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Speaker 2: Welcome back. I am Dale LOLLI he is the Matt

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Speaker 2: Williamson and this is the Drive on the Steelers Audio Network.

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Speaker 2: And Matt, Well, we're into on the week fifteen.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a fantasy playoff time.

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Speaker 2: Which means that is fantasy playoff week. So before we

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Speaker 2: get into that too deeply here, let's look ahead at

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Speaker 2: the schedule here.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know it great yet.

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Speaker 2: And see who plays where and when, and there's nobody

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Speaker 2: on a buy.

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Speaker 3: You talk about streaming defenses that we're doing, We're.

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Speaker 2: Streaming defense is looking at a proper matchups here that

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Speaker 2: we think you can exploit. Yeah, Thursday night, everything kicks

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Speaker 2: off with the Rams at the forty nine Ers.

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Speaker 3: Good one. I mean definitely we're gonna go home for

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Speaker 3: the Niners. The little that they have left is clinging by.

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Speaker 2: A threat that could be a high scoring affair.

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Speaker 3: That could be a high scoring affair. I think so too.

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Speaker 3: I mean the Rams are humming right now. Familiarity. I

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Speaker 3: don't think I want either defense I.

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Speaker 2: Don't want to either a defense in that that could

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Speaker 2: be thirty one to thirty.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. The Cowboys are at the Panthers. How about this one.

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Speaker 2: Carolina's favored for the first time this year. They've played

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Speaker 2: better and better.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I probably would take Dallas, but I mean, I

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Speaker 2: I don't want to start either defense, so I.

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Speaker 3: Don't think we think that's gonna be high scoring. Moderately,

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Speaker 3: Panthers have been putting points on the board. Yeah, absolutely,

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Speaker 3: I'm thinking about Parson sacks and things like that. But

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Speaker 3: they protect well and get it out. I don't love

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Speaker 2: The Cowboys moved the ball well enough last night against

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Speaker 3: Yeah, they're trying to run the ball. Yeah, doubt el

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Speaker 2: The Chiefs are at the Browns.

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Speaker 3: I think it's no and no Chiefs. Steed's probably okay,

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Speaker 3: probably an interception and maybe US at home though place better.

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Speaker 3: I know. I say he's gonna throw, He's gonna score

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Speaker 3: points and throw your special this week. Browns win that one.

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Speaker 2: Browns might win that one.

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Speaker 3: I don't think the Browns are a pushover.

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Speaker 2: No, especially in their stadium.

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Speaker 3: I bet it's four or five point spread something like that.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I thought it should be like three. Uh.

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Speaker 2: The Dolphins are at the Texans usually defense, but I like.

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Speaker 3: What Miami's doing a lot, and it's not gonna be

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Speaker 3: a weather game obviously. Yeah, Miami's d has been okay.

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Speaker 2: I think there'll be some points in that game.

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Speaker 3: I do too. I don't like either one of those.

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Speaker 3: I a couple of these teams. I think I mentioned

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Speaker 3: a late buye is going to be good for Baltimore, Houston,

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Speaker 3: you get that late by you could figure some things.

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Speaker 2: The problem with the buye and the coaching staff may

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Speaker 3: Now, it's not like they're in their grind and you

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Speaker 2: You don't want to practice.

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Speaker 3: Oh, I bet just get away. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: No, no, no. The Commanders are at the Saints.

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Speaker 2: The Ravens are at the Giants where you're gonna play.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and just run all over a non dexter Laurence.

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Speaker 3: It looks great and everybody.

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Speaker 3: Those are two No. No, Bengals D is too bad

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Speaker 2: I might start the Titans because Joe Burrow gets hit.

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Speaker 3: He does get hit and he's he hurts.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, there's a big familiarity there. They're not going to

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Speaker 2: But Burrow got beat up again last night big time.

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Speaker 3: I don't know if he'll play week eighteen. That's a

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Speaker 2: His house got robbed last night?

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Speaker 3: Did it really? Yeah, the Batman bild.

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Speaker 2: He doesn't have that yet apparently, but there's apparently the

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Speaker 2: And they they've been breaking into two NFL players houses.

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Speaker 3: I would think NFL players have really good security.

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Speaker 3: So I'm trying to think like a master criminal here.

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Speaker 2: First of all, just imagine if criminals like that put

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Speaker 3: Well, hey, you know, just be good at whatever you're

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but being with the Browns. And I'm sure you

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Speaker 3: at once, you know what I mean? Yeah, inside stuff

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Speaker 3: inside it like a criminal. Apparently you're better at that

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Speaker 2: Where are we at here?

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Speaker 3: So Burrow got Robin. I'm not playing anither one those I.

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Speaker 2: Don't want to play either one of those defenses. But

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Speaker 3: It's not been good so far. I mean, I like

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Speaker 2: I think, and I think the Titans. The Titans may

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Speaker 3: End up being a Pallar should have a Nights game.

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Speaker 2: It might be a little slower scoring game than what

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Speaker 2: of points. Last night was the most points they've given up.

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Speaker 2: I believe in a win this year, they might have

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Speaker 3: starting to Patriots D No, no, no, no, no no. The

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Speaker 3: I'm saying. The Titans don't look so bad, I hear you, right. Uh,

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Speaker 2: The Buccaneers are at the Chargers.

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Speaker 3: There'll be points in that game like you don't have.

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Speaker 3: I mean, Herbert will be fine. Yeah, Chargers are hard

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Speaker 3: it's only Tuesday. It might be like twenty to seventeen.

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Speaker 3: Or I wonder what kind of weather or in some

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Speaker 2: Weather isn't supposed to be an issue in Philadelphia.

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Speaker 3: I know, I just mean across for all.

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Speaker 2: I haven't looked at all that, but I know in

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Speaker 3: Okay, I don't love, I don't love either, but I

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Speaker 3: think you could do worse. I'mhat cutting either one of

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Speaker 2: But I'm not starting to against the Packers.

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Speaker 2: you could easily say cut the Eagles defense this week

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Speaker 2: because you didn't want to play. I'm just throwing that one. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 2: where the Steelers did you didn't want to play last week?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, they're not great.

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Speaker 2: And one of eight thirty Bears at Vikings, you're gonna

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Speaker 3: mean yeah, I almost feel for him. That guy was

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Speaker 2: Man, the Vikings made Curb stomp them in this one,

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but the Bears d used to be good. But

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Speaker 3: I can't play.

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Speaker 2: I can't hold it up. It's just on the field

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Speaker 2: too much. And the other game, the eight to thirty

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Speaker 3: Like Falcons and Commanders were the two bad defenses that

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Speaker 2: Falcons have the most saxon league, yet half of.

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Speaker 3: The passer a little bit. Yeah, you hope Kirk Cousins

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Speaker 2: It may not even aid and O'Connell may not be

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Speaker 3: But those are like the only streamers. Yeah I heard,

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Speaker 3: Commanders and Falcons. It's better than some of those good ones.

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Speaker 3: And like you're happy about the owning the Seahawks to you,

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Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, playoffs obviously, right, Yeah, you're.

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Speaker 2: And it's not the worst idea to look at your

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Speaker 3: Yeah. They're definitely some blocking playing some defense. I think.

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Speaker 2: Is it's that time that you like, you're not you're

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Speaker 2: if your opponent's missing a running back, his star running

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, if you got a ton of fab

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Speaker 3: If you happen to be like the first team, the

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Speaker 2: You don't want to play against him.

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Speaker 3: Right, I Mean, I'm not big on this strategy, but

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Speaker 3: there is one league I'm probably gonna do it because

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Speaker 3: I just Brooks and Goddard just went to ir there's

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Speaker 3: nobody I really wanted out there, and like Winston is

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Speaker 3: I got an ir spot and someone's not anyone else

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Speaker 2: You know, somebody else beat you with him? Yeah, I

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Speaker 2: and throws for yeah, touchdown, right.

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Speaker 3: I mean it's kind of a quarterback starved league and

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Speaker 3: he's the best guy out there, Like, yeah, better than

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Speaker 3: having an empty rosters.

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Speaker 2: Looking at some of those uh waiver wire pickups this week,

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Speaker 2: They're not great, but no, here's what he's got. The

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Speaker 2: next couple. He's got the Jets this week, Okay, they're

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Speaker 3: No, who knows what their motivation is to.

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Speaker 2: Next week the Raiders good and then the Titans again. Okay,

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Speaker 2: so it's not a bad schedule. No, No, I would

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Speaker 2: think you want to feature him too if you're the Jags. Uh.

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Speaker 2: We talked about this guy last week, and we got

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Speaker 2: a better look at what he does since here McCormick

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Speaker 2: fifteen percent rostered he should be in all. That was

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Speaker 2: up from like one percent last week.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean just because no one know

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Speaker 2: But yeah, yeah, no, I mean they would be dumb

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Speaker 3: Rest of the way.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Man, he can catch them all a little bit too. And

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Speaker 3: you know, here's their schedule Atlanta nice, Jacksonville real nice

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Speaker 2: Huh okay, that's three pretty good defense is a run

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Speaker 2: O'Connell's got a bone bruise, maybe misses this week, maybe

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Speaker 2: he's back against Jacksonville, or maybe they say, you know what,

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Speaker 2: we're in the number one quarterback slot right now, we're

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Speaker 2: Let's not mess that up.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, although they could still win one of those games.

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Speaker 3: I mean, that's not the worst schedule in the world.

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Speaker 2: He's not, but they they've got a one game lead

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Speaker 3: But you know, you know, all right, so if you

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Speaker 3: if you beat if you beat Atlanta, or you beat

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Speaker 3: New Orleans, so be it. You don't want to beat

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Speaker 3: Jacksonville right now you get the tie breaker against them,

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Speaker 3: so they won. The Giants probably sneak into that one. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: then too, It's like Michael Mayer may be worth picking up.

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Speaker 3: We'll get to that just I'm just thinking sneaky Raiders

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Speaker 3: because of the schedule, maybe because my even rock Buyers

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Speaker 3: are in the league.

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Speaker 2: Isaiah Davis is eleven percent rostered.

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Speaker 3: They have a feeling they're gonna split.

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Speaker 2: I think Breesall is back, yeah, and that he goes away.

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Speaker 2: I would think, uh, Julian McLaughlin thirteen percent rostered. He

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Speaker 2: should be roster more than that.

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Speaker 3: I would think that's just a big committee there though.

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Speaker 2: It is. But estimate seems to kind of it was.

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Speaker 3: A flash in the pan, I think. But they're coming

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Speaker 3: off a bye, do they look at things differently? I

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Speaker 3: don't know.

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Speaker 2: They've got Indianapolis, the Chargers in Cincinnati coming up.

