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

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Speaker 1: on your twenty four to seven home of the Black

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Speaker 1: and Gold Steelers Nation Radio.

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Speaker 2: Come Back.

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Speaker 3: I am Dale LOLLI he is the Matt Williamson. It

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Speaker 3: is our number two of the drive here on Steelers

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Speaker 3: Nation Radio. And it is time for the Fantasy Football Focus.

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Speaker 3: And since they're such a big game tonight, Matt, yeah

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Speaker 3: that I know Steeler fans will be paying close close

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Speaker 3: attention to I would hope. So we're going to go

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Speaker 3: ahead and pick a DFS single game DFS lineup here

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Speaker 3: with captain's chair for tonight's game to give you a

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Speaker 3: little extra juice to watch here.

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Speaker 2: I know some people have heard us do this before,

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Speaker 2: but this is a little unusual for this. Yes, you

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Speaker 2: don't have to have a defensive kicker, a quarterback. You

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Speaker 2: could do any position you want.

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Speaker 3: Any positions. You do have to pick a captain. Your

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Speaker 3: captain costs more money. He's one and a half times

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Speaker 3: the cost, but he gets one and a half times

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Speaker 3: the points.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he's like the red, white and blue ball in

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Speaker 2: the three point contest or whatever.

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Speaker 3: So looking at the captain's chair for this game, Chase

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Speaker 3: is the most expensive at sixteen to five.

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Speaker 2: I guess we think he's healthy, and yeah, you get featured.

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Speaker 3: And Okay, Lamar's number two at sixteen to two. Burrow

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Speaker 3: is fifteen thousand, Joe Mixon is fourteen to four. Mark

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Speaker 3: Andrews is thirteen to two.

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Speaker 2: So bad. But it doesn't help that he's a tight end,

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Speaker 2: you know what I mean, Like.

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Speaker 3: It doesn't matter, It doesn't matter. Zay Flowers is an

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Speaker 3: eleven to four, the Gus Bus is ten to five,

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Speaker 3: Tyler Boyd is ten to two, Jake Brown and then

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Speaker 3: they gets a bunch of backup quarterbacks. I don't care

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Speaker 3: about this. Were Keaton Mitchell is eighty four hundred.

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Speaker 2: I have intrigued with him.

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Speaker 3: Justin Tucker is eighty one hundred. That's a lot for

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Speaker 3: a kicker.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah.

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Speaker 3: Odell Beckham is seventy eight hundred. Rashad Bateman is seventy

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Speaker 3: two hundred, The Ravens defense sixty nine hundred, Trenton Irwin

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Speaker 3: sixty six hundred, McPherson is six thousand, the Bengals defense

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Speaker 3: is fifty four hundred. Then you're looking at IRV Smith

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Speaker 3: at forty five hundred, Justice Hill at forty two hundred,

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Speaker 3: Tanner Hudson is thirty nine hundred.

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Speaker 2: Okay, I mean there is an art to go in

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Speaker 2: cheap here.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, if you hit, because then you can maybe get

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Speaker 3: both quarterbacks and some star players in the lineup. What

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Speaker 3: do you feeling who's going to have a big You

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Speaker 3: want to try to put the guy who's going to

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Speaker 3: have the biggest game in that captain's chair. Typically I

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Speaker 3: try to make it not the quarterback because they're so expensive.

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Speaker 2: So what if we reverse engineer this thing. Let's you

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Speaker 2: have a different idea, because I'm all yours. I don't

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Speaker 2: have a good feel for building this lineup. I don't

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Speaker 2: hate this saying.

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Speaker 3: I don't hate boyd okay, because he's going to work

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Speaker 3: out of the slot as he typically does, which means

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Speaker 2: To see a lot of Arthur Mallett. Yeah, or Hamilton

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Speaker 2: either way, I don't mind. Fine with that. Yeah, I

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Speaker 2: don't mind Keaton Mitchell. That's more. That's more of a

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Speaker 2: dart throw. You're hoping and he busts along. He busts

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Speaker 2: along when your goal dancing.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, And I don't mind throwing Trent Irwin in there

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Speaker 3: because he's going to be on the field, like he

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Speaker 3: plays seventy five percent of the snaps when Higgins has

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Speaker 3: been out and he had six or eight targets or

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Speaker 3: he's been productive.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, Now maybe it's two catches for thirty four yards,

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Speaker 2: but we're not paying much for him. Yeah, if you're not.

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Speaker 2: But I don't know, I want that in the captain's chair.

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Speaker 2: That might be a cheap paydown option. I was saying,

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Speaker 2: reverse engineer it. My thought was, and you're more experienced

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Speaker 2: even feasible if we put Burrow and Lamar in our.

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Speaker 3: Flexes into flexes. Okay, yeah, start, So let's go through

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Speaker 3: those prices.

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Speaker 2: They're going to be.

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Speaker 3: They're cheaper, obviously, yeah, but they're expensive expensive because you

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Speaker 3: get you get fifty thousand dollars to spend here on

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Speaker 3: these players, on these six players that's got to put

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Speaker 3: in the lineup. Okay, so you can average eighty three hundred,

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Speaker 3: So Chase is eleven thousand, Lamar is ten eight.

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Speaker 2: It shocks me that the wide receiver is still number one,

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Speaker 2: because it's not like you have to play a wide receiver.

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Speaker 3: No, you know, Yeah, Burrow is ten thousand, but anybody

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Speaker 3: you can't get all three of those guys and you

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Speaker 3: line upunless you're playing a bunch of it, and that's it.

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Speaker 3: Guys who weren't scrubs weren't playing. Mixon is ninety six hundred.

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Speaker 2: I'm not a believer there.

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Speaker 3: Mark Andrews is eighty eight hundred. Intrigued, Yeah, just over budget.

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Speaker 3: Zay Flowers seventy six hundred. He hasn't done anything in

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Speaker 2: I actually Bateman's the receiver on most.

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Speaker 3: Any Gus Edwards is seven thousand.

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Speaker 2: He's fun. I don't mind that either. That. Yeah, Tyler

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Speaker 2: Boyd is sixty eight hundred. Bengals run defense has been bad.

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Speaker 3: It's been awful.

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Speaker 2: Keaton Mitchell is fifty. Gus in the big dog chair.

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Speaker 3: Could I don't mind that.

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Speaker 2: Lamar has not been vulturing touchdown. He is not to

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Speaker 2: put Gusts in the big dog chair at home. Okay,

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Speaker 2: so and Gus in that would be a ten to five.

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Speaker 2: I love the player, but I like the situation. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: he won't catch any passes, but he might fall into

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Speaker 2: even saying we shouldn't take Mitchell later either. Oh yeah,

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Speaker 2: you just get the I don't want mixing, just get

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Speaker 2: the entire Ravens running game. He's're gon to ru like crazy.

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Speaker 2: Uh So if we do that, that's ten to five.

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Speaker 2: It gives us seventy nine hundred to spend. So let's

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Speaker 2: go look at the cheap options here who we like

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Speaker 2: under budget to see if you've put Gus in the

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Speaker 3: Right, yeah, bus, Gus is in the captain's chair. Okay,

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Speaker 3: so you can go Tanner Hudson at thirty nine hundred.

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Speaker 2: I was thinking what if we put Hudson and Bateman

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Speaker 2: in it's flex Hudson at thirty nine hundred. They're both

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Speaker 3: Oh wait, that's that still, is it? So Hudson as

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Speaker 3: just a regular player is where'd he go here?

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Speaker 2: I'm missing?

