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

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

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Speaker 1: and Gold Steelers Nation Radio.

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Speaker 2: And welcome back to the Drive here on the Steelers

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Speaker 2: Audio Network. I'm Dale Lolly, he is the Matt Williamson

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Speaker 2: and picking off our number two here if I'm for

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Speaker 2: a little fantasy football focus and on Wednesdays, what we

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Speaker 2: do is we talk about some of the injury reports,

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Speaker 2: some of the stuff that's happening out across the league.

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Speaker 2: And the first the little nugget here is that.

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Speaker 3: Dalton Schultz, Oh, I didn't know anything wrong with him.

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Speaker 2: With an ankle injury, did not participate in practice on Wednesday.

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Speaker 3: I think he played like every stap.

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Speaker 2: He suffered some kind of ankle injury. Wasn't able to

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Speaker 2: practice on Wednesday. The severity of that is unclear, but

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Speaker 2: so keep an eye on that. If he can't go,

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Speaker 2: could be Brevan.

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Speaker 4: Jordan's say, Jordan's kind of an interesting option. Schultz is

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Speaker 4: a much bigger, sturdier, better blocker type. But I don't

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Speaker 4: know how much Jordan, how much attention, or how much

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Speaker 4: they'd send Jordan's way with Diggs Dell and you know

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Speaker 4: Nico dominating so much.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they ran the ball well. Odric Esteame did not

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Speaker 2: practice on Wednesday for the Denver Broncos.

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Speaker 4: So we even talked a much about that running back situation.

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Speaker 4: We'll talk more Broncos, I'm sure you know the rest

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Speaker 4: of the week.

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Speaker 3: I don't know.

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Speaker 4: Javonte Williams in the long term plans, and I thought

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Speaker 4: he'd be better than it's only one game.

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Speaker 3: I thought he'd do more. But McLaughlin got.

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Speaker 4: More early down touches than he did, you know, and

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Speaker 4: you always think of him as a scatback. I wonder

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Speaker 4: if a steammate takes that over in a month or so.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know why he didn't practice, ye because

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Speaker 2: the Broncos haven't released their full injury report.

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Speaker 5: But he's the guy that Sean Payton drafted.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, hey, he likes his guys. Yeah really my thought

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Speaker 5: He's got a pound that square peg into a roundhle Yeah, yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 5: no doubt uh Devon.

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Speaker 2: Also why receiver of them also did not practice, nor

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Speaker 2: did Josh Reynolds.

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Speaker 3: I know Reynolds left the game.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, the three he is, you got a lot of targets.

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Speaker 3: He caught him all for no yard.

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Speaker 5: I mean nobody had.

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Speaker 4: His average at the target was like two. Yeah, it's brutal. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: just I didn't know anything about him before that came.

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Speaker 4: No no, But that's uh, I speak significant. Mims is active.

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Speaker 4: He's the pup returner. I mean maybe they'll get a

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Speaker 4: bump and get him out there. But but that's not

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Speaker 4: his game either, No, not at all.

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Speaker 2: You know, running two yards and turn around, catch the ball, tackles,

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Speaker 2: get down the field guy right right?

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Speaker 5: Uh Rashid Shaheb with a finger injury, practiced.

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Speaker 3: Him full on Wednesday, big game. Everybody did, everybody did.

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Speaker 6: Uh.

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Speaker 2: Foster Moreau had a concussion in that game for the

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Speaker 2: uh uh for these Saints and was limited on Wednesday.

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Speaker 5: That's actually a good sign that he was limited today.

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Speaker 4: My thoughts on that since it's a fantasy segment is

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Speaker 4: maybe I'm more excited to start Taysom Hill. It might

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Speaker 4: be more tight end snaps.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, he's in a fair amount to But Jawan Johnson

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Speaker 5: caught a touchdown.

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, everybody but elivated. Well yeah.

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Speaker 2: Jamal Williams with a shoulder injury. He had full practice

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Speaker 2: on Wednesday for the Saints. Looks like he's good to go.

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Speaker 3: I think he's truly the two now because Henry Miller's

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Speaker 3: and the dog not even.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Marshawn Lattimore didn't participate on Wednesday corner though.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, uh rom if he would follow Lamb or not,

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Speaker 4: I don't know.

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Speaker 3: If I don't think he.

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Speaker 2: Fall, I don't think he does. Yeah, yeah, I don't

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Speaker 4: I hate to see it, just because I really like

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Speaker 4: the prospect and I don't want a rookie to get

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Speaker 4: behind the eight ball. But Keenan Allen played pretty well. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: Donjay's clearly three right now.

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Speaker 2: Jerry Judy with the knee injury, full practice on Wednesday

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Speaker 2: for the Cleveland Browns. They put four guys on IR

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Speaker 2: today at four and already, including the safety.

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Speaker 4: H Thornhill Thornhill. I didn't know that others went on

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Speaker 5: And they can run off the tracks real quick.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you have to be pretty dire straight to put

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Speaker 4: Judy in your lineup break Oh yeah, yeah.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, No, I don't trust Deshaun Watson are throwing the

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Speaker 4: I mean the jok who's banged up. I mean, there

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Speaker 2: Pinay Soul with an ankle injury, did not practice on

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Speaker 2: Wednesday for the Lions.

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Speaker 3: I would think that's went in doubt.

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Speaker 4: Don't risk it with him, Yeah, don't pay attention in

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Speaker 4: terms of their running game, no question.

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Speaker 2: Jamison Williams with an ankle, was limited on Wednesday.

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Speaker 3: He was pretty impressive.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I thought he had a really good game and

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Speaker 4: could be the missing piece for them.

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Speaker 2: Juwan Jennings with an ankle, was limited on Wednesday for

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Speaker 2: the ninety nine Ers.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, they like him a lot. I mean he's not

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Speaker 4: an old full time player.

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Speaker 5: But yeah.

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Speaker 2: Jake Ferguson with the knee did not practice on Wednesday.

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Speaker 5: I don't know. There's some talk about him potentially playing

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it sure didn't look like it when it happened.

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Speaker 4: I'm like he might be out for the year. This

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Speaker 4: is the way that everybody responded. I wouldn't be banking

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Speaker 5: Tape, that's significant.

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Speaker 2: Uh oh yeah, you know, if he can't play the

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Speaker 2: state the status of they don't have a lot of

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Speaker 2: pass catchers.

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Speaker 3: No, they don't.

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Speaker 4: I'm just thinking from a fancy perspective though tight ends

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Speaker 4: are in a weird spot all of a sudden. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: the Djoku's looks like he's out for a bit. Ferguson injury.

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Speaker 4: You know, Bowers look great, but they didn't many people

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Speaker 4: start him in you know, his first ever game, Andrews

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Speaker 4: was terrible across the board. Unless you were likely who

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Speaker 2: It really was Brian Robinson with the Commanders had knee injury,

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Speaker 2: but he practiced fully on Wednesday time.

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Speaker 4: I wouldn't say dominated touches, but he was clearly the one,

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Speaker 4: more so than Eckler.

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Speaker 2: According to reports out of Seattle, and that we get

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it looked like that one could be a week

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Speaker 4: or two and he looks really good. Yeah, I think

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Speaker 4: he's a gonna be a real value in fantasy, and

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Speaker 4: they love him.

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Speaker 2: Christian McCaffrey limited on Wednesday.

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Speaker 5: I think it was he limited all last week.

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Speaker 4: Well, it was there's some turmoil about that because they

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Speaker 4: didn't disclose that he wasn't starting until right before the

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Speaker 4: game Monday night. Yeah, but then someone interviewed Jordan Mason.

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Speaker 4: He's like, why New Friday I was starting?

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Speaker 5: Lisa Sauders talked to him on the game after the

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Speaker 5: game on.

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Speaker 4: The field, Yeah, like McCaffrey should have been ruled out

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Speaker 4: and they didn't. So there's potential fines or funny business there.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, we'll see Marshall.

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Speaker 3: The owners weren't thrilled. Yeah, if you didn't have Mason,

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Speaker 2: Marshawn Lloyd with the hamstring officially limited at Wednesday's practice

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Speaker 4: That's a top because protection and fumbles were his issues

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Speaker 4: at USC, which is what always keeps rookies off the

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Speaker 4: field anyway, and he's been bagged up all camp. But

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Speaker 4: he's really talented. You know the guy that's running with

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Speaker 4: the twoes right now?

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Speaker 3: Is is that a manual?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, Manuel Wilson's yeah. Yeah, but that offense might not

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Speaker 3: Start Willi's gonna be trouble. Yeah, probably.

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Speaker 4: I'm not sorry to any of their receivers. I don't

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Speaker 2: Had well, speaking of what Jordan Love did not practice today,

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Speaker 2: Josh Jacobs with a back was limited today.

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Speaker 4: Okay, older running back on Wednesday doesn't bother me much.

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Speaker 4: But he's a tough start for me. Yeah, and if

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Speaker 2: Uh, Thursday's night, night's game Devin A Chan officially questionable

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Speaker 2: for Thursday's.

