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Speaker 1: Welcome back. I am Dale Lolly. He is the Matt

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Speaker 1: Williamson and it is time for the Fantasy football focus

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Speaker 1: here to kick up. Let's do a little fantasy football focus.

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Speaker 1: Then we'll take a little preview of the top prospects

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Speaker 1: in tonight's castional championship games. Uh so, our DFS lineup,

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Speaker 1: we finished in twenty seventh place.

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Speaker 2: Love of how many out of it was like three

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Speaker 2: hundred and something. Take that money, Take those apples.

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Speaker 1: Finished easily in the money, in the money two hundred

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Speaker 1: and twenty eight actually, but easily in the money. So

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Speaker 1: we just had to finish in a top one hundred

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Speaker 1: of this one to do that ten percent or so. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: hit on Josh Allen twelve point seven percent ownership, he

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Speaker 1: got us twenty nine point oh six points.

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Speaker 2: I was a little nervous on that. We put a

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Speaker 2: lot of chips in the Josh Allen mean he was

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Speaker 2: pricing and yeah he.

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Speaker 1: Paid for a bit of fight off. Twenty nine points

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Speaker 1: six points for him. Our running back duo really carried

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Speaker 1: it though. Okay, James Connor twenty six point three percent ownership,

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Speaker 1: so he was kind of chalky, but certenty three point

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Speaker 2: He's been really good lately. That offense has been really

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Speaker 2: good lately.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. One hundred and fifty rushing yards in that game.

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Speaker 1: Just yeah, we put our money or release put our

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Speaker 1: money where my mouth was when I said Derrick Henry

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Speaker 1: was going to have a good game against the Jaguars

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Speaker 1: and he did. Only four point four percent ownership with him.

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Speaker 2: It's so frising be a little higher than that. I

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Speaker 2: guess they were a dog and on the road, or

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Speaker 2: not on the road, but a dog with a guy

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Speaker 2: that doesn't catch passes.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, one hundred and fifty three rushing yards in a

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Speaker 1: touchdown that gets you twenty four point three points.

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Speaker 2: So real quick? How telling or odd was it that

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Speaker 2: he gets the microphone at the end of the game

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Speaker 2: and starts addressing the crowd like they know? I mean, like,

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Speaker 2: is it just that apparent the changes are coming that

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Speaker 2: there's no chance he's gonna come back, or is he

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Speaker 2: were hiring? Like you don't see that with guys that

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Speaker 2: are under contract or just be a free agent.

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Speaker 1: To be honestly, I think that's why they didn't trade him.

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Speaker 1: You know, he's you know, an all time Oh yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: you know, he's right up there with jerseys in those stands. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: so you know, you want you want to give that

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Speaker 1: guy the opportunity to say goodbye. And I mean they probably.

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Speaker 2: Does everyone just know it's done. I mean sounds that way.

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Speaker 1: Maybe he knows. Maybe he went to them and said,

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Speaker 1: I don't want to be here for a rebuild.

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Speaker 2: No, I get it at this stage of his career.

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Speaker 1: Go to Dallas. He can go to Dallas or you know,

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Speaker 1: in the city, or let's say, you know wherever Belichick

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Speaker 1: winds up at. He would be a perfect kind of

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Speaker 1: Belichick about Baltimore.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he's better than Dalvin Cook and Melvin Gordon and

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Speaker 2: some of those former good players.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, there's a lot of places that could use Derrick Henry. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: they were only like I didn't look at the final

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Speaker 2: As long as he prices himself properly and realizes he's

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Speaker 2: not the same king Henry leading the league.

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Speaker 1: Get another back that you compare him another pass catching back.

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Speaker 2: And the Pollard or Mitchell, and you know, wherever.

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Speaker 1: He showed he can still get it done. I mean,

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Speaker 1: he finished second in the league in rushing this year.

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Speaker 2: Henry was second. Henry was soucond I would have thought

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Speaker 2: he was like fifth or six.

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Speaker 1: No, there were. We ended up with twelve one thousand

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Speaker 1: yard backs this season in the league. McCaffrey was number

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Speaker 1: one with fourteen fifty nine. Henry finished second with eleven

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Speaker 1: sixty seven.

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Speaker 2: Wow, Kyram Williams. Did Henry play all seventeen?

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Speaker 1: I think so he did? Kyram Williams eleven forty four.

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Speaker 2: He didn't play.

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Speaker 1: Also, he didn't he only played twelve games. James Cook,

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Speaker 1: who the Steelers will see this weekend, eleven twenty two.

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Speaker 1: DeAndre Swift ten thousand or one thousand and forty nine,

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Speaker 1: pretty pretty good. Yeah, a lot of it lately. Then

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Speaker 1: you have Nauseie Harris seventh with one thousand and thirty five.

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Speaker 2: But again your earlier point about an hour ago. He

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Speaker 2: didn't want to do this three years in a row. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: and it's not as easy as you think.

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Speaker 1: Then it was Joe Mixon, David Montgomery got there, Raheem

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Speaker 2: You think Apollar's having a disappointing season, but he did

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Speaker 1: Well, the key to me and I had this conversation

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Speaker 1: with with with somebody who was tweeting out yesterday that

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Speaker 1: you know, James Connor is a better runner than Naujie Harris.

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Speaker 1: It's never been about the running or the way that

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Speaker 1: James Connor runs the football might be.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I think that's a debate with Connor.

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Speaker 1: It's it's about the availability, right, And you can't discount

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Speaker 1: the fact that Nausea Harris is available every single game.

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Speaker 2: It's been one of Harris's best strengths and it's probably

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Speaker 2: the number one negative in Connor's career.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean his last year here in Pittsburgh, there

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Speaker 1: were three games where he was questionable to play all

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Speaker 1: week long. They got him ready, he said, okay, I'm

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Speaker 2: See, that's what I was going to say. And it's

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Speaker 2: not because he's not tough, or he's not a team

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Speaker 2: you don't have four or five of them available. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: you've gotten there. You've got three at most. That's a

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Speaker 2: hard thing to overcome. Early in the game. I thought

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Speaker 2: I could go it took two hits. Now I'm out

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Speaker 2: like a man.

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Speaker 1: I got a killer.

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Speaker 2: I can't do that over a killer.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, so he got us nice game for Uce.

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Speaker 1: Dereck Henry had a nice game for Uce. Jayden Reid

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Speaker 1: eighteen point two points out of him.

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Speaker 2: He's really good.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, he's at legit. Yeah. Four catches for one hundred

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Speaker 1: and twelve yards. Wandel Robinson paid out for us there.

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Speaker 1: Jane Reeve was five point seven percent ownership. By the way,

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Speaker 1: Wandel Robinson was eight point eight percent ownership. We got

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Speaker 1: thirteen and a half points out of him.

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Speaker 2: They're feeding him, I mean, and Tim and Taylor have

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Speaker 2: a little something going there.

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Speaker 1: Our worst start ended up being Jamar Chase.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and we paid for it no figure. Yeah we could.

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Speaker 1: We could have gone with Nico Collins. Did we just smashed?

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Speaker 1: We might have won the whole thing. Yeah, because Chase

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Speaker 2: That was not I paid very little attention to that game.

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Speaker 2: Did they start pulling him with a big lead.

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Speaker 1: I think they did it. They get up, They got

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Speaker 1: up early, end up with four catches for nineteen years.

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Speaker 1: Dalton Schultz at eighteen percent ownership, got us five catches

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Speaker 2: Which was fine, fine, good night.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Uh. Then our flex play a Dalton Kincaid, Well,

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Speaker 1: that paid off seven for eighty four.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah's a good player.

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Speaker 1: Seven percent ownership. The Steelers gonna have to deal with

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Speaker 1: that this week as well. And the Bengals.

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Speaker 2: Defense Collins called them a hot young tight end. I

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Speaker 2: heard that immediately bruced my ears up.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, the Bengals defense was zonning. Fourteen percent of leagues

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Speaker 1: got us eight points.

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Speaker 2: Okay, I think there were some garbage time Browns.

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Speaker 1: The Browns scored a couple of touchdowns late.

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Speaker 2: I thought that number'd be bigger than eight and then yeah,

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Speaker 2: they scored at the end, but it didn't matter at all. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: so no, good maark overall quite well.

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Speaker 1: I think for the season we were we were above five.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and we'll continue to do that through the playoffs.

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Speaker 1: That's a great thing about DFS.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's fun. And oh, by the way, some people

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Speaker 2: rode our cottails this season, and they did once again

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Speaker 2: this past week with some winners. Nice.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think six six six other guys who had

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Speaker 1: the same exact lineup as us.

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Speaker 2: Oka makes me feel better on the test we didn't win.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely glad to be able to do.

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Speaker 2: That's what we're here ship in anyway, service right.

