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Speaker 1: At least, he's the Drive with Dale Lolly and Matt

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Speaker 1: Williamson on your twenty four to seven Home of the

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Speaker 1: Black and Gold cast in Steelers Nation.

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Speaker 2: Radio, and welcome back.

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Speaker 3: I am Dale Lolly, he is the Matt Williamson and

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Speaker 3: Matt's time for the Fantasy Football Focus.

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Speaker 2: Here to kick off our.

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Speaker 3: Number two and as we do on Mondays, we take

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Speaker 3: a look at.

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Speaker 2: The top performers of the weekend. YEP.

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Speaker 3: Of course this excludes the Monday night game, but everybody

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Speaker 3: will know that that once you get there, only two

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Speaker 3: quarterbacks this week through from more than three hundred yards.

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Speaker 2: There's a lot of bad performances a quarterback.

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Speaker 3: So I just counted it up. Eight quarterbacks this weekend

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Speaker 3: did not throw a touchdown pass thirty twenty two quarterbacks

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Speaker 3: out of thirty through one or fewer touchdowns.

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Speaker 2: Wow, So okay, you're the mas. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: The only two guys have more than three hundred yards.

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Speaker 2: A lot of rusty dudes, a lot of bad offensive

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Speaker 2: line performances. I wonder if defense is going to rule

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Speaker 2: the day for the first month or so.

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Speaker 3: We'll see, but certainly, you know, uh two Attago Vailoa.

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Speaker 3: They entered thirty eight yards one touchdown pass that being

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Speaker 3: a long one to Tyreek Hill. Stafford threw for three

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Speaker 3: seventeen and the loss. Outside of that, nobody else topped

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Speaker 3: three hundred. Mahomes had two ninety one. Baker Mayfield had

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Speaker 3: two eighty nine and four touchdowns.

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Speaker 2: So Mayfield a really good day. Man.

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Speaker 3: Washington's defense, Oh, the horrendous so bad. Yeah, horrendous everybody against. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: Jalen Hurts had two seventy eight and two touchdowns. Lamar

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Speaker 3: Jackson two seventy three in a touchdown.

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Speaker 2: But it was a slow day in the passing world.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean only fourteen of thirty quarterbacks had two

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Speaker 2: I notised it was that bad. I mean, there are

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Speaker 2: a lot of rookies out there that looked like rookies.

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Speaker 2: A lot of second your guys that looked like rookies.

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Speaker 2: You know, not to mention the Daniel Jones and Cousins

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Speaker 2: you know, Watson.

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Speaker 3: Leading rushers. We had six guys who topped one hundred yards.

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Speaker 3: Joe Mixon thirty for one fifty nine in a touchdown.

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Speaker 2: Thirty is the key, though he had no long runs.

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Speaker 2: I mean it's hard. Team was long. Yeah, okay, long

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Speaker 2: of thirteen with thirty carries almost hard to do. JK. Dobbin.

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Speaker 2: He has no competition none, I mean, which is beautiful

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Speaker 3: Dobbins had ten for one thirty five in a touchdown.

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Speaker 3: He had a sixty one yard earth that he didn't

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Speaker 3: score on.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean he showed some explosiveness though, I mean

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Speaker 2: his acceleration and he's a he's a good story right now.

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Speaker 3: I would expect him to kind of slowly take over

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Speaker 3: the lead in that backfield.

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Speaker 2: He kind of did during the game. In the first half,

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Speaker 2: Gus Edwards was clearly the feature back, and then they

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Speaker 2: just kept giving Dobbins more and more and more. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: so he's a better player.

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Speaker 3: Lamar had sixteen for one to twenty two. Ramon's Ray

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Speaker 3: Stevenson for the Patriots and that upset of the Bengals

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Speaker 3: had twenty five for one to twenty and a touchdown.

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Speaker 2: Time to worry abot Bengals run defense again. Yeah, that's

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Speaker 3: Because he had a long run of seventeen. The problem

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Speaker 3: with Remandre Stevenson is that's gonna be like one of

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Speaker 3: four wins for.

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Speaker 2: Them this year. I would imagine game script is not

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Speaker 2: guy right now. And I like the player. They gave

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Speaker 2: him money, they like him. Yeah, his competition isn't bad.

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Speaker 2: I'm sure they're gonna go into every game. We're gonna

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Speaker 2: run this thing through the andre. Yeah, but when you're

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Speaker 2: losing by thirty in the second half, that's not gonna work. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Uh.