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Speaker 3: Game time decision.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, better on Thursday that happens on a Thursday than.

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Speaker 4: Night Monday nights or or Sunday night, because mostart's out,

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Speaker 4: mostart is out. Yes, Yeah, And I think Wilson A

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Speaker 4: chans usage was really interesting to me, you know, like

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Speaker 4: And my whole logic was they're trying to find a

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Speaker 4: third receiver Odell, they drafted two wide outs. Well it

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Speaker 4: was a Chan. I mean, he ran receivers routes like

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Speaker 4: a slot. He played more like Wes Welker than he

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Speaker 4: did Earl Campbell, which is a great usage for him

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Speaker 4: for fantasy and the real world. But I mean, obviously

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Speaker 4: injuries are always something you got to worry about with him,

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Speaker 4: and my point is, even if he plays, I think

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Speaker 4: Wilson's going to be a decent start.

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Speaker 3: I mean he's the banger. Like, I don't think they're

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Speaker 5: Yeah, they're not gonna give the tackles.

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Speaker 3: I mean they never will anyways.

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Speaker 5: But I don't think the Jalen right either.

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Speaker 3: I don't either.

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Speaker 4: That's why I think Wilson's a sneaky guy, you know,

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Speaker 4: just because most it's out. He's that banger. I bet

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Speaker 4: Wilson's a short yardage guy. A Chan might still do

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Speaker 4: the receiver stuff if he plays. Yeah, but Wilson's somebody

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Speaker 4: should be putting waiver claims in on it.

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Speaker 3: Uh.

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Speaker 2: Malik Washington will not play for the Dolphins receivers they

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Speaker 2: draft him. Ty Johnson on the bill side of that,

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Speaker 2: he is out or no, I'm sorry, he's off the injury.

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Speaker 4: Report Ty Johnson. Oh okay, I thay you're thinking about

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Speaker 4: Johnson the nickel corner, No, Ty Johnson, Yeah, the running back? Yeah, Okay, him,

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Speaker 4: he's down the list.

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Speaker 2: Tommy Tremble with the Carolina Panthers. He is limited on Wednesday.

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Speaker 2: Tight end not really a fantasy.

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Speaker 3: No, but what was the worst offense in the League

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Speaker 3: this year.

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Speaker 2: On Week one, Jordan Addison did not practice on Wednesday.

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Speaker 4: Sound like he avoided catastrophe. Though people thought he might

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Speaker 4: be out along.

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Speaker 5: He might be out a couple of weeks.

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Speaker 3: So yeah, yeah, he's I'm not a huge fan.

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Speaker 2: Lamar Jackson was back at practice on Wednesday for the

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Speaker 2: Baltimore Ravens. That was a he was resting his bangup

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Speaker 2: body on to ads. Yeah you know, I don't think

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Speaker 4: Oh no, that was backyard football to me. Yeah, that

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Speaker 4: was we can't block anyone. Thank goodness, we have somebody

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Speaker 4: like him that can create.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, mentioned Jonah Williams. He placed on injured reserves. So

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Darius Slayton as a concussion.

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Speaker 5: He's not practicing on today. That's a bad sign.

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Speaker 4: They got Washington though, I mean I would think Wandell

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Speaker 4: Yeah, be nice to know if a chance playing or not.

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Speaker 5: You might have a better idea by by tomorrow. I'm

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm in for that. Why not? Yeah? Some fun?

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Speaker 5: Absolutely.

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Speaker 3: I do too. I do too. I think it'll be

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Speaker 4: I think it's obvious. Yeah, I mean there's they're a ferrari. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: they're a speed team, which is great this time of year.

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Speaker 4: I mean, can they play seventeen games of rugged football

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and especially that weird vision. It's not like the

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Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, that's going to do it for the Fantasy

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Speaker 2: football focus. He is Matt Williamson. I am Dale Lollie.

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Speaker 2: You're listening to the Drive here on the Steelers Audio Network.

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

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Speaker 5: Welcome back. I'm Dale Lollie.

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Speaker 2: He is Mean, Matt Williams and Matt. We have the

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Speaker 2: Steelers injury report for today. Russell Wilson listened officially as

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Speaker 5: But that's a good thing.

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Speaker 2: That's what you want, you know, Just so you know

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Speaker 4: Because time of the year, to explain it everybody once

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Speaker 2: There stages to the concussion protocol and one of the

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Speaker 2: did you have any negative results or reactions to that that?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, right, so that's on track. It was really bothered

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Speaker 3: He usually it's not a Wednesday joby thing. Right.

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Speaker 2: The two guys that did not practice for the Steelers,

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Speaker 5: I would expect him to play.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you think this is just a Wednesday, why rush

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Speaker 2: Right right, get the rookie some snaps it right tackle

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Speaker 4: Yeah, Russell Wilson who's to say, we don't know? Yeah, who,

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Speaker 2: Kevin Patra on NFL dot Com has ten narratives that

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Speaker 2: respawned from Week one of the NFL season. Here, let's

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Speaker 2: Opening week last year there were thirty seven touchdown passes.

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Speaker 4: This is a hidden concern that I bet Roger Goodellen

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Speaker 4: Right right, And preseason was remarkably low, but nobody played anyone,

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Speaker 2: He feels that's an overreaction, though I have an eyebrow

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Speaker 3: That's like we've been talking about Nicks all week.

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Speaker 3: Okay.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, so the passes he's are completing are for very

448
00:19:37,000 --> 00:19:40,280
Speaker 4: little yardage. One of his best after the catch guys.

449
00:19:40,280 --> 00:19:42,800
Speaker 4: And the Joku's out now too, you know. And he

450
00:19:42,840 --> 00:19:45,359
Speaker 4: doesn't improv like he used to. He doesn't handle pressure

451
00:19:45,400 --> 00:19:50,840
Speaker 4: well at all. You gotta wonder, Yeah, it's concerning.

452
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Speaker 3: It's concerning.

453
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Speaker 4: I don't think we wanna see James Winston anytime soon,

454
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Speaker 4: considering what they gave up for him. But I'm not

455
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Speaker 4: so sure he's not better.

456
00:19:59,359 --> 00:20:03,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm not sure either, And I'm not a huge

457
00:20:03,160 --> 00:20:05,639
Speaker 2: Jameis Winston ga right, right, gotta be better than that.

458
00:20:05,880 --> 00:20:06,800
Speaker 3: He throws all down the field.

459
00:20:06,880 --> 00:20:11,679
Speaker 2: Yeah, Derrick Henry looks washed in Baltimore.

460
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Speaker 5: He feels that's an overreaction.

461
00:20:13,280 --> 00:20:15,840
Speaker 4: I think that's an overreaction. I got no worries about

462
00:20:15,880 --> 00:20:18,000
Speaker 4: that whatsoever. I don't think he's blocking is particularly good.

463
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Speaker 4: Game scripture didn't help him. I mean, I don't think

464
00:20:20,960 --> 00:20:21,760
Speaker 4: he looked great though.

465
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Speaker 3: Oh I didn't think he looked good at all.

466
00:20:23,160 --> 00:20:26,040
Speaker 4: But I mean, I think he's special and will be

467
00:20:26,200 --> 00:20:30,000
Speaker 4: just fine. If you drafted him in fantasy, I wouldn't be.

468
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Speaker 4: I'd pretty slightly concerned, though, because the line's bad. The

469
00:20:33,280 --> 00:20:36,439
Speaker 4: line is bad. And then John Harbaugh comes out and says, well,

470
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Speaker 4: we didn't sign him to go out and get thirty

471
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Speaker 4: carries a game.

472
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Speaker 3: That is an odd statement.

473
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Speaker 4: You're right, he didn't sign him to do that, because

474
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Speaker 4: that's kind of what he's made his living doing.

475
00:20:44,320 --> 00:20:46,480
Speaker 5: Yeah, you sign him to give him twelve carries a game.

476
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Speaker 5: That's what true.

477
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Speaker 3: I hope he didn't sign him to run out routes

478
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Speaker 3: of those or the pass block all the time or no.

479
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Speaker 3: But I do think.

480
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Speaker 4: I mean, they're so good at playing with the lead.

481
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Speaker 4: In Kansas City opening night, you're not playing with the lead,

482
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Speaker 4: you know, I think Raider game, he's closing guys out

483
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Speaker 4: in the fourth quarter.

484
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Speaker 5: You know, it's uh, I don't know.

485
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Speaker 4: I mean, there's a lother thing to be concerned about

486
00:21:06,960 --> 00:21:10,280
Speaker 4: with that, Yeah, fir showing uh team.

487
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Speaker 2: The next one is that the Packers are toast after

488
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Speaker 2: Jordan Love's injury. He thinks that's an overreaction.

489
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Speaker 3: I don't. I think they're toast.

490
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Speaker 5: I think so too. I mean, although the NFC is

491
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Speaker 5: a little more kind.

