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Speaker 1: List. Is The Drive with Dale Lolly and Matt Williamson

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Speaker 1: on you home of the Black and Gold Steelers Nation Radio.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Drive. I'm Dale Lolly with Matt Lames

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Speaker 1: and it's a Tuesday, but it's a bye week Tuesday.

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Speaker 1: Yeah about that. That means there was no Mike Tomlin

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Speaker 1: official press conference. He did, however, speak to the media.

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Speaker 1: I assumed he wouldn't. Lots of people spoke. Well, we

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Speaker 1: asked for him. I think, you know, a lot of

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Speaker 1: people wanted clarification on you know, had had he gotten

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Speaker 1: any kind of clarification from the league office about how

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Speaker 1: the game ended regulations. He said he did, was in

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Speaker 1: contact with the with the league officers, and I don't

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Speaker 1: still don't think he was happy with their explanation of

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Speaker 1: why the clock was stopped in that situation. Well, you

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Speaker 1: spelled it out yesterday. The thing that I didn't understand

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Speaker 1: at the time, which is mind boggling, is Swain the

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Speaker 1: seahawk spot of the football. Yes, that's the craziest part.

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Speaker 1: The official ran in and touched it, but Swain put

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Speaker 1: it down where he wanted to be. The official didn't

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Speaker 1: pick it back up. The soide though it's here. He

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Speaker 1: just ranted to put a finger on it, ran back

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Speaker 1: out like as opposed to picking it up, putting it

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Speaker 1: presumably in the right spot, which we have taken a

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Speaker 1: couple of seconds and the game's over, you know, right,

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Speaker 1: I mean, and I get it, you know, in that

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Speaker 1: situation the official wants things to be you know, you know,

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Speaker 1: you know, the hurrying up that's stole a little because

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Speaker 1: then you know, then Collinsworth and whoever, I can't who

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Speaker 1: does the games. I don't even whoever it was it was.

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Speaker 1: It was talking about well and they show the replay,

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Speaker 1: Well he spiked the football with two seconds left. Fine, yes, yeah,

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Speaker 1: no doubt about it. But the ball wasn't spotted properly.

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Speaker 1: It shouldn't have been too there to begin with, you know, yeah,

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Speaker 1: have officials on the field at all, it's like make it,

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Speaker 1: take it. We're just gonna officiate ourselves and you can

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Speaker 1: put it yet where everyone which is odd? Um? Is

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Speaker 1: that high on your list of most angry frustrated tom

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Speaker 1: One's been, especially post games. I don't ever recall him

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Speaker 1: being quite that. He was biting his tongue like to

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Speaker 1: not get a fine. I just couldn't just you know,

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Speaker 1: I think the whole thing could have been explained better

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Speaker 1: because I again I watched the broadcast and they weren't

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Speaker 1: explaining what was being watching it on TV. And no,

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Speaker 1: I didn't understand half of it. Yeah, they weren't explaining

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Speaker 1: what was being explained us in the in the press

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Speaker 1: box that they were looking at the catch. Yes, I

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Speaker 1: know Tomlin was not happy about that either, Like you

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Speaker 1: picked this time to review a catch after he took

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Speaker 1: four steps with the football. It didn't didn't reviewed. It

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Speaker 1: was definitely a play that and hey, they may get

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Speaker 1: the playoff and and and you know, even if the

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Speaker 1: official spots the ball correctly right, they find him for

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Speaker 1: they penalize the Seahawks for having guys running onto the field,

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Speaker 1: or you can have players running on and off the field.

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Speaker 1: But Russell Wilson's not in he's not playing in the game.

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Speaker 1: He's on the field yelling at Swain to get up

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Speaker 1: and tell him what to do. Right. I know that

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Speaker 1: never gets that never gets called. And I mentioned that yesterday,

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Speaker 1: But it still was an odd turn of events. The

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Speaker 1: whole thing was just keystone compish. It was it was,

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Speaker 1: and it wasn't done properly when it was all said

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Speaker 1: and done, they screwed up, you know, and it could

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Speaker 1: have cost us. It's a game it could have and

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Speaker 1: it didn't. It didn't. And you know, I'm not you know,

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Speaker 1: even if it had it was it was not the

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Speaker 1: That's not the reason why or anything. There are other

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Speaker 1: issues throughout the For a league that it makes billions

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Speaker 1: with a b of dollars to not be able to

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Speaker 1: get stuff like that correct. Yeah, it's a it's just

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Speaker 1: a bad look. It's a bad look. And officiating the

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Speaker 1: last couple of weeks has been pretty rough around the league,

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Speaker 1: and I know it's I don't know, I assume it's

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Speaker 1: the hardest sport in the league, in the world to officiate.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's not baseball, where you know, you you

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Speaker 1: can you can relax. For a basketball there's ten guys

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Speaker 1: foul wrong, it's a maybe it's a two point play

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Speaker 1: or whatever. Football there's twenty two guys out there on

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's never gonna be perfect. It could be better, though,

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Speaker 1: And one of the things that just makes me. Insane

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Speaker 1: is we still have two dudes on the sidelines holding

