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Speaker 1: He's the Drive with Dale Lolly and Matt Williamson on

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Speaker 1: your twenty four to seven home of the Black and

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Speaker 1: Gold Steelers Nation Radio.

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Speaker 2: And we are back. I'm Dale Lolli he is Matt

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Speaker 2: Williamson and it is time for the Fantasy Football Focus,

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Speaker 2: And as we do every Wednesday, we'll take a look

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Speaker 2: at some player news from Rondelia. Who is practicing today,

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Speaker 2: who is not? Who is in and out for Thursday

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Speaker 2: nights game. Don't forget there's.

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Speaker 3: Also this week stuff circling around that we get.

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Speaker 2: The first London game of the season. Oh yeah, I

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Speaker 2: know you forgot about that?

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Speaker 4: Was it?

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Speaker 2: Last year?

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Speaker 3: The great Kamaravans.

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Speaker 2: Don't do what Matt did.

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Speaker 3: So here's the story is this year will be different

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Speaker 3: because now that I do the pre pregame show, that's

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Speaker 3: during that time I'll be in here actually in the studio.

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Speaker 3: But that day I'm like, why do I send an alarm?

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Speaker 3: I think we were going out party the night before?

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Speaker 3: Yeah or whatever. I'm like, why do I send an

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Speaker 3: alarm for a nine o'clock game? Why don't I just

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Speaker 3: get up and watch it on.

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Speaker 2: Delay and get up when you get up?

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Speaker 3: Yeah? And Saints for play and I have Kamara. No,

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Speaker 3: he didn't miss a thing nothing. He practiced in fool.

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Speaker 3: Nothing's wrong with him. Finished last game, no issue. It's

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Speaker 3: crazy inactive at eight fifty five or whatever. In the morning,

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Speaker 3: I slept through it, got a zero, lost my game.

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Speaker 3: There you go, early bird, you know.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you got to remember that that Sunday game is

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Speaker 2: real and it's going to happen and it does.

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Speaker 3: Woke up, check my phone.

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Speaker 2: Come on, don't be mad.

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Speaker 3: That was bad.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, in several leagues. By the way, Jerome Ford is

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Speaker 2: dealing with a shoulder injury and was limited in today's

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Speaker 2: practice for the Cleveland Browns.

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Speaker 3: So it's Hunt ready if well, here's something.

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Speaker 2: I know it's early, but Kareem Hunt is also dealing

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Speaker 2: with groin and rib injuries. He got like fourteen snaps

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Speaker 2: last week. That's what happens when you're sitting on the

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Speaker 2: couch all off season. You come in, you get banged

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Speaker 2: around a few times. Oh yeah, my ribs hurt, My

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Speaker 2: growing hurt. Yeah, what I sign up to do here?

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Speaker 2: Uh so that's worth watching.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I pay attention to it, of course. Yeah. They

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Speaker 3: got the Ravens.

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Speaker 2: They do other Ravens. Sean McVay said, the hope is

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Speaker 2: for Cooper Cup, who's dealing with that hamstring injury, to

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Speaker 2: return from injury reserve in week five. That would be

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Speaker 2: the soon as that he would be able.

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Speaker 3: To come back, and careful, I mean if you're a

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Speaker 2: Actually he'd be able to come back before that because

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Speaker 2: he went an IR before the season.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so that's an extra week shooting for I guess. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: I mean hopefully is what he's saying. I mean it

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Speaker 3: sounds like there's a good chance. I mean I don't

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Speaker 3: think his injury was that bad from what I understort. Either.

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Speaker 3: Does that hurt Pooka, Yeah it has to.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it hurts all those guys because Cooper Cup is

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Speaker 2: going to get Cooper Cup targets when he comes.

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Speaker 3: Back, fifteen or twenty that Puka did, But he's going

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Speaker 3: to be more than what Puka gets.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Now, maybe those guys change that, maybe they've eat

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Speaker 2: maybe they eat a little bit into Cooper Cups production.

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Speaker 3: I could see that. Yeah, I mean he was the

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Speaker 3: only show in town for a long time. Why force

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Speaker 3: feed him some targets, right? But I mean immediately you're

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, Yeah, Traylon Burk's with the knee was limited in

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Speaker 3: I'm not sure I blame him, but he's not really

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Speaker 3: even usable at this point. That offense is rough.

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Speaker 2: He caught one of the six targets on Sunday against.

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Speaker 3: The ninety four total yards.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they just didn't do anything and.

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Speaker 3: Nobody was good for fantasy. On the team.

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Speaker 2: They play the Bengals this week. He was talking about

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Speaker 2: two struggling offenses playing each other.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a good point. Both those ds irrelevant. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: I think the Bengals. I think it's like a three

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Speaker 2: Might be a game against Henry Going. The Bengals defense

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Speaker 3: And I thought it was good last week.

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Speaker 2: He's good enough.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know. I don't love it.

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Speaker 2: Irv Smith has a hamstring and miss practice on Wednesday,

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Speaker 3: If I'm sure it's Borrow related as well.

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Speaker 2: It's Irv Smith. I think it's ur Smith related. I

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Speaker 2: think he's just a big fantasy teas that.

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Speaker 3: They don't use the tight end all that much anyway.

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Speaker 3: It's not a good fantasy spot and he's not a

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Speaker 3: and he is a tease. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Jaire Alexander will not play in Week four against the Lions.

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Speaker 3: I think missed last week too, he did. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Linebacker Devondre Campbell also out. David Boctiari will not play.

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Speaker 2: Christian Watson is questionable coming back from that hamstring injury.

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Speaker 2: Aaron Jones is questionable with his hamstring like that.

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Speaker 3: Game has a lot of injuries in it. Yeah, would

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Speaker 2: Yes, probably, But you're always it's always scary bringing a

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but short week doesn't matter to him. But still

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Speaker 3: There's some many running back injuries. People probably have to

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Speaker 2: Zay Jones with a knee did not practice on Wednesday

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Speaker 2: for the Jaguars. They kind of missed him last week.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: I mean he's reliable and they didn't have much reliability

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Speaker 2: They really didn't. I looked at they Calvin Ridley's alread

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Speaker 3: I think they lead the league and dropped yeah, with

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Speaker 2: That was a costly dropped touchdown pass. By the way,

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Speaker 2: I lost my game by about twenty points this week.

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Speaker 2: If Trevor Lawrence completes that pass to Calvin Ridley that

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Speaker 2: Ridley and Trevor Lawrence. Yeah, that's like a twenty point play.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I win, speaking on one play. Speaking of the

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Speaker 3: defensive coordinators in on the hot seat? How many points

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Speaker 2: That you gave up? Like two hundred and thirty two

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Speaker 2: points last week history, most in league history.

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Speaker 3: The Williamson decordinators not having a very fun time around

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you get destroyed, Yeah, just destroyed. Joe Burrow was

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Speaker 3: Practice them heavy. I mean, yeah, you know this better

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Speaker 2: And maybe that's why they're doing it. Like, hey, Joe,

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Speaker 2: practice more, Yeah.

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Speaker 3: To play more. Maybe it's him. I mean it sounds

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Speaker 2: Sounds like yeah, so we'll see. Uh. Boston Scott, with

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Speaker 2: the Philadelphia Eagles. He plays special team, So special team

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Speaker 2: that might you know, that might lead them to somebody

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Speaker 2: Penny pennies. It's just worthless right now.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. The other ones look like a fifty to fifty split. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: I play a lot of attention to Dwayne McFarlane. He's

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Speaker 3: on Matthew Berry's site Fantasy Life because he's the best

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Speaker 3: good hold, like well in two minute situations to Tim

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Speaker 3: goal line of Tim, He's like, I can't figure out

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Speaker 3: their rotation. It's just it's like, yeah, he's like, I

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Speaker 2: Of them score touchdowns because those all go to jails hurts.

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Speaker 3: But they run for a lot of yards and they're

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Speaker 3: pretty good on a good offense. But there's no rhyme

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Speaker 3: or reason of how they're using gainwell verse swift.

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Speaker 2: Speaking of the Eagles, Quez Watkins with the hamstring did

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Speaker 2: For this Saints center Caesar Luiz or guard again, I

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Speaker 3: A good quality player for first round pick.

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Speaker 2: On the other side of that matchup, Bucks linebacker Devin

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Speaker 3: He didn't play last week either in the night.

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Speaker 2: So that's worth noting. Uh. For the Lions in that game,

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Speaker 2: Taylor Decker, their left tackle, is questionable.

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Speaker 3: I thought he was even out. Uh.

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Speaker 2: Vye Tie and Matt Nelson have been ruled out, so there's.

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Speaker 2: So there's a chance that I think Decker plays. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: Ragnow is banged up. Apparently he is. I think he's

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Speaker 3: I thought last I heard he is a real long

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it doesn't say a good line.

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Speaker 3: They got three starters that are questionable or worse.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's not good.

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Speaker 2: David Montgomery with the thigh injury is questionable for that

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Speaker 2: game against the Packers, So you might have both questionable

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Speaker 2: running backs in that game coming back game time decision,

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Speaker 2: don't forget about that game and then all of a sudden,

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Speaker 2: Aaron Jones or David Montgomery goes crazy and he's sitting

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Speaker 3: No, a good point. I mean, at least you're on

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Speaker 3: top of it ahead of time. Maybe take the bird

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Speaker 2: You feel differently about Montgomery than you do Jones in

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Speaker 2: terms of because it's a thigh contusion, I guess like

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Speaker 2: it's not something he's gonna pull.