492
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Speaker 4: It is, but I felt a lot better. I thought

493
00:21:24,680 --> 00:21:27,719
Speaker 4: them and the Eagles were competitive at least. But if

494
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Speaker 4: they'd have got that win and were one to oh,

495
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Speaker 4: I know, it's only one game, it's a lot their

496
00:21:31,840 --> 00:21:35,200
Speaker 4: Their upcoming schedule is not bad, but they're playing willis.

497
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Speaker 4: I mean, like, here's the thing, this isn't Wilson the field,

498
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Speaker 4: no massive drop off.

499
00:21:41,119 --> 00:21:43,399
Speaker 2: Again, if you start ohing two, you your chances of

500
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Speaker 2: making the playoffs are eleven point five percent just since

501
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Speaker 2: nineteen ninety.

502
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Speaker 3: Yeah, if you start owing there, you get home against

503
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Speaker 3: the Colts this week.

504
00:21:50,440 --> 00:21:52,639
Speaker 2: Yeah, if you start oh in three, your chances of

505
00:21:52,680 --> 00:21:56,000
Speaker 2: making the playoffs fall to two point five percent. One

506
00:21:56,080 --> 00:22:00,320
Speaker 2: hundred and sixty two teams since nineteen ninety okay started

507
00:22:00,400 --> 00:22:03,280
Speaker 2: oh and three, four of them have made the playoffs.

508
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Speaker 4: We had a long conversation about this on our podcast. Like,

509
00:22:06,640 --> 00:22:09,600
Speaker 4: I think I would have called Tannehill the day after

510
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Speaker 4: a Saturday morning, Friday night, you know, I mean, you

511
00:22:12,400 --> 00:22:16,280
Speaker 4: had extra days. Go get somebody that's a professional. Like

512
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Speaker 4: I said this, Like I did a power rank and

513
00:22:20,200 --> 00:22:22,840
Speaker 4: I had them like sixth before the season. I did

514
00:22:22,840 --> 00:22:25,320
Speaker 4: one last night. I had them twenty seventh or twenty eighth.

515
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Speaker 4: I mean that's who they are.

516
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Speaker 3: Now. If you had case Keenum or ten guys just

517
00:22:30,440 --> 00:22:33,720
Speaker 3: like them, Davis Mills, they'd be seventeen to me.

518
00:22:34,080 --> 00:22:35,600
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know what I mean, might win, They might

519
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Speaker 5: steal a winner.

520
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Speaker 3: Two in stress, keep your head above water. I mean,

521
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Speaker 3: willis is as scary as a start as you could have.

522
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Speaker 3: Right now.

523
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Speaker 2: Well, here's the So the difference between starting one and

524
00:22:48,000 --> 00:22:52,000
Speaker 2: two and oh and three. You start one and two,

525
00:22:52,040 --> 00:22:54,679
Speaker 2: you still have a twenty five point one percent chance

526
00:22:55,040 --> 00:22:58,600
Speaker 2: historically of making the playoffs. Oh and three is two

527
00:22:58,640 --> 00:23:03,080
Speaker 2: point five percent. If if you get to oh and four,

528
00:23:04,040 --> 00:23:08,200
Speaker 2: one hundred and five teams since nineteen ninety have started

529
00:23:08,840 --> 00:23:11,960
Speaker 2: oh and four one has made the playoffs.

530
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Speaker 4: Wow, are they that special to be the next one?

531
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Speaker 4: That division is not easy?

532
00:23:17,800 --> 00:23:20,920
Speaker 2: And even at one in three, you get to one

533
00:23:20,920 --> 00:23:23,080
Speaker 2: in three and they're they're saying that Love maybe out

534
00:23:23,080 --> 00:23:25,399
Speaker 2: for three games, so they'd have to win one of

535
00:23:25,440 --> 00:23:28,760
Speaker 2: these games they get one fourteen percent chance to make

536
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Speaker 2: the playoffs.

537
00:23:29,320 --> 00:23:29,600
Speaker 3: Wow.

538
00:23:30,280 --> 00:23:32,280
Speaker 4: Like, I think both of us think the Bears are

539
00:23:32,280 --> 00:23:34,560
Speaker 4: a little overrated, and that showed up to me, you know,

540
00:23:35,280 --> 00:23:37,280
Speaker 4: but the Packers right now are the worst team their division.

541
00:23:37,960 --> 00:23:38,960
Speaker 3: Yeah, right right now.

542
00:23:39,080 --> 00:23:44,080
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's frightening, So I don't I also said, you know,

543
00:23:44,080 --> 00:23:47,280
Speaker 4: wouldn't it be about Tannehill? I keep going back to

544
00:23:47,320 --> 00:23:48,879
Speaker 4: because you can get them for nothing, Like it'd be

545
00:23:48,880 --> 00:23:51,760
Speaker 4: a good influence on love whenever love's healthy too. Yeah,

546
00:23:51,760 --> 00:23:53,520
Speaker 4: you know, like give me a veteran in that room.

547
00:23:54,240 --> 00:23:56,760
Speaker 2: Maybe they do something like that after if this goes

548
00:23:56,880 --> 00:23:59,320
Speaker 2: Southisco is really bad, but they could have had them

549
00:23:59,320 --> 00:24:00,000
Speaker 2: in the building, all right.

550
00:24:00,440 --> 00:24:03,240
Speaker 4: Yeah, he kind of had advantage of well before, but

551
00:24:03,440 --> 00:24:06,400
Speaker 4: he's worked in that the floor offense. Yeah, that's why

552
00:24:06,400 --> 00:24:09,399
Speaker 4: I keep going back to him.

553
00:24:09,560 --> 00:24:11,360
Speaker 5: Rookie quarterbacks can't play.

554
00:24:11,600 --> 00:24:16,040
Speaker 2: He feels that's an overreact massive obviously it's an over Yeah,

555
00:24:16,240 --> 00:24:17,359
Speaker 2: but they didn't start well.

556
00:24:18,000 --> 00:24:22,520
Speaker 3: They started bad. Yeah, flat out bad. But one or

557
00:24:22,560 --> 00:24:23,760
Speaker 3: two of them will have good years.

558
00:24:24,040 --> 00:24:27,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm not sure who see one of those this

559
00:24:27,200 --> 00:24:30,520
Speaker 2: this week? And bow Nicks and uh, I don't like

560
00:24:30,600 --> 00:24:33,560
Speaker 2: favorable situations. I don't like there his chances of looking better, No,

561
00:24:33,760 --> 00:24:37,760
Speaker 2: me neither. Let's just put it that way. Uh, Kirk

562
00:24:37,800 --> 00:24:41,240
Speaker 2: Cousins doesn't look healthy. He feels that's a bad omen.

563
00:24:42,080 --> 00:24:44,959
Speaker 3: Okay, so he's it's not overreaction, under reaction.

564
00:24:45,080 --> 00:24:48,639
Speaker 4: Yeah, I agree. I'd be petrified. He moved really poorly,

565
00:24:48,760 --> 00:24:51,520
Speaker 4: look like he didn't trust things. I think the Cord

566
00:24:52,480 --> 00:24:55,520
Speaker 4: is one of the best in the league. But they

567
00:24:55,520 --> 00:24:58,480
Speaker 4: have something toughest week to Philadelphia. Yeah, Philadelphia on Sunday

568
00:24:58,520 --> 00:24:59,240
Speaker 4: night or Monday night.

569
00:24:59,320 --> 00:24:59,520
Speaker 3: Yeah.

570
00:24:59,560 --> 00:25:03,639
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's get hit, gonna get hit, and he already

571
00:25:03,640 --> 00:25:05,960
Speaker 2: doesn't do well in night games, right, so how long

572
00:25:06,080 --> 00:25:06,639
Speaker 2: is his leash?

573
00:25:07,600 --> 00:25:08,399
Speaker 5: That's a good question.

574
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Speaker 4: I mean it's a weird situation. I mean, if he

575
00:25:10,920 --> 00:25:12,720
Speaker 4: looks like he did against you three or four games

576
00:25:12,760 --> 00:25:14,600
Speaker 4: in a row and you have one win or two

577
00:25:15,040 --> 00:25:16,360
Speaker 4: no wins, you gotta make a move.

578
00:25:16,480 --> 00:25:18,600
Speaker 2: Yeah, you were all in on this season, and you've

579
00:25:18,600 --> 00:25:22,240
Speaker 2: made moves with some of these guys, acquiring Matthew Judon

580
00:25:22,359 --> 00:25:23,880
Speaker 2: for basically this year.

581
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Speaker 5: Yeah, Justin Simmons for this year.

582
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Speaker 4: I mean they push their chips in and it's it's

583
00:25:28,000 --> 00:25:29,400
Speaker 4: a scary proposition right now.

584
00:25:29,520 --> 00:25:35,320
Speaker 2: Yeah, a Monroe Saint Brown gets paid and then disappears

585
00:25:35,480 --> 00:25:36,160
Speaker 2: not one bit.

586
00:25:36,240 --> 00:25:37,080
Speaker 5: Yeah, he feels.

