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Speaker 1: At least. He's The Drive with Dale Lolly and Matt

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Drive. I'm Dale Ally here with Matt Williamson. Matt,

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Speaker 1: it's Friday here in Pittsburgh. We're finally starting to dig

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Speaker 1: out of everything here. The Steelers having there what would

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Speaker 1: essentially be their Thursday practice today. They'll have one more

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Speaker 1: and then head to Cincinnati for a Monday night football game. Um.

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Speaker 1: Looking here at the Football Outsiders d v o A ranking, Uh,

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Speaker 1: Steelers losing two in a row and people obviously down

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Speaker 1: on them, and you know, this isn't a team that

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Speaker 1: can win. Now they've lost, you know, two in a row.

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Speaker 1: Their d v o A rankings still has them at

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Speaker 1: twenty three point five, which is fourth in the league.

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Speaker 1: Down a little bit. New Orleans is sitting there at

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Speaker 1: the top of this point six. New Orleans is number

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Speaker 1: one at twenty point six, Tampa Bay two at twenty

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Speaker 1: seven point seven. Tampa has been really high all year

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Speaker 1: for their Yeah I'm exactly sure why, but you know, yeah,

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Speaker 1: and again this after your two worst games, actually your

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Speaker 1: that's the that's obviously the feeling of the mindset is

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Speaker 1: they've been exposed injuries or there there weren't as good

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Speaker 1: as we originally thought. I'm on on board with that.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I think that I said both on Mark

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Speaker 1: be the lowest point on the stock exchange, you know

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Speaker 1: is going to be. It was a rough stretch. I

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Speaker 1: mean it really was. There's no there's no doubt about it.

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Speaker 1: And there's still number one in defense. Um, the offense

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Speaker 1: has fallen out. The offense is down. Okay, the offense

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Speaker 1: has not been good the last the last few weeks,

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Speaker 1: and that's that's something. But you sent me this the

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Speaker 1: other night last night, and it was about the pass rush.

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Speaker 1: The Steelers have the best pass rush in the AFC,

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Speaker 1: played the best pass rush in the league. But there's

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Speaker 1: but there's no other team in the A f C

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Speaker 1: playoff field, and we now know. I think with Oakland

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Speaker 1: that's gonna be. Yeah, Um, it's not even close beyond that.

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Speaker 1: When you start looking at the defenses as a whole,

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Speaker 1: it's not that great in the n SC playoff field.

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Speaker 1: I'm looking here. I got the defensive d v o

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Speaker 1: two of the Saints. Then there is between the Saints

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Speaker 1: is a overall team and the Steelers. Real quick, what

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Speaker 1: so about a seven point difference. Who's minus ten minus

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Speaker 1: Their minus eleven point three. So there's a third team

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Speaker 1: And it dawned on me yesterday. That's why I sent

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Speaker 1: point one percent chance to be the three seed. The

426
00:23:58,600 --> 00:24:00,520
Speaker 1: Steelers have a sixty two percent chance to be the

427
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Speaker 1: two seed. Got you? Buffalo is a twenty one point

428
00:24:04,560 --> 00:24:09,199
Speaker 1: seven percent chance to be the four seed. Um, I

429
00:24:09,200 --> 00:24:10,720
Speaker 1: think you just said it. But Buffalo has got no

430
00:24:10,800 --> 00:24:13,000
Speaker 1: chance to be the one, right, they have a point

431
00:24:13,000 --> 00:24:15,640
Speaker 1: two percent chance to be Yeah, Kansas City would essentially

432
00:24:15,640 --> 00:24:18,000
Speaker 1: like have to lose it because they they beat Buffalo,

433
00:24:18,760 --> 00:24:20,760
Speaker 1: they get their head to head and they beat the

434
00:24:21,040 --> 00:24:24,320
Speaker 1: Buffalo beat the Steelers. Kansas City is going to be

435
00:24:24,320 --> 00:24:29,600
Speaker 1: the one. Um. If you're looking at Miami, they've got

436
00:24:29,600 --> 00:24:31,639
Speaker 1: a forty six point two percent chance to be the

437
00:24:31,640 --> 00:24:34,680
Speaker 1: one to get into the wild card. That fell sixteen

438
00:24:34,720 --> 00:24:38,440
Speaker 1: point eight percent based on everything that happened last week,

439
00:24:38,960 --> 00:24:44,240
Speaker 1: So they're chancing them. Yeah, really, it's losing last night

440
00:24:44,320 --> 00:24:48,200
Speaker 1: or pretty much should limit. Yeah. Uh, Miami's got a

441
00:24:48,200 --> 00:24:51,480
Speaker 1: twelve point seven percent chance at the five, thirteen point

442
00:24:51,480 --> 00:24:53,760
Speaker 1: two at the six, eighteen point five at the seven.

443
00:24:54,400 --> 00:24:58,080
Speaker 1: If we go down to the South Tennessee right now

444
00:24:59,480 --> 00:25:02,280
Speaker 1: has a fifty four point three percent chance to win division.

445
00:25:03,200 --> 00:25:09,320
Speaker 1: Indianapolis is at point seven. Yeah, Titans, the Colts would

446
00:25:09,359 --> 00:25:10,840
Speaker 1: have to win out and the tight Titans would have

447
00:25:10,880 --> 00:25:15,359
Speaker 1: to lose. And you know, so if you start looking

448
00:25:15,359 --> 00:25:19,520
Speaker 1: at it, the colt or the Titans right now can't

449
00:25:19,560 --> 00:25:23,480
Speaker 1: be the one seed. They have a point two percent

450
00:25:23,560 --> 00:25:26,520
Speaker 1: chance to be the two seed. I guess Buffalo and

451
00:25:26,560 --> 00:25:28,600
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh have to lose that they have to lose that. Yeah,

452
00:25:28,600 --> 00:25:31,360
Speaker 1: they have to lose a bunch. Uh. There are sixteen

453
00:25:31,400 --> 00:25:35,960
Speaker 1: point nine percent chance to be the three seed. Okayumble

454
00:25:36,600 --> 00:25:39,400
Speaker 1: probably a thirty seven. Well, they have the tiebreaker. Tennessee

455
00:25:39,440 --> 00:25:44,439
Speaker 1: has a tiebreaker right now. Tennessee has a thirty seven

456
00:25:44,440 --> 00:25:47,440
Speaker 1: point two percent chance to be the four seed. Indianapolis

457
00:25:47,440 --> 00:25:53,960
Speaker 1: is at thirty two point two. So, um, you're probably

458
00:25:54,000 --> 00:25:56,000
Speaker 1: gonna be the fourth seed. That's that's what the odds

459
00:25:56,040 --> 00:26:02,040
Speaker 1: say a little bit. To be the five five seed. Uh,

460
00:26:02,119 --> 00:26:04,920
Speaker 1: Tennessee has a seven point two percent chance. Indianapolis is

461
00:26:04,920 --> 00:26:08,920
Speaker 1: an eight point nine percent chance to be the six seed.

462
00:26:09,000 --> 00:26:12,199
Speaker 1: Tennessee is a ten point seven percent chance. Indianapolis is

463
00:26:12,200 --> 00:26:15,720
Speaker 1: at fifteen point four. And to be the seven seed

464
00:26:15,760 --> 00:26:19,880
Speaker 1: indian or Tennessee is at fifteen point nine and Indianapolis

465
00:26:19,920 --> 00:26:23,600
Speaker 1: is at seven teen point two. Okay, that's their highest

466
00:26:24,119 --> 00:26:27,679
Speaker 1: percentage of And both of those teams just looking to

467
00:26:27,720 --> 00:26:31,320
Speaker 1: get into the playoffs are at Tennessee's at eight eight

468
00:26:31,320 --> 00:26:34,120
Speaker 1: point one in Indianapolis is an eighty seven point two.

469
00:26:34,160 --> 00:26:37,679
Speaker 1: They're both gonna be likely in the playoffs. They're also

470
00:26:37,800 --> 00:26:40,399
Speaker 1: more likely to be the four and the seven seeds.

471
00:26:40,720 --> 00:26:42,800
Speaker 1: That's what's interesting, like that winning that division is a

472
00:26:42,800 --> 00:26:46,240
Speaker 1: big deal for that for those two. If you get

473
00:26:46,280 --> 00:26:49,120
Speaker 1: a home game, you don't have to go to Pittsburgh exactly.

474
00:26:49,800 --> 00:26:55,520
Speaker 1: So I guess actually been listening better. But as that

475
00:26:55,600 --> 00:27:02,080
Speaker 1: all lays out, are the most likely seedings casey, yeah,

476
00:27:02,760 --> 00:27:10,600
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh too, Yes, Buffalo, Tennessee at four, and then from

477
00:27:10,600 --> 00:27:12,359
Speaker 1: the looks of this, are saying Baltimore is going to

478
00:27:12,400 --> 00:27:15,359
Speaker 1: be the five and they would go to Tennessee. The

479
00:27:15,440 --> 00:27:18,560
Speaker 1: six would be then be Cleveland. Cleveland has the highest

480
00:27:18,600 --> 00:27:20,760
Speaker 1: percentage to be the six and they go to Buffalo.

481
00:27:20,840 --> 00:27:22,760
Speaker 1: They would go to Buffalo, and then the seven would

482
00:27:22,760 --> 00:27:26,080
Speaker 1: be Indianapolis and Steelers would host. If I'm the Steelers,

483
00:27:26,119 --> 00:27:29,639
Speaker 1: I'm fantastic and you play them two weeks before that, yeah,

484
00:27:29,840 --> 00:27:32,040
Speaker 1: you know, you play the Colts. Hopefully you get a

485
00:27:32,080 --> 00:27:33,800
Speaker 1: buy and the winner of the four or five game

486
00:27:33,880 --> 00:27:37,400
Speaker 1: Tennessee Baltimore goes to Kansas City as long as there's

487
00:27:37,400 --> 00:27:41,440
Speaker 1: no other upsets, right, which is bad, That's not a

488
00:27:41,480 --> 00:27:43,480
Speaker 1: bad thing. I think the team you'd love to see

489
00:27:43,480 --> 00:27:47,760
Speaker 1: go to Kansas City would be the Ravens or the Titans. Yeah,

490
00:27:47,960 --> 00:27:49,760
Speaker 1: those are the two teams that will beat them up

491
00:27:49,760 --> 00:27:53,120
Speaker 1: physically and perhaps when the and perhaps win the game,

492
00:27:53,200 --> 00:27:55,480
Speaker 1: could maybe have thirty eight minutes the time of possession,

493
00:27:55,880 --> 00:27:57,919
Speaker 1: you know what I mean? And and plus Baltimore is

494
00:27:57,920 --> 00:28:00,640
Speaker 1: really good on special teams. He's not, but they could.

495
00:28:00,840 --> 00:28:03,800
Speaker 1: They could score on special teams or Kansas City special

496
00:28:03,840 --> 00:28:07,959
Speaker 1: teams are bad. Um, interesting, that's not so bad, you know.

497
00:28:08,040 --> 00:28:12,880
Speaker 1: I mean, do you like the familiarity of Colts Week

498
00:28:12,920 --> 00:28:17,240
Speaker 1: sixteen and wild Card round Colts? That doesn't bother me?

499
00:28:17,960 --> 00:28:20,920
Speaker 1: I mean, it really doesn't. I think the Colts are good.

500
00:28:20,920 --> 00:28:22,920
Speaker 1: I don't know that they're great. I think they're well.

501
00:28:23,200 --> 00:28:25,520
Speaker 1: I think the Steelers on their on their best day

502
00:28:25,800 --> 00:28:29,080
Speaker 1: beat the Colts on their best day. I agree. Agree

503
00:28:29,600 --> 00:28:32,520
Speaker 1: their defense is the second best defense in the in

504
00:28:32,560 --> 00:28:36,760
Speaker 1: the contest. Um they they're lined is good, but I

505
00:28:36,800 --> 00:28:38,960
Speaker 1: think the Steelers D line has an advantage over their

506
00:28:38,960 --> 00:28:42,719
Speaker 1: own line. Um. Rivers is one of the guys I mentioned.

507
00:28:42,720 --> 00:28:45,960
Speaker 1: It gets affected by pressure, and I would think the

508
00:28:45,960 --> 00:28:47,800
Speaker 1: Steelers will be low on their list of who they

509
00:28:47,840 --> 00:28:51,320
Speaker 1: want to play. Yeah, I agree, um, And I think

510
00:28:51,360 --> 00:28:55,120
Speaker 1: that Rivers will put the ball in harms way more

511
00:28:55,200 --> 00:28:58,160
Speaker 1: so than some other quarterbacks. Just a programming note, that

512
00:28:58,240 --> 00:29:00,960
Speaker 1: kind of dawned on me. I've see the Steelers played

513
00:29:00,960 --> 00:29:03,680
Speaker 1: Cincinnati on Monday, so we're not gonna have a show Monday,

514
00:29:03,920 --> 00:29:05,800
Speaker 1: and we're not gonna have a show Thursday or Friday

515
00:29:05,840 --> 00:29:07,640
Speaker 1: because of the holiday. So we only have two days

516
00:29:07,640 --> 00:29:10,280
Speaker 1: to talk about the Colts the big game, right right?

517
00:29:10,480 --> 00:29:14,400
Speaker 1: Why do you think more about them in because we

518
00:29:14,400 --> 00:29:16,640
Speaker 1: hate to overlook the Bengals game, But you know, you

519
00:29:16,760 --> 00:29:18,400
Speaker 1: kind of have to a little. That's what I'm taking

520
00:29:18,440 --> 00:29:20,360
Speaker 1: some bigger it's some bigger picture of things, so we

521
00:29:20,400 --> 00:29:23,640
Speaker 1: don't have to talk about this stuff as much next week. Uh,

522
00:29:23,760 --> 00:29:25,800
Speaker 1: you know, we can just talk about, you know, the

523
00:29:25,800 --> 00:29:29,080
Speaker 1: game against the Colts. But do you have any idea,

524
00:29:29,200 --> 00:29:31,480
Speaker 1: like who are we rooting for this weekend? I mean,

525
00:29:31,600 --> 00:29:33,240
Speaker 1: does any of that really matter? I don't know that

526
00:29:33,280 --> 00:29:35,720
Speaker 1: it really because I think that's all factored into this

527
00:29:35,920 --> 00:29:39,760
Speaker 1: with everything's gonna happen here, Like the Raiders are, like

528
00:29:39,880 --> 00:29:42,760
Speaker 1: the Colts get upset by Houston, they're like a eight

529
00:29:42,760 --> 00:29:45,920
Speaker 1: point dog, our favorite. That hurts them, but they're still

530
00:29:45,960 --> 00:29:47,760
Speaker 1: to get the playoffs. They're still gona get in the playoffs.

531
00:29:47,760 --> 00:29:50,760
Speaker 1: Because the Raiders lost last night, Miami still has to

532
00:29:50,760 --> 00:29:54,520
Speaker 1: play Buffalo. They played New England this weekend. I mean, obviously,

533
00:29:54,520 --> 00:29:58,720
Speaker 1: if if Miami beats If Miami beats New England, I'm

534
00:29:58,760 --> 00:30:01,280
Speaker 1: sure that they're right now, their wild card chances are

535
00:30:01,280 --> 00:30:03,360
Speaker 1: at forty four point four percent. I would think it

536
00:30:03,400 --> 00:30:05,720
Speaker 1: goes up to battic it would go up, but it

537
00:30:05,720 --> 00:30:11,360
Speaker 1: would also if Indianapolis loses, then it would go up higher. Yeah,

538
00:30:11,400 --> 00:30:13,719
Speaker 1: because they would. Then they would then both be tied.

539
00:30:14,000 --> 00:30:16,280
Speaker 1: I don't know who wins the tiebreaker in that situation.

540
00:30:16,880 --> 00:30:19,720
Speaker 1: But again, if you're the Steelers and you're in the

541
00:30:19,760 --> 00:30:22,960
Speaker 1: two spot and you got to get play Miami, Okay, yeah,

542
00:30:23,640 --> 00:30:27,760
Speaker 1: that's that's That's a that doesn't bother me. That's a layup. Again,

543
00:30:27,800 --> 00:30:30,400
Speaker 1: I would concede the two spot for the three if

544
00:30:30,440 --> 00:30:33,280
Speaker 1: it means resting people in week seventeen, I would rather

545
00:30:33,360 --> 00:30:38,160
Speaker 1: rest than control who I'm playing. But that doesn't mean

546
00:30:38,320 --> 00:30:40,520
Speaker 1: you can't do both. I mean you might get both those.

547
00:30:41,160 --> 00:30:45,040
Speaker 1: So Steeler fans, do you want the Ravens in the

548
00:30:45,080 --> 00:30:48,959
Speaker 1: playoffs to maybe mess with the Chiefs or would you

549
00:30:49,000 --> 00:30:51,360
Speaker 1: like them to not make it? Well, they're gonna make

550
00:30:51,400 --> 00:30:54,600
Speaker 1: it because they're not gonna lose the Jackson they're playing Jacksonville,

551
00:30:54,640 --> 00:30:57,200
Speaker 1: the Jets and Bengalis belief. Yeah, they're not gonna lose

552
00:30:57,200 --> 00:31:00,560
Speaker 1: a game. They're gonna be Yeah. I mean they play,

553
00:31:00,720 --> 00:31:03,320
Speaker 1: you know, everybody, they play the three worst teams in

554
00:31:03,360 --> 00:31:07,080
Speaker 1: the league at the Giants is the Giants in one

555
00:31:07,080 --> 00:31:11,480
Speaker 1: of those Giants Jets, but still they got two wins

556
00:31:11,520 --> 00:31:15,000
Speaker 1: guaranteed and the other one they should win. Got Yeah.

