
00:30:34,760 --> 00:30:37,560
Speaker 3: doesn't even matter. That's kind of my point is it doesn't.

655
00:30:37,280 --> 00:30:38,000
Speaker 2: Matter it is the Bear.

656
00:30:38,280 --> 00:30:39,960
Speaker 3: I'm going to pick the Ravens in that game, but

657
00:30:39,960 --> 00:30:41,960
Speaker 3: I'm gonna picking them to get blown out in this one.

658
00:30:42,960 --> 00:30:46,000
Speaker 2: Yeah, they are in a bad spot and it's not

659
00:30:46,040 --> 00:30:49,040
Speaker 2: getting any easier with a Rams team that has ticked

660
00:30:49,040 --> 00:30:51,120
Speaker 2: off if they let one get away against the Niners,

661
00:30:51,640 --> 00:30:54,280
Speaker 2: and a Rams team that hasn't played since Thursday so

662
00:30:54,360 --> 00:30:56,160
Speaker 2: has a little bit of extra time to rest up

663
00:30:56,200 --> 00:30:57,600
Speaker 2: and prepare for this one as well too.

664
00:30:57,600 --> 00:31:00,960
Speaker 3: I might say it, I'm gonna save it for next segment,

665
00:31:01,000 --> 00:31:03,320
Speaker 3: but my phone just had a little something light up.

666
00:31:03,360 --> 00:31:06,200
Speaker 3: That's good news for the Steelers. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah,

667
00:31:06,200 --> 00:31:07,880
Speaker 3: and we'll talk about next segment. We make it fixed.

668
00:31:08,080 --> 00:31:10,920
Speaker 2: I like that, Yeah, I like that A couple more

669
00:31:10,920 --> 00:31:12,959
Speaker 2: here to get to before we will get to that

670
00:31:13,080 --> 00:31:18,240
Speaker 2: news and the Steelers Browns predictions talk about struggling. The

671
00:31:18,320 --> 00:31:19,360
Speaker 2: Raiders are struggling.

672
00:31:19,480 --> 00:31:21,080
Speaker 3: These might be the worst two teams. It might be

673
00:31:21,120 --> 00:31:23,040
Speaker 3: the worst time playing each other because I want to

674
00:31:23,080 --> 00:31:24,800
Speaker 3: bet against both of them no matter what the line is.

675
00:31:25,960 --> 00:31:27,560
Speaker 2: But if there is going to be a get right

676
00:31:27,640 --> 00:31:29,960
Speaker 2: game for the Raiders, this is it. They've got the

677
00:31:29,960 --> 00:31:34,040
Speaker 2: Titans coming to town three and a half point favorites.

678
00:31:34,080 --> 00:31:36,600
Speaker 2: I figured they'd be favored in but three and a half.

679
00:31:37,160 --> 00:31:38,560
Speaker 2: I think I'm still gonna lay the points with the

680
00:31:38,640 --> 00:31:41,479
Speaker 2: Raiders because I do think that they're just They have

681
00:31:41,560 --> 00:31:44,200
Speaker 2: to play better than they have and if it's gonna happen,

682
00:31:44,200 --> 00:31:46,600
Speaker 2: it has to be this week. But I don't love it.

683
00:31:46,680 --> 00:31:49,000
Speaker 2: I don't love laying three and a half with Vegas.

684
00:31:49,280 --> 00:31:51,760
Speaker 3: I've had success when two teams I don't want to

685
00:31:51,760 --> 00:31:53,920
Speaker 3: bet on play each other. Take the point, just take

686
00:31:53,960 --> 00:31:56,280
Speaker 3: the points over a touch. I just don't know. The

687
00:31:56,360 --> 00:31:59,360
Speaker 3: Raiders should be three and have favorites over anyone, So

688
00:31:59,400 --> 00:32:00,000
Speaker 3: that's enough for me.

689
00:32:00,440 --> 00:32:02,160
Speaker 2: It should be probably more like one and a half.

690
00:32:02,240 --> 00:32:03,920
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, they're just not good. I mean these are

691
00:32:04,400 --> 00:32:06,560
Speaker 3: the Jets might be better on both these teams. I mean,

692
00:32:06,600 --> 00:32:09,160
Speaker 3: if the Cardinals don't give them that win, they're still

693
00:32:09,200 --> 00:32:11,400
Speaker 3: lasting every hour, right, Yeah, they didn't play great.

694
00:32:11,520 --> 00:32:12,480
Speaker 2: Totally, totally.

695
00:32:13,640 --> 00:32:14,160
Speaker 3: Uh.

696
00:32:14,200 --> 00:32:16,160
Speaker 2: The biggest spread of the week, in one of the

697
00:32:16,160 --> 00:32:21,000
Speaker 2: bigger spreads you'll see this season, is at lambeau Field.