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Speaker 1: and an official, And that's something we don't not even

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Speaker 1: talk about this play. I'm just talking in general spotting

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Speaker 1: the football the last night's game. For example, where did

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Speaker 1: for the sticks? Right right right? You know they spotted it,

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Speaker 1: you know, a little short? Is that really where the

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Speaker 1: official who's highly trained often is not, you know, directly

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Speaker 1: where the football lands. You're you're not as fast as

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Speaker 1: these guys. You're trying to look like I think the

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Speaker 1: football landed here, and just randomly pick a spot. And

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Speaker 1: you randomly pick a spot and then two dudes run

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Speaker 1: out with this chain and says, oh no, you're a

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Speaker 1: foot short right. It's bonkers to me. Ye okay, bring

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Speaker 1: out the chains. These two run out, you know like goo.

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Speaker 1: With the technology that we have available today, why not

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Speaker 1: why can't they put uh ball right right? I mean,

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Speaker 1: even if it's just for the goal line, did it

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Speaker 1: break it? Playing? You know what I mean? You can

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Speaker 1: of censors there in the pylons. Yeah, and those those

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Speaker 1: pylon camp's help. I get it, But the still the

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Speaker 1: spotting of the football is I bet they get it wrong.

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Speaker 1: In the stick? Did he cross the went off? He crossed?

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Speaker 1: He crossed? It all matters, put them on both tips

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Speaker 1: And I'm not the first one that came up with

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Speaker 1: this complaint either. You know, just the spotting of the

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Speaker 1: football is so random. I mean, these guys think about

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Speaker 1: how the how many challenges that would take out of

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Speaker 1: a game. Yeah, you know how many times you see

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Speaker 1: you know, well the red light goes on? Twenty guys

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Speaker 1: in there, did he cross? Did he cross the goal line?

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Speaker 1: Did you get over the first down line? Well, we

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Speaker 1: know we marked them short and you look at you

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Speaker 1: can't really tell. So we gotta we gotta take it

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Speaker 1: where they spotted it. Yeah, because there's so many human

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Speaker 1: this for certain, but I think when the puck crosses

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Speaker 1: the line, a red light goes on automatically. It used

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Speaker 1: I think it's it, does it automatically am not positive

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Speaker 1: he's lived with it. And that's kind of the same thing.

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Speaker 1: And we're seeing that you're not in baseball. You're seeing

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Speaker 1: them go to the uh behind. You know, you've got

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Speaker 1: an umpire behind the plate because he's got to make

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Speaker 1: calls at the plate. He's not calling the balls of strikes. Now,

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Speaker 1: there have been some incidents where you know that's gone awry.

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Speaker 1: You know, obviously they're they're still gonna be situations. I

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Speaker 1: was like, not even close the umpires like he calls

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Speaker 1: him out and he guy looks at the umpire. He's like, airs,

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Speaker 1: I get overruled on this, right, But and I don't

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Speaker 1: mind a human element of inficiating in general. But if

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Speaker 1: it can be better, make it better. Yeah, And for

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Speaker 1: whatever reason, the NFL continues to see to be kicking

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Speaker 1: and screaming. They don't want the eye in the sky,

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Speaker 1: they don't want to. I don't know they we're gonna

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Speaker 1: see that's so terrible. Yeah, anyway, in that situation, if

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Speaker 1: you could see from the press box he caught the

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Speaker 1: freaking football. He took four steps with the football. You know,

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Speaker 1: they weren't looking at whether he stepped out of bounds

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Speaker 1: He took four steps with it, which allowed the kicker

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Speaker 1: I know that part bothered tom One too, right, I mean,

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Speaker 1: was I think he said something like, and you picked

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Speaker 1: the now to review a call. You know that that

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Speaker 1: didn't need reviewed. Nobody cares. If it's the second quarter

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Speaker 1: with eight minutes ron nine o'clock, we'll go to commercial.

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Speaker 1: This really doesn't need reviewed. But we see this all

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Speaker 1: the time. You kind of took some of the human

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Speaker 1: element out of that play. You turned it into a

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Speaker 1: second quarter field goal. Yeah, instead of the adrenaline Russian Okay,

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Speaker 1: even if they snap it and spike it with one

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Speaker 1: second left, and that's what they You know that they

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Speaker 1: gave him that, But people practice that. That's hard to do, right.

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Speaker 1: be there. Everybody's gotta be sad. You know, you can't

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Speaker 1: they're gonna they're gonna spike this. We can walk out

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Speaker 1: onto the field. You know, yeah, time again, you had time. Okay,

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Speaker 1: it's twenty hurry, I can look at it. Here's what

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Speaker 1: I mean. It's gonna be a thirty two yard or

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Speaker 1: or whatever it was. You know, there's no urgent stuff.

