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Speaker 2: And we are back. I'm Dale Lollie, he is the

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Speaker 2: Matt Williamson. And then there's time to kick off our

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Speaker 2: number two here with a little fantasy football focus. And

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Speaker 2: it's Tuesday. That means it's go ahead and do your

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Speaker 2: ads this week, and let's take a look here at

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Speaker 2: some of the top guys available. Ty Chandler rostered in

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Speaker 2: twenty seven percent of leagues.

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Speaker 3: We're just talking about that off the air. They got

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Speaker 3: the Lions this week. You get the Lions this week

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Speaker 3: coming off of bye. I think you pick them up

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Speaker 3: no matter what. Yeah, he should be in league, in

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Speaker 3: any of the leagues, even if you don't have Jones

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Speaker 3: or Jones plays, you know, but I'm hoping, well, I am,

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Speaker 3: but Jones has a good chance to play. It sounds

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Speaker 3: like we'll get more news on that tomorrow.

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Speaker 2: And that could be a game where it might be

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Speaker 2: up and down the field. You wouldn't expect that with

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Speaker 2: those two defenses. But the Lions now without Aiden Hutchinson. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: and Detroit's offense will move the football. Yeah, it's a

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Speaker 2: good group, you know, and you can you can actually

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Speaker 2: throw the ball against the Vikings. If you can protect

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Speaker 2: your quarterback and Detroit can contact, they can do that.

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Speaker 3: They can do that. That could be a high scoring game.

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Speaker 3: I don't know over unders, and I honestly don't even

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Speaker 3: know matchups yet for this.

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Speaker 2: Week, but we'll go over those here, yeah, in a segment.

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Speaker 2: But he should be in leagues, yeah, absolutely, I mean

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Speaker 2: he could end up catching five or six balls this week.

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Speaker 2: Tyrone Tracy rostered him forty five percent of leagues. And

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Speaker 2: that one makes me ill because two weeks ago on

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Speaker 2: a Friday, I picked up Tyrone Tracy in our league. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: and then later in the day I saw Singletary had

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Speaker 2: Julian McLaughlin like, oh, Singletary's gonna play. Tyrone Tracy has

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Speaker 3: I think he could go past Singletary. Yeah, I think

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Speaker 3: he's probably the better player. He certainly passed good. He's

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Speaker 2: In college. You transitioned to running back. I think he's

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Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, he should be in every league too.

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Speaker 2: Ray Davis rostered in thirteen percent of leagues. He should

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Speaker 3: Yeah. I bet Cooks back next week though. Yeah, but

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Speaker 3: still he's good. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: It is a short week though for them.

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Speaker 3: H good point. So we have a surprise scratch.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but maybe they look at this as playing with

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Speaker 2: Davis looked God last week.

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Speaker 3: Let's run him out there, and he certainly proved himself

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Speaker 3: that he's going to have a role. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I said, they play the Titans this week, ray Davis

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Speaker 3: If I had Cooked, though, I would because especially like

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Speaker 3: You got to pick up like Johnson or somebody just

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Speaker 2: Garndo four percent rostered. I think he would take over

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Speaker 3: Yeah. I don't know how bad Mason's injury is though,

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Speaker 3: And I'd watch list of at a minimum.

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Speaker 3: Oh wow, that's fun, big game. Wowkings Lions in Kansas City.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. If you've got Mason, got a bad guy to have.

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Speaker 2: You mentioned Kamani Vidal. He's rostered in eleven percent of leagues. Now,

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Speaker 2: Now, this is when somebody asked me about this one

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Speaker 3: Yeah, there was a left forget who my decision was,

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Speaker 2: I think Jaalen Warren moving forward is in that flex. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: But the Broncos running backs led the league in receptions

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Speaker 3: Absolutely not.

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Speaker 2: No, Uh, Deonta Foreman one rostered. Well, we saw Ford

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you have to be pretty desperate to go down

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Speaker 3: I would imagine three headed backfield just kills them all. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: I mean, so this this week, but this isn't one

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Speaker 3: I don't think Irving's role is going to draw.

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Speaker 2: That's not going to change at all.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Trey Benson rostered in nineteen percent of the league's

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Speaker 2: We know James Connor's injury history.

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Speaker 3: He's just played much at all. Late in the game.

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Speaker 2: They were losing badly. Is James Connor?

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Speaker 3: Right right. Benson was the second running back drafted, isn't

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Speaker 3: The reports haven't been great and he hasn't done anything,

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Speaker 3: we're quickly getting down this road. What are the Cardinals

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Speaker 3: need to see from Connor going forward, right, you know,

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Speaker 3: in terms of twenty nine, he's not going to be

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so that's one to definitely keep an eye on there.

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Speaker 2: he's a gnat. You know that he's gonna especially when

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Speaker 3: I've mentioned that a couple of times.

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Speaker 2: They up bring up his contractor they pick up They

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Speaker 3: I think he's up after the year.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: There's not a lot of running back needy teams, but

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Speaker 3: that's a team that should certainly listen to it. I

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Speaker 3: think Bigsby's better than them. I do too.

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Speaker 2: And Juranie Johnson's not bad, No, he's not.

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Speaker 3: Uh.

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Speaker 2: Looking at the wide receivers, Josh Doallens Stony rostered in

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Speaker 2: forty eight percent of the league's But Richardson's coming back.

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Speaker 3: I know still has to be at every league.

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Speaker 2: I understand that, but there's gonna be some You're there's

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Speaker 2: gonna be some times if you're watching the Colts plane,

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Speaker 2: you're a Josh Downs owner in the ball goes sailing

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Speaker 2: You're gonna be like, Ah, put Flacco in.

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Speaker 3: And Pittman's back and they have everybody. It's gonna be

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Speaker 3: hard to keep all those guys fed. But it was

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Speaker 3: certainly good while it lasted. But I'd not giving up

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Speaker 3: on him. Yeah, Like, if he's out there, you should

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Speaker 3: get you should grab him.

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Speaker 2: So the Chiefs are coming off the bye week, Juju

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Speaker 2: Smith Schuster still rushed and only thirty one percent of league.

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Speaker 2: I think that kind of kept the ownership down a

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Speaker 3: I think I'm going to start him in our league.

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Speaker 3: I was just looking at it at our break. I'm

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Speaker 3: torn between like him and Jalen Waddle.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he's like a wide receiver three at this point, Yeah,

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Speaker 2: I think so. So you see something different, right, I

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Speaker 2: don't know if i'd count on nine catches for one

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Speaker 2: hundred and twenty five years you had last week.

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Speaker 3: No, but I think he'll get consistent usage in a

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Speaker 3: good offense. Yeah, and that role was really conducive to

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Speaker 3: the points here.

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Speaker 2: He is fulls gold. Christian Watson rostered in forty one

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Speaker 2: percent of leagues. Probably the only receiver I want in

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Speaker 2: that offense to start consistently is Read. I know the

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Speaker 2: rest of them are all you never know. It's almost

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Speaker 2: like the forty nine ers offense. Now, So which one's

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Speaker 2: gonna good? We know this one's gonna be good, but

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Speaker 3: I picked him up in the last minute and our

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Speaker 3: league too. Now I have him and Wicks, which I

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Speaker 3: really don't want to start ether one. I won't want

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Speaker 3: of the two to get hurt or whatever. Dobbs is

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Speaker 3: back and he's got a roll, and you know, well.

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Speaker 2: There's a good point to bring up to Matt, Like,

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Speaker 2: when you're putting in for it to pick somebody up,

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Speaker 2: you need to think about what needs to happen for

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Speaker 2: that guy to be in my starting.

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Speaker 3: Line, Right, when can I check the box. Yeah, that's

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Speaker 3: a big thing. I talk about a lot in Dynasty,

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Speaker 3: Sunday morning, Like, I want's start all these dudes, you know,

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Speaker 3: like Benson, Like it's a Dynasty asset. But I can't

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Speaker 3: check the box until something happens with something else. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: now that I don't. So if it's a running back

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Speaker 3: in his it's easier path. It's an easier path.

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Speaker 2: If it's a wide receiver and the number two receiver

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Speaker 2: gets hurt, Okay, so the best he can do is

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Speaker 2: move into the number two spot. Maybe in New England

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Speaker 2: that doesn't Still I'm still not checking the box, right right, right.

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Speaker 3: It's tough. Like in this instance, I had Acres and

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Speaker 3: I'm like, I'm dumping him for whoever the best guy

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Speaker 3: is available at that point, and I'll take a shot

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Speaker 3: on Watson. I can't believe it out there whatever, but

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Speaker 3: starting him is an ideal, No, Like, I'm definitely starting

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Speaker 3: Juju over him.

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Speaker 2: The next guy on the list here is Romeo Dobbs,

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Speaker 2: owned in thirty five percent. Like roll the dice, who's

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Speaker 2: it going to be this week?

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Speaker 3: Yeah? I mean you probably need read to get hurt. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: because then the pie open. Then it changes.

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Speaker 2: Now somebody moved, somebody else moves into the number one spot.

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Speaker 3: One of the other three gets hurt, doesn't change it.