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Speaker 3: He's only twenty six hundred, so he has to be cheap.

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Speaker 3: Twenty six hundred. He got five catches for like twenty

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Speaker 2: Yeah, right, he's gonna be on the field they're using

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Speaker 2: in eleven person now and he's going to be the eleven.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Trenton Irwin is forty four hundred.

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Speaker 2: That I don't trust. Okay, I think that we're getting

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Speaker 3: Bateman is forty eight hundred.

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Speaker 2: I like Bateman a lot. He's playing much more than Odell.

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Speaker 3: Okay, So that leaves us in three spots remaining. Andrews

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Speaker 3: us under budget. Right now, we get thirty two to

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Speaker 3: one to spense. We could get Lamara.

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Speaker 2: What if we got Lamar and Burrow?

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Speaker 3: We get Lamar, we get Burrow, we have eleven three

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Speaker 3: to spend. We got actually afford Chase doing it that way.

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Speaker 3: But I still like Andrews better.

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Speaker 2: What if? I mean I like Chase, There's no doubt

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Speaker 2: about that. Yeah, I'm not gonna fight you on Andrews.

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Speaker 2: But what if we put Edwards is a flex and

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Speaker 2: Andrews as the big dog. Okay, let me does that fit?

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Speaker 2: Let me see if that Yeah, I think you said

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Speaker 2: since he's terrible against thirty first, Yeah, they're just awful.

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Speaker 3: And Andrews has owned them over the years. That leaves

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Speaker 3: us eighty six hundred then to spend on a flex

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Speaker 3: spot that gets us Zay Flowers gous Edwards at seven thousand.

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Speaker 2: Okay, so that would be then a lineup of we

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Speaker 2: had a lot to spend those Andrew, we get sixteen

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Speaker 2: hundred left over here, so we could even pay up

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Speaker 2: from Tanner Hudson. That's maybe one of those guys we

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Speaker 3: Gets us forty two hundred. That would get us McPherson,

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Speaker 3: the kickers to.

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Speaker 2: Get kicker and you're gonna get points. Exercize. Yeah, that

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Speaker 2: will get you the Bengals defense. Okay, I don't like

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Speaker 2: playing Lamar and the defense, no, you know, no, I

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Speaker 2: think the best The best guy there would then be

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Speaker 2: would be putting McPherson in. I like putting the kicker

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Speaker 2: in because it gives you a floor. Yeah, he's gonna

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Speaker 2: gets probably gonna have two field goals or yeah, extra.

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Speaker 3: Eight to ten, eight points or whatever.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, this could be a field goal that leaves this

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Speaker 2: is just two hundred dollars left over, and we use

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Speaker 2: line up andrews our kicking dog.

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Speaker 3: Andrews is the is the captain at thirteen to two.

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Speaker 3: Then we get McPherson at four thousand. We're Sean Bateman

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Speaker 3: at forty eight hundred, Lamar Jackson and Joe Burrow at

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Speaker 3: ten eight and ten thousand, and Gus Edwards at seven thousand.

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Speaker 2: I like it pretty strong. I mean, let's both quarterbacks

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Speaker 2: have crap at crappy days. I mean, you're gonna get

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Speaker 2: point You're gonna get points out of kicker in two

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Speaker 2: and a little raven centric, but that's all right.

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Speaker 3: We got two Bengals in there, Fierson and Borough offense. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: if we think they're going to score points and maybe

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Speaker 2: At home, I don't hate it. I don't hate it.

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Speaker 2: Line it up, all right.

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Speaker 3: We are locked and loaded.

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Speaker 2: Now, you're right about Andrews history and matchup and all

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Speaker 2: that stuff. Short week with you.

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Speaker 3: I just wonder if that's gonna be a little shocky,

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Speaker 3: but I'm sorry, we shall see.

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Speaker 2: Anyway.

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Speaker 3: Let's get to the uh bulk of what we usually

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Speaker 3: do here on Thursdays and take a look around the

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Speaker 3: league here at who's in and who's out.

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Speaker 2: Uh.

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Speaker 3: Dalton Schultz upgraded to a full participant today for the Texans.

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Speaker 2: They're in good shape. It looks like Nico's coming back

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Speaker 3: Playing the Cardinals, you know, fire them all. Yeah, Schultz

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Speaker 3: is fourteen catches for two hundred and one yards and

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Speaker 3: two touchdowns in his last two games. I mean he's

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Speaker 3: just for their monster Hayden Hurst. However, well, he is

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Speaker 3: a concussion. He did not practice again today.

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Speaker 2: I avoid that offense anyways. Garrett Wilson, with an elbow,

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Speaker 2: was limited in Thursday's practice. Nicked that up in the game.

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Speaker 2: If you remember they were looking at that.

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Speaker 3: That offense is so broken. He's never going to score

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Speaker 3: this year.

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Speaker 2: Again, his target share is super high though they've they

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Speaker 2: got like six touchdowns. I don't know the number if

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Speaker 2: you took the Breese.

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Speaker 3: Hall long runs, a couple of long runs and catches

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Speaker 3: that he's had out of the equation.

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Speaker 2: It's brutal. They don't score. I mean they were last

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Speaker 2: of the old line ranks the other day, which I

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Speaker 2: didn't think they should be last. But their thirtieth or

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Speaker 2: worse pretty bad. Yeah, I mean, no line, no quarterback,

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Speaker 2: makes it tough.

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Speaker 3: The Bengals activated Charlie Jones from injury reserve.

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Speaker 3: Tommy DeVito upgraded to a full participant in Thursday. He's

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, and Keenan Allen's fighting something, I think too. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, who's their backup? Dalton? Dalton and Dalton would make

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Speaker 3: Uh, Deontay Foreman return. He was limited in Thursday's practice

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Speaker 2: Went five in a row. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: So that's good. Uh, they're playing the Chargers Chargers, Okay, Okay,

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Speaker 3: Gonna start catching more passes, which they've started to work.

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Speaker 2: There and then dump it into they dump it too. Yeah. Uh.

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Speaker 3: The Eagles finally placed na Kobe Dean on injured reserve

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Speaker 2: Okay, it's been several weeks, hasn't it been a long time. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Robert Woods practiced in full on Thursday, which is not worthy.

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Speaker 3: Well, Noah Brown with the knee did not practice so

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Speaker 2: And I think Nico is back.

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Speaker 3: They're playing the Cardinals this week. Woods then moves back

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Speaker 2: We should pay attention to that for DFS.

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Speaker 3: Collins rolls into the role.

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Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, I mean in Schultz and and Schultz is back.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely good. Damian Pierce with an ankle, did not

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Speaker 2: They don't seem to be very fond of him either. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Chase Claypole with the knee, did not practice on Thursday.

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Speaker 3: Joey Porter Junior go out. Have to run around this weekend.

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Speaker 2: But he play a game War two for Miami. Yeah. Uh.

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Speaker 2: Jaylen Hyatt expected to practice today. He's got a concussion,

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Speaker 2: Paul did the change of pace guy. You can read

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Speaker 3: He will he just wants to throw the full's I

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Speaker 3: don't know is he he's from Pittsburgh, but he doesn't

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Speaker 3: act like a Pittsburgh It's all about the throwing and

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Speaker 2: And even they're playing the Giants and they're up by thirty,

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Speaker 2: they don't slow down one unnecessarily. No, they don't grind

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Speaker 2: you into a pull ever, because they can't they don't

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Mike Evans with the quad practiced on Thursday.

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Speaker 2: Good. Yeah, keep in the lineup. He's great. Uh.