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Speaker 2: Saquon Barkley twenty four for one oh nine. Camran through

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Speaker 2: some big holes. Yeah, but he had I mean he

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Speaker 3: Kenneth Walker had twenty for one oh three in a touchdown.

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Speaker 2: Might be fighting an injury. Something happened to him later

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Speaker 2: and got hurt in that game too, really Okay, so

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Speaker 3: Something to keep an eye on. Just missing was Aaron

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Speaker 3: Jones fourteen for ninety four, and.

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Speaker 2: They didn't need him much at the end either.

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Speaker 3: David Montgomery seventeen for ninety one in a touchdown. I

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Speaker 3: think he had like forty of that in overtime.

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Speaker 2: I say overtime was blown to him. Rode him. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: And they didn't bring Gibbs into the game until pretty late. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: and Montgomery's always a value.

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Speaker 3: And then Jayden Daniels had sixteen for eighty eight and

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Speaker 3: two thrushing touchdowns in his debut.

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Speaker 2: It's a cheap coade. Yeah, I mean he didn't play great,

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Speaker 2: but you know him and Richardson and guys like that

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Speaker 3: Some of the guys that you would have expected to

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Speaker 2: Sam're White thirteen for forty four. Madison took all the

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Speaker 2: mad stuff. Yeah, Madison out in that way.

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Speaker 3: Yeah atn twelve for forty four and bad fumble.

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Speaker 2: Bad fumble and Tank Bigsby. I think we were about

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Speaker 2: it equal with them.

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Speaker 3: Zach Moss had nine for forty four, but he did Outsnapho.

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Speaker 2: Definitely the one just behind. Yeah yeah.

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Speaker 3: Isaiah Pacheco fifteen for forty five, three yards of carry,

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Speaker 3: not great. Derrick Henry in that same game thirteen for

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Speaker 3: forty six. These are guys that went high.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, You've got to be a little worried about

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Speaker 2: Henry's blockings. Probably not gonna be great.

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Speaker 3: Y Williams eighteen for fifty. Corham wasn't a factor at all.

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Speaker 2: I don't think you got a carry. No, I only

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Speaker 2: special teams.

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Speaker 3: How long are they going to stick with Karen Williams

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Speaker 2: They're blocking so horrible. I mean, you've seen an O

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Speaker 2: they were on backup tackles really bad. And then strangely

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Speaker 2: they switched Avilia and the guard they signed from the

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Speaker 2: this process, and then Avilia gets hurt in this game.

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Speaker 2: So they were on three backups already after one game.

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Speaker 3: Even Jonathan Taylor sixteen for forty eight, he got a touchdown.

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Speaker 2: He scored, Yeah, but not an efficient offense. But it

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Speaker 2: was all big plays. It's all big days. You can't

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Speaker 2: live on that. That's hard.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, receivers. Despite not having a lot of three hundred

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Speaker 3: dard passers, we did have ten one hundred yard receivers.

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Speaker 2: There were some big plays. A J. Brown had a

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Speaker 2: big play, and Pierce had a big you know, Tyreek.

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Speaker 3: Of course, Jadeen Reid had four for one thirty eight

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Speaker 2: Though, I can't trust that at all. I mean, love

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Speaker 2: is gonna be out at least a month, it sounds like.

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Speaker 2: But that game seemed like it was a million years ago.

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Speaker 2: But the footing was so bad as it often is.

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Speaker 2: I mean, that makes me crazy they you know anyway,

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Speaker 2: But he was like the only one that had great footing.

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Speaker 2: I mean he was He's like built like a soccer player.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Tyreek had seven for one thirty, had the eighty yarders,

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Speaker 3: so other than the eighty yarders six for fiftyes.

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Speaker 2: So so yeah, I mean atn fumbles and then he

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Speaker 3: Alec Pierce three for one to twenty five and a touchdown.

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Speaker 3: It was a sixty yarder. Don't trust that. Don't trust that.

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Speaker 3: But they do throw deep. Yeah, Jamison Williams had five

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Speaker 3: I mean, now it was I think Shick's targets.

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Speaker 2: Everyone's a buzz that he's arrived. Maybe he has. I'm

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Speaker 2: kind of rooting for him cause I really liked him

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Speaker 2: coming out of Bama. But I mean he tied Trudavius

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Speaker 2: White in a knot, which is great, but he was

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Speaker 2: just so afraid of the speed. There's anything wrong with that?

