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

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

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Drive. I'm Dale Matt Linson. It's a

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Speaker 1: Wednesday here because we could say game week on Wednesday.

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Speaker 1: We didn't have that last week. First of all, Matt,

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Speaker 1: Steelers made a couple of ros from in the last

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Speaker 1: twenty four hours. Soon after the show ended yesterday, they

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Speaker 1: were They waved linebacker Ryan Anderson, released kicker Nick Skiba

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Speaker 1: from the practice squad. They signed wide receiver Josh Malone

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Speaker 1: to the practice squad. I kind of liked him coming

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Speaker 1: out of Tennessee way back when, way back when, a

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Speaker 1: couple of years ago. Then today, they signed place kicker

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Speaker 1: matthew Right off the Kansas City Chiefs practice squad. But

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Speaker 1: they signed him to the fifty three man roster, which

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Speaker 1: means he needs to stick around for a while. He

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Speaker 1: has to be on the roster for three weeks. Uh.

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Speaker 1: They haven't done anything with Chris Boswell yet. But if

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Speaker 1: you remember, Boswell missed the last game before the bye

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Speaker 1: with a groin injury. We come back and be fine,

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Speaker 1: but maybe not, maybe not. So they haven't done anything yet.

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Speaker 1: They say, still have a roster spot available, um with

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Speaker 1: which to work or well they they got rid of

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Speaker 1: Anderson and added the kicker. They added right, and the

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Speaker 1: was on the practice squad. Um, so now you've got

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Speaker 1: two kickers on the roster. Yeah. Apparently they like write

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Speaker 1: better than describe. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, all right. Actually

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Speaker 1: he was with them last year in camp and then

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Speaker 1: his kick this year, including making a fifty nine yard

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Speaker 1: or for the Kansas City Chiefs. Was filling in for that,

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Speaker 1: which was a team record at the time. So yeah,

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Speaker 1: so he's probably one of the best thirty two out there. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: he's at least one of the top thirty five. Um, right, right, right.

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Speaker 1: They've got a couple other roster moves coming up later

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Speaker 1: this week that we know of. Anderson leaving is no surprise, right,

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Speaker 1: because we want to clear some space free perhaps a

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Speaker 1: linebacker and addresser of swords. One happened to be defensive

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Speaker 1: player of the year. Um, so well, so somebody else

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Speaker 1: will have to go if Casey and correct are both added. Yes,

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Speaker 1: but as of now there's a spot. Actually, right now

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Speaker 1: there isn't a buckcause right takes the place of Anderson.

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Speaker 1: But you're carrying to two place kickers. So presumably unless

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Speaker 1: Boswell doesn't go on I are uh, then you would

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Speaker 1: be carrying two kickers because you have to carry Matthew

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Speaker 1: right for three weeks on your active right. That's going

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Speaker 1: to happen. That's a league rule when you set somebody

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Speaker 1: off of somebody else to practice squad. So what they're

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Speaker 1: probably kicking around is do we put Boss on ir

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Speaker 1: or do we carry two kickers for three weeks and

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Speaker 1: one of them is inactive of course every week, and

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Speaker 1: maybe bosses back for a week from now or two

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Speaker 1: weeks from now, and Right would just be and you

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Speaker 1: would then cut two players somewhere else on the roster.

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Speaker 1: Here's the the interesting thing about it, because the league

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Speaker 1: also still has the rule in place. People might say, well,

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Speaker 1: you can't afford to carry two kickers. Will remember you

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Speaker 1: can bring two guys up off the practice squad each

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Speaker 1: week and put them on your game day roster. So

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Speaker 1: it's almost like carrying you know, two extra players. I

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Speaker 1: mean you can if Boss you think is only gonna

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Speaker 1: be out two weeks or another another week, this one

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Speaker 1: and another is what meant and maybe you know, maybe

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Speaker 1: even then when when Boswell comes back, you just say right,

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Speaker 1: you're gonna you're gonna do kickoffs. He could just kicked

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Speaker 1: the ball into the end zone. We're not gonna, you know,

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Speaker 1: we don't want Crystal on that because yeah, we don't

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Speaker 1: want him to. He hurt the groin just kicking off.