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Speaker 2: Ll no, No, still guessing which one's going to get

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Speaker 2: the targets to Mario Douglas seven percent rostered. Now he's

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Speaker 2: a little different. Yeah, he's had nine targets in three

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Speaker 2: of the last four games.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so it's not just the May thing. He's probably

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Speaker 3: their best guy. Pulk plays a ton. Yeah, he's not

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Speaker 3: ready for prime time.

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Speaker 2: We're in bye week times. I could see checking the

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Speaker 2: box on the Mario Douglas if you're hurting it wide receiver.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you know you got two guys on by or

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Speaker 3: you invested heavily and you got Racy right. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Would you rather start to Mario Douglas this week against Jacksonville.

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Speaker 3: Or what that's like the neighborhood you're in.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'd rather start to Mario Douglas, I think against Jacksonville.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean the targets will be better.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it's all about opportunity. Xavier Lagette rostered

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Speaker 2: in eighteen or nineteen percent of league's Yeah, he's had

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Speaker 2: one good game. Yeah, he's fine. Keep an eye on him.

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Speaker 2: Rashad Bateman eleven percent rostered, kind.

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Speaker 3: Of the low ceiling.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he's the fourth target or fourth option in an offense.

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Speaker 2: Probably catch a touchdown, maybe the fifth option. Yeah, probably

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Speaker 2: needs a catch a touchdown. So if you're in deep

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Speaker 2: trouble this week and you need a starter, bub Means

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Speaker 2: in New Orleans seems to have a nice connection with

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Speaker 2: Spencer Rattler.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm sure they played a lot of doesn't look

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Speaker 2: like a lave's probably gonna play this week. He's in

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Speaker 2: concussion protocol in a short weeks Thursday night game.

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Speaker 3: Pretty well designed offense. They definitely have something going there.

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Speaker 2: They're playing Denver.

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Speaker 3: You would help, You would hope you have better. Don't

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Speaker 3: get me wrong, but like you said, if you're in

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Speaker 3: a real bind, I mean, he's not gonna get certain.

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Speaker 2: He's he's not gonna go with him, So you're gonna go.

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Speaker 2: You're gonna they're gonna tell Rattler you don't throw it

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Speaker 2: at certain against certain.

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Speaker 3: Go there screams five for forty five yards though, I

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Speaker 3: mean again, if you're in a bye week and you're

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Speaker 3: hurting and you need a floor. I mean he's gonna

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Speaker 3: play and he'll be on the field.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's it's it's a floor play. Jordan Whittington still

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Speaker 2: only rostered nine percent of leagues.

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Speaker 3: I'd rather have him in a couple of names you mentioned, Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Jalen Tolbert thirty five percent rostered. We started him last week.

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Speaker 2: He speaking of the five for forty.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean his peak game, I'm sure will be

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Speaker 3: the Steeler game. But yeah, you know he's on the

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Speaker 3: field a lot too.

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Speaker 2: Quarterbacks you're looking at Daniel Jones twenty two percent rostered, Well,

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Speaker 2: he runs, he runs, Yeah, Drake May six percent rostered.

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Speaker 2: He runs.

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Speaker 3: I'm a fan. I mean I think he screams garbage

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Speaker 3: time and he runs a ton. They just have no

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Speaker 3: weapons other than that. Douglas Justin Herbert is only rostered

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Speaker 3: in forty one percent of leagues. Oh if I'd rather

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Speaker 3: have him or those two wepins.

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Speaker 2: Is he ever gonna throw for three hundred yards this year?

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Speaker 3: Probably not.

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Speaker 2: He's gonna throw three touchdown passes in a game.

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Speaker 3: What hurts him is the defense is too good.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and that's surprises and they run the ball too

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Speaker 2: well to Yeah, it just shortens the game.

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Speaker 3: That's I say they're never down by fourteen. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Andy Dalton's ten percent rostered. That hasn't been quite as good.

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Speaker 3: A okay, but I would hope you could do better.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, tight end. Zach Ertz twenty five percent rostered.

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Speaker 3: Good offense and he's been out there a lot.

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Speaker 2: Has a floor.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Kate Atton thirty six percent rostered.

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Speaker 3: It's okay.

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Speaker 2: It's a good offense. Yeah, but he's the third option,

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Speaker 2: maybe the fourth that maybe running back, right, but he's

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Speaker 2: had last four games at least forty four receiving yards

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Speaker 2: or a touchdown in each game, getting that something. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: it's a four player, a bad position. Hunter Henry twenty

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Speaker 2: six percent owned.

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Speaker 3: I don't think that's terrible. They throw a lot and

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Speaker 3: the receivers are terrible. He's okay.

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Speaker 2: Taysom Hill, we've talked a lot about him over the

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Speaker 2: course of the season, thirty three percent rostered. He's been

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Speaker 2: out of sight, out of mind. I think Rattler being

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Speaker 2: in there helps him, Yeah, because I bet he throws

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Speaker 2: the ball a couple of times. Might Yeah, they might

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Speaker 2: try some stuff, and.

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Speaker 3: It's all about healthy. Had broken ribs and I don't

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Speaker 3: know if he's ready or not? Yeah, you said they

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Speaker 3: play Thursday.

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Speaker 2: Huh, Yeah, they got Denver, then the Chargers, then Carolina.

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Speaker 3: I wonder if I bet he doesn't play this week?

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Speaker 3: Probably not an'y eve an nice long week, Yeah you can, Yeah,

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Speaker 3: he might be a starter. And then Grant Calcterra had

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Speaker 3: a nice game for the Philadelphia Eagles this week.

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Speaker 2: Zero percent owned. I would still make that zero percent owned.

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Speaker 3: I haven't heard long term Goddard news. Yeah, that doesn't

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Speaker 3: excite me at all.

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Speaker 2: Looking again at this week's schedule for our streamers, you

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Speaker 2: get the Broncos at the Saints, Yes and yeah, fire

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Speaker 2: them up, yeah, both of them. That's Thursday Night special.

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Speaker 3: Patriots at the Jaguars, Yes and yes, man pushing a

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Speaker 3: button on the Jaguars defensive for Frosties are pretty bad

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Speaker 3: right now?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they might throw you. One might throw some Lions Vikings.

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Speaker 2: I don't want to start either defense and both have

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Speaker 2: been Vikings are awesome, But no, not this week. Titans

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Speaker 2: at Bills. Maybe Buffalo, Yeah, I mean Levis is rough,

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Speaker 2: he's rough. Dolphins at Colts, Fire up the Colts defense.

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Speaker 3: You would think the Dolphins might have a little something

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Speaker 3: up their sleeve. Come off of.

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Speaker 2: Bye Seahawks at Falcons. Falcons defense might be a sneaky

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Speaker 2: start this week the Seahawks. I just saw this that

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Speaker 2: Gino Smith has not thrown multiple touchdown passes in a

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Speaker 2: game this season.

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Speaker 3: Like they get.

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Speaker 2: Yards, say, he's got a ton of yards and they

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Speaker 2: throw the ball a lot, but the offensive line isn't

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Speaker 2: very good.

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Speaker 3: No, that's a big problem with him too.

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Speaker 2: And he has thrown some interceptions.

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Speaker 3: I don't love it.

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Speaker 2: I don't love it.

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Speaker 3: But yeah, looking at if you got the VI Kings

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Speaker 3: defense and you're like, I need to bring somewhere and

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Speaker 3: you want to don't want to cut him? Yeah, mats

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Speaker 3: want to hang on to him.

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Speaker 2: Texans Packers again, I don't want to start either one

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Speaker 2: of those defenses. And then those are two, you know,

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Speaker 2: decent defenses. Bengals, Browns. I can't start the Browns defense

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Speaker 2: this week.

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Speaker 3: Can start the Bengals, is what I was thinking.

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Speaker 2: You might be able to start the Bengals defense.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Thirty one sacks or thirty one sacks?

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Speaker 3: Right, who's blocking? Who's blocking Hendricks? Henderson will have some

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Speaker 3: that's not terrible.

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Speaker 2: Eagles, Giants. Giants lead the league in sacks. It's crazy.

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Speaker 3: They have front. Eagles offense hasn't been amazing. It hasn't

442
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Speaker 3: been greatn't do much against the Browns. Yeah, starting the

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Speaker 3: Eagles against the Giants. This was my next question.

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Speaker 2: I think Andrew Thomas is hurt. He's struggling. Yeah, they're

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Speaker 2: both okay. Raiders, Rams no and No.

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Speaker 3: Maybe the Rams, Panthers, Commanders no and No, No and No,

447
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Speaker 3: Chiefs forty nine ers. Again, these are two defenses that

448
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Speaker 3: were typically you would start. Are you starting them against

449
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Speaker 3: each other? Unless I have to? Yeah, there's better ones.

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Speaker 3: They're Streamers here.

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Speaker 2: Jet Steelers, Yes, and Yes, Ravens Bucks. Again. The Ravens

452
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Speaker 2: defense is when you would typically start. You're starting to

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Speaker 2: against the Buccaneers.