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Speaker 1: Moving on here looking at tonight's National championship game. This

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Speaker 1: according to Pro Football Focus, how they have these guys

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Speaker 1: ranked Okay for draft. Yes, their number one prospect in

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Speaker 1: tonight's game is quarterback Michael Pennix. They have him on

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Speaker 1: their big board is number nineteen position ranking number four.

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Speaker 2: Okay was splitting hairs, but I would have his receiver

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Speaker 2: ahead of him. But I get it. He's a quarterback quarterback.

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Speaker 2: He's very impressive, great deep ball. He reminds me Philip Rivers.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I mean that is a massive compliment. His

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Speaker 2: knees are going to be an issue. But some of

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Speaker 2: the draftnicks I've heard that I trust that are in

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Speaker 2: the loop Dane guys like that Kiper talking about more

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Speaker 1: I love him.

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Speaker 2: He's going to top ten. I love him. If you

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Speaker 2: want this guy, you better be picking.

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Speaker 1: This is a guy. He started his career out of Indiana.

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Speaker 1: This is six year with Indiana. Took Indiana into Penn State,

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Speaker 1: into state college, and beat Penn State with Indiana.

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Speaker 2: With an, I'm they're still Indiana recruits.

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Speaker 1: Yes, not with Washington's receivers, with Indiana.

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Speaker 2: Washington's three NFL receivers.

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Speaker 1: And so that that's impressive to me.

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Speaker 2: He's very impressive. Great pastor of the football, tough as

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Speaker 2: can be, not as mobile, you know as again, he

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Speaker 2: reminds me of Philip Rivers.

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Speaker 1: M Blake Koram.

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Speaker 2: That's our second best prospect.

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Speaker 1: I think I think they're picking up somebody at each position. Okay, okay.

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Speaker 1: Running back Blake Corham big Board ranking of ninety one

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Speaker 1: position ranking and number two kind of shows you where

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Speaker 1: the running back this year. He's a good back. He is.

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Speaker 2: He's small, Yeah, he's he's a smart, he's compact.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, he's like to he's like kind of built like McCaffrey.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, he bounces off.

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Speaker 1: He's not a eight chain type, a chan type guy. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Wide receiver. You mentioned Dunez A Romaduzier seventh on their

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Speaker 1: big Board, number three at the position. Though they get

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Speaker 1: three receive they got two other receivers ranked in their

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Speaker 1: top seven.

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Speaker 2: Harris Sarrison and I'm sure it's neighbors with LSU. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: but there's I think five receivers could go in the

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Speaker 2: top thirteen or fourteen.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean this stacked group. He's good.

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Speaker 2: He's really good.

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Speaker 1: He's really good, big, physical.

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Speaker 2: I think he's probably the first pick out of this

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Speaker 2: off the board in this game. But his quarterback is

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Speaker 2: a quarterback, the quarterbacks quarterback. Yeah, and if he tests,

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Speaker 2: if his red flag knee stuff isn't as big a

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Speaker 2: problem and he hasn't been hurt for two years, he's

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Speaker 2: gonna go high. It basically go high.

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Speaker 1: If Washington wins the game tonight, it's because their receiver

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Speaker 1: group was too much for Michigan to handle.

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Speaker 1: Aj Barner from Michigan number four to position number one,

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Speaker 1: Troy Fatanu from Washington number seven at the position.

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Speaker 1: On the interior offensive line, the pick is Drake Nugent,

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Speaker 2: Or like the Steelers have been doing with rookies, you

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Speaker 2: That is much more of a conversation.

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Speaker 2: You're gonna be the guards at some point, Like, I

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Speaker 1: It doesn't have to be a true center exactly, draft exactly.

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Speaker 2: And make the puzzle work.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but yeah, Drake Nugent, I watch them.

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Speaker 2: I don't know much about him.

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Speaker 1: Number ten at their center position, number one thirty eight overall,

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Speaker 1: So they have ten centers in their top one thirty

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Speaker 2: That's interesting. I don't think any you're projecting the first round.

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Speaker 2: Picks, which is great. Is where you want to be. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: West Virginia's got a guy that's hurt. Georgia's got a

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Speaker 2: supposed to be a good center draft. It's not a

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Speaker 2: pouncy coming out.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: One thing the Michigan line. They're always right there with

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Speaker 2: I don't know who he is, but is highly highly respected.

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Speaker 1: To interior defensive linemen. They have Chris Jenkins from Michigan.

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Speaker 1: He is number three at the position, but number fifty

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, the C.

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Speaker 1: He's with the K as well.

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Speaker 2: They're both k's. They're both case Oka more of a

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Speaker 2: looks like a Day two dude. Yeah, we'll see.

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Speaker 1: But it's telling again that there are only three defensive

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Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, who we're going with that? It's a bad

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Speaker 1: Edge rusher Braylan Trice from Washington, player number five at

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Speaker 2: The book on him is more brute force, you know,

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Speaker 1: You know.

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Speaker 2: He's not a narrow wasted, skinny bendy edge basketball looking place.

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Speaker 1: At linebacker Junior Colson from Michigan. He is number one

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Speaker 1: thirty overall on their big board, number six at the position.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, people like him a lot. Test Well, I don't

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Speaker 1: Yeah, at cornerback, you're looking at Mike Sarin.

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Speaker 2: Still he's interested for the Steelers. He's a slot. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Number twenty at the position, number one fifty six overall.

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Speaker 2: tough guy. I think he's a team captain. The Michigan

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Speaker 1: He picks this year.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it makes a lot of players.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so that's one to keep it eye.

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Speaker 2: Don't run super great or you know.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. And then at safety it is Rod Moore from Michigan,

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Speaker 2: I don't know that that name. I've seen a lot

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Speaker 1: Had a I guess an interception against Ohio State to

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Speaker 2: They have a height and weight on him or they

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Speaker 2: Mean, I think that's the dude behind Rome is supposed

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Speaker 2: He could go in the second round. Yeah. The other

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Speaker 1: Yeah, So keep an eye on all those and it

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Speaker 1: should be a good game.

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Speaker 2: I'm excited about it too.

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Speaker 1: listeners to the show know that we talk a lot

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Speaker 1: about the DVOA rankings on the FTN Fantasy. Well, now

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Speaker 1: they're done for the year, Okay, so let's take a

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Speaker 1: look and see where everything kind of came out there.

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Speaker 1: We talked about the previous segment where we'll be right

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Speaker 1: these teams in terms of the sure the rankings and everything.

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Speaker 1: Steelers finished ninth overall overall. They were eleventh going into

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Speaker 2: They were thirteenth last year. Last year they had to

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Speaker 2: With that, and so you know, I think everyone tended

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Speaker 2: that adds up. Yeah, Ravens twice, Browns twice, and.

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Speaker 1: The Steelers couldn't play themselves because they finished sixth in DVO.

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Speaker 2: Defense defensively six okay, so takeaways are a big part

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Speaker 1: With all the all the guys that they were missing,

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, Cam Menca at different times. I mean, how

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Speaker 1: It was like a game and a half.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, so not to mention all the safety and

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so six pretty good.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, sixth, They'll take six all day long.

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Speaker 1: Number one was Baltimore. They were five last year defense

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Speaker 1: And you beat that team twice. Beat that team to

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Speaker 1: You beat that team twice.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and the Ravens had some real signature wins against

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Speaker 1: Number two San Francisco good good, they were three last year.

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Speaker 1: They finished number one on offense, number four on defense.

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Speaker 1: Number three is Buffalo.

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Speaker 2: Doesn't surprise me.

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Speaker 2: some injuries, you know. Yeah.

443
00:19:33,680 --> 00:19:38,720
Speaker 1: Number four is Dallas. Dallas finished seventh last year, ninth

444
00:19:38,760 --> 00:19:40,360
Speaker 1: on offense, fifth on defense.

445
00:19:41,320 --> 00:19:43,080
Speaker 2: I would have thought they were better on offense, but

446
00:19:43,400 --> 00:19:44,280
Speaker 2: didn't run the ball great.

447
00:19:44,320 --> 00:19:49,600
Speaker 1: Yeah. Number five Kansas City still Kansas City was four

448
00:19:49,760 --> 00:19:50,359
Speaker 1: last year.

449
00:19:50,640 --> 00:19:53,240
Speaker 2: I'm just curious, is there a decent gap between Dallas

450
00:19:53,240 --> 00:19:54,000
Speaker 2: and Kansas City.

451
00:19:54,080 --> 00:19:54,840
Speaker 1: No, not really.

452
00:19:54,960 --> 00:19:59,439
Speaker 2: Is there a decent gap between San fran and Buffalo, Yes, okay,

453
00:19:59,640 --> 00:20:01,400
Speaker 2: they were clearly one and two.

454
00:20:00,880 --> 00:20:04,400
Speaker 1: About fifteen percentage played, ok Yeah, and then the gap

455
00:20:04,400 --> 00:20:08,639
Speaker 1: between Buffalo, Dallas and Kansas City not quite at the time. Yeah.