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Speaker 1: So I guess part of the equation though, was when

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Speaker 1: they traded for William Jackson they had cut somebody to

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Speaker 1: that was the week you know we could go, you know,

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Speaker 1: because they didn't give up a player we play left

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Speaker 1: never mind, So that even so, where are they heavy

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Speaker 1: is where I'm trying to think they have a lot

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Speaker 1: of corners. Now, well, they're bringing into defensive players, so

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Speaker 1: you know, you would think that somebody on defense, at

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Speaker 1: least one one of these players is going to be

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Speaker 1: he's been a core special teams player. Um yeah, it

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Speaker 1: makes interest little blasphemous, But what about Tyson, Lulu. You

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Speaker 1: can't do that right now though, because you're short on

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Speaker 1: if you look at the cornerback position, they've been a

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Speaker 1: little nicked up there all season one. So right now,

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Speaker 1: right now, if you have five corners, you get Witherspoon,

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Speaker 1: I'm not ready to move on from Josh Jackson, and

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Speaker 1: you certainly can't move on from Pierre. Yeah. I mean

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Speaker 1: you you'd love to put him right back on the

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Speaker 1: practice squad, but someone could grab him. Corners are premium,

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Speaker 1: and I think he's played like eighty five snaps, so

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Speaker 1: they have to go off. Um, so it's probably not there.

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Speaker 1: You're gonna be bringing a safety back. In terms of KZ,

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Speaker 1: your backup safety's a Tray Norwood and Miles Killer Brew

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Speaker 1: Killer bruss Court special Team. He's not going anywhere valuable,

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Speaker 1: right So then you start looking elsewhere. So I look

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Speaker 1: at inside linebacker. They're carrying five. That could be the spot. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: so the top three you're safe. You don't anybody pick.

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Speaker 1: Probably you probably won't cut Mark Robinson wouldn wouldn't think

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Speaker 1: grabbed them off fivers right, So Marcus Allen, he's his

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Speaker 1: but I still think you'd be my of all the

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Speaker 1: the other probably So you're also carrying Arthur bos He

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Speaker 1: also have Arthur Millette there. He's valuable to and he's

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Speaker 1: valuable as well. You got a lot of edge corners

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Speaker 1: not slot corners, right, Okay, I mean we'll know this soon.

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Speaker 1: Interesting and so, but you know you only have six

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Speaker 1: defensive alignment on the roster right now. They're not gonna

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Speaker 1: go if they won't know You're right, Um, if bos

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Speaker 1: least four weeks. Right, that's not the end of the world.

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Speaker 1: If it's if you think it's gonna be. This move

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Speaker 1: indicates to me that they think bos Well definitely not

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Speaker 1: this week, the next week is probably out as well.

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Speaker 1: What's the difference between two and or he's a really

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Speaker 1: good kicker. But maybe that's a move too. But as

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Speaker 1: a kicker position and you're a team that was going

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Speaker 1: to play close game, can you afford to do that.

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Speaker 1: That's not ideal, but they must like write quite a bit,

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Speaker 1: you know. Interesting though, that'd be I think Allen would

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Speaker 1: be my move. But there's nowhere else. I mean, you

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Speaker 1: they're they have would be a boy again. You're not

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Speaker 1: gonna cut it off as a lineman. But Gunner. The

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Speaker 1: problem there is your only cover. You've got Sims has

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Speaker 1: Gonda beat him out of a return. But you've only

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Speaker 1: got five five receivers on the roster right now. Five.