698
00:32:21,120 --> 00:32:23,960
Speaker 2: The Packers coming off a bye week as well. They're

699
00:32:23,960 --> 00:32:27,200
Speaker 2: hosting the Bengals. Fourteen and a half point favorites are

700
00:32:27,200 --> 00:32:29,600
Speaker 2: Green Bay. That's a I didn't know it's over fourteen

701
00:32:29,920 --> 00:32:32,480
Speaker 2: fourteen and a half, that's a big number.

702
00:32:32,600 --> 00:32:37,360
Speaker 3: I'll take the Bengals and a backdoor late cover. You see,

703
00:32:37,400 --> 00:32:38,120
Speaker 3: Chase might not play.

704
00:32:38,120 --> 00:32:40,080
Speaker 2: We talked about Chase might not play. He's ill.

705
00:32:40,480 --> 00:32:44,520
Speaker 3: I wouldn't touch it, but I know, and I can I.

706
00:32:44,480 --> 00:32:47,120
Speaker 2: Can see Arthur moch shaking his head at maybe. But

707
00:32:47,960 --> 00:32:49,880
Speaker 2: the Packers blew out the lines at home. The Packers

708
00:32:49,880 --> 00:32:52,040
Speaker 2: blew out the Commanders at home. Much better teams than

709
00:32:52,040 --> 00:32:52,680
Speaker 2: the Bengals.

710
00:32:52,840 --> 00:32:54,520
Speaker 3: Blackos are get sacked a lot.

711
00:32:54,960 --> 00:32:58,000
Speaker 2: The Packers I think are rightfully so. They went into

712
00:32:58,040 --> 00:33:01,440
Speaker 2: their bye week ticked off about their prior to performances.

713
00:33:01,800 --> 00:33:04,560
Speaker 2: Something bad loss to Cleveland, bad, tie to Dallas. I

714
00:33:04,600 --> 00:33:07,760
Speaker 2: think the Packers are ready to remind everybody that they're

715
00:33:07,760 --> 00:33:09,400
Speaker 2: one of the best teams in the NFC. I'm gonna

716
00:33:09,480 --> 00:33:11,680
Speaker 2: lay the fourteen and a half of Green Bay. I

717
00:33:11,840 --> 00:33:14,000
Speaker 2: hate doing that. I think that's the biggest number I've

718
00:33:14,040 --> 00:33:14,800
Speaker 2: ever laid before.

719
00:33:16,080 --> 00:33:18,560
Speaker 3: Very reluctantly going to take the points. I think the

720
00:33:18,560 --> 00:33:21,520
Speaker 3: Bengals are a terrible team. So maybe it jumps starts

721
00:33:21,520 --> 00:33:22,520
Speaker 3: on enough that.

722
00:33:23,280 --> 00:33:25,320
Speaker 2: Flacco throws a touchdown at the end and they live

723
00:33:25,400 --> 00:33:26,760
Speaker 2: by thirteen instead of twenty.

724
00:33:26,800 --> 00:33:28,520
Speaker 3: That's what I think's gonna happen. Like I know, if

725
00:33:28,560 --> 00:33:31,240
Speaker 3: I put Bucks on the the Packers, that's what's gonna

726
00:33:31,320 --> 00:33:31,800
Speaker 3: exactly right.

727
00:33:31,800 --> 00:33:33,520
Speaker 2: It be a bad beat for Green Bay.

728
00:33:33,400 --> 00:33:35,520
Speaker 3: Twenty seven to three, and then before you know, and

729
00:33:35,680 --> 00:33:38,880
Speaker 3: it's like twenty seven to seventeen and no one's even

730
00:33:38,920 --> 00:33:39,720
Speaker 3: watching anymore.

731
00:33:39,960 --> 00:33:43,560
Speaker 2: Like I lost Bucks, the four and one Buck. This

732
00:33:43,600 --> 00:33:46,640
Speaker 2: is another man. There's some good games weekend. The four

733
00:33:46,680 --> 00:33:49,400
Speaker 2: and one Bucks hosts the four and one Niners, another

734
00:33:49,480 --> 00:33:51,960
Speaker 2: far a lot of West Coast teams making far trips

735
00:33:52,000 --> 00:33:54,320
Speaker 2: to the East coast. Tampa Bay three and a half

736
00:33:54,320 --> 00:33:55,360
Speaker 2: point favorites at home.

737
00:33:55,560 --> 00:33:59,080
Speaker 3: They just announced no Evans, no Godwin. That's a lot

738
00:33:59,080 --> 00:34:01,240
Speaker 3: of firepower. Now Buka is good and.