557
00:31:15,040 --> 00:31:17,960
Speaker 1: So rooting against the Ravens is if you do it,

558
00:31:18,000 --> 00:31:21,360
Speaker 1: if you want, but who cares? Right, just get for

559
00:31:21,360 --> 00:31:25,400
Speaker 1: For me, it's get to the playoffs and then you know,

560
00:31:26,960 --> 00:31:29,080
Speaker 1: then you start looking at the matchups. But I do

561
00:31:29,120 --> 00:31:31,520
Speaker 1: think it's interesting. I'm glad you have spelled that out

562
00:31:31,600 --> 00:31:33,480
Speaker 1: that they could get the Colts too, and out of

563
00:31:33,480 --> 00:31:36,600
Speaker 1: three weeks you know one there one here. Because the

564
00:31:36,640 --> 00:31:39,000
Speaker 1: other thing is if if you go in, there's also

565
00:31:39,040 --> 00:31:41,600
Speaker 1: the possibility if you if you if you lay down,

566
00:31:42,480 --> 00:31:45,360
Speaker 1: you don't play your guys in week seventeen, you could

567
00:31:45,440 --> 00:31:49,080
Speaker 1: end up playing the Browns again. Yes, as the two

568
00:31:49,160 --> 00:31:52,320
Speaker 1: or three. Yeah, as well more likely as that if

569
00:31:52,360 --> 00:31:55,600
Speaker 1: you're the three and they're the they're the six, then

570
00:31:55,600 --> 00:31:58,080
Speaker 1: you play and you play the Browns again. It's pardon

571
00:31:58,120 --> 00:32:00,719
Speaker 1: me would want to do that like, if you know

572
00:32:00,840 --> 00:32:04,080
Speaker 1: going into week seventeen that if Cleveland wins this game,

573
00:32:04,120 --> 00:32:06,240
Speaker 1: you get him again and you're building a week from

574
00:32:06,280 --> 00:32:09,120
Speaker 1: now and they need to play hard in weeks seventeen,

575
00:32:10,800 --> 00:32:15,360
Speaker 1: I'd lay down. I'd gladly played the Browns. The Browns

576
00:32:15,680 --> 00:32:18,520
Speaker 1: since the three Picnic. Yeah, I mean they look good now,

577
00:32:19,200 --> 00:32:22,520
Speaker 1: but the familiarity would be the film familiarity. The playoff

578
00:32:22,520 --> 00:32:25,600
Speaker 1: pressure would be on them. Hey we're you know again.

579
00:32:25,760 --> 00:32:28,760
Speaker 1: It's it's that same situation where they're getting t shirts

580
00:32:28,800 --> 00:32:34,040
Speaker 1: made um playoff playoff participants in two thousand or two

581
00:32:34,040 --> 00:32:37,000
Speaker 1: thousand twenty. Uh there, you know that Stefancy's coach of

582
00:32:37,000 --> 00:32:39,080
Speaker 1: the year. He took this team to the playoffs enough,

583
00:32:39,360 --> 00:32:41,440
Speaker 1: you know enough time they've Yeah, they've achieved their goal.

584
00:32:41,480 --> 00:32:43,200
Speaker 1: Because they're not gonna win the Super Bowl. They've got

585
00:32:43,200 --> 00:32:47,200
Speaker 1: to know that. I would definitely take I know the

586
00:32:47,280 --> 00:32:50,080
Speaker 1: Ravens and Browns has played each other's tough, but if

587
00:32:50,080 --> 00:32:53,000
Speaker 1: the Browns played Baltimore or Pittsburgh in the postseason, I

588
00:32:53,040 --> 00:32:56,360
Speaker 1: would bet on not the Browns. Either one of those

589
00:32:56,360 --> 00:32:58,960
Speaker 1: teams a touchdown favored over the over the Browns. Just

590
00:32:59,000 --> 00:33:01,840
Speaker 1: the familiarity in the brother factor. Maybe next year, it's not.

591
00:33:02,040 --> 00:33:04,440
Speaker 1: But I think you're gonna learn how to You're gonna

592
00:33:04,480 --> 00:33:07,240
Speaker 1: learn how to do these things, and you can't do

593
00:33:07,320 --> 00:33:09,920
Speaker 1: that by not without doing it. It's one of those

594
00:33:09,920 --> 00:33:12,040
Speaker 1: things where you know, you can talk about well playoff

595
00:33:12,040 --> 00:33:13,800
Speaker 1: football and I mean, how many guys they have in

596
00:33:13,800 --> 00:33:17,200
Speaker 1: that roster that have played, you know, big playoff games.

597
00:33:17,240 --> 00:33:22,920
Speaker 1: Game Jervis Landry, he was a dolphin. They went to

598
00:33:22,920 --> 00:33:25,720
Speaker 1: one and they get their butts kicked by the Steelers. Okay, yeah,

599
00:33:26,560 --> 00:33:29,120
Speaker 1: where the Colts I think are a lot further along

600
00:33:29,200 --> 00:33:32,080
Speaker 1: that way a little bit. Certainly a quarterback not the

601
00:33:32,160 --> 00:33:34,920
Speaker 1: River super scares me, but the organization is not that

602
00:33:35,040 --> 00:33:37,280
Speaker 1: his I think he's like five and fourteen or something

603
00:33:37,320 --> 00:33:38,880
Speaker 1: like that. In the playoffs. It's bad. I don't think

604
00:33:38,880 --> 00:33:40,480
Speaker 1: he'd like playing here or whether I don't think he

605
00:33:40,480 --> 00:33:45,120
Speaker 1: would at all. But he's done it, whereas Mayfield. You know,

606
00:33:45,200 --> 00:33:49,040
Speaker 1: Mayfield hasn't and he'll I mean the way his the

607
00:33:49,080 --> 00:33:54,400
Speaker 1: way he's wired. I mean he may not sleep that week. Yeah,

608
00:33:54,480 --> 00:33:57,000
Speaker 1: that's possible. I mean like a kid on Christmas, bouncing

609
00:33:57,040 --> 00:33:58,840
Speaker 1: off the walls, you know, all week long, to the

610
00:33:58,880 --> 00:34:01,320
Speaker 1: point where you know, okay, that's one of those games

611
00:34:01,320 --> 00:34:05,200
Speaker 1: where you weather the storm early and by you know,

612
00:34:05,520 --> 00:34:07,920
Speaker 1: midway through the first quarter, early in the second quarter,

613
00:34:08,800 --> 00:34:12,200
Speaker 1: then you that the adrenaline wears off and they're done. Yeah,

614
00:34:12,520 --> 00:34:14,440
Speaker 1: their their hearts not beating out of their chest anymore.

615
00:34:14,440 --> 00:34:17,040
Speaker 1: And you're still even key old, you know, right, and

616
00:34:17,040 --> 00:34:20,960
Speaker 1: that matters. Yeah, it's interesting though. I mean the Steeler's

617
00:34:21,000 --> 00:34:23,919
Speaker 1: last two opponents are they're most likely playoff opponent. Yeah,

618
00:34:24,120 --> 00:34:28,560
Speaker 1: it really is so. I mean, in week seventeen is different,

619
00:34:28,640 --> 00:34:30,839
Speaker 1: but Week sixteen, I don't hold anything back. I mean,

620
00:34:30,840 --> 00:34:33,319
Speaker 1: you gotta win that game. I mean, the key is

621
00:34:33,360 --> 00:34:35,399
Speaker 1: this one. You win this one and then you've got

622
00:34:35,400 --> 00:34:37,600
Speaker 1: the division wrapped up. Then you're just saying, Okay, where

623
00:34:37,600 --> 00:34:40,080
Speaker 1: do we want to be at? Weigh all this stuff

624
00:34:40,600 --> 00:34:43,680
Speaker 1: because Buffalo may Buffalo might say the same thing I

625
00:34:43,680 --> 00:34:47,160
Speaker 1: would say. Buffalo might not. Buffalo might say in week seventeen,

626
00:34:47,200 --> 00:34:49,919
Speaker 1: they play Miami and they might say, hey, we could

627
00:34:49,960 --> 00:34:52,040
Speaker 1: lay down in this game, like we are we gonna

628
00:34:52,040 --> 00:34:54,120
Speaker 1: play Allen in this game because if we don't play

629
00:34:54,200 --> 00:34:56,160
Speaker 1: him in Miami gets into the plass. I'd rather see

630
00:34:56,160 --> 00:35:00,440
Speaker 1: Miami in the playoffs in Indianapolis. Miami, you're Buffalo. It definitely.

631
00:35:00,480 --> 00:35:04,440
Speaker 1: Could they have some power in this two right? Right? Yeah?

632
00:35:04,760 --> 00:35:07,400
Speaker 1: I mean who do they fear? I don't know. I

633
00:35:07,440 --> 00:35:09,120
Speaker 1: wouldn't want to play Tennessee if I were them, but

634
00:35:09,160 --> 00:35:11,640
Speaker 1: that's unlikely unless Tennessee loses, right, you gotta we worry

635
00:35:11,640 --> 00:35:13,480
Speaker 1: about that, Yeah, because you if you either if you're

636
00:35:13,480 --> 00:35:16,239
Speaker 1: the Tour of the three, it doesn't matter. And if

637
00:35:16,239 --> 00:35:18,360
Speaker 1: you're the Tour of the three, you're gonna play the Steelers,

638
00:35:18,440 --> 00:35:20,160
Speaker 1: assuming they win their first round game. Well, you just

639
00:35:20,200 --> 00:35:21,840
Speaker 1: played the Steelers and you beat them, so I'm sure that.

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00:35:22,080 --> 00:35:24,680
Speaker 1: I'm sure the Bills are very fine with that. Yeah,

641
00:35:24,719 --> 00:35:26,640
Speaker 1: they're very cool with that. Yeah, they may lay down

642
00:35:26,640 --> 00:35:29,440
Speaker 1: a week seventeen. Yeah, so I wouldn't lay him on

643
00:35:29,480 --> 00:35:32,640
Speaker 1: both those teams, good Bills. Yeah. So this's a big

644
00:35:32,719 --> 00:35:35,520
Speaker 1: week for Miami. Miami needs to win this game first

645
00:35:36,239 --> 00:35:38,719
Speaker 1: to get to nine and five, and they need uh,

646
00:35:38,760 --> 00:35:41,320
Speaker 1: you know, the Colts and to stumble somewhere along the line.

647
00:35:41,600 --> 00:35:43,560
Speaker 1: It could be against Pittsburg. It could be against Pittsburgh,

648
00:35:43,560 --> 00:35:47,520
Speaker 1: could be they could lose, yeah, I mean yeah, I

649
00:35:47,520 --> 00:35:50,520
Speaker 1: mean Watson could go bonkers. Yeah, So it's gonna be

650
00:35:50,560 --> 00:35:52,560
Speaker 1: interesting that there's not a whole lot left to be

651
00:35:52,600 --> 00:35:56,359
Speaker 1: determined here other than who's playing who who? Yeah, I mean,

652
00:35:56,400 --> 00:35:59,040
Speaker 1: there's one of these teams will be left out. Most

653
00:35:59,080 --> 00:36:02,480
Speaker 1: likely Miami's gonna be the you know, the Patriot musical Chairs.

654
00:36:02,480 --> 00:36:05,200
Speaker 1: The Patriots have no chance, no chance. In fact, the Patriots.

655
00:36:05,280 --> 00:36:08,640
Speaker 1: The Patriots odds are one point seven mathematically outt think

656
00:36:08,640 --> 00:36:10,879
Speaker 1: the Raiders are yet either, even after their loss. It's

657
00:36:10,880 --> 00:36:13,359
Speaker 1: probably not updated from last night, it's not. But there's

658
00:36:13,360 --> 00:36:16,239
Speaker 1: there's seven and seven. They're not going. They're not going. No.

659
00:36:16,920 --> 00:36:20,160
Speaker 1: Nine and seven ain't gonna get it done, right, Okay? Yeah,

660
00:36:20,520 --> 00:36:24,040
Speaker 1: So there's seven teams fighting for six spots, and frankly,

661
00:36:24,080 --> 00:36:26,600
Speaker 1: I don't care which ones get in. Actually eight teams,

662
00:36:26,680 --> 00:36:31,120
Speaker 1: eight teams fighting for seven spa right excluded the Chiefs,

663
00:36:31,160 --> 00:36:34,040
Speaker 1: but two are already in and two are locked up, right,

664
00:36:34,080 --> 00:36:38,360
Speaker 1: So it's five for four or six for five. Yeah, whatever,

665
00:36:38,520 --> 00:36:40,840
Speaker 1: So people get it. Someone's will be left out, somebody's

666
00:36:40,840 --> 00:36:42,719
Speaker 1: gonna get left out, and it really doesn't matter, and

667
00:36:42,719 --> 00:36:45,399
Speaker 1: it's actually gonna be a pretty good team overall. I mean,

668
00:36:46,239 --> 00:36:47,520
Speaker 1: if you if you look at what's going to be

669
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Speaker 1: in the NFC, play better than Minnesota or Chicago or

670
00:36:51,840 --> 00:36:54,279
Speaker 1: teams are still fighting for spots over there. Yeah right,

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Speaker 1: he is Matt Williamson. I'm Dale Ali. You're listening to

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Speaker 1: the Drive here on Steelers Nation Radio. We're gonna take

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Speaker 1: a We'll be right back with more Steelers talk right

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Speaker 1: after this. Your tunes about drive on Home of the

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Speaker 1: Black and Gold Steelers Nation Radio. Welcome back. I'm Dale

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Speaker 1: Ally here with Matt Williamson and Matt that used up

677
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Speaker 1: the earlier. This this rankings of gms from around the league.

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00:38:03,880 --> 00:38:09,120
Speaker 1: That's done by Mike Sando of the Athletic and um.

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00:38:09,200 --> 00:38:12,799
Speaker 1: Interesting he breaks these things down, not just ranking because

680
00:38:12,800 --> 00:38:15,720
Speaker 1: a lot of these places here the one through thirty

681
00:38:15,719 --> 00:38:19,200
Speaker 1: two and here these here're the guys for six months.

682
00:38:19,520 --> 00:38:24,160
Speaker 1: Yeah right right, So he breaks it down into into

683
00:38:24,200 --> 00:38:27,479
Speaker 1: tiers here and the first tier here is gms who

684
00:38:27,480 --> 00:38:31,720
Speaker 1: have ten plus drafts under their belt, right, and there

685
00:38:31,760 --> 00:38:34,160
Speaker 1: are what do we got here? And we're talking about

686
00:38:34,160 --> 00:38:35,520
Speaker 1: this off the air. Some of these guys will be

687
00:38:35,520 --> 00:38:38,520
Speaker 1: head coaches and you know they're not all officially the

688
00:38:38,560 --> 00:38:41,600
Speaker 1: GM title and whatnot, but Mike's pretty down and he

689
00:38:41,600 --> 00:38:43,600
Speaker 1: knows who's making the decisions in the building and come

690
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Speaker 1: draft time. Yeah, um, so the guys who have done

691
00:38:47,280 --> 00:38:52,200
Speaker 1: ten plus drafts. Uh, he has Bill Belichick number one.

692
00:38:52,800 --> 00:38:55,840
Speaker 1: He ranks these guys in terms of Pro Bowlers drafted,

693
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Speaker 1: All Pros drafted winning percentage, which is the main that's

694
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Speaker 1: the that's what the ranking goes by. England is a

695
00:39:01,960 --> 00:39:04,080
Speaker 1: lot better with winning percentage than those first two categories.

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Speaker 1: I bet um, so Belichick's first. He's got a winning

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00:39:07,360 --> 00:39:11,440
Speaker 1: percentage of seventh thirty. Also has Belichick, the coach who

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Speaker 1: also you know, happened to get Tom Brady fall into

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Speaker 1: his lap. There, Uh, seventeen Pro Bowlers drafted, eleven first

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Speaker 1: team All pros drafted, Real quick? Do you know if

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00:39:23,440 --> 00:39:25,480
Speaker 1: those are different players? Or is that how many Pro

702
00:39:25,520 --> 00:39:28,400
Speaker 1: Bowls total they went to? Looks like it looks like

703
00:39:28,400 --> 00:39:31,120
Speaker 1: it's different players. So Brady only counts one for each

704
00:39:31,160 --> 00:39:34,160
Speaker 1: of those, right like ground counts. Once Brady counts went

705
00:39:34,520 --> 00:39:36,960
Speaker 1: means a long stretch, Richard. I mean, it's not easy,

706
00:39:37,040 --> 00:39:38,120
Speaker 1: don hard to come up with a lot of Pro

707
00:39:38,200 --> 00:39:41,320
Speaker 1: Bowlers Patriot or a Moss. And you know, Kevin Colbert

708
00:39:41,400 --> 00:39:44,759
Speaker 1: ranks second. His the record of the Steelers and the

709
00:39:44,840 --> 00:39:50,000
Speaker 1: Kevin Colbert era twenty to sixteen, one, fifteen and two.