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Speaker 3: The Seahawks uh designated right tackle Abraham Lucas to return

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Speaker 3: from injury reserve. They need him, they need that's good

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Speaker 3: for their running game. But Tyler Lockett did not practice Wednesday.

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Speaker 3: He's got a hamstring.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we're into some of these Wednesday ones for the

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Speaker 3: West coast, right, okay.

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Speaker 2: De Mercado, Uh that's a name yesterday. Yeah, the tip

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Speaker 2: Christian Watson was limited. Michael Carter, right, Yeah, they picked

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Speaker 3: I got the that's still Wednesday. Okay, sit goofy.

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Speaker 2: But anyway, so yeah, there's some big names out there

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Speaker 2: there's some big names returning. Oh there it is. De

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Speaker 3: Like you're not even seeing a Chan news on here

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Speaker 3: because he's playing.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he's playing this week. You know. I mean like

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Speaker 3: If you were sitting on these guys for a while

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Speaker 3: on IR, you're very happy, you know Kyler last week.

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Speaker 2: I mean, so it's fun now that IR doesn't ruin.

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Speaker 2: That's the best thing that's happened to football. I'd never

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Speaker 2: understood that one as a kid. I was like, back when

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Speaker 2: I cared about baseball, I'm like, they had a fourteen

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Speaker 3: Didn't want what they didn't want, especially in those shorter seasons,

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Speaker 3: the fourteen game seasons it started back then. They didn't

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Speaker 3: or whatever. Oh he's he's hurt, we put him on

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I understand that part. But how it is

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Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, we're both, oh, without a doubt. And

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Speaker 3: these guys who are actually on IR, it really needs to.

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Speaker 3: I know my multiple leagues like if somebody's actually on IR.

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Speaker 2: But that's how it has to work. It has to

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Speaker 2: work that way. Software doesn't let you do it. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: And what's cool about it is you if someone's on

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Speaker 3: Absolutely, which is the way it has to be because

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Speaker 3: because you didn't know if if if somebody gets you know, called,

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Speaker 3: I think it came out of the Broncos game, like,

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Speaker 3: MP has four guys on injured reserve. They're all active.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they all should have to come off. Yeah you

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Speaker 2: And the software we use on Dynasty leagues, the first

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Speaker 2: next week is who's ir relevant and who can come off?

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Speaker 2: And then I submit my lineup. Then I go searching

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Speaker 2: one hundred dollars of FAB Yeah. I spent eighty two

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Speaker 2: of it on a chaan, which is the most ever

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Speaker 2: So if I want to pick up a kicker or whatever,

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Speaker 2: you can't do without the week without submitting fab money. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: you can do a bock or whatever. But Sunday morning

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Speaker 2: for last night, Ravers Ran, I put in for Ty Chandler.

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Speaker 2: I didn't get him, but I got the Sean Watson

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Speaker 3: Anybody, for anybody, anybody who's actually got a pulse.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, anybody.

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Speaker 3: So yeah, don't don't hold on the guys who are

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Speaker 3: and that's he's when the keeper that's different.

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Speaker 2: That's different. But right, he's gonna go. I thought he

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Speaker 3: At this point in the season, you're much better off

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Speaker 2: Like That's why I wanted to get Chandler.

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Speaker 2: Off or like in this situation, you don't have enough

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Speaker 3: Have had him, So I start collecting those handcuffs now

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Speaker 3: I don't know there not like there are a bunch

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Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, and if you got you get to start

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Speaker 3: looking at your roster now and go, I'm never going

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Speaker 3: to play that guy, right, like I there there's no

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Speaker 3: reason for me to have that six wide receiver on

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Speaker 3: my right. We're almost thure of the buys. Now, those

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Speaker 3: guys are never going to play for you, don't. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: you shouldn't have three quarterbacks on your roster at this

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Speaker 3: point anymore, right, or the multiple defenses are multiple kickers, No,

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Speaker 3: don't do that.

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Speaker 2: No, no, there's no reason for that. But running backs again, somebody.

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Speaker 3: You know, just to take a shiit if you have

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Speaker 3: at n even though he hasn't done anything, Tank Bigsby

447
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Speaker 3: should be on your roster.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. It almost brought him up one second ago because

449
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Speaker 2: I drafted him everywhere and he's horrible. Yeah, I mean,

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Speaker 2: but one injury away from a workhorse back, even if

451
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Speaker 2: he's not good at football, you're gonna start him. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: we're gonna play him. We're gonna be happy to have him.

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Speaker 2: At least. That's how guy likes. You know.

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Speaker 3: Deontay Foreman kind of emerged a couple of years ago,

455
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Speaker 3: like oh he's he's the backup, and then somebody gets hurt.

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Speaker 3: The next thing you know, he's getting run and he's

457
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Speaker 3: getting you know, eighteen carries a game and he's worth something.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, stash the extra back right now. Yeah, because those

459
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Speaker 2: guys anna start going down.

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Speaker 3: Jalen Warren Nice and today's question TJ Watt or Jason

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Speaker 3: Gilden most sacks and a Steelers game against Cleveland.

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Speaker 2: I'm going wat he has a great track record against him,

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Speaker 2: great sixteen sacks against them in the games, I think, yeah,

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Speaker 2: something like it. Hand I think it is nine games neighborhood,

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Speaker 2: cause there maybe might be eleven games because they're in

484
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Speaker 2: like nine to one and one when play, when he plays,

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Speaker 2: they just destroyed.

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Speaker 3: Their sacking game.

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Speaker 2: It's like sack and a half a game. But I

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Speaker 2: don't remember him having a five sack one. Maybe Guilden did.

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Speaker 2: But I'm gonna go with with TJ on.

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Speaker 3: You could pair that and Miles. We both you know,

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Speaker 3: Miles Garrett's is a very good football, of course, but

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Speaker 3: his record against the Steelers not nearly as good.

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Speaker 2: No, And I think some Steeler fans underestimate Garrett because

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Speaker 2: they only watch him against the Steelers. Yeah, because he

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Speaker 2: doesn't do much against that much against Steelers, right. I

496
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Speaker 2: think there's a lot of people out there going, how

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Speaker 2: on earth does the whole world think Garrett and Watt

498
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Speaker 2: are similar players or comparable players? If you only watch

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Speaker 2: Brown Steelers, you wouldn't think that he's.

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Speaker 3: Played eleven games against the Steelers as well as as

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Speaker 3: what against the Browns he has seven sacks in those

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Speaker 3: eleven games, which which most players would you take that.

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Speaker 2: It's tremendous.

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Speaker 3: But his record is three to seven and one in

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Speaker 3: those games, whereas Watt is nine one and one, nine

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Speaker 3: one one in the games that he plays against the

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Speaker 3: Browns in sixteen is twice as many sacks, more than

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Speaker 3: twice as many sacks as Garrett in the same number

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Speaker 3: of games.

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Speaker 2: They were the same number game, Okay, yeah, I mean

511
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Speaker 2: their production against each other, which of course they don't

512
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Speaker 2: line up against each other, is night and day. And

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Speaker 2: Garrett's is great, Watts is uncanny. Yeah, they just don't.

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Speaker 3: They just refuse to let Garrett take over.

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Speaker 2: A game against them. No, it makes total sense in

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Speaker 2: the world. Do you know this off the top of

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Speaker 2: your head? How does I know Watt's numbers against the

518
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Speaker 2: Browns are better than the Bengals and Ravens? Yeah? But

519
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Speaker 2: are they comparable? Does he have high sack numbers against

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Speaker 2: the whole division? Yeah, compared to normal opponents or is

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Speaker 2: it justin brown he owns the division? I thought so.