739
00:34:01,240 --> 00:34:03,200
Speaker 2: Is irving back or is he still.

740
00:34:03,480 --> 00:34:05,400
Speaker 3: I don't know. I don't know. It's a good question.

741
00:34:05,760 --> 00:34:09,200
Speaker 3: It's a big number, but a little bit of a

742
00:34:09,600 --> 00:34:10,240
Speaker 3: too gayzy.

743
00:34:10,320 --> 00:34:10,960
Speaker 2: I think so too.

744
00:34:11,200 --> 00:34:13,400
Speaker 3: And this is a top road trip. I'm a believer

745
00:34:13,480 --> 00:34:15,080
Speaker 3: in the Bucks. I don't love the number.

746
00:34:15,440 --> 00:34:17,080
Speaker 2: Wish it was two and a half instead of three

747
00:34:17,080 --> 00:34:17,759
Speaker 2: and a half, but.

748
00:34:17,760 --> 00:34:19,840
Speaker 3: I think they win. I'm gonna take the box.

749
00:34:19,920 --> 00:34:23,160
Speaker 2: I'm with you a little reluctantly, but I'm gonna I'm

750
00:34:23,160 --> 00:34:26,200
Speaker 2: gonna air on the side of Baker in that and

751
00:34:26,280 --> 00:34:30,239
Speaker 2: that bugs team as it sounds like, by the way,

752
00:34:30,360 --> 00:34:34,000
Speaker 2: they're still really bad. Gutsy performance last Thursday against the

753
00:34:34,080 --> 00:34:35,000
Speaker 2: Rams to get it done.

754
00:34:35,040 --> 00:34:35,839
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

755
00:34:35,840 --> 00:34:36,560
Speaker 2: I don't know if they're.

756
00:34:36,400 --> 00:34:39,239
Speaker 3: Gonna be Jones the average, that's for sure. Yeah.

757
00:34:39,239 --> 00:34:40,440
Speaker 2: I don't know if they're going to do that back

758
00:34:40,440 --> 00:34:43,480
Speaker 2: to back weeks though in Tampa. Yeah, I'm with you.

759
00:34:43,560 --> 00:34:45,319
Speaker 2: I'll lay the points the three and a half with

760
00:34:45,400 --> 00:34:49,880
Speaker 2: the Bucks. Finally, Sunday night, football, Man, this is a

761
00:34:49,920 --> 00:34:53,000
Speaker 2: big one for Kansas City at home against the Lions.

762
00:34:53,640 --> 00:34:57,840
Speaker 2: Lions four straight impressive victories after that disappointing opener at

763
00:34:57,920 --> 00:35:00,560
Speaker 2: lambeau Field. The Chiefs of continent need to be back

764
00:35:00,600 --> 00:35:03,520
Speaker 2: and forth. They lost a close one on Monday night, Matt.

765
00:35:03,560 --> 00:35:05,399
Speaker 2: If they lose this, they'd fall to two and four,

766
00:35:05,440 --> 00:35:07,560
Speaker 2: and all of a sudden, they'd be in some real trouble.

767
00:35:08,120 --> 00:35:11,080
Speaker 3: It's kind of like that Jacksonville logic of they're just

768
00:35:11,120 --> 00:35:12,160
Speaker 3: not a two and four team.

769
00:35:12,320 --> 00:35:15,239
Speaker 2: They're not. They're not Kansas City two and a half

770
00:35:15,280 --> 00:35:17,440
Speaker 2: point favorites at home. I do think that that's a

771
00:35:18,200 --> 00:35:19,000
Speaker 2: perfect spread.

772
00:35:19,160 --> 00:35:22,640
Speaker 3: Okay, I think it's a little high because I do

773
00:35:22,719 --> 00:35:25,440
Speaker 3: think the Lions are the better team. I agree, and

774
00:35:25,520 --> 00:35:29,680
Speaker 3: they beat teams bad and they have fewer weaknesses. If

775
00:35:29,719 --> 00:35:31,680
Speaker 3: it was even if it was a pick them, I

776
00:35:31,680 --> 00:35:34,280
Speaker 3: think i'd take the Chiefs. I expect them to squeak

777
00:35:34,320 --> 00:35:36,080
Speaker 3: one out. But they also left the bad taste of

778
00:35:36,080 --> 00:35:37,799
Speaker 3: my mouth losing jacksone. I thought they were gonna win

779
00:35:37,880 --> 00:35:40,719
Speaker 3: that game. Same, I'll take the points. If you're give

780
00:35:40,800 --> 00:35:43,400
Speaker 3: me the better team and points, I think I'll take them.