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Speaker 1: It's not just I gotta run like crazy, swing my

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Speaker 1: legs fast I can and get this thing through the uprights. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: But anyway, I mean that all worked out. Well. We'll

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Speaker 1: But it was an odd turn of events, and you

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Speaker 1: don't see coach Tomlin act that way very often. And boy,

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Speaker 1: he was holding back the best he could. He have

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Speaker 1: anything else good to say today? He was asked about

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Speaker 1: stuff on to it. Uh, said, really, nothing new to

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Speaker 1: report there in terms of you know, he's not going

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Speaker 1: You know. He could be next week, it could be

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Speaker 1: three weeks from now. He's not going to say it

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Speaker 1: before it happens. Yeah, he's not gonna put a time

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Speaker 1: frame on it. I mean, they didn't announce that that

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Speaker 1: Zack Banner was going to start practicing again. They didn't

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Speaker 1: announce that Anthony McFarlane he just went out to practice.

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Speaker 1: All there. They are, They are that kind of thing.

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Speaker 1: I guess there's no reason, especially in to it's case.

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Speaker 1: I mean that's the thing behind the closed doors. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: he's got talked to some people in the organization who

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Speaker 1: were hopeful that it would come he would start practicing

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Speaker 1: at least during not this week because the only practice,

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Speaker 1: yeah they have that four days off. But they were

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Speaker 1: hopeful that maybe next week they start the clock rolling

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Speaker 1: have setbacks with that. Uh. Speaking of which, did you

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Speaker 1: Ronnie Stanley and then they put them down, They shut

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Speaker 1: don't want that's the bad example of it. I mean

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Speaker 1: you're working on your on your game plan, yeah, you

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Speaker 1: know by Friday practice at all there you know by

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Speaker 1: Friday there back outs there. So again they're sharing the

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Speaker 1: spot outside and McLeod's getting all the snaps in the slot.

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Speaker 1: Doesn't mean and this is you know that's what Hill

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Speaker 1: you would say, That doesn't mean that's what it's going

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Speaker 1: to be moving forward. Those guys weren't healthy though, a right,

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Speaker 1: we couldn't use them all week, right, I'll be interesting

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Speaker 1: how they use them going forward. I would certainly bet

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Speaker 1: Washington outslaps snaps McCleod he has all season, he has everybody.

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Speaker 1: This is a new developed people, you know, I looked

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Speaker 1: it up today Washington's out snapped him one. And that's

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Speaker 1: with Raybraam McLeod out snapping Washington sight the last two weeks,

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Speaker 1: right right, You know Washington has gotten more of the snaps. Yes,

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Speaker 1: you know they liked him better. Yeah, they think he's

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Speaker 1: better too. Um. Yeah, and the snap counts don't lie

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Speaker 1: in some of these instances. There's some context involved this

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Speaker 1: game aside, McLeod got a very heavy amount of snaps

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Speaker 1: when somebody got hurt mid game, you know, and he

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Speaker 1: was gonna he's active, you know, right, So okay, you

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Speaker 1: fill in emergency situation to forty snaps there, forty snaps

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Speaker 1: the next game, but the game's this one. Aside, you

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Speaker 1: knew Claypool wasn't playing, or you knew Deonte wasn't playing,

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Speaker 1: Washington out snapped him handily. Yeah, you know, when you

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Speaker 1: when you prepare for it that way. And you even

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Speaker 1: mentioned this yesterday that you wouldn't have if I correct

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Speaker 1: me if I'm wrong the way said it, but you

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Speaker 1: said something like, I wouldn't be shocked if juju, if

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Speaker 1: all the receivers were totally healthy, Washington might not even

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Speaker 1: address yesterday because he's not healthy, you know what I mean?

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Speaker 1: He just wasn't a hundred anywhere near a hundred percent,

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Speaker 1: you know. Now you get an extra by a week.

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Speaker 1: The growing injuries that the growing gang should be all,

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Speaker 1: they should be back to closer to h good. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: so that's that's been something that they've struggled with early

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Speaker 1: in this season. I got one real quick one here.

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Speaker 1: I just saw Adam Schefter tweeted up from Von Miller

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Speaker 1: talking about Thursday nights game against the Browns. Uh, he's

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Speaker 1: gonna be lining up against Eric delay de Lalla is

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Speaker 1: going to be familiar right tackle. I guess for the

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Speaker 1: Browns in that game because they've got three tackles down.

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Speaker 1: They get all kinds of injuries. And Von Miller said,

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Speaker 1: I don't know who the tackle I'm going against is,

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Speaker 1: but I'm going to kill him. And Miller has been

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Speaker 1: a little quiet, you know, coming to the Stealer game.

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Speaker 1: He was lightening people up. These last two weeks have

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Speaker 1: not gone well for Denver or Von They need a

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Speaker 1: leader like that to take over or a mess. Browns

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Speaker 1: are a mess. Yeah, man, proud love and yeah, both

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Speaker 1: those teams. Yeah, it's time for the It's Power Rankings day. Okay,

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Speaker 1: we'll go over all the power there. Yeah, really there

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Speaker 1: were really was see where the Browns fell to. They

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Speaker 1: were very high early in the season, not so much

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Speaker 1: last night. Right, so we'll see what everything looks like.

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Speaker 1: They're when we take a look at the nfl dot

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Speaker 1: Com power rankings. We'll do that right after this. He

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Speaker 1: is Matt Williams and I'm Dale Lolly. You're listening to

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