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Speaker 3: Or Yeah, it's easy for us to say, but yeah,

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Speaker 3: those guys usually play, and I can't imagine this game

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Speaker 3: is going to be a blowout where he's just sitting

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Speaker 3: around the fourth quarter or not. Yeah you know, yeah,

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Speaker 3: but I probably would start either one of them if

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think so too. I mean, they're both solid

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Speaker 3: Jones had a great year when he's been out there. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: Really good play Montgomery's been valued. Yeah, I mean he's

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Speaker 3: Back to reality.

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Speaker 2: I think you like, Hey, I hope the Cardinals offense

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Speaker 3: No, okay, you're saying for the guys you own for them, yeah.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, you don't want Mitchell closed that game.

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Speaker 2: pain tolerance thing for Derek Carr. It's his throwing shoulder.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. People say things like that, and it's like they

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's how works the athletics. Daniel Popper reports it

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Speaker 2: looks like Austin Ekelar will practice in some capacity on Wednesday.

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Speaker 3: The experiment didn't didn't work for people who win him.

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Speaker 3: Okay, Tubas, he's a true handcuff.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and he was successful last year when he was

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Speaker 3: Fine, Yeah, you know right.

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Speaker 2: Jonathan Mingo with the concussion, was limited Wednesday's practice for

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Speaker 2: If he's limited with the concussion, that's the first step.

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Speaker 3: He was playing a fair amount before this concussion. Do

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Speaker 2: Bryce Young was a full participant in Wednesday's practice for them,

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't think that's good for company. No, No,

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Speaker 2: But yeah, the Bears Jackson, who's one of the few

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Speaker 2: that anybody's ever heard of. Uh, well, he did not

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Speaker 3: Practice they get, Yeah, I'm talking about.

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Speaker 2: The Peter Skronski still not practice that append dectomy.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. DeAndre Hopkins, however, did practice. He's dealing with an

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Speaker 3: If we were redrafting today, I'd probably take Thomas ahead

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Speaker 2: He get more targets and he plays in a better offense.

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Speaker 3: That offense is rough. I mean, Dereck Henry's of every

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Speaker 2: But you're not thrilled, right, Yeah, if you took him

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Speaker 2: in the fourth round, you'd feel better about it.

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Speaker 2: Odell Beckham with the ankle injury, did not practice on Wednesday. However,

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Speaker 3: But Hamilton went on the list today too. I don't

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Speaker 2: He's not back yet. Gus Edwards returned to practice Wednesday.

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Speaker 2: He was evaluated for concussion on Sunday. I didn't didn't

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Speaker 3: Sounds like ready to go. Then.

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Speaker 3: He's better than Gordon. Yeah, they just loved gush.

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Speaker 2: To Armstead with back, ankle, knee, he always like six.

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Speaker 3: I don't know if he ever practices.

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Speaker 2: No, I don't think so.

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Speaker 2: Raiders head coach Josh McDaniel said, Jimmy Garoppolo is moving

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Speaker 2: when did he suffer this concussion?

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Speaker 3: Why did it?

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Speaker 2: Why was it not figured out until after the game

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Speaker 3: Right, And all these guys that don't have concussions get

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Speaker 2: You might as well.

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Speaker 3: I mean it's best for the team, Yeah, not good

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Speaker 3: He must have a broken hand.

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Speaker 2: He's the one that he was the one that they

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Speaker 3: Well, that's not happening, not happening, Okay wow.

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Speaker 2: Uh. The Akronbeacon Journals Chris Easterling reports Deshaun Watson is

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Speaker 3: Okay, I mean there's something to keep an eye on. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: Are you happy to not happy? He's not the right word.

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Speaker 3: Is he a definite top twelve guy at this point?

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Speaker 4: No?

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Speaker 3: I mean he runs, he came up as I mean,

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Speaker 3: I'm just saying that he came up his best game.

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Speaker 3: It's only one game. But no, I mean you're starting

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Speaker 3: like Daniel Jones over him? Yes, okay, I mean.

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Speaker 3: Like, are you playing like a Jordan Love over him?

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Speaker 3: That's he's spent a lot of touchdown That's why I

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Speaker 2: Uh. Tyron Smith missed practice on Wednesday for the Cowboys

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Speaker 2: He's dealing with a biceps injury. Probably their best offensive lineman.

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Speaker 3: The safeties are a big deal. He's a huge deal.

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Speaker 3: You got the Dolphins your two starters. Yeah, Dolphins come

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Speaker 2: Laramie Tunsel did not miss practice on Wednesday, but he

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Speaker 2: but he's still on injured reserve, so at any time

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Speaker 3: Ye yeah, okay, so if you're on IR you're allowed

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Speaker 2: You're allowed to practice once they but once they start

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Speaker 3: So they know to act.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it doesn't mean he's back this week necessarily, this

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Graham Canyon, Jaylen Waddell uh set to fully practice

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Speaker 2: that's a that's a good step.

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Speaker 3: Though they scored right.

445
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Speaker 2: Mentioned Cream Hunt did not practice today. Neither did Greg

446
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Speaker 2: Newsom or no for Greg Newsom return to practice. He's

447
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Speaker 2: doing with dealing with an elbow injury. Mhmm. This this

448
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Speaker 2: color of this one put this one under the shocking

449
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Speaker 2: news of the day. Jets head coach Robert Salla said,

450
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Speaker 2: Zach Wilson definitely needs to get better.

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Speaker 3: Thanks. I think he's probably the worst quarterback in the

452
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Speaker 3: league right now.

453
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Speaker 2: Yeah, Anthony Richardson practice today.

454
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Speaker 3: I think that's good.

455
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's that's a good sign for him and we'll

456
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Speaker 2: do it for most of the injury news that we

457
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Speaker 2: have here today. But yeah, don't forget there is a Sunday.

458
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Speaker 3: Early in Yeah, how about a huge fan. That's a

459
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Speaker 3: lot of football time and time again and you just

460
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Speaker 3: got to change your schedule a little bit. But that's

461
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Speaker 3: a cool tradition.

462
00:21:01,440 --> 00:21:05,080
Speaker 2: Yeah, that is Atlanta and Jacksonville. So there's a fantasy

463
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Speaker 2: relevant game.

464
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Speaker 3: Too, Jacksonville staying there.

465
00:21:07,320 --> 00:21:09,280
Speaker 2: Yeah, they play back to back weeks.

466
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Speaker 3: There, Okay, Yeah, I thought there was some weird.

467
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Speaker 2: That's a pretty big advantage.

468
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Speaker 3: That's a huge advantage. Yeah, I know who they played

469
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Speaker 3: next week, but that's a big advantage.

470
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Speaker 2: They need to win this one.

471
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Speaker 3: They're in a little bit trouble.

472
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Speaker 2: Yeah, Falcons are two and one. There's one and two,

473
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Speaker 2: like Jacksonville needs to have this game.

474
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Speaker 3: Those two divisions don't look strong. But if you're gonna

475
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Speaker 3: either one of these teams are you're gonna win it?

476
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Speaker 3: You better start stepping up. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I am Dale Lolly. You're listening to the drive here

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Speaker 2: on Steelers Nation Radio, and Matt, we looked, took a

492
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Speaker 2: look at this. A couple of weeks ago, Derek Claussam

493
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Speaker 2: puts together the quarterback rankings for the thirty third team website,

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Speaker 2: and I thought we'd dutch bus through that again here

495
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Speaker 2: right now he has Zach Wilson at number thirty two.

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Speaker 3: Just happened to say that at the end of the

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Speaker 3: last segment, I.

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Speaker 2: Know, distant thirty two.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it really is. I think Simeon might take over

500
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Speaker 3: at some point.

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Speaker 2: I will say this, He's played some rough defenses.

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Speaker 3: I mean, it doesn't get easier.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean we knew that going into the seasons

504
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Speaker 2: their schedule was going to be brutal.

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Speaker 3: So the other thing, too, is their shuffling o' lineman

506
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Speaker 3: like crazy back then goes from right tackle to left

507
00:23:02,160 --> 00:23:05,200
Speaker 3: Vera Tucker had to play tackle. Tipton's now at guard,

508
00:23:05,280 --> 00:23:07,320
Speaker 3: you know, like they're moving everything around. It's a mess.

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00:23:07,400 --> 00:23:09,080
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's tough, tough on the quarterback.

510
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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: At thirty one, Sam Howe.

512
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Speaker 3: Really came back to reality last week. I liked how

513
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Speaker 3: he played before last week too, but he's only played

514
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Speaker 3: what four career games. He gets takes such a beating

515
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Speaker 3: and he's been himself.

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Speaker 2: He's been sacked on sixteen point one percent of all

517
00:23:26,720 --> 00:23:29,120
Speaker 2: of his drop backs drop back. So if he if

518
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Speaker 2: he drops back to pass one hundred times, he gets

519
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Speaker 2: sacked sixteen of them, he's not going to last the season.

