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Speaker 2: And we are back. I am Dale Lolly, he is

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Speaker 2: the Matt Williamson and this is the drive on the

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Speaker 2: Steelers Audio Network. I'm for the Fantasy football focus here, Matt.

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Speaker 2: We mentioned two quarterback changes this week already. It doesn't

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Speaker 2: look like the Saints are going to get back car Car. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: he has two fractures in his hands. No really, Yeah,

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Speaker 2: I wonder if they had just shut him down, probably

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Speaker 2: for this season. So based on what we saw last week,

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Speaker 2: he can't start any New Orleans pasts.

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Speaker 3: And I think Kamara's got hurt at the end of

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Speaker 3: that game too. I don't know what his status is,

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Speaker 3: but he was the only one you're slightly excited about.

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Speaker 3: Maybe Kendre Miller. I mean, I just don't think the

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Speaker 2: Let's look at this week's schedule to kind of figure

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Speaker 2: some kind of stuff out. Uh So the Thursday night

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Speaker 3: It's a good one.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, uh huge one. In the AFC playoffs standings, you

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Speaker 2: have the nine to five Broncos at the eight and

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Speaker 2: six Chargers. The Chargers defense. Chargers are starting to fall.

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Speaker 2: It's not been playing very well.

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Speaker 3: No, I think we want to see the Chargers in

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Speaker 3: the playoffs. I mean, I think they're kind of falling

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Speaker 2: Way this is going though. Unless they win this game,

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Speaker 2: all their competitors they might be seven. It just you know,

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Speaker 2: you need them to win this game to finish sixth.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, so I know that there's some teams alive,

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Speaker 3: But is it reasonable to even think like the Dolphins, Colts,

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Speaker 2: The Chargers win, The Charges are eight and six right.

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Speaker 3: Now, cultureally screwed it up last week.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so at eight and six they would have to

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Speaker 2: they'll be not they'll be at nine wins and the

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Speaker 3: Get to nine, right, So they basically need this. I

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Speaker 2: many confidences. Tie breakers were brutal for Yeah, but that's

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Speaker 3: Yeah. I also think he's in the defensive player of

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Speaker 2: but we want the Chargers to win on Thursday, right,

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Speaker 2: I would say so. Yeah, if we're talking about fantasy defenses,

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Speaker 2: are you interested in either Denver? Denver has been good.

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Speaker 2: Now Patrick Mahomes has he practiced today. I assume it

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Speaker 2: But the defenses is played. Okay, okay, I mean anyone

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Speaker 2: The Lions have been a must start all season long.

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Speaker 2: You have the three and eleven Titans at the six

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Speaker 3: Fine, Yeah, I do like the Titans d, but they

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Speaker 2: And I actually picked the Colts defense up in our league.

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Speaker 3: They have the easiest stretch you've ever seen.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, because they have the tailored garbage down the stretch.

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Speaker 3: I'm like, the stretch is wonderful.

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Speaker 2: You have the Rams at the Jets.

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Speaker 2: You have the Eagles at the Commanders. No, in the Commanders,

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Speaker 3: Yeah really good. Yeah, there could be points in that game.

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Speaker 2: But still the Browns are at the Bengals. Are you

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Speaker 3: You're definitely not going. The Browns are dumb I don't know,

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a great one. Not that they're out there

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Speaker 3: and you can pick up the Vikes, but Seattle. He's

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Speaker 3: Jaguars at the Raiders, yuck.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't want to know. And no, I don't

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Speaker 3: I'm just thinking it might be thirteen to ten. That's it.

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Speaker 2: I don't when I say I don't want to touch

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Speaker 3: Right, Like you put, Brian, tom might be the worst

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Speaker 2: The three and eleven Jaguars without their quarterback against the

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Speaker 3: Both teams probably aren't super interested in winning.

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Speaker 2: So how about this, So if the if the Steelers

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Speaker 2: it breaks down. The reason they will win the division

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Speaker 2: come down to that loss the ras had against the

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Speaker 3: That's the one that will keep them out of the

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Speaker 3: It is. But what about defenses if it's a race

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Speaker 2: Yeah, there's gonna be a bunch of Jaguars fans on hands.

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Speaker 3: Hey, here's your tickets.

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Speaker 2: You have some tickets to the Raiders game today.

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Speaker 3: Pull the pull the slots. Anything better than that.

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Speaker 2: There's a fake Diana Ross down the street, and I go,

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Speaker 3: That's terrible.

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Speaker 2: Oh you got the six and eight forty nine ers

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Speaker 3: It's definitely a loser, leave town, man, if they already

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Speaker 3: Like I'd rather play the Colts. Yeah, you know some

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Speaker 2: Bad football. Both be really cheap. I know that when

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Speaker 3: That's a terrible football game. That's like the Hall of

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Speaker 2: It will be more recognizable.

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Speaker 2: Oh god, Oh imagine being the brock Bauers owner right

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Speaker 3: I wonder if Thomas is the same way now too,

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Speaker 2: But at least mac Jones can. Yeah, he's he'll get Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Ridder is terrible, Riders awful. I'd rather have John Ridder

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean even my father sinceres getting hurt and

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Speaker 2: The Sunday night game is Buccaneers at Cowboys.

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Speaker 3: Interesting one. I think the Bucks are pretty darn good team. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: The Monday night game is the five and nine Saints

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Speaker 3: Yuh, Packers. The he's been getting better and better and better,

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Speaker 3: as start as will be nails. Packers a couple of

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Speaker 3: You can. Packers' success is going to counteract itself, Yeah

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Speaker 3: Yet that worked that well for the schedulers, the.

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Speaker 3: It does, but boy, they're pretty hopeless. I think Panics

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Speaker 3: Side note on the Lions, we talked about this briefly

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Speaker 3: your life, right, I'd rather throw a hail Mary. Ten

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Speaker 3: you have to announce it. You have to announce it, right,

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Speaker 3: He thought there was a better chance that they would

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Speaker 3: deep or he's one to ignite his team or bite

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Speaker 3: knee caps or whatever. I think he's a really good coach,

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Speaker 2: I don't know that he is a really good I

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Speaker 2: think he's a good motivator. I don't know that he's

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Speaker 3: I see what you're saying, and I hadn't thought of

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Speaker 3: that has experience in this matter, that basically said, playing

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Speaker 2: I heard that very early about him in his career,

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Speaker 3: Day camp opens to the day are eliminated. I mean,

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Speaker 2: That's who he is. That's that's his personality, and I

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Speaker 3: In October and November. You know, it's burnt out right.

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Speaker 3: It's just you're like, give me a break, you know.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Colts Titans, I guess the game still matters to

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Speaker 3: I think they're inn win division.

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Speaker 2: I think so too. Eagles Commanders is a big one

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Speaker 3: Yeah, they're both in probably, but yeah, Browns Bengals. Bengals

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Speaker 2: you want to play guys there, Bill's Patriots. That one

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Speaker 2: it's you know, you're up three touchdowns early and you

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Speaker 3: I don't think we're to this point yet, but if

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Speaker 2: I mean, actually they're just wonder from from a from

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Speaker 3: I think it's getting close to let's conserve our biggest asset, Yeah, situation.

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Speaker 2: Hey, Josh, we're up seventeen points here. We don't want

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Speaker 3: Just yeah right, oh yeah, I think that stuff's on

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Speaker 2: Yeah, So that's certainly something to keep an eye on there.

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Speaker 2: Not that you're going to bench Josh Allen, but don't

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Speaker 3: Know he's going to have sixty fantasy.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he's gonna have four touchdown passes and three rushing touchdowns.

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Speaker 2: I don't know about that in this one.

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Speaker 3: I know you're not suggesting put Josh Allen on your bench. No,

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Speaker 2: Like you're the expectations like when you see your you know,

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Speaker 3: No. I mean, if it's.

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Speaker 2: You're on the one yard line, goal to go, I'm

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Speaker 2: giving it three Davis? Yeah, why should I? Why should

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Speaker 3: Hit against the Patriots? And these bad teams are playing.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Jaguars Raiders, we've talked about that one. Forty nine

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I think both teams will be playing hard. Yep, Bucks Cowboys,

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Speaker 2: I think they'll play Bucks still have the Falcons and the

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Speaker 2: Cowboys are playing hard. Yeah, they haven't cashed it. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: Gonna be a total blowout. Yeah, whatever that spread is

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Speaker 2: I And again I wonder I worry about some of

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Speaker 3: Late in the game, just goofing off on the sidelines.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, because I think they'll and and the Saints. You

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Speaker 3: What's his face the clear Jacob's backup handcuff Wilson Williams

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Speaker 3: the Saints in the second.

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Speaker 2: Half, Yeah, and they were running. They kind of split

441
00:20:01,480 --> 00:20:03,960
Speaker 2: that up a little bit anyways, and they like them.

442
00:20:05,359 --> 00:20:07,320
Speaker 2: So just something to keep an eye on there as

443
00:20:07,359 --> 00:20:11,000
Speaker 2: you go into these games. Some of these quarterbacks that

444
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Speaker 2: got you there, the Lamar Jackson's so Josh Allens even

445
00:20:15,600 --> 00:20:17,920
Speaker 2: to to my degree that Jordan loves and guys like

446
00:20:17,960 --> 00:20:19,359
Speaker 2: that I don't know that you're going to see some

447
00:20:19,400 --> 00:20:21,239
Speaker 2: of those kind of big games even the last week.

448
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Speaker 3: I if Lamaro have a big game this game, but

449
00:20:23,400 --> 00:20:25,480
Speaker 3: they they're in no position to shut it down.