710
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Speaker 1: That's a six fifty two winning percentage. Belichick's is seven

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00:39:53,719 --> 00:39:56,160
Speaker 1: thirty there to forty three and ninety. And you made

712
00:39:56,160 --> 00:40:00,439
Speaker 1: the note that Mike rightfully did it since Kevin venn are. Yeah,

713
00:40:00,480 --> 00:40:03,120
Speaker 1: he didn't. He didn't take the title of GM until

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Speaker 1: two thousand and ten. And the reason he took the

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00:40:05,120 --> 00:40:07,719
Speaker 1: title of GM because he used to be director of

716
00:40:07,760 --> 00:40:11,680
Speaker 1: player Football what was it now, I can't remember, personnel

717
00:40:11,840 --> 00:40:14,440
Speaker 1: or something was it was it was it was Director

718
00:40:14,480 --> 00:40:18,160
Speaker 1: of Football Operations or something along those lines. And the

719
00:40:18,200 --> 00:40:21,080
Speaker 1: reason he took that title is because he would go

720
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Speaker 1: out to scout games and he's like, these these other

721
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Speaker 1: guys who have been a GM for like five days,

722
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Speaker 1: we're getting the premium press box spots and he's sitting

723
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Speaker 1: out in the stands and he'd be like, well, you

724
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Speaker 1: know why, why can't Well, these guys are GMS and

725
00:40:33,840 --> 00:40:36,799
Speaker 1: you're not. But I'm in charge of all the person

726
00:40:36,960 --> 00:40:39,080
Speaker 1: but the Steelers GM, and I've been the Steelers GM

727
00:40:39,120 --> 00:40:41,560
Speaker 1: for the last ten years. Like you just didn't call

728
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Speaker 1: him that, you know, But so they created that that

729
00:40:44,680 --> 00:40:47,520
Speaker 1: for him. I didn't know that part of the story. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Belichick thirty and eleven in the playoffs. In that time period,

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Speaker 1: the Steelers fifteen and ten. Okay, winning record in the

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Speaker 1: playoffs is hard, really hard, because here's the thing. I'm

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Speaker 1: looking to these other guys who have been here for

734
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Speaker 1: ten plus years, and nobody else even comes close to

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Speaker 1: Colbert's except for Jerry Jones at fifteen and twelve, and

736
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Speaker 1: that fifteen it's what they're counting. Jerry Jones. Mike's counting.

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Speaker 1: Jerry Jones is the Dallas GM since nineteen eighty nine.

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Speaker 1: He wasn't acquiring two players in nine, that was that

739
00:41:20,520 --> 00:41:22,640
Speaker 1: was all Jimmy Johnson, the early stuff, and most of

740
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Speaker 1: those playoff wins are Jimmy Johnson. Yeah, when they were

741
00:41:24,920 --> 00:41:27,759
Speaker 1: a dominant, dominant I'd say about, well, what about what

742
00:41:27,880 --> 00:41:31,560
Speaker 1: they win three super bowl So twelve of those nine

743
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Speaker 1: or at least ten, let's say at least ten of

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00:41:33,400 --> 00:41:35,840
Speaker 1: those playoff wins came. And this is bad to Amid

745
00:41:35,840 --> 00:41:38,239
Speaker 1: on stuper Nation Radio, But what year did it they

746
00:41:38,280 --> 00:41:40,319
Speaker 1: beat the Steelers in the Super Bowl? That was two

747
00:41:40,400 --> 00:41:43,839
Speaker 1: thousand and that's the last time they were really good. Yeah,

748
00:41:44,320 --> 00:41:46,440
Speaker 1: they didn't win a playoff game for for like the

749
00:41:46,480 --> 00:41:49,120
Speaker 1: next twenty years. I mean it was It's not like

750
00:41:49,160 --> 00:41:52,200
Speaker 1: it's been a lot of success or. No, it's not

751
00:41:52,239 --> 00:41:55,960
Speaker 1: like it's been sustained success. It is not. Um. John

752
00:41:55,960 --> 00:41:58,640
Speaker 1: Schneider from Seattle has been the GM there since two

753
00:41:58,640 --> 00:42:01,520
Speaker 1: thousand ten. Their one O sixty three and one. That's

754
00:42:01,520 --> 00:42:04,360
Speaker 1: a six thirty three winning percentage, ten and seven in

755
00:42:04,400 --> 00:42:07,799
Speaker 1: the playoffs. So again it's been a really successful that's

756
00:42:07,800 --> 00:42:11,120
Speaker 1: a really successful organization that since two thousand and ten

757
00:42:11,160 --> 00:42:13,440
Speaker 1: has won is ten and seven in the postseason. I'm

758
00:42:13,440 --> 00:42:16,080
Speaker 1: pretty sure how that hiring went was they hired Carol,

759
00:42:16,680 --> 00:42:19,960
Speaker 1: who then recommended and hired Schneider. So they came in

760
00:42:20,000 --> 00:42:23,080
Speaker 1: the same right, right, So it's not like he had to.

761
00:42:23,960 --> 00:42:25,880
Speaker 1: Those two have been together, as my point, since the

762
00:42:26,040 --> 00:42:28,960
Speaker 1: since jump. By the way, the Steelers, I forgot to

763
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Speaker 1: mention this. Colbert has drafted twenty one Pro Bowl players

764
00:42:31,960 --> 00:42:35,520
Speaker 1: and seven First Team All pros. Wow, that has to

765
00:42:35,560 --> 00:42:39,240
Speaker 1: be different ones than obviously they're different players, right, Schneider

766
00:42:39,280 --> 00:42:42,960
Speaker 1: has twelve Pro Bowlers and five First Team All Proskay

767
00:42:43,440 --> 00:42:48,200
Speaker 1: makes sense. Uh. Mickey Loomis in New Orleans, Yeah, Mickey

768
00:42:48,200 --> 00:42:50,840
Speaker 1: Louis in New Orleans has been there the Saints GM

769
00:42:50,880 --> 00:42:54,560
Speaker 1: since two thousand and two. He's won seventy six and

770
00:42:54,560 --> 00:42:58,640
Speaker 1: one five that's a five eighty five winning percentage, eight

771
00:42:58,640 --> 00:43:01,360
Speaker 1: and seven in the playoffs. Again, he's been there nearly

772
00:43:01,360 --> 00:43:03,319
Speaker 1: as long as Colbrit Cobord has almost twice as many

773
00:43:03,360 --> 00:43:05,719
Speaker 1: playoff wins and know by the way, Mickey Loomis has

774
00:43:05,760 --> 00:43:10,400
Speaker 1: had Drew Brees since since two thousand and six, UM

775
00:43:10,640 --> 00:43:13,720
Speaker 1: eighteen drafts, he's drafted eight team Pro Bowlers and seven

776
00:43:14,480 --> 00:43:18,360
Speaker 1: First team All pros. Yeah. Yeah, that's really strong organization,

777
00:43:18,400 --> 00:43:22,000
Speaker 1: but shows the playoffs success is not I mean, five

778
00:43:22,040 --> 00:43:25,399
Speaker 1: hundred's a really good playoff record. John Elway, Uh, since

779
00:43:25,440 --> 00:43:29,120
Speaker 1: two thousand eleven, the Broncos are nine and sixty seven.

780
00:43:29,239 --> 00:43:32,359
Speaker 1: That's a five seventy three winning percentage, six and four

781
00:43:32,400 --> 00:43:37,560
Speaker 1: in the playoffs. Well, they won. They went to two

782
00:43:37,600 --> 00:43:40,880
Speaker 1: Super Bowls. With Peyton manning UH ten drafts, he's drafted

783
00:43:40,880 --> 00:43:44,120
Speaker 1: four Pro Bowlers and one first team All Pro. Yeah,

784
00:43:44,520 --> 00:43:47,080
Speaker 1: it's not that not that great. The defense was largely

785
00:43:47,080 --> 00:43:50,319
Speaker 1: built before he got there, and frankly, he was a

786
00:43:50,360 --> 00:43:52,959
Speaker 1: really good recruiter to get Peyton there. He didn't draft

787
00:43:52,920 --> 00:43:57,879
Speaker 1: paid Thomas de Meets Roff in Atlanta has been the

788
00:43:57,880 --> 00:43:59,759
Speaker 1: their GM since two thousand and he's in't of course

789
00:43:59,760 --> 00:44:04,400
Speaker 1: not fired one oh nine five fifty three winning percentage

790
00:44:04,840 --> 00:44:08,240
Speaker 1: four and six in the playoffs including a Bowl, including

791
00:44:08,239 --> 00:44:10,600
Speaker 1: a Super Bowl appears. Thirteen drafts, he drafted twelve Pro

792
00:44:10,680 --> 00:44:14,840
Speaker 1: Bowlers and three First team All Pros. I remember, I

793
00:44:14,840 --> 00:44:18,160
Speaker 1: think his first draft he traded up for Julio mentioned

794
00:44:18,239 --> 00:44:20,680
Speaker 1: Jerry Jones to seventy four and two thirty five. That's

795
00:44:20,680 --> 00:44:24,000
Speaker 1: a five thirty eight winning percentage for quote unquote America's

796
00:44:24,000 --> 00:44:27,200
Speaker 1: team fifteen and twelve in the playoffs, and that's again

797
00:44:27,360 --> 00:44:33,920
Speaker 1: since nine eight nine, so that includes three championships. Awesome team. Yeah. Uh,

798
00:44:34,080 --> 00:44:37,240
Speaker 1: thirty two drafts, he's drafted forty two Pro Bowl players

799
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Speaker 1: and sixteen First Team All Pros. Pretty present numbers. But again,

800
00:44:41,320 --> 00:44:44,439
Speaker 1: how many of those are from Oh? Sure, yeah, Nick

801
00:44:44,480 --> 00:44:48,600
Speaker 1: Newton and right, that's that kind of stuff. Mike Brown.

802
00:44:50,120 --> 00:44:51,960
Speaker 1: Not only is he the g he can't fire himself.

803
00:44:51,960 --> 00:44:53,800
Speaker 1: And not only is he the GM, he's the owner.

804
00:44:54,080 --> 00:44:56,120
Speaker 1: I guess he's the right choice though. Yeah, but since

805
00:44:57,280 --> 00:45:00,640
Speaker 1: he's one eighty three and four, that's a four oh

806
00:45:00,680 --> 00:45:04,680
Speaker 1: three winning percentage. Uh, they're oh and seven in the playoffs.

807
00:45:05,920 --> 00:45:08,880
Speaker 1: They've had thirty drafts, They've drafted twenty two Pro Bowlers

808
00:45:09,000 --> 00:45:12,480
Speaker 1: and eight first team All Pros. I guess they've had

809
00:45:12,520 --> 00:45:15,680
Speaker 1: some stars. They've had some stars, and they've had some again.

810
00:45:17,160 --> 00:45:20,239
Speaker 1: You know, if you're going back all the way they

811
00:45:20,280 --> 00:45:24,520
Speaker 1: were putrid in in the nineties, just awful, the worst

812
00:45:24,600 --> 00:45:29,360
Speaker 1: organization and sports baby. Yeah. Um the guys who have

813
00:45:29,400 --> 00:45:32,239
Speaker 1: had five to nine drafts. John Robinson ranks number one

814
00:45:32,239 --> 00:45:35,680
Speaker 1: with Tennessee uh He's got a five eighty four winning percentage.

815
00:45:35,680 --> 00:45:38,520
Speaker 1: He's drafted five drafts. He's gotten two Pro Bowlers and

816
00:45:38,600 --> 00:45:42,239
Speaker 1: two first team All Pros, and they made He made

817
00:45:42,239 --> 00:45:45,560
Speaker 1: the trade to get his quarterback, which was look smart.

818
00:45:45,640 --> 00:45:51,160
Speaker 1: Now what did when he first did it? Everybody's like, yeah,

819
00:45:51,840 --> 00:45:55,560
Speaker 1: who he drafted? No, he didn't draft inherent him. Rick

820
00:45:55,600 --> 00:45:58,600
Speaker 1: Spielman in Minnesota's number two at five sixty winning percentage.

821
00:45:58,719 --> 00:46:00,920
Speaker 1: By the way John Robinson, his teams are three and

822
00:46:00,960 --> 00:46:04,120
Speaker 1: two in the postseason. Rick Spielman in Minnesota has been

823
00:46:04,120 --> 00:46:07,279
Speaker 1: there since two thousand and twelve. UH They're have a

824
00:46:07,320 --> 00:46:11,600
Speaker 1: five sixty winning percentage or two and four in the playoffs.

825
00:46:11,880 --> 00:46:14,880
Speaker 1: Ten Pro Bowlers, drafted, five first team All Pros, had

826
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Speaker 1: some stars, had some stars. Howie Roseman has been Philadelphia's

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Speaker 1: uh GM since two thousand and sixteen, he's won a

828
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Speaker 1: Super Bowl, the only guy on this list that's won

829
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Speaker 1: a Super Bowl. Uh. He's a five fifty two winning

830
00:46:29,800 --> 00:46:32,800
Speaker 1: percentage there, four and two in the postseason, all in

831
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Speaker 1: one year record since but uh, he has drafted one

832
00:46:38,080 --> 00:46:42,120
Speaker 1: Pro Bowl player and no first team All pros. He

833
00:46:42,200 --> 00:46:45,960
Speaker 1: inherited a lot of him. Yeah, he inherited a lot.

834
00:46:46,000 --> 00:46:48,880
Speaker 1: Although the offensive lineman all the good ones, he inherited

835
00:46:48,920 --> 00:46:53,279
Speaker 1: those less needed. With the Rams seventy three. He's been

836
00:46:53,280 --> 00:46:55,600
Speaker 1: there since two thousand twelve, seventy three sixty seven and

837
00:46:55,640 --> 00:46:59,960
Speaker 1: one winning percentage, two and two in the playoffs. Now

838
00:47:00,040 --> 00:47:02,840
Speaker 1: n draft six, six and four on the Pro Bowlers

839
00:47:02,840 --> 00:47:06,640
Speaker 1: and that uh. Steve Kim then in Arizona five twenty

840
00:47:06,680 --> 00:47:10,880
Speaker 1: winning percentage, had first pick five years. Yeah. By the way,

841
00:47:11,000 --> 00:47:13,680
Speaker 1: Tom Talsco has been with the Charger since two thousand

842
00:47:13,760 --> 00:47:16,200
Speaker 1: thirteen or fifty eight and sixty eight. I hope he

843
00:47:16,239 --> 00:47:18,640
Speaker 1: doesn't get fired. I think he's built a good team. Yeah.

844
00:47:18,719 --> 00:47:21,440
Speaker 1: Ryan Pace with Chicago has been there since two thousand fifteen.

845
00:47:21,440 --> 00:47:24,600
Speaker 1: They got a four thirty winning percentage. Bob Quinn has

846
00:47:24,600 --> 00:47:27,759
Speaker 1: already been fired. He had a thirty one forty three

847
00:47:27,800 --> 00:47:32,319
Speaker 1: and one record winning percentage. Jason Licked in Tampa Bay

848
00:47:32,320 --> 00:47:34,360
Speaker 1: has been their GM since two thousand fourteen. He's been

849
00:47:34,400 --> 00:47:37,000
Speaker 1: around longer than people know, forty two and sixty seven.

850
00:47:37,000 --> 00:47:40,800
Speaker 1: It's a three eight five winning percentage. They don't have

851
00:47:40,840 --> 00:47:43,239
Speaker 1: a playoff win, Yeah, they don't. They don't. They don't

852
00:47:43,239 --> 00:47:45,400
Speaker 1: have a playoff game. They haven't. They haven't played in

853
00:47:45,400 --> 00:47:49,560
Speaker 1: the game. Besides Godwin, did he draft Evans? They have

854
00:47:49,600 --> 00:47:51,279
Speaker 1: been drafted a lot of star powers. Yeah, I think

855
00:47:51,280 --> 00:47:54,480
Speaker 1: they would have drafted Evans was probably there. Uh. And

856
00:47:54,480 --> 00:47:57,000
Speaker 1: then Dave Caldwell in Jacksonville. He's been fired as well

857
00:47:57,040 --> 00:47:59,000
Speaker 1: that he had a three oh one winning percentage and

858
00:47:59,000 --> 00:48:01,400
Speaker 1: not his guys are on the team still. Yeah, the

859
00:48:01,440 --> 00:48:03,600
Speaker 1: guys who've had three to four drafts, Brett Beach in

860
00:48:03,680 --> 00:48:07,000
Speaker 1: Kansas City's the only one that's one in a championship. Uh.

861
00:48:07,480 --> 00:48:12,239
Speaker 1: Brian gun Kist guten Kist or guten Kisser, Yeah with

862
00:48:12,360 --> 00:48:17,160
Speaker 1: the Packers, Brandon Bean with Buffalo, Chris Ballard with Indianapolis,

863
00:48:17,239 --> 00:48:22,440
Speaker 1: John Lynch with San Francisco, Marty Hernie with Carolina, and

864
00:48:22,440 --> 00:48:24,560
Speaker 1: then Dave Gettleman with the Giants. This is a better

865
00:48:24,560 --> 00:48:28,160
Speaker 1: that's a better. Gre gonna be around for a while,

866
00:48:28,200 --> 00:48:31,440
Speaker 1: Brandon Bean and Lynch, and then the guys who have

867
00:48:31,480 --> 00:48:34,800
Speaker 1: had one to two drafts. Eric to Costa in Baltimore,

868
00:48:34,840 --> 00:48:36,960
Speaker 1: there's twenty two and seven their own one in the playoffs.

