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Speaker 1: Your tunes about Drive on Home of the Black and

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Speaker 1: Goal Steelers Nation Radio. Welcome back to the Drive. I'm

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Speaker 1: Dale Ellie. He is Matt Williamson, and uh, Matt, it

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Speaker 1: is uh time for the Fantasy Football Focus and uh

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Speaker 1: it's injury day. It's Wednesday. So we started to get

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Speaker 1: some some news and notes from around the league here,

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Speaker 1: and of course we mentioned Najia Harris, a limited participant today.

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Speaker 1: Um may be surprised if he doesn't go, though, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it looks like he's he's gonna be and he said

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Speaker 1: he's you know, it's no big deal. He's gonna play.

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Speaker 1: And Mike Tomlin even talking about that at his press

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Speaker 1: conference on on Tuesday, said, you know we did. We

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Speaker 1: need to see him practice. Well, this was this was

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Speaker 1: the first step in that. And folks, real quick, I mean,

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Speaker 1: for the hundred millionth time, Warren is the handcuff. We've

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Speaker 1: been saying that for six weeks now. Yeah, Um, do

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Speaker 1: you think he has a bigger role in any reason?

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Speaker 1: I mean, I don't make it's fantasy relevant, but do

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Speaker 1: you think he may get It looks like he has

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Speaker 1: than he used to. It looks like he has a

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Speaker 1: bit of a role here. Yeah. You know, even before

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Speaker 1: Harris was hurt, he was getting some touches. Yeah. I mean,

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Speaker 1: even Harris before his injury, his percentage of snaps was

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Speaker 1: lower than it was last and I think some of

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Speaker 1: that may have been a week one thing. But at

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Speaker 1: the same time as him a little bit time. Yeah, Um,

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Speaker 1: Warrant should be in fantasy league. He should be in

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Speaker 1: fantasy leagues absolutely. Mark Ingram with an ankle, was limited

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Speaker 1: in Wednesday's practice for the Saints. It's kind of a

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Speaker 1: big deal because Camar has got a rib. Yeah, he's

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Speaker 1: dealing with a rib injury. They had a Latavious Murray

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Speaker 1: to their practice squad. Familiar face, familiar face, a guy

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Speaker 1: who you know they know. Well, uh, if they had to,

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Speaker 1: I'm sure they could bring him up off the practice

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Speaker 1: squad and he could run the ball a little bit. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: right right, familiarity thing. And when they made that move,

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Speaker 1: I didn't know about the Ingram thing. I thought maybe

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Speaker 1: the Camara one is worse than they thought. Um doing

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Speaker 1: some work. Kamara ran very few routes in the last

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Speaker 1: week's games, so I think that's probably an anomaly. Maybe

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Speaker 1: they're just using them to in protection more because their

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Speaker 1: line struggled with against Atlanta, which surprised me. But you

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Speaker 1: keep an eye on Camaro's route runs amount number of

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Speaker 1: route runs going forward. Jamis Winston, with a back, was

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Speaker 1: limited in Wednesday's practice. First I heard that one. They're

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Speaker 1: they're a little banged up. Little Atlanta hit him a lot.

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Speaker 1: And Atlanta doesn't have a great pass rush, No they don't.

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Speaker 1: I mean, left tackle is a problem for the Saints.

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Speaker 1: Everything but ram check right now is a problem for

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Speaker 1: the line. And there you know, this is one of

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Speaker 1: the problems that you have when you're used to having

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Speaker 1: studs all the way across your offensive line. Nobody's invested.

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Speaker 1: We don't have to we don't have to do any

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Speaker 1: doubles or anything like that. Now all of a sudden,

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Speaker 1: they've got holes. And then Camaro's blocking and he's not

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Speaker 1: catching pass right because he's good at that. Yeah. Uh.

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Speaker 1: Damian Williams for the Falcons did not practice on Wednesday.

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Speaker 1: Damian Williams is he played five snaps in Week one

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Speaker 1: and had two carries for two yards, but Algier was inactive.

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Speaker 1: That might get Algier active, and I'll bet he was

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Speaker 1: a big cut this week. A big cut, but but

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Speaker 1: a lot of people because Algier was active. Yeah, because

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Speaker 1: he was drafted in most leagues. I don't know what

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Speaker 1: you meant. I think he meant by NFL standards, but yeah,

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Speaker 1: from fantasy teams, and this week that may change and

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Speaker 1: run him a little bit. And Cordia Patterson looks good.

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Speaker 1: I don't trust him to last seventeen. That's um Brashad

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Speaker 1: Perriman with the knee was limited Wednesday's practice for the Buccaneers.

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Speaker 1: That's where he is now, as was Russell Gage did

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Speaker 1: not practice someone. That's what I was gonna say, is

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Speaker 1: they have two receiver injuries, well three or three really,

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Speaker 1: God's play and it's Julio and Evans. I don't think

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Speaker 1: Coolio can run anymore. We've said that many times on

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Speaker 1: the air, But for right now he's fantasy relevant because

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Speaker 1: he's the number two. They don't have a tight end.

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Speaker 1: Actually from here's so, Mike Evans was limited with the calf.

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Speaker 1: Godwin did not practice. Julio with his knee did not

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Speaker 1: I don't know how they had practiced today. He just

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Speaker 1: That would have been Mike Evans. Yeah, that would have

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Speaker 1: been Julio. Yeah, Van Jefferson. Um Sean McVey said today

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Speaker 1: that Van Jefferson's status is similar to what it has been.

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Speaker 1: That tells me that he will not play. Are you

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Speaker 1: interested in Bennett scrown Neck however you pronounced that name.

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Speaker 1: He actually gets some use. Oh no, they like him.