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Speaker 3: Mm, so it's not in mine Cincy. I don't like

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Speaker 3: the Chargers.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Indy's okay, right, Yeah, they get all those tackles,

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Speaker 2: but they're all right field, right. Kendre Miller four percent rostered.

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Speaker 2: He gets some run last week.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think this staft's excited about him. I don't

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Speaker 3: know why you beat up Kamar at this stage of

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Speaker 3: the game. But they're not a very good offense.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they got Washington at Green Bay and then.

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Speaker 3: Vegas, and I think Spencer Rattler's wuld have started for

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Speaker 3: New Orleans. Yeah, Okay, you're right, I'm not ridder, but

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Speaker 3: they may. I'm not sure if it's gonna be him

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Speaker 3: whenever we get somebody.

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Speaker 2: Else on the roster too.

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Speaker 3: He's not the two on game day. But when Carr

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Speaker 2: They took it. They wanted to take a look, and

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Speaker 2: they they took the look, and I don't know that

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Speaker 2: it was around.

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Speaker 3: So I don't know who the swords would Be's not

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Speaker 3: gonna be good. Yeah, Patrick Taylor four percent rostered. Maybe

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Speaker 3: Grendo's hurt, right. I get the impression they're going to

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Speaker 3: committee it more than Shanahan does so far down.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but he was the guy they activated last week.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know. He might be.

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Speaker 2: He might be get the most of that committee I would.

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Speaker 3: Think, but a sneaky move. I didn't realize it, but

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Speaker 3: he was getting picked up in everyone in my dynasty league.

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Speaker 3: Is is he ab a Conda? Is they picked him

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Speaker 3: up off the Jets protice they signed him? Yeah a

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Speaker 3: week ago, right, and he is a perfect fit for

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Speaker 3: a Shanahan offense. But I mean, I don't know. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: I've been a Niner for ten days or something.

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Speaker 2: They get the Rams at the Dolphins and in Detroit,

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Speaker 2: so not great, not great.

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Speaker 3: I don't know how much Grendo's gonna miss.

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Speaker 2: Wide receiver Elijah Moore is still just twenty two percent

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Speaker 2: rostered Tilman never coming back. I would assume he's back

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Speaker 2: this week soon.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I thought it would be back last week. Maybe.

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Speaker 3: I mean that's still more if they threw the ball.

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Speaker 2: Time at Kansas or they got Kansas City at home

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Speaker 2: this week at Cincinnati and in Miami.

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Speaker 3: I mean he's he's more of a bye week guy

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Speaker 3: and we're out of that. Yeah, but who knows. Maybe

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Speaker 3: it hit hard with injuries.

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Speaker 2: I can't go to Valdez Scantling because their quarterback situations.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, just when he was kind of emerging.

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Speaker 2: Quentin Johnston's forty percent rostered.

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Speaker 3: It's just the fact that somebody has sketch the ball. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: and he does have talent, he's never I don't think

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Speaker 3: he'll ever live up to his draft slot.

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Speaker 2: I like, I like the next guy better, Josh Palmer

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Speaker 2: six sixteen percent roster. I just trust him more.

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Speaker 3: I would bet, Butconkey's back, and he was like a

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Speaker 3: game time decasion.

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Speaker 2: And Palmer's been that. He's the guy who's been there

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Speaker 2: with Herbert the longest.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so no, I prefer Johnson. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: They got Tampa, Bay, Denver, New England not great, Rashaw

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Speaker 2: Bateman twenty five percent rostered.

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Speaker 3: And Deontay is not in the mix. But yeah, I

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Speaker 3: feature the tight end.

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Speaker 2: That's a complete dart, that's a DFS play.

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Speaker 3: You're just hoping, Yeah, I never. I guess say the

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Speaker 3: Giants this week.

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Speaker 2: Ray Ray McCleod eighteen percent rostered.

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Speaker 3: It's on the field a lot.

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Speaker 2: I got Vegas, the Giants in Washington coming up.

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Speaker 3: And Pitts isn't getting the ball. It's going to him. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: I mean the thing is, though, I mean we're out

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Speaker 3: of bye weeks. I mean, you're never gonna start. You're

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Speaker 3: never gonna start any these guys. I mean you were

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Speaker 3: talking about cutting your fourth receiver. These guys are six receivers.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. He did have a twenty nine point seven percent

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Speaker 2: target share last week. Yeah, but that was because that's

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Speaker 2: the Vikings. The Vikings are blitzing like crazy. You're getting

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Speaker 2: the ball at w to get hit and right, Yeah,

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Speaker 2: he gets a ball. But how are you gonna use them?

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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Xavier Leaguett is twenty eight percent roster. They got Dallas, Arizona,

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Speaker 2: Tampa Bay. That's a nice schedule of.

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Speaker 3: All the names. I kind of like that one. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: I mean they want to play him. I think Theelan's

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Speaker 2: No, uh, looking at the tight ends, Juwan Johnson ten

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00:18:56,040 --> 00:18:58,480
Speaker 2: percent roster, I can't go there with the quarterback situation.

442
00:18:59,320 --> 00:19:01,399
Speaker 2: Hunter Henry still forty rostered.

443
00:19:01,880 --> 00:19:05,399
Speaker 3: It's okay, yeah, too touchdown dependent for my liking. But right,

444
00:19:05,520 --> 00:19:11,720
Speaker 3: that's what you're hoping for. Tight Ends are grim just grim, Yeah, brutal.

445
00:19:11,800 --> 00:19:14,040
Speaker 3: I mean, of course, no one cares about my fantasy team.

446
00:19:14,080 --> 00:19:17,159
Speaker 3: But it was two weeks ago I had Goddard and

447
00:19:17,240 --> 00:19:19,960
Speaker 3: he was looking good, so I put in for Taysom Hill.

448
00:19:19,960 --> 00:19:21,520
Speaker 3: I'm like, why is he out there? I'm steel him

449
00:19:21,520 --> 00:19:23,080
Speaker 3: for the rest of my league. They both go out

450
00:19:23,160 --> 00:19:26,959
Speaker 3: for the year the same Sunday. There's nothing out there,

451
00:19:27,000 --> 00:19:29,680
Speaker 3: So I pick up Johnson from the Saints. He was

452
00:19:29,760 --> 00:19:33,040
Speaker 3: fine this week and then his his guy's gone to

453
00:19:33,119 --> 00:19:35,160
Speaker 3: Grand Calc. There's like nothing out there.

454
00:19:35,440 --> 00:19:40,160
Speaker 2: The backup tight end for the Chargers with the Yeah, yeah.

455
00:19:39,960 --> 00:19:41,640
Speaker 3: He's interested in his name. He's got a good name.

456
00:19:41,680 --> 00:19:43,960
Speaker 2: It's like Stone or something whatever it is. I can't

457
00:19:43,960 --> 00:19:44,440
Speaker 2: think of the name.

458
00:19:44,720 --> 00:19:44,960
Speaker 3: Smart.

459
00:19:45,080 --> 00:19:49,080
Speaker 2: Yeah, there he goes smart, he flashes, he flashes, He's

460
00:19:49,119 --> 00:19:51,359
Speaker 2: he's got, you know, a tight end.

461
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Speaker 3: This Ley's out somebody. Yeah that's not bad. That's a

462
00:19:54,520 --> 00:19:56,920
Speaker 3: good DFS pick. Yeah yeah, So keep an eye on

463
00:19:56,960 --> 00:19:59,560
Speaker 3: that one. But that's gonna do it for the Fantasy

464
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Speaker 3: Football focus for today. If you're in your playoffs, good luck.

465
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Speaker 3: If you're not in your playoffs, don't pick up guys.

466
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Speaker 2: It drives me nuts. But yeah, if you're you have

467
00:20:09,520 --> 00:20:14,119
Speaker 2: nothing to play for. Stop you're not playing anymore. Go

468
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Speaker 2: play DFS. But anyways, I'm Dale LOLLI. He is Matt Williamson.

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Speaker 2: This is the Drive on the Steelers Audio Network. We'll

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Speaker 2: be back with more right after this.

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

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

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Speaker 1: and Gold Steelers Nation Radio.

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

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Speaker 2: the Matt Williamson and you're listening to the Drive here

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Speaker 2: on the Steelers Audio Network. And Matt, it is Power

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Speaker 2: Ranking Day.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, let's do it.

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Speaker 2: Take a look at Eric ed Holmes Power rankings here

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Speaker 2: on NFL dot com, and we have a new number

481
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Speaker 2: thirty two, No Jags one.

482
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Speaker 3: Jaguars one wasn't the most pressive win of all time,

483
00:21:01,040 --> 00:21:04,160
Speaker 3: but when does a win? Giants have to be last?

484
00:21:04,200 --> 00:21:06,320
Speaker 2: Now at number thirty two, down one spot are the

485
00:21:06,440 --> 00:21:09,080
Speaker 2: New York I can't call them the New York Football

486
00:21:09,080 --> 00:21:11,320
Speaker 2: Giants because they really don't play football anymore. They're just

487
00:21:11,359 --> 00:21:11,880
Speaker 2: the giants.

488
00:21:12,119 --> 00:21:14,560
Speaker 3: Do you think he gets fired? No? I don't either.

489
00:21:14,720 --> 00:21:16,840
Speaker 3: I think he gets another shot. Yeah, but I bet

490
00:21:16,880 --> 00:21:18,760
Speaker 3: there's wholesale I bet there's changes.

491
00:21:18,800 --> 00:21:21,640
Speaker 2: There's changes. Yeah, it has to be at thirty one,

492
00:21:22,000 --> 00:21:22,639
Speaker 2: down a spot.

493
00:21:23,040 --> 00:21:24,440
Speaker 3: Raiders, They're raiders. Okay.

494
00:21:25,359 --> 00:21:28,680
Speaker 2: This is what's killing the Steelers right now, right in terms.

495
00:21:28,440 --> 00:21:31,000
Speaker 3: Of it, because well, the Bengal went helped. The Bengal

496
00:21:31,040 --> 00:21:33,320
Speaker 3: went helped last night. But the Steelers are right now

497
00:21:33,359 --> 00:21:35,480
Speaker 3: into three spot, even though they have the same record

498
00:21:35,520 --> 00:21:38,320
Speaker 3: as the Bills, because of it goes to like the

499
00:21:38,400 --> 00:21:42,040
Speaker 3: fourth tiebreaker, strength of victory. Yeah, yeah, so that means

500
00:21:42,080 --> 00:21:44,359
Speaker 3: a lot. Yeah, it'd be nice that the Bills lose

501
00:21:44,640 --> 00:21:45,159
Speaker 3: in Detroit.

502
00:21:46,080 --> 00:21:50,199
Speaker 2: At thirty down two spots the Tennessee Titans.