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Speaker 3: And then he does the same thing as a runner.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yikes.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know if he's second worst, but he's

523
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Speaker 3: not a good spot right now.

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Speaker 2: Number thirty is Josh Dobbs.

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Speaker 3: He's playing better than how and I mean no, I

526
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Speaker 3: mean he's a great player, but he's playing really.

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Speaker 2: Well and they're doing a good job of scheming things

528
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Speaker 2: up and you know, doing those you know what they

529
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Speaker 2: need to do. At twenty nine, Bryce Young.

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Speaker 3: Sure, I don't have any problem with that. Of the

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Speaker 3: three rookies, I think he would be last of how

532
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Speaker 3: they're playing right now for me.

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Speaker 2: At twenty eight he has Kenny Pickett.

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Speaker 3: Really okay, I know he's a picket believer for the

535
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Speaker 3: most part.

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Speaker 2: He said it was an uneven performance against the Raiders.

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Speaker 3: Okay, so last week only just an Epa Stroud came

538
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Speaker 3: in sixth across the league and Kenny was seventh. Yeah,

539
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Speaker 3: I mean, like I thought both of them played quite well.

540
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Speaker 3: And you know, I'm gonna disagree with Derek on that one.

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Speaker 2: At twenty seven is Baker Mayfield.

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Speaker 3: He had a rough go of things too.

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Speaker 4: Yeah. I don't know that.

544
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Speaker 2: The picket's playing worse than Baker.

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Speaker 3: I don't think so. He's had a better year than

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Speaker 3: I thought, though twenty more. I think about this though,

547
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Speaker 3: Justin Field should be like.

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Speaker 2: Well he's at twenty six. That's what I like. That's

549
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Speaker 2: what I was just gonna say, like, how's Justin Field's

550
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Speaker 2: not below all these guys.

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Speaker 3: He's really bad, Yeah, I mean, not completing passes, holding

552
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Speaker 3: the ball. He would be below Baker and he's not

553
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Speaker 3: running dogs right I mean in terms of how they're

554
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Speaker 3: playing right now. Like I'd rather build a team around

555
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Speaker 3: fields and dobs.

556
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Speaker 2: But what's happening to justin fields right now reminds me

557
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Speaker 2: a little bit of nineteen ninety eight with the Steelers

558
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Speaker 2: when they brought in Ray Sherman with the idea that

559
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Speaker 2: they're gonna make Cordell Stewart a pocket passer. Yeah, yeah,

560
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Speaker 2: we want we want him throwing the ball from the

561
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Speaker 2: pocket because, yeah, don't take advantage of his what he

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Speaker 2: does best.

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Speaker 3: I don't understand why they're not running them more, But

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Speaker 3: I also understand that he's really hard to call plays

565
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Speaker 3: for right now. Yeah, he hasn't hit anything.

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Speaker 2: I might, I don't. Desmond Ritter is number twenty five.

567
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Speaker 2: He's awful.

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Speaker 3: He really leaves a lot of plays on the field,

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Speaker 3: especially early in games.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, what's he what's he done?

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Speaker 3: That's yeah?

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Speaker 2: Has him at twenty five?

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Speaker 3: Back up? I mean he looks like a play in

574
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Speaker 3: this league for ten years as a number two.

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Speaker 2: Twenty four is Jameis Winston.

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Speaker 3: I don't know, wh how would you rank him?

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Speaker 2: I don't know either, Yeah, I mean I thought he

578
00:25:58,960 --> 00:26:02,320
Speaker 2: looked not particularly good on Sunday. I watched that game.

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Speaker 3: You know who they played this upcoming week. I don't.

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Speaker 2: They played Tampa Bay. It's a big, big revenge game

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Speaker 2: for Jamis. Yeah, not that he didn't have a chance

582
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Speaker 2: to do that before.

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Speaker 3: I mean, he's one of my favorite backups, but I

584
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Speaker 3: don't I wouldn't have him this high.

585
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Speaker 4: No.

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Speaker 2: Twenty three is Deshaun Watson.

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Speaker 3: So at least he's Deshaun's moving up a little bit

588
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Speaker 3: because he was really hard on him.

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Speaker 2: He said. Deshaun Watson finally played his first decent game

590
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Speaker 2: with the Browns. I thought it was decent as well,

591
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Speaker 2: Like he put up yardage and all that stuff, and

592
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Speaker 2: you look at the final numbers and you go, oh, yeah,

593
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Speaker 2: he had a good game. But when you watch it,

594
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Speaker 2: he takes a sack and he throws he's taking it

595
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Speaker 2: in the middle of taking a sack, throws the ball

596
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Speaker 2: fifteen yards behind him. That's a live football.

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Speaker 3: Did you see This doesn't make him a better or

598
00:26:45,359 --> 00:26:47,520
Speaker 3: worse player? But did you see that this should have

599
00:26:47,520 --> 00:26:50,760
Speaker 3: been touchdown to Marty Cooper Loan dead too? Like yeah,

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Speaker 3: and that's just a stat thing. I mean that it

601
00:26:52,320 --> 00:26:54,520
Speaker 3: doesn't mean Watson did anything better. But it was a

602
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Speaker 3: decent game. But that's his first decent game.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, and as he makes a note of here,

604
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Speaker 2: open receips were running rampant.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, good point, they were.

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Speaker 2: Twenty two is Jimmy Garoppolo. Fine, I Jimmy played bad lyan, I.

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Speaker 3: Mean, just the names have come up already. I don't

608
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Speaker 3: know Jimmy much lower. I mean he is impressed.

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00:27:16,720 --> 00:27:20,359
Speaker 2: Jimmy is is the epitome of a game manager. Oh yeah,

610
00:27:20,400 --> 00:27:22,760
Speaker 2: you know, like if you told me that that Kenny

611
00:27:22,800 --> 00:27:25,800
Speaker 2: Pickett would turn into Jimmy Garoppolo, I'm saying. I'm saying, no,

612
00:27:25,880 --> 00:27:27,040
Speaker 2: I want I want better than that.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Twenty one Daniel Jones, he's gotten better.

615
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Speaker 3: I mean things started really rough for him, but he's

616
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Speaker 3: gotten better. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Twenty is Anthony Richardson. I don't know what you could

618
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Speaker 2: where you put Anthony Richardson right now?

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Speaker 3: Him and like Winston, A couple of these guys are

620
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Speaker 3: pretty tough to rank considering what they've done to this point.

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Speaker 2: Like, I just worry about Anthony Richardson. He's played two

622
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Speaker 2: games in the NFL and he's gotten hurt.

623
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Speaker 3: In both of them. Might be nothing might be something.

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Speaker 2: Like he he didn't play many games in college. It

625
00:27:58,280 --> 00:28:00,560
Speaker 2: was like thirteen or whatever it was. Does he not

626
00:28:00,680 --> 00:28:03,680
Speaker 2: know how to protect himself when the speed of the

627
00:28:03,720 --> 00:28:05,600
Speaker 2: game is what it is in the NFL.

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Speaker 3: I don't remember his first injury.

629
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Speaker 2: This last one was a knee.

630
00:28:08,320 --> 00:28:10,520
Speaker 3: I believe this last one is one of those ones

631
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Speaker 3: where your head hits the turf heavy, you know. I

632
00:28:13,160 --> 00:28:14,719
Speaker 3: think it was scored on the play or something too.

633
00:28:14,760 --> 00:28:17,720
Speaker 2: I also say this, if you look up his A dot, yeah,

634
00:28:17,800 --> 00:28:19,040
Speaker 2: everything is sideways.

635
00:28:19,119 --> 00:28:19,800
Speaker 3: Oh yeah it is.

636
00:28:19,880 --> 00:28:23,360
Speaker 2: I mean he's not he's not playing quarterback. Well, he's

637
00:28:23,359 --> 00:28:24,560
Speaker 2: playing fantasy football.

638
00:28:24,560 --> 00:28:28,280
Speaker 3: Well, very good fantasy stuff. But yeah, I'm curious. I mean,

639
00:28:28,320 --> 00:28:30,720
Speaker 3: we've en't seen a lot of them. I'm excited to

640
00:28:30,720 --> 00:28:32,040
Speaker 3: see amazing, exciting.

641
00:28:31,720 --> 00:28:33,480
Speaker 2: Player nineteen c J. Stroud.

642
00:28:33,640 --> 00:28:34,320
Speaker 3: That's about right.

643
00:28:35,000 --> 00:28:37,639
Speaker 2: Yeah with that, Yeah, it's not the you know, I

644
00:28:37,680 --> 00:28:39,680
Speaker 2: saw some other stuff under c J. Stroud is playing

645
00:28:39,680 --> 00:28:40,600
Speaker 2: in a Pro Bowl level.

646
00:28:40,720 --> 00:28:43,680
Speaker 3: No, come on, no, like earlier in the show, and

647
00:28:43,720 --> 00:28:45,240
Speaker 3: I said he's having a better year than Kenny. I

648
00:28:45,280 --> 00:28:47,160
Speaker 3: mean I'm not saying he's lamar.

649
00:28:47,400 --> 00:28:50,920
Speaker 2: Yeah. Right, eighteen is Brock party. This is where Brock

650
00:28:50,960 --> 00:28:53,320
Speaker 2: Party belongs. Like, okay, that.