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Speaker 3: It's pretty crazy. Actually, if you start looking at his

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Speaker 3: splits and how much he has dominated all three of

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Speaker 3: those teams and really, really put up production again. And

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Speaker 3: it's not like those teams all stink, No, of course not.

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Speaker 3: But against they know him as well as he knows them.

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Speaker 3: In eleven games against the Bengals, he has nine sacks,

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Speaker 3: really really good, which is outstanding, it's amazing. In the

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Speaker 3: eleven games against the Browns he has sixteen sacks off

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Speaker 3: the charts, and then in the thirteen games against the

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Speaker 3: Ravens he has fourteen sacks.

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Speaker 2: Wow. So the Division he's over a sack of game

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Speaker 2: if you add them all up.

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Speaker 3: More importantly, when TJ. Watt plays and the Steelers play

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Speaker 3: the Ravens, they're nine and four.

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Speaker 2: Nine and four. Would you say with the Browns are too?

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Speaker 2: It's even better when.

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Speaker 3: It's nine to one and one against the Browns and

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Speaker 3: it's eight and three against the Bengals.

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Speaker 2: Like when he actually plays and they play one of

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Speaker 2: these teams, they beat them bonkers. Wow.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, So that's seventeen and seven, that's seven, twenty six,

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Speaker 3: eight and one.

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Speaker 2: When TJ. What plays a division game? Twenty six eight one?

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Speaker 2: And I think a couple of those did he leave

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Speaker 2: early on any of them?

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Speaker 3: I can't tell you that. Look, I mean, I don't

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Speaker 3: remember anything. Twenty six eight one.

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Speaker 2: That's insane. Yeah, I mean, like that's better than Ben's

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Speaker 2: record against the AFCA. I wonder if you combine all

551
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Speaker 2: four rosters, is there any other player that's played at

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Speaker 2: least six games or ten games with a better winning percentage?

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Speaker 2: I would get you can't, I can't be, can't be

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Speaker 2: Jamar Chase Burrow. No, you know, I mean it's they're

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Speaker 2: probably not a Brown.

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Speaker 3: So in those twenty four thirty five games against the

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Speaker 3: AFC North teams, TJ. Watt has twenty three thirty nine sacks.

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Speaker 2: Wow, that's insane. That's insane. Last time I checked, he's

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Speaker 2: playing this weekend and he's lining up the suit him up.

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Speaker 2: I saw him in practice today. He's still walking around. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: he's ready to roll. I mean, can it be that simple?

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Speaker 2: I mean all the watch splits are pretty bonkers. I mean,

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Speaker 2: we are very familiar with last year with him without

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Speaker 2: what I mean, all the defensive stuff. I mean, and

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Speaker 2: I'm sure if you don't even focus on sacks, forced fumbles,

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Speaker 2: pass deflections, fumble recoveries he has, I mean, touchdowns. I mean,

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Speaker 2: it's they're all insane. They're all off the charts.

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Speaker 3: He has four forced fumbles in a fumble recovery against

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Speaker 3: the Ravens.

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Speaker 2: Oh I thought you're to say against all four teams combined. No,

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Speaker 2: let's just against the Ravens in thirteen and thirty, like

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Speaker 2: if this were his season, Like, we should do this

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Speaker 2: next week after this game, and I'll put it in

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Speaker 2: Matt stats or whatever. Yeah, this is TJ's average game

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Speaker 2: against the division. He has one and a half sacks,

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Speaker 2: a forced fumble, half a touchdown.

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Speaker 3: You know so Yeah, thirteen career games against the Ravens,

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Speaker 3: he has fourteen sacks. He has forty six solo tackles

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Speaker 3: in sixty or fourteen assists, So sixty tackles seventeen tackles

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Speaker 3: for a lot.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I didn't think of the CFLs twenty nine quarterback

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Speaker 2: hits hits five hit numbers are even better than sack numbers.

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Speaker 3: Five pass defenses and four force fumbles, one fumble recovery. Wow,

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Speaker 3: that would be a nice season. That would be a

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Speaker 3: really excellent season for most players.

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Speaker 2: That's unrreal.

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Speaker 3: In eleven games against the Bengals, he has nine sacks,

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Speaker 3: thirty solo tackles, twelve assists, eleven tackles for a loss,

589
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Speaker 3: fourteen quarterback hits, two interceptions.

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Speaker 2: Don't forget about.

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Speaker 3: Those six pass defenses, three force fumbles and a fumble recovery.

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Speaker 2: The past defenses I mean batting things out the line

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Speaker 2: of scrimmage. I would say the past defense. You could

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Speaker 2: be in coverage and Joey porter it or TJ watted

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Speaker 2: and slap it down. He has.

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Speaker 3: He has sixteen of those in his thirty five games

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Speaker 3: in the AFC thirty four games in the past.

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Speaker 2: Defenses, probably one or two are in coverage.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, most are the line screen. Against the Browns in

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Speaker 3: eleven games.

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Speaker 2: What was what was? I'm sorry? Bengals, force fumbles and

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Speaker 2: fumble recovery.

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Speaker 3: He has three forced fumbles against the brown or raven

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Speaker 3: or Bengals, I should say, and one fumble recovery. So

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Speaker 3: in those against the against the Ravens and Bengals, he

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Speaker 3: has seven force fumbles in his career in twenty four games.

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Speaker 2: Twenty four games, more than won every three games. Force

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Speaker 2: fumbles don't happen that oftense? No, uh?

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Speaker 3: And then against the Browns's even better. He has forty

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Speaker 3: two solo This is in eleven games, forty two solo tackles,

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Speaker 3: seventeen assists for fifty nine combined tackles, nineteen tackles for

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Speaker 3: a loss ye almost two per game, twenty eight quarterback

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Speaker 3: hits in eleven games.

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Speaker 2: That might be the most impressive number.

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Speaker 3: Yet he has an interception, He has five pass defenses,

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Speaker 3: no fumble forced, but he does have to do then

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Speaker 3: he does have two fumble recoveries and a touchdown.

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Speaker 2: And he does never lose against it, and he never loses.

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Speaker 2: And yeah, his record against the division is bonkers, especially

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Speaker 2: the Browns. Wow, I didn't know it was that strong.

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Speaker 3: I mean, it's it's it's insane.

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Speaker 2: That's insane. That's insane. That's like Mahomes versus the West.

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Speaker 2: Stuff like never lost to the Broncos till this year,

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Speaker 2: and you know, things that are just unheard of. And

625
00:29:22,440 --> 00:29:26,400
Speaker 2: these again, these are not these are not bad teams. No,

626
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Speaker 2: it's not Brady versus the lowly Jets when they're at

627
00:29:30,480 --> 00:29:32,080
Speaker 2: their lowest and things like that.

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Speaker 3: And and to have that kind of record with that

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Speaker 3: guy on the field against these teams is insane.

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Speaker 2: And I would think overall teams don't even throw in

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Speaker 2: the division as much.

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Speaker 3: I mean it's more.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's nuts. Like I'm just looking here. I wonder

634
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Speaker 2: if there's any defensive player that can rival that. I mean,

635
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Speaker 2: I'm not even talking like now, Like I bet Lawrence

636
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Speaker 2: Taylor puts some numbers, put some numbers Upington and Philly

637
00:29:59,440 --> 00:30:04,040
Speaker 2: and Dallas, but like, who in history have dominated their

638
00:30:05,240 --> 00:30:07,640
Speaker 2: Like linebackers would be hard, but like have way better

639
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Speaker 2: numbers against division than average, you know what I mean.