456
00:20:08,760 --> 00:20:13,160
Speaker 1: So Kansas City finished eighth on offense, wow, seventh on defense.

457
00:20:13,280 --> 00:20:15,360
Speaker 1: Their defense played better than their offense.

458
00:20:15,080 --> 00:20:17,640
Speaker 2: This year that I knew, I would have guessed their

459
00:20:17,640 --> 00:20:21,600
Speaker 2: offense was sixteenth. It finished ahead of Dallas offensively.

460
00:20:21,680 --> 00:20:23,080
Speaker 1: Yeah, Dallas couldn't run the ball.

461
00:20:23,160 --> 00:20:26,280
Speaker 2: No, at least they were more well rounded Kansas City.

462
00:20:27,080 --> 00:20:32,280
Speaker 2: Number six is Miami. Miami finished, did it? They've had

463
00:20:32,320 --> 00:20:33,280
Speaker 2: some real high points.

464
00:20:33,280 --> 00:20:38,120
Speaker 1: They were eighth last year. They finished second on offense,

465
00:20:38,840 --> 00:20:40,040
Speaker 1: nineteenth on defense.

466
00:20:40,600 --> 00:20:41,959
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's that up.

467
00:20:42,160 --> 00:20:42,320
Speaker 1: Yeah.

468
00:20:42,400 --> 00:20:43,919
Speaker 2: I mean over the course of the year, I mean,

469
00:20:44,320 --> 00:20:45,440
Speaker 2: seventy point game.

470
00:20:47,080 --> 00:20:49,200
Speaker 1: And everybody looked at them, all that's the best offensive league.

471
00:20:49,240 --> 00:20:51,320
Speaker 2: Well not really, no, really, not really, but it still

472
00:20:51,320 --> 00:20:52,960
Speaker 2: was pretty good. Yeah. Start finished.

473
00:20:53,200 --> 00:20:56,560
Speaker 1: Number seven was Detroit. They finished ninth last year. That's

474
00:20:56,600 --> 00:20:59,359
Speaker 1: where the Steelers finished this year. If you're in a

475
00:20:59,400 --> 00:21:01,560
Speaker 1: Detroit like path, yeah, there you go, you'd take that.

476
00:21:02,200 --> 00:21:05,040
Speaker 1: Detroit finished fifth on offense. Thirteenth on defense.

477
00:21:06,000 --> 00:21:07,600
Speaker 2: Defense was really rough there for a while, and they

478
00:21:07,640 --> 00:21:10,080
Speaker 2: seemed to be turning around. Yeah, okay, I would bet

479
00:21:10,119 --> 00:21:12,240
Speaker 2: it's a big defensive all season still for them.

480
00:21:12,600 --> 00:21:13,679
Speaker 1: Then there's a big gap.

481
00:21:14,560 --> 00:21:16,320
Speaker 2: Yeah, I shouldn't think who would be next to me?

482
00:21:16,520 --> 00:21:19,399
Speaker 1: So because if you look at it, so he's not

483
00:21:19,440 --> 00:21:21,760
Speaker 1: in there. Buffalo was plus twenty four point one or

484
00:21:21,800 --> 00:21:24,920
Speaker 1: twenty four point one percent, Dallas nineteen point one, Case

485
00:21:25,119 --> 00:21:29,800
Speaker 1: seventeen point nine, Miami seventeen point six, Detroit seventeen point zero.

486
00:21:29,920 --> 00:21:31,920
Speaker 2: So those last four are really close. Yeah.

487
00:21:32,000 --> 00:21:34,360
Speaker 1: Then you go down to Cleveland at eight point eight.

488
00:21:34,840 --> 00:21:38,880
Speaker 1: Cleveland finished tenth last year, okay, twenty eighth on offense

489
00:21:39,760 --> 00:21:42,440
Speaker 1: and second on defense.

490
00:21:42,680 --> 00:21:46,119
Speaker 2: See, I think Cleveland's really bad and like success rate, Well,

491
00:21:46,160 --> 00:21:49,320
Speaker 2: the turnovers are killing two. Yeah, they're they're real high variants.

492
00:21:49,400 --> 00:21:52,840
Speaker 2: They have some big plays both run and passed, but

493
00:21:53,040 --> 00:21:55,280
Speaker 2: down to down they're not great on offense.

494
00:21:55,400 --> 00:21:55,600
Speaker 1: Yeah.

495
00:21:55,640 --> 00:21:57,360
Speaker 2: Yeah, where were they on defense? One or two?

496
00:21:57,359 --> 00:21:59,720
Speaker 1: So they were two too, Okay, So I mean that's

497
00:21:59,840 --> 00:22:02,640
Speaker 1: so far that's the biggest gap of any team. You're

498
00:22:02,640 --> 00:22:04,240
Speaker 1: not going to get much bigger than that anyways.

499
00:22:04,320 --> 00:22:07,280
Speaker 2: Yeah, right between twenty eight two that's a huge shot.

500
00:22:07,359 --> 00:22:10,520
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I'd love to see, Like I wish they

501
00:22:10,520 --> 00:22:15,320
Speaker 1: broke this down by home road. Yeah, I'll bet Cleveland's

502
00:22:15,359 --> 00:22:17,960
Speaker 1: I bet the Cleveland offenses. Well, they scored more points

503
00:22:18,000 --> 00:22:20,440
Speaker 1: on the road because they had to, but they also

504
00:22:20,520 --> 00:22:23,000
Speaker 1: gave up a lot more points on efficient Yeah. Dallas

505
00:22:23,000 --> 00:22:25,639
Speaker 1: would be the other one. Yeah, right, well Miami to

506
00:22:25,680 --> 00:22:26,200
Speaker 1: a certain.

507
00:22:26,080 --> 00:22:30,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, Miami as well. Miami not getting home field advantage huge,

508
00:22:31,480 --> 00:22:32,520
Speaker 2: I think you're in a break trouble.

509
00:22:33,359 --> 00:22:35,800
Speaker 1: So Cleveland was eight point eight. The Steelers are then

510
00:22:35,920 --> 00:22:38,520
Speaker 1: ninth at seven point eight. That close, so it's not

511
00:22:38,600 --> 00:22:41,400
Speaker 1: that not that far off. The Steelers finished thirteenth last year,

512
00:22:41,400 --> 00:22:44,160
Speaker 1: as I said, fifteenth on offense, sixth on defense.

513
00:22:44,840 --> 00:22:47,680
Speaker 2: Clevelanded up with eleven wins, right, yeah, they got beat yesterday. Yeah.

514
00:22:47,720 --> 00:22:53,640
Speaker 1: Yeah at ten is Jacksonville four point four. So there's

515
00:22:53,640 --> 00:22:56,600
Speaker 1: a pretty decent gap, you know, over a three point

516
00:22:56,600 --> 00:22:57,399
Speaker 1: gap there between.

517
00:22:57,560 --> 00:22:57,800
Speaker 2: Yeah.

518
00:22:59,160 --> 00:23:03,520
Speaker 1: Lately, No, they finished eighteenth on offense, tenth on defense.

519
00:23:04,240 --> 00:23:06,720
Speaker 2: Okay, I mean they're to me there the middle of

520
00:23:06,720 --> 00:23:10,359
Speaker 2: the right to the start of the mediocre pile. Yeah,

521
00:23:10,600 --> 00:23:12,480
Speaker 2: but it was much better earlier in the.

522
00:23:12,520 --> 00:23:16,680
Speaker 1: Year then is Cincinnati. Cincinnati finished sixth last year, their

523
00:23:16,680 --> 00:23:20,560
Speaker 1: eleventh this year. Eleventh on offense, which is kind of surprising.

524
00:23:20,640 --> 00:23:23,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, Yeah, twenty third on the brown stuff was good.

525
00:23:23,440 --> 00:23:25,240
Speaker 2: There was a stretch there with Borrow was pretty good

526
00:23:25,600 --> 00:23:26,880
Speaker 2: late on a bat on d though.

527
00:23:26,960 --> 00:23:31,440
Speaker 1: Yeah, twenty third on defense. Then Houston at twelve. Houston

528
00:23:31,520 --> 00:23:32,920
Speaker 1: was thirty first last year.

529
00:23:33,400 --> 00:23:35,680
Speaker 2: Cool, that's a big you talk about team Joe in

530
00:23:35,720 --> 00:23:38,680
Speaker 2: the right direction. Yeah, So I heard an interesting conversation

531
00:23:38,800 --> 00:23:44,919
Speaker 2: about Jacksonville at this point of last year felt just

532
00:23:45,040 --> 00:23:48,040
Speaker 2: like Houston does. Now. Yeah, you got your young quarterback,

533
00:23:48,080 --> 00:23:50,080
Speaker 2: You're out of the dul drums that were there before,

534
00:23:50,560 --> 00:23:52,720
Speaker 2: and then they crashed and burned. Yeah, they were choking

535
00:23:52,760 --> 00:23:54,880
Speaker 2: a big Yeah, you can you sustain it? Yeah, that's

536
00:23:54,880 --> 00:23:57,040
Speaker 2: the tough part. That's what sort of thing, right when

537
00:23:57,040 --> 00:23:58,879
Speaker 2: I talk about the Steelers, you know, with the with

538
00:23:58,960 --> 00:24:01,400
Speaker 2: the twenty year winning, like, that's the tough thing.