869
00:48:37,000 --> 00:48:39,800
Speaker 1: He gets everybody. There's a guy on my website in

870
00:48:39,880 --> 00:48:42,640
Speaker 1: d K. Pittsburgh sports dot Com constantly critics, well, Eric

871
00:48:42,680 --> 00:48:44,960
Speaker 1: to Costa, this, and Eric the Costa that he's only

872
00:48:45,000 --> 00:48:48,160
Speaker 1: been the GM for two years, folks. He's never drafted

873
00:48:48,160 --> 00:48:50,200
Speaker 1: a Pro Bowl player, and he's never drafted a first

874
00:48:50,200 --> 00:48:53,719
Speaker 1: team All Pro. He didn't draft Lamar Jackson, that was

875
00:48:53,760 --> 00:48:58,200
Speaker 1: as right. He didn't bring it. He didn't draft Mark Andrews.

876
00:48:58,280 --> 00:49:00,359
Speaker 1: That was Aussie. I mean, he was Aussi's right man

877
00:49:00,400 --> 00:49:03,319
Speaker 1: for a long time, so he probably I'm sure he contributed,

878
00:49:03,960 --> 00:49:06,080
Speaker 1: but he wasn't in charge the things that he The

879
00:49:06,120 --> 00:49:08,640
Speaker 1: things that they've done since since he joined the team.

880
00:49:08,680 --> 00:49:10,800
Speaker 1: They signed Mark Ingram and they made the trade to

881
00:49:10,840 --> 00:49:13,920
Speaker 1: acquire Marcus Peters. Those are his two big moves to

882
00:49:13,960 --> 00:49:17,560
Speaker 1: the last two drafts. He owns those, so let's not,

883
00:49:18,080 --> 00:49:21,960
Speaker 1: you know, get too busy past draft. But it looks okay,

884
00:49:22,000 --> 00:49:25,560
Speaker 1: it doesn't look nominal. Andrew Barry in Cleveland h This

885
00:49:25,600 --> 00:49:28,440
Speaker 1: is his first year. He's nine and four. Bill O'Brien

886
00:49:28,440 --> 00:49:31,080
Speaker 1: with Houston. Since he became GM, he's already been fired.

887
00:49:31,120 --> 00:49:34,040
Speaker 1: He was ten and ten. Uh, Mike Mayock and Oakland

888
00:49:34,080 --> 00:49:37,640
Speaker 1: their fourteen and sixteen. Ron Rivera with Washington, he's their

889
00:49:37,680 --> 00:49:40,799
Speaker 1: de facto GM their six and seven, Chris Gryer with

890
00:49:40,880 --> 00:49:44,279
Speaker 1: Miami thirteen and sixteen, and then Joe Douglas with the

891
00:49:44,400 --> 00:49:47,279
Speaker 1: Jets seven and twenty two. Baby, I actually think he's

892
00:49:47,320 --> 00:49:50,399
Speaker 1: done a good job. Though his job is safe. It's

893
00:49:50,400 --> 00:49:52,640
Speaker 1: a pretty good draft. They traded Jamal Adams. I got

894
00:49:52,640 --> 00:49:56,040
Speaker 1: a bunch of picks going forward. Like the last year

895
00:49:56,040 --> 00:49:58,040
Speaker 1: of GM ing isn't the reason they have a right?

896
00:49:58,680 --> 00:50:03,879
Speaker 1: You know, Beckton's a inner, right, but he's gonna be back. Yeah.

897
00:50:03,920 --> 00:50:06,080
Speaker 1: Oh by the way, Da Costas also the guy who

898
00:50:06,160 --> 00:50:10,200
Speaker 1: signed uh the safety uh Earl Thomas that didn't work

899
00:50:10,200 --> 00:50:12,600
Speaker 1: out so well. That doesn't get mentioned in here. But no,

900
00:50:12,760 --> 00:50:14,360
Speaker 1: that's a bad one. That's a bad signing. That's a

901
00:50:14,360 --> 00:50:16,920
Speaker 1: bad signing that hurt, hurt your cap and killed your

902
00:50:16,960 --> 00:50:19,120
Speaker 1: cap and he was a bad dude. But amazing what

903
00:50:19,239 --> 00:50:22,200
Speaker 1: Kevin's done. Yeah, I mean it really is that stretch.

904
00:50:22,880 --> 00:50:28,000
Speaker 1: I mean that sustained excellence is absolutely Yeah, he is

905
00:50:28,040 --> 00:50:30,239
Speaker 1: Matt Williamson. I'm Dale Lolly. You're listening to the Drive

906
00:50:30,320 --> 00:50:32,600
Speaker 1: here on Steelers Nation Radio. We're gonna take a break.

907
00:50:32,600 --> 00:50:34,720
Speaker 1: When we come back, it's time for the Fantasy Football Focus.

908
00:50:34,800 --> 00:50:37,279
Speaker 1: We'll take you through all this week's games right after

909
00:50:37,320 --> 00:50:46,080
Speaker 1: This is the Drive with Dale Lolly and Matt Williamson

910
00:50:46,480 --> 00:51:01,200
Speaker 1: on your home of the Black and Gold, Steelers Nation Radio.

911
00:51:31,719 --> 00:51:34,400
Speaker 1: Welcome back. I'm Dale. I'll e here with Matt Williamson

912
00:51:34,400 --> 00:51:37,400
Speaker 1: and Matt. That's time for the Fantasy Football Focus. Remember

913
00:51:37,440 --> 00:51:40,840
Speaker 1: their Saturday games this week. On top of that, the

914
00:51:40,840 --> 00:51:42,680
Speaker 1: first game we're gonna look at here is the Bills

915
00:51:42,840 --> 00:51:46,399
Speaker 1: at Broncos. The over under on that one is forty nine.

916
00:51:47,040 --> 00:51:50,799
Speaker 1: The Broncos had to close their facility today. Yeah, so

917
00:51:50,880 --> 00:51:52,960
Speaker 1: that's something to keep an eye on. The kicker. Their

918
00:51:53,000 --> 00:51:56,000
Speaker 1: kicker went on. Brendon McManus went on the COVID list.

919
00:51:56,080 --> 00:51:58,920
Speaker 1: So at least it's an early game for fantasy reasons.

920
00:51:58,920 --> 00:52:02,439
Speaker 1: You'll know. Could it get postponed? I don't. I don't

921
00:52:02,480 --> 00:52:05,719
Speaker 1: think so. Tomorrow. It's tomorrow. I mean the Bills we

922
00:52:05,760 --> 00:52:08,800
Speaker 1: fea there in the air as we speak. To be

923
00:52:09,080 --> 00:52:15,520
Speaker 1: to be over there. Um so, Um, I can see

924
00:52:15,520 --> 00:52:17,160
Speaker 1: it's being a letdown for the Bills a little bit.

925
00:52:17,200 --> 00:52:19,600
Speaker 1: But I don't know if the if the Broncos, because

926
00:52:19,640 --> 00:52:21,560
Speaker 1: if everything is going on with their situation, had to

927
00:52:21,680 --> 00:52:23,560
Speaker 1: have the horses to beat them, No, I'm not sure

928
00:52:23,600 --> 00:52:26,400
Speaker 1: they would do either. Um, but the Bills for fantasy,

929
00:52:26,640 --> 00:52:29,000
Speaker 1: it's kind of just Nigs and Allen. Yeah. The running

930
00:52:29,000 --> 00:52:32,640
Speaker 1: back situations not great. I mean, Beasley maybe in a

931
00:52:32,680 --> 00:52:36,520
Speaker 1: PPR or whatever. But um Denver is tough too, because

932
00:52:36,960 --> 00:52:39,120
Speaker 1: I think locks kind of a sneaky start. You have

933
00:52:39,239 --> 00:52:42,640
Speaker 1: some bordles. You need to know what the running back situation.

934
00:52:42,680 --> 00:52:45,520
Speaker 1: We talked about that yesterday. If Lindsay or Gordon or

935
00:52:45,520 --> 00:52:48,239
Speaker 1: out and and the other guys playing, you play him,

936
00:52:49,200 --> 00:52:51,280
Speaker 1: there's no run the football. I think you could do worse.

937
00:52:51,440 --> 00:52:54,880
Speaker 1: But it's not great Bills. D isn't all that scary?

938
00:52:55,040 --> 00:52:59,640
Speaker 1: She gets running backs? No? I agree? Um yeah, I

939
00:52:59,680 --> 00:53:01,960
Speaker 1: think to I wonder if fans planned to he was

940
00:53:02,000 --> 00:53:04,319
Speaker 1: he left he was supposed to. Yeah, it was an

941
00:53:04,360 --> 00:53:07,400
Speaker 1: illness issue. Um. Handler had some yards last week, but

942
00:53:07,480 --> 00:53:11,440
Speaker 1: don't re three targets. R. Don't get too excited about that. Uh,

943
00:53:11,560 --> 00:53:14,880
Speaker 1: Panthers at Packers. Uh, they overrun earn. This one is

944
00:53:14,920 --> 00:53:16,879
Speaker 1: fifty one and a half. This is much the same

945
00:53:16,960 --> 00:53:19,239
Speaker 1: here with with the green base out of it. It's

946
00:53:19,440 --> 00:53:22,760
Speaker 1: it's it's Aaron Rodgers, it's Davante Adams, it's Aaron Jones.

947
00:53:24,040 --> 00:53:27,680
Speaker 1: Maybe you know the tight end maybe. I mean, I

948
00:53:27,719 --> 00:53:30,359
Speaker 1: think that's a really ripe defense to attack. I mean

949
00:53:30,360 --> 00:53:34,400
Speaker 1: they're really young and they're totally at the rookie wall. Um,

950
00:53:34,520 --> 00:53:36,000
Speaker 1: so it went in doubt. I mean, if you have

951
00:53:36,040 --> 00:53:38,399
Speaker 1: to play a valt As Scantling or you know, one

952
00:53:38,400 --> 00:53:41,680
Speaker 1: of those dudes. Okay, but that's a real reach. Yeah,

953
00:53:41,719 --> 00:53:45,560
Speaker 1: you're you're you're hoping, you're I think the Packers rolling,

954
00:53:46,160 --> 00:53:49,279
Speaker 1: um d J. Moore should be back this week. I'm

955
00:53:49,280 --> 00:53:52,360
Speaker 1: starting I'm starting robbing, Yeah, because Robbi Anderson probably draws

956
00:53:53,320 --> 00:53:59,760
Speaker 1: Alexander point. Yeah. Are you okay with Davis? Yeah? Against

957
00:53:59,800 --> 00:54:02,279
Speaker 1: that defense, Yeah, they don't stop the run roll. You know.

958
00:54:02,320 --> 00:54:05,600
Speaker 1: The problem part of this is the same thing as

959
00:54:05,600 --> 00:54:07,920
Speaker 1: Steelers are going through. And now, when early in the

960
00:54:08,040 --> 00:54:12,440
Speaker 1: year Um Davis was going nuts running the ball really well,

961
00:54:12,640 --> 00:54:15,040
Speaker 1: in the last month and a half, not so not

962
00:54:15,120 --> 00:54:17,879
Speaker 1: so much. I wonder what could be because because Teddy

963
00:54:17,880 --> 00:54:19,759
Speaker 1: bridge Way doesn't throw the ball down the field, right,

964
00:54:19,800 --> 00:54:22,480
Speaker 1: you got you gotta get people out of the box.

965
00:54:23,680 --> 00:54:26,400
Speaker 1: The same issue. It's the same issue the steers and

966
00:54:26,520 --> 00:54:30,000
Speaker 1: write right, it's almost identical, it is, it's really similar.

967
00:54:30,280 --> 00:54:34,280
Speaker 1: Um so yeah, but I would say, yeah, he started

968
00:54:34,280 --> 00:54:37,800
Speaker 1: ble in this game. He catches the ball too, so uh.

969
00:54:37,920 --> 00:54:40,759
Speaker 1: Going on moving on to Sunday's games, Bucks at Falcons

970
00:54:40,760 --> 00:54:43,960
Speaker 1: the over Unders forty nine and a half. I don't

971
00:54:43,960 --> 00:54:47,000
Speaker 1: think playing. Yeah, it doesnt look like Julio is gonna play.

972
00:54:47,920 --> 00:54:50,000
Speaker 1: I don't want to start Matt Ryan in this game.

973
00:54:50,080 --> 00:54:52,160
Speaker 1: Vading Matt Ryan. Bridley is the only guy I have

974
00:54:52,280 --> 00:54:56,520
Speaker 1: interested in. I mean, I guess Hurst if I have to. Yeah.

975
00:54:56,640 --> 00:54:59,360
Speaker 1: Other than that, I'm not super. Halkins offenses is not

976
00:54:59,480 --> 00:55:02,320
Speaker 1: in a good play, it's yeah, and even though Tampa's

977
00:55:02,360 --> 00:55:05,560
Speaker 1: defense has not been nearly as stout, but still something

978
00:55:05,600 --> 00:55:08,399
Speaker 1: to worry about. Yeah, on the Tampa side of things,

979
00:55:08,480 --> 00:55:13,440
Speaker 1: four nets and must start. Yeah, Brady should have a

980
00:55:13,560 --> 00:55:16,319
Speaker 1: decent numbers. But I think yeah, um, but I think

981
00:55:16,360 --> 00:55:18,640
Speaker 1: they'll I think they'll lean more on the running game

982
00:55:18,680 --> 00:55:20,879
Speaker 1: and just get out of this one with a win.

983
00:55:20,960 --> 00:55:23,719
Speaker 1: And Aby is hard to use now he's not seeing

984
00:55:23,760 --> 00:55:26,880
Speaker 1: the field as much as you like. Yeah, um, but

985
00:55:26,960 --> 00:55:29,880
Speaker 1: you're gonna start gob when you're gonna start Evans. Gronk

986
00:55:29,960 --> 00:55:33,239
Speaker 1: is probably a top ten type. Yeah, I don't love

987
00:55:33,280 --> 00:55:38,800
Speaker 1: it though. I mean Robert Tanian or Gronk or Hurst

988
00:55:39,440 --> 00:55:44,120
Speaker 1: or Hurst, probably Hurst, then Tanya and then Gronk. I'd

989
00:55:44,160 --> 00:55:47,960
Speaker 1: take Gronk over Tanyan, but Tania can run and grown camp.

990
00:55:48,280 --> 00:55:51,520
Speaker 1: Tanyan is almost the number two target there. I still

991
00:55:51,560 --> 00:55:54,120
Speaker 1: haven't given that guy any blick of respect. Every week

992
00:55:54,160 --> 00:55:58,880
Speaker 1: we beat your button win when I remember that, right, Yeah,

993
00:55:59,200 --> 00:56:01,239
Speaker 1: I guess he's better. Rodgers likes to throw him today.

994
00:56:01,640 --> 00:56:05,600
Speaker 1: I don't there's score a point. Yeah, Seahawks at Washington.

995
00:56:05,719 --> 00:56:08,799
Speaker 1: Alex Smith is not playing. That's he's been. He's been

996
00:56:08,920 --> 00:56:11,279
Speaker 1: rolled out. Uh the over under his forty four and

997
00:56:11,320 --> 00:56:16,560
Speaker 1: a half man. That's bad for Washington. It's really bad. Uh. Yeah,

998
00:56:16,600 --> 00:56:18,879
Speaker 1: I don't think Gibson's gonna play. Gibbson is not. Yeah,

999
00:56:20,400 --> 00:56:27,760
Speaker 1: it's McLaurin, Um, maybe Logan, Thomas and mckissic. As a flex.

1000
00:56:28,920 --> 00:56:31,319
Speaker 1: I expect Haskins to be better than we saw him last.

1001
00:56:31,360 --> 00:56:34,640
Speaker 1: But he might be awful very well, could be. And

1002
00:56:34,719 --> 00:56:36,759
Speaker 1: you know who to start with the Seahawks. Yeah, the

1003
00:56:36,800 --> 00:56:41,879
Speaker 1: only question is okay, uh Carson Hyde situation. I think

1004
00:56:41,960 --> 00:56:44,560
Speaker 1: that I forget what I read that the box score

1005
00:56:44,640 --> 00:56:47,319
Speaker 1: made that situation look worse than it was because they

1006
00:56:47,480 --> 00:56:52,920
Speaker 1: they were winning some well true, good point. But Carson

1007
00:56:53,000 --> 00:56:55,759
Speaker 1: is a starter. Yeah, Carson's the guy. He's gonna get

1008
00:56:57,440 --> 00:56:58,759
Speaker 1: the snaps. Maybe he doesn't play a lot in the

1009
00:56:58,760 --> 00:57:04,040
Speaker 1: fourth quarter. Yeah. Um, Patriots at Dolphins, the overruners only

1010
00:57:04,080 --> 00:57:06,200
Speaker 1: forty one and a half. Where the points come from?