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Speaker 3: But that's how you know. People ask how the Steelers

641
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Speaker 3: are always at the top. That's wow, that's why you know.

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Speaker 2: If he does that every game he plays against the division,

643
00:30:19,960 --> 00:30:21,280
Speaker 2: you're at least going to be in the game. And

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Speaker 2: these are the game, these are the teams that know

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Speaker 2: him best exactly exactly. It makes me think he knows

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Speaker 2: them best too, and he knows them best. But you

647
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Speaker 2: look at that, you'd rather know the pass run. I mean,

648
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Speaker 2: let's just stealers know Garrett.

649
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Speaker 3: Well, let's just measure Garrett's numbers against the other AFC

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Speaker 3: North teams.

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00:30:35,720 --> 00:30:36,960
Speaker 2: I think he kills one of the two.

652
00:30:37,000 --> 00:30:40,600
Speaker 3: He kills the Bengals, bengalsky against the Ravens. He's played

653
00:30:40,600 --> 00:30:43,080
Speaker 3: twelve games. He has eight and a half sacks.

654
00:30:43,280 --> 00:30:43,920
Speaker 2: That's really good.

655
00:30:43,960 --> 00:30:44,360
Speaker 3: That's good.

656
00:30:44,480 --> 00:30:45,240
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's really good.

657
00:30:45,320 --> 00:30:49,360
Speaker 3: He has thirty combined tackles, eight tackles for a loss,

658
00:30:50,000 --> 00:30:55,960
Speaker 3: fifteen quarterback hits in half sacks, that's two fumble recoveries,

659
00:30:56,240 --> 00:30:59,720
Speaker 3: one force fumble. On record five and seven.

660
00:31:00,480 --> 00:31:02,240
Speaker 2: Okay, good numbers, but not great.

661
00:31:02,440 --> 00:31:06,080
Speaker 3: Not great against the Bengals, the Browns are eight and two.

662
00:31:06,280 --> 00:31:09,320
Speaker 3: They always beat the Bengals in Cleveland. And so in

663
00:31:09,360 --> 00:31:12,760
Speaker 3: ten games he has twelve sacks. He has twenty seven

664
00:31:12,840 --> 00:31:16,360
Speaker 3: total tackles, he has ten tackles for a loss, twenty

665
00:31:16,360 --> 00:31:17,560
Speaker 3: five quarterback hits.

666
00:31:17,720 --> 00:31:18,720
Speaker 2: That's his best number there.

667
00:31:18,800 --> 00:31:22,320
Speaker 3: Yeah, so twenty five quarterback hits in ten games, two

668
00:31:22,360 --> 00:31:24,920
Speaker 3: forced fumbles and no fumble recoveries.

669
00:31:25,120 --> 00:31:26,720
Speaker 2: It's as dominants I thought it was going to be, though,

670
00:31:26,760 --> 00:31:29,840
Speaker 2: I mean, considering pretty good. It's really really If we

671
00:31:29,880 --> 00:31:32,360
Speaker 2: hadn't just gone through the watch stats were going, well,

672
00:31:32,400 --> 00:31:34,160
Speaker 2: those are really good. That's how we should have started

673
00:31:34,160 --> 00:31:36,560
Speaker 2: the show. Look at the Garrett's done against the division.

674
00:31:36,840 --> 00:31:39,040
Speaker 2: Now look what this guy has done against the division.

675
00:31:39,160 --> 00:31:43,080
Speaker 2: Against the Steelers, he has started, he has played eleven games.

676
00:31:44,160 --> 00:31:47,200
Speaker 2: He has seven sacks. He has thirty four total tackles,

677
00:31:47,880 --> 00:31:52,280
Speaker 2: eight eight tackles for a loss, sixteen quarterback hits, three

678
00:31:52,320 --> 00:31:55,520
Speaker 2: force fumbles, no recoveries. Also very good, also very good,

679
00:31:55,560 --> 00:31:57,760
Speaker 2: and the end would take that stat lining but a

680
00:31:57,840 --> 00:32:00,840
Speaker 2: three seven to one record. Yeah, he has a losing

681
00:32:00,880 --> 00:32:04,560
Speaker 2: record against AFC North teams, you boss, Yeah, because he's

682
00:32:04,720 --> 00:32:06,600
Speaker 2: pretty bad actually against Baltimore and Pittsfang.

683
00:32:06,640 --> 00:32:10,880
Speaker 3: Yeah, five combined against the Steelers and Ravens eight fourteen

684
00:32:10,920 --> 00:32:11,480
Speaker 3: and one.

685
00:32:11,720 --> 00:32:14,160
Speaker 2: Eight fourteen and one. Okay, I mean they were a

686
00:32:14,160 --> 00:32:15,160
Speaker 2: bad team when he came to the lead.

687
00:32:15,280 --> 00:32:17,280
Speaker 3: So he actually he actually has a winning record overall

688
00:32:17,280 --> 00:32:19,720
Speaker 3: because they have eight they're eight and two against the Bengals.

689
00:32:21,080 --> 00:32:23,240
Speaker 3: What's up, they're eight and two against the Bengals in

690
00:32:23,280 --> 00:32:27,840
Speaker 3: his career. Oh okay, so they're sixteen fourteen or sixteen

691
00:32:27,920 --> 00:32:33,360
Speaker 3: sixteen and one, so it's even five hundred, okay.

692
00:32:33,400 --> 00:32:36,680
Speaker 2: So he has eight wins against the Steelers and Ravens combined,

693
00:32:36,920 --> 00:32:39,160
Speaker 2: and he has eight wins for the against the Bengals. Woh, okay,

694
00:32:39,200 --> 00:32:41,360
Speaker 2: I gotcha. Okay, And you gotta remember he was the

695
00:32:41,360 --> 00:32:42,600
Speaker 2: first pick in the draft, so he went to a

696
00:32:42,680 --> 00:32:48,720
Speaker 2: terrible team. But I mean those are dominant numbers by Garrett. Yeah,

697
00:32:48,760 --> 00:32:52,280
Speaker 2: but they're not close to Watts in his what's that?

698
00:32:52,320 --> 00:32:52,640
Speaker 2: What is that?

699
00:32:52,720 --> 00:32:57,840
Speaker 3: Twenty seven career games in how's he only play twenty seven?

700
00:32:58,040 --> 00:33:00,360
Speaker 2: He's been injured more than you think. Wat's actually played

701
00:33:00,360 --> 00:33:01,000
Speaker 2: more games.

702
00:33:00,880 --> 00:33:03,920
Speaker 3: Twenty two to do that resource this week, Yeah, twenty

703
00:33:03,920 --> 00:33:07,080
Speaker 3: two he's played. He's played thirty thirty three career games

704
00:33:07,400 --> 00:33:08,520
Speaker 3: against AFC North.

705
00:33:08,560 --> 00:33:10,360
Speaker 2: He has seven for a little while he was in

706
00:33:10,560 --> 00:33:13,560
Speaker 2: for a little while. Twenty three he has thirty one

707
00:33:13,560 --> 00:33:17,720
Speaker 2: and a half sackson thirty three games. So again, good numbers, awesome. Yeah, yeah,

708
00:33:17,760 --> 00:33:19,080
Speaker 2: if you're close to a sack of game.

709
00:33:19,160 --> 00:33:21,600
Speaker 3: But Wat's well over a sack of games against his

710
00:33:21,640 --> 00:33:22,680
Speaker 3: AFC North opponents.