539
00:24:01,560 --> 00:24:04,040
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's tough not to have a season where you

540
00:24:04,160 --> 00:24:06,040
Speaker 1: just fall apart, everything just goes against you.

541
00:24:06,119 --> 00:24:08,159
Speaker 2: And Jacksonville crumbled. I mean, they're like one of the

542
00:24:08,200 --> 00:24:11,400
Speaker 2: most disappointing teams in the league.

543
00:24:11,560 --> 00:24:14,320
Speaker 1: Houston at twelve, they're fourteenth on offense, sixteenth on the

544
00:24:14,440 --> 00:24:15,000
Speaker 1: on defense.

545
00:24:15,400 --> 00:24:17,160
Speaker 2: Their defense is I thought would be bad this year,

546
00:24:17,160 --> 00:24:19,000
Speaker 2: in the middle of the road on both been pretty good.

547
00:24:19,080 --> 00:24:22,720
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, Green Bay is thirteenth. Green Bay finished fifteenth

548
00:24:22,800 --> 00:24:25,840
Speaker 1: last year. Sixth on offense, twenty seventh on defense.

549
00:24:26,200 --> 00:24:27,920
Speaker 2: Their strengths are obvious.

550
00:24:28,040 --> 00:24:30,320
Speaker 1: Yeah, thirty first, and special teams.

551
00:24:30,000 --> 00:24:32,959
Speaker 2: Too, like, ooh, that's been like that for years.

552
00:24:33,040 --> 00:24:36,080
Speaker 1: They can't fix it. Yeah, then you get the Eagles.

553
00:24:36,560 --> 00:24:39,119
Speaker 1: Eagles were second last year. So the Eagles finished fourteenth

554
00:24:39,200 --> 00:24:43,040
Speaker 1: that far, fourteenth and Dvoa tenth on offense, twenty ninth

555
00:24:43,160 --> 00:24:46,120
Speaker 1: on defense. Oh, number one on special teams.

556
00:24:46,080 --> 00:24:48,320
Speaker 2: Number one on special teams. Yeah. I didn't realize that.

557
00:24:48,359 --> 00:24:53,040
Speaker 2: And they're still having these struggles man defense, twenty ninth.

558
00:24:53,520 --> 00:24:56,000
Speaker 2: I mean, remember they were like a seventy sack team

559
00:24:56,080 --> 00:24:58,920
Speaker 2: last year, right, and now they're down to bottom right

560
00:24:59,119 --> 00:24:59,840
Speaker 2: awfully bad?

561
00:25:00,080 --> 00:25:04,760
Speaker 1: Wow, h New Orleans fifteenth. They were eighteenth last year.

562
00:25:05,000 --> 00:25:05,920
Speaker 2: They're the most average team.

563
00:25:06,160 --> 00:25:11,560
Speaker 1: Seventeenth on offense, fifteenth on on defense, fourteenth on special team.

564
00:25:11,680 --> 00:25:12,200
Speaker 2: Yeah.

565
00:25:12,480 --> 00:25:17,960
Speaker 1: I didn't know theymore than that. Seattle sixteenth, they were

566
00:25:17,960 --> 00:25:20,800
Speaker 1: eleventh last year. They're gonna be high on bad the

567
00:25:21,160 --> 00:25:24,320
Speaker 1: twelfth on offense, twenty eighth on defense, eighth on special teams.

568
00:25:24,359 --> 00:25:26,399
Speaker 2: So it can't be twenty eighth on the No, you can't.

569
00:25:27,160 --> 00:25:28,320
Speaker 2: They have better players than that.

570
00:25:28,680 --> 00:25:32,879
Speaker 1: The Rams were seventeenth they finished. They were twenty seventh

571
00:25:32,960 --> 00:25:35,320
Speaker 1: last year. Seventh on offense. I bet their offense high,

572
00:25:35,359 --> 00:25:38,480
Speaker 1: twenty second on defense, just trending the right way, thirty

573
00:25:38,520 --> 00:25:40,000
Speaker 1: second on special teams.

574
00:25:40,560 --> 00:25:43,040
Speaker 2: I saw this too. I think it was Aaron Shotz

575
00:25:43,080 --> 00:25:45,400
Speaker 2: or one of them on there that their special teams

576
00:25:45,640 --> 00:25:48,600
Speaker 2: is like the worst in d w A history. Wow,

577
00:25:49,080 --> 00:25:50,960
Speaker 2: And that goes back to them when we've played the Rams,

578
00:25:51,000 --> 00:25:53,080
Speaker 2: we talked about this. They don't Yeah, they don't have

579
00:25:53,160 --> 00:25:55,320
Speaker 2: They don't have those guys, yeah, because they cost money

580
00:25:55,359 --> 00:25:57,280
Speaker 2: and that might be something that bites them in the

581
00:25:57,480 --> 00:25:59,480
Speaker 2: behind the playoffs and that's why they lost to the

582
00:25:59,560 --> 00:26:01,920
Speaker 2: Ravens overtime and was a big special team when.

583
00:26:01,800 --> 00:26:03,960
Speaker 1: You're when you're playing other good teams. Yeah, you know,

584
00:26:04,200 --> 00:26:06,239
Speaker 1: they couldn't afford Matt Gae to come back. I mean,

585
00:26:06,320 --> 00:26:10,959
Speaker 1: like they've they're special teams. Stinks. Tampa Bay eighteenth, So

586
00:26:11,240 --> 00:26:13,760
Speaker 1: it looks like Tampa Bay is the worst team that

587
00:26:13,800 --> 00:26:17,920
Speaker 1: made the playoffs. They were fourteenth last year, twentieth on offense,

588
00:26:18,040 --> 00:26:20,840
Speaker 1: fourteenth on defense, and eighteenth on special teams.

589
00:26:20,920 --> 00:26:23,359
Speaker 2: Okay, so I was when you said the Rams were

590
00:26:23,400 --> 00:26:25,240
Speaker 2: that low as like, oh, but if you're the worst

591
00:26:25,280 --> 00:26:28,600
Speaker 2: ever special team, even if that's only one, I mean,

592
00:26:28,600 --> 00:26:30,760
Speaker 2: that's lead, it's gonna be right.

593
00:26:32,280 --> 00:26:36,760
Speaker 1: The Chargers were nineteenth. Really, the Chargers were seventeenth last year.

594
00:26:36,840 --> 00:26:40,320
Speaker 1: Sixteenth on offense, twenty sixth on defense, second on special teams.

595
00:26:40,400 --> 00:26:41,440
Speaker 1: That's very uncharged like.

596
00:26:41,520 --> 00:26:44,400
Speaker 2: That is pretty uncharged like, but it also doesn't lend

597
00:26:44,440 --> 00:26:46,920
Speaker 2: itself to knowing how to win in the league. Yeah,

598
00:26:46,960 --> 00:26:49,119
Speaker 2: you know that shows that you don't know how to

599
00:26:49,160 --> 00:26:51,320
Speaker 2: win in the league. Yeah, because I bet they're much

600
00:26:51,359 --> 00:26:52,080
Speaker 2: higher with Herbert.

601
00:26:52,280 --> 00:26:55,280
Speaker 1: If you look at their expected wins they finished five

602
00:26:55,320 --> 00:26:57,359
Speaker 1: and twelve, their expected wins was eight point three.

603
00:26:57,520 --> 00:27:00,680
Speaker 2: That's got to be one of the biggest discrepancies out there. Negative.

604
00:27:00,920 --> 00:27:03,960
Speaker 1: Yeah. By the way, the Steelers expected wins ten point

605
00:27:04,000 --> 00:27:06,720
Speaker 1: five based on the DVA about it. They won ten.

606
00:27:06,760 --> 00:27:08,439
Speaker 1: They won ten. They were they should have won ten

607
00:27:08,480 --> 00:27:10,280
Speaker 1: point five. So they're right where they should have been.

608
00:27:10,359 --> 00:27:16,240
Speaker 1: Regardless because everything that we heard when the schedule came out, well,

609
00:27:16,359 --> 00:27:18,199
Speaker 1: they better have the hay and the barn by the

610
00:27:18,200 --> 00:27:21,359
Speaker 1: time those final three games coming round, didn't go that way,

611
00:27:21,680 --> 00:27:23,560
Speaker 1: and they go out and win all three of them. Yeah,

612
00:27:23,720 --> 00:27:24,680
Speaker 1: you just don't know anything.

613
00:27:24,840 --> 00:27:25,520
Speaker 2: You don't, you don't.