587
00:25:39,000 --> 00:25:39,080
Speaker 3: Well.

588
00:25:39,200 --> 00:25:41,800
Speaker 2: That tends to balance back the other way. Yeah, the

589
00:25:41,840 --> 00:25:43,639
Speaker 2: following week he'll get like eighteen targets.

590
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Speaker 4: This week, I wouldn't even listed it, not even the

591
00:25:45,680 --> 00:25:49,040
Speaker 4: slightest concern. He's been not at all, super competitive, super consistent.

592
00:25:50,960 --> 00:25:55,280
Speaker 2: Justin Herbert is a handoff machine. He feels like is

593
00:25:55,320 --> 00:25:57,960
Speaker 2: a bad omen. If you were looking for big stats

594
00:25:57,960 --> 00:25:59,720
Speaker 2: out of Justin Herbert this year, yeah.

595
00:25:59,560 --> 00:26:02,040
Speaker 4: And I don't think think anyone should expect big stats.

596
00:26:02,520 --> 00:26:04,080
Speaker 4: I don't think he's gonna be a bad player all

597
00:26:04,080 --> 00:26:08,719
Speaker 4: of a sudden, or a quote game manager. But weapons

598
00:26:09,160 --> 00:26:10,440
Speaker 4: that's the way they're gonna try to play Yeah, I

599
00:26:10,440 --> 00:26:11,720
Speaker 4: mean they're gonna run the ball a lot, they're gonna

600
00:26:11,720 --> 00:26:14,320
Speaker 4: play defense. I don't think the defense is equipped to

601
00:26:14,359 --> 00:26:16,280
Speaker 4: do that, but it was good for this one.

602
00:26:16,560 --> 00:26:19,200
Speaker 3: Yeah. No, I don't think he's gonna be a big

603
00:26:19,240 --> 00:26:19,800
Speaker 3: stat guy.

604
00:26:19,960 --> 00:26:24,199
Speaker 2: In four seasons in San Francisco, Jim Harbaught never had

605
00:26:24,240 --> 00:26:26,440
Speaker 2: a pass or throw for thirty five hundred yards.

606
00:26:26,960 --> 00:26:29,199
Speaker 4: I think I had heard that, which I get. And

607
00:26:29,920 --> 00:26:32,680
Speaker 4: as great if a prospect as Andrew Luck was, look

608
00:26:32,720 --> 00:26:36,400
Speaker 4: at his numbers at Stanford, They're they're not high. Yeah, right,

609
00:26:36,720 --> 00:26:39,600
Speaker 4: and I think he had Josh Johnson San Diego State. Yeah,

610
00:26:39,600 --> 00:26:42,399
Speaker 4: it's been in the league since and I means an

611
00:26:42,440 --> 00:26:44,320
Speaker 4: NFL player, and they didn't throw the ball a lot.

612
00:26:44,960 --> 00:26:47,520
Speaker 5: His team's finished twenty last year, they throw a lot.

613
00:26:47,560 --> 00:26:48,560
Speaker 3: Did the first round pack.

614
00:26:48,440 --> 00:26:51,000
Speaker 2: Twenty ninth or worse in pass attempts in each of

615
00:26:51,000 --> 00:26:51,960
Speaker 2: those four seasons.

616
00:26:52,920 --> 00:26:55,520
Speaker 4: Worse is the wrong word, though, Like it was, yeah,

617
00:26:55,760 --> 00:26:58,960
Speaker 4: you know, like Arthur Smith gets, Oh, if it works,

618
00:26:59,000 --> 00:27:00,800
Speaker 4: it works, you know what I mean.

619
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Speaker 2: Here's the thing though, in that win over the Raiders

620
00:27:04,600 --> 00:27:08,720
Speaker 2: on Sunday, the Charger for four for fifteen on third downs,

621
00:27:08,840 --> 00:27:11,880
Speaker 2: were they really do you expect with Justin Herbert?

622
00:27:11,960 --> 00:27:13,280
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, you should be.

623
00:27:13,160 --> 00:27:15,440
Speaker 5: Better than that. Yeah, but he didn't have many weapons.

624
00:27:16,720 --> 00:27:18,440
Speaker 4: You and I have said this eight thousand times. I

625
00:27:18,520 --> 00:27:20,320
Speaker 4: don't think it's gonna be a good year for the Chargers,

626
00:27:20,400 --> 00:27:22,200
Speaker 4: and that win didn't change my tune at all.

627
00:27:22,520 --> 00:27:25,280
Speaker 2: Yeah, there were two or four in the red zone

628
00:27:25,280 --> 00:27:31,479
Speaker 2: as well. Again, give him a guy. Yeah, the Jets

629
00:27:31,520 --> 00:27:35,399
Speaker 2: defense has issues. He feels that's a bad omen.

630
00:27:36,440 --> 00:27:39,600
Speaker 4: It was really disappointing, But I think I'm gonna trust

631
00:27:39,600 --> 00:27:41,920
Speaker 4: that group to bounce back. I mean, I think that's

632
00:27:41,920 --> 00:27:43,760
Speaker 4: the best offensive league they faced.

633
00:27:44,359 --> 00:27:44,679
Speaker 3: CJ.

634
00:27:44,840 --> 00:27:46,720
Speaker 2: Moseley and Sauce Gardner were in and out of the

635
00:27:46,760 --> 00:27:48,080
Speaker 2: game with some injuries.

636
00:27:48,080 --> 00:27:51,600
Speaker 3: Oh really, I didn't know that. I think they'll be okay.

637
00:27:51,680 --> 00:27:54,760
Speaker 4: On defense, that's still a talented unit with stars at

638
00:27:54,760 --> 00:27:55,320
Speaker 4: every level.

639
00:27:55,560 --> 00:27:57,000
Speaker 5: Aaron Rodgers didn't look great though.

640
00:27:57,040 --> 00:27:57,639
Speaker 3: That would worry me.

641
00:27:57,720 --> 00:27:59,080
Speaker 5: That would worry me more than this.

642
00:27:59,240 --> 00:28:02,880
Speaker 3: I mean, it wasn't but it was kind of like cousins, Yeah, right.

643
00:28:02,960 --> 00:28:04,760
Speaker 5: Like this is not what we're paying for.

644
00:28:05,080 --> 00:28:05,240
Speaker 1: No.

645
00:28:05,680 --> 00:28:08,640
Speaker 4: I really got the feeling too, like, yeah, Bruce Hall

646
00:28:08,720 --> 00:28:11,359
Speaker 4: is great, Garic Wilson's great. You need someone else to

647
00:28:11,359 --> 00:28:13,600
Speaker 4: give the ball to Yeah, they don't really have a

648
00:28:13,640 --> 00:28:14,120
Speaker 4: third guy.

649
00:28:14,240 --> 00:28:19,600
Speaker 2: They really don't. Will Levis melts down. It feels that's

650
00:28:19,600 --> 00:28:20,320
Speaker 2: a bad omen Oh.

651
00:28:20,359 --> 00:28:22,800
Speaker 4: I think that's kind of who he is. I think

652
00:28:22,840 --> 00:28:25,960
Speaker 4: he's going to be a massive roller coaster and that

653
00:28:26,160 --> 00:28:28,480
Speaker 4: was a total meltdown. And I think he's I think

654
00:28:28,560 --> 00:28:29,400
Speaker 4: overly aggressive.

655
00:28:29,440 --> 00:28:32,680
Speaker 2: I think about week six or seven, we see Rudolph,

656
00:28:32,720 --> 00:28:34,000
Speaker 2: we see Mason Rudolph.

657
00:28:34,080 --> 00:28:35,840
Speaker 4: You've been calling that for a couple of months, and

658
00:28:35,960 --> 00:28:37,520
Speaker 4: I won't fight you on it. I mean, the only

659
00:28:37,560 --> 00:28:40,600
Speaker 4: reason it won't happen. Well, he could be good, I

660
00:28:40,600 --> 00:28:42,280
Speaker 4: mean again, but I don't think he will be.

661
00:28:42,240 --> 00:28:44,240
Speaker 5: The only use the second round draft pick on Levis.

662
00:28:45,480 --> 00:28:47,840
Speaker 4: That's the thing is I wonder how long his leashes?

663
00:28:47,960 --> 00:28:49,760
Speaker 4: You know, do we have to make that it's not

664
00:28:49,840 --> 00:28:50,400
Speaker 4: Bryce Young?

665
00:28:50,720 --> 00:28:51,560
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know what I mean.

666
00:28:52,280 --> 00:28:56,200
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think there's an argument today Rudolph gives him

667
00:28:56,240 --> 00:28:56,920
Speaker 4: better chance to win.

668
00:28:57,600 --> 00:28:58,320
Speaker 5: I would agree with that.

669
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a different conversation.