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Speaker 1: If you cut Gunner, you're down. You're down to four. Oh,

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Speaker 1: I was thinking your six they played. They never replace

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Speaker 1: Claypool as a wide receiver right right on the Gunner

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Speaker 1: safe then gunners on the roster. Gunner is more valuable

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Speaker 1: than Allen there, Okay, interesting, you know, I mean you've

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Speaker 1: got three tight ends, you've got three running backs, a

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Speaker 1: full back and smells valuable on teams, right, Okay, I

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Speaker 1: mean it becomes it becomes it becomes a chess speak,

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Speaker 1: you know. Okay, another injury looming that we don't know about,

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Speaker 1: not that I'm aware of. Um, we can get to

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Speaker 1: the injury report here the Steers. The Steelers did practice today.

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Speaker 1: They put out an injury report for the first time

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Speaker 1: in two weeks. So with Boswell, he did not practice

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Speaker 1: because of a right groin injury. That's his kicking leg.

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Speaker 1: Of course, William Jackson with a back did not practice.

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Speaker 1: Interesting you think you'd want him in there. Yeah, well

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Speaker 1: he's been dealing with that now for a couple of days.

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Speaker 1: Didn't practice Monday either. A killow Weatherspoon with a hamstring

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Speaker 1: did not practice this season safe. I mean they could

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Speaker 1: from the Showler Christian coins to the long snapper. Full

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Speaker 1: participant today. Miles jack Still did not practice today with

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Speaker 1: that knee at Nord. Did Larry Ogenjobi. But those guys

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Speaker 1: ogn Job really need to practice on Wednesday for a

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Speaker 1: Sunday game? No, you know what I mean? Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: mean he's gonna play this week. Who do you fear

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Speaker 1: might not injured just because of injury with Spoon, Witherspoon, Jackson,

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Speaker 1: not practicing right now. He's not going to be acting.

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Speaker 1: That's why you can't cut one of the cornerbacks. When

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Speaker 1: I mean, there's there's a chance that he might have been,

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Speaker 1: Now they did say, you know when when they made

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Speaker 1: the trade. Mike Tomlins said last week that the injury

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Speaker 1: because he had been out in Washington with a back injury.

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Speaker 1: Obviously they wouldn't tree, but doctors get your hands on him.

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Speaker 1: And interesting. I was hoping to see him this week,

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Speaker 1: but now I'm a little less enthusiastic. Yeah, you're not

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Speaker 1: So it's just it's very interesting. Yeah, the conundrum that

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Speaker 1: potential Robinson Alan somebody like that because the other thing

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Speaker 1: he needs to make, you need to make two moves.

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Speaker 1: So it's not just putting somebody on I R. Whether

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Speaker 1: Boswell and Spoon could go deceivably, But if Jackson is unhealthy,

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Speaker 1: you want to put Jackson in the Spoon's right, you know,

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Speaker 1: I guess Pierre could handle it. No, No, that'll be

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Speaker 1: will be interesting. I assume we'll get that probably the

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Speaker 1: next twenty four hours. And yeah, I mean we'll get

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Speaker 1: what that practice report looks like? Uh, you know, I've

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Speaker 1: gotten the question. You know, if if, if, if these

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Speaker 1: and Water are gonna play this week, why don't you

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Speaker 1: just activate him? Now? Well, this is why, because you

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Speaker 1: what if somebody else then gets hurt? Yeah, you don't

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Speaker 1: have unlimited roster space. He just laid out, you know,

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Speaker 1: So of course T J. Watt is going to play Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you just have to figure out who's who's expense, who's expense.

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Speaker 1: I always feel bad for those guys, like practice all

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Speaker 1: week long. Right, I'm so happy t J. Watts coming back,

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Speaker 1: because you don't get paid until Sunday. You get paid

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Speaker 1: based on being active or not on Sunday. Practice all

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Speaker 1: week long and then all of a sudden they cut you.

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Speaker 1: And yeah, I was excited to get TJ back. And

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Speaker 1: now we're up and running and now I'm not part

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