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Speaker 3: The Buccaneers throw the ball, well, yeah, and that's what

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Speaker 3: the raven That's what I mean.

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Speaker 2: The Ravens don't handle the pass very well. They just don't.

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Speaker 2: I would not start the box, No, probably not on

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Speaker 2: the Ravens. And then the Chargers Cardinals.

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Speaker 3: Chargers been very startable, but I don't love that. Yeah,

460
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Speaker 3: there's just some bad matchups. Yeah, you may have to.

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Speaker 2: You may have to pick up a team like the

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Speaker 2: Falcons and start them.

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Speaker 3: This week we came up with a handful of good

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Speaker 3: ones though, Yeah there were Cheepi's yeah, like the Bengals,

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Speaker 3: you know, yeah, the Bengals are definitely out there. I mean,

466
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Speaker 3: that's a tough button to push start Jacksonville this week.

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Speaker 3: I'm gonna start the Bengals. What are you doing against

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Speaker 3: the opponent? That's all you're doing?

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Speaker 2: Right anyways, that's going to do for the Fantasy footb Focus.

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Speaker 2: He is Matt Williamson. I'm Dale Lolly. You're listening to

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Speaker 2: the Drive here on the Steelers Audio Network. We'll be

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Speaker 2: back with more right after this.

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Speaker 2: And Matt, I gotta tell you the comments after yesterday's

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Speaker 2: show on YouTube.

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Speaker 3: What do we do so wrong yesterday? Ah? We didn't,

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Speaker 3: you know, call the old stuff. Yeah, yeah, we hate

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Speaker 3: him apparently.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I like him a lot. I like him a

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Speaker 2: lot too.

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Speaker 3: I'd start Wilson. Apparently we could go back and play

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Speaker 3: the draft, the pre draft audio stuff of me praising

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Speaker 3: Justin Fields. Yeah yeah, but people think I hate him,

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Speaker 3: but no, I just want more. Yeah, I think you

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Speaker 3: need I cover this team in the in the Cordell

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Speaker 3: Stewart days, you know, I go back that far.

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Speaker 2: And yes, they made it to two AFC championships of

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Speaker 2: Cordell Stewart doing his thing. Yeah, they didn't get to

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Speaker 2: the championship game. They didn't get to the Super Bowl though.

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Speaker 2: With that, oh yeah, speaking of super Bowl. All right,

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Speaker 2: Power ranking time. I got Eric dead Holmes power rankings

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Speaker 2: here on NFL dot com. Who is now reporting that, well, hey,

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Speaker 2: Russell Wilson is going to start this week for the

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Speaker 2: Pittsburgh Steelers. Glad the national media is starting to catch

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Speaker 2: up a little bit. Uh So at thirty two holding

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Speaker 2: steady the Carolina Panthers. I might have the Browns there.

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Speaker 3: I say Browns are bad. Jags are bad.

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Speaker 2: It's a race for thirty two. Who Raiders are bad?

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Speaker 2: Raiders are bad? Yeah, at thirty one. The Patriots. Patriots

508
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Speaker 2: are bad Patriots.

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Speaker 3: I mean some of these teams used to have a defense.

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Speaker 3: The brown Yeah, Patriots, it's just weather. There's out there

511
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Speaker 3: too much. Patriots don't even have that thing they've got.

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Speaker 3: Their offensive line might be worse than Cleveland's. Yeah, I

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Speaker 3: think it's probably last. Yeah. I don't think I have

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Speaker 3: Carolina last. The more I think about it, they've at

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Speaker 3: least competitive. Good.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they've been competitive.

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Speaker 3: We actually have something they do well.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. And the Browns now with trading way on Mary Cooper, like,

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Speaker 2: what are they doing right? That offense is now going

520
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Speaker 2: to be even worse. But they break twenty all season

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Speaker 2: long unless the defense scores scored.

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Speaker 3: I scored on special teams last week.

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Speaker 2: They didn't get the try.

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Speaker 3: Right.

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Speaker 2: They are at thirty holding steady.

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Speaker 3: Okay, they put them thirty two. I wouldn't fight you.

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Speaker 2: They won't get above that the rest of the year. No,

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Speaker 2: at twenty nine holding steady. The Jacksonville Jaguars.

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Speaker 3: Pretty darn bad. They are bad. Yes, Yeah, they play

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Speaker 3: the Pats this week.

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Speaker 2: Somebodys gonna win a game, but best they're going to

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Speaker 2: bump up to like twenty eight one of the.

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Speaker 3: First games I can remember, though, like it has draft

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Speaker 3: ramifications and you know that kind of thing.

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Speaker 2: It's it's going to be in that early window on Sunday,

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Speaker 2: the early early window, the early window on Sunday. And

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Speaker 2: I don't know if I.

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Speaker 3: Want to watch it alarm for yeah, I don't know

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Speaker 3: if I want to get up and watch that, especially

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Speaker 3: knowing that I'm gonna have to be up late Sunday night. Exactly,

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Speaker 3: it's gonna work no matter what we did that a

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Speaker 3: couple of weeks ago. Yuck.

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Speaker 2: At twenty eight down two spots, the Titans, Lewis is

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Speaker 2: an issue. At some point they got to turn it

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Speaker 2: over to Mason Rudolph. I mean, you've seen enough that

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Speaker 2: this to say he ain't getting any better.

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Speaker 3: That's the first team that I would say, though, is

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Speaker 3: clearly better than the rest that we've seen. Yeah. The

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Speaker 3: defense is good. Yeah, the defense is solid.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, twenty seven down two spots are the Raiders.

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Speaker 3: They'd be below the Titans for me.

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Speaker 2: They do have two wins.

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Speaker 3: I know they beat the Ravens. I know that's amazing that.

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Speaker 2: What was Mike Tomlin doing coaching the Ravens that day?

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Speaker 2: Because only he loses the bad team.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. Right, I could see at the end of the

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Speaker 3: season looking back like that was the most unlikely win

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Speaker 3: of the year. Very well, maybe happens in the league. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: At twenty six, up two spots, the Miami Dolphins. They

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Speaker 2: did nothing to move every Yeah.

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Speaker 3: I would have the Titans ahead of them too.

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Speaker 2: Twenty five up two spots, again, a team that was

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Speaker 2: on a buy, the Los Angeles Rams at one and four.

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Speaker 2: They did nothing to get better.

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Speaker 3: No, they didn't. They're in that same neighborhood with the

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Speaker 3: Titans for me.

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Speaker 2: At twenty four, down two spots, Arizona following.

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Speaker 3: The offense is not great like we thought that.

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Speaker 2: They just beat weeks ago.

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Speaker 3: Amazing.

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Speaker 2: Two weeks ago they beat the forty.

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Speaker 3: Nine ers the one game in between, right, twenty three

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Speaker 3: holding steady the Giants.

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Speaker 2: I think that's fair. They are offenses yuck. Yeah, Daniel

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Speaker 2: Jones is yuck. Twenty two up two spots the Bengals.

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Speaker 3: They'd be ahead of all these teams. I think they're

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Speaker 3: trending the right way.

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Speaker 2: At twenty one, down five spots, the Saints falling fast.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't think this can get a lot better.

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Speaker 2: They were competitive in that game for a while against

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Speaker 2: they were though they were. I mean he threw three

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Speaker 2: picks in early on Baker at twenty holding steady. The

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Speaker 2: team the Steelers will see this week the New York Jets.

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Speaker 2: They're two and four. They better than all the teams

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Speaker 2: below them.

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Speaker 3: Right now, that was about to ask I said, I

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Speaker 3: think yes, but I'm not sure in the Bengals you

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Speaker 3: would rather play this week? The Bengals are Jets this week?

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Speaker 2: Right now? Right now, probably the Jets based on again.

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Speaker 3: There's a lot of turmoil and they played, they played

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Speaker 3: in London two weeks ago now Monday night game, fired

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Speaker 3: their coach and they're old.

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Speaker 2: Just traded, yeah, and just traded for Devonte Adams. We

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Speaker 2: don't know how much he's gonna play this week. This

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Speaker 2: is the time. And it doesn't mean the Steelers can't

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Speaker 2: lose this game.

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Speaker 3: Oh they absolutely could. I might pick the Jets. I'm

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Speaker 3: not even sure on that yet, but yeah, I mean

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Speaker 3: I've heard this on my stat pack. I found a

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Speaker 3: kind of humorous that the Jets head coach has coached

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Speaker 3: one NFL game. Yes, Mike Tomlins coach two d and

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Speaker 3: ninety including playoffs, Yeah, and Super.

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Speaker 2: Bowls at nineteen down six spots Dallas.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I might have the Jets ahead of Dallas. I

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Speaker 3: don't know. They it was a bad week for the Cowboys.

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Speaker 2: They had they had a bad game against Detroit, who

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Speaker 2: wanted to humiliate them, And it might.

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Speaker 3: Be one on my list. Yeah, I mean they're going

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Speaker 3: to be really high.

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Speaker 2: But now they've lost Touchinson, which you know, definitely hurts

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Speaker 2: them against you, definitely hurts them.