670
00:29:00,080 --> 00:29:02,800
Speaker 2: And some of those numbers we were talking about with

671
00:29:02,920 --> 00:29:10,000
Speaker 2: the Steelers offensively, they were Rudolph numbers. Yeah, yeah, yeah,

672
00:29:10,000 --> 00:29:11,560
Speaker 2: I guess that's it for those anything.

673
00:29:11,920 --> 00:29:16,320
Speaker 4: If we were making that list, how about Bengals, I'd

674
00:29:16,320 --> 00:29:20,400
Speaker 4: be worried. I'm worried, yeah, Ravens, I'm not super worried.

675
00:29:20,440 --> 00:29:22,280
Speaker 2: I'm worried about their offensive line. But I was worried

676
00:29:22,280 --> 00:29:23,400
Speaker 2: about that going into the season.

677
00:29:23,440 --> 00:29:24,400
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, and it was.

678
00:29:26,040 --> 00:29:26,440
Speaker 5: Problems.

679
00:29:26,640 --> 00:29:26,920
Speaker 3: Right.

680
00:29:27,560 --> 00:29:30,200
Speaker 4: I still think they'll be a good team. I could

681
00:29:30,200 --> 00:29:32,680
Speaker 4: see the Bengals not being a good team. Like, I'm

682
00:29:32,680 --> 00:29:35,680
Speaker 4: not predicting that. I could just write a story where

683
00:29:36,280 --> 00:29:38,360
Speaker 4: Burrow's a little banged up. You don't get a lot

684
00:29:38,360 --> 00:29:42,000
Speaker 4: of Higgins, you know, like they are seven or eight

685
00:29:42,040 --> 00:29:42,480
Speaker 4: win team.

686
00:29:42,720 --> 00:29:45,320
Speaker 5: That's stuff with Burrow flexing the wrist and things on

687
00:29:45,360 --> 00:29:46,160
Speaker 5: the sideline.

688
00:29:46,400 --> 00:29:47,360
Speaker 3: Hates seeing that right now.

689
00:29:47,440 --> 00:29:48,440
Speaker 5: That is trouble.

690
00:29:48,960 --> 00:29:49,240
Speaker 3: Yeah.

691
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Speaker 4: I don't think New England all of a sudden it's

692
00:29:52,280 --> 00:29:54,880
Speaker 4: good though, No, you know, And that wouldn't be one

693
00:29:54,880 --> 00:29:56,920
Speaker 4: of my narratives like look out for the Patriots or

694
00:29:57,240 --> 00:29:57,840
Speaker 4: a young team.

695
00:29:58,000 --> 00:30:01,640
Speaker 2: No, that's it more about Cincinnati than New England in

696
00:30:01,680 --> 00:30:03,040
Speaker 2: any fashion.

697
00:30:03,080 --> 00:30:04,719
Speaker 4: And we talked about it yesterday. I mean there's some

698
00:30:04,720 --> 00:30:07,000
Speaker 4: instances and the Steelers will sort of fit this mold too.

699
00:30:07,040 --> 00:30:10,840
Speaker 4: The Chargers definitely did. The Patriots absolutely did run the football.

700
00:30:10,880 --> 00:30:13,640
Speaker 4: Don't ask a lot out of your quarterback play defense

701
00:30:14,200 --> 00:30:15,400
Speaker 4: that still flies in this league.

702
00:30:15,840 --> 00:30:18,440
Speaker 5: It does. Yeah, there's some people out there thinking, oh, no,

703
00:30:18,600 --> 00:30:19,280
Speaker 5: you can't do that.

704
00:30:19,320 --> 00:30:19,520
Speaker 3: You can.

705
00:30:19,600 --> 00:30:21,160
Speaker 5: This is a passing league. You gotta be able to

706
00:30:21,200 --> 00:30:22,640
Speaker 5: do it, not necessarily.

707
00:30:22,760 --> 00:30:24,800
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm not saying every game, and that doesn't mean

708
00:30:24,800 --> 00:30:26,440
Speaker 4: you can beat the Chiefs in the super Bowl, but

709
00:30:27,240 --> 00:30:28,760
Speaker 4: you can win a lot of games doing that.

710
00:30:28,880 --> 00:30:30,880
Speaker 5: You do need to be able to pass.

711
00:30:30,920 --> 00:30:31,880
Speaker 3: So oh question.

712
00:30:32,200 --> 00:30:35,000
Speaker 2: And again that's why I keep going back to Russell

713
00:30:35,040 --> 00:30:38,120
Speaker 2: Wilson being the Steelers starting quarterback when he's healthy.

714
00:30:38,200 --> 00:30:40,840
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, me too. I think it's an obvious decision.

715
00:30:40,840 --> 00:30:42,600
Speaker 5: He just gives him a better chance to win long

716
00:30:42,680 --> 00:30:44,240
Speaker 5: term yep. This season, yep.

717
00:30:44,400 --> 00:30:46,240
Speaker 2: And I'm talking a long term and you know, down

718
00:30:46,480 --> 00:30:49,520
Speaker 2: in future years. I'm talking long term this season yep.

719
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Speaker 4: And I like their chances of going into Denver and

720
00:30:52,080 --> 00:30:54,400
Speaker 4: with Fields and winning. Don't get me wrong, but we

721
00:30:54,480 --> 00:30:58,320
Speaker 4: might be talking on Monday where man Fields took five

722
00:30:58,400 --> 00:31:01,200
Speaker 4: sacks and threw two picks and Steelers lost that game

723
00:31:01,240 --> 00:31:02,680
Speaker 4: and if igh field goal at the end, even though

724
00:31:02,680 --> 00:31:05,160
Speaker 4: they were the better team, how'd that happen? And they

725
00:31:05,200 --> 00:31:08,840
Speaker 4: didn't throw any touchdown passes like well, he can't do

726
00:31:08,880 --> 00:31:11,440
Speaker 4: those things. I mean there's room for bad stuff to

727
00:31:11,480 --> 00:31:11,960
Speaker 4: happen too.

728
00:31:12,280 --> 00:31:16,080
Speaker 2: Yeah, because the uh, the bank Earth, I'm sorry, the

729
00:31:16,080 --> 00:31:17,200
Speaker 2: Broncos will blitz.

730
00:31:17,800 --> 00:31:18,080
Speaker 3: They were.

731
00:31:19,440 --> 00:31:22,560
Speaker 4: I was shocked Steelers had the least percentage of blitz

732
00:31:22,560 --> 00:31:24,800
Speaker 4: in the whole league in Week one, Broncos had the highest.

733
00:31:26,280 --> 00:31:28,360
Speaker 2: I'd expect that to continue this week too, because I

734
00:31:28,400 --> 00:31:30,240
Speaker 2: was just looking through some of the notes that.

735
00:31:30,360 --> 00:31:31,840
Speaker 5: The league sends out.

736
00:31:32,200 --> 00:31:38,560
Speaker 2: Bo Nicks when Seattle didn't blitz him was really bad.

737
00:31:38,480 --> 00:31:41,920
Speaker 3: Really bad. I just think it's not blizsberg anymore because

738
00:31:41,920 --> 00:31:42,920
Speaker 3: you can get home with four.

739
00:31:42,760 --> 00:31:45,200
Speaker 5: You don't need to, You don't need yeah, TJ.

740
00:31:45,360 --> 00:31:49,400
Speaker 4: Watt, Yeah, the four guys they tried out, and Hayward

741
00:31:49,440 --> 00:31:52,880
Speaker 4: and Ogunjobie and Benton and hy Smith and her Big.

742
00:31:53,320 --> 00:31:55,520
Speaker 4: You're always gonna have four pass rushers on the field.

743
00:31:55,960 --> 00:31:56,280
Speaker 3: Yeah.

744
00:31:56,400 --> 00:31:58,480
Speaker 4: Now that doesn't mean Queen can't end up with three,

745
00:31:58,480 --> 00:32:01,600
Speaker 4: four five sacks or will or Roberts. They're all really

746
00:32:01,600 --> 00:32:03,080
Speaker 4: good at that, But why do it.

747
00:32:03,000 --> 00:32:03,640
Speaker 3: If you don't have to.

748
00:32:06,480 --> 00:32:11,960
Speaker 2: Both Nick's interceptions came against non blitz situations on throws

749
00:32:12,000 --> 00:32:13,320
Speaker 2: of ten or more yards.

750
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Speaker 5: I know they're both too down the field. He was

751
00:32:15,720 --> 00:32:16,960
Speaker 5: two for twelve.

752
00:32:16,720 --> 00:32:19,000
Speaker 3: Yeah, and almost.

753
00:32:18,760 --> 00:32:23,560
Speaker 4: All the deep shots deep shots I mean or sudden yeah,

754
00:32:23,640 --> 00:32:29,000
Speaker 4: I mean. And something's gonna be with Porter. And he

755
00:32:29,200 --> 00:32:30,960
Speaker 4: was not good at all throwing the ball down the field.

756
00:32:30,960 --> 00:32:33,320
Speaker 5: His passer rating on throws of ten or more yards

757
00:32:33,360 --> 00:32:35,200
Speaker 5: down the field two point one.