614
00:27:26,320 --> 00:27:29,080
Speaker 1: The Colts finished twentieth. They were thirty second last year.

615
00:27:29,480 --> 00:27:32,239
Speaker 2: They were leader. That was Matt Ryan and yeaheah. They

616
00:27:32,280 --> 00:27:33,640
Speaker 2: were a hard watched at the end.

617
00:27:33,760 --> 00:27:35,680
Speaker 1: Thirteenth on offense, Saturday's team.

618
00:27:35,840 --> 00:27:37,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was a mess.

619
00:27:37,320 --> 00:27:40,240
Speaker 1: Thirteenth on offense, twentieth on defense, twenty ninth on special

620
00:27:40,240 --> 00:27:44,080
Speaker 1: team teams. Yeah. The Raiders finished twenty first. They were

621
00:27:44,080 --> 00:27:45,120
Speaker 1: twenty first a year ago.

622
00:27:45,760 --> 00:27:48,920
Speaker 2: I wonder what they were. But before and after coaching change,

623
00:27:48,920 --> 00:27:50,240
Speaker 2: how about that much drastic?

624
00:27:50,400 --> 00:27:53,480
Speaker 1: They were twenty seventh on offense. They finished the season

625
00:27:53,520 --> 00:27:54,480
Speaker 1: eighth on defense.

626
00:27:55,280 --> 00:27:57,960
Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean, if all the EPA stuff I would

627
00:27:57,960 --> 00:27:59,600
Speaker 2: do week to week, they were always at the top

628
00:27:59,600 --> 00:28:02,000
Speaker 2: of the league. Ue over this last six weeks or so,

629
00:28:02,200 --> 00:28:04,400
Speaker 2: really yeah, really close, really did a good job.

630
00:28:05,400 --> 00:28:06,359
Speaker 1: You got Chicago.

631
00:28:06,880 --> 00:28:08,639
Speaker 2: They're another one who's defense twenty second.

632
00:28:09,720 --> 00:28:12,280
Speaker 1: They were thirtieth last year, the twenty second on offense,

633
00:28:12,640 --> 00:28:13,840
Speaker 1: seventeenth on defense.

634
00:28:14,000 --> 00:28:16,000
Speaker 2: But it went up and up, and although last week

635
00:28:16,000 --> 00:28:18,399
Speaker 2: didn't help, they were yesterday bottom of the league. It

636
00:28:18,480 --> 00:28:19,320
Speaker 2: won brutal total.

637
00:28:19,440 --> 00:28:21,560
Speaker 1: Yeah, so were the Raiders for that matter. Yeah, I

638
00:28:21,560 --> 00:28:23,479
Speaker 1: mean I remember when they when the Steelers played them,

639
00:28:23,520 --> 00:28:27,320
Speaker 1: they were like twenty ninth on defense. Yeah yeah. Minnesota

640
00:28:27,960 --> 00:28:30,200
Speaker 1: finished twenty third. They were twenty eighth last year, twenty

641
00:28:30,240 --> 00:28:34,440
Speaker 1: third on offense, eleventh on defense. They've been the thirtieth

642
00:28:34,480 --> 00:28:35,600
Speaker 1: on special teams too.

643
00:28:35,960 --> 00:28:38,160
Speaker 2: At least you could look at that one and be like, well,

644
00:28:38,440 --> 00:28:40,120
Speaker 2: if we could bring back Kirk Cousins and he could

645
00:28:40,120 --> 00:28:41,720
Speaker 2: play a whole season, we have a quarterback.

646
00:28:41,960 --> 00:28:45,040
Speaker 1: Yeah, if our offense, yeah, if our offense next year

647
00:28:45,160 --> 00:28:46,479
Speaker 1: is fourteenth.

648
00:28:46,080 --> 00:28:47,760
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, we don't have to go through a quarterback

649
00:28:47,840 --> 00:28:49,960
Speaker 2: left and right. If it's Jacobe Brissett all year, they

650
00:28:50,040 --> 00:28:51,000
Speaker 2: might be a playoff. Yeah.

651
00:28:51,040 --> 00:28:54,360
Speaker 1: You know, Denver finished twenty fourth. They were twenty sixth

652
00:28:54,480 --> 00:28:58,760
Speaker 1: last year, nineteenth on offense, thirtieth on defense, and ninth

653
00:28:58,800 --> 00:29:00,560
Speaker 1: on special teams. Who was that Denver?

654
00:29:01,080 --> 00:29:04,400
Speaker 2: Okay, I mean they were unbelievably bad right around the

655
00:29:04,400 --> 00:29:06,400
Speaker 2: trade deadline. At least they got respectable.

656
00:29:06,960 --> 00:29:10,880
Speaker 1: The Jets finished twenty fifth. They were twentieth last year, horrible,

657
00:29:10,960 --> 00:29:13,840
Speaker 1: thirty second on offense last wow. Yeah, by a lot,

658
00:29:14,040 --> 00:29:17,680
Speaker 1: even worse than Carolina number three, on defense, fifth on

659
00:29:17,760 --> 00:29:18,360
Speaker 1: special team.

660
00:29:18,480 --> 00:29:22,160
Speaker 2: So I mean Aaron Rodgers gonna be back? Yeah, I

661
00:29:22,200 --> 00:29:24,800
Speaker 2: mean at least there's He's not the only reason, but

662
00:29:24,960 --> 00:29:28,240
Speaker 2: there's one thing that needs addressed, and it's offense. Offense, offense,

663
00:29:28,520 --> 00:29:30,680
Speaker 2: their pass catcher more line. Be interesting to see what

664
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Speaker 2: he has left though, who knows, But at least there's

665
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Speaker 2: an answer. Uh.

666
00:29:34,640 --> 00:29:37,640
Speaker 1: Tennessee twenty sixth. They were twenty fourth last year, twenty

667
00:29:37,640 --> 00:29:40,840
Speaker 1: fifth on offense, eighteenth on defense, twenty fourth on special

668
00:29:40,880 --> 00:29:43,560
Speaker 1: Team's here they so they just don't have very many

669
00:29:43,560 --> 00:29:48,760
Speaker 1: good players. New England. New England was twenty seventh. They

670
00:29:48,760 --> 00:29:51,720
Speaker 1: were sixteenth a year ago, twenty ninth on offense.

671
00:29:51,800 --> 00:29:54,560
Speaker 2: I bet their d's like five ninth ninth. Okay, yeah,

672
00:29:54,600 --> 00:29:56,080
Speaker 2: they got run all over yesterday.

673
00:29:56,280 --> 00:29:57,160
Speaker 1: No, Yes, Dair was good.

674
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Speaker 2: Beginning the season wasn't great.

675
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Speaker 1: And then twenty eighth on special team. Two.

676
00:30:00,480 --> 00:30:01,640
Speaker 2: That's two years in a row they've been at the

677
00:30:01,640 --> 00:30:04,400
Speaker 2: bottom league in special yeams. They don't have much talent,

678
00:30:04,760 --> 00:30:05,160
Speaker 2: they don't.

679
00:30:05,480 --> 00:30:09,480
Speaker 1: Atlanta finished twenty eighth, twenty fourth on offense, twenty fourth

680
00:30:09,480 --> 00:30:12,640
Speaker 1: on defense, twenty seventh on special teams. Right across the board.

681
00:30:13,200 --> 00:30:15,000
Speaker 2: They did a really easy schedule. I think that's why

682
00:30:15,000 --> 00:30:16,600
Speaker 2: they end up so low because they had wins. I

683
00:30:16,600 --> 00:30:17,920
Speaker 2: mean they won seven r eight games.

684
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Speaker 1: Yeah, they finished seven to ten, but nowhere near Arizona

685
00:30:23,080 --> 00:30:25,320
Speaker 1: finished twenty ninth. They were twenty ninth a year ago.

686
00:30:25,440 --> 00:30:27,960
Speaker 1: It spinning their wheels. Twenty first on I don't feel

687
00:30:27,960 --> 00:30:29,720
Speaker 1: like they are thirty second.

688
00:30:29,400 --> 00:30:32,600
Speaker 2: On the defenses. Yeah, doesn't make good players. Yeah, offense

689
00:30:32,600 --> 00:30:33,040
Speaker 2: got good.

690
00:30:34,640 --> 00:30:38,479
Speaker 1: The Giants thirtieth this year. They were twenty third last year.

691
00:30:38,520 --> 00:30:39,640
Speaker 1: That was smoking mirrors.

692
00:30:39,680 --> 00:30:41,840
Speaker 2: Last year them and the Vikings were smoking mess.

693
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Speaker 1: Thirtieth on offense, twenty first on defense, twenty first on

694
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Speaker 1: special teams.

695
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Speaker 2: I don't look at them as the third worst team

696
00:30:48,960 --> 00:30:51,720
Speaker 2: in the league, but they had a pretty rough year. Yeah,

697
00:30:51,880 --> 00:30:53,800
Speaker 2: they were bad when Daniel Jones was healthy.