503
00:21:51,359 --> 00:21:52,880
Speaker 3: Are they worse than the Jags?

504
00:21:53,000 --> 00:21:56,040
Speaker 2: I know they just played and they were worse on Sunday.

505
00:21:56,200 --> 00:21:58,920
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm fine with it. Yeah.

506
00:22:00,200 --> 00:22:02,879
Speaker 2: At twenty nine up three spots are the Jaguars. I mean,

507
00:22:02,960 --> 00:22:05,200
Speaker 2: you just beat them. They'll play the rematch in a

508
00:22:05,280 --> 00:22:05,960
Speaker 2: few weeks.

509
00:22:05,800 --> 00:22:07,960
Speaker 3: And yeah they'll end up thirty one or whatever. Yeah.

510
00:22:09,640 --> 00:22:12,240
Speaker 2: At twenty eight up a spot, New England.

511
00:22:13,280 --> 00:22:15,320
Speaker 3: Just by sitting around watching these guys be bad, I

512
00:22:15,359 --> 00:22:17,399
Speaker 3: guess yeah, out.

513
00:22:17,240 --> 00:22:20,800
Speaker 2: Of sight, out of mind. At twenty seven holding steady

514
00:22:21,440 --> 00:22:22,920
Speaker 2: are the New York Jets.

515
00:22:23,760 --> 00:22:26,920
Speaker 3: That's how bad they are. They're slightly better than that

516
00:22:27,160 --> 00:22:29,320
Speaker 3: group we just talked about that are all really bad

517
00:22:29,960 --> 00:22:31,160
Speaker 3: first overall type teams.

518
00:22:31,320 --> 00:22:32,760
Speaker 2: One of the New York writers, I think it was

519
00:22:32,800 --> 00:22:39,359
Speaker 2: Networks and Semini went through and looked this is the

520
00:22:39,520 --> 00:22:41,920
Speaker 2: worst combined record for the two New York teams in

521
00:22:41,960 --> 00:22:42,720
Speaker 2: over fifty years.

522
00:22:43,359 --> 00:22:44,560
Speaker 3: I can't get much worse.

523
00:22:44,800 --> 00:22:45,399
Speaker 2: They're awful.

524
00:22:45,760 --> 00:22:48,280
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's bad for do better New York. Yeah.

525
00:22:49,520 --> 00:22:53,800
Speaker 2: At twenty six, holding steady the Carolina Panthers, we even

526
00:22:53,880 --> 00:22:56,360
Speaker 2: have them better. They played well the last month. It's

527
00:22:56,400 --> 00:22:59,400
Speaker 2: been a month of have won, which is good for them.

528
00:22:59,480 --> 00:23:02,320
Speaker 2: Over away, they took the Eagles down to the brink.

529
00:23:03,480 --> 00:23:04,920
Speaker 2: To talk about the Eagles for quite a while. Yeah,

530
00:23:04,920 --> 00:23:08,000
Speaker 2: they had their quarterback. So actually, if anywhere they finished

531
00:23:08,000 --> 00:23:09,840
Speaker 2: in the top ten, they're going to be happy. They

532
00:23:09,880 --> 00:23:11,120
Speaker 2: don't need to be number one.

533
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Speaker 3: Right, right right, I would have a massive offseason dedicated

534
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Speaker 3: to defense.

535
00:23:17,040 --> 00:23:19,440
Speaker 2: At twenty five, holding steady the Browns.

536
00:23:20,760 --> 00:23:23,520
Speaker 3: Those two teams are okay. They can hang with good teams.

537
00:23:25,000 --> 00:23:28,159
Speaker 2: At twenty four, down a spot the Chicago Bears.

538
00:23:28,600 --> 00:23:31,679
Speaker 3: I think they're in a miserable spot. They've shown glimpses,

539
00:23:31,840 --> 00:23:33,920
Speaker 3: but this was as bad a game. They can't win

540
00:23:34,000 --> 00:23:36,600
Speaker 3: a road game. Yeah, and not only do they not

541
00:23:36,760 --> 00:23:39,160
Speaker 3: win the road games, they get crushed in these road games.

542
00:23:39,800 --> 00:23:42,439
Speaker 3: I think I'd have the Browns and Carolina ahead of them.

543
00:23:42,520 --> 00:23:46,600
Speaker 2: Remember when when the draft happened, Oh, Caleb Williams is

544
00:23:46,640 --> 00:23:48,119
Speaker 2: in the perfect landing spot.

545
00:23:47,920 --> 00:23:50,119
Speaker 3: And the best situation ever, best situation.

546
00:23:50,160 --> 00:23:52,440
Speaker 2: Look, they went and got these receivers and it's great

547
00:23:52,560 --> 00:23:54,639
Speaker 2: and it's fantastic and lah bla blah, and they're the

548
00:23:54,720 --> 00:23:57,879
Speaker 2: number twelve team and they power rankings and they stink

549
00:23:57,960 --> 00:24:01,159
Speaker 2: and they're terrible. Right, maybe it is the Bears and

550
00:24:01,240 --> 00:24:02,000
Speaker 2: not the quarterbacks.

551
00:24:02,280 --> 00:24:04,520
Speaker 3: Same with the Jets. And I mean there's some these

552
00:24:05,080 --> 00:24:08,760
Speaker 3: iconic giants and some of these iconic franchises can kind

553
00:24:08,800 --> 00:24:10,600
Speaker 3: of sit on their laurels and make a ton of money,

554
00:24:10,640 --> 00:24:11,560
Speaker 3: and three.

555
00:24:11,440 --> 00:24:13,720
Speaker 2: Years from now they will be drafting again in the

556
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Speaker 2: top ten and taking another quarterback and getting rid of

557
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Speaker 2: Caleb Williams.

558
00:24:16,760 --> 00:24:19,600
Speaker 3: And fire the coach that you know the year after. Yeah,

559
00:24:19,640 --> 00:24:21,360
Speaker 3: I mean I make coaching changes that they made.

560
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Speaker 2: Yuck twenty three up a spot the Saints.

561
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Speaker 3: Yeah, but now if cars out, I don't think they

562
00:24:29,400 --> 00:24:32,760
Speaker 3: beat the Browns or no, right, I mean, they've done

563
00:24:32,800 --> 00:24:34,760
Speaker 3: some good things since their coaching change.

564
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Speaker 2: But I think that ships all they did was beat

565
00:24:36,359 --> 00:24:41,480
Speaker 2: the Giants on a blockfield goal. Yuck twenty two down

566
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Speaker 2: a spot, Dallas.

567
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Speaker 3: It's about where they're at. Their ownership might be taking

568
00:24:46,560 --> 00:24:50,760
Speaker 3: a similar path by the way, just being rich and happy.

569
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Speaker 2: At twenty one up a spot the Bengals, they very

570
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Speaker 2: easily could have lost that game.

571
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Speaker 3: Le they absolutely could have. That was a total coin

572
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Speaker 3: for game and came on the goofy punt, the punt

573
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Speaker 3: getting blocked against you. People were complaining about that on

574
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Speaker 3: I can't believe that. You know they blocked the punt,

575
00:25:09,600 --> 00:25:12,400
Speaker 3: and you know because Dallas touched it. It's just say

576
00:25:12,520 --> 00:25:15,280
Speaker 3: it went past the line of scrimmage. It's not technically

577
00:25:15,359 --> 00:25:19,000
Speaker 3: not even a blocked punt. It's a deflected kick right right,

578
00:25:19,160 --> 00:25:21,240
Speaker 3: So someone just got a fingertip at it the line

579
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Speaker 3: of scrimmage once it goes past Calvin Austin and he

580
00:25:23,560 --> 00:25:24,800
Speaker 3: fumbles it, the same thing.

581
00:25:24,720 --> 00:25:26,960
Speaker 2: Once it goes past the line of scrimmage, all the.

582
00:25:27,000 --> 00:25:32,000
Speaker 3: Same rules apply exactly exactly. I mean again, someone comes

583
00:25:32,040 --> 00:25:34,600
Speaker 3: in tips the ball and it's coming right to Calvin Austin.

584
00:25:34,640 --> 00:25:36,240
Speaker 3: He can still return it for a touchdown, right or

585
00:25:36,320 --> 00:25:38,919
Speaker 3: muffett or fumble it or do what everyone you know, right,

586
00:25:39,359 --> 00:25:40,520
Speaker 3: how do you not? You gotta know that rule?

587
00:25:40,640 --> 00:25:43,280
Speaker 2: You got you saw immediately their special teams coach as

588
00:25:43,320 --> 00:25:45,280
Speaker 2: soon as he saw the block starts waving his hands.

589
00:25:45,320 --> 00:25:47,960
Speaker 2: Nobody touch it. Nobody touch it. Somebody touched it.

590
00:25:48,200 --> 00:25:51,560
Speaker 3: It's that igaboggin in the corner that was drafted really late,

591
00:25:51,640 --> 00:25:53,680
Speaker 3: but in the first round by the Dolphins. I guess

592
00:25:53,720 --> 00:25:56,960
Speaker 3: they's pulled him up off the practice squad. I mean,

593
00:25:57,040 --> 00:25:58,680
Speaker 3: has he ever been on the punt team? I don't know.

594
00:25:58,800 --> 00:26:00,320
Speaker 3: I'm not going to look that much into it, but

595
00:26:00,560 --> 00:26:01,520
Speaker 3: you got to know those things.

596
00:26:01,640 --> 00:26:03,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean i'd get at the balls rolling rate

597
00:26:04,040 --> 00:26:06,800
Speaker 2: at you and bouncing at you, and he's there, and

598
00:26:07,200 --> 00:26:10,360
Speaker 2: if he recovers it, he's a hero, right because they're

599
00:26:10,400 --> 00:26:12,800
Speaker 2: basically almost in field goal range with less than two

600
00:26:12,840 --> 00:26:17,040
Speaker 2: minutes left. I don't give anyone a hard time for

601
00:26:17,960 --> 00:26:21,320
Speaker 2: fielding that ball reacting in the moment. If it's perfect, yeah,

602
00:26:21,320 --> 00:26:22,879
Speaker 2: if it's like this thing just hit me right in

603
00:26:22,920 --> 00:26:25,159
Speaker 2: the chest, I could take the house great. But it

604
00:26:25,280 --> 00:26:29,359
Speaker 2: was like, you know, like, no, it's rough, runaway and

605
00:26:29,520 --> 00:26:32,200
Speaker 2: someone's yelling fire, fire, fire, get away from this thing. Yeah.

606
00:26:33,240 --> 00:26:37,000
Speaker 2: At twenty down a spot, Atlanta.

607
00:26:38,080 --> 00:26:42,160
Speaker 3: They're soft and they keep losing. Yeah, or do yeah? Yeah?

