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Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Drive. I'm Dale Lally here with

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Speaker 1: Matt Williamson and Matt uh It's Tuesday before the season.

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Speaker 1: That means a lot of people are coming out with

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Speaker 1: their power rankings. Yeah yeah, I've been victim of that

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Speaker 1: over the years, and it's I think it's interesting to

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Speaker 1: look and see, first of all, where the Steelers rank

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Speaker 1: is probably not as low I think is a lot

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Speaker 1: of spans seem to think. I think national media and

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Speaker 1: folks that do these things are starting to warm up

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Speaker 1: to the idea that maybe this organization won't you might

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Speaker 1: know what it's doing, might have a clue how to

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Speaker 1: win games in this league, and you know, it's unlikely

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Speaker 1: to totally collapse because I think if you could power ranks,

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Speaker 1: like I don't know, the week after the draft, I

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Speaker 1: think you'd see him. They were they were the Steelers

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Speaker 1: were down in like seventeen eighteen, somewhere in that range.

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Speaker 1: And what's funny to mean by power ranks? And I

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Speaker 1: always go back to that Manka Fitzpatrick trade and oh

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Speaker 1: my god, the Steelers are gonna give up a top

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Speaker 1: five pick from INCA because Ben's hurt. The pick up

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Speaker 1: five in two decades actually longer than that, right, And

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Speaker 1: that's what I'm gonna go with this, Like, go look

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Speaker 1: at the Texans and the Lions and eight other teams

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Speaker 1: and please tell me, right, please tell me how, in

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Speaker 1: less catastrophe hits, how the Steelers be worse than them?

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Speaker 1: And that goes for you A few people that want

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Speaker 1: to draft a quarterback in the top five next year

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Speaker 1: to or I get this from from from people to

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Speaker 1: they should tank this year, and that's I mean, that's

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Speaker 1: a whole different conversation. Like even if they tried to tank,

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Speaker 1: they're not going to get the first pick. It's just

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Speaker 1: no way. I mean, they're not gonna be worse than Houston.

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Speaker 1: Houston's basically blew everything up. They don't have any good players,

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Speaker 1: told their best player you're not playing this year, and

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Speaker 1: got and nobody want to coach team with all back

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Speaker 1: to coach Collie. It's not like they have a Tomlin

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Speaker 1: or you know, Sean Payton or Yeah. Other than that,

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Speaker 1: they're great. Speaking of which, I've got Dan hands is

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Speaker 1: uh his first power rankings for the season on on

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Speaker 1: the NFL dot Com. He's got those Texans thirty second. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think it's a pretty clear bottom two, which is

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Speaker 1: right where they were at in his last Power rankings,

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Speaker 1: which he did I believe right before training camp, because

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Speaker 1: the last time we went over those. He's got the

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Speaker 1: Lines at thirty one. I agree, Yeah, they're bad. It's

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Speaker 1: got the Bengals at thirty, Bengals thirtieth best team. I

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Speaker 1: did some recently and I don't have them handy. I

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Speaker 1: think I at Jacksonville thirty. I just said, there's a

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Speaker 1: lot of questions around that organization. And I'm a Borough fan,

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Speaker 1: but I think the defense is gonna be trash defense

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Speaker 1: at all to make things better or make things easier

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Speaker 1: on the young which goes back to our conversation that

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Speaker 1: we just had. You know, there are certain coaches out

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Speaker 1: there that you trust to get more out of their

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Speaker 1: players and get and coax a couple of winds, a

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Speaker 1: couple of extra wins out of your your roster. Example,

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Speaker 1: things haven't gone well for the Saints since the season ended.

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Speaker 1: Not only is their Hall of Fame quarterback gone, but

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Speaker 1: then there could be some bonus to that. Don't get

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Speaker 1: me wrong, but the hardest cap situation I've ever seen

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Speaker 1: and they're not gonna play a home game in the

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Speaker 1: next month because of weather. Yeah, I bet Peyton gets

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Speaker 1: I guess we're not too far off on that. Really.