758
00:32:35,360 --> 00:32:37,080
Speaker 3: I think he created like forty seven yards.

759
00:32:37,120 --> 00:32:40,920
Speaker 2: He could have spiked the ball into the ground ten

760
00:32:40,960 --> 00:32:43,280
Speaker 2: straight times and had a thirty five point one.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. It's brutal. Yeah, not good, not at all. I

762
00:32:46,960 --> 00:32:48,080
Speaker 3: didn't realize the blitz stuff.

763
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Speaker 2: But the under ten yard stuff, he was twenty four

764
00:32:51,320 --> 00:32:52,680
Speaker 2: or thirty, which sounds great.

765
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Speaker 4: And that part is you know you're at least putting

766
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Speaker 4: it in the hands of your teammates.

767
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Speaker 5: He might as well hand it to him.

768
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Speaker 2: Is he averaged three point yards three point two yards

769
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Speaker 2: per pass attempt right.

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Speaker 4: Now, really bad in the air yard stuff's like two

771
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Speaker 4: point five yards down.

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Speaker 5: Field, it's twenty four or thirty for like ninety yards.

773
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Speaker 4: And nothing after the catch. It's a lot of really

774
00:33:15,160 --> 00:33:16,200
Speaker 4: short get tackled.

775
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Speaker 5: They're extended handoffs, yeah, I mean.

776
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Speaker 4: They're easy throws. I'm sure a lot of them were

777
00:33:20,720 --> 00:33:21,960
Speaker 4: at or behind the line of scrimm.

778
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Speaker 2: And this was against a team that presumably didn't know

779
00:33:25,800 --> 00:33:28,400
Speaker 2: what you were gonna do a lot of in the open.

780
00:33:28,200 --> 00:33:30,680
Speaker 3: Right in a new coaching staff and all that stuff too.

781
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Speaker 5: Now, what's gonna happen this week?

782
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Speaker 4: I know, I mean, I'm sure Peyton will make some adjustments.

783
00:33:36,280 --> 00:33:38,920
Speaker 4: But it's a better defense their face and now than Seattle.

784
00:33:39,480 --> 00:33:42,520
Speaker 2: Yeah, you come out and play, just man up against

785
00:33:42,520 --> 00:33:43,920
Speaker 2: these guys and say, if you're gonna throw the ball

786
00:33:43,920 --> 00:33:45,520
Speaker 2: that short, we're gonna be right up in your face.

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Speaker 4: And I think so, I mean, I think porter On

788
00:33:48,160 --> 00:33:49,440
Speaker 4: Sutton's an obvious.

789
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Speaker 2: One because playing zone in this and you know, okay,

790
00:33:51,680 --> 00:33:53,360
Speaker 2: you're gonna catch a ball and run for five yards.

791
00:33:53,360 --> 00:33:55,120
Speaker 5: Well I don't want to give you five yards.

792
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Speaker 3: Yeah. No, for the most part, Yes.

793
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Speaker 2: I'm gonna jam your guys line of scrimmag you're gonna

794
00:33:59,600 --> 00:34:00,959
Speaker 2: try to throw work, good luck with that.

795
00:34:01,360 --> 00:34:03,320
Speaker 4: Steelers played a lot of single high. They played a

796
00:34:03,360 --> 00:34:07,280
Speaker 4: lot of cover three, which is fine. But I don't

797
00:34:07,280 --> 00:34:10,720
Speaker 4: even think you have to be as passive because londonner

798
00:34:10,760 --> 00:34:12,399
Speaker 4: pits can hurt you, you know, I mean, they can

799
00:34:12,440 --> 00:34:15,240
Speaker 4: sting you. I don't think there's a lot of guys

800
00:34:15,520 --> 00:34:17,960
Speaker 4: pass catchers in this group that can sting you, you know.

801
00:34:18,000 --> 00:34:19,880
Speaker 4: I mean, something's a good player. He can't throw the

802
00:34:19,920 --> 00:34:22,399
Speaker 4: ball on a field and yeah, exactly, and they're gonna

803
00:34:22,400 --> 00:34:23,840
Speaker 4: have to keep extra guys in to protect.

804
00:34:24,120 --> 00:34:24,359
Speaker 3: Yeah.

805
00:34:24,440 --> 00:34:26,360
Speaker 2: I mean I've already seen, you know, some comments and

806
00:34:26,360 --> 00:34:28,040
Speaker 2: things about what you guys are really talking down the

807
00:34:28,200 --> 00:34:32,480
Speaker 2: the the Broncos in this game, like they weren't good

808
00:34:32,560 --> 00:34:33,000
Speaker 2: last week.

809
00:34:33,120 --> 00:34:36,360
Speaker 4: No, I mean their path to victory would be one

810
00:34:36,440 --> 00:34:37,720
Speaker 4: hundred and fifty yards on the ground.

811
00:34:38,000 --> 00:34:39,520
Speaker 3: Yeah, and that could happen.

812
00:34:39,640 --> 00:34:42,160
Speaker 4: I mean in a game where the fourth quarter, even

813
00:34:42,160 --> 00:34:45,920
Speaker 4: if you're rotating, everyone's toughing and puffing, and Steeler offensive

814
00:34:45,920 --> 00:34:49,319
Speaker 4: sputtering on the road and it's thirteen to ten and

815
00:34:49,400 --> 00:34:52,560
Speaker 4: they can keep handing it off all game long and

816
00:34:53,239 --> 00:34:55,279
Speaker 4: it's enough, you know. I mean, that's that's their path

817
00:34:55,320 --> 00:34:57,080
Speaker 4: the victory. It's not thrown it all over the ard.

818
00:34:57,640 --> 00:34:59,919
Speaker 4: I don't see it, but I don't either. I'm just trying.

819
00:35:00,040 --> 00:35:02,640
Speaker 4: I mean, there's always a way you can lose the game.

820
00:35:02,840 --> 00:35:06,399
Speaker 2: Oh yes, yeah, So how about this little stat, Matt.

821
00:35:07,719 --> 00:35:12,640
Speaker 2: The Steelers last week against Atlanta the highest rate of

822
00:35:12,680 --> 00:35:14,000
Speaker 2: play action in the league.

823
00:35:15,280 --> 00:35:18,719
Speaker 4: I know, and I have some crazier ones compared to

824
00:35:18,719 --> 00:35:20,560
Speaker 4: Steeler history. I'll need to dig them up here, but

825
00:35:21,200 --> 00:35:25,359
Speaker 4: it was number one, and the Falcons didn't use play

826
00:35:25,360 --> 00:35:26,399
Speaker 4: action on one, not once.

827
00:35:26,680 --> 00:35:28,440
Speaker 2: Yeah, so I gave that some hard to do that

828
00:35:28,480 --> 00:35:30,640
Speaker 2: when you're in a pistol in the shotgun the entire game.

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00:35:30,800 --> 00:35:32,960
Speaker 4: Well, I think there's two reasons why they didn't is

830
00:35:33,680 --> 00:35:36,640
Speaker 4: Cousins is compromised and play play action is not easy

831
00:35:36,680 --> 00:35:41,960
Speaker 4: on a quarterback, just turning and turning and flipping. And

832
00:35:42,040 --> 00:35:44,120
Speaker 4: it also adds half a second to the play when

833
00:35:44,160 --> 00:35:47,440
Speaker 4: you can't protect right you know. So I thought that

834
00:35:47,600 --> 00:35:51,919
Speaker 4: was really telling that Cousins is a killer on play

835
00:35:51,960 --> 00:35:52,960
Speaker 4: action throughout his career.

836
00:35:53,000 --> 00:35:53,600
Speaker 3: That's what he is.

837
00:35:53,719 --> 00:35:56,839
Speaker 4: I mean, he's a play action diagnose all that kind

838
00:35:56,880 --> 00:36:03,040
Speaker 4: of stuff. And they didn't do it at all. I

839
00:36:03,239 --> 00:36:09,120
Speaker 4: don't know where that's not good radio, no whatever, But

840
00:36:09,280 --> 00:36:14,120
Speaker 4: oh okay. Next generation stats was created in twenty sixteen. Yeah,

841
00:36:14,880 --> 00:36:17,600
Speaker 4: this is the only time since they were that they

842
00:36:17,880 --> 00:36:22,240
Speaker 4: have been created since twenty sixteen that the Steelers used

843
00:36:22,440 --> 00:36:23,359
Speaker 4: play action.

844
00:36:23,480 --> 00:36:25,160
Speaker 3: More than fifty percent of their dropbacks.

845
00:36:25,480 --> 00:36:28,680
Speaker 5: Wow, you know, never Roethlisberger didn't like to do it.

846
00:36:28,680 --> 00:36:30,719
Speaker 4: Ben didn't like do it. Wasn't a big Canada thing.

847
00:36:31,280 --> 00:36:33,239
Speaker 4: Get used to it, folks. Yeah, I mean that's there's

848
00:36:33,280 --> 00:36:34,560
Speaker 4: a new new sheriff in time with that.