1011
00:57:06,239 --> 00:57:08,600
Speaker 1: I don't know either on either side. It sounds like

1012
00:57:08,640 --> 00:57:10,920
Speaker 1: Kasecki and Park are gonna Plasecki would be the only

1013
00:57:10,920 --> 00:57:14,120
Speaker 1: guy on Dolphins offensive that the Bill is gonna take away, right,

1014
00:57:14,160 --> 00:57:16,520
Speaker 1: I mean, he's gonna make two or throw outside the numbers.

1015
00:57:17,000 --> 00:57:19,440
Speaker 1: He's gonna crowd the middle of a few. Yeah, Miami

1016
00:57:19,480 --> 00:57:22,080
Speaker 1: can't run the ball at all. I guess I'm playing

1017
00:57:22,160 --> 00:57:26,480
Speaker 1: Harris Es. I guess I'm not playing any of the

1018
00:57:26,560 --> 00:57:30,040
Speaker 1: receivers against those corners. No, do you play both the

1019
00:57:30,200 --> 00:57:33,440
Speaker 1: just played both defenses and this guess Yeah, those are

1020
00:57:33,520 --> 00:57:35,880
Speaker 1: maybe the two top plays special tea teams. Maybe you

1021
00:57:35,880 --> 00:57:38,360
Speaker 1: get a return. I mean, who would you rather start

1022
00:57:38,400 --> 00:57:42,760
Speaker 1: two or a Cam. I mean, is this a games then?

1023
00:57:42,920 --> 00:57:44,800
Speaker 1: Is like a little over forty one and a half.

1024
00:57:44,840 --> 00:57:46,800
Speaker 1: That might be the lowest one I've seen all year. Right,

1025
00:57:47,120 --> 00:57:49,760
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, I have no real desire to play anybody

1026
00:57:49,760 --> 00:57:51,760
Speaker 1: in this game. Me neither. I think it's gonna be

1027
00:57:51,760 --> 00:57:56,560
Speaker 1: extremely low scoring. Uh Texans at Colts the overrunners fifty

1028
00:57:56,560 --> 00:57:59,600
Speaker 1: and a half. I think Cooks is back. Brandon Cooks

1029
00:57:59,640 --> 00:58:02,480
Speaker 1: looks like he's gonna be back. Um, so I would

1030
00:58:02,480 --> 00:58:04,880
Speaker 1: not be interested in the other receivers. If he's back,

1031
00:58:05,080 --> 00:58:08,439
Speaker 1: you take and still he's not horrible. They're gonna throw.

1032
00:58:08,560 --> 00:58:11,760
Speaker 1: They have to throw David back. David. David Johnson is

1033
00:58:11,760 --> 00:58:15,760
Speaker 1: supposed to be back. I don't really love that startable,

1034
00:58:15,840 --> 00:58:19,040
Speaker 1: but again, Colt, Steve's good. We've talked about that. Umm,

1035
00:58:19,160 --> 00:58:22,800
Speaker 1: Fire up Hilton, Fire up Pittman. Yeah, yeah, Taylor's a guy.

1036
00:58:22,920 --> 00:58:25,000
Speaker 1: Taylor should have a monster day. He should have a

1037
00:58:25,000 --> 00:58:27,520
Speaker 1: monster day. Yeah, it's gonna be a Taylor game. It's

1038
00:58:27,520 --> 00:58:29,640
Speaker 1: gonna be. Yeah, this is a game to get him

1039
00:58:30,920 --> 00:58:33,240
Speaker 1: carries and can you live with Hines as a flex?

1040
00:58:34,880 --> 00:58:36,760
Speaker 1: I lean towards no, I hope, I gotta you gotta

1041
00:58:36,800 --> 00:58:39,280
Speaker 1: have somebody better than that. I would hope I can. Yeah,

1042
00:58:39,520 --> 00:58:42,480
Speaker 1: but Hilton, I'd rather start Harris. I'd rather start although

1043
00:58:42,760 --> 00:58:47,200
Speaker 1: in a PPR. Yeah, still, I'd rather play. Yeah, I

1044
00:58:47,200 --> 00:58:49,040
Speaker 1: think Hilton's real though. He's back and looks good. It

1045
00:58:49,080 --> 00:58:52,800
Speaker 1: looks good. Yeah, uh bears at Vikings. You over and

1046
00:58:52,880 --> 00:58:58,000
Speaker 1: there's forty seven Yuh Allen Robinson, Yes, Robinson, Montgomery get

1047
00:58:58,040 --> 00:59:03,720
Speaker 1: the ball. Montgomery already said I'm starting uh um er

1048
00:59:03,840 --> 00:59:07,479
Speaker 1: Smith ierf Smith. Yeah, is my I've got him fired

1049
00:59:07,520 --> 00:59:10,320
Speaker 1: up in my DFS lap. It's cheap, you know, obviously,

1050
00:59:11,600 --> 00:59:15,480
Speaker 1: Cousins or Rabinsky. I have Trabinsky is my DFS quarterback,

1051
00:59:15,480 --> 00:59:17,680
Speaker 1: because I think you can throw in Minnesota. Yeah, and

1052
00:59:17,800 --> 00:59:21,680
Speaker 1: he'll run in Robinson do his part. I don't hate

1053
00:59:21,720 --> 00:59:23,960
Speaker 1: any of it. I mean there's in both these teams

1054
00:59:23,960 --> 00:59:27,720
Speaker 1: are obvious suspects Jefferson, and but when I say I'm

1055
00:59:27,760 --> 00:59:29,840
Speaker 1: starting him in my DFS line, I'm up doing that

1056
00:59:30,680 --> 00:59:32,640
Speaker 1: so I can then so I can then have Davante

1057
00:59:32,680 --> 00:59:36,800
Speaker 1: Adams and you know, then and a lot of people

1058
00:59:36,800 --> 00:59:39,439
Speaker 1: listening to play DFS. I mean, if it's the values right,

1059
00:59:39,800 --> 00:59:42,480
Speaker 1: he throws deep, Yeah, yeah, he throws deep. And the

1060
00:59:42,560 --> 00:59:44,919
Speaker 1: Vikings will give some of that up obviously, you're starting Cook,

1061
00:59:45,280 --> 00:59:49,360
Speaker 1: you're starting Jefferson, you're starting dealing. Yeah, should be good.

1062
00:59:49,640 --> 00:59:51,840
Speaker 1: It's not a bad game, I guess, uh you know

1063
00:59:51,840 --> 00:59:53,720
Speaker 1: what I mean. It's worthy over it's it's it's not

1064
00:59:53,800 --> 00:59:56,680
Speaker 1: a terrible over under at forty seven. Most years, if

1065
00:59:56,680 --> 00:59:58,720
Speaker 1: there was a forty seven over underbea going Yeah, that's

1066
00:59:58,760 --> 01:00:01,200
Speaker 1: a good that's over right right. Not this year as much.

1067
01:00:01,200 --> 01:00:02,760
Speaker 1: You get a lot of fancy goodness out of that.

1068
01:00:03,280 --> 01:00:06,280
Speaker 1: Jaguars at Ravens the over under forty seven and a half.

1069
01:00:06,840 --> 01:00:09,680
Speaker 1: So I don't think the Jags are a terrible play either. No,

1070
01:00:09,760 --> 01:00:12,480
Speaker 1: I think Minschell will have some success. The Ravens defense

1071
01:00:12,560 --> 01:00:16,000
Speaker 1: is struggling. Struggling, it's absolutely corners are not I think

1072
01:00:16,040 --> 01:00:17,720
Speaker 1: their corner. I think that's a little banged up that

1073
01:00:17,840 --> 01:00:22,280
Speaker 1: second years great, you can run on him a little bit. Um.

1074
01:00:22,480 --> 01:00:24,840
Speaker 1: Minshew is not a bad DFS player. Bet he's super cheap.

1075
01:00:25,120 --> 01:00:31,320
Speaker 1: Did you put up fancy points? Yeah, um, Dobbin's Lamar Andrews,

1076
01:00:32,240 --> 01:00:35,600
Speaker 1: nobody else. Marquis is too. I can't I can't can't go.

1077
01:00:35,760 --> 01:00:42,080
Speaker 1: I can't go down that road. How about Shark? Yeah,

1078
01:00:42,280 --> 01:00:44,280
Speaker 1: see I think he's still off the all double move

1079
01:00:44,360 --> 01:00:47,720
Speaker 1: on Marcus Peters. He still gets a lot of targets

1080
01:00:47,720 --> 01:00:50,640
Speaker 1: that this doesn't connect, and some of it's his fault,

1081
01:00:50,640 --> 01:00:53,160
Speaker 1: but a lot of its situation. Like I bet he's

1082
01:00:53,320 --> 01:00:56,400
Speaker 1: a value next draft. Oh yeah, you know, like give

1083
01:00:56,480 --> 01:00:58,800
Speaker 1: him a seventh round or something after a bad much

1084
01:00:58,840 --> 01:01:00,680
Speaker 1: better than the fourth round pick I used their third,

1085
01:01:00,920 --> 01:01:02,560
Speaker 1: third or fourth run pick I used on him this year.

1086
01:01:02,640 --> 01:01:05,080
Speaker 1: Or maybe I can't quit the guy. But yeah, okay,

1087
01:01:05,160 --> 01:01:10,000
Speaker 1: they're broke back Mountain Lions a Titans. The over unders

1088
01:01:10,000 --> 01:01:11,960
Speaker 1: fifty one and a half. I don't think Stafford's play.

1089
01:01:11,960 --> 01:01:13,960
Speaker 1: I don't think Safford is gonna play. So I think

1090
01:01:14,040 --> 01:01:17,400
Speaker 1: that one goes under. Yes, but I think the Titans

1091
01:01:17,400 --> 01:01:21,680
Speaker 1: will put up some points. Are you playing Swift? I

1092
01:01:21,760 --> 01:01:27,000
Speaker 1: guess yeah, but that Marvin Jones, maybe Corey Davis, Corey Davis,

1093
01:01:27,040 --> 01:01:29,600
Speaker 1: I'm playing you know A. J. Brown, I'm playing Henry,

1094
01:01:29,640 --> 01:01:32,520
Speaker 1: I'm playing you know Hawk, all of them about John

1095
01:01:32,560 --> 01:01:37,360
Speaker 1: Dow he's coming off an injury, Yeah John or if Smith.

1096
01:01:39,080 --> 01:01:40,960
Speaker 1: I gotta be down on John do. I really like him,

1097
01:01:40,960 --> 01:01:43,680
Speaker 1: but he has not done much for a while. Corey Davis,

1098
01:01:43,680 --> 01:01:47,080
Speaker 1: and they're gonna get the targets. Yeah, yeah, I think

1099
01:01:47,120 --> 01:01:50,520
Speaker 1: if Smith might be the Yeah, he's a sneaky tight

1100
01:01:50,720 --> 01:01:55,920
Speaker 1: play of the week forty Niners, Cowboys fire up Jeff Wilson. Baby,

1101
01:01:56,360 --> 01:01:58,479
Speaker 1: he's the lone dog. How often do you get the

1102
01:01:58,560 --> 01:02:01,360
Speaker 1: chance to have the lone dog and the offense? Yeah,

1103
01:02:01,640 --> 01:02:03,920
Speaker 1: against a horrible deal. You'll see what happens with Kittle.

1104
01:02:04,080 --> 01:02:06,280
Speaker 1: That could be a situation where he gets activated later

1105
01:02:06,360 --> 01:02:09,320
Speaker 1: tonight or tomorrow. If he if that happens, you gotta

1106
01:02:09,320 --> 01:02:12,960
Speaker 1: fire him up. I use a great play, Oh, a

1107
01:02:13,040 --> 01:02:18,200
Speaker 1: great play on the Cowboys side of things. I don't

1108
01:02:18,200 --> 01:02:21,640
Speaker 1: know if Elliott plays that many snaps anymore. Yeah, I

1109
01:02:21,640 --> 01:02:24,200
Speaker 1: mean you probably have to start g Elliott. You're probably

1110
01:02:24,200 --> 01:02:26,720
Speaker 1: gonna start their receivers again at the same spot where

1111
01:02:26,720 --> 01:02:30,480
Speaker 1: you've been. It'smari's the two. Amar he's a two, and

1112
01:02:30,920 --> 01:02:34,040
Speaker 1: you know the other guy's kind of falling his getting

1113
01:02:34,120 --> 01:02:38,560
Speaker 1: enough anymore? No, no, no, And Dalton Schultz does not

1114
01:02:38,800 --> 01:02:46,200
Speaker 1: excite anybody. Jets and rams acres, baby acres, lots of acres.

1115
01:02:46,800 --> 01:02:48,680
Speaker 1: They're they're favored by seventeen and a half and the

1116
01:02:48,720 --> 01:02:51,120
Speaker 1: over unders forty three and a half. I can't start

1117
01:02:51,160 --> 01:02:56,760
Speaker 1: any Jet like. Yeah, that's a good defense. Yeah, they've

1118
01:02:56,800 --> 01:03:00,400
Speaker 1: cashed it into. I mean, they're abysmal. I can't consider

1119
01:03:00,400 --> 01:03:03,040
Speaker 1: starting the jet. Yeah. Ram's defense is the play of

1120
01:03:03,080 --> 01:03:07,920
Speaker 1: the week. Ram's defense is super strong play. Um, I

1121
01:03:08,000 --> 01:03:10,240
Speaker 1: guess it would just playing. Isn't he hurt? It would

1122
01:03:10,280 --> 01:03:13,280
Speaker 1: just banged up to check on that. Um, maybe Reynolds

1123
01:03:13,320 --> 01:03:16,080
Speaker 1: is I don't know the DFS prices, but Reynolds might

1124
01:03:16,120 --> 01:03:19,439
Speaker 1: be or Van Jefferson might be somebody that's cheap. Yeah,

1125
01:03:19,560 --> 01:03:21,000
Speaker 1: I don't know that. I don't know that I want

1126
01:03:21,000 --> 01:03:25,520
Speaker 1: to necessarily start the Cooper cover. Yeah, you think he does.

1127
01:03:25,760 --> 01:03:27,120
Speaker 1: I don't know how long. How long are they gonna

1128
01:03:27,120 --> 01:03:29,160
Speaker 1: be throwing the ball though, I think they'll get thirty

1129
01:03:29,200 --> 01:03:33,720
Speaker 1: some points. You better hope for that early. You better

1130
01:03:33,720 --> 01:03:35,919
Speaker 1: hope Bakers doesn't run a couple in in the first

1131
01:03:36,000 --> 01:03:38,000
Speaker 1: quarter and then they just shut it on silent. Yeah.

1132
01:03:38,400 --> 01:03:41,760
Speaker 1: You could probably start Henderson too, You probably could, Yeah,

1133
01:03:42,000 --> 01:03:45,680
Speaker 1: or Brown or Brown. That's the problems. I was just

1134
01:03:45,720 --> 01:03:47,800
Speaker 1: gonna say the same thing. You never know. It's kind

1135
01:03:47,800 --> 01:03:52,480
Speaker 1: of canceled each other out right. YEA, Eagles at Cardinals,

1136
01:03:52,480 --> 01:03:54,640
Speaker 1: you over in the forty nine and a half. I

1137
01:03:54,640 --> 01:03:58,320
Speaker 1: think the Eagles are not that great. Um, and I

1138
01:03:58,360 --> 01:04:01,200
Speaker 1: think the Cardinals d is pretty good. You have a

1139
01:04:01,600 --> 01:04:04,400
Speaker 1: certain Miles Sanders this week. Yeah, yeah, he's still a

1140
01:04:04,440 --> 01:04:07,160
Speaker 1: starter starting Jalen Hurts. This doesn't say it. I think

1141
01:04:07,160 --> 01:04:09,120
Speaker 1: there's tape on him now that it's gonna be a

1142
01:04:09,160 --> 01:04:13,040
Speaker 1: little tougher sledding, but his wheels, he's gonna have ten carries.

1143
01:04:13,480 --> 01:04:15,960
Speaker 1: Here's the thing, Chase Edmonds is a game time decision.

1144
01:04:16,560 --> 01:04:19,760
Speaker 1: I like Drake a lot. Yeah, nobody likes to Drake.

1145
01:04:19,840 --> 01:04:21,640
Speaker 1: Nobody likes to Drake. I think Slays hurt too. I

1146
01:04:21,640 --> 01:04:25,360
Speaker 1: mean not he wouldn't play Hopkins, but um, usual guys,

1147
01:04:25,440 --> 01:04:29,640
Speaker 1: you know Drake, Hopkins, Tyler, Yeah, farm as much sneaky

1148
01:04:29,720 --> 01:04:32,880
Speaker 1: that's there, wouldn't be the worst idea. How about Arnold

1149
01:04:33,800 --> 01:04:38,560
Speaker 1: Oh four straight games with a touchdown but six targets

1150
01:04:38,560 --> 01:04:41,920
Speaker 1: in that time. I can't do it. Man, he's gonna

1151
01:04:42,000 --> 01:04:44,680
Speaker 1: he's gonna vulture away a touchdown from Hopkins? Or how

1152
01:04:44,720 --> 01:04:50,080
Speaker 1: about God heard or Earth God her? Yes, he's still

1153
01:04:50,080 --> 01:04:52,520
Speaker 1: had They had like four catches for sixty yards last week.