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Speaker 1: He's a third, He's the number three receiver on the

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Speaker 1: team that he had more catches at Allen Robinson. Yes,

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Speaker 1: gonna get every target. Seems that Robinson is going to rebound,

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Speaker 1: is going to have Robinson targeted twice or whatever. Again,

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Speaker 1: Oh well, there we go. Leonard Fournet with the hamstring

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Speaker 1: was limited Wednesday's practice. Tom Tom, Yeah, Tom was fake,

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Speaker 1: I don't know what to add to that except White

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Speaker 1: In Miami. Uh, Cedric Wilson did not practice. He's dealing

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Speaker 1: with a toe injury. He ran seventeen pass routes last week.

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Speaker 1: Edmunds with Edmunds was their third targeted player, which is

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Speaker 1: good for Edmonds. Yeah, the tight ends and receivers that

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Speaker 1: if DeAndre Swift doesn't play, Jamal Williams becomes a must start.

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Speaker 1: they're gonna give it to you. Keep an eye on Swift.

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Speaker 1: I mean that's first I heard that one too. Uh.

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Speaker 1: Speaking Wednesday forty nine, is coach Cal Shanahan said we'll

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Speaker 1: go with the hot hand in the game when asked

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Speaker 1: about his plans at running back. Obviously, Jeff Wilson will

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Speaker 1: be the starter, so he'll get the first chance to

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Speaker 1: be the hot hand. Uh. Terry and Davis Price and

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Speaker 1: and Jordan Mason will also compete for playing time. But

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Speaker 1: they like Mason. But Mason was active because he's a

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Speaker 1: special teams guy, is not. I mean, Wilson is the

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Speaker 1: and it fits well. Small prediction though, is I bet

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Speaker 1: by week four Davis Price looks like the better football player.

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Speaker 1: They just keep falling back to Jeff Wilson. I mean,

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Speaker 1: is most are any different than Mitchell? No? No, right,

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Speaker 1: right right? None of them are particularly good. And the

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Speaker 1: guys that they draft high, sermon. I don't know if

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Speaker 1: it's true about Davids Price. Remember the Joe Williams kid

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Speaker 1: that he stood on the table for the guys that

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Speaker 1: like Davis Price a lot coming out. I did too,

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Speaker 1: but you know, if he can't pass, block and do

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Speaker 1: those kind of things, he's running the wrong direction on

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Speaker 1: you know, they're gonna try. What they're going to try

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Speaker 1: the young quarterback. So somebody not being in the right

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Speaker 1: you know, Debo will probably get some carries back. This

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Speaker 1: is almost the anti Patriot conversation we had. Davis Price

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Speaker 1: he doesn't fit with that scheme. And sometimes these coaches

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Speaker 1: just started, well, we can't just lean on our bread

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Speaker 1: and butter. We gotta switch things up. And you know,

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Speaker 1: like they're drafting Aaron Banks. There's three fifty pounds and

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Speaker 1: they're trying to run in power. But they're the best

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Speaker 1: you do? And everybody else has tried to do what

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Speaker 1: be good at you know, take a page from Lombardi's

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Speaker 1: they can't stop. Get a seal here and run to

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Speaker 1: daylight right and steal or trapped you know. Uh, Michael

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Speaker 1: Pittman with the quad injury was limited in Wednesday's practice. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's concerned on my phone. That went from nothing to something.

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Speaker 1: does not bode well. You mentioned Kamara with the rib injury.

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Speaker 1: He did practice today, good good as usage wasn't what

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Speaker 1: you want though. Yeah. Who the Broncos placed Justin Simmons

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Speaker 1: on injury reserve with the quad injury. Really, that's a

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Speaker 1: sixty four yard field goal. Yes, and and they won't

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Speaker 1: fumble twice on the goal line again, you know, like that,

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Speaker 1: but they did. Yeah. And if you heard that, Pete

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Speaker 1: Carroll had some interesting, a roundabout ways of talking about

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Speaker 1: Russell Wilson, you know, just basically saying we're happier he's gone.

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Speaker 1: He's a real high maintenance guy. Yeah. I just I

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Speaker 1: don't love what's going on Denver Keenan Allen with the

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Speaker 1: hamstring injury is out for the week to game against

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Speaker 1: the Chiefs. Uh. It looks like J. C. Jackson probably

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Speaker 1: not going to play in that game either. That could

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Speaker 1: be a shootout that's up and down the field. Uh.

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Speaker 1: Mike Williams didn't do much last week. Fire him up

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Speaker 1: this week. If you just trade for him on the cheap,

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Speaker 1: if you can get him at eight percent of what

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Speaker 1: the owner aid four and or whatever, I'd be all

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Speaker 1: over that. I think Palmer might be startable. I think

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Speaker 1: He's at Ekeler kind of like we're talking about Kamara,

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Speaker 1: Um didn't get used in the passing game as much

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Speaker 1: he hasn't played a lot in the preseason. How about

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Speaker 1: this news Matt J. K. Dobbins practicing in full on Wednesday.

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Speaker 1: running backs were awful. Um. I wrote up that game.

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Speaker 1: and wherever you get your podcasts. We'll be back again tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: We'll have another injury reporting him. I have a little

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Speaker 1: bit more clarity on some of that, probably some news

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Speaker 1: out of New England, more more so than Mac Jones.

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Speaker 1: And uh, we'll help a game to talk about tomorrow

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Speaker 1: as well as that's a big a f C game.

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Speaker 1: I think there are two of the best three teams

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Speaker 1: gonna get a loss, so we'll see how that goes

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Speaker 1: as well. But for my partner Matt Williamson for a

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Speaker 1: Jacob and Brian lamartin in here bringing us, keeping us

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Speaker 1: on the air, which we did today. Uh Lolly, we

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Speaker 1: thank you for listening to this edition of the Drive

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