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

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

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Drive. I'm bail Ally here with

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Speaker 1: Matt Williamson. Is Tuesday, and that means it is Power

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Speaker 1: ranking day in the NFL. It seems weird when you

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Speaker 1: play the Steelers play the Thursday night game, get away

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Speaker 1: till Tuesday for the power rankings. Like this Thursday night

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Speaker 1: game screwed me up a bunch, Like when we were

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Speaker 1: here yesterday, Yesterday's Monday, right, yea case in point. I

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Speaker 1: felt like I watched that game like a year ago.

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Speaker 1: You know, we're you're you're referencing it like off the

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Speaker 1: top of your head, and it was so behind me already.

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Speaker 1: I was like, what happened again? You know, I didn't

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Speaker 1: watched the second time recently, So I'm I'm moving ahead,

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Speaker 1: moving ahead as we are with the power rankings. These

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Speaker 1: are of course from NFL dot Com. Dan hanzas dous

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Speaker 1: these and there's some bad teams. There's some bad teams,

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Speaker 1: and he has the Houston Texans as the worst team

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Speaker 1: in the NFL at thirty two. I agree they have

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Speaker 1: a tie. I mean that's like the good You know,

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Speaker 1: if your mom says you can only say nice things

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Speaker 1: about people, don't say at all big lead net game

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Speaker 1: and say, yeah they have they have a tie. That's

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Speaker 1: a good thing to say about that. Petriot kid looks good.

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Speaker 1: The Bears rush for two hundred and eighty one yards

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Speaker 1: against two one yards in an NFL game. People without

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Speaker 1: throwing the football. People were killing the Bears like they

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Speaker 1: hate fields. They only let him throw eleven times, twelve

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Speaker 1: got sacked five times and twelve dropbacks, Like why are

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Speaker 1: we doing this all over? Speaking of that, I saw

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Speaker 1: a stat on Carson Wentz and the one one quarter

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Speaker 1: he got sacked five times against the Eagles. Yeah, and

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Speaker 1: a lot of them are on him too. Yeah. At

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Speaker 1: thirty one down six spots the New York Jets. I

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Speaker 1: mean there when as as flukey or as unique as

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Speaker 1: it ever could be. You know, they've held a lead

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Speaker 1: this season for twenty two seconds. You sent me a

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Speaker 1: good stat about that, and I was gonna trump you

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Speaker 1: with it and tell you that too. One offensive play

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Speaker 1: they've had a lead two seconds seconds. Yeah, that's kind

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Speaker 1: of all you needed. And that was the Joe Flacco quarterback,

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Speaker 1: no matter, and we we trash Shoe Flacco a lot

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Speaker 1: because he's a professional quarterback. Um. Now they're turning it

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Speaker 1: over to Zach Wilson, who was a disaster last year

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Speaker 1: I mean, you need to know the answer. If I'm them,

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Speaker 1: I just fear we already know the answer, you know.

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Speaker 1: But I mean, if he's not better and he was

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Speaker 1: last year, holy smokes. I mean the Wilson stats. That's

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Speaker 1: one thing I was doing this morning, the Wilson stats

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Speaker 1: last line on this. Zach Wilson appears set to make

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Speaker 1: his season debut against the Steelers on Sunday. But the

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Speaker 1: young quarterback can't fix any everything. I don't know. If

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Speaker 1: can make it might be gasoline. You know, he's going

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Speaker 1: to turn the football over. If I were a Jets fan,

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Speaker 1: I'd be excited, though, it's like we got this stuff

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Speaker 1: thirty down three spots. Washington, it's getting bad. Yeah, defense

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Speaker 1: a bad organization. I I think I said they see

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Speaker 1: just that situation. That's what I'm thinking, right, I just

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Speaker 1: should take Solis in at down four spots. The Seattle Seahawks.

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Speaker 1: They're pretty bad too. I mean they were basically played

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Speaker 1: Carolina there at twenty nine, what about the team they

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Speaker 1: they haven't. I don't think they're in that neighborhood though.