849
00:36:34,920 --> 00:36:37,840
Speaker 2: Absolutely, and uh, well they did a lot of it

850
00:36:37,920 --> 00:36:41,319
Speaker 2: last week, and uh, I would expect taking things a

851
00:36:41,320 --> 00:36:41,879
Speaker 2: step further.

852
00:36:42,719 --> 00:36:47,320
Speaker 4: Denver allowed the highest completion percentage against play action passes

853
00:36:47,520 --> 00:36:52,320
Speaker 4: last year. Seventy five of play action attempts against the

854
00:36:52,320 --> 00:36:54,280
Speaker 4: Broncos l one year was completed.

855
00:36:54,760 --> 00:36:58,120
Speaker 3: That's bad. That's really bad. It's really bad, really really bad.

856
00:36:58,120 --> 00:36:59,960
Speaker 3: So I don't think it's going away this week.

857
00:37:00,000 --> 00:37:01,160
Speaker 5: No, I don't think so either.

858
00:37:01,239 --> 00:37:05,879
Speaker 2: So we'll talk more about this particular matchup tomorrow. Matt

859
00:37:05,880 --> 00:37:07,839
Speaker 2: and are going to take another break, all right. So

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Speaker 2: he is Matt Williamson. I am Dale Lollie. This is

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00:37:10,280 --> 00:37:12,920
Speaker 2: the Drive on the Steelers Audio Network. We'll be back

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00:37:12,960 --> 00:37:20,520
Speaker 2: to finish up the show right after this.

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

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00:37:24,239 --> 00:37:26,400
Speaker 1: your twenty four to seven home of the Black and

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Speaker 1: Gold Steelers Nation Radio.

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Speaker 5: Welcome back. I am Dale Lolli.

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Speaker 2: He is the Matt Williamson and this is the Drive

868
00:37:38,360 --> 00:37:39,880
Speaker 2: on the Steelers Audio Network.

869
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Speaker 5: And Matt Pat Farnruth got a new contract.

870
00:37:43,760 --> 00:37:46,640
Speaker 4: Yeah last week. Great before some of we had a

871
00:37:46,640 --> 00:37:48,200
Speaker 4: whole lot of chance to talk about it.

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00:37:48,239 --> 00:37:48,560
Speaker 5: We did not.

873
00:37:48,800 --> 00:37:50,400
Speaker 4: No, I think it's well worth it. I think the

874
00:37:50,440 --> 00:37:54,520
Speaker 4: tight end market is inflating quickly, especially for the backup

875
00:37:54,560 --> 00:37:56,799
Speaker 4: type guys, which I never quite understood. And he's much

876
00:37:56,840 --> 00:37:59,760
Speaker 4: more than that. So No, I think that's a nice pickup.

877
00:38:00,040 --> 00:38:02,400
Speaker 4: Kind of suspected this was coming all off season, but

878
00:38:02,520 --> 00:38:04,400
Speaker 4: went down to the nitty gritty, took.

879
00:38:04,200 --> 00:38:05,880
Speaker 2: It down to the wire, but they got it done

880
00:38:06,120 --> 00:38:08,880
Speaker 2: and he will be with the Steelers now for several

881
00:38:08,920 --> 00:38:10,000
Speaker 2: seasons beyond this one.

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00:38:10,080 --> 00:38:11,280
Speaker 3: He's a good foundational piece.

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00:38:11,520 --> 00:38:13,880
Speaker 5: Yeah, and it's kind of going right.

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00:38:14,040 --> 00:38:16,319
Speaker 2: As you mentioned, for tight ends, it ends up being

885
00:38:16,360 --> 00:38:17,719
Speaker 2: about twelve million dollars a year.

886
00:38:17,840 --> 00:38:20,920
Speaker 4: Yes, yeah, Again at his age, he's already been productive.

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00:38:21,640 --> 00:38:23,120
Speaker 4: I got no problems with that at all. No, the

888
00:38:23,160 --> 00:38:25,280
Speaker 4: way the scalary CAP's going up like crazy, where.

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00:38:25,160 --> 00:38:26,919
Speaker 2: Do I Then he goes out in that first game,

890
00:38:27,000 --> 00:38:29,200
Speaker 2: catches four passes in that game, which is to see

891
00:38:29,280 --> 00:38:30,520
Speaker 2: the second leading target.

892
00:38:31,000 --> 00:38:32,800
Speaker 5: Not that that was a surprise either.

893
00:38:33,000 --> 00:38:33,320
Speaker 3: No.

894
00:38:33,320 --> 00:38:35,600
Speaker 4: No, in the way, this offensive structured tight ends are

895
00:38:35,640 --> 00:38:36,439
Speaker 4: gonna get used a lot.

896
00:38:36,560 --> 00:38:40,400
Speaker 2: Absolutely had a chance to catch up with Patrick Farremouth

897
00:38:41,320 --> 00:38:43,399
Speaker 2: earlier this week let's hear what he had to say

898
00:38:43,400 --> 00:38:45,440
Speaker 2: about that, the game and his new contract.

899
00:38:50,360 --> 00:38:50,759
Speaker 3: I love it.

900
00:38:50,840 --> 00:38:55,719
Speaker 6: Yeah, I definitely sell him now more. You're very appreciative,

901
00:38:57,040 --> 00:39:00,440
Speaker 6: You're very happy. But obviously, you know, in the thick

902
00:39:00,480 --> 00:39:03,440
Speaker 6: of the opening weeks of this season just focused on

903
00:39:04,360 --> 00:39:06,640
Speaker 6: you know, there's.

904
00:39:06,480 --> 00:39:10,279
Speaker 7: Some stressors going on during camp and pre season. Did

905
00:39:10,320 --> 00:39:12,200
Speaker 7: you think it was gonna get done earlier?

906
00:39:13,239 --> 00:39:15,680
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, I obviously when we started talking, I thought,

907
00:39:16,480 --> 00:39:19,399
Speaker 6: you know, it would be quicker. But you know, it's

908
00:39:19,440 --> 00:39:23,680
Speaker 6: just a business aspect of it. But you know, I'm

909
00:39:23,760 --> 00:39:27,560
Speaker 6: very appreciative of it getting done. There's a point where I, like,

910
00:39:27,600 --> 00:39:28,800
Speaker 6: I think two weeks ago where I was like, I

911
00:39:28,840 --> 00:39:30,319
Speaker 6: knew it was gonna get done. It was just a

912
00:39:30,360 --> 00:39:30,879
Speaker 6: matter of one.

913
00:39:31,000 --> 00:39:35,960
Speaker 3: So, you know, very very appreciative of it. Do you

914
00:39:36,000 --> 00:39:38,160
Speaker 3: feel momentum growing up with the offense.

915
00:39:38,480 --> 00:39:40,000
Speaker 1: If if so, what led to.

916
00:39:41,640 --> 00:39:44,319
Speaker 6: Yeah, you know, I definitely felt that, you know, we

917
00:39:44,320 --> 00:39:46,560
Speaker 6: were able to you know, sustain drives and and and

918
00:39:46,680 --> 00:39:49,640
Speaker 6: possess the ball. Obviously, you know, our next step is

919
00:39:49,640 --> 00:39:52,799
Speaker 6: is finishing the uh for touchdowns and stuff. But I

920
00:39:52,840 --> 00:39:55,359
Speaker 6: think there was a lot of positives the way we

921
00:39:55,360 --> 00:39:56,840
Speaker 6: were able to possess the ball, like I said, and

922
00:39:57,160 --> 00:40:00,160
Speaker 6: move it down the field. You know, obviously, I think

923
00:40:00,200 --> 00:40:01,719
Speaker 6: that's part of the reason why we go to Loo Trope.

924
00:40:01,719 --> 00:40:03,440
Speaker 6: You know, we have such a hard training camp is

925
00:40:04,320 --> 00:40:06,080
Speaker 6: you know, to prepare for the earlier parts of the

926
00:40:06,120 --> 00:40:09,400
Speaker 6: season where teams are you know, figuring out their their conditioning,

927
00:40:09,840 --> 00:40:11,400
Speaker 6: you know in stadium. You know, we were able to

928
00:40:11,760 --> 00:40:13,080
Speaker 6: able to do that, you know.

929
00:40:13,040 --> 00:40:13,959
Speaker 3: Throughout our camp.

930
00:40:14,280 --> 00:40:15,200
Speaker 7: How did Justin do?

931
00:40:15,719 --> 00:40:17,759
Speaker 6: I think Justin did awesome. He did a great job,

932
00:40:18,719 --> 00:40:21,000
Speaker 6: you know, you know, getting the ball where he needed

933
00:40:21,000 --> 00:40:23,640
Speaker 6: to go, you know, converting on some Thursday downs with

934
00:40:23,640 --> 00:40:26,360
Speaker 6: his legs. He was very calm in the huddle and

935
00:40:26,400 --> 00:40:27,520
Speaker 6: you know, I think he did a really good job.