608
00:26:43,040 --> 00:26:45,840
Speaker 2: At nineteen down a spot, Miami.

609
00:26:47,800 --> 00:26:50,520
Speaker 3: Defense wasn't great. I mean the guy took a step backwards.

610
00:26:50,560 --> 00:26:53,639
Speaker 3: The passing game has been really good. Yeah. I might

611
00:26:53,720 --> 00:26:55,119
Speaker 3: have them ahead of like the Colts. They're going to

612
00:26:55,200 --> 00:26:55,720
Speaker 3: lose this week.

613
00:26:56,080 --> 00:26:59,399
Speaker 2: Who they have a Denver probably, No, they're in Houston,

614
00:26:59,440 --> 00:27:03,200
Speaker 2: Atlanta's Yeah, Yeah, they are in Houston. Yeah, they're gonna lose.

615
00:27:03,280 --> 00:27:07,679
Speaker 2: There be a lot of points. At eighteen. They're in Denver, eighteen,

616
00:27:07,800 --> 00:27:10,960
Speaker 2: down a spot. I know, Indianapolis is in Houston and

617
00:27:11,040 --> 00:27:12,680
Speaker 2: Miami's in Dent No, I get that.

618
00:27:13,480 --> 00:27:14,919
Speaker 3: I get the Miami's playing Houston.

619
00:27:15,040 --> 00:27:18,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, Indianapolis is down a spot at eighteen. Okay, they're

620
00:27:18,960 --> 00:27:21,560
Speaker 2: playing Indianapolis is playing Denver. Yeah, in Denver they are.

621
00:27:21,680 --> 00:27:24,639
Speaker 2: They're gonna lose. I agree, but I think out of

622
00:27:24,680 --> 00:27:27,320
Speaker 2: Miami over Indy. I don't know, dude. The Colts looked

623
00:27:27,359 --> 00:27:33,000
Speaker 2: like after the bye richardson seventeen up three spots San Francisco.

624
00:27:33,920 --> 00:27:35,840
Speaker 3: They deserve to move up. I mean, they destroyed a

625
00:27:35,920 --> 00:27:39,639
Speaker 3: bad team. I would haven't had all these teams.

626
00:27:41,840 --> 00:27:43,720
Speaker 2: Sixteen down a spot Arizona.

627
00:27:45,520 --> 00:27:47,240
Speaker 3: I may even have them lower. I think it's just

628
00:27:47,840 --> 00:27:49,760
Speaker 3: getting to the point where we don't have any good players.

629
00:27:50,080 --> 00:27:53,040
Speaker 3: You know that they can only mask this thing and

630
00:27:53,119 --> 00:27:54,080
Speaker 3: massage this thing so.

631
00:27:54,200 --> 00:27:58,040
Speaker 2: Long at fifteen, up a spot, the Rams.

632
00:27:59,400 --> 00:28:01,800
Speaker 3: That's how i'd power rank that division, though I might

633
00:28:01,840 --> 00:28:03,440
Speaker 3: have the Niners ahead of the Cardinals.

634
00:28:05,560 --> 00:28:08,400
Speaker 2: At fourteen, down a spot, Tampa Bay.

635
00:28:10,359 --> 00:28:12,480
Speaker 3: These are all about the same. Yeah, a lot of

636
00:28:12,640 --> 00:28:17,159
Speaker 3: five hundred Yeah, yeah, playoff fringe guys. At thirteen, up

637
00:28:17,200 --> 00:28:20,399
Speaker 3: a spot, Seattle, they would be number one of anyone

638
00:28:20,400 --> 00:28:22,399
Speaker 3: we've talked about so far, but their old line is

639
00:28:22,440 --> 00:28:27,040
Speaker 3: still bad. And now we're into the top twelve. These

640
00:28:27,080 --> 00:28:30,160
Speaker 3: are the sort of good teams. Yeah, the next four

641
00:28:30,240 --> 00:28:31,200
Speaker 3: or five will be okay.

642
00:28:31,760 --> 00:28:33,960
Speaker 2: At twelve Houston, who knows.

643
00:28:34,480 --> 00:28:37,399
Speaker 3: Yeah, again out of sight, out of mind. But I

644
00:28:37,440 --> 00:28:38,200
Speaker 3: think that's good for.

645
00:28:38,280 --> 00:28:39,960
Speaker 2: That Two big ones coming up here toward the end

646
00:28:40,000 --> 00:28:42,880
Speaker 2: of the season, Kansas City and Baltimore coming up that

647
00:28:43,000 --> 00:28:47,360
Speaker 2: same week that the Christmas rotation. Yeah, yeah, they can't

648
00:28:47,360 --> 00:28:48,080
Speaker 2: lose them both.

649
00:28:48,120 --> 00:28:50,280
Speaker 3: Criss Cross Apple Sauce Christmas.

650
00:28:50,480 --> 00:28:52,480
Speaker 2: There's still only two games ahead of Indianapolis.

651
00:28:52,760 --> 00:28:55,560
Speaker 3: Like now, I guess they could still squander it away. Yeah.

652
00:28:56,720 --> 00:28:58,800
Speaker 2: At eleven, holding Steady Washington.

653
00:29:00,080 --> 00:29:02,280
Speaker 3: I worry about them, though I don't I think they're

654
00:29:03,040 --> 00:29:05,520
Speaker 3: a better version of Arizona. They don't have a lot

655
00:29:05,560 --> 00:29:06,240
Speaker 3: of really good players.

656
00:29:06,360 --> 00:29:08,400
Speaker 2: They get in New Orleans this week though, So they're

657
00:29:08,440 --> 00:29:09,760
Speaker 2: going to make the playoff, Yeah, I think so.

658
00:29:09,960 --> 00:29:10,160
Speaker 3: Yeah.

659
00:29:11,680 --> 00:29:16,000
Speaker 2: At ten, holding Steady Denver good.

660
00:29:17,280 --> 00:29:19,960
Speaker 3: They're better than everybody listened. They're better than Texans right now.

661
00:29:20,520 --> 00:29:22,240
Speaker 2: As long as they don't have to have Levi Wallace

662
00:29:22,320 --> 00:29:22,760
Speaker 2: on the field.

663
00:29:23,280 --> 00:29:26,479
Speaker 3: I don't know what Moss status. I don't know if

664
00:29:26,480 --> 00:29:28,120
Speaker 3: it's bad or yeah, but I didn't look into it.

665
00:29:28,560 --> 00:29:29,680
Speaker 3: But they're coming up a bye.

666
00:29:30,080 --> 00:29:32,440
Speaker 2: At nine holding Steady the Chargers.

667
00:29:32,680 --> 00:29:35,160
Speaker 3: Yeah, Chargers vers Denver is really close to me. Yeah,

668
00:29:35,280 --> 00:29:39,920
Speaker 3: I like the Charges better, similar makeup, but lack of

669
00:29:40,000 --> 00:29:41,640
Speaker 3: weapons in LA worries.

670
00:29:41,960 --> 00:29:44,880
Speaker 2: Yeah, and then you're into your top eight, and I

671
00:29:44,920 --> 00:29:47,160
Speaker 2: think the top eight are the teams that can.

672
00:29:47,960 --> 00:29:48,760
Speaker 3: They're the good teams.

673
00:29:48,760 --> 00:29:55,640
Speaker 2: They're the good teams. At eight, Baltimore agreed. At seven,

674
00:29:56,160 --> 00:29:57,480
Speaker 2: down a spot is green Bay.

675
00:29:57,880 --> 00:29:59,959
Speaker 3: I say where you had on Baltimore versus Green Bay.

676
00:30:00,320 --> 00:30:01,880
Speaker 3: I was about to ask that I didn't know they

677
00:30:01,880 --> 00:30:02,320
Speaker 3: were seven.

678
00:30:02,560 --> 00:30:04,280
Speaker 2: It would depend on where the game was played.

679
00:30:05,120 --> 00:30:07,840
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think Baltimore's best day is better than green

680
00:30:07,920 --> 00:30:11,360
Speaker 3: Bay's best day, but their worst days are bad, right,

681
00:30:11,400 --> 00:30:14,280
Speaker 3: the inconsistencies, they're very rough. Yeah.

682
00:30:15,760 --> 00:30:18,320
Speaker 2: At six, up a spot, the Steelers.

683
00:30:19,480 --> 00:30:23,400
Speaker 3: Okay, Steelers versus Chiefs and Vikings is a conversation.

684
00:30:23,520 --> 00:30:25,040
Speaker 2: I think the Steelers are better than the Chiefs.

685
00:30:25,120 --> 00:30:27,120
Speaker 3: I lean that way too, and I think they might

686
00:30:27,160 --> 00:30:28,320
Speaker 3: be better than the Vikings.

687
00:30:28,080 --> 00:30:32,920
Speaker 2: Too at five holding steady the Vikings.

688
00:30:33,280 --> 00:30:36,480
Speaker 3: Okay, figured as much. Chiefs are probably four.

689
00:30:37,240 --> 00:30:40,120
Speaker 2: At four down two spots Buffalo.

690
00:30:41,000 --> 00:30:45,240
Speaker 3: Oh that's rough. I have a problem with that. I

691
00:30:45,320 --> 00:30:49,920
Speaker 3: mean you, there's no shaming knowing this. Losing to Stafford,

692
00:30:50,080 --> 00:30:51,000
Speaker 3: I mean one game.

693
00:30:51,440 --> 00:30:53,920
Speaker 2: What if they go to Detroit this weekend, also lose

694
00:30:54,840 --> 00:30:55,280
Speaker 2: if it's.

695
00:30:55,200 --> 00:30:57,920
Speaker 3: A similar fifty to forty nine type game.

696
00:30:58,080 --> 00:31:00,160
Speaker 2: Now that you're starting to wonder about that defense.

697
00:31:00,000 --> 00:31:04,600
Speaker 3: A little bit, a little my, Okay, here's a bigger conversation.

698
00:31:05,280 --> 00:31:07,800
Speaker 3: I think the Bills. I used to be really hard

699
00:31:07,840 --> 00:31:09,800
Speaker 3: on them for not knowing what city they live in,

700
00:31:10,040 --> 00:31:12,320
Speaker 3: you know, like, yeah, you need to be and you

701
00:31:12,400 --> 00:31:14,200
Speaker 3: need all start, you need Bettis, you need to be

702
00:31:14,400 --> 00:31:17,560
Speaker 3: a power team. Well they fixed it on offense, but

703
00:31:17,680 --> 00:31:21,760
Speaker 3: there's still a Nickel finesse Von Miller front seven.

704
00:31:21,840 --> 00:31:24,080
Speaker 2: You try to sack the quarterback and they don't really have.