651
00:28:53,400 --> 00:28:57,959
Speaker 3: Results are three yeah, you know, but the performance.

652
00:28:57,400 --> 00:28:59,400
Speaker 2: Is people like setting him up to go to the

653
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Speaker 2: Hall of Fame, all he's eleven or oh as a starter,

654
00:29:01,480 --> 00:29:04,600
Speaker 2: huh is he day?

655
00:29:04,880 --> 00:29:08,600
Speaker 3: Like, can you please Williamson admit that perty's better than Pickett.

656
00:29:08,680 --> 00:29:11,680
Speaker 3: I'm like, I'm not ready to do that. No, make

657
00:29:11,720 --> 00:29:12,560
Speaker 3: that trade right now?

658
00:29:13,120 --> 00:29:17,760
Speaker 2: No, no, No. Seventeen is Jordan Love cool?

659
00:29:18,080 --> 00:29:20,440
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's ups and downs. He has to show up

660
00:29:20,440 --> 00:29:23,920
Speaker 3: in the scoreboard. Yeah, you know, but he's well when.

661
00:29:23,760 --> 00:29:25,440
Speaker 2: The game was on the line, and see, this is

662
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Speaker 2: the thing I talk about with Pickett, when the game

663
00:29:27,840 --> 00:29:30,200
Speaker 2: was on the line for Jordan Love, like he had

664
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Speaker 2: three quarters of blah. Then he puts together two eighty

665
00:29:34,080 --> 00:29:35,680
Speaker 2: yard touchdown drives at the end of the game and

666
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Speaker 2: wins the football game for the Packers. Yeah, and that

667
00:29:38,040 --> 00:29:40,240
Speaker 2: was very Ben Roethlisberger.

668
00:29:39,640 --> 00:29:42,080
Speaker 3: Like, yeah, there's something he said for that, no question.

669
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Speaker 3: And he's playing with a really young supporting cast. Yeah,

670
00:29:44,880 --> 00:29:45,840
Speaker 3: it's not holding him back.

671
00:29:46,240 --> 00:29:48,680
Speaker 2: Like, I don't care what your stats are, did you

672
00:29:48,720 --> 00:29:50,640
Speaker 2: win the football game? That's that's to me? Is the

673
00:29:51,840 --> 00:29:53,160
Speaker 2: sixteen is Russell Wilson.

674
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Speaker 3: He's a mediocre quarterback right now? Yeah, he's not the

675
00:29:57,600 --> 00:29:59,560
Speaker 3: problem that they're No, he's not the problem.

676
00:29:59,600 --> 00:30:02,280
Speaker 2: There the answer they've got other. Yeah, he's not not

677
00:30:02,400 --> 00:30:03,960
Speaker 2: for what they're paying him, what they gave up to

678
00:30:03,960 --> 00:30:06,240
Speaker 2: get him. That's the You can't put that out of mind.

679
00:30:06,360 --> 00:30:07,560
Speaker 2: That's the problem, of course.

680
00:30:07,640 --> 00:30:10,400
Speaker 3: I mean it's a bad trade, and Watson's a perfect example. Yeah,

681
00:30:10,440 --> 00:30:12,120
Speaker 3: but if we're doing quarterback ranks, you have to put

682
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Speaker 3: out of mine.

683
00:30:12,880 --> 00:30:14,280
Speaker 2: Fifteen is Mac Jones.

684
00:30:15,000 --> 00:30:18,320
Speaker 3: He's been solid, has he of his side? I don't

685
00:30:18,320 --> 00:30:20,520
Speaker 3: love his style of game, but I think he's been solid.

686
00:30:20,680 --> 00:30:23,120
Speaker 2: He was zero for five on passes of twenty or

687
00:30:23,120 --> 00:30:27,080
Speaker 2: more yards down the field in that game, like everything

688
00:30:27,160 --> 00:30:30,480
Speaker 2: was hard. He's King Dink and Dunk. He's a younger

689
00:30:30,560 --> 00:30:31,800
Speaker 2: version of Jimmy Garoppolo.

690
00:30:32,680 --> 00:30:35,840
Speaker 3: Yeah, Jimmy's a little more athletic. Jones is a little

691
00:30:35,840 --> 00:30:39,080
Speaker 3: more accurate. Both don't You're not gonna. I just don't

692
00:30:39,120 --> 00:30:40,960
Speaker 3: think he can win in the long term with those guys.

693
00:30:41,080 --> 00:30:44,560
Speaker 3: I tend to agree, like, I think Kenny's capable much

694
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Speaker 3: more than that.

695
00:30:45,240 --> 00:30:49,480
Speaker 2: Yeah, I do too. I would not have this guy. Fourteen.

696
00:30:49,520 --> 00:30:50,440
Speaker 2: He has Ryan Tannehill.

697
00:30:50,920 --> 00:30:54,880
Speaker 3: Ooh, that's rough. His game two is okay, He's.

698
00:30:54,720 --> 00:30:58,280
Speaker 2: Gonna get bench sooner. Yeah, I mean for Willis, he

699
00:30:58,320 --> 00:31:01,360
Speaker 2: just can't like trade it to a or something. Yeah,

700
00:31:01,440 --> 00:31:04,080
Speaker 2: As he says, the Tennessee offense is built to be

701
00:31:04,160 --> 00:31:06,560
Speaker 2: front runners in the run game and bulletyball receivers, but

702
00:31:06,560 --> 00:31:08,360
Speaker 2: the run game isn't as reliable as it's been in

703
00:31:08,440 --> 00:31:11,200
Speaker 2: years past. Yeah, and Tanny Hill is not good enough

704
00:31:11,240 --> 00:31:12,760
Speaker 2: to elevate any of the receivers.

705
00:31:12,880 --> 00:31:15,080
Speaker 3: And we talk about who you play. I mean, he

706
00:31:15,080 --> 00:31:16,000
Speaker 3: played the Browns.

707
00:31:15,800 --> 00:31:17,720
Speaker 2: Last week without a doubt, but they had eighty four

708
00:31:17,800 --> 00:31:22,040
Speaker 2: yard right, Yeah, I mean the Steelers at least had

709
00:31:22,280 --> 00:31:24,480
Speaker 2: two hundred and forty yards or whatever it was against

710
00:31:24,520 --> 00:31:25,000
Speaker 2: the Browns.

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00:31:25,440 --> 00:31:28,640
Speaker 3: To be honest, again, I think Clawson does really good work.

712
00:31:28,680 --> 00:31:30,760
Speaker 3: But he's been high on Tannehill, higher than I've been

713
00:31:30,760 --> 00:31:32,680
Speaker 3: on Tannehill every step of the way since I've been

714
00:31:32,680 --> 00:31:36,040
Speaker 3: following him. Yeah, I think that's three years ago.

715
00:31:36,160 --> 00:31:38,360
Speaker 2: Said he's still a very good passer within structure. What

716
00:31:38,760 --> 00:31:41,000
Speaker 2: the hell is the structure right now? They don't have one.

717
00:31:41,120 --> 00:31:43,080
Speaker 2: They don't have any structure, So he's not a good passer.

718
00:31:43,120 --> 00:31:44,640
Speaker 2: Thirteen he has Dereck Jared Goff.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I got no problem with that. I wouldn't

720
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Speaker 3: anyone mentioned I would not have over golf ye right now.

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00:31:51,800 --> 00:31:53,800
Speaker 2: Twelve is Kirk Cousins.

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Speaker 3: Yeah he might be playing better than that, but he

723
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Speaker 3: is what he is.

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Speaker 2: Eleven is too Attago Violace.

725
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Speaker 4: Oh.

726
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Speaker 2: I'll bet Dolphins fans hate that.

727
00:32:01,400 --> 00:32:06,560
Speaker 3: I bet he gets that's a tough one because he's

728
00:32:06,600 --> 00:32:09,760
Speaker 3: playing out of his mind and of course the system

729
00:32:09,800 --> 00:32:11,880
Speaker 3: benefits him a ton. But that's what I respect about

730
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Speaker 3: Classon is he doesn't put party at nine. Yeah, right,

731
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Speaker 3: you know what I mean. And we was making the

732
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Speaker 3: conversation on my podcast today like if you ask Carson

733
00:32:20,480 --> 00:32:23,840
Speaker 3: Palmer to do Tua stuff, it wouldn't go so great,

734
00:32:24,520 --> 00:32:26,640
Speaker 3: But if you ask two or to do Clarkson Palmer stuff,

735
00:32:26,640 --> 00:32:28,120
Speaker 3: it wouldn't go well at all. Right, you know what

736
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Speaker 3: I mean? Back, big arm, slow footed guy.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, there's still the argument out there should they have

738
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Speaker 2: taken Tua or should they have taken Justin Herbert?

739
00:32:37,040 --> 00:32:38,200
Speaker 3: I get it all the time. I think it's not

740
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Speaker 3: even close. I mean it's not even close to me. Yeah,

741
00:32:41,680 --> 00:32:43,000
Speaker 3: and much other Herbert.

742
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Speaker 2: At ten is Gino Smith.

743
00:32:46,800 --> 00:32:49,920
Speaker 3: Yeah, he started the season slow, but he's coming around decent.

744
00:32:50,400 --> 00:32:53,480
Speaker 3: I'd have two ahead of them, probably though Cousins.

