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

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Speaker 1: on Home of the Black and Gold Steelers Nation Radio. Damn,

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Speaker 1: we're back. I'm Dale Lolly here with Matt Williamson. Is

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Speaker 1: time for the Fantasy Football Focus. And as yesterday, yeah,

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Speaker 1: this will be the last last regular one. Will probably

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Speaker 1: still do one on Friday's, will do a DFS line

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Speaker 1: up for playoffs, especially the first couple rounds. Don't want

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Speaker 1: to get about the DFS for the playoffs. That's good stuff. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'm excited about that. Yeah, you can have some fun

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Speaker 1: with that. Uh, this year is this reason is astro

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Speaker 1: though well we went over earlier in the week the

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Speaker 1: games that are meaningful and I don't think you can

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Speaker 1: stress that enough this week. If you're putting together a lineup, however,

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Speaker 1: you look at like Mahomes and Josh Allen games they

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Speaker 1: should win going away, then who knows if it will happen,

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Speaker 1: but they I'm playing the fourth quarter, you know, Like

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Speaker 1: there's some of those issues that really throw one more

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Speaker 1: wrench in as if COVID and a week eighteen and

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Speaker 1: the playoff situation more than enough. I've changed my thoughts

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Speaker 1: thinking on Mahomes a little bit like I think, like

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Speaker 1: their average, they've beaten the Broncos, I think the last

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Speaker 1: five times, and four of those games have been by

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Speaker 1: thirteen or more points. So I think he could they

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Speaker 1: come out slinging it and Mahomes could have three passing

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Speaker 1: yards and three touchdowns in the first half and then

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Speaker 1: you're happy and you're happy with You don't care if

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Speaker 1: he's playing the fourth quarter, I mean, without question, especially

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Speaker 1: in Allen's probably the same way as if he's sitting.

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Speaker 1: It's because good things happen. Yeah, so you can he's

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Speaker 1: probably still better than anybody else we had in our

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Speaker 1: in our Saturday lineups, right, like, is Brady gonna play

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Speaker 1: four quarters though, or you know there's a lot of

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Speaker 1: them are questionable. Yeah, for sure. Uh So we're going

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Speaker 1: to really lean on a couple of teams, I think. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: we're in the NFL single entry five dollar double up.

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Speaker 1: This is all day. Um so we just gotta again

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Speaker 1: this is that I've I've found. This is that's your move.

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Speaker 1: That's the move. I don't care what the double up is.

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Speaker 1: If if I told you, Matt that whatever bets you

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Speaker 1: put down, if you have a you gotta finish in

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Speaker 1: the fifth better to win it knowing your skill still, right,

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Speaker 1: you're probably have a chance to win the bet. You're

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Speaker 1: gonna bet that every time, right, I agree, I agree.

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Speaker 1: I mean, if we're no offense to the folks here

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Speaker 1: at our fine offices, but I'll take my chances to

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Speaker 1: come in the top half of you know, twenty random

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Speaker 1: dudes that are walking around here. You understand, you know, right, right,

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Speaker 1: So we're picking again that that the NFL single wentry

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Speaker 1: five dollar double up. Um, We'll go ahead and start

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Speaker 1: with the defense, best slash special teams, and the Buccaneers

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Speaker 1: are four thousand colts. The burnovers are big for Indie. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: they thrive on them and Lawrence and been a little

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Speaker 1: better with it, yes, in recent weeks, but that's a

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Speaker 1: turnover prone team. Yeah. The Bills are thirty seven hundred

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Speaker 1: The Packers are thirty against Detroit. Saints against Atlanta are

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Speaker 1: thirty four baale sit any defenders, I mean, they have

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Speaker 1: nothing to play for. I would imagine that would some

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Speaker 1: I definitely think that. Uh. Saints are thirty four hundred.

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Speaker 1: The Titans are thirty three d. If they win, that

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Speaker 1: and I think that's how it's gonna go. And they

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Speaker 1: typically get after Matt Ryan in a bad way. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I can see Matt Ryan sitting in the second half.

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Speaker 1: He's been around the block. I mean, does he really

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Speaker 1: need to play that game? And I'm getting beaten up

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Speaker 1: in the right. The tight end isn't playing like there's right.

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Speaker 1: Saints there. The Ravens are thirty two hundred. They're more

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Speaker 1: the sack differential. Washington is thirty one. They're playing They're

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Speaker 1: playing the which is a wonderful strategy. You know, just

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Speaker 1: give me any defense against the Giants is negative passing yards.