450
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Speaker 2: Shut it down. But I mean, you look at Lamar's

451
00:20:29,359 --> 00:20:32,560
Speaker 2: next two matchups next Houston.

452
00:20:32,359 --> 00:20:34,720
Speaker 3: On a short week, just bad teams to play again.

453
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Speaker 2: Yeah, right, That's why I wonder, And that's that's the

454
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Speaker 2: other You know, in those particular games with the two teams,

455
00:20:40,560 --> 00:20:44,879
Speaker 2: with the four teams on the short week, do the

456
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Speaker 2: coaches treat these games a little bit differently because you've

457
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Speaker 2: got to have a quick turnaround.

458
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Speaker 3: These four teams to me, are really interesting in that

459
00:20:53,720 --> 00:20:57,360
Speaker 3: they're all going to the playoffs. Might one of the coaches

460
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Speaker 3: to the coaches. For the coaches, it won't be not

461
00:21:00,920 --> 00:21:04,680
Speaker 3: treat them super seriously. You know, obviously Steelers raven is

462
00:21:04,680 --> 00:21:06,880
Speaker 3: gonna be treated the upmost seriousness.

463
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Speaker 2: But I know, just close to the playoffs, you want

464
00:21:10,760 --> 00:21:12,480
Speaker 2: to do, you want to have, you know, you're the

465
00:21:12,520 --> 00:21:14,719
Speaker 2: Chiefs with one loss? Is just a game where they

466
00:21:14,720 --> 00:21:16,720
Speaker 2: can the Ravens come out. Hey, we're gonna give it

467
00:21:16,720 --> 00:21:18,880
Speaker 2: to Dereck Henry twenty five times. This game, I know,

468
00:21:18,960 --> 00:21:21,080
Speaker 2: with a game with another game coming up against Houston

469
00:21:21,080 --> 00:21:23,720
Speaker 2: that we got to win on short break and all that,

470
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Speaker 2: and then on Wednesday and the game after that.

471
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Speaker 3: It might not matter at all. And I don't know,

472
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Speaker 3: there's there's gonna be some big picture and short term

473
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Speaker 3: thinking with all these coaches.

474
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Speaker 2: It's just an interesting little dynamic and fantasy portion of

475
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Speaker 2: this thing with Houston.

476
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Speaker 3: Trying to build momentum coming out of the by and

477
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Speaker 3: maybe they can. I don't know. Yeah, but it's fourth

478
00:21:43,119 --> 00:21:44,280
Speaker 3: quarters might be weird.

479
00:21:44,280 --> 00:21:46,760
Speaker 2: Could be weird, could be weird, and you could see

480
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Speaker 2: more substitutions than normal even you know, lessening workloads and

481
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Speaker 2: things of that nature.

482
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Speaker 3: So I wonder, I mean, there's always another side of

483
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Speaker 3: the coin. Are the teams like the Rams more appealing

484
00:22:00,320 --> 00:22:02,720
Speaker 3: that maybe win or die type teams? You know that

485
00:22:02,760 --> 00:22:04,720
Speaker 3: I got everything to play for and I need everything

486
00:22:04,760 --> 00:22:07,439
Speaker 3: to go my way. Maybe, so I'm not taking anything

487
00:22:07,440 --> 00:22:09,959
Speaker 3: off Stafford's played. I mean, yeah, he might run more

488
00:22:10,000 --> 00:22:10,920
Speaker 3: than you start.

489
00:22:10,920 --> 00:22:12,959
Speaker 2: A bunch of guys in the Broncos Chargers games.

490
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Speaker 3: Probably five teams that apply in that, you know that manner. Yeah,

491
00:22:17,040 --> 00:22:18,520
Speaker 3: AFC is pretty locked up though.

492
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Speaker 2: It's pretty locked up though, but I think if Tampa

493
00:22:21,240 --> 00:22:23,480
Speaker 2: you want to start your guy, like the Chargers aren't

494
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Speaker 2: in yet, right and they're not playing well, I'd be

495
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Speaker 2: a little nervous.

496
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Speaker 3: I'd be a little nervous. Yeah, I mean if if

497
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Speaker 3: one of those other teams have one more win Miami

498
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Speaker 3: or Cinci or in the year, you know, yeah, they

499
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Speaker 3: got kind of lucky that all those teams pretty crappy.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, but yeah, let's get through a break. He is

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Speaker 2: the Matt Williamson. I am Dale Lolly. You're listening to

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Speaker 2: the Drive here on the Steelers Audio Network. Matt and

503
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Speaker 2: I will be back with more right after this.

504
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Speaker 1: He's the Drive with Dale Lolly and Matt Williamson on

505
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Speaker 1: your twenty four to seven Home of the Gold Steelers Nation.

506
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Speaker 3: Radio and we are back. I'm Dale Lolly.

507
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Speaker 2: He is the Matt Williamson and Matt. I know it

508
00:23:11,720 --> 00:23:14,400
Speaker 2: doesn't feel like a Tuesday, but it is a Tuesday.

509
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Speaker 2: Nick Tis means it's a power ranking day. Dick in

510
00:23:18,400 --> 00:23:22,879
Speaker 2: at number thirty two. Some strong contenders, some really strong contenders.

511
00:23:22,960 --> 00:23:25,840
Speaker 2: That Jags Raiders game we talked about, Oh baby, the

512
00:23:25,960 --> 00:23:29,320
Speaker 2: loser of that game that should be like, what do

513
00:23:29,320 --> 00:23:32,320
Speaker 2: they call it? The relegation games like the toilet Bowl. No,

514
00:23:32,359 --> 00:23:34,680
Speaker 2: you get relegated to it. You get like to the CFO.

515
00:23:34,760 --> 00:23:37,280
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, like they're doing soccer or whatever. Right you

516
00:23:37,359 --> 00:23:39,320
Speaker 2: coming last, Yeah, you go down. You lose that when

517
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Speaker 2: you gotta go to the CFO. The SEC Yeah yeah right,

518
00:23:42,520 --> 00:23:43,440
Speaker 2: SEC is good.

519
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think so, Like the Giants are working both

520
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Speaker 3: of them.

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Speaker 2: Though the Giants are at thirty two, the.

522
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Speaker 3: Ravens, that was the least competitive game you can imagine.

523
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Speaker 2: Yeah, at thirty one holding steady are the Raiders?

524
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Speaker 3: Yeah, and they currently own the top two picks too.

525
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Speaker 2: Yeah.

526
00:24:00,840 --> 00:24:02,760
Speaker 3: You almost feel bad for the Jags. We could go

527
00:24:02,800 --> 00:24:04,199
Speaker 3: they had the first pick in the draft and now

528
00:24:04,200 --> 00:24:06,159
Speaker 3: they're like ninth. Well that's what they get for the

529
00:24:06,160 --> 00:24:07,240
Speaker 3: tight teams, right right.

530
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Speaker 2: That's what you know when we talked about that as

531
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Speaker 2: an aside, when the Steelers made the trade for Minka

532
00:24:11,960 --> 00:24:15,240
Speaker 2: Fitzpatrick a couple of years ago, longtime listeners to the show.

533
00:24:15,040 --> 00:24:18,280
Speaker 3: Would know that because that was in twenty nineteen. Ben

534
00:24:18,440 --> 00:24:18,800
Speaker 3: was hurt.

535
00:24:18,960 --> 00:24:20,880
Speaker 2: Ben was hurt, and we were saying, no, you make

536
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Speaker 2: this trade because you're not. People say, well, you're trading

537
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Speaker 2: away a top five pick. I'm like, I don't know

538
00:24:24,720 --> 00:24:26,399
Speaker 2: if you realize how bad you have to be to

539
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Speaker 2: get a top five pick.

540
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Speaker 3: No, I remember going through it thoroughly. There were teams

541
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Speaker 3: at the time, like Washington and Houston that were like

542
00:24:32,840 --> 00:24:36,480
Speaker 3: as bad as these teams. I'm like, yeah, with Ben's replacement,

543
00:24:36,520 --> 00:24:38,520
Speaker 3: the Steelers are going to finish better than these guys. Yeah,

544
00:24:38,520 --> 00:24:40,120
Speaker 3: and there was about ten of them.

545
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Speaker 2: Yeah, the Titans' remember where that pick ended up being.

546
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Speaker 3: It was welltid like sixteen. Yeah. I thought it was

547
00:24:47,680 --> 00:24:48,359
Speaker 3: like right in the middle.

548
00:24:48,440 --> 00:24:51,919
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, uh thirty is are the Titans holding steady?

549
00:24:52,880 --> 00:24:54,600
Speaker 3: I guess you have to go though, Do you have

550
00:24:54,680 --> 00:25:01,119
Speaker 3: to go to Rudolph? I mean he's way better. Yeah.

551
00:25:01,200 --> 00:25:03,439
Speaker 2: But I think when you you went out and you

552
00:25:03,480 --> 00:25:06,960
Speaker 2: signed all those veterans in the offseason to be able

553
00:25:07,000 --> 00:25:08,800
Speaker 2: to look those guys in the eyes and say, hey,

554
00:25:08,800 --> 00:25:10,800
Speaker 2: we're gonna we gotta do what's best to help us

555
00:25:10,800 --> 00:25:14,240
Speaker 2: try to win a game against the Colts of division rival. Yeah,

556
00:25:14,240 --> 00:25:15,159
Speaker 2: you gotta make the switch.

557
00:25:16,000 --> 00:25:18,720
Speaker 3: There's something to the locker room. And you can't lose

558
00:25:18,760 --> 00:25:21,720
Speaker 3: the steamroll to a team here to play twice next year. Yeah,

559
00:25:21,880 --> 00:25:22,800
Speaker 3: that wouldn't be good.