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Speaker 3: And they're an elite team.

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Speaker 2: They're an elite team, no doubt about it. And they

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Speaker 2: want They wanted to go in there and make a

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Speaker 2: statement against the Cowboys and they did. And if they

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Speaker 2: play it ten times though, does it end up the

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Speaker 2: same way?

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Speaker 3: No, that's the one percenter. Yeah, that's the you know,

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Speaker 3: the worst case scenario. But more so than the Steelers could.

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Speaker 3: They really attacked the weaknesses the run defense, lack of

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Speaker 3: run game, and they threw the ball and they to

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Speaker 3: the ball right. Yeah, I mean that that's the.

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Speaker 2: Amazing Throwing the ball opens up your running game. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: are crashing the line of scrimmage when as soon as

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Speaker 2: you snap the football.

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Speaker 3: They're the only team with more play action than the

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Speaker 3: Steelers too.

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Speaker 2: Yes, at eighteen up three spots the Indianapolis Colts.

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Speaker 3: Okay, but it's decision time. I think the decision has

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Speaker 3: been made. But quarterback change is coming.

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Speaker 2: Cowboys are better than the Colts.

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Speaker 3: I think Bengals are too.

633
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Speaker 2: Bengals are better than the Colts.

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Speaker 3: I think the Jets definitely are.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, seventeen down two spots, Seattle.

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Speaker 3: Following as we mentioned, you know that TODs three in

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Speaker 3: a row. Yeah, young coach, how do you redeem that

638
00:27:48,240 --> 00:27:50,960
Speaker 3: that situation? That's not easy?

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Speaker 2: Sixteen down two spots is Denver.

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Speaker 3: We knew they were a little inflated at fourteen, right, Yeah,

641
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Speaker 3: they play defense and their lines.

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Speaker 2: Okay, here's the thing though, Bo Knicks went into the

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Speaker 2: fourth quarter of that game on Sunday, he was four

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Speaker 2: of fourteen for twenty seven yards with an interception into

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Speaker 2: had been sacked twice.

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Speaker 3: He is some of the craziest numbers ever.

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Speaker 2: Like they're like insane numbers, like the.

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Speaker 3: Minus seventh thing at half and all that type of thing.

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Speaker 3: The Bengals are better than them, aren't they. Jets are

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Speaker 3: better than them. They'd be like five. I think.

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Speaker 2: I mean the defense is good, it is. I thought

652
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Speaker 2: they played the Chargers. Cincinnati's defense is not good.

653
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Speaker 3: No, it's not. But they've Joe Burrow. It's kind of nice,

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Speaker 3: you know.

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Speaker 2: At fifteen up four spots, the Chargers.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think i'd have ahead of all these teams

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Speaker 3: right now. I think they're pretty solid. But high floor,

658
00:28:47,880 --> 00:28:50,040
Speaker 3: low ceiling. Yeah.

659
00:28:50,360 --> 00:28:53,440
Speaker 2: At fourteen up four spots, San Francisco.

660
00:28:54,640 --> 00:28:59,640
Speaker 3: Come off a bye right, Yeah, yeah, I guess. Oh no,

661
00:28:59,680 --> 00:29:02,479
Speaker 3: they want less at Seattle, yeah, that was Thursday night.

662
00:29:02,520 --> 00:29:03,520
Speaker 3: It seems like a long time ago.

663
00:29:03,600 --> 00:29:04,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, it seemed like a bi week for him.

664
00:29:06,800 --> 00:29:09,560
Speaker 3: It would be my highest one mentioned though. At thirteen

665
00:29:09,680 --> 00:29:15,360
Speaker 3: up four spots, Chicago. San Francisco is better. Yeah, Bears

666
00:29:15,360 --> 00:29:17,640
Speaker 3: have some recency bias and they're figuring things out and

667
00:29:17,680 --> 00:29:20,800
Speaker 3: that's great, But then beating anybody. San frans a better football.

668
00:29:20,800 --> 00:29:23,120
Speaker 3: They haven't beaten anybody beating Jacksonville's not impressed.

669
00:29:23,160 --> 00:29:26,200
Speaker 2: It's no, especially when you were over there and then

670
00:29:26,280 --> 00:29:27,920
Speaker 2: Jacksonville showed up on Friday late.

671
00:29:28,480 --> 00:29:29,600
Speaker 3: Like you can tell.

672
00:29:30,120 --> 00:29:34,480
Speaker 2: You can tell at twelve down one spot Philadelphia that.

673
00:29:34,520 --> 00:29:38,080
Speaker 3: Might be a little overrated. The offense has issues, the

674
00:29:38,120 --> 00:29:40,600
Speaker 3: defense isn't what it usually is. I would take the

675
00:29:40,680 --> 00:29:42,280
Speaker 3: Niners over the U. I still think they beat the

676
00:29:42,280 --> 00:29:45,680
Speaker 3: Bearso at the head. Yes, out of the Niners over

677
00:29:45,720 --> 00:29:51,440
Speaker 3: both though. Yeah, at eleven, up a spot Atlanta, that's fair,

678
00:29:52,400 --> 00:29:57,240
Speaker 3: playing well, figuring it out. Defense isn't terrible. At ten,

679
00:29:57,800 --> 00:30:03,920
Speaker 3: holding steady the Steelers, Okay, Steelers versu Atlanta is a conversation.

680
00:30:04,080 --> 00:30:06,000
Speaker 3: I mean, I know they played as a long time

681
00:30:06,000 --> 00:30:07,080
Speaker 3: ago and times have changed.

682
00:30:08,240 --> 00:30:10,360
Speaker 2: I still like the way the Steelers defense matches up

683
00:30:10,360 --> 00:30:13,480
Speaker 2: against the falcon Zo Oh yeah, yeah, because you got

684
00:30:13,480 --> 00:30:17,160
Speaker 2: one true receive. I think you know, Mooney kind of

685
00:30:17,160 --> 00:30:20,200
Speaker 2: gets canceled out by Dante Jackson. Steelers two cornerbacks are

686
00:30:20,200 --> 00:30:23,280
Speaker 2: troublesome for that team, and they've they've done a good

687
00:30:23,360 --> 00:30:25,120
Speaker 2: job defensively on tight ends overall.

688
00:30:26,200 --> 00:30:27,880
Speaker 3: Yeah, and Pitts, isn't it even?

689
00:30:28,080 --> 00:30:31,800
Speaker 2: And they major they stopped the run, like okay, I

690
00:30:31,800 --> 00:30:32,520
Speaker 2: think that's fair.

691
00:30:32,320 --> 00:30:34,600
Speaker 3: For the Steelers though. Yeah, if they were one spot

692
00:30:34,800 --> 00:30:37,840
Speaker 3: lower or higher, i'd understand it. At nine, holding steady

693
00:30:37,840 --> 00:30:42,720
Speaker 3: Tampa Bay, Yeah, they're finding ways to win. Baker's playing

694
00:30:42,760 --> 00:30:46,520
Speaker 3: well and that was a little bit vital. But yeah,

695
00:30:47,080 --> 00:30:50,280
Speaker 3: she ran the ball this week down two spots Washington.

696
00:30:52,480 --> 00:30:54,560
Speaker 3: I don't think they'll finish the season in the top ten.

697
00:30:54,640 --> 00:30:56,280
Speaker 3: I don't either, you know, I think it's.

698
00:30:56,120 --> 00:30:58,400
Speaker 2: Been a really good story. It's already a successful year.

699
00:30:58,400 --> 00:31:01,040
Speaker 2: If they lose every other game, yeah, they might make

700
00:31:01,040 --> 00:31:05,000
Speaker 2: the playoffs. In the NFC the mighty hard. The NFC

701
00:31:05,160 --> 00:31:10,000
Speaker 2: is deeper. Yeah, it's deeper. And losing Jonathan Allen doesn't

702
00:31:10,040 --> 00:31:13,320
Speaker 2: sound like much. But that's a defense that already wasn't

703
00:31:13,320 --> 00:31:14,200
Speaker 2: good against a run.

704
00:31:14,360 --> 00:31:16,240
Speaker 3: They don't have many strengths to begin with, and now

705
00:31:16,240 --> 00:31:18,240
Speaker 3: they kind of lost early strength. Yeah.

706
00:31:19,240 --> 00:31:24,080
Speaker 2: At seven up a spot, green Bay.

707
00:31:23,120 --> 00:31:26,720
Speaker 3: I think there's like seven good teams. It's my hunch.

708
00:31:26,760 --> 00:31:29,600
Speaker 3: I think everything. I'm not sure if the Bills are

709
00:31:29,600 --> 00:31:34,400
Speaker 3: a good team. They have not been mentioned. I would

710
00:31:34,400 --> 00:31:36,120
Speaker 3: have Green Bay over the Bills, but I have green

711
00:31:36,120 --> 00:31:37,160
Speaker 3: Bay over everyone mentioned.

712
00:31:37,440 --> 00:31:38,960
Speaker 2: At six up a spot are the Bills?

713
00:31:39,880 --> 00:31:41,120
Speaker 3: Who would you like between those two?