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Speaker 1: Last week I picked up the Bears for that reason

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Speaker 1: And and if you causing them, is the the feather

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Speaker 1: Bengals are three thousand, the Chargers are three thousand, Vikings

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Speaker 1: are I don't think we need to go any lower

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Speaker 1: to stand out to be or Washington. In New Orleans

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Speaker 1: and Washington, the opponent is so ripe, and I think

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Speaker 1: their defensive I mean, Joe Judge just gave that eleven

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Speaker 1: minute dissertation about why his team is. Yeah, everybody wants

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Speaker 1: was also ripping? Kind of it took a veiled shot,

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Speaker 1: really a vailed shot at the Washington says, we don't

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Speaker 1: odd I don't know superside. Note, Jacksonville and the Giants

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Speaker 1: to me are the worst going right now. And I

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Speaker 1: don't understand why these owners are like, well, we're gonna

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Speaker 1: keep our GM in Jacksonville and then the other one

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Speaker 1: we're gonna keep our coaching quarterback in New York. Do

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Speaker 1: you not realize I could have made the trade Trevor

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Speaker 1: Lawrence Pick absolutely right? Alright, anything else good? I mean,

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Speaker 1: don't you guys realize that you're the losing his teams

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Speaker 1: over the last five years and you're not addressing the

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Speaker 1: problem at all. Yeah, Anyway, I like Washington, the Saints.

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Speaker 1: they're the cheapest Washington in The Saints are thirty four

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Speaker 1: all within four hundred. We go the cheapest route. Let's go.

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Speaker 1: Let's go with Washington right now. And if we need

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Speaker 1: go Tos aren't going to do well on offense. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I got a little news for you. What's that Steelers

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Speaker 1: have activated Deonte Johnson from the reserve COVID. That happened

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Speaker 1: right this second. There you go, good news. That is

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Speaker 1: fantastic like that. That's a big deal that I'm glad

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Speaker 1: gonna go with that. Yeah, not exactly the best disguise there,

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Speaker 1: our fantasy lineup here. That's a terrible matchup for the Ravens. Again.

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Speaker 1: He had eight catches. He had the only two touchdowns

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Speaker 1: of Steelers scored in that game. Runner like targets. That's

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Speaker 1: to hear some more than that. But Kiddle is sixty,

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Speaker 1: The Chargers are thirty second against the posing tight ends

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Speaker 1: rookie record, but Dick did it in twelve games. Dicks

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Speaker 1: you have, like twelve hundred yards in twelve games? Is

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Speaker 1: a rookie in the sixties In the sixties when they

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Speaker 1: threw fifteen times a game. Yeah. End By the way, folks,

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Speaker 1: Kyle Pits really doesn't play tight end. He has You're

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Speaker 1: standing Dick and next to Kyle Pits today, right or

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Speaker 1: different animal? Yeah? Absolutely, My money would still be on

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Speaker 1: Dick and kick his butt. Uh. Dawson Knox hundred, zach

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Speaker 1: Ertz hundreds. That's interesting. No Hopkins game, they have to

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Speaker 1: Gisicky is fifty one, but Patriots are number one against

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Speaker 1: He had seven catches from right. Yeah. He first game

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Speaker 1: against the Raiders, he had seven catches for seventy yards

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Speaker 1: tight ends. Wow, that's not bad. If you want to

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Speaker 1: Cooper Cup, yea, we may be pencil him in with

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Speaker 1: we spent defensive. Let's see what the quarterback situation is. Quarterback. Now,

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Speaker 1: this is where it gets interesting because Herbert to me screams,

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Speaker 1: I don't know what his cost is. Seventy Okay, I mean,

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Speaker 1: let's go through it. But if I knew trade Lance

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Speaker 1: so either. It could be half and half and yeah. Uh.

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Speaker 1: Josh Allen is eight one hundred. Uh, Aaron Rodgers is

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Speaker 1: seventy hundred. He plays. Brady is seventy. Brady and Allen

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Speaker 1: worry made late in games. But they'd have stats if

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Speaker 1: they were handing it up. Kyler Murray pretty good, that's

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Speaker 1: He's running a little bit more. Burrows seventy dred but

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Speaker 1: he's not gonna play. Herbert is seventy one hundred, Stafford

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Speaker 1: is undred. Pretty good. Russell Wilsons, no thanks, Taysom Hill.

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Speaker 1: Falcons are our twenty nine against opposing quarterbacks this year.

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Speaker 1: is it's super high points. Yeah every week. Yeah, that's

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Speaker 1: not bad. I like that better than Allen or Brady

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Speaker 1: Hill is six thousand against Houston. They need to win

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Speaker 1: that game. Oh yeah, yeah that's Carson Wentz is fifty

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Speaker 1: eight hundred against Jacksonville. It's not horrible if interceptions don't

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Speaker 1: or like it? Okay, like it speaking of Steelers lugged

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Speaker 1: it in the moment of truth. It is the moment

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Speaker 1: of truth. And again, thank goodness we got that right.

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Speaker 1: And I think that's enough for me to take the Steelers.