781
00:35:44,400 --> 00:35:45,960
Speaker 2: I said to you. I think it was a couple

782
00:35:46,000 --> 00:35:51,120
Speaker 2: of weeks ago when the Chiefs were underdogs at home

783
00:35:51,160 --> 00:35:53,919
Speaker 2: against the Eagles. They're like, I'm gonna take the chief

784
00:35:53,920 --> 00:35:57,280
Speaker 2: I'm gonna take mahomes. Andy Reid and points every single time. Yeah, Yeah,

785
00:35:57,320 --> 00:35:59,000
Speaker 2: they're a two and a half point favorite.

786
00:35:59,360 --> 00:36:00,200
Speaker 3: Different story.

787
00:36:00,480 --> 00:36:02,600
Speaker 2: I think I'm gonna take this Lions team in points

788
00:36:02,600 --> 00:36:03,319
Speaker 2: every single time.

789
00:36:03,400 --> 00:36:06,040
Speaker 3: Yeah, They're too good to be getting points.

790
00:36:06,080 --> 00:36:08,040
Speaker 2: I could flip. I could flip a coin and convince

791
00:36:08,080 --> 00:36:09,279
Speaker 2: myself either way on this one.

792
00:36:09,360 --> 00:36:11,200
Speaker 3: Me too. This is just sit back and enjoy.

793
00:36:11,480 --> 00:36:13,839
Speaker 2: I'm gonna take I'm gonna take the Lions plus two

794
00:36:13,880 --> 00:36:16,000
Speaker 2: and a half though, I just like getting a point.

795
00:36:16,080 --> 00:36:19,719
Speaker 2: Kansas City could win like twenty eight to twenty seven

796
00:36:19,760 --> 00:36:22,440
Speaker 2: and it wouldn't surprise me. I'm gonna take the points

797
00:36:22,440 --> 00:36:24,640
Speaker 2: with the Lions. Get a team that's won four in

798
00:36:24,640 --> 00:36:27,480
Speaker 2: a row and I'm getting points with them. Yeah, I'll

799
00:36:27,520 --> 00:36:27,799
Speaker 2: take that.

800
00:36:28,120 --> 00:36:29,080
Speaker 3: I'll take that anyway.

801
00:36:29,400 --> 00:36:33,080
Speaker 2: They sure are again. They that season opener at Lambeau

802
00:36:33,239 --> 00:36:35,160
Speaker 2: was not good for them, but they have been very

803
00:36:35,200 --> 00:36:38,360
Speaker 2: good and impressive since then. Extremely Matt there. It is

804
00:36:38,400 --> 00:36:40,920
Speaker 2: our kind of Sunday slate of picks. We will get

805
00:36:40,920 --> 00:36:43,440
Speaker 2: to the Steelers in Browns some pertinent news there as

806
00:36:43,480 --> 00:36:46,080
Speaker 2: well too. We will get to all of that when

807
00:36:46,080 --> 00:36:48,200
Speaker 2: we return on the other side and shut this thing

808
00:36:48,280 --> 00:36:51,360
Speaker 2: down with some Steelers and Browns thoughts and predictions, West Shuuler,

809
00:36:51,400 --> 00:36:53,880
Speaker 2: Matt Williams, and it's the Drive on Steelers Nation Radio

810
00:36:54,239 --> 00:37:02,120
Speaker 2: on the Steelers Audio Network, your tunes.

811
00:37:01,760 --> 00:37:04,200
Speaker 1: About Drive on your twenty four to seven home of

812
00:37:04,239 --> 00:37:05,040
Speaker 1: the Black and Goal.

813
00:37:05,200 --> 00:37:16,000
Speaker 2: Steelers Nation Radio, Final segment of the Friday, final segment

814
00:37:16,120 --> 00:37:18,040
Speaker 2: of the week. It is time to get into our

815
00:37:18,040 --> 00:37:21,040
Speaker 2: Steelers picks and predictions. But Matt, before we do that,

816
00:37:21,920 --> 00:37:24,640
Speaker 2: some pretty good, some pretty encouraging news on the Steelers

817
00:37:24,719 --> 00:37:25,320
Speaker 2: injury front.

818
00:37:25,600 --> 00:37:27,960
Speaker 3: Yeah, I teased it earlier, just my phone just happened

819
00:37:27,960 --> 00:37:31,440
Speaker 3: if something came across that. Jalen Ramsey full participant.

820
00:37:31,719 --> 00:37:35,920
Speaker 2: Jalen Ramsey full practice participant today and is officially listed

821
00:37:36,000 --> 00:37:41,600
Speaker 2: as questionable, doubtful, right, better than we expected now. Calvin

822
00:37:41,600 --> 00:37:44,640
Speaker 2: Austin has been ruled out already, no practice for him

823
00:37:44,680 --> 00:37:46,880
Speaker 2: this week. I think that's what we expected.