698
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Speaker 1: And then Washington is at thirty one. They were twenty

699
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Speaker 1: two last year, twenty sixth on offense, thirty first on defense,

700
00:31:00,760 --> 00:31:03,200
Speaker 1: twenty six on special teams, and nothing they could hang

701
00:31:03,240 --> 00:31:06,120
Speaker 1: their hat on. Same thing with Carolina at thirty two.

702
00:31:06,560 --> 00:31:09,640
Speaker 1: They were twenty five last year, thirty first on offense,

703
00:31:09,720 --> 00:31:13,040
Speaker 1: twenty fifth on defense, twenty third on special teams. Yuck.

704
00:31:13,240 --> 00:31:15,800
Speaker 2: Yeah, and they don't have good players. Or picks or

705
00:31:15,840 --> 00:31:17,880
Speaker 2: a coach or GM anymore.

706
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Speaker 1: So if you look at the estimated win is part

707
00:31:22,760 --> 00:31:27,640
Speaker 1: of this. Baltimore should have won fourteen games this year

708
00:31:27,720 --> 00:31:32,160
Speaker 1: according to this thirteen San Francisco at fourteen. Then there's

709
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Speaker 1: a drop off to Kansas City at eleven point two.

710
00:31:36,480 --> 00:31:38,840
Speaker 1: Then you had Dallas at eleven point one, Miami at

711
00:31:38,840 --> 00:31:42,400
Speaker 1: ten point nine, Detroit at ten point eight. They won twelve,

712
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Speaker 1: So Buffalo at ten point seven, the Steelers at ten

713
00:31:47,880 --> 00:31:50,760
Speaker 1: point five, Cleveland at nine point five, so the Steelers

714
00:31:50,760 --> 00:31:53,760
Speaker 1: actually came better with the eighth best.

715
00:31:54,280 --> 00:31:56,080
Speaker 2: I find interesting the Bills and Steelers right next to

716
00:31:56,120 --> 00:31:56,560
Speaker 2: each other.

717
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Speaker 1: Too, Yes, it is kind of interesting. Cleveland at nine

718
00:31:59,520 --> 00:32:01,880
Speaker 1: point five, Philadelphia at nine point four.

719
00:32:02,560 --> 00:32:04,800
Speaker 2: Mm hmm. Then you have New Orleans named up with

720
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Speaker 2: eleven I think, yeah.

721
00:32:06,120 --> 00:32:10,640
Speaker 1: Nine point three for New Orleans, nine point one for Cincinnati,

722
00:32:11,640 --> 00:32:14,360
Speaker 1: Jacksonville at eight point nine, Houston at eight point seven,

723
00:32:14,720 --> 00:32:16,440
Speaker 1: Seattle at eight point five. So it's a.

724
00:32:16,400 --> 00:32:20,480
Speaker 2: Pretty strong case for I mean, to me, Rams, Brown's

725
00:32:21,080 --> 00:32:24,680
Speaker 2: Houston or coaching year candidates, that's a pretty strong case

726
00:32:24,720 --> 00:32:27,320
Speaker 2: for Houston though. Yeah, I think I think the Rams

727
00:32:27,320 --> 00:32:29,200
Speaker 2: would be my vote, But I.

728
00:32:29,160 --> 00:32:30,960
Speaker 1: Still I mean, I think Arball did a good job.

729
00:32:31,360 --> 00:32:33,240
Speaker 2: That's a great call too. You mentioned that. I mean, yeah,

730
00:32:33,320 --> 00:32:35,800
Speaker 2: no one ever thinks about that. You know, everybody teams.

731
00:32:36,480 --> 00:32:38,680
Speaker 1: Facing the schedule that you faced and winning some I

732
00:32:38,720 --> 00:32:43,760
Speaker 1: mean winning convincingly against teams like San Francisco, Yeah, Miami

733
00:32:43,760 --> 00:32:45,480
Speaker 1: and Miami and Detroit.

734
00:32:45,200 --> 00:32:47,280
Speaker 2: Detroit and Seattle, I mean crushed them.

735
00:32:47,360 --> 00:32:47,640
Speaker 1: Yeah.

736
00:32:47,720 --> 00:32:49,160
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's a lot of merits.

737
00:32:49,200 --> 00:32:52,480
Speaker 1: But I'll say again, you know the Patrick Queen quote,

738
00:32:53,600 --> 00:32:57,680
Speaker 1: you know a lot of teams the exact quote was teams,

739
00:32:57,800 --> 00:32:59,280
Speaker 1: a lot of teams don't want to play the style

740
00:32:59,320 --> 00:33:00,480
Speaker 1: of football that we play.

741
00:33:00,960 --> 00:33:02,400
Speaker 2: Very true, and I.

742
00:33:02,320 --> 00:33:05,000
Speaker 1: Think that's why. You know, when you're getting you're continually

743
00:33:05,000 --> 00:33:08,600
Speaker 1: getting punched into mouth by the Ravens, you either want

744
00:33:08,600 --> 00:33:10,960
Speaker 1: to stand there and slug it out with them or

745
00:33:11,000 --> 00:33:12,960
Speaker 1: you just back down. And that's when those games get

746
00:33:13,000 --> 00:33:13,440
Speaker 1: away from you.

747
00:33:13,560 --> 00:33:18,880
Speaker 2: It is that Steelers aside. I really want to see

748
00:33:19,160 --> 00:33:22,520
Speaker 2: Ravens Niners rematch because the Niners do that to people too.

749
00:33:22,600 --> 00:33:24,720
Speaker 2: The first matchup, there was some weirdness and then the

750
00:33:24,720 --> 00:33:27,720
Speaker 2: game got away from San Francisco. But there's a reason

751
00:33:27,760 --> 00:33:31,400
Speaker 2: that last year the game after playing the Niners, every

752
00:33:31,400 --> 00:33:34,600
Speaker 2: team lost. You know, they beat up on you two. Yah,

753
00:33:34,720 --> 00:33:36,320
Speaker 2: in a different way, but they beat up on you.

754
00:33:36,440 --> 00:33:38,440
Speaker 1: I really think though, that the Steelers are the one

755
00:33:38,480 --> 00:33:43,080
Speaker 1: team that Baltimore like the Baltimore does not want to play.

756
00:33:43,280 --> 00:33:45,640
Speaker 2: I wouldn't think so Pittsburgh next week. No, the familiarity.

757
00:33:45,640 --> 00:33:47,520
Speaker 1: I wouldn't think they want to play Cleveland either, and.

758
00:33:47,480 --> 00:33:48,600
Speaker 2: I would think that's similar.

759
00:33:48,680 --> 00:33:50,640
Speaker 1: But but you don't want either one of those because

760
00:33:50,640 --> 00:33:52,520
Speaker 1: you went one and three against those teams this year.

761
00:33:52,880 --> 00:33:55,240
Speaker 2: Yeah, I guess so, Hu, they swept back.

762
00:33:55,160 --> 00:33:58,160
Speaker 1: And both of them won in Baltimore in your building.

763
00:33:58,560 --> 00:34:00,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, No, I think you'd rather play the Bills or

764
00:34:00,960 --> 00:34:02,680
Speaker 2: the Chiefs or any of those in your place.

765
00:34:02,760 --> 00:34:05,680
Speaker 1: Especially Miami did destroy my Oh they killed killed.

766
00:34:05,520 --> 00:34:10,279
Speaker 2: They already did, but they destroy my Houston wouldn't worry me.

767
00:34:10,800 --> 00:34:12,920
Speaker 1: No, No, I mean they already beat them handily and

768
00:34:12,920 --> 00:34:15,239
Speaker 1: we it was weak, yeah, week one, but still.

769
00:34:15,000 --> 00:34:16,279
Speaker 2: I like their chances in that one.

770
00:34:16,360 --> 00:34:19,080
Speaker 1: Yeah, because you have to be willing to stand there

771
00:34:19,080 --> 00:34:19,960
Speaker 1: and go toe to toe with.

772
00:34:19,960 --> 00:34:24,040
Speaker 2: The Bully unless you get like a fourteen point halftime lead,

773
00:34:24,040 --> 00:34:26,440
Speaker 2: which never happens against them. Yeah, and they're never playing

774
00:34:26,440 --> 00:34:26,920
Speaker 2: from behind.

775
00:34:27,320 --> 00:34:31,120
Speaker 1: So it's it's an interesting playoff field this year and

776
00:34:31,280 --> 00:34:34,520
Speaker 1: it is again three three teams. Steelers went five and

777
00:34:34,560 --> 00:34:36,080
Speaker 1: three against playoffs.

778
00:34:36,160 --> 00:34:39,279
Speaker 2: You sent me that. That's interesting. I after you sent

779
00:34:39,320 --> 00:34:40,600
Speaker 2: me that, I'm like, I'm gonna look what the Bills did.

780
00:34:40,600 --> 00:34:42,680
Speaker 2: They were four and one or there are three on one.