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Speaker 1: I still think it's a low scoring game. I would

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Speaker 1: hate that news if I'm Harbaugh. I mean, I just

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Speaker 1: think that the way you're saying, probably we're planning on

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Speaker 1: him not being like it to be the most difficult

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Speaker 1: thing for teams this year, right par last year. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you Friday afternoon home where the other either be prepared

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Speaker 1: for the guy, the guy goes on the COVID list

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Speaker 1: on Wednesday and you go, well, he weren't going to

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Speaker 1: have him, and then he clears, or the other way

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Speaker 1: he's out. You prepare for him all week long and

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Speaker 1: then you don't get him, and you gotta change up

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Speaker 1: your plans based on who's gonna be in there. It's awful.

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Speaker 1: I mean, these poor coaches. I mean their job is

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Speaker 1: hard enough as it is. Let alone is revolving door

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Speaker 1: of who's gonna play and who isn't. Um, that's the

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Speaker 1: guy that they didn't want to hear it cleared. I

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Speaker 1: think the Steelers win this game twenty seventeen. Interesting was

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Speaker 1: that your pick? It was one of my picks. Yes,

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Speaker 1: so you've had several, As I said, I made one pick.

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Speaker 1: I do my column for the Observing Reporter, and I

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Speaker 1: did that last night and send it in and pick

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Speaker 1: the Steelers. And then I started thinking about it more

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Speaker 1: today and I saw the weather forecast, and I'm like

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Speaker 1: you like that, and like this is on the road

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Speaker 1: and the Steelers haven't played ball on the road and

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Speaker 1: that's a problem. And no, no, Deante Johnson, that's a problem.

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Speaker 1: Well now Deante's back and the Huntley News is now official,

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Speaker 1: right right, we know a lot more than we did. Absolutely, Um,

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Speaker 1: Steelers won the first game twenty to nineteen. How about

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Speaker 1: twenty to nineteen? Again, it's hard going for two at

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Speaker 1: the end of Michigan once again, wouldn't that be you know,

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Speaker 1: they didn't. It wasn't twenty to nineteen. That was the

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Speaker 1: that was the game their game against the uh There

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Speaker 1: was one point when it was at one point when

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Speaker 1: their their game against the Rams last week was twenty

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Speaker 1: to nineteen. What was the first score against the Steelers?

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Speaker 1: It was twenty nineteen as well. They've lost two twenty

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Speaker 1: to nineteen games. You're going with it, Yeah, why not

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Speaker 1: the nineteen loss? That is not a normal football score, No,

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Speaker 1: it's not so. I mean, I really believe twenty four

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Speaker 1: points wins this game, you know, And if you get

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Speaker 1: into twenties, I would take the first team the twenty

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Speaker 1: wins the game. I tend to lean that way. Too.

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Speaker 1: I mean, if the weather is as bad as we

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Speaker 1: think it could be, and you know, it's not exactly

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Speaker 1: elite quarterback play, probably defense a little sketchy, Yeah, good

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Speaker 1: special teams. I mean, you know, kickers should be strong

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Speaker 1: in this game. But whether it might be a problem, Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'm sticking about this little as looking up on football

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Speaker 1: outsiders and we reference that every once in a while.

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Speaker 1: And the Steelers defense had fallen down to in recent

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Speaker 1: weeks in d v O A. The game last week,

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Speaker 1: they moved all the way up the fifteen in dv

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Speaker 1: O A. I mean, that's a tremendous, garmendous jump. And

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Speaker 1: they certainly passed the eyeball test to just stouter and

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Speaker 1: more assignment sound, and that would be important getting guys

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Speaker 1: to the football. And they're pretty healthy on defense, that's

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Speaker 1: the thing. Yeah, it's it's tough to judge so much

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Speaker 1: this year, even around the league. Like you see, you know,

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Speaker 1: we follow the Steelers, so we you know a little

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Speaker 1: know a little bit more about them than you know,

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Speaker 1: than than other teams. But we both follow the league

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Speaker 1: as well. But you don't know when when somebody puts there,

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Speaker 1: some you know, linebacker who's non descript. He may be

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Speaker 1: a very important guy on that you know, right right,

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Speaker 1: might be the play caller or you know, their third

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Speaker 1: down specialist or you know, you really keep backup who's

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Speaker 1: playing the snaps or something like he's rotating in. You

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Speaker 1: don't they count on him to do these things? He

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Speaker 1: started dime linebacker that kind of stuff. Or they're playing

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Speaker 1: the Titans that week and he's the run stopper, you know,

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Speaker 1: like they didn't have them and for that week, but

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Speaker 1: if it was a following week, it wouldn't have been

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Speaker 1: as big a deal. Those type of deals, you know,

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Speaker 1: So that makes a difference. I mean, everybody knows when

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Speaker 1: the stars go out, but you don't really recognize and

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Speaker 1: what that means to the depth overall in the game.