1154
01:04:52,560 --> 01:04:55,880
Speaker 1: I mean they just don't have anybody. There's not much there.

1155
01:04:56,640 --> 01:04:59,480
Speaker 1: Young quarterbacks. The tight ends are best friend. He's you know,

1156
01:04:59,640 --> 01:05:02,440
Speaker 1: he's the he's the top twelve guy, But how many

1157
01:05:02,480 --> 01:05:07,240
Speaker 1: passing attempts is Jalen Hurts gonna have right around there.

1158
01:05:07,960 --> 01:05:12,439
Speaker 1: Big game of the week Sunday, Chiefs at Saints. Drew

1159
01:05:12,440 --> 01:05:14,960
Speaker 1: Brees looks like he's going to play in this football game,

1160
01:05:15,000 --> 01:05:20,600
Speaker 1: So fire up, Michael Thomas. Tomorrow's Tomorrow will be back

1161
01:05:20,680 --> 01:05:24,720
Speaker 1: Sonable Kansas City, just in time after all the Camara

1162
01:05:24,760 --> 01:05:27,360
Speaker 1: owners have been eliminated from the playoffs last week because

1163
01:05:27,360 --> 01:05:31,120
Speaker 1: he has Yeah, doesn't matter. Jared Cook's higher on my

1164
01:05:31,160 --> 01:05:34,000
Speaker 1: list than Goddard or Gronk or Hearst or some of

1165
01:05:34,000 --> 01:05:39,120
Speaker 1: those guys we've mentioned. Oh yeah, he's abo. Emmanuel Sanders.

1166
01:05:39,880 --> 01:05:44,000
Speaker 1: M hmm. Chief's corners aren't bad. They're not bad. Sanders

1167
01:05:44,120 --> 01:05:49,400
Speaker 1: um right before, right before the you know, before breeze

1168
01:05:49,400 --> 01:05:54,000
Speaker 1: got hurt. Sanders are starting today. They seem like little together.

1169
01:05:55,200 --> 01:05:57,480
Speaker 1: I mean, he's a he's probably better than some of

1170
01:05:57,480 --> 01:06:00,960
Speaker 1: the other guys that we've talked about. Probably probably, But

1171
01:06:01,000 --> 01:06:02,400
Speaker 1: it's a bit of a This is gonna be a

1172
01:06:02,440 --> 01:06:04,440
Speaker 1: high scoring game. They're gonna be thrown in the fourth quarter.

1173
01:06:04,600 --> 01:06:07,040
Speaker 1: I mean, there's no question about that. Chief side of things.

1174
01:06:07,040 --> 01:06:10,240
Speaker 1: You know, who to play. It's not nothing crazy here.

1175
01:06:10,280 --> 01:06:12,840
Speaker 1: Don't go for any of the secondary options or anything

1176
01:06:12,880 --> 01:06:14,520
Speaker 1: like that. But I don't know that Edwards a layer

1177
01:06:14,560 --> 01:06:16,920
Speaker 1: does much. I don't think he will. I mean, he's

1178
01:06:16,960 --> 01:06:19,240
Speaker 1: probably a starter for your fantasy team, but I wouldn't

1179
01:06:19,240 --> 01:06:23,640
Speaker 1: expect the moon now. I would not either, Uh Browns

1180
01:06:23,800 --> 01:06:27,440
Speaker 1: at Giants he over under four. No, Daniel Jones, I

1181
01:06:27,480 --> 01:06:29,120
Speaker 1: don't think he's gonna He don't think he plays in

1182
01:06:29,120 --> 01:06:31,960
Speaker 1: this game. That's a Sunday night game. Um, so you

1183
01:06:32,040 --> 01:06:33,560
Speaker 1: better know that. I don't seem like they're one of

1184
01:06:33,600 --> 01:06:35,960
Speaker 1: those teams where you start their guys because they're gonna

1185
01:06:35,960 --> 01:06:38,600
Speaker 1: play high scoring games. Unless it's a torrential down. I

1186
01:06:38,600 --> 01:06:39,840
Speaker 1: think they're gonna be I think they're gonna have a

1187
01:06:39,920 --> 01:06:42,080
Speaker 1: letdown on this one. I kind of do too. And

1188
01:06:42,120 --> 01:06:45,520
Speaker 1: that run defense is good, yeah, but I think Trubbs

1189
01:06:45,520 --> 01:06:47,480
Speaker 1: breaking off long runs before, and that's the that's the

1190
01:06:47,640 --> 01:06:49,600
Speaker 1: that's the thing. You can have the letdown. But if

1191
01:06:49,640 --> 01:06:51,760
Speaker 1: you have the two backs and just keep pounding away

1192
01:06:51,760 --> 01:06:54,080
Speaker 1: and then sooner or later so you're start, you're staying,

1193
01:06:54,120 --> 01:06:57,280
Speaker 1: You're starting Chub of course, you probably start Hunt. I'm

1194
01:06:57,520 --> 01:07:00,360
Speaker 1: I'm away from Cooper, though I don't think I'm being

1195
01:07:00,400 --> 01:07:03,000
Speaker 1: cute with any of the receivers or passing games. I

1196
01:07:03,000 --> 01:07:05,680
Speaker 1: don't think Baker does has a huge game. Yeah, I

1197
01:07:05,680 --> 01:07:08,360
Speaker 1: don't think he's a pretty good defense. How about do

1198
01:07:08,440 --> 01:07:11,720
Speaker 1: you start having Ingram in this game? Yes, they're they're yeah,

1199
01:07:11,720 --> 01:07:13,480
Speaker 1: they they could be had at the tight end position.

1200
01:07:13,640 --> 01:07:19,200
Speaker 1: I hate all their receivers though, um Shepherd's late and tad. Yeah,

1201
01:07:19,920 --> 01:07:22,760
Speaker 1: how about Golman. Golan's must start. I think he's a

1202
01:07:22,840 --> 01:07:24,920
Speaker 1: must start. Yeah, and I think he has some success

1203
01:07:25,000 --> 01:07:29,200
Speaker 1: that it's bad, It is really bad. Uh. And then

1204
01:07:29,240 --> 01:07:34,160
Speaker 1: the Monday night game Steelers at Bengals. No Bengals, not

1205
01:07:34,200 --> 01:07:37,560
Speaker 1: a single one. Steelers defense are very very, very very

1206
01:07:37,680 --> 01:07:42,720
Speaker 1: very might be even better, I mean obviously. Yeah, if

1207
01:07:42,760 --> 01:07:44,880
Speaker 1: it looks like it's gonna be Ryan Finley, the Steelers

1208
01:07:44,920 --> 01:07:48,640
Speaker 1: could defense could post twenty five points. I'm gonna take

1209
01:07:48,640 --> 01:07:51,880
Speaker 1: the over on whatever Deonte's reception totally. The over under

1210
01:07:51,880 --> 01:07:56,760
Speaker 1: in the game is forty and a half. Yeah. Um,

1211
01:07:56,880 --> 01:07:59,120
Speaker 1: I don't know that it gets there. Basal leaning towards

1212
01:07:59,120 --> 01:08:02,400
Speaker 1: the under. We haven't made our pick on the score yet,

1213
01:08:02,440 --> 01:08:04,240
Speaker 1: and we'll do that in the next segment. But I

1214
01:08:04,240 --> 01:08:06,000
Speaker 1: don't know that since he gets ten points, Yeah, I

1215
01:08:06,000 --> 01:08:07,680
Speaker 1: don't see how they get to ten, and if the

1216
01:08:07,720 --> 01:08:10,880
Speaker 1: Steelers are up fifteen, it might be Rudolph handed off

1217
01:08:10,920 --> 01:08:14,280
Speaker 1: the McFarland for a quarter. Yeah, I agree, that's the

1218
01:08:14,280 --> 01:08:16,280
Speaker 1: problem in this one. So, you know, James Conner, I

1219
01:08:16,280 --> 01:08:18,559
Speaker 1: think I think they want to establish the running game

1220
01:08:18,560 --> 01:08:20,439
Speaker 1: a little bit. I'm sure it's on the agenda, but

1221
01:08:20,520 --> 01:08:22,799
Speaker 1: it's not the biggest thing that they want to establish

1222
01:08:22,840 --> 01:08:24,280
Speaker 1: in this game. I think they want to re establish.

1223
01:08:24,360 --> 01:08:28,280
Speaker 1: Don't think Deante Johnson chase Claypool down the field. I

1224
01:08:28,360 --> 01:08:33,040
Speaker 1: agree with that. You start in Claypool, Yes, starting Ebron, Yes,

1225
01:08:33,880 --> 01:08:38,840
Speaker 1: Okay Ben, Yes. Claypole scored twice the last time against

1226
01:08:38,880 --> 01:08:43,280
Speaker 1: these guys. Um, Deonte Johnson had six for one eleven

1227
01:08:43,360 --> 01:08:45,000
Speaker 1: or something like that. It's weird to say about a

1228
01:08:45,080 --> 01:08:47,040
Speaker 1: rookie and a second year player. Would be nice to

1229
01:08:47,120 --> 01:08:51,160
Speaker 1: see the old Claypool and Johnson, you know, like, I

1230
01:08:51,160 --> 01:08:53,519
Speaker 1: think that's what they want to re establish here. Um.

1231
01:08:53,560 --> 01:08:55,920
Speaker 1: And then when you do, when you do that, then

1232
01:08:55,960 --> 01:08:57,840
Speaker 1: the running game kind of opens up a little bit more.

1233
01:08:58,200 --> 01:09:01,479
Speaker 1: Like Carrie Connor will get that's the problem. I would

1234
01:09:01,479 --> 01:09:04,840
Speaker 1: fade him a little. Yeah. Yeah, he probably plays early

1235
01:09:04,880 --> 01:09:08,960
Speaker 1: in the game. Do you start Ben this week. Yeah yeah,

1236
01:09:09,000 --> 01:09:13,240
Speaker 1: I think so too. Yeah, primetime game Ben on a mission.

1237
01:09:13,360 --> 01:09:16,160
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, three had four touchdown passes against him the

1238
01:09:16,240 --> 01:09:19,599
Speaker 1: last time. Absolutely, probably stretches a field a little more.

1239
01:09:20,560 --> 01:09:22,960
Speaker 1: And even if he doesn't, he probably does it. Probably

1240
01:09:22,960 --> 01:09:25,840
Speaker 1: still throws thirty five passes. I mean, he throws an

1241
01:09:25,840 --> 01:09:28,960
Speaker 1: awful lot. Yeah, yeah, I definitely start yep. I agree.

1242
01:09:29,080 --> 01:09:31,960
Speaker 1: That is the fantasy football focus for this week. We'll

1243
01:09:31,960 --> 01:09:35,880
Speaker 1: be back again on Tuesday to break down all the

1244
01:09:36,080 --> 01:09:38,679
Speaker 1: week's action. We will not have a show on Monday

1245
01:09:38,760 --> 01:09:41,599
Speaker 1: to to do that because the Steelers are playing that night.

1246
01:09:41,680 --> 01:09:44,719
Speaker 1: So he is Matt Williamson. I'm Dale, Lali. You're listening

1247
01:09:44,720 --> 01:09:46,840
Speaker 1: to the Drive here on Steelers Nation Radio. We're gonna

1248
01:09:46,840 --> 01:09:51,880
Speaker 1: take a break. We'll be right back after this your

1249
01:09:51,960 --> 01:09:56,320
Speaker 1: tunes about Drive home of the Black and Goal Steelers

1250
01:09:56,479 --> 01:10:46,240
Speaker 1: Nation Radio, Welcome back. I'm Dale. While we here with

1251
01:10:46,320 --> 01:10:49,200
Speaker 1: Matt Williamson and Matt Um. I guess it's time for

1252
01:10:49,280 --> 01:10:51,519
Speaker 1: us to make our picture. Yeah. I actually haven't given

1253
01:10:51,560 --> 01:10:53,960
Speaker 1: any thought until with that last segment. I mean a

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Speaker 1: little bit of thought. But I'm looking here at the again,

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Speaker 1: looking at the deva oh a s here on on

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Speaker 1: football outsiders and the Bengals are minus twenty nine point eight.

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Speaker 1: The Jets are minus thirty seven points. Curious where the Jags.

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Speaker 1: The Jags are thirty at minus twenty three point nine.

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Speaker 1: They're the three worst teams. I mean, I think that's

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Speaker 1: pretty clear. Our Caroline or Houston twenty nine. Actually the

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Speaker 1: Chargers if you look at this, um actually the Jackson

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Speaker 1: Jacksons twenty nine. The Chargers are thirty at minus twenty

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Speaker 1: six point eight, mostly because they're special teams are so

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Speaker 1: Denver's Dallas, Detroit six, Houston playing Okay, now whatever, but

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Speaker 1: you've still put so much on paper that, um, okay,

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Speaker 1: here's a couple of over unders to the Steelers score

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Speaker 1: on defense or special teams. Yeah, why not? I mean

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Speaker 1: I think there's a shot. I think it's a pretty

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Speaker 1: good shot. I mean, strips, Finley's gonna put the Finlay's

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Speaker 1: gonna put the ball on the ground or in harm's way, right,

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Speaker 1: there's not a doubt in my mind. I mean, the

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Speaker 1: ball is gonna be on the turf for fluttering in

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Speaker 1: the air. And is he gonna look off Minka and

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Speaker 1: full and we're driving arm strength throw in there that

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01:12:17,000 --> 01:12:19,760
Speaker 1: Nelson and he doesn't even have mixing to hand off

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01:12:19,760 --> 01:12:22,360
Speaker 1: to twenty times, and they'll be losing, and I'll play

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Speaker 1: the whole game. I mean he played They played him

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Speaker 1: last year and he had mixing to hand the ball off.

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Speaker 1: D That's not going to be the case here. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I don't know how betting sites handle it, but I

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01:12:30,520 --> 01:12:33,360
Speaker 1: know you can, like bet on a defensive or special

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01:12:33,360 --> 01:12:36,800
Speaker 1: team score whatever the odds are, which are better than

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Speaker 1: one to one, obviously or might be worth your time. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and the Steelers a third team point favorites in this

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01:12:42,800 --> 01:12:46,599
Speaker 1: game might be the might be the bet of the year,

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01:12:47,160 --> 01:12:48,960
Speaker 1: might be the better year. They're kind of on a

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01:12:49,040 --> 01:12:53,600
Speaker 1: vengeance familiar opponents. They embarrassed this team last time and

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01:12:53,680 --> 01:12:55,679
Speaker 1: rubbed it coming off Yeah, coming off a two game

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01:12:55,760 --> 01:12:58,639
Speaker 1: losing streak. We got something to prove here. Oh they're

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01:12:58,640 --> 01:13:01,400
Speaker 1: starting a garbage core her back. We don't care that

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01:13:01,640 --> 01:13:03,880
Speaker 1: we went through all their their line up yesterday with

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Speaker 1: all the injuries that the that the Bengals have had. Uh,

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01:13:07,479 --> 01:13:09,800
Speaker 1: this is a get right game for the Steelers. How

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01:13:09,800 --> 01:13:11,600
Speaker 1: many yards at the end of the day to the

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01:13:11,640 --> 01:13:16,000
Speaker 1: Bengals rushed for rush? Although they do that's this is

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01:13:16,000 --> 01:13:18,439
Speaker 1: a stupid coach Taylor thing that they're losing by thirty

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01:13:18,479 --> 01:13:21,360
Speaker 1: and they run still keep running the football, Yeah against

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01:13:21,840 --> 01:13:25,120
Speaker 1: boxes or you know that. Yeah, the Steelers were in

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01:13:25,160 --> 01:13:27,800
Speaker 1: the fourth quarter, would would have their backups in and

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01:13:27,800 --> 01:13:29,479
Speaker 1: they're running the ball against you know. That's when they

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Speaker 1: established Bason last year. Yeah. I still don't think they

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Speaker 1: get I don't think I don't think they get a

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01:13:34,600 --> 01:13:37,960
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty total yards, no, which is really low.

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01:13:38,120 --> 01:13:44,280
Speaker 1: I mean, how much on the ground if Yeah, Finley's

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01:13:44,760 --> 01:13:49,679
Speaker 1: Finley played a second half against Washington's defense in the game.

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01:13:50,520 --> 01:13:55,280
Speaker 1: Um that he was close. He did last year. But

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01:13:55,720 --> 01:13:58,280
Speaker 1: he's not an athlete. But does he run much? I

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01:13:58,320 --> 01:14:00,599
Speaker 1: don't know. He did again, he did last year. Here's

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01:14:00,600 --> 01:14:02,800
Speaker 1: his numbers again in that game against Washington. When he

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Speaker 1: came in to replace um Joe Burrow early in the

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Speaker 1: second half. This was like the first drive of the

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Speaker 1: second half, Burrow goes out. I think the score at

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Speaker 1: the time, yeah, I think the score time was like

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01:14:14,080 --> 01:14:16,960
Speaker 1: thirteen nine. Okay, yeah, I remember it was. Game was

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01:14:17,040 --> 01:14:19,800
Speaker 1: very much in. Here's what he did the rest of

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01:14:19,800 --> 01:14:21,920
Speaker 1: the game. He was three for ten for thirty yards,

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01:14:22,479 --> 01:14:26,960
Speaker 1: in an interception, was sacked four times, and had one

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Speaker 1: carry for nineteen yards running for his life against Miami. Right, yeah,

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01:14:34,120 --> 01:14:36,839
Speaker 1: against Miami he was six or seven for forty yards

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Speaker 1: in an interception. You see it. I see a trend.