745
00:32:53,280 --> 00:32:55,720
Speaker 2: Seven throws at twenty plus yards down the field. Last

746
00:32:55,720 --> 00:32:58,920
Speaker 2: week he was two for seven, So there's there's some

747
00:32:59,640 --> 00:33:00,160
Speaker 2: some that.

748
00:33:00,240 --> 00:33:02,200
Speaker 3: Was a big thing last year, which was ex accuracy

749
00:33:02,360 --> 00:33:03,880
Speaker 3: was crazy, especially deep stuff.

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00:33:04,160 --> 00:33:05,200
Speaker 2: Nine is Jalen Hurts.

751
00:33:05,840 --> 00:33:06,880
Speaker 3: Yeah, struggling a little.

752
00:33:06,920 --> 00:33:08,240
Speaker 2: He's not played super well.

753
00:33:08,320 --> 00:33:10,080
Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, right, he hasn't been at star.

754
00:33:10,160 --> 00:33:12,480
Speaker 2: In fact, I think Kenny bank Pickett's passer rating is

755
00:33:12,560 --> 00:33:13,360
Speaker 2: higher than Jalen Hurts.

756
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Speaker 3: Rye wouldn't shock me, Yeah, wouldn't.

757
00:33:17,480 --> 00:33:18,640
Speaker 2: Eight is Matthew Stafford.

758
00:33:19,680 --> 00:33:21,000
Speaker 3: I like what I've seen from Stafford.

759
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Speaker 4: They lost.

760
00:33:21,840 --> 00:33:23,520
Speaker 2: He missed some layups. So last year game it.

761
00:33:23,600 --> 00:33:25,840
Speaker 3: Was his worst game for four. But I think he's

762
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Speaker 3: a high quality player.

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Speaker 2: Seven is Dak Prescott. Okay, I don't think he's playing

764
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Speaker 2: particularly well.

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Speaker 3: I don't think he's playing great.

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Speaker 4: No.

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Speaker 3: I mean the thing about Dallas is they played both

768
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Speaker 3: New York teams to start the season and then they

769
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Speaker 3: played Arizona. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I talk about a schedule.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that lost one of them, dominated two of them,

772
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Speaker 3: they lost one of them.

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Speaker 2: I think he brings up a valid pointer. He said

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Speaker 2: between the twenty yard lines. Prescott was gaming just as

775
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Speaker 2: he did against the New York Jets. Last week past

776
00:33:52,760 --> 00:33:55,080
Speaker 2: Prescott sliced up the defense and in the short area

777
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Speaker 2: and did a good job of keeping the offense on schedule.

778
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Speaker 2: When it came time to finish, Prescott and the Cowboys

779
00:34:00,560 --> 00:34:02,680
Speaker 2: didn't have it. They scored a touch on the one

780
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Speaker 2: of five red zone.

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Speaker 3: Tra Yeah, and he threw an awful pick in the

782
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Speaker 3: red zone. I mean, it's well documented. I like Dak

783
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Speaker 3: more than you did. You do, but that's dead on.

784
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Speaker 3: I mean, for what he did last.

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Speaker 2: Week, that's exactly what he I just think that's who

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Speaker 2: he is.

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Speaker 3: See, I don't.

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Speaker 2: I don't six is Joe Burrow. Burrow would be a

789
00:34:19,120 --> 00:34:20,719
Speaker 2: tough rank right now.

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Speaker 4: He's not.

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00:34:22,840 --> 00:34:24,800
Speaker 2: Yeah, if you're basing it on the table what he

792
00:34:24,920 --> 00:34:27,239
Speaker 2: has done in the first three games, he should be

793
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Speaker 2: much much lower than this much.

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Speaker 3: But I if I were to rank him, I wouldn't

795
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Speaker 3: put him twenty fifth.

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00:34:33,600 --> 00:34:36,719
Speaker 2: His average depth of target was the fifth lowest in

797
00:34:36,800 --> 00:34:40,520
Speaker 2: the league's His time to throw is the third lowest

798
00:34:40,560 --> 00:34:42,320
Speaker 2: in the league right now, and his average depth of

799
00:34:42,360 --> 00:34:44,399
Speaker 2: target is fifth lowest. He's not throwing the ball down

800
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Speaker 2: the field at all.

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Speaker 3: No, he can't can't do it. He can't buy time.

802
00:34:50,719 --> 00:34:53,240
Speaker 2: At five is Trevor Lawrence and he is not played

803
00:34:53,640 --> 00:34:54,200
Speaker 2: to that's.

804
00:34:54,000 --> 00:34:57,759
Speaker 3: Been unlucky, but he has not played great either. Yeah,

805
00:34:57,800 --> 00:34:59,719
Speaker 3: I mean the drops that we've talked about, things like that.

806
00:35:01,960 --> 00:35:03,640
Speaker 2: Uh, it fors justin Herbert.

807
00:35:04,200 --> 00:35:06,960
Speaker 3: These top four, there's a line but underneath yeah, I

808
00:35:07,000 --> 00:35:08,799
Speaker 3: think so. I know he's not winning, but Herbert has

809
00:35:08,840 --> 00:35:09,920
Speaker 3: been ridiculously good.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, their defense just stinks awful. Lamar is number three.

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Speaker 2: I would have Herbert, yeah, okay, I would definitely have

812
00:35:24,239 --> 00:35:26,799
Speaker 2: Herbert ahead of him. Again, don't you would talk about

813
00:35:26,840 --> 00:35:29,960
Speaker 2: depth of target. Lamar is throwing everything sideways. Their offense

814
00:35:30,040 --> 00:35:32,200
Speaker 2: again with with Todd Monkin, was supposed to be We're

815
00:35:32,200 --> 00:35:34,960
Speaker 2: going to open things up. All they've done is open up,

816
00:35:35,040 --> 00:35:37,360
Speaker 2: not throwing to the tight end, which is one thing

817
00:35:37,480 --> 00:35:40,560
Speaker 2: Lamar did well. That change, that's got a change.

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00:35:41,120 --> 00:35:41,239
Speaker 4: Uh.

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00:35:41,280 --> 00:35:43,160
Speaker 2: Then of course you got Josh Allen at too and

820
00:35:43,280 --> 00:35:44,840
Speaker 2: Patrick Mahomes number one.

821
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Speaker 3: Real good, not special. Yeah, and same Mahomes honestly so

822
00:35:49,320 --> 00:35:49,799
Speaker 3: far this year.

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00:35:49,880 --> 00:35:53,799
Speaker 2: Yeah, all the quarterbacks it is not if you again

824
00:35:54,440 --> 00:35:57,240
Speaker 2: we learned in our fantasy stuff, you know you drafted

825
00:35:57,280 --> 00:35:59,839
Speaker 2: quarterbacks early this year and it's like, yeah, last year

826
00:35:59,920 --> 00:36:04,719
Speaker 2: was yeah, absolutely that was Derek Clausen's quarterback ratings off

827
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Speaker 2: of the thirty third team. We're gonna get to a break.

828
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Speaker 2: When we come back, we'll hear from Steelers quarterback Kenny

829
00:36:10,600 --> 00:36:12,680
Speaker 2: Pickett what he said had to say to the media today.

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Speaker 1: We'll be right back with more in the Drive right

831
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Speaker 1: after this. He's the Drive with Dale Lolly and Matt

832
00:36:19,000 --> 00:36:21,840
Speaker 1: Williamson on your twenty four to seven home of the

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00:36:21,960 --> 00:36:25,080
Speaker 1: Black and Gold Steelers Nation Radio.

834
00:36:26,120 --> 00:36:30,600
Speaker 2: What happened on the plane. So let's say I hear

835
00:36:30,640 --> 00:36:33,840
Speaker 2: what Kenny Pickett had to say with the reporters earlier today.

836
00:36:34,760 --> 00:36:36,640
Speaker 4: Keep been telling us for weeks that has been an

837
00:36:36,680 --> 00:36:38,759
Speaker 4: execution that's been later. Is that what we saw a

838
00:36:38,800 --> 00:36:42,279
Speaker 4: better execution were their changes to the game plan? No,

839
00:36:42,440 --> 00:36:43,840
Speaker 4: I think there's a lot better execution.

840
00:36:43,920 --> 00:36:45,759
Speaker 5: I think we had a great game plan, not that

841
00:36:45,840 --> 00:36:47,600
Speaker 5: we didn't have a great game plan, you know, a

842
00:36:47,640 --> 00:36:49,439
Speaker 5: weeks prior, but the execution was a lot better.

843
00:36:49,680 --> 00:36:52,560
Speaker 3: Kenny looked Dife, question, do you like that little push

844
00:36:52,640 --> 00:36:55,200
Speaker 3: play on the quarterback sneak in general? And do you

845
00:36:55,360 --> 00:36:55,920
Speaker 3: like it personally?

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00:36:56,000 --> 00:36:56,200
Speaker 4: Yeah?

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00:36:56,239 --> 00:36:57,719
Speaker 5: I mean, listen, whatever we got to do to get

848
00:36:57,719 --> 00:36:59,960
Speaker 5: the first down, you know, it helps you know, the

849
00:37:00,120 --> 00:37:01,640
Speaker 5: front was a it was an easy front to get

850
00:37:01,680 --> 00:37:03,200
Speaker 5: the first. If they were kind of tighter, it would

851
00:37:03,200 --> 00:37:04,839
Speaker 5: have been a little bit tougher and have an Allan there.