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Speaker 1: These bottom four or five teams, yeah there's two, they're

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Speaker 1: and unless the wheels fall off injury wise, the Steelers

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Speaker 1: One of these teams will have a good year. Maybe

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Speaker 1: number twenty eight. Jets will not be that team. Their

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Speaker 1: defense is really bad too. Now, uh seven the Panthers

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Speaker 1: I think coaching helps them. They lost so many clothes

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Speaker 1: How do I talk to the team after we don't

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Speaker 1: That that kind of star deal with travel plans and

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Speaker 1: the scenes and the media and you know right, um

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Speaker 1: He's got a track record chicken droppings into something you

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Speaker 1: I think the Eagles are gonna be bad. I think

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Speaker 1: the Giants at four. That's down the spot. There's things

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Speaker 1: Like you look at their skill players and go, they

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Speaker 1: portion of the pie. You can have. Uh. Steelers, for example,

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Speaker 1: what he's doing. It's not Daniel Jones behind a bad

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Speaker 1: behind a bad offensive line. Trying to play Superman. Agree.

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Speaker 1: you know, just nuts and bolts. Ye down two spots.

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Speaker 1: The Raiders, I'd be lower on them. I think they're bad.

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Speaker 1: They've spent first round picks on Damon Arnett, oh Man,

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Speaker 1: he's not worth that pick. He may and I hope

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Speaker 1: But that's why I always bring up their car for

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Speaker 1: the Steelers because I can already see it. Like they

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Speaker 1: have a really really hard schedule. Let's say I think

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Speaker 1: I just think they're really hard to play against. I

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Speaker 1: That's probably true. They'll win seven or eight games this year,

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Speaker 1: And they know they don't have a quarterback when they've

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Speaker 1: sure that he is either. Trabisky was better last year

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Speaker 1: We think he's the star. Like, oh, by the way,

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Speaker 1: If Andy Dalton starts more than half the games for

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Speaker 1: people better. At twenty up two spots. The Washington football team, Oh,

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Speaker 1: I'm higher on them. I'm picking them to win division.

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Speaker 1: I think there are a couple of bad Ryan Fitzpatrick games. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: already rising. I'm not sure if anyone's had worse mojo

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Speaker 1: Bowl winner. That's who I have winning the superho That's

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Speaker 1: I mean it's almost Tampa Bay like in terms of

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Speaker 1: All right, I'm coming coming it up here real quick here.

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Speaker 1: And their quarterbacks still getting better. Imagine if he makes

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Speaker 1: MVP last year. He could still take another step better.

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Speaker 1: With all respect to Mahomes, Rogers, everybody. I think Josh

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Speaker 1: Allen's the most talented quarterback in the league. Talent born

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Speaker 1: with talent. So here real quick. The eleven offensive players

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Speaker 1: Ten are back with the club, and I think John

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Speaker 1: things out. One last why I have this document of

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Speaker 1: the Bills only punted forty one times last year. That's

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Speaker 1: Like that first half against the Steelers, I think they

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Speaker 1: punted four times. That was the first time that's unusual

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Speaker 1: for them. I mean the Steelers were stopping them. Steelers

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Speaker 1: I'm funny that we both picked them at two. They

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Speaker 1: who's your NFC pick? Did I picked that took the

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Speaker 1: Niners Bills over Niners Ram, So we're in the same

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Speaker 1: Chiefs and Bucks are boring. I mean, so there they

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Speaker 1: have great cases. I'm not ignoring their greatness, but I

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Speaker 1: also think that there's more holes with the Chiefs, and

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Speaker 1: people realize and this is so far from logical the

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Speaker 1: football gods. When things line up like they are for Tampa,

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Speaker 1: it just isn't gonna happen. Things happen. Tom Brady, Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: you know, like they're just gonna win it all again.

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Speaker 1: They have an easy schedule, they have an easy division,

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Speaker 1: They got the best quarterback ever. What could go wrong?

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Speaker 1: Blame blame Gabbert is what could go right? Right, A

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Speaker 1: lot of things are gonna go wrong just the way

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Speaker 1: it works, Realy, does that team win it, absolutely, but

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Speaker 1: that's gonna do it for this show segment, So for

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Speaker 1: my partner Matt Williamson, for Brian La Martina here keeping

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Speaker 1: us on the air. We'll be back with more right

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Speaker 1: after this. You're listening to the Drive on Steelers Nation

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