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Speaker 1: Is the Drive with Dale Lolly and Matt Williamson of

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Speaker 1: the Black and Goal Steelers Nation Radio. We are back

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Speaker 1: and so is my voice. Uh so much appreciated. Thank

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Speaker 1: you voice. As we do every Friday, Matt, Let's go

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Speaker 1: around the league here, look at all this week's game. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: let's go pay a little special attention to those games

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Speaker 1: between the Jets and the in the Miami Dolphins. Last

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Speaker 1: night's game interesting one in uh in Tennessee. Josh Dobbs

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Speaker 1: gets a spot. I tweeted this out, Josh Dobbs. They

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Speaker 1: led the Titans on a touchdown drive early in the

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Speaker 1: third quarter for their thirteen points to put thirteen points

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Speaker 1: thirteen at the time. And I said, Josh Dobbs is

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Speaker 1: now in three quarters led to the Tennessee Titans without

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Speaker 1: Derrick Henry to as many points as the Shawn Watson

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Speaker 1: hasn't any game with the Browns. And immediately people are

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Speaker 1: you judge, that's not that's it's a joke, folks. It's

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Speaker 1: a joke, I think, but it's true. I mean it's

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Speaker 1: a fact, it's a fact. I think it was Dobb's

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Speaker 1: first career touchdown, his first career start, his first career touchdow.

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Speaker 1: He looked good. I didn't watch much of it. By

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Speaker 1: all accounts, he looked very much like he belonged. And

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Speaker 1: we were talking off the air, like I think he

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Speaker 1: would mix in Willis with some specialty stuff here and there.

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Speaker 1: But you're all in for one game. You anything that

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Speaker 1: They're gonna throw out there in that game. That's gonna

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Speaker 1: That's why it's gonna be a fun one. Does Dallas,

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Speaker 1: where are you? They sure seems like play down the

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Speaker 1: bad teams, play up the good teams type. And I

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Speaker 1: think that starts like ownership and big d And I

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Speaker 1: texted you at one point at the end towards the

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Speaker 1: end of the first half and back through his second interception,

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Speaker 1: has been throwing at two interceptions and a fumble in

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Speaker 1: the first half of the game interceptions, which is tied

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Speaker 1: for the league lead. And and he's missed three games. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: like that's not good. No, I mean they didn't have Pollard,

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Speaker 1: also lost their center, Tyler Bias. Yeah, they looked like

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Speaker 1: a high ankle spring. He could be out for an

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Speaker 1: extended period. Yeah. Looking at this week's game, you got

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Speaker 1: the six and nine Panthers at the seven and eight Buccaneers.

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Speaker 1: This game is basically for the the NFC South lit close, right,

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Speaker 1: I mean this is close to playoff games you're gonna

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Speaker 1: get absolutely. Tampa Bay is favored by three, the over

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Speaker 1: didn't make this one the Sunday night games. Yeah. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: because it doesn't matter what happens the rest of the

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Speaker 1: day for this one to have the same It may

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Speaker 1: have been protected, though, I think more Steeler fans out

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Speaker 1: there than Panther and Bucks fans are in more ras.

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Speaker 1: There were some That's why the Steelers ended up in

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Speaker 1: in that night slot. The networks protected some games that

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Speaker 1: I know. The New England game was protected. Got Um.

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Speaker 1: This will may have been as well by Fox. Campa

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Speaker 1: the points. I think Carolina wins the magic for them,

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Speaker 1: I don't want to The magic number is twenty. The

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Speaker 1: Buccaneers are o and seven this season when allowing twenty

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Speaker 1: or more points and seven and one when they don't.

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Speaker 1: They're also by far the worst team this year against

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Speaker 1: the spread. As you would imagine, people keep that goody

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Speaker 1: they sink, they stink. Looking here at ESPN, Eric Moody

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Speaker 1: picking the Buccaneers twenty to sixteen, Seth Walter picking the

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Speaker 1: get the twenties. I don't know if either team gets

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Speaker 1: that we mentioned earlier, the eight and seven Dolphins are

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Speaker 1: at the Evan and eight Patriots in New England. Favored

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Speaker 1: by three, the over under is forty one and a half.