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00:37:04,760 --> 00:37:06,560
Speaker 4: To help me out, would have, you know, obviously helped.

853
00:37:06,680 --> 00:37:08,840
Speaker 4: Is there different variations of that or who's gonna push you.

854
00:37:10,760 --> 00:37:12,960
Speaker 5: Certain plays? Yeah, I mean it'll change. But you know

855
00:37:13,000 --> 00:37:14,839
Speaker 5: that's kind of like a week that week thing, Kenny.

856
00:37:14,840 --> 00:37:15,360
Speaker 4: How do you use a.

857
00:37:15,360 --> 00:37:18,160
Speaker 5: Performance like this to build a foundation for consistency over

858
00:37:18,239 --> 00:37:19,960
Speaker 5: a stand of weeks instead of just doing.

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00:37:19,800 --> 00:37:20,440
Speaker 4: It for one game.

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00:37:20,800 --> 00:37:22,520
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's good to put, you know, really good tape

861
00:37:22,560 --> 00:37:24,360
Speaker 5: out there and see us have success and.

862
00:37:24,719 --> 00:37:26,600
Speaker 4: Really good teaching moments on the good plays and some

863
00:37:26,680 --> 00:37:27,400
Speaker 4: of the bad plays.

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00:37:27,440 --> 00:37:30,000
Speaker 5: So like any other week though, twenty four hour rule,

865
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Speaker 5: you know, move on.

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Speaker 4: We had a good performance when I was stuck. Another

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Speaker 4: one sisted.

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Speaker 5: Does to what you guys saw in San Francisco, you

869
00:37:37,440 --> 00:37:39,560
Speaker 5: see a lot of similarities. Obviously San frank kept a

870
00:37:39,600 --> 00:37:41,040
Speaker 5: lot of the same things that the head coach now

871
00:37:41,120 --> 00:37:44,040
Speaker 5: does it. And Texans is a great coach. You know,

872
00:37:44,120 --> 00:37:45,880
Speaker 5: did unbelievable job at San fran now is doing a

873
00:37:45,920 --> 00:37:47,880
Speaker 5: great job in Houston. So it's gonna be a you know,

874
00:37:48,239 --> 00:37:49,880
Speaker 5: tough task for us. They do a lot of you know,

875
00:37:49,880 --> 00:37:51,600
Speaker 5: a lot of really good things, got great players on

876
00:37:51,640 --> 00:37:54,480
Speaker 5: all three levels, so another tough, tough challenge.

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Speaker 3: Any building off that.

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Speaker 6: I mean, obviously San Francisco is elite talent when it

879
00:37:58,200 --> 00:38:00,919
Speaker 6: comes to the middle of the fields offensively, they're still

880
00:38:00,960 --> 00:38:01,880
Speaker 6: building in that regard.

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00:38:02,040 --> 00:38:03,400
Speaker 2: Are you a little bit more willing.

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Speaker 6: To use all all phases of the field then, or

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00:38:05,480 --> 00:38:07,560
Speaker 6: is there a schematic thing to what these two teams

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00:38:07,600 --> 00:38:09,279
Speaker 6: do that discourage you from us the end of all

885
00:38:09,320 --> 00:38:09,600
Speaker 6: the field?

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00:38:09,680 --> 00:38:11,080
Speaker 4: I think you always have to utilize it.

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00:38:11,520 --> 00:38:15,439
Speaker 5: They do something schematically that are similar to San fran

888
00:38:15,560 --> 00:38:17,520
Speaker 5: that you know may discourage you here or there, but

889
00:38:18,520 --> 00:38:19,719
Speaker 5: you know, we got to execute at the end of

890
00:38:19,719 --> 00:38:21,319
Speaker 5: the day. Well, we'll have players that get guys if

891
00:38:21,600 --> 00:38:24,320
Speaker 5: in positions to be successful. We just got to do

892
00:38:24,400 --> 00:38:26,080
Speaker 5: what we did, you know on Sunday night. And there's

893
00:38:26,160 --> 00:38:27,680
Speaker 5: plays that we left out there as well, So there's

894
00:38:27,680 --> 00:38:28,320
Speaker 5: always improvement.

895
00:38:28,480 --> 00:38:30,959
Speaker 4: Kenny never the running game finally got going this week.

896
00:38:31,120 --> 00:38:32,000
Speaker 3: How much easier does it.

897
00:38:32,040 --> 00:38:33,880
Speaker 4: Make your job and how how important do you think

898
00:38:33,920 --> 00:38:36,319
Speaker 4: that balanced move forward? It's huge for us. I think

899
00:38:36,360 --> 00:38:38,279
Speaker 4: that's the key. I think you saw the play action

900
00:38:38,440 --> 00:38:40,600
Speaker 4: how well and the success we had off the play.

901
00:38:40,440 --> 00:38:43,200
Speaker 5: Action was awesome. So the Run Games series, the offensive

902
00:38:43,200 --> 00:38:43,920
Speaker 5: line of a great job.

903
00:38:44,000 --> 00:38:46,520
Speaker 4: The backs are running hard. That helped set up everything

904
00:38:46,560 --> 00:38:48,440
Speaker 4: in the past game. Can you guys are up twenty

905
00:38:48,480 --> 00:38:50,759
Speaker 4: three to seven and then probably a couple of drives

906
00:38:50,800 --> 00:38:52,279
Speaker 4: you'd like to have back in the fourth quarter. What's

907
00:38:52,320 --> 00:38:55,040
Speaker 4: the key to that consistency where you guys can you know,

908
00:38:55,120 --> 00:38:58,040
Speaker 4: put teams away? Yeah, that's yeah.

909
00:38:58,040 --> 00:39:00,279
Speaker 5: At that time in the fourth quarter, you know, you

910
00:39:00,360 --> 00:39:01,880
Speaker 5: just want to execute and stay on the field and

911
00:39:01,960 --> 00:39:03,279
Speaker 5: keep the defense on the bench. You know, they do

912
00:39:03,320 --> 00:39:05,920
Speaker 5: an unbelievable job, and you know we want to return

913
00:39:05,960 --> 00:39:08,080
Speaker 5: the favor and have them relax in that fourth quarter

914
00:39:08,160 --> 00:39:11,040
Speaker 5: type situation where we're out there working and they can

915
00:39:11,120 --> 00:39:12,719
Speaker 5: kind of chill. So you know, we need to we

916
00:39:12,800 --> 00:39:15,279
Speaker 5: need to be better in that standpoint and not let

917
00:39:15,360 --> 00:39:16,080
Speaker 5: teams hang around.

918
00:39:16,239 --> 00:39:18,120
Speaker 2: You picked his brain a little bit this week.

919
00:39:18,440 --> 00:39:21,719
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, obviously, you know you know his previous you know,

920
00:39:21,840 --> 00:39:24,319
Speaker 5: stink there he's he's his lockers right next to mine,

921
00:39:24,360 --> 00:39:26,760
Speaker 5: so tall him a little bit yesterday and throughout practicing

922
00:39:26,800 --> 00:39:28,400
Speaker 5: this week, I'll kind of, you know, just pick his

923
00:39:28,480 --> 00:39:30,239
Speaker 5: brain a little bit, not not over the top where

924
00:39:30,280 --> 00:39:31,719
Speaker 5: I'm thinking too much, but just you.

925
00:39:31,760 --> 00:39:33,239
Speaker 4: Know, a little tidbits here and there that can help me.

926
00:39:33,719 --> 00:39:36,839
Speaker 4: You talked after the games, they uh, you know, would

927
00:39:36,840 --> 00:39:38,400
Speaker 4: you have a post a little bit more? Usually a

928
00:39:38,520 --> 00:39:39,720
Speaker 4: little bit more overall?

929
00:39:39,760 --> 00:39:42,480
Speaker 6: Hell, are you finding that balance in the pocket rooms.

930
00:39:42,280 --> 00:39:44,320
Speaker 4: You know and playing the breakout of the ranks?

931
00:39:44,480 --> 00:39:46,560
Speaker 5: Yeah, there's it's it's moments and covers that you know,

932
00:39:46,680 --> 00:39:49,080
Speaker 5: dictated those man and man situations where you know they're

933
00:39:49,080 --> 00:39:50,080
Speaker 5: doubling certain guys.

934
00:39:50,560 --> 00:39:51,440
Speaker 4: There's no one left for me.

935
00:39:51,600 --> 00:39:53,719
Speaker 5: So if I had that opportunity where I kind of

936
00:39:53,760 --> 00:39:55,480
Speaker 5: just see the deceased part and I could take it

937
00:39:55,520 --> 00:39:57,600
Speaker 5: and and get a big gain, and I'm gonna do

938
00:39:57,600 --> 00:39:59,400
Speaker 5: it when you made.

939
00:39:59,239 --> 00:40:00,840
Speaker 3: It twenty three and then just how much does that

940
00:40:00,960 --> 00:40:04,040
Speaker 3: speak to the potential of what you guys are as

941
00:40:04,040 --> 00:40:05,080
Speaker 3: an offense or just the way.