824
00:37:47,040 --> 00:37:48,600
Speaker 3: Yes, I thought both would be today.

825
00:37:48,719 --> 00:37:53,239
Speaker 2: But good encouraging news for Jalen Ramsey and no designation

826
00:37:53,440 --> 00:37:56,279
Speaker 2: for Jalen Warren or for Joey Porter or.

827
00:37:56,200 --> 00:37:58,480
Speaker 3: For Alex Heiser Heismith. I didn't look at it as well.

828
00:37:58,480 --> 00:37:59,879
Speaker 2: Now, that doesn't mean he won't be on some type

829
00:37:59,880 --> 00:38:03,200
Speaker 2: of a snap count pitch count potentially, but he's playing,

830
00:38:03,760 --> 00:38:08,000
Speaker 2: Joey Porter Junior, playing Jalen Warren playing No Calvin Austin.

831
00:38:08,040 --> 00:38:10,799
Speaker 3: Austin Jillian when we know is out really.

832
00:38:10,600 --> 00:38:14,040
Speaker 2: Correct and Ramsey is questionable. Other than that, everyone else's

833
00:38:14,040 --> 00:38:17,120
Speaker 2: game status is clear, which is awesome to see for

834
00:38:17,280 --> 00:38:20,120
Speaker 2: the Browns. Mostly good news for them as well too.

835
00:38:20,239 --> 00:38:21,960
Speaker 2: You know, we talked about how Miles Garrett had been

836
00:38:21,960 --> 00:38:23,600
Speaker 2: dealing with that ankle all week. He was a full

837
00:38:23,640 --> 00:38:27,760
Speaker 2: participant today, only one for Cleveland with an injury status

838
00:38:27,800 --> 00:38:30,480
Speaker 2: and he's ruled as out. Is Mike Hall Junior. The

839
00:38:30,520 --> 00:38:31,240
Speaker 2: defensive tackle.

840
00:38:31,320 --> 00:38:35,000
Speaker 3: Okay, rotational guy, talented player, but they they're okay.

841
00:38:35,080 --> 00:38:36,920
Speaker 2: Like as you mentioned, they got five or six guys

842
00:38:37,400 --> 00:38:41,640
Speaker 2: and that defensive front. So for them, that's I think

843
00:38:41,680 --> 00:38:44,319
Speaker 2: one that they can stomach. Certainly. So both teams I

844
00:38:44,320 --> 00:38:47,040
Speaker 2: think in pretty good shape heading into this one. Matt

845
00:38:47,080 --> 00:38:51,640
Speaker 2: the Steelers at home for just the second time this season,

846
00:38:52,560 --> 00:38:56,080
Speaker 2: a six and a half point favorite in a game

847
00:38:56,120 --> 00:38:59,600
Speaker 2: that only has an over under of thirty eight points,

848
00:38:59,640 --> 00:39:03,239
Speaker 2: by far the lowest over under, the only one this

849
00:39:03,320 --> 00:39:06,359
Speaker 2: week that is under forty one and a half points.

850
00:39:07,239 --> 00:39:09,440
Speaker 2: Steelers able to win by a touchdown or more at home.

851
00:39:11,239 --> 00:39:13,239
Speaker 3: Six and a half's a lot for that love and

852
00:39:13,320 --> 00:39:16,440
Speaker 3: over under. I mean it's it's hard to cover, yes,

853
00:39:16,480 --> 00:39:18,160
Speaker 3: you know with that big of a spread. I mean

854
00:39:18,200 --> 00:39:19,840
Speaker 3: the implied total.

855
00:39:19,880 --> 00:39:24,399
Speaker 2: Would be like twenty three to seventeen or something like that.

856
00:39:25,000 --> 00:39:26,160
Speaker 3: Yeah, what's the over runner again?

857
00:39:26,239 --> 00:39:28,640
Speaker 2: Right? That mass always no, sorry, that'll be way more.

858
00:39:28,680 --> 00:39:31,200
Speaker 2: I'm off what's the over under? The over under is

859
00:39:31,239 --> 00:39:32,080
Speaker 2: thirty eight and a half.

860
00:39:32,640 --> 00:39:34,960
Speaker 3: Thirty eight and a half. If the Steelers win by seven,

861
00:39:35,440 --> 00:39:38,720
Speaker 3: we should be able to figure this out. We should

862
00:39:39,680 --> 00:39:45,840
Speaker 3: twenty one to fourteen fourteen. Yeah, yeah, that kinably gets us.

863
00:39:45,200 --> 00:39:50,160
Speaker 2: It gets us a thirty five twenty to seventeen. No,

864
00:39:50,280 --> 00:39:51,480
Speaker 2: but then it's got to be a six and at

865
00:39:51,480 --> 00:39:52,440
Speaker 2: you got to be closer to.