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Speaker 1: And then last week he was one for two for

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Speaker 1: five yards with sacked. He's been sacked. He's dropped back

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Speaker 1: to pass nineteen times, and he's been sacked seven times. Okay, yeah,

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01:14:54,120 --> 01:14:58,759
Speaker 1: I mean he is bad, bad. He's played, he's played

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Speaker 1: twenty six thirty three snaps, and he has been sacked

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01:15:03,240 --> 01:15:07,080
Speaker 1: seven times. So what number? What line do I have

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01:15:07,160 --> 01:15:09,799
Speaker 1: to set for you to take the under on Steeler

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01:15:09,880 --> 01:15:14,840
Speaker 1: sacks eight? I think i'd take over. Wow, you're taking

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01:15:14,920 --> 01:15:17,120
Speaker 1: over eight. He's gonna play a full game. They don't

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01:15:17,160 --> 01:15:20,840
Speaker 1: have anybody else and he gets sacked eight percent of

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01:15:20,840 --> 01:15:24,800
Speaker 1: his snaps or something crazy exaggerating, But I mean, if

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Speaker 1: if I'm setting the line at eight, you're going over,

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Speaker 1: I might. Wow. I think it's gonna be a bad,

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01:15:29,840 --> 01:15:33,000
Speaker 1: bad game. I think again, you get an angry Steelers

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01:15:33,040 --> 01:15:35,800
Speaker 1: team that that you know, again a get right game.

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01:15:35,840 --> 01:15:37,639
Speaker 1: They need to get a little something to prove here

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01:15:38,720 --> 01:15:43,720
Speaker 1: against the worst quarterback three. I mean, this guy is

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01:15:43,720 --> 01:15:46,000
Speaker 1: not elusive either, Like he's not going to really like

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01:15:46,160 --> 01:15:48,320
Speaker 1: roll out to his left to stay away from t

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01:15:48,560 --> 01:15:53,280
Speaker 1: J or their tackles are horrendous. Yeah, I think they

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01:15:53,280 --> 01:15:55,840
Speaker 1: get eight. Yeah, I mean it's gonna be a big number.

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01:15:55,880 --> 01:15:57,599
Speaker 1: That's gonna be a big numbers, gonna be a big number,

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Speaker 1: sacks plus turnovers. Ten. I might go over that. What

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01:16:04,520 --> 01:16:07,479
Speaker 1: number do I have to set? Twelve? You go under?

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01:16:07,640 --> 01:16:10,759
Speaker 1: Probably under twelve. Twelve will be a massive number. Yeah,

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01:16:10,800 --> 01:16:15,559
Speaker 1: I think I'm going on there. That's a big note. Again,

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Speaker 1: I'm looking at it's going to go that way. His

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01:16:17,800 --> 01:16:20,000
Speaker 1: his numbers from last year, he was forty one of

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01:16:20,080 --> 01:16:23,120
Speaker 1: eighty seven. That's a forty seven percent completion percentage. This

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01:16:23,160 --> 01:16:26,679
Speaker 1: is in the NFL, right right right. He was sacked

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01:16:27,720 --> 01:16:30,800
Speaker 1: in those games. He again dropped back to past eighty

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01:16:30,840 --> 01:16:34,639
Speaker 1: seven times eighty seven pass attempts. He was sacked eleven times.

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Speaker 1: And they had guys then. Yeah, I mean, like the

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01:16:37,120 --> 01:16:41,639
Speaker 1: deadline wasn't good, but it wasn't totally decimated by injury,

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01:16:41,760 --> 01:16:45,599
Speaker 1: and he at least had mixing boyd. I mean, like

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01:16:46,040 --> 01:16:48,400
Speaker 1: some dudes around him. You know, it wasn't like there

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01:16:48,400 --> 01:16:52,479
Speaker 1: worse now than they were then. It's my point, he's

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01:16:52,479 --> 01:16:55,559
Speaker 1: a times he sacked in eleven times in eighty seven

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01:16:55,600 --> 01:16:58,519
Speaker 1: pass attempts. I mean one, not eight is not good.

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Speaker 1: Not good. That's an eleven point to sack percentage. That's

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Speaker 1: that would be the highest in the league this year.

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Speaker 1: This year, this year, his sack percentage is twenty six

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Speaker 1: point nine for his career. On a hundred and six

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Speaker 1: pass attempts, he's been sacked eighteen times. That's a fourteen

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01:17:16,760 --> 01:17:19,559
Speaker 1: point five sacre. I mean, it's awful. And think about

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Speaker 1: how many times he got hit or pressured. Top of that,

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01:17:22,840 --> 01:17:24,559
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a hot Steelers are going to hit

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01:17:24,640 --> 01:17:28,080
Speaker 1: him a lot. Every time he drops back the past,

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01:17:28,160 --> 01:17:31,880
Speaker 1: he's going to be hit. I mean, I knew it

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01:17:31,960 --> 01:17:34,719
Speaker 1: was bad, but when you have actually spell it out,

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Speaker 1: I didn't think it was that bad. Numbers wise, I mean,

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Speaker 1: it's as bad as it gets. I've ever heard the worst,

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Speaker 1: I think in the in the league this year. I

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01:17:42,080 --> 01:17:44,519
Speaker 1: think it Carson Wentz but was had a sack percentage

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01:17:44,520 --> 01:17:47,080
Speaker 1: of like nine point three or something like that. That

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01:17:47,120 --> 01:17:49,000
Speaker 1: was the worst. This year. This guy's a fourteen point

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01:17:49,000 --> 01:17:51,840
Speaker 1: five for his career. That's holding onto the ball. Not know,

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01:17:52,080 --> 01:17:54,800
Speaker 1: he's got good receivers and he's got good receivers, right,

1379
01:17:54,800 --> 01:17:58,320
Speaker 1: they get open. Yeah, there's no such thing as open

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01:17:58,360 --> 01:18:00,040
Speaker 1: with this guy. So I got to I got the

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01:18:00,040 --> 01:18:02,760
Speaker 1: Steelers winning this thing thirty to six. Yeah, I don't

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01:18:02,760 --> 01:18:05,439
Speaker 1: have this getting the ten. I have them getting nine points.

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01:18:05,840 --> 01:18:09,640
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go like twenty seven nine because I well

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01:18:09,640 --> 01:18:11,840
Speaker 1: know that Ben plays at the last quarter. Yeah, you

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01:18:11,880 --> 01:18:14,240
Speaker 1: know what I mean, I think that I hear you.

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01:18:15,120 --> 01:18:17,320
Speaker 1: I think you get a little rest in the fourth quarter.

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Speaker 1: I mean they beat him last year with the cons

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01:18:20,840 --> 01:18:24,240
Speaker 1: That's right, all right, I mean you would definitely take

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01:18:25,280 --> 01:18:28,840
Speaker 1: yes that Rudolph gets snaps. Yes, that that that's going

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01:18:28,880 --> 01:18:31,519
Speaker 1: to happen. I agree that is going to happen. What

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01:18:31,640 --> 01:18:34,160
Speaker 1: was the score their game? The game with they get

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01:18:34,200 --> 01:18:36,280
Speaker 1: the Steelers beat them sixteen to ten with Devil and

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01:18:36,280 --> 01:18:39,000
Speaker 1: Hodges at quarterback. Wow, I don't think this team gets

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01:18:39,000 --> 01:18:41,200
Speaker 1: a ten. I don't think they do either. No. No,

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01:18:41,240 --> 01:18:43,840
Speaker 1: I mean, maybe it's a total garbage time while Cam

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01:18:43,840 --> 01:18:49,160
Speaker 1: and Water chuckling on the sidelines. Perhaps perhaps perhaps special

1397
01:18:49,160 --> 01:18:51,880
Speaker 1: teams touchdown. It's gonna be ugly. It's gonna be the

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01:18:52,040 --> 01:18:55,240
Speaker 1: ugliest Monday night game maybe, and they they should have

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01:18:55,240 --> 01:18:58,360
Speaker 1: flexed it. I mean they flexed out Niners Cowboys out

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01:18:58,360 --> 01:19:01,960
Speaker 1: of Sunday Night. If I'm in which Dock, Kansas, I'd

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01:19:02,040 --> 01:19:04,800
Speaker 1: rather watch Niners Cowboys than this. Yeah. Plus I've seen

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01:19:04,800 --> 01:19:08,800
Speaker 1: a lot of Steelers on primetime lately, by the way. Yeah, yeah,

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01:19:08,840 --> 01:19:10,479
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna be good. It's not gonna be pretty,

1404
01:19:10,479 --> 01:19:13,000
Speaker 1: but we're gonna take a break. What the Steelers need though,

1405
01:19:13,200 --> 01:19:15,599
Speaker 1: it's exactly what they need. It's it's like an alixir.

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01:19:16,240 --> 01:19:19,160
Speaker 1: Here come the Bengals. Perfect. I hope that Stealer Nations

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01:19:19,160 --> 01:19:21,880
Speaker 1: aren't like they didn't beat them bad enough. Yeah, but

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01:19:21,920 --> 01:19:23,479
Speaker 1: if this is an even game, I'm gonna be hard

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01:19:23,479 --> 01:19:25,040
Speaker 1: on the Steelers. Oh. If it's you know, if they

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01:19:25,080 --> 01:19:27,400
Speaker 1: win at sixteen to ten this year, then yeah, there's

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01:19:27,439 --> 01:19:29,920
Speaker 1: some problems. There's some problems, right, But no, I don't

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01:19:29,960 --> 01:19:32,680
Speaker 1: expect that. I don't either. He is Matt Williams and

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Speaker 1: I'm Dale Lolly. You're listening to the Drive here on

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Speaker 1: Steelers Nation Radio. We're gonna take a break. We'll be

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Speaker 1: back right after this with Dave damnishek NFL dot Com.

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

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Speaker 1: Goals Steelers Nation Radio. Welcome back. I'm Dale Ali here

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Speaker 1: with Matt Williamson and Matt. As we do every week,

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Speaker 1: we like to finish things off with Dave Damnischeck of

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Speaker 1: the NFL Network at NFL dot com. Uh. Dave a

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Speaker 1: friend of the show and also drops in on the

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Speaker 1: d V Morning Show UH every week, and we'd like

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Speaker 1: to play that back for you. Yeah, let's just dig

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Speaker 1: right in. He always has good stuff to say. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: so let's let's get to Dave and here's here's what

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Speaker 1: he had to say on the DV Morning Show. It's

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Speaker 1: the d V Morning Show, and ladies and gentlemen, we

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Speaker 1: are proud to present, for the last time in the

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Speaker 1: two thousand and twenty calendar year on the DV Morning Show,

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Speaker 1: our friend from Southern California, born and raised here on

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Speaker 1: the banks of the Three Rivers. Dave Damnaschek from the

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Speaker 1: Minus three podcast an Extra Points podcast, Dave How How

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Speaker 1: How and Happy Hanuka and all the rest of it

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Speaker 1: fellas Happy Chanuka as Smoking rob Happy Chanuoka. Smokey Robinson

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01:21:08,000 --> 01:21:10,760
Speaker 1: has re dubbed Hanukka Chinooka. I don't know if you

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01:21:10,800 --> 01:21:13,519
Speaker 1: saw that video, but I did not. I did, I

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01:21:13,840 --> 01:21:16,719
Speaker 1: did not. How is it possible? In the twenty first century.

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01:21:16,760 --> 01:21:21,200
Speaker 1: I always resented the smartass in UH in middle school

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01:21:21,240 --> 01:21:26,000
Speaker 1: who would act like he's never heard the word chinooka, Like, yeah,

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01:21:26,080 --> 01:21:29,160
Speaker 1: it's not out there, it's not you're not picking that up.

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01:21:29,200 --> 01:21:31,320
Speaker 1: We live in the same neighborhood. It's really that foreign

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01:21:31,320 --> 01:21:33,599
Speaker 1: to you. But Smokey Robinson, you've been in the music

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Speaker 1: industry your entire life, never ran across any Jewish people

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Speaker 1: speaking of speaking of the holiday songs and all of that,

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Speaker 1: and Smokey sing some nice holiday tunes. I always remember

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Speaker 1: this is UH. It's um a complicated emotional time for me.

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01:21:49,960 --> 01:21:53,000
Speaker 1: The holiday season is I enjoy the snow or I

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01:21:53,040 --> 01:21:55,240
Speaker 1: missed the snow. Something awful out here in l A.

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Speaker 1: And I'm jealous of you guys and all the good

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01:21:57,880 --> 01:22:01,559
Speaker 1: times in Pittsburgh p a um. You know, playoffs, Ny,

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01:22:01,760 --> 01:22:04,519
Speaker 1: what else is new for the Pittsburgh Steelers. Let's remember

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Speaker 1: to celebrate that fact and not bemoan the fact that

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01:22:08,160 --> 01:22:10,759
Speaker 1: we've lost two in a row. But I always remember

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Speaker 1: remember in music class in elementary school, you'd like once

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Speaker 1: a week or so, gather around the piano and the

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01:22:16,960 --> 01:22:19,920
Speaker 1: music teacher would play whatever we're seat was the seasonally

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Speaker 1: appropriate songs Old Gray School there Wilkinsburg when I was

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Speaker 1: growing up, grad school it doesn't exist anymore, but that

1459
01:22:28,040 --> 01:22:30,920
Speaker 1: we would do that, and as Christmas would approach, it

1460
01:22:30,920 --> 01:22:33,720
Speaker 1: would be all it would be all Christmas songs. And

1461
01:22:33,760 --> 01:22:35,800
Speaker 1: you know, as a as a young Jew, I didn't

1462
01:22:35,800 --> 01:22:40,320
Speaker 1: I'm not like a man of godliness, but nevertheless nominally

1463
01:22:40,360 --> 01:22:43,360
Speaker 1: a Jew, and we would all be singing those Christmas

1464
01:22:43,439 --> 01:22:45,679
Speaker 1: songs and I would be confused, like am I supposed

1465
01:22:45,720 --> 01:22:48,200
Speaker 1: to sing about Jesus Christ as Lord? You know, like

1466
01:22:48,240 --> 01:22:51,080
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's appropriate, Like is somebody gonna

1467
01:22:51,120 --> 01:22:53,519
Speaker 1: hear that? And I'm gonna get kicked out of out

1468
01:22:53,520 --> 01:22:56,320
Speaker 1: of out of the synegalue. I don't know what's gonna happen.

1469
01:22:56,760 --> 01:22:59,400
Speaker 1: And so we would do all those and then like

1470
01:22:59,439 --> 01:23:01,719
Speaker 1: two thirds of the way through the class, the music teacher,

1471
01:23:02,080 --> 01:23:05,719
Speaker 1: I remember this distinctly, said okay, class, now it's time

1472
01:23:06,080 --> 01:23:08,799
Speaker 1: to sing a song for David. And the whole class

1473
01:23:08,840 --> 01:23:11,240
Speaker 1: was like uh. And then we had to sing a

1474
01:23:11,280 --> 01:23:15,160
Speaker 1: Hanukkah song and it was it was so objectifying and awful,

1475
01:23:15,200 --> 01:23:18,320
Speaker 1: like everybody resented me for the terrible hond it. It

1476
01:23:18,360 --> 01:23:20,320
Speaker 1: wasn't even the good one. About the drado like the

1477
01:23:20,400 --> 01:23:26,920
Speaker 1: drado one is snappy like, but the other one's like likenukouka.

1478
01:23:28,880 --> 01:23:31,920
Speaker 1: All the kids were like, we're we're p oed at me,

1479
01:23:32,120 --> 01:23:33,880
Speaker 1: And I'm like, why didn't I don't want I don't

1480
01:23:33,880 --> 01:23:36,400
Speaker 1: want this anymore than you, dude. Don't give me the stink.

1481
01:23:36,439 --> 01:23:39,160
Speaker 1: I go. Let's go back and sing about Jesus for

1482
01:23:39,200 --> 01:23:42,280
Speaker 1: all I care. And Davey Downer. We were all in

1483
01:23:42,320 --> 01:23:47,800
Speaker 1: the Christmas mood and then yeah, Mr Candle's over here

1484
01:23:48,600 --> 01:23:51,200
Speaker 1: say it. There's not good enough for him. I guess anyway,

1485
01:23:51,200 --> 01:23:56,439
Speaker 1: I don't know, so anyway, happy Holidays. Then the one

1486
01:23:56,479 --> 01:23:58,240
Speaker 1: kid whose dad is in the same church as Mel

1487
01:23:58,280 --> 01:24:01,400
Speaker 1: Gibson is like, he killed our Lord. And you're like,

1488
01:24:01,439 --> 01:24:05,760
Speaker 1: what I just I call you, I call you out,

1489
01:24:05,840 --> 01:24:08,559
Speaker 1: damn Michek Like I don't want to fight, I don't care,

1490
01:24:08,560 --> 01:24:16,880
Speaker 1: I don't didn't do anything I have. Seven. I have

1491
01:24:17,120 --> 01:24:19,960
Speaker 1: nothing to do. I have nothing to do with any

1492
01:24:20,000 --> 01:24:22,880
Speaker 1: of it. Seven. I don't know you saw me. I

1493
01:24:22,920 --> 01:24:25,840
Speaker 1: was just sitting here. She's the one who said the song.