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Speaker 2: I mean, that's what this guy does.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but I don't know. I wouldn't just automatically throw

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know if he'd be in my top

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Speaker 3: Brown five for one nineteen in a touchdown is kind

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Speaker 3: of just what he does every week.

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Speaker 2: He had a sixty yard or something. Yeah, Nico Collins

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Speaker 2: six for one seventeen. I didn't score, though, so note there,

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Speaker 2: Dell was clearly the three. Yeah. But Diggs his average

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Speaker 3: Isaiah likely led to tight ends with nine for one

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Speaker 2: Is he a startuble tight end? Though?

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Speaker 3: You know I almost drafted him, Yeah, and instead I

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Speaker 3: I didn't. I was gonna use him as my last pick,

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Speaker 3: and I'm like, because I need to back up tight end.

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Speaker 2: I almost backed up Andrews with him. Yeah, you know,

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Speaker 2: I forget who was the tight end I took. It

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Speaker 3: Because I figured he's gonna be on the field all

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Speaker 3: the time because they'renna play Yeah, twelve, But didn't expect

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Speaker 2: Time to worry about Andrews. I mean a little. I

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Speaker 2: didn't study the All twenty two, but I assume they

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Speaker 2: game planned around Andrews. Yeah, and likely thrived. But I

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Speaker 2: think he's Is he in your top twelve this week?

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Speaker 2: I don't know. I will go through the he might

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, that might have just been game script.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, but he's a talented player. Yeah yeah.

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Speaker 3: H Cooper Cup fourteen for one t and I think

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Speaker 3: he had twenty one targets.

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Speaker 2: I heard today he had like a forty six percent

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Speaker 2: target share. Yeah, especially when the coup went out and

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Speaker 2: he could miss some time too.

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Speaker 3: It looks like the coup is going to miss some time,

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Speaker 3: so Cooper Cup is definitely usable.

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Speaker 2: His stocks going up.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Jaylen Waddle five for one oh nine, good, Rashid

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Speaker 2: Featured him a lot, yeah, a lot of quick hitters.

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Speaker 2: He's not going to break long ones.

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Speaker 3: Just missing was George Pickens at six for eighty five, okay,

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Speaker 3: and it should have been six for about ninety one.

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Speaker 2: He got robbed his six yards on the the pushoffs.

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Speaker 3: No, this was to catch before that, and they ruled

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Speaker 3: him down and it was obvious he wasn't down by contact.

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Speaker 2: Which is hilarious because the league we're in, I'm playing

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Speaker 2: against Chris Carter, who a lot of people know. I

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Speaker 2: beat him by like one tenth of a point. And

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Speaker 2: you mentioned if they if Picking gets those sixty yards,

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Speaker 2: I lose, you know, because he Chris says, oh, that's

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Speaker 2: fantasy football. Davonte Smith had seven for eighty four. Interesting

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Speaker 2: about Smith, many of his reps are other slot Now. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: thoughts in there and those guys, which is rare for him.

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Speaker 2: That's good.

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Speaker 3: Chris Godwin eight for eighty three in a touchdown look

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Speaker 2: Like there was a lot of third downs they were

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Speaker 3: Tyler Johnson had five for seventy nine, and but remember

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Speaker 3: If Nikoua is out up And we just have some

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Speaker 3: We finished with ninety nine points seven six points. We

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Speaker 2: One that kills you. Most consistent guy out there.

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Speaker 3: Eighty two hundred dollars we spent on him. He had

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Speaker 3: And then the Titans defense, uh played well. They got

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Speaker 2: They had a good defensive day. They give up ninety

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean like Swift had nothing on the ground.

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Speaker 2: that's kind of Tennessee's d was a good call. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: You know, for whatever reason, it just didn't work out

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Speaker 2: hot name. He had three catches for eighteen yards. Okay,

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Speaker 3: Zay Flowers he had six catches, but everything was sideways,

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Speaker 2: There. Your guy Johnny Smith that did not hit one

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Speaker 2: They scored twice. Yeah, Okay, I didn't pay a ton

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Speaker 2: There's some huge hits. Absolutely, I could win on my

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Speaker 3: The lineup that I hit on, I had Daniels at

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Connor played like every snap.