866
00:39:53,239 --> 00:39:56,520
Speaker 3: We should just rewind this whole TV strike.

867
00:39:56,560 --> 00:39:58,840
Speaker 2: This from the record, Matt, I'm going twenty three to

868
00:39:58,920 --> 00:40:02,840
Speaker 2: sixteen Steelers is my prediction. Okay, So just a slight

869
00:40:03,000 --> 00:40:05,600
Speaker 2: cover for the Browns at six and a half, which

870
00:40:05,600 --> 00:40:09,040
Speaker 2: would be in a twenty three thirty nine. It would

871
00:40:09,040 --> 00:40:10,000
Speaker 2: be a seven point win.

872
00:40:09,880 --> 00:40:13,200
Speaker 3: For the a total accident.

873
00:40:13,440 --> 00:40:15,360
Speaker 2: Just gone with that. At the first place, it was

874
00:40:15,360 --> 00:40:18,160
Speaker 2: a total accident three to sixteen.

875
00:40:18,680 --> 00:40:22,600
Speaker 3: Weird, you're thinking just like Vegas I'm thinking just like Vegas, baby,

876
00:40:22,719 --> 00:40:25,600
Speaker 3: I've Steelers think learn to think is those around you

877
00:40:25,640 --> 00:40:27,719
Speaker 3: there you learn what's the exact what's learn to.

878
00:40:27,640 --> 00:40:30,359
Speaker 2: Think like those around you think that that's the Godfather one.

879
00:40:30,680 --> 00:40:33,600
Speaker 3: I'm going seventeen thirteen Steelers kind of spreads a little

880
00:40:33,600 --> 00:40:36,800
Speaker 3: big for the Browns defense. But I hate for Brown's

881
00:40:36,840 --> 00:40:39,160
Speaker 3: perspective that they're coming off the game that they were

882
00:40:39,239 --> 00:40:41,880
Speaker 3: with a rookie quarterback on the road and all you know,

883
00:40:42,000 --> 00:40:46,120
Speaker 3: Tom went after a bye and you know, first game

884
00:40:46,239 --> 00:40:48,759
Speaker 3: a long time at act, you sure your nation's gonna

885
00:40:48,760 --> 00:40:51,279
Speaker 3: be lubed up, and Steeler pass rush. There's a lot

886
00:40:51,280 --> 00:40:53,840
Speaker 3: of things to like. And frankly, it wouldn't blow me

887
00:40:53,840 --> 00:40:55,360
Speaker 3: away if we come in here Monday and be like,

888
00:40:56,040 --> 00:40:58,160
Speaker 3: Steelers won twenty three ten and it really was never

889
00:40:58,200 --> 00:41:00,239
Speaker 3: close in the second half. Yeah, you know, like they

890
00:41:00,280 --> 00:41:02,879
Speaker 3: just controlled things. I could absolutely see that, and they

891
00:41:02,920 --> 00:41:05,359
Speaker 3: beat the number. But I think it's a little high

892
00:41:05,440 --> 00:41:07,560
Speaker 3: for their defense, you know, considering how good the Browns

893
00:41:07,600 --> 00:41:08,080
Speaker 3: defense is.

894
00:41:08,200 --> 00:41:11,240
Speaker 2: So you're going seventeen thirteen, seventeen thirteen, I go twenty

895
00:41:11,280 --> 00:41:16,000
Speaker 2: three sixteen Stullers that the real kicker of all this

896
00:41:16,120 --> 00:41:20,920
Speaker 2: is what kind of a shape are they in after

897
00:41:21,600 --> 00:41:24,200
Speaker 2: a trip out of the country just on Sunday and

898
00:41:24,239 --> 00:41:25,040
Speaker 2: then going back.

899
00:41:25,040 --> 00:41:27,120
Speaker 3: Mentally and physically and just emotionally.

900
00:41:27,280 --> 00:41:29,799
Speaker 2: You know, you and I am Att. Now we drank

901
00:41:29,840 --> 00:41:31,880
Speaker 2: our fair share Aguinness and did our fair share of

902
00:41:31,920 --> 00:41:35,239
Speaker 2: bopping around, right, but we didn't play sixty minutes of

903
00:41:35,280 --> 00:41:40,319
Speaker 2: football in Dublin and it still was probably Wednesday or

904
00:41:40,360 --> 00:41:42,480
Speaker 2: Thursday before we felt back to normal.

905
00:41:42,600 --> 00:41:44,840
Speaker 3: Yeah, and then they're going the road against tough tea.