714
00:31:43,360 --> 00:31:46,320
Speaker 2: With the Mari Cooper? I forgot about Cooper. Yeah, that's

715
00:31:46,360 --> 00:31:50,160
Speaker 2: that's the missing piece. Yeah, the offense. The offense should

716
00:31:50,200 --> 00:31:50,800
Speaker 2: be better now.

717
00:31:50,880 --> 00:31:53,360
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a nice addition. That's exactly what they needed.

718
00:31:54,560 --> 00:31:54,720
Speaker 1: Uh.

719
00:31:55,480 --> 00:31:59,040
Speaker 2: At five down two spots, down two spots because the

720
00:31:59,040 --> 00:32:02,680
Speaker 2: loss of Aiden Hutches are the Lions. You just smoked

721
00:32:02,760 --> 00:32:05,440
Speaker 2: Dallas forty seven to nine, and you went down two spots.

722
00:32:05,600 --> 00:32:08,320
Speaker 3: Ye. The other teams are good though in that neighborhood,

723
00:32:08,960 --> 00:32:13,000
Speaker 3: and he was possibly defensive player of the year when

724
00:32:13,000 --> 00:32:17,320
Speaker 3: he got hurt. Play trade for Reddick though or something.

725
00:32:17,840 --> 00:32:20,080
Speaker 3: I probably would have them higher. Yeah, and their offense

726
00:32:20,160 --> 00:32:21,720
Speaker 3: is loaded, and I don't know if the defense would

727
00:32:21,720 --> 00:32:22,920
Speaker 3: be battle of a sudden.

728
00:32:23,320 --> 00:32:27,520
Speaker 2: At Ford holding steadiest the Houston, they would be a

729
00:32:27,520 --> 00:32:31,840
Speaker 2: spot or two lower. They've been winning, but they ugly.

730
00:32:32,000 --> 00:32:34,000
Speaker 2: It's a little mess here. Then it looks on the

731
00:32:35,080 --> 00:32:37,200
Speaker 2: A three up two spots is Baltimore.

732
00:32:39,680 --> 00:32:40,480
Speaker 3: I might have been one.

733
00:32:41,520 --> 00:32:42,560
Speaker 2: I can't get there yet.

734
00:32:43,160 --> 00:32:44,160
Speaker 3: I think I would have them one.

735
00:32:46,200 --> 00:32:50,600
Speaker 2: Two is Kansas City and Minnesota is number one. If

736
00:32:50,640 --> 00:32:53,240
Speaker 2: you're gonna move Baltimore to one, that's because both Minnesota

737
00:32:53,280 --> 00:32:55,240
Speaker 2: and Kansas City were off last week, so they didn't

738
00:32:55,240 --> 00:32:57,440
Speaker 2: do anything. They were already one and two. I can't

739
00:32:57,440 --> 00:32:58,400
Speaker 2: move I can't move around.

740
00:32:58,400 --> 00:33:00,240
Speaker 3: I guess had a week ago. I had to Baltimore one.

741
00:33:00,280 --> 00:33:05,800
Speaker 2: Though Kansas City played Baltimore already this season. Baltimore can't

742
00:33:05,840 --> 00:33:06,640
Speaker 2: beat Kansas City.

743
00:33:07,000 --> 00:33:10,000
Speaker 3: I get it, but it's not. That's not necessarily what

744
00:33:10,160 --> 00:33:12,200
Speaker 3: power ranks are about. Though. Who's the best team right

745
00:33:12,280 --> 00:33:14,000
Speaker 3: now in the league. I think it's.

746
00:33:13,840 --> 00:33:14,920
Speaker 2: There's two unbeatens.

747
00:33:14,960 --> 00:33:15,240
Speaker 3: I can't.

748
00:33:15,360 --> 00:33:17,560
Speaker 2: I can't put the Ravens like this is a Ravens

749
00:33:17,560 --> 00:33:20,360
Speaker 2: team that's four and two and lost to the Raiders

750
00:33:20,520 --> 00:33:20,920
Speaker 2: at home.

751
00:33:21,200 --> 00:33:22,400
Speaker 3: I get it. I can't.

752
00:33:23,440 --> 00:33:24,960
Speaker 2: Well, right now, that's all well and good.

753
00:33:25,400 --> 00:33:27,240
Speaker 3: I can't put them at one and they just want

754
00:33:27,280 --> 00:33:30,440
Speaker 3: they just beat Washington by seven points at home. Yeah,

755
00:33:30,800 --> 00:33:31,840
Speaker 3: Washington's in the top ten.

756
00:33:32,200 --> 00:33:34,400
Speaker 2: Yeah, but we just said Washington's not going to finish

757
00:33:34,440 --> 00:33:35,040
Speaker 2: in the top ten.

758
00:33:35,160 --> 00:33:36,600
Speaker 3: No, but they're playing coming in.

759
00:33:36,840 --> 00:33:38,480
Speaker 2: What I'm saying is I don't think I don't think

760
00:33:38,520 --> 00:33:40,600
Speaker 2: the Ravens are world beaters. I don't think any of

761
00:33:40,640 --> 00:33:41,160
Speaker 2: these teams.

762
00:33:41,280 --> 00:33:42,479
Speaker 3: Oh, I don't think any of them are.

763
00:33:42,760 --> 00:33:44,120
Speaker 2: There's no dominant team.

764
00:33:44,240 --> 00:33:46,200
Speaker 3: Like the Ravens were better a year ago. Yeah, I

765
00:33:46,280 --> 00:33:48,040
Speaker 3: mean the Niners were better of the year ago than

766
00:33:48,080 --> 00:33:49,920
Speaker 3: all these The Chiefs were better a year ago. Yeah,

767
00:33:49,960 --> 00:33:53,320
Speaker 3: you have the elite teams last year were more elite, Yeah,

768
00:33:53,960 --> 00:33:54,760
Speaker 3: no question about that.

769
00:33:54,880 --> 00:33:57,520
Speaker 2: That's the when when Mike Tomlin's talking about we want

770
00:33:57,560 --> 00:34:00,120
Speaker 2: to be great, that's what he's talking about here. This

771
00:34:00,800 --> 00:34:04,080
Speaker 2: is it's there for the taking this year. These teams

772
00:34:04,160 --> 00:34:08,239
Speaker 2: are these teams are not complete teams compared to what

773
00:34:08,400 --> 00:34:10,000
Speaker 2: compared to what we've seen in the last few years.

774
00:34:10,360 --> 00:34:12,279
Speaker 2: This was not the best type team two or three

775
00:34:12,360 --> 00:34:12,759
Speaker 2: years ago.

776
00:34:13,160 --> 00:34:15,040
Speaker 3: I agree with all that. I mean, I think all

777
00:34:15,120 --> 00:34:18,480
Speaker 3: these teams have issues or every team we just mentioned

778
00:34:18,520 --> 00:34:22,120
Speaker 3: in the last five to eight or ten should be

779
00:34:22,440 --> 00:34:23,400
Speaker 3: kicking the tires at the.

780
00:34:23,400 --> 00:34:26,279
Speaker 2: Trade deadline to add something like This may be the

781
00:34:26,320 --> 00:34:28,640
Speaker 2: most active trade deadline we've seen in a long time

782
00:34:28,719 --> 00:34:30,839
Speaker 2: in the NFL, because there are some teams that really

783
00:34:31,000 --> 00:34:31,839
Speaker 2: are really they're done.

784
00:34:31,960 --> 00:34:34,799
Speaker 3: I mean there's eight that are garbage, that have no hope.

785
00:34:34,880 --> 00:34:37,440
Speaker 3: I mean that they're it should definitely be selling.

786
00:34:37,480 --> 00:34:38,479
Speaker 2: And you've got all these teams.

787
00:34:38,719 --> 00:34:40,759
Speaker 3: We could go through that top twelve and there's like, oh,

788
00:34:40,840 --> 00:34:42,400
Speaker 3: they could add this, or that team could add that,

789
00:34:42,600 --> 00:34:44,200
Speaker 3: or you know, like if we were in Buffalo right now,

790
00:34:44,239 --> 00:34:46,560
Speaker 3: we're pretty excited about Marty Cooper, but you'd.

791
00:34:46,360 --> 00:34:49,240
Speaker 2: Still maybe like to add another cornerback or something along yeah.

792
00:34:49,239 --> 00:34:53,000
Speaker 3: Safety, but at least they did something could that make

793
00:34:53,080 --> 00:34:56,040
Speaker 3: could that propel us to one maybe? You know, I

794
00:34:56,120 --> 00:34:57,600
Speaker 3: mean I could write a story where it could.

795
00:34:57,960 --> 00:35:00,080
Speaker 2: You know, if you're Detroit right now, you're going we

796
00:35:00,160 --> 00:35:03,640
Speaker 2: need to replace Raid Hutchinson bad, badly, like like.

797
00:35:03,680 --> 00:35:06,000
Speaker 3: I'm over paying for that. Rarely do I take that

798
00:35:06,160 --> 00:35:09,600
Speaker 3: stance like this should could be their year. If you're

799
00:35:09,640 --> 00:35:12,600
Speaker 3: Green Bay, I don't think they're in them. They're not.