560
00:25:22,880 --> 00:25:24,640
Speaker 2: You can't lose the locker room, especially if your first

561
00:25:24,720 --> 00:25:30,480
Speaker 2: year coach like coaching. Yeah, I guess at twenty nine

562
00:25:30,560 --> 00:25:34,320
Speaker 2: down a spot, the Patriots, Yeah, they're pretty bad.

563
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Speaker 3: They're bad. At twenty eight up a spot, are the

564
00:25:38,600 --> 00:25:44,760
Speaker 3: Jaguars fine? I mean Mac Jones is adequate, Yeah, the

565
00:25:44,880 --> 00:25:45,840
Speaker 3: weapons are okay.

566
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Speaker 2: Mac Jones is a top thirty six quarterback.

567
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I would say. I would say he's.

568
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Speaker 2: Not thirty two, He's in the top thirty six.

569
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Speaker 3: I wouldn't mentioned this with the Titans or no, I'll

570
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Speaker 3: wait till we get to the Colts. All right, never mind,

571
00:26:02,560 --> 00:26:04,560
Speaker 3: we were talking Colts and Titans and my wires got cross.

572
00:26:04,680 --> 00:26:07,400
Speaker 2: At twenty seven down a spot after they played well

573
00:26:07,640 --> 00:26:11,040
Speaker 2: the past few weeks. Are the Carolina Panthers a rough

574
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Speaker 2: game against the Cowboys?

575
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Speaker 3: No question, they're better than all these teams mentioned though. Yeah,

576
00:26:15,040 --> 00:26:19,680
Speaker 3: I definitely believe that. At twenty six, up a spot,

577
00:26:20,040 --> 00:26:24,000
Speaker 3: the Jets. I'm okay with that. Here's my fear from

578
00:26:24,000 --> 00:26:26,359
Speaker 3: a Jets fan, because I don't trust my owner. To

579
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Speaker 3: begin with, Yeah, he loved Aaron Rodgers. Yeah, if Rogers

580
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Speaker 3: has a couple more games like this where it's not

581
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Speaker 3: terrible and you win against a bad team, does he

582
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Speaker 3: convince the owner to come back.

583
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Speaker 2: I don't know if it was the owner though, I

584
00:26:40,480 --> 00:26:42,720
Speaker 2: don't think Whatody Johnson was a big Aaron Rodgers. He

585
00:26:43,280 --> 00:26:43,960
Speaker 2: said some things.

586
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Speaker 3: I just say, it's really bad owners.

587
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Speaker 2: I think it was the GM that was making the

588
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Speaker 2: call on that one, and that's why they're looking for

589
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Speaker 2: a new GM.

590
00:26:51,480 --> 00:26:55,520
Speaker 3: Okay, And he didn't think that was the route I

591
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Speaker 3: know Sola was.

592
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Speaker 2: He said some things about Rogers that haven't exactly been glows.

593
00:27:01,040 --> 00:27:03,399
Speaker 3: Okay. I didn't know that. Yeah, I assumed what he

594
00:27:03,480 --> 00:27:06,080
Speaker 3: makes all the calls and screws them up. No, no,

595
00:27:06,160 --> 00:27:08,119
Speaker 3: I don't believe he screws it up.

596
00:27:09,880 --> 00:27:12,480
Speaker 2: At twenty five holding Steady or the Browns.

597
00:27:13,119 --> 00:27:15,640
Speaker 3: Yeah, but they're the Jets. Would beat the Browns right now? Yeah,

598
00:27:15,720 --> 00:27:17,080
Speaker 3: dtr you know, come on.

599
00:27:18,560 --> 00:27:20,640
Speaker 2: At twenty four holding Steady or the Bears.

600
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Speaker 3: I guess they're the best team mentioned.

601
00:27:24,359 --> 00:27:26,720
Speaker 2: Four and ten. This is what we're talking about, folks.

602
00:27:26,840 --> 00:27:28,679
Speaker 3: They're in an eight game losing streak. I haven't one

603
00:27:28,720 --> 00:27:30,040
Speaker 3: on the road in a thousand years.

604
00:27:30,480 --> 00:27:32,200
Speaker 2: At twenty three holding Steady with.

605
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Speaker 3: Four and two.

606
00:27:33,880 --> 00:27:37,320
Speaker 2: Yeah, at twenty three holding Steady or the Saints.

607
00:27:38,960 --> 00:27:44,240
Speaker 3: Yeah, but I mean, how much water can they take

608
00:27:44,320 --> 00:27:46,720
Speaker 3: on like I bet they lose the Jets or Browns.

609
00:27:46,720 --> 00:27:49,960
Speaker 3: They would lose to the Bears. They lose the Bears, yeah,

610
00:27:50,560 --> 00:27:54,800
Speaker 3: h Like they beat the Titans six out of ten times.

611
00:27:54,800 --> 00:27:57,280
Speaker 2: Well, I don't know about that, right, you know, Like

612
00:27:57,680 --> 00:28:00,000
Speaker 2: I don't. I don't have to watch any of those teams.

613
00:28:00,160 --> 00:28:01,960
Speaker 2: I don't want to have to watch them at all.

614
00:28:02,080 --> 00:28:04,800
Speaker 3: I'd rather watch like the Jets and Bears and almost

615
00:28:04,840 --> 00:28:07,440
Speaker 3: anyone else we mentioned. Or I'd rather it to Patriots.

616
00:28:07,040 --> 00:28:10,080
Speaker 2: Because I'd rather watch you sing the Star Spangled banner

617
00:28:10,080 --> 00:28:11,320
Speaker 2: and I know you can't sing a lick.

618
00:28:11,400 --> 00:28:12,359
Speaker 3: Oh, I'm horrendous.

619
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Speaker 2: At twenty two down four spots. The Colts way better.

620
00:28:18,640 --> 00:28:21,320
Speaker 3: Than all those other teams. Yeah, just a lot of

621
00:28:21,359 --> 00:28:22,919
Speaker 3: this though. That's why I wanted to bring them up.

622
00:28:23,320 --> 00:28:24,600
Speaker 3: I think we had. I think it was off the air.

623
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Speaker 3: We were talking about Anthony Richardson, what do you do

624
00:28:26,440 --> 00:28:28,359
Speaker 3: with them? They're not going to draft one in the

625
00:28:28,359 --> 00:28:30,320
Speaker 3: first round. I'd signed Justin Field.

626
00:28:30,320 --> 00:28:32,840
Speaker 2: I'd signed Justin Field. Y told you that two weeks ago,

627
00:28:33,080 --> 00:28:35,600
Speaker 2: did you? Yeah, that's where you got the idea for this.

628
00:28:35,640 --> 00:28:36,159
Speaker 3: It must have been.

629
00:28:36,200 --> 00:28:37,720
Speaker 2: I just hadn't mentioned it on the air.

630
00:28:38,240 --> 00:28:39,640
Speaker 3: I was actually in the shower, and I don't know

631
00:28:39,680 --> 00:28:42,120
Speaker 3: why I was thinking about Justin Fields. I'm like Richardson

632
00:28:42,520 --> 00:28:43,440
Speaker 3: a podcast.

633
00:28:43,040 --> 00:28:45,080
Speaker 2: So now you're thinking to me while you're in the shower,

634
00:28:45,120 --> 00:28:46,480
Speaker 2: that fantastically.

635
00:28:46,520 --> 00:28:48,520
Speaker 3: I didn't know that you told me that that's a

636
00:28:48,520 --> 00:28:49,600
Speaker 3: perfect matchup.

637
00:28:49,280 --> 00:28:52,120
Speaker 2: Though, I know that's why I told you that. Yeah, Like,

638
00:28:52,440 --> 00:28:54,600
Speaker 2: if I'm if I'm the Colts, I signed Justin Fields

639
00:28:54,600 --> 00:28:56,640
Speaker 2: because you don't have to change the offense at all.

640
00:28:58,080 --> 00:28:59,920
Speaker 2: You don't have to change anything in your offense.

641
00:29:00,080 --> 00:29:01,640
Speaker 3: He probably beats me, who knows, he beats him out,

642
00:29:01,680 --> 00:29:03,920
Speaker 3: but I mean, yeah, at least it's a fallback play.

643
00:29:04,200 --> 00:29:06,440
Speaker 2: And if I'm Fields, I'm like, okay, oh.

644
00:29:06,320 --> 00:29:10,280
Speaker 3: I do it in my fields, right, Yeah, it's taking

645
00:29:11,520 --> 00:29:15,000
Speaker 3: I thought that myself at twenty one, up a spot

646
00:29:15,560 --> 00:29:18,480
Speaker 3: the Cowboys at six and eight. They're better than the Colts.

647
00:29:20,480 --> 00:29:23,520
Speaker 3: Like I know, Richardson doesn't complete passes, and that's a problem.

648
00:29:23,600 --> 00:29:25,600
Speaker 3: It's an issue, But there is two things that are

649
00:29:25,600 --> 00:29:28,600
Speaker 3: really really good about him. He's like impossible to sack,

650
00:29:29,160 --> 00:29:31,800
Speaker 3: and he's actually a very good decision maker. So there's

651
00:29:31,880 --> 00:29:33,160
Speaker 3: very few negative plays.

652
00:29:33,840 --> 00:29:35,000
Speaker 2: There's very few positives.

653
00:29:35,080 --> 00:29:41,520
Speaker 3: They also have like three backup offensive linement right now, yeah, them.

654
00:29:39,680 --> 00:29:43,720
Speaker 2: In the Cowboys are same, I guess yeah. At twenty

655
00:29:43,880 --> 00:29:45,200
Speaker 2: up a spot the Bengals.