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Speaker 2: Okay, Stuart is going to be attractive this week coming up,

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but that's going to do it for the fantasy

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Speaker 3: football focus for today. Tomorrow, we'll take a look at

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Speaker 2: Could be some injury news on the KUA and some

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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 we are back.

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Speaker 3: I am Dale LOLLI he is the Matt Williamson and

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Speaker 3: Matt I'm just looking here at the Steelers snap pounce.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, from yesterday.

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Speaker 3: I wanted to go over there, just because the newness

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Speaker 3: of the season here. Yeah, we don't typically necessarily do this.

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Speaker 2: But I thought there were some noticeable things looking at him.

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Speaker 3: So the Steelers played sixty eight offensive snaps. The quarterback

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Speaker 3: and offensive line obviously played all sixty eight years After that,

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Speaker 3: it was tight end Pat Fryarmouth as the next highest

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Speaker 3: snap player. He had fifty snaps on the field. That's

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Speaker 3: more than the two starting wide receivers Van Jefferson and

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Speaker 3: George Pickens, as Jefferson had forty nine, Pickins had forty six.

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Speaker 2: So that being said, he wasn't out there much in twelve.

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Speaker 2: They played so much thirteen and eleven. He is out there,

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Speaker 2: worried maybe they don't like friar Mouth because he's not

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Speaker 2: I mean they got plenty of playing time. That was

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Speaker 2: seventy three point five percent of the snap. Yeah, and

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Speaker 2: of usage. Yeah, and caught four passes.

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Speaker 3: It wasn't big yardage, but I think, no, that changes

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Speaker 3: mentioned Van Jefferson forty nine yeah, snap, the routes ran

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Speaker 3: pregame show was Van Jefferson over twenty one and a

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Speaker 3: play it again.

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Speaker 2: No, I think he'll be part of the team, you know,

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Speaker 2: part of the passing game. Yeah. They just still wouldn't

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Speaker 3: I mean that's three catches for a guy who's on

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Speaker 2: Constant or two. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, So.

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Speaker 3: I'm not real concerned about that. Pickens had forty six,

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Speaker 3: Michael prud had forty snaps.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Again, a lot of he's out there in twelve

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Speaker 2: He knew that the opponents. Well, I think that's you know,

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Speaker 2: They're gonna use all four of those tight ends. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Then it was Najie Harris with thirty eight, Darnell Washington

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Speaker 2: Calvin be even higher.

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Speaker 3: But yeah, Calvin Austin had twenty eight. Jalen Warren got

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Speaker 2: So Miller I think was out there for every snap

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Speaker 3: I mean he's a smart receiver, yes, yeah, yeah, you.

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Speaker 2: Know, and then he also can he also will block

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Speaker 3: I just think that was because of the situation with

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Speaker 2: Ye know. Yeah, but he was the third down back. Yeah, Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Defensively, they played fifty six snaps. Three guys were out

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Speaker 2: And they all will that's the way it's going to stay.

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Speaker 2: Joey Porter Junior fifty four snaps, which probably means he

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Speaker 2: I mean, Like they took him out. Yeah. TJ.

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Speaker 3: Watt played fifty snaps. Alex high Smith forty nine. I

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Speaker 2: That's the thing. They were fresh the whole time. Like,

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Speaker 2: I think it's on them to take themselves out. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: not gonna pull Wad out. He's a pull himself out. Yeah. Right.

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Speaker 3: So there weren't I mean, two sustained drives that the

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Speaker 2: Right, and their freshest could be and usually that'll probably

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Speaker 2: be their highest percentage of snaps all year. Well maybe

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Speaker 3: Deshaun Elliott was out there for forty seven snaps. That

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Speaker 2: The things not to cut you off or jump ahead,

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Speaker 3: Ogan Jovi played thirty four snaps, thirty three snaps of

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Speaker 3: Beanie Bishop Kiani Benton had twenty seven. Then it was

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Speaker 3: Wilson and Roberts with twenty four and twenty three, Montrevius

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Speaker 3: Adams with twenty. Nick Herbig was seventeen. CAZy played thirteen snaps,

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Speaker 3: louder Milk ten, Corey Trice seven to Marvin Leo five

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Speaker 3: And the only reason Joey Porter missed those two snaps.

444
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Speaker 3: He gets a little nicked up.