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Speaker 1: He's our he's our run blocking tight end, and now

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Speaker 1: we don't have him, or we can't play dime. We're

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Speaker 1: a dime defense. You know, well he loved dime, but

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Speaker 1: we don't have enough defensive backs to pull it off.

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Speaker 1: And that's kind of where the Ravens are at. Actually

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Speaker 1: really is right, yeah, it really is, and so it's

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Speaker 1: it's it's gonna be interesting. That would put the Steelers

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Speaker 1: in at nine seven and one if they win as

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Speaker 1: we we are picking here right before we went on

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Speaker 1: the air, stand asked me if they're nine seven and one,

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Speaker 1: is that a successful year? I said, guess yeah. I

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Speaker 1: mean put it this way, Vegas put there over under

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Speaker 1: this year at eight and a half. Um, if they

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Speaker 1: go nine seven and one, they're over expectations stations. And

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Speaker 1: again if you look at football outsiders and they have

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Speaker 1: the expected win rate on their yeah, the Steeler is

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Speaker 1: expected win right right now is like six point one games,

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Speaker 1: which means they've exceeded It means they've exceeded expectations. A

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Speaker 1: lot of that's because I mean, like they come up

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Speaker 1: with that with a it's a formula, but I mean

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Speaker 1: they have a low point total differential, which usually means

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Speaker 1: they should be a six is type win team or

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Speaker 1: turnover dif French all those type of things. But they've

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Speaker 1: managed to be in a position to maybe win nine games.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I think that's a successful year. That's saying.

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Speaker 1: You know, as much as everybody wants to kill the

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Speaker 1: coaching staff for that stuff, part of that's coaching too. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: doubt doubt, you know. I mean I even think the

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Speaker 1: Ravens are a successful year. There were, yeah, there were there.

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Speaker 1: I think they were like seven point two or something

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Speaker 1: like that, and they're sitting with eight wins, like I

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Speaker 1: bet the Browns are not They're under bet they're under right, Okay,

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Speaker 1: it all adds up. So for what you've had to

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Speaker 1: deal with for sixteen games so far, Yeah, I mean

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Speaker 1: so if they yeah, I mean nine seven and one. Obviously,

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Speaker 1: if you don't get in the playoffs, it's not a

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Speaker 1: successful year. And I get to the lie, if you

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Speaker 1: don't win the Super Bowl is not a successful here.

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Speaker 1: But knowing what we know about this team, who the

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Speaker 1: quarterback is that stay the line. I think when nine

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Speaker 1: and a half of games is pretty pretty sixty starts

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Speaker 1: from rookies on offense, you know absolutely that matters too.

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Speaker 1: It was actually Mike Dicko who said that for everye

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Speaker 1: rookie that you start on on your on your team,

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Speaker 1: that's an Now that's a loss. And they have the

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Speaker 1: second most rookie snaps in the league. Yeah, yeah, no,

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Speaker 1: it makes a difference. But that's going to do it

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Speaker 1: for the show, Matt regular season in the book, that's

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Speaker 1: gonna do it for the regular season. We will be

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Speaker 1: back on Monday to wrap up the Steelers game. It'll

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Speaker 1: be black Monday. There'll be some heads rolling, and there'll

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Speaker 1: be some heads rolling, and at least guessing five, maybe six.

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Speaker 1: There's usually a surprise Minnesota. I don't know about Denver. A. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: there's usually one that you maybe didn't see coming. I

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Speaker 1: don't like retirement. Maybe see Pete Carroll getting fired. But

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Speaker 1: if Pete Carroll decides he wants to step away, they

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Speaker 1: may have a chat. Yeah you don't. You don't fire

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Speaker 1: a super Bowl winning coach. No, I don't think it'll

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Speaker 1: go like that, but I don't know if he'll be

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Speaker 1: the coach next year. Yeah, So lots of good stuff

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Speaker 1: to get into. We'll do that starting next week, and

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Speaker 1: we'll start getting into the Steelers offseason. What happened, what

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Speaker 1: we could be talking about a playoff game could be

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Speaker 1: the craziest thing I've ever heard. No, I think we've

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Speaker 1: probably seen more double digit underdogs win this year than

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Speaker 1: maybe anytime that I can remember in league history. I

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Speaker 1: think it's I think that's a fact. Actually, I think

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Speaker 1: that's how it is true. I think that is the

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Speaker 1: most ever. So we'll see. But for my partner, Matt

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Speaker 1: Williamson for Brian La Martina here on site keeping us

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Speaker 1: on the air, which is I'm sure I'll tell you

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Speaker 1: that I'm Dale Lolly. We thank you for listening to

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Speaker 1: this edition of the Drive on Steelers Nation Radio