800
00:35:12,760 --> 00:35:14,319
Speaker 3: They're they're they're kind of pretty full.

801
00:35:14,440 --> 00:35:16,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're they're they're okay, let's just keep it rolling.

802
00:35:16,920 --> 00:35:19,399
Speaker 2: And if you're Washington you need more pass rush.

803
00:35:20,840 --> 00:35:22,680
Speaker 3: I don't know if I would spend draft picks.

804
00:35:22,480 --> 00:35:24,719
Speaker 2: Though, ye, and go all in your Tampa Bay. You

805
00:35:24,760 --> 00:35:29,839
Speaker 2: could use more help at cornerback. Yeah, defense in generals, yeah,

806
00:35:30,000 --> 00:35:31,960
Speaker 2: not good. You just I mean the Steelers, we know

807
00:35:32,040 --> 00:35:35,800
Speaker 2: what they need a receiver, receiver way the Falcons, I

808
00:35:35,840 --> 00:35:39,520
Speaker 2: mean Chiefs Dems receiver. Yeah, you know, if you're the Falcons'

809
00:35:39,560 --> 00:35:43,080
Speaker 2: the Vikings cornerback help, it's not good.

810
00:35:43,640 --> 00:35:45,359
Speaker 3: Yeah. And they are hard on those guys.

811
00:35:45,520 --> 00:35:46,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, they ask a lot of them.

812
00:35:46,600 --> 00:35:49,360
Speaker 3: And you know, but would you push your chips in

813
00:35:49,520 --> 00:35:53,879
Speaker 3: saying this is maybe our year, maybe trade you beat

814
00:35:53,920 --> 00:35:56,239
Speaker 3: Detroit this week or six and oh yeah right, well

815
00:35:56,320 --> 00:35:56,840
Speaker 3: yeah we got to.

816
00:35:56,840 --> 00:35:57,440
Speaker 2: Go get somebody.

817
00:35:58,680 --> 00:35:59,480
Speaker 3: I'd be aggressive.

818
00:36:00,400 --> 00:36:03,360
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, you have the tiebreaker over over. You know,

819
00:36:03,480 --> 00:36:05,280
Speaker 2: you're not going to San Francisco in the playoffs.

820
00:36:05,320 --> 00:36:07,719
Speaker 3: You don't get many years where you're actually a content

821
00:36:07,800 --> 00:36:09,640
Speaker 3: you know what I mean, Like you gotta it's there,

822
00:36:09,719 --> 00:36:11,160
Speaker 3: see that window and attack it.

823
00:36:11,239 --> 00:36:15,960
Speaker 2: It's there, all right. What do the Ravens need more

824
00:36:16,040 --> 00:36:18,279
Speaker 2: offensive line help? I don't think. I mean, I know

825
00:36:18,320 --> 00:36:20,520
Speaker 2: they're running the football because but they might have the

826
00:36:20,560 --> 00:36:24,160
Speaker 2: two best runners on the planet at their perspective positions.

827
00:36:24,200 --> 00:36:25,920
Speaker 2: That's why they're running the football. It's not because they

828
00:36:26,040 --> 00:36:27,160
Speaker 2: have a great offensive line.

829
00:36:28,080 --> 00:36:30,160
Speaker 3: If I got greedy, i'd take it. I'd be interested

830
00:36:30,160 --> 00:36:30,880
Speaker 3: in the pass rusher.

831
00:36:31,360 --> 00:36:35,360
Speaker 2: That wouldn't hurt them either. Again, that team their pass defense.

832
00:36:35,440 --> 00:36:36,640
Speaker 2: Maybe a cornerback too.

833
00:36:37,080 --> 00:36:40,680
Speaker 3: Yeah, past I mean it would be something past defense oriented.

834
00:36:40,760 --> 00:36:42,799
Speaker 2: Yeah, because that's been there, that's been their achilles heel

835
00:36:42,880 --> 00:36:43,120
Speaker 2: right now.

836
00:36:43,680 --> 00:36:46,359
Speaker 3: I think I'd start with a pass rusher, even an

837
00:36:46,440 --> 00:36:48,160
Speaker 3: interior sub package.

838
00:36:48,160 --> 00:36:50,120
Speaker 2: The Raiders threw their way back into the game and

839
00:36:50,200 --> 00:36:53,320
Speaker 2: beat these beat the Ravens throwing the football. Yeah, you

840
00:36:53,440 --> 00:36:57,879
Speaker 2: just saw that passing game. Different quarterback, different look. Yeah,

841
00:36:57,960 --> 00:37:00,200
Speaker 2: Ken Adams plate or not. You could get down this list.

842
00:37:00,239 --> 00:37:02,000
Speaker 2: There's all these teams need something.

843
00:37:05,680 --> 00:37:08,000
Speaker 3: What if I mean, I know, like Pacheco's fine, but

844
00:37:08,080 --> 00:37:10,680
Speaker 3: what if you added a good back to Kansas City too,

845
00:37:11,280 --> 00:37:13,920
Speaker 3: I mean Pochecko's heart, James Connor on that team or

846
00:37:14,080 --> 00:37:18,200
Speaker 3: at at I mean right, somebody move.

847
00:37:18,400 --> 00:37:20,640
Speaker 2: Yeah, this could be one more thing, that more piece

848
00:37:20,640 --> 00:37:22,520
Speaker 2: of offense. Yeah, one more thing that I can lean

849
00:37:22,560 --> 00:37:23,640
Speaker 2: on because the defense is good.

850
00:37:23,960 --> 00:37:24,200
Speaker 3: Yeah.

851
00:37:24,480 --> 00:37:27,239
Speaker 2: And you think of Kansas City is a strong defensive team.

852
00:37:27,239 --> 00:37:30,480
Speaker 3: But there's a strong defensive defense team. Yeah. And you

853
00:37:30,600 --> 00:37:31,840
Speaker 3: count on Juju for a lot.

854
00:37:31,719 --> 00:37:34,239
Speaker 2: Too, a lot, yeah, counting on them to stay healthy.

855
00:37:34,480 --> 00:37:34,680
Speaker 3: Yeah.

856
00:37:35,080 --> 00:37:38,120
Speaker 2: Yeah, let's get to a break. That was the power rankings. Uh,

857
00:37:38,239 --> 00:37:39,880
Speaker 2: Matt and I will be back with more. You're listening

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Speaker 2: the Superdome, so they moved it to Tulane Stadium, which,

877
00:38:57,640 --> 00:39:00,840
Speaker 2: like the weeks the week after after they held the

878
00:39:00,920 --> 00:39:01,520
Speaker 2: super Bowl there.

879
00:39:01,560 --> 00:39:02,240
Speaker 3: It was condemned.

880
00:39:04,480 --> 00:39:08,719
Speaker 2: Wow, and they held a super Bowl there.

881
00:39:08,800 --> 00:39:10,839
Speaker 3: Can you imagine like the Rolling Stones or whatever playing

882
00:39:10,880 --> 00:39:11,880
Speaker 3: the halftime.

883
00:39:11,640 --> 00:39:14,600
Speaker 2: Or you know what I mean, like the people that one.

884
00:39:14,680 --> 00:39:16,160
Speaker 2: But yeah, my goodness.

885
00:39:17,960 --> 00:39:20,080
Speaker 3: Yeah, So that was like the last game there because

886
00:39:20,120 --> 00:39:23,440
Speaker 3: it was, without doubt it was the last game there, absolutely,

887
00:39:23,520 --> 00:39:25,439
Speaker 3: So he could check that out on the Steelers Feet

888
00:39:25,480 --> 00:39:26,000
Speaker 3: on YouTube.

889
00:39:26,120 --> 00:39:28,919
Speaker 2: It'll be on Steelers dot Com as well an hour

890
00:39:29,000 --> 00:39:31,799
Speaker 2: from now. Basically go ahead and watch that. A lot

891
00:39:31,840 --> 00:39:34,719
Speaker 2: of good stuff in there, again, some great interviews, great

892
00:39:34,760 --> 00:39:35,799
Speaker 2: footage from that game.

893
00:39:37,000 --> 00:39:39,200
Speaker 3: So I heard they're wearing their throwback jerseys.

894
00:39:39,280 --> 00:39:41,359
Speaker 2: That was going to be the next thing jumping ahead

895
00:39:41,360 --> 00:39:41,799
Speaker 2: of me here.

896
00:39:41,719 --> 00:39:43,000
Speaker 3: That's not the Bumblebee jerseys.

897
00:39:43,239 --> 00:39:46,960
Speaker 2: No, they're wearing nineteen seventy four jerseys, including the gray

898
00:39:47,080 --> 00:39:47,680
Speaker 2: face mask.

899
00:39:48,520 --> 00:39:49,839
Speaker 3: Really, okay, that's pretty cool.