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Speaker 1: A big key here to me is New England's all

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Speaker 1: able to to to block up some of these deep balls?

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Speaker 1: And will Teddy throw them? That's the other question question

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Speaker 1: I just keep coming back to this corner thing. But

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Speaker 1: I think this is another low scoring, tight game. Moody

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Speaker 1: picking the Dolphins twenty seven twenty four. I have no

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Speaker 1: idea how the Patriots get twenty four points. New England

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Speaker 1: Dolphins seventeen, and I could see all those things break

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Speaker 1: some Steeler fans hard there. Yeah, I mean I'm not

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Speaker 1: rooting for it, but I think Miami is a better team. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Miami has seven and six against the spread this season

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Speaker 1: and games that tourist starts and oh and two against

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Speaker 1: think there's a lot of shame in that Lions. Moody

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Speaker 1: There's a misconception that they beat everyone by thirty. What

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Speaker 1: I mean, Denver's miserable, don't get me wrong, but that

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Speaker 1: but I mean, I don't think that we can win

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Speaker 1: it a real stinker. Here the four ten and one

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Speaker 1: The Colts of little seems like the Colts and Cardinals

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Speaker 1: What do they really? What's their motivation right now? You know? Yeah? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I don't think John Scoorton, Yeah, you got the six

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Speaker 1: play my dudes mostly for this one. Beat the Saints,

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Speaker 1: up this number one seed this week, go all in

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Speaker 1: picking the Eagles one. I'm not sure it'll be that close.

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Speaker 1: their defense is good enough to uh. The seven and

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Speaker 1: the over Undertree. This is you know these division games, Houston,

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Speaker 1: Houston won the beat them the first time. Yeah, Houston's

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Speaker 1: this game means nothing to them. Lawrence hasn't practiced in

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Speaker 1: two weeks with a toe. I would say, hey, Trevor,

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Speaker 1: why don't you don't even dress for this game and

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Speaker 1: call it plays with me and we'll hang out on

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Speaker 1: the sideline together and let's go beat the Titans. And

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Speaker 1: Houston is playing hard jack, They're a problem. Jacksonville has

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Speaker 1: lost seven straight games outright as a favorite, really, including

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Speaker 1: all three this season. I mean, I like Houston this one.

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Speaker 1: I might even take the money line because halfway through

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Speaker 1: this game, they may look around and be like, why

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Speaker 1: are we playing all our guys? You know people are

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Speaker 1: getting hurt, and you know we're not inning to play

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Speaker 1: for That's seven straight games is tied for the fourth

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Speaker 1: longest streak of such in the Super Bowl era. Like

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Speaker 1: losses have come against Houston like that isn't a small

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Speaker 1: sample size to me. I think that's very contextually appropriate

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Speaker 1: because learning how to win when you're expected to win

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Speaker 1: is hard. Jackson will pick first from the draft for

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Speaker 1: two years in a run, you know, like they're probably

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Speaker 1: covers about three seasons. Yeah, exactly, there's not many of them.

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Speaker 1: I like Houston that one for sure, which could get

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Speaker 1: them the second overall pick, not the first overall pick.

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Speaker 1: Moody picking at Jaguars to nineteen, Walter picking the Jaguars twenty,

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Speaker 1: take the plus four. The six and nine Browns are

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Speaker 1: at the seven, seven and one commanders. Washington needs this game.

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Speaker 1: When we come back time for the Fantasy Football Focus,

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Speaker 1: will do our d f ST lineup we hit one

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Speaker 1: last night, and uh we'll also give our game picks

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Speaker 1: for Steelers evens. We'll do that right after this time.

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Speaker 1: The Black and Gold live here four seven. This is

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Speaker 1: said