781
00:34:42,680 --> 00:34:44,439
Speaker 2: They didn't play as many, but they only lost a one.

782
00:34:44,640 --> 00:34:47,160
Speaker 1: Yeah, so but five and three will take.

783
00:34:47,200 --> 00:34:48,759
Speaker 2: It'll take the best teams in the league.

784
00:34:48,840 --> 00:34:51,880
Speaker 1: Yeah, against the teams the fourteen teams that made the playoffs,

785
00:34:54,840 --> 00:34:57,040
Speaker 1: the Steelers seemed to play better against those teams than

786
00:34:57,040 --> 00:34:58,879
Speaker 1: they did some of the lesser.

787
00:34:58,600 --> 00:35:01,480
Speaker 2: Teams against a couple of teams at the bomb that

788
00:35:01,560 --> 00:35:02,839
Speaker 2: list in Arizona, New England.

789
00:35:02,880 --> 00:35:04,560
Speaker 1: Now, they had a couple of games of those games

790
00:35:04,560 --> 00:35:08,319
Speaker 1: that got away from them, you know, the forty you know,

791
00:35:08,360 --> 00:35:12,480
Speaker 1: the Houston game was within a score late in the

792
00:35:12,520 --> 00:35:14,759
Speaker 1: third quarter, and then Jackson when Pickett got hurt the

793
00:35:14,760 --> 00:35:16,279
Speaker 1: same thing, and yeah, same thing there, and pick It

794
00:35:16,320 --> 00:35:18,799
Speaker 1: got hurt in that game as well. And those games

795
00:35:18,840 --> 00:35:20,239
Speaker 1: kind of got away from you at the end. But

796
00:35:20,600 --> 00:35:22,600
Speaker 1: other than that, they played with those teams.

797
00:35:22,600 --> 00:35:25,040
Speaker 2: They did, they did, They certainly hung around. I'd love

798
00:35:25,080 --> 00:35:27,560
Speaker 2: to see them play Houston again. I mean, I definitely

799
00:35:27,640 --> 00:35:31,040
Speaker 2: underestimated Houston. Goah that game I did that was okaywalk

800
00:35:31,080 --> 00:35:32,160
Speaker 2: and they're much better than that.

801
00:35:32,280 --> 00:35:34,839
Speaker 1: Yeah. Absolutely, we're gonna get to another break. He is

802
00:35:35,000 --> 00:35:37,560
Speaker 1: the Matt Williamson. I am Dale Lallie. You're listening to

803
00:35:37,640 --> 00:35:40,080
Speaker 1: the drive here on Steelers Nation Radio. We'll be back

804
00:35:40,120 --> 00:35:46,040
Speaker 1: to finish up the show right after this. Stealer fans,

805
00:35:46,040 --> 00:35:49,600
Speaker 1: you can check out yins Chats Regular Season Challenge. Well

806
00:35:49,680 --> 00:35:52,240
Speaker 1: it's a regular season. They're going to done into the playoffs.

807
00:35:52,239 --> 00:35:54,240
Speaker 1: I haven't got a new update on that, but assume

808
00:35:54,320 --> 00:35:55,360
Speaker 1: it will still be continued.

809
00:35:55,440 --> 00:35:56,520
Speaker 2: I'm sure something's still going on.

810
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815
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Speaker 1: what it is yet, but last week's prize was still

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Speaker 1: the sign TJ wat jersey for.

817
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Speaker 2: Which to get.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it continues through today, and then they

819
00:36:18,760 --> 00:36:19,760
Speaker 1: did make.

820
00:36:19,640 --> 00:36:21,080
Speaker 2: That determining along.

821
00:36:22,000 --> 00:36:25,920
Speaker 1: Absolutely, looking here Matt at some of the injury issues.

822
00:36:25,960 --> 00:36:26,919
Speaker 1: We know that there were.

823
00:36:26,840 --> 00:36:29,239
Speaker 2: A lot yesterday there were, unfortunately TJ.

824
00:36:29,400 --> 00:36:31,960
Speaker 1: Wattercourse being yeah, of course, maybe the biggest one.

825
00:36:32,160 --> 00:36:33,040
Speaker 2: The Bills had a few. Two.

826
00:36:33,280 --> 00:36:37,200
Speaker 1: The Bills had a few. Gabe Davis, their wide receiver,

827
00:36:37,280 --> 00:36:40,759
Speaker 1: suffered a PCL sprain in Sunday's win, not considered to

828
00:36:40,800 --> 00:36:45,400
Speaker 1: be major according to Ian Rappaport, but he said. Rapaport

829
00:36:45,480 --> 00:36:48,279
Speaker 1: said that Davis Davis's status for Sunday's game against the

830
00:36:48,280 --> 00:36:50,480
Speaker 1: Steelers is yet to be determined. He's not playing.

831
00:36:50,800 --> 00:36:52,120
Speaker 2: You don't think Gave Davis will played him.

832
00:36:52,120 --> 00:36:53,320
Speaker 1: He's pc L sprain.

833
00:36:53,719 --> 00:36:57,879
Speaker 2: Yeah, did he come back? No? Okay. He's a speed guy. Yeah,

834
00:36:58,160 --> 00:37:02,000
Speaker 2: he's a lower body. I don't love Gabe Davis, but

835
00:37:02,360 --> 00:37:03,520
Speaker 2: he's a lot better than the rest of the guys.

836
00:37:03,560 --> 00:37:05,440
Speaker 1: Again, I can't imagine him playing.

837
00:37:06,280 --> 00:37:08,000
Speaker 2: He used to take the top off dude, and I

838
00:37:08,000 --> 00:37:09,759
Speaker 2: know he's had some big games against the Steelers, some

839
00:37:09,800 --> 00:37:12,480
Speaker 2: big plays. Yeah, he doesn't blow me away, but it

840
00:37:12,600 --> 00:37:13,480
Speaker 2: obviously hurts them.

841
00:37:13,520 --> 00:37:16,160
Speaker 1: The bigger loss for them was Rasul Douglas, Yes, the

842
00:37:16,200 --> 00:37:18,759
Speaker 1: cornerback leaving with a foot injury, and I've not yet

843
00:37:18,800 --> 00:37:19,879
Speaker 1: seen an update on that.

844
00:37:20,040 --> 00:37:21,640
Speaker 2: I really need to pay attention to that because their

845
00:37:21,760 --> 00:37:25,000
Speaker 2: corner situation is kind of messyous, to say.

846
00:37:24,880 --> 00:37:27,440
Speaker 1: The least, when they were going through like there they

847
00:37:27,760 --> 00:37:30,040
Speaker 1: started their winning streak because they were six and six

848
00:37:30,080 --> 00:37:35,480
Speaker 1: at one point when they got Raul Douglas coincided with

849
00:37:35,520 --> 00:37:38,839
Speaker 1: that because their second there was kind of a mess

850
00:37:38,880 --> 00:37:39,200
Speaker 1: before that.

851
00:37:39,440 --> 00:37:42,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean everyone knows White was. I say it

852
00:37:42,120 --> 00:37:45,600
Speaker 2: was unfortunately, really good player had a very serious injury.

853
00:37:45,640 --> 00:37:48,200
Speaker 2: It's never really been the same and it's struggling. Then

854
00:37:48,200 --> 00:37:50,360
Speaker 2: they used the first round pick on Elam who hasn't

855
00:37:50,400 --> 00:37:53,360
Speaker 2: been the answer. And then to their credit, Douglas was

856
00:37:53,400 --> 00:37:55,480
Speaker 2: at home run. They didn't give much up for him,

857
00:37:56,320 --> 00:37:58,359
Speaker 2: did a bunch of picks for him. West Virginia guy.

858
00:37:58,400 --> 00:38:00,719
Speaker 2: I'm sure some people listening watch them that. I was

859
00:38:00,719 --> 00:38:02,879
Speaker 2: actually talking to Rob king about him before. He's like, oh, yeah,

860
00:38:02,880 --> 00:38:05,000
Speaker 2: I used to call his games. He's yeah, they like that, dude.

861
00:38:05,040 --> 00:38:06,840
Speaker 2: I mean, he's got good size. I think he's a

862
00:38:06,840 --> 00:38:08,920
Speaker 2: free agent after the year. Maybe the Steelers will look

863
00:38:08,920 --> 00:38:10,480
Speaker 2: at him. I don't know, but I mean he's a

864
00:38:10,560 --> 00:38:13,520
Speaker 2: big outside corner, which is exactly what they needed. So

865
00:38:13,560 --> 00:38:16,160
Speaker 2: he'd be missed, yeah, for sure, especially against those two

866
00:38:16,160 --> 00:38:20,560
Speaker 2: Steealer receivers. Looking here at some of the other stuff,

867
00:38:21,480 --> 00:38:27,040
Speaker 2: Detroit's Laporta stuff a little worrisome. According to Dan Campbell,

868
00:38:27,560 --> 00:38:30,920
Speaker 2: Laporta Sam Laporta, their rookie tight end, has an outside

869
00:38:30,960 --> 00:38:34,200
Speaker 2: shot to play on Sunday. That is a knee injury

870
00:38:34,239 --> 00:38:37,279
Speaker 2: for him. They're looking at a timeline of days, not

871
00:38:37,440 --> 00:38:39,560
Speaker 2: weeks for that injury. I wouldn't bet on it.