900
00:39:49,920 --> 00:39:52,279
Speaker 2: What I want to see in which you'll see if

901
00:39:52,640 --> 00:39:55,960
Speaker 2: you watch the U The Dawn of a Dynasty video,

902
00:39:56,640 --> 00:39:58,760
Speaker 2: I want to see somebody break out to Terry Bradshaw

903
00:39:58,880 --> 00:39:59,799
Speaker 2: like little double bar.

904
00:40:00,040 --> 00:40:02,000
Speaker 3: I say, some of the masks that they used there,

905
00:40:02,080 --> 00:40:02,760
Speaker 3: or the kicker.

906
00:40:02,640 --> 00:40:05,880
Speaker 2: Masks, calling that a face mask is being generous.

907
00:40:05,960 --> 00:40:08,160
Speaker 3: And and you're allowed to hit quarterbacks in the head.

908
00:40:08,360 --> 00:40:11,680
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you know that was basically just protected your nose.

909
00:40:11,880 --> 00:40:14,320
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, I mean anything at the gin was

910
00:40:15,600 --> 00:40:16,640
Speaker 3: That's a different world, man.

911
00:40:17,680 --> 00:40:20,640
Speaker 2: Some of the hits that you see that you know

912
00:40:20,760 --> 00:40:23,720
Speaker 2: from the super Bowl and things of that nature, my goodness,

913
00:40:24,040 --> 00:40:25,560
Speaker 2: oh man, couldn't get away with them now.

914
00:40:25,960 --> 00:40:28,960
Speaker 3: I mean, I just happened to retweet the Turkey Jones

915
00:40:29,320 --> 00:40:31,880
Speaker 3: take Bradshaw totally dump them on his head. You know,

916
00:40:32,400 --> 00:40:35,160
Speaker 3: concussions weren't even really get arrested for doing that now,

917
00:40:35,680 --> 00:40:38,759
Speaker 3: And that's was it was like that seventies sports whatever site,

918
00:40:39,040 --> 00:40:41,040
Speaker 3: Like what would be the fine for this? Now?

919
00:40:41,360 --> 00:40:43,279
Speaker 2: You know, like it couldn't be worse, you would be.

920
00:40:44,640 --> 00:40:48,399
Speaker 2: We talked about go look at Lynn Swan versas Raiders stuff. Yeah,

921
00:40:48,440 --> 00:40:50,480
Speaker 2: the things that the things that happened in the NFL

922
00:40:50,520 --> 00:40:52,480
Speaker 2: in the seventies. And the Steelers dished out a little

923
00:40:52,480 --> 00:40:52,719
Speaker 2: bit too.

924
00:40:52,760 --> 00:40:55,040
Speaker 3: They did they were they they didn't do it. I mean,

925
00:40:55,200 --> 00:40:57,320
Speaker 3: but it was legal then, right, that's how you played.

926
00:40:57,480 --> 00:40:59,440
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, I mean that nobody dished it out

927
00:40:59,480 --> 00:41:00,520
Speaker 3: more than steel Yeah.

928
00:41:01,440 --> 00:41:03,080
Speaker 2: And you know, some of the stuff in the lead

929
00:41:03,160 --> 00:41:05,160
Speaker 2: up to that game, like like Dwight White being in

930
00:41:05,200 --> 00:41:08,400
Speaker 2: the hospital with pneumonia and twenty four hours you know,

931
00:41:08,520 --> 00:41:10,600
Speaker 2: after getting out of the not even twenty four hours,

932
00:41:10,719 --> 00:41:12,800
Speaker 2: less than twenty four hours after getting out of the hospital,

933
00:41:12,880 --> 00:41:14,719
Speaker 2: he goes and plays in the super Bowl, the Super Bowl,

934
00:41:14,800 --> 00:41:18,840
Speaker 2: down like twenty pounds and was really good in the defense,

935
00:41:19,920 --> 00:41:22,799
Speaker 2: the first career safety in NFL history in the Super

936
00:41:22,840 --> 00:41:24,360
Speaker 2: Bowl and he got it, and he gets.

937
00:41:24,200 --> 00:41:28,120
Speaker 3: It coming out of the Yeah, awes unbelievable. So that's cool.

938
00:41:28,320 --> 00:41:30,680
Speaker 3: I mean, it's it's something I'm definitely gonna check out tonight.

939
00:41:30,719 --> 00:41:33,320
Speaker 3: Everyone should definitely watch that. And it's gonna be a

940
00:41:33,320 --> 00:41:36,600
Speaker 3: pretty cool atmosphere in the National TV game. No Forum Yeah,

941
00:41:36,600 --> 00:41:37,879
Speaker 3: all that stuff too. Pretty cool.

942
00:41:38,120 --> 00:41:40,239
Speaker 2: Yeah, so you like the block letters, you like the

943
00:41:40,280 --> 00:41:42,600
Speaker 2: gray face mask. This is your game.

944
00:41:42,920 --> 00:41:44,399
Speaker 3: I bet people are gonna be like, bring them back

945
00:41:44,400 --> 00:41:47,239
Speaker 3: every year. It's just a different world, you know. Yeah, yeah,

946
00:41:47,400 --> 00:41:49,560
Speaker 3: I can take or leave the bumble bees. Yeah.

947
00:41:49,560 --> 00:41:51,040
Speaker 2: I don't know if you'll see the bumblebees again.

948
00:41:51,200 --> 00:41:54,680
Speaker 3: Some people like him, you know, they stand out. I mean,

949
00:41:54,680 --> 00:41:57,320
Speaker 3: don't get me wrong, it's definitely different Casey Hampton and

950
00:41:57,360 --> 00:41:57,920
Speaker 3: a bumblebee.

951
00:41:58,480 --> 00:42:02,480
Speaker 2: Whoa, it's a lot of strike, a lot of strike.

952
00:42:02,600 --> 00:42:02,759
Speaker 3: Yeah.

953
00:42:03,040 --> 00:42:05,600
Speaker 2: The the the bump very slimming. Want you want the

954
00:42:05,600 --> 00:42:08,439
Speaker 2: stripes up and down, not round, right, That's the reason

955
00:42:08,480 --> 00:42:13,839
Speaker 2: I don't wear them. But yeah, So check that out

956
00:42:13,920 --> 00:42:16,759
Speaker 2: on on Steelers dot com should be interesting. Uh, you know,

957
00:42:16,760 --> 00:42:19,080
Speaker 2: if you're a Steelers fan and and uh don't have

958
00:42:19,520 --> 00:42:21,640
Speaker 2: any memories or you do have memories of that game.

959
00:42:21,560 --> 00:42:23,239
Speaker 3: Let's say you young pop should go do some hitch

960
00:42:23,440 --> 00:42:25,880
Speaker 3: check it out, right, Yeah, and certainly the folks that

961
00:42:26,000 --> 00:42:26,400
Speaker 3: remember it.

962
00:42:26,480 --> 00:42:28,120
Speaker 2: I mean, oh, by the way, you want to talk

963
00:42:28,200 --> 00:42:31,120
Speaker 2: quarterback controversies, Oh yeah, how about that?

964
00:42:31,360 --> 00:42:34,960
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean that's Branshaw's The beginning of his career

965
00:42:35,320 --> 00:42:37,600
Speaker 3: is amazing. When you look at it through the lens

966
00:42:37,680 --> 00:42:40,279
Speaker 3: of today. Yeah, I mean, like nobody would have stuck

967
00:42:40,280 --> 00:42:40,520
Speaker 3: with him.

968
00:42:40,560 --> 00:42:43,200
Speaker 2: He wasn't the full time starter that season. He wasn't, right,

969
00:42:43,560 --> 00:42:46,799
Speaker 2: he wasn't the starter coming out of training camp that season. Yeah,

970
00:42:47,040 --> 00:42:49,319
Speaker 2: he came back, got back into the lineup, and then

971
00:42:49,400 --> 00:42:51,880
Speaker 2: got benched again, and then got back into the lineup

972
00:42:51,880 --> 00:42:53,279
Speaker 2: and then was you know fine after that.

973
00:42:53,560 --> 00:42:56,759
Speaker 3: Yeah, he'd never worried about his job after winning the

974
00:42:56,880 --> 00:42:58,960
Speaker 3: Super Bowl, Right, I don't think there wasn't like a

975
00:42:59,000 --> 00:43:01,520
Speaker 3: competition in the next training can No, I don't think

976
00:43:01,560 --> 00:43:02,359
Speaker 3: it was all right.

977
00:43:02,400 --> 00:43:05,840
Speaker 2: He's he's fondly the guy, but I mean times were different.

978
00:43:05,960 --> 00:43:09,840
Speaker 2: He was the number one overall pick, right, and this

979
00:43:10,000 --> 00:43:11,640
Speaker 2: is still four years later. I say, this is in

980
00:43:11,719 --> 00:43:13,560
Speaker 2: today's NFL. That wouldn't happen.