906
00:41:44,840 --> 00:41:47,520
Speaker 2: And so if it's Wednesday or Thursday where those guys

907
00:41:47,520 --> 00:41:49,560
Speaker 2: are feeling normal and then they got to get on

908
00:41:49,840 --> 00:41:52,520
Speaker 2: a bus Saturday and go right back on the road.

909
00:41:52,560 --> 00:41:55,320
Speaker 3: Like we're trading for making two trades throughout the week.

910
00:41:55,440 --> 00:41:57,920
Speaker 3: And as always there's stuff up in the air with

911
00:41:57,960 --> 00:41:59,839
Speaker 3: the Browns. You know, there's no stability.

912
00:42:00,080 --> 00:42:02,560
Speaker 2: It's like one am Monday when you get home. Yeah,

913
00:42:02,600 --> 00:42:05,920
Speaker 2: your Monday shot. Oh, you spend just Tuesday and Wednesday

914
00:42:06,000 --> 00:42:09,239
Speaker 2: trying to get back your rhythm back Thursday, okay, maybe

915
00:42:09,280 --> 00:42:11,960
Speaker 2: you get one day of normal practice where you feel

916
00:42:12,000 --> 00:42:15,879
Speaker 2: like yourself Friday before Friday walk through Saturday, you're getting

917
00:42:15,880 --> 00:42:16,719
Speaker 2: on a bus.

918
00:42:16,440 --> 00:42:18,160
Speaker 3: Like that's that's tough.

919
00:42:18,000 --> 00:42:20,319
Speaker 2: That's real tough. That's real tough, and I think that

920
00:42:20,440 --> 00:42:23,320
Speaker 2: will play out over the course of sixty minutes.

921
00:42:23,600 --> 00:42:26,160
Speaker 3: Fourth quarter might belong to the Steelers.

922
00:42:25,680 --> 00:42:30,000
Speaker 2: Very much so, very much so, And I think you're right.

923
00:42:30,080 --> 00:42:33,520
Speaker 2: I think listen, it rarely plays out. These AFC North

924
00:42:33,560 --> 00:42:37,040
Speaker 2: games are so infrequently blowouts on either end. It doesn't

925
00:42:37,040 --> 00:42:40,160
Speaker 2: matter who's playing who, who's good, who's bad. But it

926
00:42:40,160 --> 00:42:42,840
Speaker 2: wouldn't surprise me if the Steelers were in the driver's

927
00:42:42,840 --> 00:42:44,560
Speaker 2: seat and the fourth quarter and able to win a

928
00:42:44,560 --> 00:42:48,160
Speaker 2: little comfortably. But I'm always in these matchups gonna lean

929
00:42:48,239 --> 00:42:50,960
Speaker 2: towards the It'll be a little bit closer for comfort.

930
00:42:51,280 --> 00:42:53,480
Speaker 2: But like you said, I think it could be one

931
00:42:53,480 --> 00:42:55,640
Speaker 2: of those even if the Steelers only win by a touchdown,

932
00:42:55,800 --> 00:42:58,040
Speaker 2: where the result result was never really in doubt.

933
00:42:58,120 --> 00:43:01,480
Speaker 3: Yeah, but I do think I'm not sold that the

934
00:43:01,520 --> 00:43:04,400
Speaker 3: Steeler offense has everything figured out and the old lines,

935
00:43:04,560 --> 00:43:07,680
Speaker 3: you know, ready to start rolling people. I'm not there yet,

936
00:43:08,400 --> 00:43:08,960
Speaker 3: neither am I.

937
00:43:09,680 --> 00:43:11,719
Speaker 2: But hopefully when we come in here on Monday, we'll

938
00:43:11,719 --> 00:43:13,879
Speaker 2: be singing a different tune. Good Bee good, Big Matt

939
00:43:15,000 --> 00:43:16,920
Speaker 2: enjoyed this week. It was a fun week. Yeah, what

940
00:43:17,080 --> 00:43:19,400
Speaker 2: good kind of getting back to our regular rhythm.

941
00:43:19,480 --> 00:43:23,160
Speaker 3: And then next week right won't be at all the

942
00:43:23,280 --> 00:43:24,600
Speaker 3: negative regular rhythm.