656
00:29:45,680 --> 00:29:50,640
Speaker 3: Yeah, they're playing well, well compared to all these teams.

657
00:29:50,640 --> 00:29:53,440
Speaker 3: We well as a stretch. I mean they're better than

658
00:29:53,480 --> 00:29:57,120
Speaker 3: the Cowboys. I mean, I'm not saying the defense even

659
00:29:57,160 --> 00:30:00,200
Speaker 3: closer slash to the Cowboys a couple of weeks would

660
00:30:00,200 --> 00:30:02,520
Speaker 3: pick him over the Cowboy. Yeah, I guess they beat them,

661
00:30:02,520 --> 00:30:04,160
Speaker 3: didn't they? I think so? Yeah? They did.

662
00:30:05,160 --> 00:30:12,840
Speaker 2: At nineteen holding steady Miami, Miami versus Cincinnati and Dallas's.

663
00:30:13,080 --> 00:30:15,160
Speaker 3: You know, the Bengals, we favored their favorite over everybody.

664
00:30:15,160 --> 00:30:18,720
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, the Jets would be favorite, like yeah, yeah, yeah,

665
00:30:18,760 --> 00:30:21,880
Speaker 2: because their favorite every week. I probably picked Miami.

666
00:30:22,120 --> 00:30:24,960
Speaker 3: I think Miami is the best team mentioned. So yeah.

667
00:30:25,160 --> 00:30:28,520
Speaker 2: At eighteen down a spot San Francisco, I think.

668
00:30:28,440 --> 00:30:30,440
Speaker 3: The rudder is about to fall off that ship too,

669
00:30:30,800 --> 00:30:31,880
Speaker 3: if it hasn't already.

670
00:30:33,640 --> 00:30:36,040
Speaker 2: At seventeen, they got a party issue coming up here.

671
00:30:36,080 --> 00:30:40,040
Speaker 2: They do not very pretty, isn't a At seventeen up

672
00:30:40,080 --> 00:30:42,200
Speaker 2: three spots the Falcons.

673
00:30:42,800 --> 00:30:46,320
Speaker 3: I'm not willing to go there. I mean, they could

674
00:30:46,360 --> 00:30:48,800
Speaker 3: have lost that game last night and.

675
00:30:48,760 --> 00:30:51,440
Speaker 2: Had to the Raiders without Max Crosby.

676
00:30:51,400 --> 00:30:54,240
Speaker 3: Right, and they had two block punts in a safety.

677
00:30:55,240 --> 00:30:57,920
Speaker 3: I mean Beijeon was like the only thing working. Yeah,

678
00:30:57,920 --> 00:31:03,040
Speaker 3: I think they lose to Miami, Cincinnati Dallas Cousins is broken. Yes.

679
00:31:03,920 --> 00:31:06,960
Speaker 2: At sixteen holding steady the Cardinals.

680
00:31:07,440 --> 00:31:10,200
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm fine with that. They're right there with Miami.

681
00:31:10,240 --> 00:31:14,040
Speaker 2: I'd say at fifteen down two spots the Seahawks.

682
00:31:16,280 --> 00:31:21,120
Speaker 3: If it's how it's worse because I don't think Gino's great.

683
00:31:21,160 --> 00:31:22,240
Speaker 2: How could it be worse?

684
00:31:22,480 --> 00:31:28,920
Speaker 3: Oh? Why putting Sam in the pass protection is so bad? Yeah,

685
00:31:28,960 --> 00:31:31,680
Speaker 3: and he's a sack machine to begin with. I mean

686
00:31:31,720 --> 00:31:35,120
Speaker 3: it's not pretty. Gas on the fire, yeah, not pretty

687
00:31:35,160 --> 00:31:40,840
Speaker 3: at all. At fourteen up a spot, the Rams clearly,

688
00:31:40,880 --> 00:31:43,240
Speaker 3: I might even have them higher. I think they're good.

689
00:31:43,480 --> 00:31:44,800
Speaker 3: That's the first TEA might say is good.

690
00:31:44,920 --> 00:31:47,800
Speaker 2: At thirteen down four spots are the Chargers.

691
00:31:48,160 --> 00:31:52,280
Speaker 3: I think the Rams are the Chargers right now, Chargers

692
00:31:52,320 --> 00:31:54,120
Speaker 3: D's starting to fall apart. They can't run the.

693
00:31:54,040 --> 00:31:55,720
Speaker 2: Ball at all, can't run it at all.

694
00:31:55,800 --> 00:32:01,000
Speaker 3: Right. At twelve up two spots, Tampa Bay, I would

695
00:32:01,000 --> 00:32:03,880
Speaker 3: have them definitely ahead of the Chargers and the Rams.

696
00:32:03,920 --> 00:32:08,360
Speaker 3: I think Tampa's good. At eleven up a spot, is Houston. Yeah,

697
00:32:08,360 --> 00:32:11,880
Speaker 3: they're showing signs. The defense is strong. Stingley and those guys.

698
00:32:12,840 --> 00:32:14,800
Speaker 3: I may have underestimated that defense. It's good.

699
00:32:14,960 --> 00:32:17,000
Speaker 2: At ten up a spot is Washington.

700
00:32:17,280 --> 00:32:18,520
Speaker 3: Oh, they'd be behind a couple of these.

701
00:32:18,880 --> 00:32:21,160
Speaker 2: Yeah, I have them behind Houston and Tampa.

702
00:32:21,520 --> 00:32:23,320
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, yeah, it's exactly what I say.

703
00:32:24,840 --> 00:32:26,800
Speaker 2: At nine up a spot is Denver.

704
00:32:27,120 --> 00:32:29,480
Speaker 3: I'd have them behind Houston and Tampa too. Yeah. I

705
00:32:29,520 --> 00:32:32,760
Speaker 3: think so. It's a good story. It's good defense, well coached,

706
00:32:32,840 --> 00:32:35,280
Speaker 3: but that's a little rich.

707
00:32:35,560 --> 00:32:38,680
Speaker 2: At eight down two spots are the Steelers.

708
00:32:38,880 --> 00:32:41,320
Speaker 3: Okay, and we know who's around them. I would still

709
00:32:41,320 --> 00:32:46,400
Speaker 3: have them ahead of the Ravens. That's a tough one.

710
00:32:46,880 --> 00:32:47,960
Speaker 3: They'd be right next to each other.

711
00:32:48,000 --> 00:32:49,960
Speaker 2: They beating them eight at of nine times. I can't

712
00:32:49,960 --> 00:32:52,440
Speaker 2: put the Ravens ahead of the Steelers with with ten

713
00:32:52,480 --> 00:32:54,880
Speaker 2: wins in the Ravens with nine and they've beaten them

714
00:32:54,880 --> 00:32:56,320
Speaker 2: eight out of nine times, and.

715
00:32:56,280 --> 00:32:57,800
Speaker 3: The Rain I don't care what happened nine times.

716
00:32:57,800 --> 00:33:00,360
Speaker 2: The Ravens gotta buy last week and the Steelers played

717
00:33:00,440 --> 00:33:01,960
Speaker 2: who I think is the best team of football.

718
00:33:02,240 --> 00:33:03,800
Speaker 3: Ravens basically had to buy for two weeks.

719
00:33:03,800 --> 00:33:06,800
Speaker 2: Who the Ravens just lost to on their home field

720
00:33:07,080 --> 00:33:10,840
Speaker 2: convincingly a couple of weeks ago. Or wasn't like people

721
00:33:10,880 --> 00:33:12,960
Speaker 2: talk about the Steeler game, Well, that was much worse

722
00:33:12,960 --> 00:33:16,240
Speaker 2: than twenty seven thirteen, the Ravens losing at home to

723
00:33:16,280 --> 00:33:18,960
Speaker 2: the Eagles twenty four to nineteen. That game wasn't that close.

724
00:33:19,080 --> 00:33:22,800
Speaker 3: No, no, it definitely was not. And there's no shame

725
00:33:22,880 --> 00:33:24,600
Speaker 3: in losing to the Eagles. They would be one on

726
00:33:24,640 --> 00:33:29,360
Speaker 3: this sea. Yes, yeah, they'd be right next to each other.

727
00:33:29,520 --> 00:33:31,480
Speaker 3: I think I'd have the Steelers lightly ahead of my guess.

728
00:33:32,120 --> 00:33:34,000
Speaker 2: I mean, I just I know that they've played once

729
00:33:34,040 --> 00:33:37,400
Speaker 2: this year, and the Steelers won the game recently, and

730
00:33:37,440 --> 00:33:39,120
Speaker 2: they've beaten them eight at of nine times. I can't

731
00:33:39,120 --> 00:33:41,320
Speaker 2: have the Ravens ahead of them right now with one

732
00:33:41,360 --> 00:33:41,840
Speaker 2: fewer win.

733
00:33:42,000 --> 00:33:42,720
Speaker 3: Are they at seven?

734
00:33:42,880 --> 00:33:43,520
Speaker 2: They're at seven?

735
00:33:43,880 --> 00:33:46,520
Speaker 3: Okay? That would have the Packers and Vikings out of both.

736
00:33:46,640 --> 00:33:49,160
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're up a spot to seven. The Steelers bump

737
00:33:49,240 --> 00:33:54,880
Speaker 2: down two slots. Okay, uh at six, the Ravens are

738
00:33:54,880 --> 00:33:58,440
Speaker 2: the Raider. Ravens also lost to the Raiders.