942
00:40:04,960 --> 00:40:05,799
Speaker 4: That you guys were able to move.

943
00:40:06,080 --> 00:40:07,680
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's the that's the kind of drive you're looking for.

944
00:40:07,760 --> 00:40:09,799
Speaker 5: Obviously it's not always gonna be like that, but that's

945
00:40:09,840 --> 00:40:11,560
Speaker 5: what you're searching. And it was awesome to go out

946
00:40:11,560 --> 00:40:13,279
Speaker 5: there and get that. And you know, so many different

947
00:40:13,280 --> 00:40:15,440
Speaker 5: guys were involved in that that drive in that series,

948
00:40:15,560 --> 00:40:17,720
Speaker 5: so really positive.

949
00:40:17,440 --> 00:40:18,680
Speaker 4: You know, no coming out of the game was that

950
00:40:18,800 --> 00:40:19,680
Speaker 4: drive and something we could.

951
00:40:19,560 --> 00:40:23,560
Speaker 6: Build up the point I believe going into that game,

952
00:40:23,719 --> 00:40:25,680
Speaker 6: Purty was the only guy who had a better yards

953
00:40:25,680 --> 00:40:28,279
Speaker 6: per attempt than you on play actions, but very few

954
00:40:28,320 --> 00:40:30,439
Speaker 6: would throwing fewer balls that you want to play actions

955
00:40:30,600 --> 00:40:32,200
Speaker 6: the game flow and thinks of that sort. Was there

956
00:40:32,440 --> 00:40:35,560
Speaker 6: an agenda going in to do play action regardless.

957
00:40:35,520 --> 00:40:36,880
Speaker 5: It's all about the flow of the game and what

958
00:40:36,960 --> 00:40:38,320
Speaker 5: we're doing. And you know, if we don't have a

959
00:40:38,400 --> 00:40:40,000
Speaker 5: run game, it's hard to get the play action going.

960
00:40:40,040 --> 00:40:41,880
Speaker 5: So the fact that we had the run game, we

961
00:40:41,960 --> 00:40:44,400
Speaker 5: were efficient. There was you know, able to you know,

962
00:40:44,520 --> 00:40:46,160
Speaker 5: dial up some of those play actions and we have

963
00:40:46,239 --> 00:40:49,440
Speaker 5: some more explosive plays get Pat involved more, which is

964
00:40:49,480 --> 00:40:50,000
Speaker 5: great to see.

965
00:40:50,680 --> 00:40:52,719
Speaker 4: So it just it it It makes us more, you know,

966
00:40:52,840 --> 00:40:54,920
Speaker 4: versutil which we're we're pushing for. Can you think the

967
00:40:55,040 --> 00:40:57,320
Speaker 4: performance will apply to some of the noise outside of

968
00:40:57,360 --> 00:40:59,640
Speaker 4: the building, Ah, dude, I can't can throw that.

969
00:40:59,719 --> 00:41:01,239
Speaker 5: And then I got to too many things going on

970
00:41:01,320 --> 00:41:03,319
Speaker 5: in here. People are gonna say what they want to say.

971
00:41:03,360 --> 00:41:03,719
Speaker 4: It's okay.

972
00:41:03,800 --> 00:41:05,680
Speaker 5: It comes with the position, and you know, we all

973
00:41:05,760 --> 00:41:06,960
Speaker 5: understand the stage that we're wrong.

974
00:41:07,000 --> 00:41:09,560
Speaker 4: We're in the NFL. It comes with it. But all

975
00:41:09,600 --> 00:41:11,080
Speaker 4: we're looking to do is go out there and win,

976
00:41:11,200 --> 00:41:11,799
Speaker 4: So that's the goal.

977
00:41:11,840 --> 00:41:14,239
Speaker 5: This week, Kenny talked about the importance of beating certain

978
00:41:14,280 --> 00:41:16,600
Speaker 5: plays to open up more parts of a playbook.

979
00:41:16,640 --> 00:41:18,759
Speaker 2: How much is that a discussion to open up more

980
00:41:18,800 --> 00:41:20,719
Speaker 2: opportunities for guys that you have in your back box?

981
00:41:21,000 --> 00:41:21,759
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's it's big.

982
00:41:21,960 --> 00:41:23,279
Speaker 5: You want you want to make, you know, make the

983
00:41:23,320 --> 00:41:25,799
Speaker 5: easy plays, you know, the routine things routinely, as he says,

984
00:41:25,800 --> 00:41:26,000
Speaker 5: and it.

985
00:41:26,040 --> 00:41:27,120
Speaker 4: Helps open up the other things.

986
00:41:27,160 --> 00:41:29,680
Speaker 5: So, you know, pushing for perfection in that area to

987
00:41:29,800 --> 00:41:31,360
Speaker 5: kind of allow us to do the things that we

988
00:41:31,440 --> 00:41:34,000
Speaker 5: haven't shown yet that we're kind of just you know,

989
00:41:34,239 --> 00:41:35,640
Speaker 5: at the tip of the iceberg, i'd say, with what

990
00:41:35,680 --> 00:41:36,239
Speaker 5: we've been doing.

991
00:41:36,320 --> 00:41:40,160
Speaker 4: So definitely a positive on Sunday night, Kenny's fast, I mean,

992
00:41:40,200 --> 00:41:41,880
Speaker 4: that's a big part of it. But there's also if

993
00:41:41,880 --> 00:41:43,200
Speaker 4: there's a lot of the fast guys, it's hard to

994
00:41:43,280 --> 00:41:47,400
Speaker 4: getting open and that open, right, Yeah, But trusted him

995
00:41:47,400 --> 00:41:48,200
Speaker 4: to you, I do.

996
00:41:48,400 --> 00:41:49,680
Speaker 5: I do, and I have a ton of reps with

997
00:41:49,800 --> 00:41:52,479
Speaker 5: him and he's been, you know, nothing but a great friend,

998
00:41:52,600 --> 00:41:53,279
Speaker 5: teammate of mine.

999
00:41:53,320 --> 00:41:54,759
Speaker 4: Since I've been on the team here and we got

1000
00:41:54,800 --> 00:41:57,120
Speaker 4: here together. So it's easy to work with a.

1001
00:41:57,120 --> 00:41:57,480
Speaker 3: Guy like that.

1002
00:41:57,600 --> 00:41:59,200
Speaker 5: When you see him have success, you're so happy for

1003
00:41:59,320 --> 00:42:02,560
Speaker 5: him because of what he puts into it. So incredibly

1004
00:42:02,640 --> 00:42:04,840
Speaker 5: talented guy that we've got to continue to do and

1005
00:42:04,960 --> 00:42:06,239
Speaker 5: put in situations like that.

1006
00:42:06,360 --> 00:42:07,960
Speaker 4: To to allow him to be successful.

1007
00:42:08,160 --> 00:42:09,399
Speaker 5: Kenny, this makes me another question.

1008
00:42:09,560 --> 00:42:11,719
Speaker 3: You've mentioned after the game that when you were asked

1009
00:42:11,719 --> 00:42:14,000
Speaker 3: about throwing across your body, that you thought your baseball

1010
00:42:14,080 --> 00:42:16,560
Speaker 3: background had helped you. Were you in middle in shielder?

1011
00:42:17,600 --> 00:42:18,560
Speaker 4: Yeah, I was growing up.

1012
00:42:18,600 --> 00:42:20,440
Speaker 5: I was in the middle infield, went to the outfield

1013
00:42:20,440 --> 00:42:22,960
Speaker 5: in high school. I think it's just kind of just

1014
00:42:23,040 --> 00:42:25,640
Speaker 5: being an athlete. Let my natural abilities, you know, rolling

1015
00:42:25,680 --> 00:42:28,040
Speaker 5: to the left and being fluid, and I think some

1016
00:42:28,160 --> 00:42:30,160
Speaker 5: guys get really robotic with their shoulders. I kind of

1017
00:42:30,200 --> 00:42:32,719
Speaker 5: like to just be fluid and athletic. You know, it

1018
00:42:32,840 --> 00:42:35,000
Speaker 5: served me well so far, so just continue to build.

1019
00:42:34,840 --> 00:42:37,279
Speaker 4: On it, right checking out over run or checking to

1020
00:42:37,480 --> 00:42:39,239
Speaker 4: or run if it's a light box. I mean, how

1021
00:42:39,320 --> 00:42:41,600
Speaker 4: much does that latitude for you change with the week

1022
00:42:41,680 --> 00:42:44,000
Speaker 4: based on the plane? Yeah, it's it's it's definitely based

1023
00:42:44,040 --> 00:42:44,399
Speaker 4: on the plan.

1024
00:42:44,520 --> 00:42:47,399
Speaker 5: What we see defensively and certain looks that you want

1025
00:42:47,400 --> 00:42:49,000
Speaker 5: to get that perfect call in and you know, if.

1026
00:42:48,880 --> 00:42:50,400
Speaker 4: It's not the perfect call, we can check out of.

1027
00:42:50,360 --> 00:42:52,319
Speaker 5: It and hopefully return back to it, which we did

1028
00:42:52,320 --> 00:42:54,399
Speaker 5: a couple of times on Sunday nights.