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Speaker 1: I think they're trending in that they are trending that direction.

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Speaker 1: We'll get to them, but this is a bad neighborhood.

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Speaker 1: Up three spots the Chicago Bears. That might be the

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Speaker 1: When they drop back, it's it's unbelievable. They want to

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Speaker 1: in the preseason, how could the Bears offensive line stinks?

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Speaker 1: that doesn't mean the Bears are smart. Yeah, they also

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Speaker 1: did you know? Right? But jeez, alright at twenty six

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Speaker 1: That's ridiculous. I mean, and I can make an argument

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Speaker 1: they're the twenty six best offense but best football team.

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Speaker 1: I we did it last segment. There's a handful of

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Speaker 1: a FC teams. I would definitely have them over you can.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna get to some of these teams here. Alright,

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Speaker 1: up four spots. He has the Falcons ahead of the Steelers.

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Speaker 1: I think the Steelers are favorite against Falcons right now.

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Speaker 1: They'll be favorite against some in Atlanta when they pay

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Speaker 1: them credit. They're running the ball well, getting Pits involved London.

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Speaker 1: Mario is playing better than I thought, you know, but

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Speaker 1: their talent is very thin. It's twenty four down six

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Speaker 1: We're still not to that that team that Carolina beat

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Speaker 1: Twenty three up three spots. The Colts Steelers are better

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Speaker 1: for the Giants. They stink. They're not a good football

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Speaker 1: they beat too bad football teams. I understand the record matters,

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Speaker 1: but the eyeball test matters more. Maybe you know after

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Speaker 1: three games, no way. This is what I don't get

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Speaker 1: about his rankings. In some cases, the record does matter,

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Speaker 1: in other cases it doesn't. It's I don't Titans here.

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Speaker 1: I would say the Titans are horrible where are the Saints.

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Speaker 1: Saints have been bad. I would have the Saints over

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Speaker 1: all these guys. I know you're down on the Saints,

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Speaker 1: and I don't disagree with you. They're much worse than

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Speaker 1: How about this team that down six spots to twenty one,

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Speaker 1: the oh and three Raiders. Yeah, they're not a good

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Speaker 1: now they're getting quadruple covered, you know, and nobody else

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Speaker 1: like the Raiders had somebody. They can't stop anybody. They

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Speaker 1: how many games do they win when said and done?

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Speaker 1: at twenty down six spots the Cardinals. Here's the problem.

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Speaker 1: He was too high on some of these teams to

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Speaker 1: eleven to start the season too high. Preconceived notions are

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Speaker 1: hard to shake. You know, three games and he was

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Speaker 1: too high in the Cardinals. Um, do you feel like

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Speaker 1: beat the Bills if everything goes well? Like sometimes I've

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Speaker 1: think on their best day. Now that might be a

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Speaker 1: bit extreme, but they could beat the tenth best team.

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Speaker 1: They have no foundation at all. I mean it's basically, hey, Kyler,

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Speaker 1: don't make a play? Uh at nineteen down six spots.

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Speaker 1: Finally we get to the Saints. What's strange about the

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Speaker 1: you look at the numbers. They run the ball pretty well,

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Speaker 1: but they don't do it. And I wonder if this

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Speaker 1: guy shouldn't be a head coach. Maybe he's a coordinator,

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Speaker 1: you know what I mean. Winston's turned the ball over.

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Speaker 1: But I also saw this this morning. Once again, this

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Speaker 1: You know. Reelment a little bit like Peyton did an

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Speaker 1: eighteen up ten spots the Jaguars. He still has the

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Speaker 1: sure if the Jags or is better or better than

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Speaker 1: the Packers. Yeah, I hear you. I mean both sides.

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Speaker 1: The ball have been really good for them. It's seventeen

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Speaker 1: gotten to They're awful. I mean, I think the Colts

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