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Speaker 2: I say, something happened, I can't remember.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, So that got Trice on the field, But when

447
00:20:23,800 --> 00:20:27,040
Speaker 3: they went to dime, Trice was out there.

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Speaker 2: Trice was out there in dime yeah okay, and Bishop

449
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Speaker 2: was not. Bishop was not okay with three safeties yeah yeah.

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Speaker 2: So Roberts is the early down inside linebacker and Wilson's

451
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Speaker 2: the nickel and dime guy. You know, it's pretty cut

452
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Speaker 2: and dry. I thought Leal would out snap louder Milk,

453
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Speaker 2: but that's small potatoes. I mean, we're talking about six

454
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Speaker 2: verse ten or something like that. But Adams and Lowry

455
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Speaker 2: was inactive. By the way that people didn't know Benton

456
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Speaker 2: and all those other guys. I think keeping Ogunjobi and

457
00:21:01,240 --> 00:21:02,960
Speaker 2: Cam fresh is really important. Yeah.

458
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Speaker 3: I noted early in the game that at one point

459
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Speaker 3: they went to their nickel package and they had Benton

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Speaker 3: out there.

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Speaker 2: I believe it was out he was out there with

462
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Speaker 2: Oguin Jobi. I think that's what happened.

463
00:21:18,520 --> 00:21:20,600
Speaker 3: More Boughton was out there for in Hayward spot.

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Speaker 2: I'm not saying he's gonna replace Cam, but I've been

465
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Speaker 2: projector thinking that there's he's gonna play a lot more

466
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Speaker 2: snaps on third down. Yeah, basically it is the bottom line.

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Speaker 2: He played very few, very few pass rush opportunities on

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Speaker 2: third down, but I think he's earned it that either

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Speaker 2: next Ogren, Joby or Cam. We're going to see him

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Speaker 2: in sub more.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, not just a nose, yeah, I mean he can

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Speaker 3: rush the pass. Oh yeah. So you know, looking at

473
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Speaker 3: that game as a whole, again, the defense dominated it.

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Speaker 3: The Steelers dominated at the time of possession. They dominate

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Speaker 3: again the numbers when they win the turnover battle.

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Speaker 2: No, it's bonkers. It's bonkers, it really is. Or even tie. Yeah,

477
00:22:03,400 --> 00:22:06,120
Speaker 2: I mean it's that big a deal. And I think

478
00:22:06,160 --> 00:22:09,240
Speaker 2: that they especially when they realized how strong the defense

479
00:22:09,320 --> 00:22:12,000
Speaker 2: was playing. We don't need you to do much justin

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00:22:12,200 --> 00:22:15,280
Speaker 2: you know, like you can run all you want. I don't.

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Speaker 2: I definitely don't think a lot of his rushes were designed.

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Speaker 2: Only six of them were. Okay, that adds up because

483
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Speaker 2: I don't think you wanted him getting to hit a

484
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Speaker 2: ton with Wilson out there. If Wilson was a starter

485
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Speaker 2: and Fields was out there, you could put him in

486
00:22:27,480 --> 00:22:30,040
Speaker 2: harm's way a lot more going forward, and I think

487
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Speaker 2: it'd be even more effective runner that way. But I

488
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Speaker 2: think a lot of it was roll right if that

489
00:22:36,240 --> 00:22:38,320
Speaker 2: if you're you know, your your feet are already moving.

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Speaker 2: We don't need you throwing against those safeties or in

491
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Speaker 2: high traffic areas. Nice layup throws.

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Speaker 3: Make them the sideline, or just you know, just keep

493
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Speaker 3: your feet moving past on running the tight end out

494
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Speaker 3: there into the flat and then make a decision. Yeah,

495
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Speaker 3: if that come to you, then you you know, you

496
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Speaker 3: throw to the tight end. If they don't take the

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Speaker 3: five yards.

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Speaker 2: And a couple of deep shots here and there and

499
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Speaker 2: run the ball. That's what you needed to win.

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Speaker 3: I did think the one play he made a great

501
00:23:05,320 --> 00:23:09,760
Speaker 3: throw at the end of the first half, they rolled

502
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Speaker 3: the pocket to the left. He came back across the

503
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Speaker 3: field and there were two there were two defenders over

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Speaker 3: there with pickens, but he kind of split.

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Speaker 2: The middle of them. One one was deep on him,

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Speaker 2: the other one was underneath.