872
00:38:39,680 --> 00:38:40,279
Speaker 1: I wouldn't either.

873
00:38:40,280 --> 00:38:42,839
Speaker 2: I mean they rolled him out immediately. Yeah.

874
00:38:42,960 --> 00:38:45,760
Speaker 1: Jamison Williams missed the game against the Rams on Sunday.

875
00:38:45,800 --> 00:38:48,279
Speaker 1: He has he'll be back at practice this week for them.

876
00:38:48,640 --> 00:38:50,960
Speaker 2: Oh okay, he said, okay. I mean he's starting to

877
00:38:51,320 --> 00:38:53,400
Speaker 2: get more and more involved. He's not a featured player

878
00:38:53,440 --> 00:38:54,439
Speaker 2: for them, but to be big.

879
00:38:55,960 --> 00:38:59,440
Speaker 1: The Rams linebacker Troy Reader is considered day to day.

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Speaker 1: According to GET head coach Sean McVay. UH safety Jordan

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Speaker 1: Fuller also considered day to day.

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Speaker 2: Those guys play a fair amount. That defense does not

883
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Speaker 2: have any depth.

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Speaker 1: UH for Miami. Linebacker Jerome Baker had risk surgery and

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Speaker 1: will not play Saturday against the Chiefs and likely not

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Speaker 1: for the remainder of the playoffs.

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Speaker 2: That's a big just another starter out of that Miami lineup.

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Speaker 2: Phillips is gone, Chubb's gone, Howard's been in out of

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Speaker 2: the lineup. Ramsey's back, you know, Holland's been in out

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Speaker 2: of lineup. I think he's back. But Baker's making a

891
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Speaker 2: lot of money and might be their green dot guy.

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Speaker 1: Andrew van Ginkel, who got hurt.

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Speaker 2: In the game.

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Speaker 1: That was a foot injury. He is not going to

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Speaker 1: play on Saturday. Also likely out for the playoffs, as

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Speaker 1: is Cameron Good, who is their third outside linebacker on.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he's just out there because he know anybody else he.

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Speaker 1: Tours Pateeller Tendon.

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Speaker 2: He's out for the play I don't have any edge

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Speaker 2: presence at all.

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Speaker 1: Three linebackers has been a good player.

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Speaker 2: He's kind of like a NOI type, jack of all trades,

903
00:40:02,239 --> 00:40:04,879
Speaker 2: tough guy, and they need all those they can get.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so there.

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Speaker 2: I don't like where they're at right now, especially if

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Speaker 2: Waddle's out. Moster didn't play that game.

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Speaker 1: He'll get banged up late in that game slimping around.

908
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Speaker 2: The O line's a little healthier finally, but man, yeah,

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Speaker 2: they're not a deep team to begin with.

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Speaker 1: No for the Eagles, Jalen Hurts underwent X rays on

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Speaker 1: his showing hand that showed no fracture of his middle finger.

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Speaker 1: But he dislocated that thing.

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Speaker 2: I mean, obviously it's a middle finger on your throwing hand.

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Speaker 1: And if you dislocate it, there's going to be swelling

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Speaker 1: with that. Yeah, I mean, you know, yeah, you have

916
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Speaker 1: a week to get ready, but that you're not going

917
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Speaker 1: to be throwing the ball all around during the week

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Speaker 1: of practice.

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Speaker 2: And who's he going to be throwing too?

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Speaker 1: Yeah? Aj Brown with the knee injury. They're hopeful, according

921
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Speaker 1: to Nick Siriani, that he'll be available for Monday night's

922
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Speaker 1: wild card game.

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Speaker 2: Hopeful, hopeful. It sure looked like no. I mean, we

924
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Speaker 2: just watching it happen live. I'm like, oh, he's out.

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Speaker 2: And DeVante Smith didn't play that game.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Davante Smith also hopefully will be available for Monday's

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Speaker 1: playoff game.

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Speaker 2: Those two, oh, I mean they're in big trouble anyways.

929
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Speaker 2: I they're just not playing well. But without those two,

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Speaker 2: forget about it.

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Speaker 1: Same thing with offensive lineman Cam Jurgons with an eye injury. Uh,

932
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Speaker 1: they're hopeful he's available from Monday's games. He got poked

933
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Speaker 1: in the eye.

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Speaker 2: I think last week okay, okay, I can't remember. Did

935
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Speaker 2: Kelsey play. I thought they might have arrested. Kelsey and

936
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Speaker 2: Jurgons played center because they had some kind of center

937
00:41:22,120 --> 00:41:24,080
Speaker 2: problem after that injury. But he's been a guard for

938
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Speaker 2: them mostly because Kelsey's the center obviously, And you said

939
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Speaker 2: Andrew Swift didn't play right, Yeah, so.

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Speaker 1: They got some left ball, they got some issues issues

941
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Speaker 1: Just looking here at any of the other I think

942
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Speaker 1: that's kind of it for the playoff teams in terms

943
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Speaker 1: of injury notes that we know about right now.

944
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Speaker 2: And then there's teams like the Browns that arrested everybody

945
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Speaker 2: and the Rave like it's down the road. But is

946
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Speaker 2: Humphrey and Hamilton all those guys fine weeks from now,

947
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Speaker 2: or McCaffrey hits some matter or you know, I mean

948
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Speaker 2: some of these guys that didn't play last week, doesn't

949
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Speaker 2: mean they're ready next week, right.

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Speaker 1: I mean, just because you said out, it doesn't mean

951
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Speaker 1: that you're ready to go. Yeah, yeah, yeah, So it's

952
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Speaker 1: gonna be gonna be interesting. Romeo Dobbs also day to day.

953
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Speaker 2: I know he has a chest injury. There is some

954
00:42:13,239 --> 00:42:16,880
Speaker 2: hope here this every week, but I actually believe it

955
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Speaker 2: that Watson could be back this week. Wicks has played

956
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Speaker 2: well for them too. The rookie wide receiver in Green Bay.

957
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Speaker 2: He's been okay, and it looks like mus Grave is

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Speaker 2: gonna be back.

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Speaker 1: I count on Watson, Christian wat I don't even know

960
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Speaker 1: if he plays football anymore.

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Speaker 2: Sam strings just don't work. It's tough for a speed guy.

962
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Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll see. But that's you know, it's gonna be

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Speaker 1: an interesting.

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Speaker 2: It's good slate to be a fun week preparing as

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Speaker 2: I'm just thrilled the Steelers right in at this point,

966
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Speaker 2: to be honest with you, I mean, I'm glad that

967
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Speaker 2: they didn't win, and then the other things didn't happen,

968
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Speaker 2: you know what I mean, Like you did your part,

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Speaker 2: you know, but it was it was great see Jacks.

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Speaker 1: As it turned out, I think all the teams that

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Speaker 1: got the ten wins got in.

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Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, so ten wins gets you in.

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Speaker 1: You hate to see a team get the ten wins

974
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Speaker 1: and not get in. I can remember Mike Tomlin telling

975
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Speaker 1: a story about Raheem Morris in the Tampa Bay Buccaneers

976
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Speaker 1: one year missed the playoffs by one game. They were

977
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Speaker 1: nine and seven, and the next year they got t

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Speaker 1: shirts made going into training camp and that said ten

979
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Speaker 1: wins on it, and they went out one ten wins

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Speaker 1: that year or got their ten wins and still get.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, just the way of all. Some times you go.

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Speaker 1: Ten and you win ten games in the NFL, you should.

983
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Speaker 2: Be in the playoffs, and seven out of sixteen go

984
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Speaker 2: you have three games over five hundred or you know,

985
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Speaker 2: three games more than you lost. That should get you in.

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Speaker 1: Should most years it does. That year it didn't.

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Speaker 2: And meanwhile, those Steelers Division at All winning teams, Yeah,

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Speaker 2: it didn't even get you that far into the vasion and.

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Speaker 1: You went five and one in the division, five and

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Speaker 1: one in the divisions, I get this division would have

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Speaker 1: taken that at the beginning of the seed and you say, hey,

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Speaker 1: you're gonna get five and one in the division, win

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Speaker 1: ten games.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you're in the play Yeah, like your chances anywhere.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely, that's going to do it. For today's So for

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Speaker 1: my partner Matt Williamson, for Justin Miller here on site

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Speaker 1: keeping us on the air, I'm Dale Lollie. We thank

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Speaker 1: you for listening to this edition of the Drive on

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Speaker 1: Steelers Nation Radio.