705
00:31:24,120 --> 00:31:27,560
Speaker 3: A nose, you know, like in the Rams. Like, I

706
00:31:27,640 --> 00:31:29,640
Speaker 3: have no problem losing to the Rams when you run

707
00:31:29,680 --> 00:31:32,600
Speaker 3: into a Hall of Fame type quarterback that is dotting

708
00:31:32,640 --> 00:31:35,800
Speaker 3: eyes left and right and lighten me up. Okay, But

709
00:31:35,880 --> 00:31:38,240
Speaker 3: when Kyraen Williams is just ripping through you for six

710
00:31:38,360 --> 00:31:41,880
Speaker 3: yards of carry too, you didn't fix That's what worries

711
00:31:41,920 --> 00:31:43,680
Speaker 3: me about the defense. Yeah, you know they don't stop

712
00:31:43,720 --> 00:31:45,720
Speaker 3: the run real well, you're just light and you play

713
00:31:45,720 --> 00:31:48,360
Speaker 3: a nickel all the time, you know. Yeah, but it's weird,

714
00:31:49,080 --> 00:31:53,320
Speaker 3: I think Josh Allen rightfully. So his MVP case went

715
00:31:53,440 --> 00:31:57,280
Speaker 3: up with a loss. Yeah, but I just go up

716
00:31:57,320 --> 00:31:58,360
Speaker 3: with another loss in Detroit.

717
00:31:58,680 --> 00:32:01,440
Speaker 2: I've just been thinking, like, how would Buffalo match up

718
00:32:01,480 --> 00:32:06,160
Speaker 2: against the Steelers if the Steelers came out in twelve personnel?

719
00:32:07,360 --> 00:32:10,640
Speaker 3: Right, they stay in their nickel probably probably?

720
00:32:10,760 --> 00:32:13,040
Speaker 2: Okay, when what happens when the Steelers come out in

721
00:32:13,080 --> 00:32:15,280
Speaker 2: thirteen persons right right? Right now? What you stand in

722
00:32:15,360 --> 00:32:15,760
Speaker 2: that nickel?

723
00:32:15,800 --> 00:32:17,160
Speaker 3: Well, I mean I have I'm sure the Chiefs and

724
00:32:17,200 --> 00:32:19,640
Speaker 3: those guys are taking notice too. That's if the Bills

725
00:32:19,680 --> 00:32:22,040
Speaker 3: I had the Chiefs, I would too, And Bills are

726
00:32:22,040 --> 00:32:23,920
Speaker 3: four right, the Chiefs are not been mentioned? Yeah?

727
00:32:24,000 --> 00:32:27,720
Speaker 2: Yeah at three upper spot are the Chiefs?

728
00:32:27,960 --> 00:32:29,960
Speaker 3: Okay? I mean they've been hard on the Bills.

729
00:32:30,560 --> 00:32:32,880
Speaker 2: They've been skating on the edge all season long.

730
00:32:33,880 --> 00:32:35,719
Speaker 3: There's an art to that, but they got some issues

731
00:32:37,440 --> 00:32:40,680
Speaker 3: at two up a spot Philadelphia, Yeah, would the Lions

732
00:32:40,720 --> 00:32:41,360
Speaker 3: still ahead of them?

733
00:32:41,400 --> 00:32:43,160
Speaker 2: And Detroit is one.

734
00:32:44,800 --> 00:32:49,440
Speaker 3: Lions d though is worse than either Philly units.

735
00:32:50,400 --> 00:32:53,280
Speaker 2: The problem is the conundrum that you have against Detroit

736
00:32:53,440 --> 00:32:56,080
Speaker 2: is though they can do this, they can skate by

737
00:32:56,160 --> 00:32:58,400
Speaker 2: with that defense because they're gonna score a bunch of points.

738
00:32:59,440 --> 00:33:01,280
Speaker 2: They're kind of getting a lot of other They're kind

739
00:33:01,280 --> 00:33:03,320
Speaker 2: of built like the Bills used to be built, except

740
00:33:03,360 --> 00:33:04,240
Speaker 2: they can run the football.

741
00:33:04,440 --> 00:33:07,280
Speaker 3: Yeah, they're they play power football, yeah, you know, and

742
00:33:07,320 --> 00:33:10,280
Speaker 3: then they learned to play physical defense and big, tough

743
00:33:10,360 --> 00:33:13,000
Speaker 3: offensive line and tackling Montgomery gets old and all that.

744
00:33:13,000 --> 00:33:15,360
Speaker 2: Suff they can win the time of possession against you and.

745
00:33:15,360 --> 00:33:17,600
Speaker 3: Their decoordinators getting a lot out of those guys. Yeah,

746
00:33:17,640 --> 00:33:19,680
Speaker 3: And I don't know who's coming I'd have to really

747
00:33:19,680 --> 00:33:21,800
Speaker 3: study it, but I don't know who's going to come back.

748
00:33:21,880 --> 00:33:24,600
Speaker 3: Who's got for the year off that defense? You know,

749
00:33:24,680 --> 00:33:27,000
Speaker 3: Lee McNeil and Branch got hurt last week they out

750
00:33:27,040 --> 00:33:27,880
Speaker 3: extended stretches.

751
00:33:27,920 --> 00:33:30,120
Speaker 2: I don't know, Yeah, I mean that's the one was

752
00:33:30,120 --> 00:33:32,040
Speaker 2: the one concern I had about Branch. And I love

753
00:33:32,120 --> 00:33:32,960
Speaker 2: Branch in the draft.

754
00:33:33,040 --> 00:33:34,840
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, but he's not the biggest guy and throws

755
00:33:34,880 --> 00:33:37,640
Speaker 3: the body around. The lion Scrimmer is a lot right right,

756
00:33:37,720 --> 00:33:40,040
Speaker 3: plays a really physical style, sure, which you love. But

757
00:33:40,360 --> 00:33:42,080
Speaker 3: these guys don't last usually either. Yeah.

758
00:33:42,200 --> 00:33:46,360
Speaker 2: So but that's the that's Eric at Holmes Power Rankings.

759
00:33:46,600 --> 00:33:49,560
Speaker 3: You know, the Steelers a little higher. I would have

760
00:33:49,720 --> 00:33:52,240
Speaker 3: them in the AFC. I'd have behind the Bills, ahead

761
00:33:52,240 --> 00:33:55,040
Speaker 3: of the Chiefs. Yeah, but right next to the chief

762
00:33:55,040 --> 00:33:56,680
Speaker 3: I mean we're not far.

763
00:33:56,920 --> 00:33:58,360
Speaker 2: Yeah, the Vikings.

764
00:33:58,880 --> 00:33:59,960
Speaker 3: I'm respecting the Viking.

765
00:34:00,400 --> 00:34:02,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, I've been rough on the Vikings, but they just

766
00:34:02,320 --> 00:34:02,720
Speaker 2: keep winning.

767
00:34:02,800 --> 00:34:05,800
Speaker 3: They keep winning, and Donald is good and they got

768
00:34:05,800 --> 00:34:06,520
Speaker 3: a lot of weapons.

769
00:34:06,520 --> 00:34:08,839
Speaker 2: Now they get some games coming up here that they're

770
00:34:08,840 --> 00:34:10,160
Speaker 2: not going to finish with two losses.

771
00:34:10,239 --> 00:34:11,040
Speaker 3: I'm sure they won't.

772
00:34:11,280 --> 00:34:12,680
Speaker 2: They're not going to win that division.

773
00:34:13,360 --> 00:34:15,520
Speaker 3: But i mean, like we do Power ranks every Tuesday,

774
00:34:15,920 --> 00:34:19,279
Speaker 3: most Tuesdays, I say, Minnesota is a little too high. Now,

775
00:34:19,320 --> 00:34:22,080
Speaker 3: I'm like, no, they belong with this crew. I think

776
00:34:22,120 --> 00:34:23,759
Speaker 3: they're a pretty darn good team.

777
00:34:24,239 --> 00:34:26,720
Speaker 2: Yeah, they get the Bears this week, Okay, they should

778
00:34:26,800 --> 00:34:27,080
Speaker 2: win that.

779
00:34:27,280 --> 00:34:28,920
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was at home. That's a Monday night er.

780
00:34:29,000 --> 00:34:30,360
Speaker 2: Then they got to go to Seattle.

781
00:34:31,239 --> 00:34:33,680
Speaker 3: That's tough one. That's a tough one because the thing

782
00:34:33,719 --> 00:34:36,080
Speaker 3: that worries me about Minnesota and it showed up against Atlanta.

783
00:34:36,719 --> 00:34:38,799
Speaker 3: Their protection is not very good. You know, they're missing

784
00:34:38,880 --> 00:34:43,000
Speaker 3: Darris Saw. The interior wasn't great, like Seattle will light

785
00:34:43,080 --> 00:34:43,759
Speaker 3: them up. Yeah.

786
00:34:43,800 --> 00:34:47,240
Speaker 2: Then they get the Packers at home, and they finish

787
00:34:47,400 --> 00:34:48,160
Speaker 2: up at Detroit.

788
00:34:48,760 --> 00:34:50,839
Speaker 3: Oh, those last three are hard. Yeah. Those are all

789
00:34:50,840 --> 00:34:52,000
Speaker 3: playoffs three playoff teams.

790
00:34:52,120 --> 00:34:52,279
Speaker 2: Yeah.

791
00:34:52,400 --> 00:34:56,000
Speaker 3: Yeah, and you know they're probably two and two rest away.

792
00:34:56,080 --> 00:34:57,640
Speaker 2: Donald could turn into a pumpkin and then.

793
00:34:57,560 --> 00:35:00,160
Speaker 3: He could he could. I have a feeling he's be

794
00:35:00,200 --> 00:35:01,280
Speaker 3: pretty richest offseason.

795
00:35:01,360 --> 00:35:02,319
Speaker 2: I just don't trust him.

796
00:35:02,520 --> 00:35:03,839
Speaker 3: Trust is a big word. Yeah.

797
00:35:03,960 --> 00:35:06,439
Speaker 2: Yeah, but now right now they deserve to be five.

798
00:35:07,360 --> 00:35:10,680
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean versus Steelers is a conversation too.

799
00:35:10,880 --> 00:35:13,759
Speaker 2: Yeah. But I would have I would I would have can't.

800
00:35:14,840 --> 00:35:17,320
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think I'd have the Vikings ahead the Packers.

801
00:35:17,360 --> 00:35:19,560
Speaker 2: I get the Kansas City's twelve and one, and of

802
00:35:19,640 --> 00:35:23,319
Speaker 2: course fantastic, that's awesome, But they don't pass the eye test.

803
00:35:23,600 --> 00:35:24,200
Speaker 2: They just don't.