1029
00:42:54,400 --> 00:42:56,239
Speaker 4: So I think it's definitely week by week with the

1030
00:42:56,320 --> 00:42:57,840
Speaker 4: amount of them, but they'll always be in there. Do

1031
00:42:57,880 --> 00:42:59,359
Speaker 4: you have any more leeway to do that in your

1032
00:42:59,400 --> 00:43:01,840
Speaker 4: second year? Then you, uh, we we had them, you know,

1033
00:43:01,880 --> 00:43:02,520
Speaker 4: we had them lat year.

1034
00:43:02,520 --> 00:43:04,200
Speaker 5: I think we're getting more and more into it, which

1035
00:43:04,280 --> 00:43:06,759
Speaker 5: is great, putting us some positions to be successful and

1036
00:43:06,880 --> 00:43:08,880
Speaker 5: have a great play and no matter what covers are

1037
00:43:08,920 --> 00:43:10,720
Speaker 5: in or you know, structure.

1038
00:43:10,800 --> 00:43:12,920
Speaker 4: So it's been good. Had you had you spend that

1039
00:43:13,040 --> 00:43:14,759
Speaker 4: time on the plane, you guys were sitting on the time,

1040
00:43:15,880 --> 00:43:16,640
Speaker 4: slept on the floor.

1041
00:43:16,800 --> 00:43:20,280
Speaker 5: That was awful watch tape, trying to you know, relax,

1042
00:43:20,320 --> 00:43:24,520
Speaker 5: a little bit unwined, crazy, crazy experience. So definitely grateful

1043
00:43:24,600 --> 00:43:25,799
Speaker 5: when we landed and we were safe.

1044
00:43:25,880 --> 00:43:27,279
Speaker 3: Were you aware of what was going on?

1045
00:43:28,560 --> 00:43:30,480
Speaker 4: I wish they let me sleep the the PLANETSID woke

1046
00:43:30,560 --> 00:43:32,120
Speaker 4: me up. She's like, we have a code yellow alert

1047
00:43:32,200 --> 00:43:33,560
Speaker 4: and I was just like kind of out of it.

1048
00:43:33,680 --> 00:43:35,520
Speaker 4: You know, I was like, what does that? You know mean?

1049
00:43:35,600 --> 00:43:37,359
Speaker 5: Like, we're one step away from code red, so it's

1050
00:43:37,400 --> 00:43:41,000
Speaker 5: obviously not good. But we ended up landing safely and

1051
00:43:41,080 --> 00:43:42,799
Speaker 5: it was all good. But that that was not fun

1052
00:43:42,840 --> 00:43:43,360
Speaker 5: to wake up to.

1053
00:43:43,520 --> 00:43:45,160
Speaker 4: Where were you sitting on the planet? You in like

1054
00:43:45,200 --> 00:43:46,279
Speaker 4: economy cutting for.

1055
00:43:46,360 --> 00:43:49,279
Speaker 5: Plus economy plus and it's like the quarterbacks in a row.

1056
00:43:49,400 --> 00:43:51,759
Speaker 5: So we obviously I turned around and me, Mitch and

1057
00:43:51,840 --> 00:43:53,560
Speaker 5: Mason had a little chat about what we thought was

1058
00:43:53,640 --> 00:43:56,400
Speaker 5: going on. Some guys were panicking. It was a crazy,

1059
00:43:56,480 --> 00:44:00,399
Speaker 5: crazy situation. Have you we landed the emergency exit.

1060
00:44:00,840 --> 00:44:03,360
Speaker 4: Uh not. At that point it's like, what are you

1061
00:44:03,400 --> 00:44:03,680
Speaker 4: gonna do?

1062
00:44:03,760 --> 00:44:05,239
Speaker 5: I mean, I was just were I was alone for

1063
00:44:05,280 --> 00:44:07,200
Speaker 5: the ride, just hoping the pilot was gonna take control,

1064
00:44:07,239 --> 00:44:08,719
Speaker 5: and uh he did, so it was all good.

1065
00:44:09,239 --> 00:44:10,680
Speaker 4: What do you feel like is gonna be the biggest

1066
00:44:10,760 --> 00:44:12,360
Speaker 4: challenge going against the Texas?

1067
00:44:13,200 --> 00:44:15,120
Speaker 5: I think they're you know, they got great speed at

1068
00:44:15,120 --> 00:44:18,520
Speaker 5: all three levels. They do their fundamentals really well. They

1069
00:44:18,560 --> 00:44:21,080
Speaker 5: don't do a ton i'd say schematically, but what they

1070
00:44:21,160 --> 00:44:23,120
Speaker 5: do they do really well. They don't give up big plays,

1071
00:44:23,680 --> 00:44:27,160
Speaker 5: They keep things in front, you know, great great defensive

1072
00:44:27,200 --> 00:44:29,600
Speaker 5: mind and in in the head coach. And you know

1073
00:44:29,640 --> 00:44:31,440
Speaker 5: a young pass rusher that that's shown a lot of

1074
00:44:31,440 --> 00:44:33,759
Speaker 5: talent early on, who's gonna be a problem. So all

1075
00:44:33,800 --> 00:44:36,160
Speaker 5: three levels have great players. You know, we gotta bring

1076
00:44:36,200 --> 00:44:36,760
Speaker 5: our best Sunday.

1077
00:44:36,760 --> 00:44:38,759
Speaker 4: Along those lines, what's the biggest, folks, gonna be for

1078
00:44:38,800 --> 00:44:39,239
Speaker 4: you this week?

1079
00:44:39,600 --> 00:44:42,280
Speaker 5: Consistency? You know, we we wanna you know, stack performance

1080
00:44:42,320 --> 00:44:45,879
Speaker 5: to stack wins. You know, got two prime time wins,

1081
00:44:45,920 --> 00:44:47,960
Speaker 5: which was great for us, you know, great momentum leading

1082
00:44:48,000 --> 00:44:48,360
Speaker 5: into it, but.

1083
00:44:48,400 --> 00:44:49,680
Speaker 4: It does nothing if we don't go out there and

1084
00:44:49,760 --> 00:44:50,720
Speaker 4: take care of business Sunday.

1085
00:44:50,800 --> 00:44:52,600
Speaker 5: So, uh, we wanna just continue to build on the

1086
00:44:52,640 --> 00:44:54,839
Speaker 5: momentum and the consistency that we're we're starting here.

1087
00:44:56,960 --> 00:44:59,640
Speaker 2: Yep, i'd just sleep with the guys banging around downstairs.

1088
00:45:01,360 --> 00:45:04,200
Speaker 2: Did you hear the guys banging around down there below

1089
00:45:04,280 --> 00:45:05,920
Speaker 2: the plane yelling at each other?

1090
00:45:06,480 --> 00:45:06,520
Speaker 5: No?

1091
00:45:06,760 --> 00:45:13,800
Speaker 2: No, that was Steelers quarterback Kenny Pickett with the media

1092
00:45:13,880 --> 00:45:16,640
Speaker 2: earlier today, and uh, well some interesting stuff there, and

1093
00:45:17,080 --> 00:45:20,239
Speaker 2: tried to get some sleep on the plane. Not easy

1094
00:45:20,320 --> 00:45:21,319
Speaker 2: to do once in a while.

1095
00:45:21,360 --> 00:45:22,800
Speaker 3: I'm jealous of you guys, And I thought this was

1096
00:45:22,800 --> 00:45:24,480
Speaker 3: gonna be one of the road trips, like they're gonna

1097
00:45:24,520 --> 00:45:26,600
Speaker 3: hang out in Vegas for a long time before, and

1098
00:45:27,160 --> 00:45:29,520
Speaker 3: I wouldn't mind jumping on that plane with those guys.

1099
00:45:29,560 --> 00:45:31,000
Speaker 3: And it's like, oh, I'll stay home.

1100
00:45:31,400 --> 00:45:35,600
Speaker 2: Yeah, Well, stuff happens, you know, but uh yeah. I

1101
00:45:35,880 --> 00:45:38,400
Speaker 2: asked him afterwards after everything was done, I'm like, how

1102
00:45:38,440 --> 00:45:41,200
Speaker 2: did you sleep on the plane because I couldn't, you know,

1103
00:45:41,400 --> 00:45:44,680
Speaker 2: just there were guys banging around down below and people

1104
00:45:44,800 --> 00:45:46,920
Speaker 2: yelling down there just bring bring me this wrench and

1105
00:45:46,960 --> 00:45:50,200
Speaker 2: stuff like that. Outside the plane. Yeah, you could hear

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Speaker 2: that kind of stuff going on.

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Speaker 3: And did the majority people sleep or no?

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Speaker 2: I think you tried. I mean I dozed off for

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Speaker 2: a little bit because I was just exhausted.

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Speaker 3: But you're getting sleep.

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Speaker 2: No, nothing like that, nothing like that. But Matt, that's

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Speaker 2: going to do it for our show today. So for

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Speaker 2: my partner Matt Williamson, for Brian Lamartine here on site

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Speaker 2: keeping us on the air, I'm Dale Lollie. We thank

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Speaker 2: you for listening to this edition of the Drive on

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Speaker 2: Steelers Nation Radio.

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Speaker 1: You're listening to the official voice a Black and Gold

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Speaker 1: Nation

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Speaker 2: For loved Black and Gold SNR.