739
00:33:58,800 --> 00:34:01,080
Speaker 3: But it's a terrible lot of the year any team

740
00:34:01,200 --> 00:34:03,959
Speaker 3: had with hands down, yeah, yeah, yeah, hands down might

741
00:34:04,000 --> 00:34:06,360
Speaker 3: be the worst loss I think it's worse than Patriots

742
00:34:06,400 --> 00:34:08,520
Speaker 3: Cardinals last year to the Steelers. Yeah yeah, I mean

743
00:34:08,560 --> 00:34:12,920
Speaker 3: it was that Raiders team that was in Baltimore too,

744
00:34:13,239 --> 00:34:13,880
Speaker 3: in Baltimore.

745
00:34:14,120 --> 00:34:18,520
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's losses and then there's that one, like that

746
00:34:18,680 --> 00:34:21,719
Speaker 2: is the most inexplainable loss.

747
00:34:21,480 --> 00:34:24,040
Speaker 3: Of the season. Yeah, we might look back and eighteen

748
00:34:24,040 --> 00:34:24,400
Speaker 3: weeks of.

749
00:34:24,400 --> 00:34:27,440
Speaker 2: Play mud be the most inexplicable loss this decade.

750
00:34:28,400 --> 00:34:32,200
Speaker 3: Really, Yeah, where'd that come from? That Raiders is awful?

751
00:34:32,239 --> 00:34:37,239
Speaker 3: It wasn't much better than Green Bay moves up a

752
00:34:37,280 --> 00:34:39,719
Speaker 3: spot to six. Yeah, I'm starting to buy in on

753
00:34:39,760 --> 00:34:42,160
Speaker 3: the defense too. I like where they're.

754
00:34:42,040 --> 00:34:46,000
Speaker 2: At holding steady at five is Minnesota.

755
00:34:46,960 --> 00:34:48,320
Speaker 3: They would be ahead of all those teams.

756
00:34:48,320 --> 00:34:53,680
Speaker 2: For me, at four down three spots is Detroit.

757
00:34:58,360 --> 00:35:00,720
Speaker 3: I probably would still have him ahead of the Kansas City.

758
00:35:03,360 --> 00:35:06,000
Speaker 3: I mean, we are we assuming mahomes if we're gonna

759
00:35:06,120 --> 00:35:08,520
Speaker 3: ding if we're gonna ding Detroit for injuries, which you

760
00:35:08,600 --> 00:35:12,520
Speaker 3: have to well, they lost, they lost, and currently they're

761
00:35:13,120 --> 00:35:16,080
Speaker 3: looking for starters on defense and they lost Montgomery. Yeah,

762
00:35:16,840 --> 00:35:20,880
Speaker 3: but if it's Wentz, I'm still taking the Lions over Wentz. Yeah,

763
00:35:20,960 --> 00:35:23,560
Speaker 3: you know, Wentz would they would be nine with Wentz

764
00:35:23,640 --> 00:35:25,320
Speaker 3: or something they would not be three.

765
00:35:26,600 --> 00:35:27,680
Speaker 2: At three are the Chiefs.

766
00:35:29,520 --> 00:35:32,120
Speaker 3: I mean they've won loss, I mean their problems are

767
00:35:33,120 --> 00:35:34,560
Speaker 3: you know, teams everyone would like.

768
00:35:34,640 --> 00:35:36,160
Speaker 2: But two is Buffalo.

769
00:35:36,640 --> 00:35:38,680
Speaker 3: I agree with that. Philly would be one, and Philly's won.

770
00:35:38,880 --> 00:35:43,000
Speaker 2: Now you can make the argument that in the last month,

771
00:35:43,680 --> 00:35:46,360
Speaker 2: the Bills have beaten the thirteen and one Chiefs and

772
00:35:46,440 --> 00:35:48,280
Speaker 2: they've now beaten the twelve and two Lions.

773
00:35:48,680 --> 00:35:50,680
Speaker 3: Mm hm, pretty strong.

774
00:35:50,719 --> 00:35:53,239
Speaker 2: It's pretty strong now, you know. Philly is in the

775
00:35:53,280 --> 00:35:56,360
Speaker 2: last month has beaten Baltimore and Bills.

776
00:35:56,160 --> 00:35:59,000
Speaker 3: Lost the Rams, but that was a down to the wire. Yeah,

777
00:35:59,160 --> 00:36:02,239
Speaker 3: not a bad loss, of my opinion. Yeah, what were

778
00:36:02,239 --> 00:36:02,600
Speaker 3: you saying there?

779
00:36:02,640 --> 00:36:06,000
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, but just the Eagles have wins against the

780
00:36:06,080 --> 00:36:07,919
Speaker 2: Ravens and Steelers in the last month.

781
00:36:08,719 --> 00:36:14,440
Speaker 3: That yeah, beating good games, right, would you bet that

782
00:36:14,440 --> 00:36:15,439
Speaker 3: that's gonna be the Super Bowl?

783
00:36:16,320 --> 00:36:19,319
Speaker 2: No, it's just because, I mean, funny things happen in

784
00:36:19,360 --> 00:36:19,880
Speaker 2: playoff game.

785
00:36:19,920 --> 00:36:21,759
Speaker 3: I mean, like I would take the field. Yeah, may

786
00:36:21,760 --> 00:36:22,839
Speaker 3: be your picks right now?

787
00:36:23,000 --> 00:36:24,160
Speaker 2: Probably, I think so.

788
00:36:24,560 --> 00:36:26,479
Speaker 3: I don't know if they're light years ahead of everybody else,

789
00:36:26,520 --> 00:36:29,360
Speaker 3: but not great things are happening in Detroit.

790
00:36:29,560 --> 00:36:32,319
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean in a one game playoff you never

791
00:36:32,400 --> 00:36:33,280
Speaker 2: know what's going to happen.

792
00:36:33,320 --> 00:36:36,040
Speaker 3: But you know, like if I'm the Bills, I don't

793
00:36:36,040 --> 00:36:38,840
Speaker 3: want to see the Ravens though. I mean, big power

794
00:36:38,920 --> 00:36:40,319
Speaker 3: running teams are not what I want to think.

795
00:36:40,400 --> 00:36:42,560
Speaker 2: So I think the Steelers are a tough matchup against

796
00:36:42,560 --> 00:36:44,520
Speaker 2: for the Bills because they're gonna They're gonna run the football.

797
00:36:44,600 --> 00:36:47,240
Speaker 3: Yeah right, I'd say the physicality and when the Steelers

798
00:36:47,239 --> 00:36:47,480
Speaker 3: have the.

799
00:36:47,480 --> 00:36:50,719
Speaker 2: Ball and you still have Josh Allen, and I think

800
00:36:50,800 --> 00:36:52,560
Speaker 2: the Super Bowl would be a nightmare for them if

801
00:36:52,600 --> 00:36:54,440
Speaker 2: they it was Buffalo against Philadelphia.

802
00:36:54,560 --> 00:36:56,920
Speaker 3: I would pick the Eagles right now, Yeah, no question,

803
00:36:57,040 --> 00:36:59,200
Speaker 3: because I think their tackles would handle their edge guys.

804
00:37:00,120 --> 00:37:02,920
Speaker 3: Allen's the big wild card of course always Yeah, but

805
00:37:02,960 --> 00:37:05,440
Speaker 3: the Eagles. That's why he's the MVP. Yeah yeah, yeah,

806
00:37:05,200 --> 00:37:07,080
Speaker 3: I'm right right, but he's the best player going. That

807
00:37:07,160 --> 00:37:09,400
Speaker 3: would be a nightmare for the Bills. Yeah, it's not

808
00:37:09,400 --> 00:37:09,920
Speaker 3: he would want to.

809
00:37:10,040 --> 00:37:12,960
Speaker 2: I don't know who does match up well against Philadelphia

810
00:37:13,080 --> 00:37:13,560
Speaker 2: right now.

811
00:37:14,480 --> 00:37:17,280
Speaker 3: I don't think anyone. I don't think I said it yesterday,

812
00:37:17,320 --> 00:37:20,040
Speaker 3: but I said another podcast that if if I'm if

813
00:37:20,040 --> 00:37:22,439
Speaker 3: I'm the Steelers and I get a draft thirty one

814
00:37:22,520 --> 00:37:26,560
Speaker 3: teams who I play against today. My last pick's Philly.

815
00:37:28,160 --> 00:37:32,200
Speaker 2: Maybe Detroit against the Eagles. Are you gonna get spread

816
00:37:32,239 --> 00:37:33,799
Speaker 2: them out? And let's let's you want to.

817
00:37:33,760 --> 00:37:35,720
Speaker 3: Get into a track I mean, if I'm the Steelers.

818
00:37:35,360 --> 00:37:38,080
Speaker 2: Oh I know, I'm not saying who, Matt you ask

819
00:37:38,160 --> 00:37:40,720
Speaker 2: who matches up well against the Eagles, I'm like, maybe

820
00:37:40,719 --> 00:37:43,560
Speaker 2: it is a team that, oh, yeah, okay, just goes. Hey,

821
00:37:43,600 --> 00:37:44,839
Speaker 2: We're gonna go out and I'll score you.

822
00:37:44,960 --> 00:37:46,640
Speaker 3: I just think the Eagles are the worst team on

823
00:37:46,680 --> 00:37:49,759
Speaker 3: the planet for the Steelers to match up against. But

824
00:37:50,000 --> 00:37:53,960
Speaker 3: who's who do the Eagles fair fear the most? I

825
00:37:53,960 --> 00:37:55,160
Speaker 3: could see the rate of Detroit.