711
00:33:22,680 --> 00:33:24,440
Speaker 2: I mean, any pass presher in the league would say,

712
00:33:24,960 --> 00:33:28,160
Speaker 2: I'll take sixteen sax season. Yeah, I mean that's a

713
00:33:28,200 --> 00:33:29,000
Speaker 2: sack of game, you.

714
00:33:28,920 --> 00:33:31,920
Speaker 3: Know, absolutely so stuff.

715
00:33:32,000 --> 00:33:34,680
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I wonder if Bosa is against the

716
00:33:34,800 --> 00:33:38,440
Speaker 2: NFC West, Parsons against the NFC East or.

717
00:33:38,480 --> 00:33:41,480
Speaker 3: Crosby Parsons hasn't gotten enough, He didn't have enough games

718
00:33:41,520 --> 00:33:45,120
Speaker 3: under his belt to measure up into that category. Even

719
00:33:45,120 --> 00:33:48,959
Speaker 3: Bosa was after he came after those two guys, so

720
00:33:49,080 --> 00:33:50,960
Speaker 3: he's a little bit younger two years after.

721
00:33:51,120 --> 00:33:53,320
Speaker 2: I mean, nobody maybe if he looked up some Von

722
00:33:53,440 --> 00:33:58,440
Speaker 2: Miller stats against the against the West, Lawrence Taylor, Derrek Thomas,

723
00:33:58,760 --> 00:34:00,960
Speaker 2: you know that kind of stuff. Yeah, to really get

724
00:34:00,960 --> 00:34:02,800
Speaker 2: a beat on that, because I'm sure there are some

725
00:34:02,840 --> 00:34:05,720
Speaker 2: pass rushers that just own their competition.

726
00:34:05,880 --> 00:34:10,200
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, but this isn't just owning a certain team.

727
00:34:10,239 --> 00:34:12,440
Speaker 3: This is doing against every team in the division.

728
00:34:12,640 --> 00:34:15,920
Speaker 2: Like I'm wondering, like, how did Harrison stack up Kevin

729
00:34:15,960 --> 00:34:18,200
Speaker 2: Green even just Steelers? You know, yeah, I mean, none

730
00:34:18,200 --> 00:34:20,520
Speaker 2: of them are going to touch Watt, But were they

731
00:34:20,560 --> 00:34:22,359
Speaker 2: better against the division than they were?

732
00:34:22,560 --> 00:34:25,279
Speaker 3: Well, I know, I know for Harrison, Harrison was better

733
00:34:25,320 --> 00:34:27,279
Speaker 3: against the Ravens. I mean he had I mean he

734
00:34:27,320 --> 00:34:30,279
Speaker 3: had a a ten tackle, five sack game or three

735
00:34:30,320 --> 00:34:32,120
Speaker 3: sacked whatever, three and a half sacked game against the

736
00:34:32,160 --> 00:34:32,799
Speaker 3: re he just.

737
00:34:33,160 --> 00:34:34,840
Speaker 2: Ogged in too. Yeah, I mean like a lot of

738
00:34:34,880 --> 00:34:40,080
Speaker 2: his stretch was yeah, and Joe Thomas Yeah, and it

739
00:34:40,280 --> 00:34:43,879
Speaker 2: was Whitworth. There's like three Hall of Fame guys. Yeah. Yeah,

740
00:34:43,960 --> 00:34:45,320
Speaker 2: I mean he went against the tackles.

741
00:34:45,520 --> 00:34:48,920
Speaker 3: But uh, I just it can't be as simple as

742
00:34:48,920 --> 00:34:50,759
Speaker 3: well TJ's what playing. So the Steelers are going to

743
00:34:50,800 --> 00:34:51,440
Speaker 3: win this weekend.

744
00:34:52,360 --> 00:34:54,760
Speaker 2: But but the evidence is pretty strong.

745
00:34:55,040 --> 00:34:58,640
Speaker 3: I mean their record with him, even in the last

746
00:34:58,840 --> 00:35:01,080
Speaker 3: you know, the games that he has played in the

747
00:35:01,120 --> 00:35:01,960
Speaker 3: last two years.

748
00:35:02,600 --> 00:35:07,040
Speaker 2: It's ridiculous when he's becoming an upper echelon elite player.

749
00:35:07,520 --> 00:35:09,480
Speaker 2: When he's out there, they win a high percentage of

750
00:35:09,520 --> 00:35:11,200
Speaker 2: his game. And it's like fifteen and five over the

751
00:35:11,280 --> 00:35:14,840
Speaker 2: last two years, is it? And to be honest, sixteen

752
00:35:14,880 --> 00:35:16,879
Speaker 2: and five men when he were sixteen injury last year,

753
00:35:16,920 --> 00:35:18,920
Speaker 2: he was not the same. Yeah, you know, like you

754
00:35:19,000 --> 00:35:21,680
Speaker 2: have to include those, but that was kind of a

755
00:35:21,680 --> 00:35:23,640
Speaker 2: shell of him when he came back last year. Yeah,

756
00:35:23,680 --> 00:35:24,760
Speaker 2: he was. He came back early.

757
00:35:25,400 --> 00:35:27,719
Speaker 3: So I mean, and these are again, these are the

758
00:35:27,760 --> 00:35:30,759
Speaker 3: teams that know him best. These are the teams that

759
00:35:31,280 --> 00:35:34,600
Speaker 3: absolutely understand how he can wreck a game, and yet

760
00:35:34,600 --> 00:35:35,680
Speaker 3: he still wrecks games.

761
00:35:35,880 --> 00:35:38,520
Speaker 2: Yeah, and he always comes from the quarterbacks right side.

762
00:35:38,640 --> 00:35:40,040
Speaker 2: I mean, you know where he's coming from, and it

763
00:35:40,040 --> 00:35:43,000
Speaker 2: doesn't matter. Yeah. So that's awesome.

764
00:35:43,280 --> 00:35:45,359
Speaker 3: Yeah, we're going to get to another break. He is

765
00:35:45,480 --> 00:35:47,960
Speaker 3: Matt Williamson. I am Dale, Lawlly. You're listening to the

766
00:35:48,040 --> 00:35:50,400
Speaker 3: drive here on Steelers Nation Radio. We'll be back to

767
00:35:50,400 --> 00:36:00,200
Speaker 3: finish up the show right after this. Welcome back. I

768
00:36:00,200 --> 00:36:03,399
Speaker 3: am Dale, Lolly. He is the Matt Williamson and Matt

769
00:36:03,440 --> 00:36:05,440
Speaker 3: Before we end the show, today, I thought we just

770
00:36:05,440 --> 00:36:08,759
Speaker 3: give a little more preview of tonight's tonight's game, Yeah,

771
00:36:08,840 --> 00:36:14,000
Speaker 3: talk about what it really is. Uh, the problem that

772
00:36:14,000 --> 00:36:16,919
Speaker 3: I have handicapping this game or looking at this game

773
00:36:17,000 --> 00:36:19,040
Speaker 3: and figuring out who's which team is going to win?

774
00:36:19,280 --> 00:36:23,480
Speaker 3: It's in Baltimore, Yeah, which is to both teams have injuries,

775
00:36:23,560 --> 00:36:27,520
Speaker 3: key injuries. The Bengals have really struggled stopping the run

776
00:36:27,560 --> 00:36:27,919
Speaker 3: this year.