804
00:35:24,280 --> 00:35:28,640
Speaker 3: They don't. And I had a problem with Oh, they

805
00:35:28,680 --> 00:35:31,440
Speaker 3: got lucky with Matthew right now, it went between the uprights.

806
00:35:31,480 --> 00:35:34,960
Speaker 3: They got lucky with the bad snap. Maybe they had

807
00:35:35,000 --> 00:35:39,359
Speaker 3: something to do with the block kick, but that's fringe. Yeah,

808
00:35:39,680 --> 00:35:41,279
Speaker 3: the fact that it hit the upright, it went in.

809
00:35:41,480 --> 00:35:44,359
Speaker 3: If that's not luck, I mean he made the kick,

810
00:35:44,440 --> 00:35:45,880
Speaker 3: you know that. I don't have a problem with that.

811
00:35:46,560 --> 00:35:49,160
Speaker 3: But you know, like the botch snap, and you should

812
00:35:49,160 --> 00:35:51,360
Speaker 3: have a Raiders loss on your resume, which would taste

813
00:35:51,360 --> 00:35:52,239
Speaker 3: a lot different.

814
00:35:52,200 --> 00:35:52,840
Speaker 2: A lot different.

815
00:35:52,960 --> 00:35:55,880
Speaker 3: Right, talked to Baltimore about that one, right, right, right,

816
00:35:56,960 --> 00:35:59,440
Speaker 3: that's one of the raiders two wins this year. Exactly

817
00:35:59,560 --> 00:36:02,879
Speaker 3: over the in Baltimore. We talked about the Raiders half

818
00:36:02,920 --> 00:36:04,400
Speaker 3: an hour ago in this statement.

819
00:36:05,160 --> 00:36:07,239
Speaker 2: You can't lose those, yes, but they should have lost

820
00:36:07,320 --> 00:36:09,640
Speaker 2: that game. That's the that's the one you know in

821
00:36:09,719 --> 00:36:12,879
Speaker 2: the past. Last year, for example, you hear it from Steelers, well,

822
00:36:12,920 --> 00:36:14,759
Speaker 2: you shouldn't lose to the Patriots, you shouldn't lose the

823
00:36:14,840 --> 00:36:17,640
Speaker 2: Cardinals back to back games. That's kind of what the

824
00:36:17,719 --> 00:36:18,640
Speaker 2: Ravens did this year.

825
00:36:18,880 --> 00:36:20,600
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's a similar stretch.

826
00:36:21,200 --> 00:36:23,040
Speaker 2: You know, at least, as you know, the Steelers lost

827
00:36:23,080 --> 00:36:27,680
Speaker 2: to a decent Colts team in their place. Yeah, yeah,

828
00:36:27,719 --> 00:36:30,239
Speaker 2: you know, and you lost to the Cowboys when they

829
00:36:30,239 --> 00:36:33,000
Speaker 2: were better than now, better than they are right now

830
00:36:33,120 --> 00:36:35,480
Speaker 2: for sure. Yeah yeah, and way better than their real

831
00:36:35,560 --> 00:36:38,000
Speaker 2: down time. That's why you went to Russell Wilson at quarterback.

832
00:36:38,040 --> 00:36:39,719
Speaker 2: By the way, you only scored seventeen points in that

833
00:36:39,800 --> 00:36:41,000
Speaker 2: game against the Cowboys at home.

834
00:36:41,120 --> 00:36:44,480
Speaker 3: Yeah, yea yeah, you gotta do better. And frankly, the

835
00:36:44,560 --> 00:36:46,960
Speaker 3: Browns loss doesn't bother me that much either. Short week,

836
00:36:46,960 --> 00:36:49,759
Speaker 3: short week, in a brutal place, and you didn't play

837
00:36:49,800 --> 00:36:51,160
Speaker 3: great you Yeah, that's okay.

838
00:36:51,520 --> 00:36:55,120
Speaker 2: So anyways, that was Eric ed Holmes Power Rankings. Let's

839
00:36:55,120 --> 00:36:57,320
Speaker 2: get to a break. He is the Matt Williamson. I

840
00:36:57,440 --> 00:36:59,440
Speaker 2: am Dale Lallie, and this is the drive on the

841
00:36:59,440 --> 00:37:01,440
Speaker 2: Steelers off network, Matt, and now I'll be back to

842
00:37:01,480 --> 00:37:03,160
Speaker 2: finish up the show right after this.

843
00:37:07,080 --> 00:37:09,880
Speaker 1: At least, he's the drive with Dale Lolly and Matt

844
00:37:10,040 --> 00:37:12,880
Speaker 1: Williamson on your twenty four to seven home of the

845
00:37:13,000 --> 00:37:16,120
Speaker 1: Black and Gold Steelers Nation Radio.

846
00:37:18,840 --> 00:37:21,480
Speaker 2: And we are back. I am Dale Lolly. He is

847
00:37:21,880 --> 00:37:24,880
Speaker 2: the Matt Williamson and Matt was just looking here at

848
00:37:25,200 --> 00:37:27,720
Speaker 2: We just went over Eric at Holmes NFL Power Rankings

849
00:37:27,760 --> 00:37:29,680
Speaker 2: on NFL dot Com and he had the interesting little

850
00:37:29,719 --> 00:37:34,360
Speaker 2: thing here leading off his power rankings, and it's the

851
00:37:35,040 --> 00:37:37,879
Speaker 2: best one score records in the league.

852
00:37:39,320 --> 00:37:40,560
Speaker 3: Philly is really good, by the way.

853
00:37:40,680 --> 00:37:43,239
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're seven and one. The Chiefs are number one

854
00:37:44,360 --> 00:37:47,359
Speaker 2: one loss, right, ten and oh. And that's the thing though,

855
00:37:47,640 --> 00:37:50,400
Speaker 2: So they're twelve and one overall, but they're ten and

856
00:37:50,520 --> 00:37:51,920
Speaker 2: oh in one score games.

857
00:37:53,200 --> 00:37:55,160
Speaker 3: I mean they've played a ton of one score games,

858
00:37:55,320 --> 00:37:59,480
Speaker 3: is the point? Yeah, right, so this is a weird conversation.

859
00:37:59,640 --> 00:38:04,720
Speaker 3: But one score games to me is eight points.

860
00:38:04,880 --> 00:38:06,279
Speaker 2: Right, that's what he's considering this.

861
00:38:06,440 --> 00:38:08,560
Speaker 3: But I kind of can't think that's two scores. I mean,

862
00:38:08,920 --> 00:38:11,759
Speaker 3: that's how everyone does it. But that's a pretty big gap.

863
00:38:11,880 --> 00:38:14,680
Speaker 3: I mean most games are divided by by eight points,

864
00:38:15,280 --> 00:38:17,439
Speaker 3: you know, which I almost think like three point game

865
00:38:17,480 --> 00:38:19,920
Speaker 3: would be a better barometer, and nobody does it that way. No,

866
00:38:20,160 --> 00:38:22,160
Speaker 3: you know, even a six point game, because I mean

867
00:38:22,160 --> 00:38:24,239
Speaker 3: if someone's a seven and a half point favor you're like, well,

868
00:38:24,280 --> 00:38:26,200
Speaker 3: that's a lot of points. Well it's still a one

869
00:38:26,239 --> 00:38:28,000
Speaker 3: point one score game, you know. I Mean, if you

870
00:38:28,280 --> 00:38:31,880
Speaker 3: push on it or whatever, it can be a little misleading.

871
00:38:31,960 --> 00:38:33,680
Speaker 3: But the Chiefs play a lot of close games.

872
00:38:34,080 --> 00:38:36,160
Speaker 2: The Eagles are seven and one in such games, they're

873
00:38:36,160 --> 00:38:39,040
Speaker 2: eleven and two overall. The Vikings are seven and one

874
00:38:39,080 --> 00:38:42,759
Speaker 2: in those games. They're eleven and two overall. The Lions

875
00:38:42,960 --> 00:38:45,200
Speaker 2: are six and one in one score games. They're twelve

876
00:38:45,280 --> 00:38:51,120
Speaker 2: and one overall. Okay, so they've just blown the doors. Yeah,

877
00:38:51,280 --> 00:38:53,800
Speaker 2: did you say the Chiefs have played ten ten? I

878
00:38:53,880 --> 00:38:55,040
Speaker 2: bet they're in near the top of the league. A

879
00:38:55,120 --> 00:38:58,120
Speaker 2: number of games played in the since he's probably high

880
00:38:58,120 --> 00:39:01,960
Speaker 2: two number of one's not the record. A number of games.

881
00:39:01,960 --> 00:39:04,359
Speaker 2: I bet they're near the top, yes, since you would

882
00:39:04,360 --> 00:39:05,560
Speaker 2: have to be yes, closed.

883
00:39:05,600 --> 00:39:05,759
Speaker 3: Yeah.

884
00:39:05,760 --> 00:39:08,640
Speaker 2: The point differentials, they're plus three now and they're five

885
00:39:08,719 --> 00:39:08,960
Speaker 2: and eight.

886
00:39:09,120 --> 00:39:09,799
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

887
00:39:10,680 --> 00:39:13,520
Speaker 2: The Packers are five and three in one score games.

888
00:39:13,600 --> 00:39:16,279
Speaker 2: They're nine and four overall. The Steelers are six and

889
00:39:16,400 --> 00:39:20,000
Speaker 2: three in one score games. They're ten and three overall.

890
00:39:21,920 --> 00:39:25,520
Speaker 3: I mean with them, you had two three point losses. Yeah,

891
00:39:25,520 --> 00:39:26,520
Speaker 3: you know, like so you lost and.

892
00:39:26,520 --> 00:39:27,359
Speaker 2: The other one was five.

893
00:39:27,560 --> 00:39:28,000
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah.

894
00:39:29,040 --> 00:39:32,480
Speaker 2: The Ravens in one score games, I bet they're bad.

895
00:39:32,600 --> 00:39:33,200
Speaker 2: We think they are.

896
00:39:36,719 --> 00:39:39,560
Speaker 3: They're eight and five overall, six and three, six and four,

897
00:39:39,960 --> 00:39:43,359
Speaker 3: five and five yeah, okay, I almost they're gonna say

898
00:39:43,440 --> 00:39:45,080
Speaker 3: under five hundred. But I'm like I can't be they

899
00:39:45,080 --> 00:39:45,719
Speaker 3: have a wining.

900
00:39:45,480 --> 00:39:50,279
Speaker 2: Re close enough. The Bills have only played five one

901
00:39:50,360 --> 00:39:52,480
Speaker 2: score games. They're ten and three overall.

902
00:39:52,600 --> 00:39:53,879
Speaker 3: They lost one this last week.

903
00:39:53,960 --> 00:39:54,680
Speaker 2: They're three and two.