826
00:37:55,239 --> 00:37:58,120
Speaker 2: I can see Detroit in LA giving them Rams maybe

827
00:37:58,200 --> 00:38:01,319
Speaker 2: issues with with all the different things that they can

828
00:38:01,360 --> 00:38:05,360
Speaker 2: do offensively in veteran quarterbacks because now now you're you

829
00:38:05,400 --> 00:38:07,520
Speaker 2: want to force Jalen Hurts into a track meet.

830
00:38:08,000 --> 00:38:11,080
Speaker 3: Yeah, you got to be a rush him. I mean

831
00:38:11,120 --> 00:38:17,480
Speaker 3: the Rams would rush them. Eagles are good, are good? Yeah?

832
00:38:17,520 --> 00:38:19,240
Speaker 3: I don't know if they're passing games out of the woods.

833
00:38:19,800 --> 00:38:21,120
Speaker 3: I don't know that it is either. I think he

834
00:38:21,160 --> 00:38:22,440
Speaker 3: had a good game. I think he had a real

835
00:38:22,480 --> 00:38:24,960
Speaker 3: good game. You're good half in particular, a good game.

836
00:38:25,480 --> 00:38:28,000
Speaker 2: But can he sustain that, you know, week after week

837
00:38:28,040 --> 00:38:30,799
Speaker 2: and in the NFC Championship game whatever. And the thing

838
00:38:30,840 --> 00:38:32,680
Speaker 2: is like Tampa could give him hard The thing that yeah,

839
00:38:32,719 --> 00:38:36,279
Speaker 2: Tampa would be in gives everybody hard time. The thing

840
00:38:36,280 --> 00:38:38,480
Speaker 2: that nobody was talking about coming out of that game

841
00:38:38,520 --> 00:38:41,240
Speaker 2: against the Steelers is that three of the Eagles offensive

842
00:38:41,239 --> 00:38:45,200
Speaker 2: linemen got nicked up in that game. And you know

843
00:38:45,280 --> 00:38:46,200
Speaker 2: how bad. I don't know.

844
00:38:46,360 --> 00:38:49,200
Speaker 3: NFC is a tough road. I mean, Vikings and Packers are,

845
00:38:49,239 --> 00:38:52,640
Speaker 3: though you're not thrilled they're coming to town championship game. No,

846
00:38:52,840 --> 00:38:54,760
Speaker 3: that's why I I don't know that that's the super

847
00:38:54,760 --> 00:38:57,120
Speaker 3: Bowl matchup that we're gonna see. That would be my pick,

848
00:38:57,200 --> 00:38:59,160
Speaker 3: but I would definitely take the field, yeah, you know,

849
00:38:59,239 --> 00:39:01,839
Speaker 3: on both sides. And I think the AFC is kind

850
00:39:01,840 --> 00:39:03,560
Speaker 3: of wide open right now.

851
00:39:03,640 --> 00:39:05,560
Speaker 2: Again, you mentioned you think the Chargers in Denver have

852
00:39:05,640 --> 00:39:08,040
Speaker 2: no chance, no chance, But you mentioned every team in

853
00:39:08,040 --> 00:39:10,480
Speaker 2: the NFC some teams that might give the Bills. I

854
00:39:10,520 --> 00:39:12,600
Speaker 2: think I think both the AFC North teams would give

855
00:39:12,640 --> 00:39:13,000
Speaker 2: the Bills.

856
00:39:13,520 --> 00:39:16,720
Speaker 3: Issue of Ravens the favorite team to play from the Bills.

857
00:39:16,400 --> 00:39:19,319
Speaker 2: Yeah, with how they play offense, right, yeah, right, that

858
00:39:19,320 --> 00:39:19,640
Speaker 2: would be.

859
00:39:19,640 --> 00:39:21,759
Speaker 3: A problem, but there they are the best team in

860
00:39:21,760 --> 00:39:24,080
Speaker 3: the AFC. Yeah, and Allen has a lot to do

861
00:39:24,160 --> 00:39:24,360
Speaker 3: with that.

862
00:39:24,600 --> 00:39:27,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, of course absolutely. Let's get to a break. That's

863
00:39:27,600 --> 00:39:30,800
Speaker 2: the power rankings for it this week. He is Matt Williamson.

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00:39:30,920 --> 00:39:33,000
Speaker 2: I am Dale Lolly. You're listening to the Drive here

865
00:39:33,040 --> 00:39:35,600
Speaker 2: on the Steelers Audio Network. Matt and I will be

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00:39:35,600 --> 00:39:37,560
Speaker 2: back to finish up the show right after this.

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Speaker 3: At least.

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Speaker 1: He's the Drive with Dale Lolly and Matt Williamson on

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

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Speaker 1: Gold Steelers Nation Radio.

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00:39:54,680 --> 00:39:57,879
Speaker 2: Welcome back. I am Dale LOLLI he is the Matt

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Speaker 2: Williamson and Matt.

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Speaker 3: I don't know.

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Speaker 2: Usually we don't go down these rabbit holes in terms

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Speaker 2: of just college We don't talk a ton of college football, nless.

876
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Speaker 3: It's drafted now because I'm not very knowledgeable about it

877
00:40:12,800 --> 00:40:14,239
Speaker 3: yet to be very honest with you, but I'm psight

878
00:40:14,320 --> 00:40:15,040
Speaker 3: for this playoff thing.

879
00:40:15,280 --> 00:40:18,960
Speaker 2: But one thing that's happening here in college football is

880
00:40:19,280 --> 00:40:22,040
Speaker 2: this transfer portal stuff. We have talked about this at

881
00:40:22,080 --> 00:40:24,640
Speaker 2: times because you talk about it because you got big name,

882
00:40:24,719 --> 00:40:26,640
Speaker 2: big time players changing places all the time.

883
00:40:26,719 --> 00:40:29,319
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I always look at them a draft perspective, but.

884
00:40:29,520 --> 00:40:33,759
Speaker 2: They have an early transfer portal in December.

885
00:40:34,800 --> 00:40:37,200
Speaker 3: Okay, so going on right now, it's like free.

886
00:40:36,960 --> 00:40:41,920
Speaker 2: Agency right now in college football. And to your point,

887
00:40:42,000 --> 00:40:44,839
Speaker 2: you just mentioned there's college football playoffs or coming up

888
00:40:45,600 --> 00:40:49,280
Speaker 2: right this weekend or yeah, this weekend, they start Friday.

889
00:40:49,440 --> 00:40:51,280
Speaker 2: I think it's the first game and you have players

890
00:40:51,719 --> 00:40:53,760
Speaker 2: the the.

891
00:40:53,040 --> 00:40:55,080
Speaker 3: So it's like Ohio State losing dudes.

892
00:40:55,280 --> 00:40:58,480
Speaker 2: No, those teams aren't necessarily losing players, not big name

893
00:40:58,520 --> 00:41:00,200
Speaker 2: and players, because those players still want to play in

894
00:41:00,239 --> 00:41:03,440
Speaker 2: the college football playoffs. But if you're down the roster,

895
00:41:03,560 --> 00:41:06,160
Speaker 2: guys maybe can go into the portal.

896
00:41:06,200 --> 00:41:07,359
Speaker 3: They're definitely adding people though.

897
00:41:07,480 --> 00:41:11,960
Speaker 2: Teams that are in bowl games. The Marshall University, Marshall

898
00:41:12,040 --> 00:41:14,560
Speaker 2: University not a big time program.

899
00:41:14,160 --> 00:41:15,520
Speaker 3: Of course, but they put guys in your.

900
00:41:18,480 --> 00:41:22,240
Speaker 2: Had to decline playing in their bowl game because every

901
00:41:22,400 --> 00:41:26,320
Speaker 2: quarterback on the roster transferred left went into the portal.

902
00:41:26,640 --> 00:41:28,960
Speaker 2: So they had they were there, they were in a

903
00:41:29,000 --> 00:41:30,920
Speaker 2: bowl game, they got invited to a bowl game. They

904
00:41:30,920 --> 00:41:32,520
Speaker 2: were good enough to get to the ball, and then

905
00:41:32,520 --> 00:41:34,799
Speaker 2: all their quarterbacks said, you know what, we're going somewhere else.

906
00:41:35,160 --> 00:41:37,959
Speaker 3: Do you happen to know what the logic is of having.

907
00:41:37,760 --> 00:41:39,920
Speaker 2: I have no idea, and all the coaches are railing

908
00:41:39,960 --> 00:41:41,680
Speaker 2: against this, and one of the things that they say

909
00:41:41,719 --> 00:41:42,400
Speaker 2: about this.

910
00:41:42,360 --> 00:41:44,120
Speaker 3: Is like, how could it happen during the season.

911
00:41:44,200 --> 00:41:47,440
Speaker 2: Lane Kiffen came out last week and said, this is like,

912
00:41:47,480 --> 00:41:50,560
Speaker 2: this would be like having NFL free agency.

913
00:41:50,120 --> 00:41:50,880
Speaker 3: In week thirteen.

914
00:41:53,040 --> 00:41:57,360
Speaker 2: It really would be just complete free agency, like anybody,

915
00:41:57,360 --> 00:41:58,759
Speaker 2: I don't care if you're under contract or not.

916
00:41:58,960 --> 00:41:59,520
Speaker 3: That's what he's said.

917
00:41:59,520 --> 00:42:02,040
Speaker 2: Boom, you're gone, You're out the door. I'm leaving.

918
00:42:02,280 --> 00:42:03,960
Speaker 3: The way I interpret would be like, that'd be like

919
00:42:04,120 --> 00:42:06,880
Speaker 3: having it like week fifteen when half the team the

920
00:42:06,920 --> 00:42:10,640
Speaker 3: playoffs started. Yeah, right, and then another one in May

921
00:42:10,719 --> 00:42:13,000
Speaker 3: or whatever. Yeah, that's nuts.