777
00:36:28,080 --> 00:36:31,359
Speaker 2: Really yeah. Yeah, And it's not like Reader and Hill

778
00:36:31,480 --> 00:36:34,440
Speaker 2: or bad players. It's just I don't know what the

779
00:36:34,480 --> 00:36:37,320
Speaker 2: issue is. I haven't studied them enough, but the some

780
00:36:37,560 --> 00:36:40,120
Speaker 2: of the some of the parts is not the it's

781
00:36:40,120 --> 00:36:41,680
Speaker 2: not add up whatever that's saying is.

782
00:36:41,760 --> 00:36:45,840
Speaker 3: Yeah, cause they are twenty eighth in average rush EPA allowed.

783
00:36:46,200 --> 00:36:46,399
Speaker 2: Bad.

784
00:36:46,680 --> 00:36:48,560
Speaker 3: I mean, so it's I mean, it's not like, well,

785
00:36:48,600 --> 00:36:50,759
Speaker 3: they've got a lead or teams are just sticking with

786
00:36:50,800 --> 00:36:51,080
Speaker 3: it now.

787
00:36:51,080 --> 00:36:53,360
Speaker 2: They just they're bad. No, it's not like Bengals are

788
00:36:53,400 --> 00:36:55,439
Speaker 2: up by thirty in the fourth quarter and just playing

789
00:36:55,520 --> 00:36:56,359
Speaker 2: Nickel and the tea.

790
00:36:56,440 --> 00:36:58,040
Speaker 3: You know, early in the season when they were losing

791
00:36:58,040 --> 00:37:00,319
Speaker 3: some of these games and and you know, WHI They're

792
00:37:00,320 --> 00:37:03,279
Speaker 3: getting be badly and teams just kept No, they're just bad.

793
00:37:03,320 --> 00:37:05,760
Speaker 2: They're just getting moved off the ball and not playing

794
00:37:05,760 --> 00:37:09,360
Speaker 2: the run. Well, who would you pick to win? I

795
00:37:09,360 --> 00:37:12,759
Speaker 2: think the spreads four and I'll gladly take points. You all.

796
00:37:12,920 --> 00:37:14,799
Speaker 3: I think you all would always take points in an

797
00:37:14,840 --> 00:37:19,080
Speaker 3: AFC North game because they're always Yeah yeah.

798
00:37:18,400 --> 00:37:19,600
Speaker 2: I don't expect this to win.

799
00:37:19,760 --> 00:37:22,440
Speaker 3: Though Cincinnati needs the game.

800
00:37:22,239 --> 00:37:26,120
Speaker 2: More they do they do. I hate, though, ever, picking

801
00:37:26,239 --> 00:37:30,960
Speaker 2: a road Thursday team. It's tough. It certainly is a

802
00:37:31,040 --> 00:37:34,200
Speaker 2: nasty environment. It certainly is trust borrow to no end.

803
00:37:34,280 --> 00:37:36,839
Speaker 2: Like Labs was saying, though you needed and that guy

804
00:37:37,000 --> 00:37:40,600
Speaker 2: is legit clutch. So I would definitely take the points

805
00:37:40,760 --> 00:37:41,879
Speaker 2: straight up. I don't know.

806
00:37:42,560 --> 00:37:47,200
Speaker 3: If you look at Baltimore's defense their second in past

807
00:37:47,280 --> 00:37:50,560
Speaker 3: EPA allowed, they're fifth and rush EPA allowed.

808
00:37:52,520 --> 00:37:57,400
Speaker 2: But no, but no Marlin Humphrey. That's that's that's huge

809
00:37:57,400 --> 00:37:59,320
Speaker 2: to me, Like, but no Higgins.

810
00:38:00,280 --> 00:38:02,560
Speaker 3: But in years past, they would have just say, Okay, Humphrey,

811
00:38:02,600 --> 00:38:05,080
Speaker 3: you've got Jamar a lot.

812
00:38:05,360 --> 00:38:08,000
Speaker 2: I mean, they may not travel with him, but try

813
00:38:08,040 --> 00:38:08,560
Speaker 2: to match it up.

814
00:38:08,680 --> 00:38:10,560
Speaker 3: But Humphrey would go to the slot and they're situation

815
00:38:10,760 --> 00:38:13,040
Speaker 3: yeah yeah, I mean, so they he would get matched

816
00:38:13,120 --> 00:38:15,919
Speaker 3: up on him a lot. That's not going to happen

817
00:38:15,960 --> 00:38:16,359
Speaker 3: in this one.

818
00:38:16,480 --> 00:38:18,480
Speaker 2: No, it's not. There are other corners. I mean, hey,

819
00:38:19,480 --> 00:38:20,000
Speaker 2: have a big day.

820
00:38:20,560 --> 00:38:22,880
Speaker 3: I like Chase against Rocky a Sin and you know

821
00:38:23,120 --> 00:38:24,799
Speaker 3: those guys, right if you get a match the other one.

822
00:38:25,160 --> 00:38:29,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I hear you. I don't think, but I

823
00:38:29,040 --> 00:38:32,680
Speaker 2: think Baltimore runs the ball much better tonight than Cincinnati. Yeah.

824
00:38:32,840 --> 00:38:36,120
Speaker 3: I also think the Ravens pass rush, which again they

825
00:38:36,120 --> 00:38:39,520
Speaker 3: don't have a they don't have a dude, but they

826
00:38:39,520 --> 00:38:43,520
Speaker 3: bring it. They confuse you enough, they'll bring They'll start

827
00:38:43,520 --> 00:38:45,160
Speaker 3: with eight guys as the line of scrimmage.

828
00:38:45,680 --> 00:38:48,439
Speaker 2: Four are coming. You just have to figure out which four.

829
00:38:48,680 --> 00:38:50,400
Speaker 2: I mean, even if they don't have a dude. I

830
00:38:50,520 --> 00:38:53,319
Speaker 2: give the Ravens pass rush the edge over the past

831
00:38:53,400 --> 00:38:56,200
Speaker 2: protection for Cincy. Yeah, you know. I mean Matta Bouquet

832
00:38:56,239 --> 00:38:57,879
Speaker 2: is having a really good he is he is, he's

833
00:38:58,000 --> 00:39:00,600
Speaker 2: if they if they have a dude, it's him. But

834
00:39:00,640 --> 00:39:03,160
Speaker 2: it's an interior pass rusher, it is, it is.

835
00:39:03,239 --> 00:39:05,239
Speaker 3: But what they do by putting those eight guys as

836
00:39:05,280 --> 00:39:07,399
Speaker 3: the line of scrimmage, it keeps you from doubling him.

837
00:39:08,000 --> 00:39:09,480
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I mean he gets a lot of one

838
00:39:09,520 --> 00:39:12,279
Speaker 2: on ones against guards and wins. Yeah. And Clowney's having

839
00:39:12,280 --> 00:39:14,200
Speaker 2: a really good year and Van Noy's having a good year.

840
00:39:14,200 --> 00:39:16,000
Speaker 2: They're getting a lot of guys that have been kind

841
00:39:16,040 --> 00:39:21,000
Speaker 2: of retreads too. I bet you agree. I adore Lamar,

842
00:39:21,560 --> 00:39:24,040
Speaker 2: but the quarterback advantage of since without a doubt, Yeah,

843
00:39:24,080 --> 00:39:25,279
Speaker 2: without he's a special dude.

844
00:39:25,360 --> 00:39:28,960
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's what gives me pause to just pick the Ravens,

845
00:39:29,000 --> 00:39:32,560
Speaker 3: because that guy could go out there and have a.