1494
01:24:26,160 --> 01:24:29,439
Speaker 1: I didn't ask for a Hanukah song? You heard? Yes, Well,

1495
01:24:29,439 --> 01:24:31,840
Speaker 1: there you go. The root of all anti Semitism is

1496
01:24:31,920 --> 01:24:35,519
Speaker 1: forcing kids to sing Hanukah songs. You know who knew that? Yeah,

1497
01:24:35,520 --> 01:24:39,000
Speaker 1: in honor of Cope, we should really be belting out

1498
01:24:39,000 --> 01:24:45,240
Speaker 1: a tune about about the Bunglegaga. We could either do

1499
01:24:45,280 --> 01:24:48,000
Speaker 1: that or we could sing the Steelers polk and you know,

1500
01:24:48,080 --> 01:24:52,000
Speaker 1: anything to to remind ourselves that that, you know, we're

1501
01:24:52,040 --> 01:24:55,080
Speaker 1: in the front seat of the pro football car here

1502
01:24:55,400 --> 01:24:58,160
Speaker 1: at all times. And I you know what, we talked

1503
01:24:58,200 --> 01:25:00,000
Speaker 1: about it last week and I'm gonna say it again.

1504
01:25:00,040 --> 01:25:02,559
Speaker 1: And now fellas get on board or get the hell

1505
01:25:02,560 --> 01:25:05,040
Speaker 1: out of the way. I'm riding. I'm riding with seven.

1506
01:25:05,120 --> 01:25:07,000
Speaker 1: I'm riding with seven the rest of the way. He

1507
01:25:07,120 --> 01:25:13,000
Speaker 1: basically gave us our Aaron Rodgers Yenser version of relax.

1508
01:25:13,200 --> 01:25:17,280
Speaker 1: He gave everybody, everybody bottle that they just settled down

1509
01:25:17,479 --> 01:25:20,960
Speaker 1: because we got more time before the playoffs. So I'm

1510
01:25:21,000 --> 01:25:23,080
Speaker 1: gonna ride with seven. I'm gonna trust in him. I

1511
01:25:23,080 --> 01:25:26,599
Speaker 1: want to go back to you're invoking Myron and his

1512
01:25:27,000 --> 01:25:31,080
Speaker 1: um Deck the Broncos song um, even though he, of

1513
01:25:31,120 --> 01:25:35,559
Speaker 1: course the Bungles were his longtime foiled. The Deck the

1514
01:25:35,600 --> 01:25:39,839
Speaker 1: Broncos song is particularly poignant, not just for the holiday season.

1515
01:25:40,760 --> 01:25:47,080
Speaker 1: A poignant correlation but he made up a deck the Broncos.

1516
01:25:47,280 --> 01:25:51,400
Speaker 1: They're just yonkos, and nobody knew what Yonkos was previously

1517
01:25:51,520 --> 01:25:58,240
Speaker 1: heretofore did not exist. Dr Susten. Immediately everyone's like, Yonko's

1518
01:25:58,479 --> 01:26:05,160
Speaker 1: perfect world for them, guys, total yonkers, bankos, they're just yonkos. Now,

1519
01:26:05,200 --> 01:26:08,200
Speaker 1: it sounds like it might have a Yiddish derivation, But

1520
01:26:08,240 --> 01:26:10,800
Speaker 1: I don't believe yonko is a real word, is it.

1521
01:26:10,800 --> 01:26:14,200
Speaker 1: It just sounds like something Myron would call somebody. Well,

1522
01:26:14,200 --> 01:26:15,760
Speaker 1: like I say, I wouldn't. I wouldn't know if it

1523
01:26:15,840 --> 01:26:18,120
Speaker 1: is cated. I'm not. I'm not studied up on it.

1524
01:26:18,160 --> 01:26:21,000
Speaker 1: But yes, uh, that's the level I want to get

1525
01:26:21,040 --> 01:26:22,960
Speaker 1: to in life. I don't know that I ever will,

1526
01:26:23,000 --> 01:26:25,519
Speaker 1: but I think that's the goal. Is that, Pete. You

1527
01:26:25,640 --> 01:26:29,559
Speaker 1: just get to throw out whole path and people buy it, like, yeah,

1528
01:26:30,200 --> 01:26:33,400
Speaker 1: all right, well Cope said it, it must be okay, dude, Yeah,

1529
01:26:33,439 --> 01:26:36,160
Speaker 1: let's go with it. Yonkos. To give you an idea

1530
01:26:36,160 --> 01:26:40,280
Speaker 1: of the power of Myron Cope over the word. Um,

1531
01:26:40,320 --> 01:26:44,280
Speaker 1: if you google what does yonko mean, it actually means

1532
01:26:44,840 --> 01:26:50,120
Speaker 1: for emperors. That's they are the strongest pirates in the world. Shanks,

1533
01:26:50,680 --> 01:26:55,400
Speaker 1: Big Mom, Kaido and Bob apparently white Beard was one

1534
01:26:55,439 --> 01:26:58,439
Speaker 1: of them, so the not the cobra, Dave Parker, No,

1535
01:26:58,760 --> 01:27:03,759
Speaker 1: not those pirates. These are Janko's were actually strong pirates,

1536
01:27:03,760 --> 01:27:07,280
Speaker 1: So decta broncos they're just Jonkos. He invented a new

1537
01:27:07,320 --> 01:27:11,080
Speaker 1: meaning for the word yanko, and nobody knew the original one, Dave,

1538
01:27:11,520 --> 01:27:13,920
Speaker 1: before we before we go, I wanna ask you this,

1539
01:27:14,280 --> 01:27:22,560
Speaker 1: uh Christmas themed question in terms of football themed toys

1540
01:27:22,600 --> 01:27:26,680
Speaker 1: you could get at Christmas as a youngster, which was

1541
01:27:26,720 --> 01:27:33,000
Speaker 1: better the electric football set or super Toe the kicker

1542
01:27:33,439 --> 01:27:36,000
Speaker 1: who you pounded on top of his head and then

1543
01:27:36,000 --> 01:27:39,439
Speaker 1: he kicked a plastic football and it came with a

1544
01:27:39,479 --> 01:27:44,559
Speaker 1: plastic football field and uprights and you could kick field

1545
01:27:44,600 --> 01:27:47,639
Speaker 1: goals around the house. Well, I mean this is uh.

1546
01:27:47,760 --> 01:27:50,960
Speaker 1: There are different levels, different ways to answer this question.

1547
01:27:51,040 --> 01:27:54,400
Speaker 1: The I feel like right here the correct answer is

1548
01:27:54,479 --> 01:27:56,920
Speaker 1: all all of the above, because at least for one

1549
01:27:57,000 --> 01:27:59,720
Speaker 1: night when you unwrap those things, as long as you

1550
01:27:59,800 --> 01:28:03,439
Speaker 1: got the real trick was um when you open up

1551
01:28:03,479 --> 01:28:07,000
Speaker 1: the electric football or the rod hockey game or anything

1552
01:28:07,040 --> 01:28:11,760
Speaker 1: else were there Pittsburgh based teams within like, as long

1553
01:28:11,800 --> 01:28:15,200
Speaker 1: as you got the the little electric football and it

1554
01:28:15,280 --> 01:28:18,760
Speaker 1: was Dealers against the Cowboys, you win. If you got

1555
01:28:18,760 --> 01:28:22,559
Speaker 1: the Penguins and the Islanders, you win. The Penguins wouldn't

1556
01:28:22,560 --> 01:28:24,439
Speaker 1: win against the Islanders, but at least you did in

1557
01:28:26,000 --> 01:28:28,360
Speaker 1: the bunk that bunked the guy on top of the

1558
01:28:28,360 --> 01:28:31,640
Speaker 1: head and kicked the ball. Also a magical time. What

1559
01:28:31,680 --> 01:28:34,080
Speaker 1: did you do with it in the early days of February.

1560
01:28:34,240 --> 01:28:36,240
Speaker 1: I don't know. It was deep in your closets somewhere.

1561
01:28:36,280 --> 01:28:38,320
Speaker 1: You were done playing with it by then. But at

1562
01:28:38,360 --> 01:28:41,519
Speaker 1: least for one h for for one night or maybe

1563
01:28:41,520 --> 01:28:44,080
Speaker 1: one week, you got something out of it. Listen, it's

1564
01:28:44,080 --> 01:28:47,040
Speaker 1: a it. We're all winners, and you know what. I'm

1565
01:28:47,040 --> 01:28:49,479
Speaker 1: not a winner today and you guys are. Because I

1566
01:28:49,520 --> 01:28:53,240
Speaker 1: can't go outside and play snow football. You can. I

1567
01:28:53,280 --> 01:28:55,920
Speaker 1: hope everyone within the sound of my voice takes advantage

1568
01:28:55,920 --> 01:28:59,360
Speaker 1: of this, of this great gift delivered by h by

1569
01:28:59,479 --> 01:29:01,639
Speaker 1: I don't know, by your God or the one who

1570
01:29:01,680 --> 01:29:05,160
Speaker 1: we were singing about in music class that everybody resented

1571
01:29:05,160 --> 01:29:07,320
Speaker 1: me for singing about. But whoever did it, I say

1572
01:29:07,439 --> 01:29:10,200
Speaker 1: thank you. And I also say thank you to Bowman

1573
01:29:10,240 --> 01:29:13,679
Speaker 1: and Crawford for another grand year of keeping Pittsburgh entertained

1574
01:29:14,000 --> 01:29:17,360
Speaker 1: in this all time miserable year, you guys make Pittsburgh

1575
01:29:17,760 --> 01:29:21,000
Speaker 1: the it's called the most livable city. I really do

1576
01:29:21,080 --> 01:29:23,040
Speaker 1: think you guys are as good a thing as uh

1577
01:29:23,200 --> 01:29:26,200
Speaker 1: as America's best city has going for it. And I

1578
01:29:26,240 --> 01:29:29,280
Speaker 1: appreciate the chance to get the kibbitts with you. So

1579
01:29:29,520 --> 01:29:32,559
Speaker 1: I mean seventeen times a year I get the kibbitts

1580
01:29:32,640 --> 01:29:37,320
Speaker 1: with you about Pittsburgh Steelers football. Uh myron Cope gets

1581
01:29:37,320 --> 01:29:40,320
Speaker 1: the gets away with Sayan Yonko's and everybody accepts it.

1582
01:29:40,520 --> 01:29:42,960
Speaker 1: I get to talk on the DV morning show with

1583
01:29:43,080 --> 01:29:47,080
Speaker 1: Youtwo Fellas a few times every year. It's just it's

1584
01:29:47,200 --> 01:29:51,320
Speaker 1: it's uh talk about blessings. I I couldn't be more

1585
01:29:51,360 --> 01:29:53,840
Speaker 1: thrilled that this is the station I've arrived. I just

1586
01:29:53,840 --> 01:29:55,840
Speaker 1: wish we could go out and celebrate it with a

1587
01:29:55,840 --> 01:29:58,600
Speaker 1: game of snow football or bunked the kicker on the

1588
01:29:58,640 --> 01:30:00,320
Speaker 1: head in the snow. See if you could get it

1589
01:30:00,360 --> 01:30:04,160
Speaker 1: done under adverse circumstances. And remember one more thing when

1590
01:30:04,200 --> 01:30:07,439
Speaker 1: you're when when the Bengals come out, just remember if

1591
01:30:07,800 --> 01:30:11,439
Speaker 1: the Steelers could rally with ninety seconds left down in

1592
01:30:11,560 --> 01:30:14,439
Speaker 1: Cincinnati and Vontes Berfect running off the field with his

1593
01:30:14,520 --> 01:30:17,559
Speaker 1: finger wagon and everything else if that could happen five

1594
01:30:17,640 --> 01:30:20,360
Speaker 1: years ago, the Steelers can go to a Super Bowl

1595
01:30:20,439 --> 01:30:22,880
Speaker 1: this time around, on the right arm of future Hall

1596
01:30:22,920 --> 01:30:26,120
Speaker 1: of Famer Big Ben Roethlisberger. Ho Ho Ho. Let's make

1597
01:30:26,120 --> 01:30:29,439
Speaker 1: it so, Dave Damna check. Make sure to check out

1598
01:30:29,680 --> 01:30:34,240
Speaker 1: Minus three podcast Extra Points podcast. Uh and Uh wishing

1599
01:30:34,280 --> 01:30:39,200
Speaker 1: you and yours a happy, healthy, safe holiday season, Dave

1600
01:30:39,680 --> 01:30:42,200
Speaker 1: and Uh. I'm gonna make sure my family sings a

1601
01:30:42,280 --> 01:30:45,599
Speaker 1: Hanukah song in honor of you this year, and there

1602
01:30:45,600 --> 01:30:48,200
Speaker 1: will be no grumbling, just all appreciation for all that

1603
01:30:48,240 --> 01:30:52,000
Speaker 1: you do for us here at DV that the halls

1604
01:30:52,080 --> 01:31:02,000
Speaker 1: with back damn bongos. There jazz bo rhymes with bungles.

1605
01:31:02,840 --> 01:31:05,240
Speaker 1: Here's my other question, why did he say fun gag?

1606
01:31:05,720 --> 01:31:07,720
Speaker 1: I mean, there was no reason to augment that part

1607
01:31:07,760 --> 01:31:15,720
Speaker 1: of the song. Whiskey, That's why you said it with

1608
01:31:15,840 --> 01:31:19,040
Speaker 1: a mouthful of liquor. I get making up, y'all goes,

1609
01:31:22,880 --> 01:31:32,160
Speaker 1: So you're billy. You're saying he was gargling Myron having

1610
01:31:32,160 --> 01:31:34,000
Speaker 1: a hot toddy to bring in to ring in the

1611
01:31:34,080 --> 01:31:37,200
Speaker 1: holiday season. Yes, well, let's all adjourn and grab our

1612
01:31:37,240 --> 01:31:41,960
Speaker 1: respective hot toddies. The DV Morning Show Christmas zoom Tacular

1613
01:31:42,640 --> 01:31:45,160
Speaker 1: is going to be broadcast here shortly, and we're sorry

1614
01:31:45,160 --> 01:31:46,560
Speaker 1: you couldn't be a part of that one day, but

1615
01:31:46,680 --> 01:31:48,240
Speaker 1: we wanted to keep it real tight to the vest

1616
01:31:48,320 --> 01:31:51,640
Speaker 1: this year, real just just we wanted to celebrate the

1617
01:31:51,760 --> 01:31:54,800
Speaker 1: core group, you know, but like the Beatles, we didn't

1618
01:31:54,800 --> 01:31:58,680
Speaker 1: want to have your Billy Preston like persona lording over us.

1619
01:32:00,000 --> 01:32:03,600
Speaker 1: I appreciate it. I I am blessed for the inclusion

1620
01:32:04,720 --> 01:32:07,800
Speaker 1: that was NFL Network at NFL dot COM's Dave Damaschik

1621
01:32:08,080 --> 01:32:11,800
Speaker 1: earlier today on the DV Morning Show. Absolutely got to

1622
01:32:11,840 --> 01:32:13,840
Speaker 1: close it out with Dave as we do every week,

1623
01:32:13,960 --> 01:32:16,759
Speaker 1: and uh, that's going to do it for our shows

1624
01:32:16,840 --> 01:32:19,679
Speaker 1: this week. Again. We'll be back Tuesday Wednesday next week

1625
01:32:19,680 --> 01:32:22,000
Speaker 1: because of where Christmas falls, I would assume a similar

1626
01:32:22,040 --> 01:32:26,559
Speaker 1: schedule the following week with except we'll do a Monday

1627
01:32:26,600 --> 01:32:29,439
Speaker 1: show next week because hey, the Steelers have a game

1628
01:32:29,479 --> 01:32:33,360
Speaker 1: on a Sunday and in the afternoon, and it's crazy.

1629
01:32:33,439 --> 01:32:36,040
Speaker 1: We're gonna squeeze a lot in next week though, absolutely

1630
01:32:36,439 --> 01:32:39,720
Speaker 1: in preview a big one. Yeah, preview in a big one. Uh,

1631
01:32:40,000 --> 01:32:42,040
Speaker 1: keep an eye on that Coltch game. See what happens

1632
01:32:42,040 --> 01:32:43,839
Speaker 1: with them in Houston this week. Of course, the Browns

1633
01:32:43,840 --> 01:32:46,880
Speaker 1: playing Sunday night. If the Steelers, uh, if they lose

1634
01:32:46,960 --> 01:32:49,880
Speaker 1: to the Giants, the Steelers clinched the division. Steelers win

1635
01:32:50,200 --> 01:32:54,240
Speaker 1: Monday night, they clinched the division. So the magic number

1636
01:32:54,439 --> 01:32:58,240
Speaker 1: is one. Yeah. So for my partner Matt Williamson, for

1637
01:32:58,439 --> 01:33:01,360
Speaker 1: Jacob here on site keeping us on the air, I'm Dale, Lolly.

1638
01:33:01,680 --> 01:33:03,600
Speaker 1: We thank you for listening to this edition of the

1639
01:33:03,720 --> 01:33:05,760
Speaker 1: Drive on Steelers Nation Radio.