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

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Speaker 1: Williamson on Home of the Black and Gold Steelers Nation Radio.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back. I am Dale Lilly, he is Matt Williamson,

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Speaker 1: and uh well, it's time for the Fantasy Football Focus

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Speaker 1: here Matt, and as we do every Friday, we will

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Speaker 1: put together our df S lineup. We always do it.

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Speaker 1: We always do a five dollar double up. We're not

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Speaker 1: doing this to win the money. We're just doing this

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Speaker 1: to help you people out. Yeah, we've had good success

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Speaker 1: and we are. There's eight teams we can't use, So

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Speaker 1: here we go. This is not gonna be easy. Let's

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Speaker 1: take a look at defenses. First, Yes, wonder what Dallas casts.

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Speaker 1: Dallas this week is actually the third highest defense at

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Speaker 1: Buffalo and Kansas City. I mean playing Denver, I guess

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Speaker 1: is good for anybody. Denvers members only scored twenty or

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Speaker 1: more points twice this year, and like it's been twenty

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Speaker 1: three points, twenty three and twenty points. They can't score

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Speaker 1: at all. Um I would consider Dallas then they're thirty

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Speaker 1: at hundred, the Broncos at twenty three hundred, the Giants

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Speaker 1: at hundred, the Jets at hundred, the Browns at twenty

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Speaker 1: six hundred. The Jaguars, the Browns not bad. They have dominated.

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Speaker 1: Like if you think Garrett's gonna own I mean he's

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Speaker 1: had success against them in his career and he probably

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Speaker 1: ends up with a sacker, so you know, But I

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Speaker 1: don't know Chase being back the way Burrows playing and

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Speaker 1: Chase played in the last the first time these two

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Speaker 1: teams played. Uh, Jaguars twenty seven hundreds of Steelers or

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Speaker 1: hundred might take the cheapest one out of Steelers Ravens.

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Speaker 1: That would be the Steelers at twenty eight hundred, the

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Speaker 1: Buccaneers twenty hundred to Lion the thirty three thousand, the

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Speaker 1: kind of like that. I mean, Brady doesn't take sacks

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Speaker 1: or turn them all over a lot, but they're not

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Speaker 1: gonna score a lot. The Ravens are thirty three hundred,

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Speaker 1: the Titans or thirty four hundred, The Bengals are thirty

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Speaker 1: Bills are four thousand. Steelers Ravens. I guess Monday nights

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Speaker 1: do that? No? I was thinking about the Patriots. I guess.

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Speaker 1: Monday night part of this. We don't on the Monday

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Speaker 1: night games. Just you want me to change a Sunday

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Speaker 1: only games. Stealers, Ravens, Niners. I think we're my favorite.

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Speaker 1: The Steelers were the cheapest of the ns for the buck.

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Speaker 1: Let's take the defense, still get points. They're not gonna

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Speaker 1: allow a time. Yeah, you know that's gonna be I

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Speaker 1: don't know. They'll be a lot of turnovers. But looking

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Speaker 1: at the tight ends, Kelsey is seventy six hundred. Let's

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Speaker 1: go get our cheap receiver first. Andrews just well, we

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Speaker 1: gotta find it. Andrews sixty. Dred T. J. Hawkinson is

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Speaker 1: fifty one hundred. Fire with hist Dalton Schultz is hundred.

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Speaker 1: George Kittle was dred for George Kittle. I mean he

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Speaker 1: has some one for twenty days or two for forty three,

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Speaker 1: but he's still George Kittle Uh and Joeku is thirty

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Speaker 1: Knox three hundred. Great Dulcitch is thirty four hundred. Uh

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Speaker 1: Daniel Bellinger dred he is back. Evan Ingram at thirty

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Speaker 1: They peppered him with targets at the end of that game.

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Speaker 1: I think he's gaining trust. Kittle were onton are exciting

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Speaker 1: to me? You will throw him in there? You know

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Speaker 1: we have extra money. We can spend ended there. But man,

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Speaker 1: that's he's gonna get seven targets. Yeah, right, might score. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: allows us to spend up elsewhere, which he had tet.

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Speaker 1: We may not even need to do a cheap receiver.

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Speaker 1: both gonna get a lot of targets cheap. Yeah. Looking

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Speaker 1: here at the cheap wide receivers. Look at the five

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Speaker 1: thousand's in less Tyler Boyd is five thousand. It sounds

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Speaker 1: like Higgins is gonna play yeah, but tight ends out.

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Speaker 1: George Pickens five thousand, The Squeaky Wheel, Yeah, Donovan People's Jones,

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Speaker 1: gonna start. You want he's gonna be on the field

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Speaker 1: a quarterback. Josh Allen is, Jalen Hurts is eighty one.

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Speaker 1: a good question, James. James Cook is kind of like

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Speaker 1: Jefferson is nine thousand, Digs is eight three hundred. A. J.

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Speaker 1: they're a bad defense and four for sixty five last

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Speaker 1: in sixty six fifty to spend here, Uh Slayton is

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Speaker 1: Tyler Boyd five thousand, we've already gone through. We could

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Speaker 1: afford a Christian Kirk. We could afford to go higher

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