904
00:39:55,320 --> 00:39:58,400
Speaker 3: Okay, they blow people out. I mean the fact that

905
00:39:58,640 --> 00:39:59,600
Speaker 3: they only played five.

906
00:39:59,440 --> 00:40:02,480
Speaker 2: And they also got blown out, you know, one of

907
00:40:02,520 --> 00:40:09,759
Speaker 2: those losses at Ravens and at Holmes. Thought is the

908
00:40:09,840 --> 00:40:12,000
Speaker 2: only teams that stand out on either end are all

909
00:40:12,040 --> 00:40:16,440
Speaker 2: in the AFC case, He said, These numbers suggest the Bills, Ravens,

910
00:40:16,480 --> 00:40:19,800
Speaker 2: and Steelers are perhaps better than their overall records indicate

911
00:40:20,280 --> 00:40:23,600
Speaker 2: on the opposite end, Kansas City might indeed be overachieving.

912
00:40:25,320 --> 00:40:29,000
Speaker 2: The Chiefs. Ten and oh mark in one score games

913
00:40:29,040 --> 00:40:31,200
Speaker 2: ties an all time record. If you remember, that record

914
00:40:31,320 --> 00:40:33,960
Speaker 2: was set a couple of years ago by the Vikings, right,

915
00:40:34,440 --> 00:40:37,239
Speaker 2: who rattled off like they were like fourteen and three

916
00:40:37,360 --> 00:40:39,840
Speaker 2: or something like that, and they got beat by the

917
00:40:39,880 --> 00:40:42,120
Speaker 2: Giants in the opening round of the playoffs at home.

918
00:40:42,120 --> 00:40:44,960
Speaker 3: Which wasn't a good Giants no. I mean that first

919
00:40:45,080 --> 00:40:48,200
Speaker 3: year Daniel Jones gave him a big contract and that

920
00:40:48,400 --> 00:40:50,399
Speaker 3: was end up being bad for the Giants. So when

921
00:40:50,400 --> 00:40:53,719
Speaker 3: we talk about the Chiefs maybe being a little overrated,

922
00:40:54,080 --> 00:40:58,000
Speaker 3: that's why it's one hundred percent true. But what's different,

923
00:40:58,120 --> 00:41:01,680
Speaker 3: obviously is like that Vikings team didn't have Pat Mahomes

924
00:41:01,719 --> 00:41:03,759
Speaker 3: and coming off back to back titles, you know, but like.

925
00:41:03,800 --> 00:41:07,960
Speaker 2: As we said yesterday, Mahomes didn't do anything to make

926
00:41:08,000 --> 00:41:11,560
Speaker 2: the Raiders blow a snap exactly, exactly exactly. He didn't

927
00:41:11,560 --> 00:41:14,399
Speaker 2: block a punt, block a field goal against Denver. Sure,

928
00:41:14,520 --> 00:41:16,279
Speaker 2: he didn't do any of that stuff. And in both

929
00:41:16,320 --> 00:41:18,319
Speaker 2: of those games they scored the didn't score a lot

930
00:41:18,320 --> 00:41:18,720
Speaker 2: of points.

931
00:41:19,840 --> 00:41:24,360
Speaker 3: No, I think at Holmes point about raven Steelers bills,

932
00:41:24,960 --> 00:41:28,040
Speaker 3: because they're slightly above five hundred and one score games

933
00:41:29,120 --> 00:41:30,719
Speaker 3: might be better than you think. Yeah, you know what

934
00:41:30,760 --> 00:41:34,279
Speaker 3: I mean. Yeah, I mean sometimes that it does come

935
00:41:34,320 --> 00:41:36,600
Speaker 3: down to just a bounce or a penalty or whatever, right,

936
00:41:36,680 --> 00:41:40,920
Speaker 3: you know, and something to everyone's don't have everything he said,

937
00:41:41,200 --> 00:41:45,919
Speaker 3: the top teams. Yeah, okay, yeah, and again I would

938
00:41:45,960 --> 00:41:49,040
Speaker 3: love to do three points or less. I mean, if

939
00:41:49,040 --> 00:41:52,040
Speaker 3: you win a game by seven, you probably controlled a

940
00:41:52,120 --> 00:41:53,040
Speaker 3: lot of it or you got.

941
00:41:53,000 --> 00:41:54,799
Speaker 2: I don't know, the Bengals won by seven last night.

942
00:41:55,080 --> 00:41:57,480
Speaker 3: That's a bad example. Or like the Rams, you know,

943
00:41:57,560 --> 00:41:59,800
Speaker 3: getting this happened at the ball Lasters, you know, so

944
00:41:59,840 --> 00:42:02,120
Speaker 3: it's some of that sometimes, yeah, or you know, you're

945
00:42:02,200 --> 00:42:05,239
Speaker 3: up fourteen points, or maybe you're up fifteen points and

946
00:42:05,280 --> 00:42:07,319
Speaker 3: they get an oh, by the way, touchdown at the end.

947
00:42:07,360 --> 00:42:10,560
Speaker 3: It like portals garbage time stuff. He was a king

948
00:42:10,640 --> 00:42:14,279
Speaker 3: of garbage. Yeah, way better for fantasy than the real world.

949
00:42:14,320 --> 00:42:16,360
Speaker 2: I had him on my fantasy team that year, and

950
00:42:16,560 --> 00:42:18,480
Speaker 2: he would have nothing in the first half.

951
00:42:18,320 --> 00:42:19,840
Speaker 3: Of the game, oh yeah, because they were bad, and

952
00:42:19,880 --> 00:42:20,320
Speaker 3: then he'd.

953
00:42:20,200 --> 00:42:22,400
Speaker 2: End up throwing for three hundred yards and three touchdowns

954
00:42:22,440 --> 00:42:24,160
Speaker 2: in the second half thirty.

955
00:42:23,960 --> 00:42:27,920
Speaker 3: Yards and no one cares against events like did you

956
00:42:28,000 --> 00:42:29,200
Speaker 3: really watch what happened there?

957
00:42:29,200 --> 00:42:30,680
Speaker 2: Because it wasn't he wasn't good.

958
00:42:30,920 --> 00:42:33,640
Speaker 3: No, but you can manipulate the fantasy ward a little bit.

959
00:42:33,560 --> 00:42:35,000
Speaker 2: That way, a little bit, a little bit.

960
00:42:37,120 --> 00:42:37,319
Speaker 3: Yeah.

961
00:42:37,480 --> 00:42:41,120
Speaker 2: So, uh, you know, Steelers get this big game this

962
00:42:41,280 --> 00:42:45,879
Speaker 2: week against against Philadelphia, And I was talking with Jerry

963
00:42:45,920 --> 00:42:48,600
Speaker 2: Dulac about this today and we did our post hommel

964
00:42:48,600 --> 00:42:52,400
Speaker 2: and wrap up show, and I look at this stretch

965
00:42:52,440 --> 00:42:55,160
Speaker 2: of games a little bit differently now than I did

966
00:42:55,800 --> 00:42:57,799
Speaker 2: when the schedule came out, Like.

967
00:42:57,880 --> 00:43:00,520
Speaker 3: I prioritize this one the least. I don't know if

968
00:43:00,520 --> 00:43:01,440
Speaker 3: that's where you're going with this or not.

969
00:43:01,640 --> 00:43:04,040
Speaker 2: No, I just I'm there's three game stretch where they

970
00:43:04,080 --> 00:43:09,160
Speaker 2: play Philadelphia Baltimore in Kansas City. When the seat when

971
00:43:09,160 --> 00:43:11,080
Speaker 2: the schedule came out, I looked at that and boy, oh,

972
00:43:11,160 --> 00:43:13,359
Speaker 2: that's going to make or break their season. I don't

973
00:43:13,440 --> 00:43:14,480
Speaker 2: look at it the same way now.

974
00:43:14,560 --> 00:43:16,200
Speaker 3: I kind of that's kind of where I was going through,

975
00:43:16,239 --> 00:43:19,719
Speaker 3: and I just probably phrased it differently, like their seasons

976
00:43:20,000 --> 00:43:21,920
Speaker 3: kind of already made or broke. I mean it was

977
00:43:22,080 --> 00:43:25,200
Speaker 3: kind of made, you know, like if they lose bad

978
00:43:25,280 --> 00:43:28,480
Speaker 3: to Philly and I'm this is not a Steelers operate.

979
00:43:28,560 --> 00:43:30,359
Speaker 3: But if I'm on the fence about so I play

980
00:43:30,400 --> 00:43:33,640
Speaker 3: Pickings or not, I really want them two weeks from now.

981
00:43:34,040 --> 00:43:36,359
Speaker 3: I mean, if you lose an NFC game this week,

982
00:43:37,120 --> 00:43:41,719
Speaker 3: even if it's ugly, the sun will come up tomorrow, right,

983
00:43:41,800 --> 00:43:43,480
Speaker 3: you know what I mean? Yeah, But if all of

984
00:43:43,520 --> 00:43:47,200
Speaker 3: a sudden, the wheels are coming off after this game

985
00:43:47,280 --> 00:43:50,400
Speaker 3: with injuries galore and Pickens ripped his hamstring or whatever,

986
00:43:50,560 --> 00:43:54,960
Speaker 3: and it's like, uh oh, because you're gonna get another

987
00:43:55,000 --> 00:43:56,319
Speaker 3: winner two right.

988
00:43:56,440 --> 00:43:59,800
Speaker 2: I mean, here's the thing. If they win two of

989
00:43:59,840 --> 00:44:04,800
Speaker 2: the last four, they probably win the division.

990
00:44:05,440 --> 00:44:08,480
Speaker 3: Yeah. Probably. I know you were fiddling with like the playoffs.

991
00:44:08,640 --> 00:44:11,360
Speaker 2: I was looking at the playoff simulators or not the

992
00:44:11,880 --> 00:44:17,600
Speaker 2: little that's. Yeah, let's say you lose this game this week,

993
00:44:17,920 --> 00:44:21,280
Speaker 2: but you go two and one in the final three weeks.

994
00:44:21,440 --> 00:44:24,520
Speaker 2: You take it as long as you even if you

995
00:44:24,680 --> 00:44:27,360
Speaker 2: lose the Baltimore down there, but you then beat the

996
00:44:27,440 --> 00:44:31,360
Speaker 2: Chiefs and you beat the Bengals game, you win the division.

997
00:44:31,800 --> 00:44:34,680
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, And basically, if you beat the Ravens,

998
00:44:34,719 --> 00:44:35,359
Speaker 3: you probably win.

999
00:44:35,280 --> 00:44:37,720
Speaker 2: The If you beat the Ravens, you've won the division.