943
00:43:24,560 --> 00:43:26,719
Speaker 2: When the Stellers will be playing on a short week

944
00:43:26,800 --> 00:43:30,719
Speaker 2: against Cincinnati. Hopefully we'll be back Monday to recap a

945
00:43:30,760 --> 00:43:33,040
Speaker 2: win over an Ohio team and then quickly turn the

946
00:43:33,040 --> 00:43:36,640
Speaker 2: page to previewing another matchup against one of those teams

947
00:43:36,920 --> 00:43:39,080
Speaker 2: from that stinking state of Ohio. But that will do

948
00:43:39,120 --> 00:43:41,160
Speaker 2: it for us this week. Big thanks to Missy Matthews

949
00:43:41,160 --> 00:43:44,320
Speaker 2: for joining us, Tyler V mister TV, our YouTube producer,

950
00:43:44,360 --> 00:43:46,880
Speaker 2: for making sure we look handsome on the videos, and

951
00:43:46,960 --> 00:43:52,200
Speaker 2: to Swiss on Swiss himself. Matt Williamson Matt Levan's finest.

952
00:43:52,200 --> 00:43:53,799
Speaker 2: I mean a lot of famous people from a lot

953
00:43:53,800 --> 00:43:55,920
Speaker 2: of famous people out of Libo High School. But uh,

954
00:43:55,960 --> 00:43:58,719
Speaker 2: you know in my book, Matt Williamson is number one folks.

955
00:43:58,719 --> 00:44:01,560
Speaker 3: Over Crowley and Shirtless.

956
00:44:01,280 --> 00:44:06,040
Speaker 2: Absolutely and Joe Manjanello and Dave Filoni.

957
00:44:06,560 --> 00:44:09,279
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, and was a good street hockey goalie. Man

958
00:44:09,920 --> 00:44:13,480
Speaker 3: told yeah, that's awesome, Big Patrick wa guy Mark Mark

959
00:44:13,520 --> 00:44:15,080
Speaker 3: Cuban's a pretty good Mark Cuban.

960
00:44:15,400 --> 00:44:19,040
Speaker 2: I knew, I knew there was a big name Mark Cuban.

961
00:44:19,080 --> 00:44:19,680
Speaker 2: That guy's done all.

962
00:44:19,640 --> 00:44:20,120
Speaker 3: Right for him.

963
00:44:20,200 --> 00:44:22,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, I do always love it, like every time you

964
00:44:23,000 --> 00:44:25,600
Speaker 2: see Star Wars accounts, like on social media when they

965
00:44:25,600 --> 00:44:28,879
Speaker 2: post pictures of like the sets and stuff. Okay, there's

966
00:44:28,920 --> 00:44:31,399
Speaker 2: always Dave Filoni in the background, like wearing a Penguin's hat,

967
00:44:32,640 --> 00:44:33,839
Speaker 2: a Penguins hoodie or something.

968
00:44:34,000 --> 00:44:36,239
Speaker 3: Was always like, yeah, we played a lot of street hockey.

969
00:44:36,680 --> 00:44:40,240
Speaker 2: There's our doing the thing for Star Wars. That's awesome.

970
00:44:40,239 --> 00:44:42,080
Speaker 2: You guys played some street hockey together. I love it.

971
00:44:42,160 --> 00:44:45,520
Speaker 3: Dude, he'd get dressed at home, hop out of the car,

972
00:44:45,719 --> 00:44:48,000
Speaker 3: fully dressed in his goalie, just ready to go with it.

973
00:44:48,120 --> 00:44:49,400
Speaker 3: Patrick wah Jersey.

974
00:44:49,120 --> 00:44:50,560
Speaker 2: On right, Montreal, Canadian.

975
00:44:50,640 --> 00:44:52,839
Speaker 3: His brother would drive him right, Yeah, here's the best

976
00:44:52,840 --> 00:44:54,920
Speaker 3: goalie we played to get played with and he come

977
00:44:54,920 --> 00:44:56,080
Speaker 3: out of the car ready. I mean, we don all

978
00:44:56,080 --> 00:44:58,320
Speaker 3: get dressed there, right.

979
00:44:58,600 --> 00:45:01,000
Speaker 2: That is one of those hockey things. Some of the

980
00:45:01,080 --> 00:45:02,839
Speaker 2: kids don't like to get dressed in the locker room.

981
00:45:02,840 --> 00:45:04,200
Speaker 2: They've got to do it at home and then hop

982
00:45:04,239 --> 00:45:06,880
Speaker 2: out of the car and oh that's great though, funny,

983
00:45:06,920 --> 00:45:10,000
Speaker 2: funny story. Uh, everybody, enjoy the weekend. Take care. We

984
00:45:10,040 --> 00:45:11,799
Speaker 2: will be back to break it all down for you

985
00:45:11,880 --> 00:45:13,719
Speaker 2: on Monday. As always, you know where to find us.

986
00:45:14,040 --> 00:45:15,480
Speaker 2: It's on your twenty four to seven home of the

987
00:45:15,480 --> 00:45:17,880
Speaker 2: Black and Gold. It's Steelers Nation Radio on the Steelers

988
00:45:17,920 --> 00:45:18,720
Speaker 2: Audio Network.