936
00:40:27,960 --> 00:40:30,640
Speaker 7: The rookies, you know, you may not a break down

937
00:40:30,680 --> 00:40:32,960
Speaker 7: the table like Petie or whatever, but you know you're

938
00:40:33,000 --> 00:40:34,680
Speaker 7: part of a rookie class right away.

939
00:40:34,840 --> 00:40:36,280
Speaker 5: Did they fit in well.

940
00:40:36,120 --> 00:40:38,680
Speaker 6: Peyton and Dane and yeah, I'm not too sure on

941
00:40:38,840 --> 00:40:41,120
Speaker 6: you know, how they did obviously defensively not. I haven't

942
00:40:41,120 --> 00:40:43,719
Speaker 6: really I don't really watched that film, but you know,

943
00:40:43,760 --> 00:40:45,279
Speaker 6: I think that the rookies on the office side of

944
00:40:45,320 --> 00:40:47,759
Speaker 6: the ball, you know, obviously Spence's and rookie, but you know,

945
00:40:47,760 --> 00:40:49,160
Speaker 6: he didn't play much last year. I think he did

946
00:40:49,200 --> 00:40:51,880
Speaker 6: a really good job. Sam with Zach, you know, I

947
00:40:51,920 --> 00:40:53,400
Speaker 6: can't say enough good things about them, but I think

948
00:40:53,440 --> 00:40:56,160
Speaker 6: Progerck had a pretty good game too, So you know

949
00:40:56,440 --> 00:40:57,960
Speaker 6: it was it was a great game to you know,

950
00:40:58,080 --> 00:41:01,680
Speaker 6: growing and you know looking forward to see what they

951
00:41:01,680 --> 00:41:04,239
Speaker 6: can do, you know, stacking good uh good performances on

952
00:41:04,280 --> 00:41:05,080
Speaker 6: the next.

953
00:41:05,640 --> 00:41:07,560
Speaker 7: What was it like to see that mine come together

954
00:41:07,600 --> 00:41:10,560
Speaker 7: they way they did with you know, young guys, guys stuck.

955
00:41:10,320 --> 00:41:12,920
Speaker 6: Into Yeah, it was awesome to see. You know, you

956
00:41:12,960 --> 00:41:15,640
Speaker 6: could feel it out, you know when I was out

957
00:41:15,640 --> 00:41:18,240
Speaker 6: there in the huddle. Obviously first couple of snaps didn't

958
00:41:18,239 --> 00:41:20,719
Speaker 6: go as well, but you know, just calming them down,

959
00:41:21,360 --> 00:41:23,160
Speaker 6: you know, making sure they know that they belonged there

960
00:41:23,239 --> 00:41:25,319
Speaker 6: and play with confidence stuff and I think you s

961
00:41:25,400 --> 00:41:27,440
Speaker 6: you saw that throughout the as the game went on

962
00:41:27,440 --> 00:41:28,880
Speaker 6: and as the film went on. You know, a Zach

963
00:41:28,960 --> 00:41:31,799
Speaker 6: had a bunch of pancake blocks. You know, Spence was

964
00:41:31,800 --> 00:41:33,400
Speaker 6: was awesome to run go and stay with project and

965
00:41:33,640 --> 00:41:35,080
Speaker 6: you know when they're asked to stand up in pastfection,

966
00:41:35,160 --> 00:41:38,000
Speaker 6: they were able to do that. So you know, Atlanta

967
00:41:38,000 --> 00:41:39,200
Speaker 6: had a really good front. So it was good to

968
00:41:39,200 --> 00:41:40,960
Speaker 6: see you know them execute the way they did.

969
00:41:41,440 --> 00:41:45,239
Speaker 3: When did you get word it's gonna be add just uh?

970
00:41:45,360 --> 00:41:46,120
Speaker 3: Pre Game Wars.

971
00:41:46,560 --> 00:41:50,360
Speaker 6: Truthfully, Uh went out there and Justin was thrown with

972
00:41:50,360 --> 00:41:52,319
Speaker 6: the one, so uh that's kind of when we knew.

973
00:41:52,680 --> 00:41:54,880
Speaker 7: How did you I mean like d did during the

974
00:41:54,880 --> 00:41:57,719
Speaker 7: week of practice when his calf went on Thursday to

975
00:41:57,760 --> 00:41:59,560
Speaker 7: that moment, How did things change it all?

976
00:42:00,000 --> 00:42:02,319
Speaker 6: It didn't change much obviously, you know with Justin took

977
00:42:02,360 --> 00:42:04,319
Speaker 6: a lot of snaps with the with the ones during camp,

978
00:42:04,320 --> 00:42:06,640
Speaker 6: which you know it was it was. It was good

979
00:42:06,840 --> 00:42:08,719
Speaker 6: in a way where you know, it wasn't really much

980
00:42:08,719 --> 00:42:11,960
Speaker 6: of a wresome or change a game plan. They're both

981
00:42:11,960 --> 00:42:15,000
Speaker 6: similar quarterbacks, so I think it was uh, you know,

982
00:42:15,200 --> 00:42:15,800
Speaker 6: it was smooth.

983
00:42:15,880 --> 00:42:17,520
Speaker 7: Do you feel like you're dealing from the same deck

984
00:42:17,560 --> 00:42:19,200
Speaker 7: regardless of which is in there?

985
00:42:19,200 --> 00:42:19,759
Speaker 6: Absolutely?

986
00:42:20,160 --> 00:42:22,000
Speaker 2: And you said you want to finish strives, but when

987
00:42:22,000 --> 00:42:25,000
Speaker 2: you don't, thinks pausible?

988
00:42:25,200 --> 00:42:28,480
Speaker 6: So good you speak the confidence you guys, Yeah, we

989
00:42:28,520 --> 00:42:30,840
Speaker 6: have obviously we have the most confidence of bas you know,

990
00:42:30,920 --> 00:42:33,279
Speaker 6: ever since I've been here, he's been knocking fiddles down

991
00:42:33,320 --> 00:42:36,000
Speaker 6: and through the uprights and stuff, so you know, very

992
00:42:36,000 --> 00:42:39,720
Speaker 6: confident in him. You know, I wish selfishly his offense

993
00:42:40,000 --> 00:42:41,319
Speaker 6: off as a guy we were able to put in

994
00:42:41,320 --> 00:42:43,719
Speaker 6: the end zone more. But you know, it's good to

995
00:42:44,120 --> 00:42:45,640
Speaker 6: you know, we don't do that. It's good to have,

996
00:42:45,719 --> 00:42:47,759
Speaker 6: you know, the best kicker in the NFL to with

997
00:42:47,920 --> 00:42:49,120
Speaker 6: those football strod up right.

998
00:42:50,600 --> 00:42:53,400
Speaker 2: That was Steelers tight end Pat Farmouth with the assembled

999
00:42:53,440 --> 00:42:56,879
Speaker 2: media earlier this week, and uh, good stuff there from him.

1000
00:42:56,960 --> 00:42:58,760
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's got to be happy and proud of himself.

1001
00:42:58,760 --> 00:43:01,759
Speaker 2: Well earned, absolutely happy with the win, happy with all

1002
00:43:01,760 --> 00:43:02,200
Speaker 2: that stuff.

1003
00:43:02,360 --> 00:43:03,920
Speaker 4: On to day, I'm having a big game coming up

1004
00:43:03,920 --> 00:43:06,720
Speaker 4: here too. I c the linebacker situation is not great.

1005
00:43:06,800 --> 00:43:10,839
Speaker 2: Yeah, Atlanta safety is much better, oh night and day

1006
00:43:11,080 --> 00:43:11,640
Speaker 2: night in day.

1007
00:43:11,680 --> 00:43:14,240
Speaker 4: This one of the top echelon versus the bottom echelon.

1008
00:43:14,480 --> 00:43:16,719
Speaker 2: Absolutely, So we'll see if that works out well for

1009
00:43:16,760 --> 00:43:17,320
Speaker 2: the Steelers.

1010
00:43:17,320 --> 00:43:19,120
Speaker 5: But Matt, that's going to do for the show today.

1011
00:43:19,200 --> 00:43:20,960
Speaker 3: Yeah, good stuffs. Run it back tomorrow.

1012
00:43:21,000 --> 00:43:23,080
Speaker 2: Absolutely, let's do it again. You'll be able to hear

1013
00:43:23,080 --> 00:43:24,880
Speaker 2: that right here on these very wherever.

1014
00:43:24,920 --> 00:43:26,040
Speaker 3: You'll check us out on YouTube.

1015
00:43:26,120 --> 00:43:28,840
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1016
00:43:28,880 --> 00:43:29,360
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1017
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1018
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Speaker 2: on S and R Drive on the Steelers Audio Network

1020
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Speaker 2: as well. But for my partner Matt Williamson, for Justin

1021
00:43:44,320 --> 00:43:46,560
Speaker 2: Miller here on site keeping us on the air, I

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Speaker 2: am Dale Lelly. We thank you for listening to this

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