1000
00:44:37,840 --> 00:44:39,719
Speaker 3: Is that mathematically true? That would be the one in

1001
00:44:39,800 --> 00:44:40,480
Speaker 3: three yeah.

1002
00:44:40,320 --> 00:44:43,400
Speaker 2: Because they can't catch you in the in the division standings,

1003
00:44:43,520 --> 00:44:44,440
Speaker 2: you would have the time you.

1004
00:44:44,440 --> 00:44:46,120
Speaker 3: Swept them, and yeah, that makes sense. You a two

1005
00:44:46,200 --> 00:44:48,799
Speaker 3: game lead, they can two left, They could get four

1006
00:44:48,880 --> 00:44:51,680
Speaker 3: wins in that stretch one, but you'd be tied.

1007
00:44:51,760 --> 00:44:54,000
Speaker 2: That would be the only way that the Steelers don't

1008
00:44:54,080 --> 00:44:56,719
Speaker 2: win the division from this point on. The Ravens would

1009
00:44:56,719 --> 00:44:58,320
Speaker 2: have to go four and oh the Steelers would have

1010
00:44:58,320 --> 00:45:02,040
Speaker 2: to go one in three yeah, and lose both of them.

1011
00:45:02,120 --> 00:45:04,080
Speaker 2: Can't and lose both of the division.

1012
00:45:03,800 --> 00:45:05,640
Speaker 3: Game, right, I see you're saying, right, So if you

1013
00:45:05,719 --> 00:45:07,120
Speaker 3: beat the Ravens, you win the title.

1014
00:45:07,239 --> 00:45:10,640
Speaker 2: Win the division even if you lose to the Ravens,

1015
00:45:10,719 --> 00:45:13,880
Speaker 2: but you then either beat Philadelphia or Kansas City. You

1016
00:45:14,000 --> 00:45:16,440
Speaker 2: win the division as long as you beat the Bengals

1017
00:45:16,480 --> 00:45:17,360
Speaker 2: in weeks eighteen.

1018
00:45:18,320 --> 00:45:20,319
Speaker 3: Now, catching the Bills is going to be difficult, right,

1019
00:45:20,520 --> 00:45:23,920
Speaker 3: I mean real difficult. But you're not going to fall

1020
00:45:23,960 --> 00:45:26,279
Speaker 3: to the four seed. You're probably gonna end up with

1021
00:45:26,360 --> 00:45:30,360
Speaker 3: the three seed probably, so something weird would have to happen.

1022
00:45:31,000 --> 00:45:33,680
Speaker 3: Either you're going to run good or bad. Yeah, but

1023
00:45:33,840 --> 00:45:36,960
Speaker 3: you're probably I mean, I'm sure the Vegas oddmakers or

1024
00:45:37,080 --> 00:45:40,239
Speaker 3: Cynthia Freeland or whoever could tell you eighty two percent

1025
00:45:40,360 --> 00:45:42,640
Speaker 3: chance the Steelers end up the three seed and whatever.

1026
00:45:42,680 --> 00:45:44,960
Speaker 3: That number is pretty high. Yeah, it's pretty high.

1027
00:45:45,520 --> 00:45:48,520
Speaker 2: So it's it's it's not the because the work, most

1028
00:45:48,560 --> 00:45:50,040
Speaker 2: of the hay is in the barn now for the

1029
00:45:50,080 --> 00:45:51,120
Speaker 2: regular season.

1030
00:45:50,920 --> 00:45:53,360
Speaker 3: Exactly, and winning these division games has been really helpful to.

1031
00:45:53,800 --> 00:45:55,560
Speaker 2: The fact that you're ten and three right now. I

1032
00:45:55,600 --> 00:45:57,480
Speaker 2: mean I can remember going into this and people, well

1033
00:45:57,520 --> 00:46:00,920
Speaker 2: they better at least have eight wins going into that stright, Yeah,

1034
00:46:01,360 --> 00:46:03,279
Speaker 2: well you do. They've done better than that.

1035
00:46:03,400 --> 00:46:05,200
Speaker 3: You've got a lot of money in the bank, Like

1036
00:46:05,239 --> 00:46:07,520
Speaker 3: if you were have slipped up against the Bengals or Browns,

1037
00:46:07,560 --> 00:46:09,960
Speaker 3: this would be a much different conversation. Absolutely took care

1038
00:46:10,000 --> 00:46:12,719
Speaker 3: of that business against teams. You know well that I

1039
00:46:12,760 --> 00:46:15,040
Speaker 3: think you're better than. Although Vegas disagreed with us and

1040
00:46:15,120 --> 00:46:16,640
Speaker 3: the Bengal game.

1041
00:46:16,480 --> 00:46:19,160
Speaker 2: For whatever reason, but they disagree with the Jets too,

1042
00:46:19,239 --> 00:46:21,000
Speaker 2: and that, yeah, make any sense?

1043
00:46:21,160 --> 00:46:24,279
Speaker 3: Yeah, but no, they're in really good shape. Yeah, I

1044
00:46:24,360 --> 00:46:28,080
Speaker 3: mean you don't. And even if these next four games

1045
00:46:28,120 --> 00:46:30,920
Speaker 3: don't go great, you're one in three and we do

1046
00:46:31,040 --> 00:46:33,560
Speaker 3: power ranks on Tuesday and they're twelve. They're not looking

1047
00:46:33,600 --> 00:46:35,080
Speaker 3: as good as they used to be. I don't know.

1048
00:46:35,080 --> 00:46:38,440
Speaker 2: If they could fall to twelve, I don't know. I mean,

1049
00:46:38,480 --> 00:46:40,040
Speaker 2: they would be an eleven win team.

1050
00:46:40,360 --> 00:46:42,239
Speaker 3: You have that bad losses, Yeah, they have to be

1051
00:46:42,440 --> 00:46:46,000
Speaker 3: Eagles and yeah, yah, ten plus point losses.

1052
00:46:46,080 --> 00:46:48,000
Speaker 2: They haven't had those. I mean that's the thing.

1053
00:46:48,120 --> 00:46:50,120
Speaker 3: Surprise me. You know, they're a lash of injuries.

1054
00:46:50,200 --> 00:46:53,279
Speaker 2: They've lost their games by combined eleven points. They're they're

1055
00:46:53,400 --> 00:46:55,200
Speaker 2: you know, they're gonna play the Ravens tight, right the

1056
00:46:55,280 --> 00:46:58,319
Speaker 2: point differential chieftain Blow says that they're a good team.

1057
00:46:58,800 --> 00:47:00,520
Speaker 2: This is a game I think if they blown out,

1058
00:47:00,520 --> 00:47:03,400
Speaker 2: it's this one. Yeah, but that's not really how their

1059
00:47:03,440 --> 00:47:06,319
Speaker 2: ability either. The defense is really good. Yeah, and Philadelphia

1060
00:47:06,440 --> 00:47:07,920
Speaker 2: is a team that wants to run the football.

1061
00:47:08,040 --> 00:47:09,359
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, short game.

1062
00:47:09,360 --> 00:47:12,240
Speaker 2: It matches up well with what you do well stopping

1063
00:47:12,280 --> 00:47:12,560
Speaker 2: the run.

1064
00:47:12,760 --> 00:47:13,719
Speaker 3: Yep. Absolutely.

1065
00:47:14,320 --> 00:47:16,160
Speaker 2: You know this is gonna be big boy football this week.

1066
00:47:16,640 --> 00:47:16,880
Speaker 2: It is.

1067
00:47:17,000 --> 00:47:18,640
Speaker 3: It is gonna be the rest of the way to Chiefs,

1068
00:47:18,640 --> 00:47:21,360
Speaker 3: our physical team. You know what the Ravens are. You

1069
00:47:21,480 --> 00:47:24,279
Speaker 3: hope that the Bengals game either doesn't matter or they

1070
00:47:24,320 --> 00:47:28,480
Speaker 3: don't care. You know, yeah, go host the game if

1071
00:47:28,520 --> 00:47:30,760
Speaker 3: you had to. You know, hey, we're gonna sit Russell

1072
00:47:30,760 --> 00:47:33,440
Speaker 3: Wilson's got everything wrapp up. We're gonna sit Russell Wilson's game.

1073
00:47:33,440 --> 00:47:34,759
Speaker 3: You could still go out there and win with Justin

1074
00:47:34,800 --> 00:47:37,200
Speaker 3: Fields exactly. I was I've been thinking about that for

1075
00:47:37,239 --> 00:47:39,440
Speaker 3: a while, that how much do you play cam in

1076
00:47:39,520 --> 00:47:45,200
Speaker 3: week eighteen? And maybe Wilson's inactive and okay, you know,

1077
00:47:46,120 --> 00:47:48,200
Speaker 3: somebody suggested on this should you beat the Ravens. Yeah,

1078
00:47:48,200 --> 00:47:49,400
Speaker 3: if you beat the Ravens, you just do that.

1079
00:47:49,520 --> 00:47:51,640
Speaker 2: Somebody suggested on the message board they should any they

1080
00:47:51,640 --> 00:47:53,719
Speaker 2: should just rest guys this week and just take the

1081
00:47:53,800 --> 00:47:55,879
Speaker 2: loss of the Eagles. I'm like, Hey, they're never gonna

1082
00:47:55,920 --> 00:47:57,280
Speaker 2: do that. Only four games.

1083
00:47:57,120 --> 00:47:59,160
Speaker 3: Left, and that's not what's going on with Pickens. No,

1084
00:47:59,560 --> 00:48:02,959
Speaker 3: but if it's fifty to fifty, I would lean towards

1085
00:48:02,960 --> 00:48:04,000
Speaker 3: wrestling him for this one.

1086
00:48:04,520 --> 00:48:06,439
Speaker 2: The way the schedule, I don't even think it's fifty fifty,

1087
00:48:06,480 --> 00:48:07,040
Speaker 2: but I don't think it is.

1088
00:48:07,280 --> 00:48:09,200
Speaker 3: I think he's just not even closed, right, Yeah, so

1089
00:48:09,360 --> 00:48:10,640
Speaker 3: I don't think he can play this week.

1090
00:48:10,800 --> 00:48:13,279
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's gonna do it for the show today, Matt,

1091
00:48:13,280 --> 00:48:15,719
Speaker 2: all right, all right, so let's get We'll be back

1092
00:48:15,760 --> 00:48:17,960
Speaker 2: again tomorrow again. You can hear the Drive every day

1093
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Speaker 2: from four to six pm. But for my partner Matt Williamson,

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Speaker 2: for Justin Miller here running the Justin Miller Hotline, and

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Speaker 2: for Tyler Viittmeyer making sure our video gets out there

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Speaker 2: on YouTube. Check that out. I am Dale, Lolly. We

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

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Speaker 2: on the Steelers Audio Network