846
00:39:32,520 --> 00:39:34,880
Speaker 2: Game they have to have. Yeah, he's pretty high on

847
00:39:34,880 --> 00:39:37,960
Speaker 2: my list of quarterbacks. I would sign up to get

848
00:39:37,960 --> 00:39:40,200
Speaker 2: a game that I have to have that I've seen

849
00:39:40,200 --> 00:39:42,359
Speaker 2: in the last ten years. Well, it comes back then.

850
00:39:42,640 --> 00:39:46,000
Speaker 3: You know, if you're a Steeler fan, who do you

851
00:39:46,080 --> 00:39:47,280
Speaker 3: want to win this game?

852
00:39:47,960 --> 00:39:50,799
Speaker 2: I think you want Baltimore to win. That doesn't mean

853
00:39:50,840 --> 00:39:54,920
Speaker 2: you're like conceding the division, but I think if you

854
00:39:54,920 --> 00:39:57,240
Speaker 2: can get rid of the Bengals, which is pretty close

855
00:39:57,280 --> 00:39:58,319
Speaker 2: to getting rid of the bank.

856
00:39:58,480 --> 00:40:01,360
Speaker 3: Cutting the head off the hydra is big. Yeah, multiple

857
00:40:01,360 --> 00:40:04,279
Speaker 3: times here, This is like the head has been cut

858
00:40:04,320 --> 00:40:08,160
Speaker 3: off four times, off the hydra a fifth time. They

859
00:40:08,239 --> 00:40:10,040
Speaker 3: might sprout more heads, but they're not going to be

860
00:40:10,040 --> 00:40:12,400
Speaker 3: nearly as danger Well, there'll still be dangerous coming for it.

861
00:40:12,440 --> 00:40:14,240
Speaker 2: And you still do have to play the Bengals twice,

862
00:40:16,080 --> 00:40:16,640
Speaker 2: they would be.

863
00:40:16,560 --> 00:40:19,200
Speaker 3: In this is you know, I was thinking about this

864
00:40:19,560 --> 00:40:21,920
Speaker 3: because their run defense is so bad. I don't think

865
00:40:21,920 --> 00:40:23,279
Speaker 3: they sweep the Steelers this year.

866
00:40:23,520 --> 00:40:24,600
Speaker 2: I'm not sure they do either.

867
00:40:26,040 --> 00:40:28,480
Speaker 3: This Steeler team right now, running the football the way

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Speaker 3: that they are, will run all over Cincinnati.

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Speaker 2: So I was going to say something counterintuitive to that, though,

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Speaker 2: is just because of the nature of Steeler Ravens games

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Speaker 2: I would always get I would this year in a bubble,

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Speaker 2: give the Steelers a better chance to beat Baltimore than Cincy.

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Speaker 3: Well, they've already done that once.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, But I mean I'm talking about like first round,

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Speaker 2: the playoffs, or for the need this game for the

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Speaker 2: division title or something like that.

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Speaker 3: No, I don't know that I would fear if I'm

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Speaker 3: the Steelers going into Baltimore. Right, You've beaten them five

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Speaker 3: in the lists six last six times you played them, exactly.

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Speaker 2: That's why I'd love to see since he disappear. Yeah,

881
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Speaker 2: because I think they could win the Super Bowl.

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Speaker 3: Well, I know they were much more dangerous team.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, if they get things figured out and

884
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Speaker 2: you know, and you got to you gotta play them

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Speaker 2: next week. I mean if they happen to knock off

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Speaker 2: Kansas City or get on a roll, I'd love to

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Speaker 2: see them go away. And frankly, the Browns aren't mathematically

888
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Speaker 2: in that shape. But if DTR looks terrible and they

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Speaker 2: lose the Steelers, I don't know they're contender anymore or

890
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Speaker 2: you know, dangerous anymore. You know, if you get rid

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Speaker 2: of those two Ohio teams, more or less.

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Speaker 3: We've seen that. We've seen the two game after the

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Speaker 3: two team may have seen North battles many many times

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Speaker 3: over the years.

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Speaker 2: Baby Lamar doesn't finish the season or something.

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Speaker 3: You know, It's just the point being, there's just a

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Speaker 3: lot of football remaining here.

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Speaker 2: There is.

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Speaker 3: I mean to say either of those teams is buried

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Speaker 3: would be crazy. But if Cincinnati loses, they're in deep trouble.

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Speaker 2: They're in deep trouble. I mean, that's his math. That

902
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Speaker 2: doesn't matter how well they're playing or how good their quarterbacks.

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Speaker 2: They're basically in the same shit situation. Buffalo's in oh

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Speaker 2: exactly like the identical except the divisions harder like Buffalo,

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Speaker 2: I think could still win their division. If since he loses,

906
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Speaker 2: they can't, they.

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Speaker 3: Can't win the division, right the only way that they

908
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Speaker 3: could win the division it would be to sweep the

909
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Speaker 3: Steelers and then finish in a tie for the division

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Speaker 3: league with the Steelers. Will be the only way that

911
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Speaker 3: they could win because they would have gotten swept by

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Speaker 3: both Cleveland and See.

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Speaker 2: I think that's the advantage the Bills have. No, they

914
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Speaker 2: haven't played Cleveland the second time. They haven't. I think

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Speaker 2: that's the advantage.

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Speaker 3: But the three in the division, right, which is brutal.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, So the Bills, though, I still could think they

918
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Speaker 2: could still sweep Miami because they won the first matchup

919
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Speaker 2: win out almost. I mean, I don't think they will,

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Speaker 2: but they could just get ahead of Miami.

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Speaker 3: It's just such a tough can It's such a tough

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Speaker 3: thing to climb over all three teams like that tie

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Speaker 3: breakers or you know, right, and you basically have to

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Speaker 3: win your final seven games. I've seen, Yeah, I've seen

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Speaker 3: that happen. I mean, you know, I covered that two

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Speaker 3: thousand and five Steelers team that you know, they're seven

927
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Speaker 3: and five and out of the playoff picture and then

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Speaker 3: rattle off five straight wins and then three more in

929
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Speaker 3: the playoffs to get to the super Bowl.

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Speaker 2: Like, I don't think anybody expected the Vikings to win

931
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Speaker 2: their last five without Kirk Cousins and Justin Jefferson, But

932
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Speaker 2: to win nine in a row like that in the NFL,

933
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Speaker 2: it's really difficult to do. I mean again, they wouldn't

934
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Speaker 2: be buried, but the Bengals would be deep in the

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Speaker 2: grave right now. Yeah, they'd have one foot in. And

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Speaker 2: that's that's what I want. That's what Matt Williamson wants.

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Speaker 2: I just think they're the scariest team of the division.

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Speaker 2: If you can knock off Michael Myers, I'll take my

939
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Speaker 2: chances with Chucky you know whoever next up? You know,

940
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Speaker 2: get rid of the biggest dog.

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Speaker 3: Oh well, there you go that, there's there, you have it.

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Speaker 3: So that's what Matt wants. We'll see if that comes

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Speaker 3: to fruition tonight. But obviously a game.

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Speaker 2: You just can't bring himself there. I don't really care

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Speaker 2: about any other stuff.

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Speaker 3: I'm I can't for the right, he can't root for

947
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Speaker 3: a hardball. That's what it comes down. Anyways. That's gonna

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Speaker 3: do it for our show today. So we'd like to

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Speaker 3: thank our special guest Bob Labriola, who stopped by as

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Speaker 3: he does every Thursday. We'd like to thank Justin Miller

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Speaker 3: for keeping us on the air, for my partner Matt Williamson.

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Speaker 3: I'm Dale Lally and we'd like to thank you for

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Speaker 3: listening to this edition of The Drive on Steelers Nation

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