922
00:42:13,080 --> 00:42:15,080
Speaker 2: It's the most idiotic thing I've ever seen.

923
00:42:15,280 --> 00:42:17,279
Speaker 3: Right, how do you expect a team that still has

924
00:42:17,320 --> 00:42:20,440
Speaker 3: games to play? So conceivably, I know it wouldn't happen.

925
00:42:21,040 --> 00:42:24,680
Speaker 3: Oregon's rank number one. Their quarterback could transfer.

926
00:42:25,200 --> 00:42:27,000
Speaker 2: He's I know he's already done that.

927
00:42:27,080 --> 00:42:29,440
Speaker 3: A couple of times could transfer from whoever.

928
00:42:29,680 --> 00:42:33,880
Speaker 2: Those guys could transfer a starting quarterback for the playoffs.

929
00:42:34,360 --> 00:42:37,000
Speaker 2: I saw the announcement from Drew Aller today, I'm like,

930
00:42:37,120 --> 00:42:37,920
Speaker 2: is he transferring?

931
00:42:38,120 --> 00:42:38,319
Speaker 3: Yeah?

932
00:42:38,400 --> 00:42:40,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, because that could happen.

933
00:42:40,680 --> 00:42:43,359
Speaker 3: I'm thinking, Okay, Bama is a good example, really big

934
00:42:43,400 --> 00:42:45,240
Speaker 3: program that's not in the playoffs.

935
00:42:45,840 --> 00:42:47,480
Speaker 2: They got a bunch of guys transfer.

936
00:42:47,160 --> 00:42:49,239
Speaker 3: Are they calling SMU and guys that are in the

937
00:42:49,239 --> 00:42:51,800
Speaker 3: playoffs right now saying yeah, you're not gonna win the

938
00:42:51,840 --> 00:42:53,080
Speaker 3: playoffs anyways, come to Bama.

939
00:42:53,160 --> 00:42:55,000
Speaker 2: Yeah, soon's you're soon's you're out a little bit. Next

940
00:42:55,040 --> 00:42:55,600
Speaker 2: come to Bama.

941
00:42:56,200 --> 00:42:59,120
Speaker 3: I would be it's insane, it's insane. So this is

942
00:42:59,280 --> 00:43:01,160
Speaker 3: obviously wasn't the case at all when I was a PIT.

943
00:43:01,760 --> 00:43:04,080
Speaker 3: But a lot of these big programs now have a

944
00:43:04,120 --> 00:43:06,920
Speaker 3: front office. Oh, they basically have like a salary. That's

945
00:43:06,920 --> 00:43:10,320
Speaker 3: what that's what Mike Lombardi's doing. That he's doing North Carolina.

946
00:43:10,600 --> 00:43:13,000
Speaker 2: He's in former NFL GM, and that's what he's going

947
00:43:13,080 --> 00:43:15,520
Speaker 2: to be the basically the general manager out there recruiting

948
00:43:15,520 --> 00:43:16,800
Speaker 2: guys in the transfer portal.

949
00:43:17,160 --> 00:43:19,600
Speaker 3: We were like, I wish that would have been the

950
00:43:19,600 --> 00:43:21,160
Speaker 3: case when I was a PIT because there wasn't a

951
00:43:21,200 --> 00:43:24,160
Speaker 3: position for me, you know, because you were the recruiting coordinator.

952
00:43:24,200 --> 00:43:26,720
Speaker 3: You also had to coach the running backs or something.

953
00:43:26,760 --> 00:43:28,840
Speaker 3: You know, Yeah, there was not personnel people.

954
00:43:29,160 --> 00:43:31,759
Speaker 2: But it's now become like the NFL because Now it's

955
00:43:31,760 --> 00:43:34,080
Speaker 2: how much money can you offer me? And that's why

956
00:43:34,120 --> 00:43:36,000
Speaker 2: these guys are going into the portal. Well, I'm going

957
00:43:36,040 --> 00:43:37,520
Speaker 2: to of course, I'm going to go into the portal

958
00:43:37,520 --> 00:43:39,319
Speaker 2: and see what's out there money wise for me.

959
00:43:39,480 --> 00:43:41,319
Speaker 3: I should know how the portal works better than this.

960
00:43:41,360 --> 00:43:44,200
Speaker 3: But if I enter the portal and I go to Pitt,

961
00:43:44,480 --> 00:43:46,480
Speaker 3: I'm from Pitt and I go into the portal, that

962
00:43:46,520 --> 00:43:48,800
Speaker 3: doesn't mean I can't go back to Pitt, right or

963
00:43:48,840 --> 00:43:51,040
Speaker 3: does that mean I have left that I don't know

964
00:43:51,120 --> 00:43:53,280
Speaker 3: you left? Okay, yeah, okay, yeah.

965
00:43:53,120 --> 00:43:55,040
Speaker 2: So once you go into the portal, you're in the portal.

966
00:43:55,080 --> 00:43:56,080
Speaker 3: Okay, you're a free agent.

967
00:43:56,160 --> 00:43:59,319
Speaker 2: Now guys have gone into the portal, transferred for a year,

968
00:43:59,360 --> 00:44:01,200
Speaker 2: and gone back to their original school.

969
00:44:02,040 --> 00:44:04,320
Speaker 3: I'm sure there's crazy stories that people bounce around.

970
00:44:04,200 --> 00:44:06,480
Speaker 2: But it's just it's just insanity to me.

971
00:44:06,480 --> 00:44:08,600
Speaker 3: Which is like Davian Clowney is leaving one team, go

972
00:44:08,640 --> 00:44:11,360
Speaker 3: to next to next the next year. Yeah, I understand

973
00:44:11,480 --> 00:44:14,440
Speaker 3: that happens, but they're under contract. You're right, I mean

974
00:44:14,480 --> 00:44:18,279
Speaker 3: you choose somebody signed you, right, Yeah, I don't know.

975
00:44:18,680 --> 00:44:21,680
Speaker 3: The whole recruiting I used to think was great. You

976
00:44:21,719 --> 00:44:24,000
Speaker 3: bring you get to know these kids, why are sixteen seventeen.

977
00:44:24,080 --> 00:44:25,680
Speaker 3: You bring them in, you watch them grow up, you

978
00:44:25,719 --> 00:44:27,359
Speaker 3: know their family. Now they're going to play for five

979
00:44:27,400 --> 00:44:29,439
Speaker 3: schools before they get to the NFL five while they're

980
00:44:29,440 --> 00:44:30,760
Speaker 3: spending any money and recruiting.

981
00:44:31,239 --> 00:44:36,480
Speaker 2: Yeah, and anyway, to me, I would look at that.

982
00:44:37,280 --> 00:44:40,080
Speaker 2: And we've had this conversation in the past about guys

983
00:44:40,080 --> 00:44:42,120
Speaker 2: who transfer, you know, guys who declined to play in

984
00:44:42,160 --> 00:44:42,759
Speaker 2: their bowl game.

985
00:44:43,480 --> 00:44:45,879
Speaker 3: Yeah. I remember McCaffrey was the first ones, and like, oh,

986
00:44:45,920 --> 00:44:48,320
Speaker 3: he's soft, we can't draft him high. That's like nothing.

987
00:44:48,560 --> 00:44:51,160
Speaker 2: Now it's like they're transferring to me, a guy who

988
00:44:51,200 --> 00:44:55,680
Speaker 2: transferred every year to go to a different or better

989
00:44:55,800 --> 00:44:59,480
Speaker 2: level because you're already getting paid. Yeah, but you're leaving

990
00:44:59,520 --> 00:45:03,320
Speaker 2: you this school A to go to school B because

991
00:45:03,480 --> 00:45:06,880
Speaker 2: they're going to offer you more money. That to me

992
00:45:07,000 --> 00:45:09,799
Speaker 2: would be something that I would put I would look

993
00:45:09,840 --> 00:45:13,120
Speaker 2: at a little differently if I am scouting this guy

994
00:45:13,760 --> 00:45:15,520
Speaker 2: because he's just in this for the money.

995
00:45:15,640 --> 00:45:17,880
Speaker 3: Like, I wouldn't hold it against bow Nicks not working

996
00:45:17,920 --> 00:45:19,239
Speaker 3: out at Auburn.

997
00:45:19,440 --> 00:45:21,680
Speaker 2: Spent your forty years at Auburn, Right, you're a red shirt,

998
00:45:22,120 --> 00:45:25,239
Speaker 2: a senior. That's what your graduate students. Okay, that's what.

999
00:45:25,200 --> 00:45:27,600
Speaker 3: It's all about. Yeah, Russell Wilson did it from State

1000
00:45:27,600 --> 00:45:29,759
Speaker 3: to wiscon yin when you were grad students, you went,

1001
00:45:30,120 --> 00:45:32,759
Speaker 3: you know, he went somewhere else. That's that's perfectly fine.

1002
00:45:32,760 --> 00:45:36,080
Speaker 3: I think that's commendable. Go see, you know, another year

1003
00:45:36,120 --> 00:45:38,840
Speaker 3: of college, different group of college coaches, et cetera.

1004
00:45:38,960 --> 00:45:41,640
Speaker 2: But the guys who are just taking them, okay, they're

1005
00:45:41,640 --> 00:45:44,800
Speaker 2: gonna give me an extra you know, another fifty thousand dollars.