981
00:43:13,800 --> 00:43:16,239
Speaker 3: Oh, that's what I'm talking about. Like if it's if

982
00:43:16,239 --> 00:43:18,360
Speaker 3: it had been Andrew Lock, JaMarcus Russell, whoever, I mean

983
00:43:18,440 --> 00:43:20,879
Speaker 3: first overall pick and started their career like that, there's

984
00:43:20,960 --> 00:43:23,279
Speaker 3: no way they're even with the team. I mean Bryce Young,

985
00:43:24,200 --> 00:43:27,239
Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, there's the mostly recent example you could

986
00:43:27,239 --> 00:43:31,359
Speaker 3: ever pick. I mean talk about impatience, and the league

987
00:43:31,440 --> 00:43:34,280
Speaker 3: was so much different. So he wasn't unique in everybody

988
00:43:34,400 --> 00:43:37,560
Speaker 3: was throwing interes. Say, the interception numbers are insane, you know,

989
00:43:37,719 --> 00:43:40,480
Speaker 3: like those eighty coach eighties coaches that I started to

990
00:43:40,480 --> 00:43:43,160
Speaker 3: pay attention to, like, well, you throw the ball. Two

991
00:43:43,239 --> 00:43:47,000
Speaker 3: things that happened are bad, you know, incompletion and picked off.

992
00:43:47,400 --> 00:43:50,239
Speaker 3: People's interception ratio is like one to one here.

993
00:43:50,480 --> 00:43:55,399
Speaker 2: So first season nineteen seventy six touchdowns, twenty four interceptions.

994
00:43:55,760 --> 00:43:57,160
Speaker 3: That's Bradshaw's rookie year. Yeah.

995
00:43:57,640 --> 00:44:01,440
Speaker 2: The next season nineteen seventy one, thirteen touchdowns, twenty two interceptions.

996
00:44:01,960 --> 00:44:05,520
Speaker 3: Wow a year. I mean, fortunately, your defense is picking

997
00:44:05,520 --> 00:44:07,080
Speaker 3: the ball really what too? You know? I mean, like

998
00:44:07,160 --> 00:44:09,480
Speaker 3: there's a lot of turnovers in every game. Seventy two

999
00:44:09,920 --> 00:44:13,120
Speaker 3: it was twelve and twelve, but only a massive progrem

1000
00:44:13,160 --> 00:44:15,160
Speaker 3: But he only completed forty seven point seven percent of

1001
00:44:15,239 --> 00:44:17,400
Speaker 3: his passes, and they throw down field, and they were

1002
00:44:17,440 --> 00:44:18,160
Speaker 3: throwing downfield.

1003
00:44:19,280 --> 00:44:21,120
Speaker 2: In seventy three, they went eight and one. In his

1004
00:44:21,280 --> 00:44:24,360
Speaker 2: nine starts, he had ten touchdowns and fifteen interceptions and

1005
00:44:24,400 --> 00:44:26,160
Speaker 2: they won eight out of nine. Yeah, I mean the

1006
00:44:26,200 --> 00:44:29,520
Speaker 2: defense was good. Seventy four again, this is the Super

1007
00:44:29,520 --> 00:44:32,440
Speaker 2: Bowl season he started. He peered in eight game started seven,

1008
00:44:33,080 --> 00:44:35,040
Speaker 2: was five, had a five and two record. They went

1009
00:44:35,080 --> 00:44:37,640
Speaker 2: ten three and one that year, by the way, seven

1010
00:44:37,719 --> 00:44:39,960
Speaker 2: touchdown passes, eight interceptions, and.

1011
00:44:40,040 --> 00:44:42,440
Speaker 3: That's like the going right, That's that's what I mean.

1012
00:44:42,480 --> 00:44:44,520
Speaker 3: You're one to one. It's not too shabby. You know.

1013
00:44:44,680 --> 00:44:47,359
Speaker 2: After that he was eighteen and nine. Then in seventy five,

1014
00:44:47,520 --> 00:44:50,680
Speaker 2: seventy six was another injury, you know, ten and nine,

1015
00:44:50,800 --> 00:44:53,759
Speaker 2: But then seventeen and nineteen and nineteen seventy seven, I.

1016
00:44:53,800 --> 00:44:57,239
Speaker 3: Mean, it was a big game if you threw two touchdowns, absolutely,

1017
00:44:57,239 --> 00:44:59,080
Speaker 3: I mean I think he threw two touchdowns in that game.

1018
00:44:59,120 --> 00:45:01,359
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean he was the league MVP. In seventy eight.

1019
00:45:01,400 --> 00:45:04,560
Speaker 2: He had twenty eight touchdown passes and twenty interceptions. About

1020
00:45:04,600 --> 00:45:07,000
Speaker 2: twenty eight touchdown passes, Like it was huge back then.

1021
00:45:07,520 --> 00:45:09,880
Speaker 2: This isn't Steeler related, but just think about Walsh a

1022
00:45:09,920 --> 00:45:12,960
Speaker 2: couple of years later, like the completion percentage probably went

1023
00:45:13,040 --> 00:45:15,080
Speaker 2: up fifteen to twenty points. Well when he started doing

1024
00:45:15,120 --> 00:45:18,440
Speaker 2: that stuff with Ken Anderson in right, know they you know,

1025
00:45:18,560 --> 00:45:21,960
Speaker 2: Ken Anderson led led the league in passer rating a

1026
00:45:22,000 --> 00:45:24,080
Speaker 2: couple of times in this in the seventies. He wasn't

1027
00:45:24,120 --> 00:45:26,000
Speaker 2: throwing a bunch of interceptions but it was all dink

1028
00:45:26,040 --> 00:45:26,680
Speaker 2: and dunk, That's.

1029
00:45:26,600 --> 00:45:28,640
Speaker 3: What I say. I thought it was a finesse offense.

1030
00:45:28,760 --> 00:45:32,160
Speaker 3: But completion percentage goes up like crazy, and now that's

1031
00:45:32,200 --> 00:45:34,080
Speaker 3: what everybody's doing crazy right right.

1032
00:45:34,200 --> 00:45:37,040
Speaker 2: You know, Bradshaw's the best completion percentage of his year,

1033
00:45:37,440 --> 00:45:39,920
Speaker 2: of his career, not counting the last game he ever

1034
00:45:40,000 --> 00:45:44,240
Speaker 2: played in was fifty seven point seven.

1035
00:45:44,480 --> 00:45:44,719
Speaker 3: Wow.

1036
00:45:44,800 --> 00:45:46,240
Speaker 2: Because you're going down the field.

1037
00:45:46,480 --> 00:45:48,879
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean everything, let's run, Let's take a shot,

1038
00:45:48,960 --> 00:45:51,640
Speaker 3: and let's go. Yeah, let's take a shot. Wow. So

1039
00:45:51,840 --> 00:45:54,560
Speaker 3: you said there's cool Bradshaw stuff in the video too.

1040
00:45:54,680 --> 00:45:57,640
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, yeah, so definitely something that you're gonna want

1041
00:45:57,640 --> 00:45:58,080
Speaker 2: to see there.

1042
00:45:58,400 --> 00:45:58,600
Speaker 3: Yeah.

1043
00:45:58,640 --> 00:46:00,319
Speaker 2: You look at the yards per catch stuff. I mean

1044
00:46:01,160 --> 00:46:05,080
Speaker 2: he yards per completion in nineteen eighty fifteen point three

1045
00:46:05,160 --> 00:46:06,760
Speaker 2: yards per completion.

1046
00:46:07,200 --> 00:46:11,120
Speaker 3: We're chucking it. Yeah, wow, that led the league. But

1047
00:46:11,400 --> 00:46:13,160
Speaker 3: that was fifty years ago though, folks, I mean, y yeah,

1048
00:46:13,239 --> 00:46:14,680
Speaker 3: I mean it's so time changing.

1049
00:46:14,800 --> 00:46:17,879
Speaker 2: The game has changed. But definitely check that out. It's

1050
00:46:18,000 --> 00:46:19,960
Speaker 2: really good stuff on there, and I know people worked

1051
00:46:20,200 --> 00:46:23,319
Speaker 2: very hard on that one. But really good staff working

1052
00:46:23,360 --> 00:46:26,759
Speaker 2: on absolutely absolutely really good staff working here as well

1053
00:46:26,800 --> 00:46:29,000
Speaker 2: to keep us on the air, right and Uh, well,

1054
00:46:29,040 --> 00:46:30,719
Speaker 2: we're gonna that's gonna do it for today's show. So

1055
00:46:30,840 --> 00:46:33,279
Speaker 2: for my partner Matt Williamson, for Justin Miller here on

1056
00:46:33,360 --> 00:46:36,560
Speaker 2: site manning the hotline, the Justin Miller Hotline and also

1057
00:46:36,880 --> 00:46:37,400
Speaker 2: keeping us on.

1058
00:46:37,440 --> 00:46:39,200
Speaker 3: The air in the enterprise moving that's right.

1059
00:46:39,320 --> 00:46:41,680
Speaker 2: And for Tyler Viittmeyer making sure our videos make it

1060
00:46:41,760 --> 00:46:45,600
Speaker 2: out there for full consumption by everybody. I am Dale, Lolly.

1061
00:46:45,680 --> 00:46:48,000
Speaker 2: We thank you for listening to this edition of the

1062
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