1006
00:45:44,840 --> 00:45:49,160
Speaker 2: I'm out the door, like, yeah, what about the guys

1007
00:45:49,160 --> 00:45:50,960
Speaker 2: you were just working with? What about your you know

1008
00:45:51,040 --> 00:45:54,000
Speaker 2: you love this university yesterday? Yeah, now you don't, like,

1009
00:45:54,120 --> 00:45:54,920
Speaker 2: just keep it local.

1010
00:45:55,080 --> 00:45:59,400
Speaker 3: Like best kid at Slippery Rock goes to pitt the

1011
00:45:59,440 --> 00:46:01,600
Speaker 3: next year, gets a nice chunk of money. Then the

1012
00:46:01,640 --> 00:46:03,520
Speaker 3: next year he goes to Penn State, gets a better

1013
00:46:03,600 --> 00:46:05,759
Speaker 3: chunk of money, and then he goes to Ohio State

1014
00:46:05,760 --> 00:46:07,919
Speaker 3: and gets better chunk of money. I'm like, I don't

1015
00:46:07,920 --> 00:46:10,080
Speaker 3: know that I'm drafting you, you know.

1016
00:46:10,320 --> 00:46:12,400
Speaker 2: And I get it, you know, for you know, these guys,

1017
00:46:13,160 --> 00:46:14,840
Speaker 2: your football career only lasts so long.

1018
00:46:15,560 --> 00:46:18,719
Speaker 3: I never will besmudge anyone for earning because you blow

1019
00:46:18,719 --> 00:46:19,800
Speaker 3: your knee eye in any second.

1020
00:46:19,880 --> 00:46:22,440
Speaker 2: Of course, but it does make me wonder about loyalty.

1021
00:46:22,440 --> 00:46:23,279
Speaker 3: Wouldn't better a.

1022
00:46:23,200 --> 00:46:26,480
Speaker 2: Little loyalty a little bit? Again, you work with these guys,

1023
00:46:26,800 --> 00:46:29,719
Speaker 2: and I see the camaraderie in the locker room, and

1024
00:46:29,760 --> 00:46:33,040
Speaker 2: I've played in enough sports over over time that and

1025
00:46:33,200 --> 00:46:35,680
Speaker 2: you know, like my senior year in high school, I

1026
00:46:35,719 --> 00:46:38,680
Speaker 2: sprained my knee really bad at like a seventy five

1027
00:46:39,080 --> 00:46:42,960
Speaker 2: ACL tear. I missed five games and came back and

1028
00:46:43,000 --> 00:46:45,760
Speaker 2: played because I wanted to be there for the guys

1029
00:46:45,800 --> 00:46:47,560
Speaker 2: on that team, and it was my senior year. I

1030
00:46:47,560 --> 00:46:50,200
Speaker 2: wasn't going to miss that because you know, we had

1031
00:46:50,200 --> 00:46:52,000
Speaker 2: a chance to do something special and I wanted to

1032
00:46:52,040 --> 00:46:53,440
Speaker 2: be there with those guys to do that.

1033
00:46:53,800 --> 00:46:55,600
Speaker 3: But if it would have been inflated and you were

1034
00:46:56,360 --> 00:46:59,280
Speaker 3: the starting left tackle with Bama with the exact same situation,

1035
00:47:00,040 --> 00:47:03,520
Speaker 3: and you're like, well, I can make three if I

1036
00:47:03,520 --> 00:47:04,840
Speaker 3: come back, I mean like, there are a lot of

1037
00:47:04,840 --> 00:47:08,880
Speaker 3: reasons to sit out, you know what I mean. I

1038
00:47:08,880 --> 00:47:11,120
Speaker 3: would also look at the other way that the Mason

1039
00:47:11,160 --> 00:47:13,840
Speaker 3: mccormicks of the world, that state.

1040
00:47:13,680 --> 00:47:17,520
Speaker 2: State he had opportunities to go somewhere and make big money, right,

1041
00:47:18,120 --> 00:47:20,719
Speaker 2: he could have gone somewhere and made considerably more money

1042
00:47:20,719 --> 00:47:23,280
Speaker 2: than they're paying him at South Dakota State, and he stayed,

1043
00:47:23,320 --> 00:47:23,880
Speaker 2: and he stayed.

1044
00:47:23,920 --> 00:47:25,319
Speaker 3: I think like verse was that way.

1045
00:47:25,640 --> 00:47:28,200
Speaker 2: I guess picking the cornerback from Toledo that Quinny Mitchell

1046
00:47:28,280 --> 00:47:30,520
Speaker 2: right opportunity. You tell me he didn't have opportunities to

1047
00:47:30,560 --> 00:47:34,239
Speaker 2: go somewhere else. He absolutely did, But he showed that

1048
00:47:34,280 --> 00:47:35,800
Speaker 2: loyal That to me means something.

1049
00:47:35,880 --> 00:47:36,279
Speaker 3: Mm hmm.

1050
00:47:37,360 --> 00:47:38,640
Speaker 2: If I'm looking at these guys.

1051
00:47:38,520 --> 00:47:40,920
Speaker 3: It would definitely break ties in yeah, for room for me.

1052
00:47:41,160 --> 00:47:43,600
Speaker 3: I'm not saying I'd bump them around just because he's loyal.

1053
00:47:44,120 --> 00:47:45,560
Speaker 3: I'm not taking him in the third round if I

1054
00:47:45,560 --> 00:47:45,839
Speaker 3: was Ford.

1055
00:47:45,960 --> 00:47:47,000
Speaker 2: But if I'm breaking ties.

1056
00:47:47,280 --> 00:47:49,520
Speaker 3: But if it's two guards and one of them's from

1057
00:47:49,520 --> 00:47:50,680
Speaker 3: a Cormick route.

1058
00:47:50,480 --> 00:47:52,920
Speaker 2: Yeah taking him. This guy's This guy's a team player.

1059
00:47:53,040 --> 00:47:54,840
Speaker 2: This guy's gonna he's gonna go out there and give it.

1060
00:47:54,840 --> 00:47:57,520
Speaker 3: All for his loyalty. Yeah, cares about the people around him.

1061
00:47:57,520 --> 00:47:59,680
Speaker 2: It wasn't It's not just about the money for him.

1062
00:48:00,120 --> 00:48:01,920
Speaker 3: Yeah. I don't know. It's a wild, wild West. I

1063
00:48:01,920 --> 00:48:03,840
Speaker 3: have very little respect for what's going on.

1064
00:48:04,000 --> 00:48:05,719
Speaker 2: I can't imagine being involved in that.

1065
00:48:05,920 --> 00:48:07,480
Speaker 3: Right. I've been asked, would you want to go back

1066
00:48:07,480 --> 00:48:12,160
Speaker 3: to but No, that's terrible. I don't understand it anymore.

1067
00:48:12,200 --> 00:48:15,480
Speaker 2: I don't know why Belichick wants to deal with it.

1068
00:48:15,520 --> 00:48:17,960
Speaker 2: That's why Saban got out of it. Wow, his buddy

1069
00:48:17,960 --> 00:48:20,600
Speaker 2: Saban gets out of it, and Belichick's getting back into it.

1070
00:48:20,800 --> 00:48:22,880
Speaker 3: You see that Belichick only has a one million dollar.

1071
00:48:22,920 --> 00:48:23,480
Speaker 2: I get it.

1072
00:48:23,760 --> 00:48:26,600
Speaker 3: But if the Jags call, I think he could get

1073
00:48:26,640 --> 00:48:28,680
Speaker 3: right away and be like, well, you could hire my son.

1074
00:48:28,760 --> 00:48:34,279
Speaker 3: He's already here. Yeah. Maybe, I don't know. I think

1075
00:48:34,320 --> 00:48:36,360
Speaker 3: that story is written for the year, but I'm not sold.

1076
00:48:36,520 --> 00:48:39,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, we'll see. There's there's there's things can always change.

1077
00:48:39,840 --> 00:48:42,640
Speaker 3: But I'm kind of look forward to the playoffs though. Yeah,

1078
00:48:42,719 --> 00:48:43,879
Speaker 3: that's a cool thing, but.

1079
00:48:44,719 --> 00:48:46,800
Speaker 2: I'm not going to see Marshall in any Bowl games

1080
00:48:46,800 --> 00:48:52,120
Speaker 2: this year. All their quarterbacks transferred, Like, hey, you could

1081
00:48:52,120 --> 00:48:54,200
Speaker 2: be like the Broncos when they had to play during COVID.

1082
00:48:54,200 --> 00:48:56,480
Speaker 2: But yeah, the wide receiver playing.

1083
00:48:56,280 --> 00:49:01,080
Speaker 3: Quarterback like pretty close, and the Marshall front office, the

1084
00:49:01,840 --> 00:49:05,080
Speaker 3: student or the sports departments like that was a nice

1085
00:49:05,120 --> 00:49:07,640
Speaker 3: payday for us to turn it down. Yeah, we could

1086
00:49:07,640 --> 00:49:09,440
Speaker 3: have given that the next quarterback. Now we can't get

1087
00:49:09,440 --> 00:49:09,759
Speaker 3: that money.

1088
00:49:09,800 --> 00:49:12,319
Speaker 2: Can't even do that right Anyways, that's gonna do it

1089
00:49:12,320 --> 00:49:14,960
Speaker 2: for today's show. So for my partner Matt Williamson, for

1090
00:49:15,080 --> 00:49:18,040
Speaker 2: Justin Miller here on site running the Justin Miller Hotline

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Speaker 2: and the soundboard Force, and for Tyler Viittmeyer making sure

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Speaker 2: our video gets out there on the YouTube. You can

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Speaker 2: check that out there. I am Dale, Lolly. We thank

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Speaker 2: you for listening to this edition of the Drive on

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Speaker 2: the Steelers Audio Network.