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Speaker 3: And I don't think they expected fields to try that pass, right,

508
00:23:23,680 --> 00:23:25,879
Speaker 3: and he just laid it in the pickens, you know,

509
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Speaker 3: out there by himself.

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Speaker 2: Well designed play, well designed play, and I think it

511
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Speaker 2: was designed to go there. Yeah, yeah, so too.

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Speaker 3: And in that situation, that was a big three points,

513
00:23:36,440 --> 00:23:39,480
Speaker 3: big three points and showed some arm strength and nobility

514
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Speaker 3: and all that stuff too. If I remember to that point,

515
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Speaker 3: he had like thirty nine passing yards at that point

516
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Speaker 3: the first half, and then he hit that forty yarder

517
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Speaker 3: and it.

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Speaker 2: Was like, okay, now they I thought he was a

519
00:23:51,359 --> 00:23:53,440
Speaker 2: little tight, and you know, to start the game too.

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Speaker 2: You know, I meant a lot of opportunity here, and

521
00:23:56,960 --> 00:23:59,639
Speaker 2: he wasn't real smooth with everything to get started. But

522
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Speaker 2: then he's settled in well, and I think the coaching

523
00:24:02,320 --> 00:24:04,919
Speaker 2: staff helped him quite a bit too, and he played fine.

524
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Speaker 2: And even some of the.

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Speaker 3: Plays that got eraced for the Steelers I thought were impactful.

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Speaker 3: You mentioned the Pickens no offensive pass interference play. It

527
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Speaker 3: still happened, and it still showed the Falcons that like,

528
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Speaker 3: well they will still go deep on us.

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Speaker 2: And saying, yeah, yeah, we still need to honor the

530
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Speaker 2: deep ball field is a good d pass or two. Yeah, Yeah.

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Speaker 2: The same thing with they're going to throw the ball deep. Yeah,

532
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Speaker 2: I mean that's a Smith thing.

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Speaker 3: The same thing with the Watt strip sack at the

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Speaker 3: end of the first half. That was the harbinger of

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Speaker 3: things to come. It got a race because they said

536
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Speaker 3: he was off side, which.

537
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Speaker 2: Was debatable, by the way, But yeah, from that point on,

538
00:24:44,600 --> 00:24:47,560
Speaker 2: he dominated the game, dominated the game and really was

539
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Speaker 2: feeling himself and he played a tremendous game. Yeah, and yeah,

540
00:24:52,440 --> 00:24:57,360
Speaker 2: that right tackle McGary Gary. Yeah, he's fine, but I mean,

541
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Speaker 2: like I was just talking to Wolf and he's like

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Speaker 2: I was watching him before and he keeps his hands

543
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Speaker 2: real low, and it's like, that's a bad omen against

544
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Speaker 2: wat And there aren't many that can even go toe

545
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Speaker 2: to toe with them without help to begin with, you know,

546
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Speaker 2: and Denver isn't one of them. You know. Mcglinchy's okay,

547
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Speaker 2: but he's more of a run blocker too. He's kind

548
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Speaker 2: of a McGarry type right tackle. And then Bowles I

549
00:25:20,040 --> 00:25:21,520
Speaker 2: think got hurt. I know you got hurt. I don't

550
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Speaker 2: know what his status is, but something to keep an

551
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Speaker 2: eye on this seating With that, they're just both a

552
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Speaker 2: couple of guys. Yeah, and that's more of a run

553
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Speaker 2: blocking line too, without the talented skill positions that Atlanta has.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we'll get a little more into. Yeah, take an

555
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Speaker 3: early look at see what happened in their game. It

556
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Speaker 3: was great they lost to Seattle, so we'll do that

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Speaker 3: in return. He is Matt Williamson. I am Dale, LOLLI.

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Speaker 3: You're listening to the drive here on the Steelers Audio Network.

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Speaker 3: We'll be back 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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Speaker 1: your twenty four to seven Home of the Black and

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Speaker 1: Gold Steelers Nation Radio.

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Speaker 2: And we are back.

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Speaker 3: I am Dale Lully, he is Nan, Matt Williamson and

565
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Speaker 3: Matt looking here at the Broncos game against the Seattle Seahawks.

566
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Speaker 3: They lose the game twenty six twenty but even that

567
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Speaker 3: was a little misleading, misleading because Denver had two safeties

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Speaker 3: in that game.

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Speaker 2: It's hard to lose a game and you get two safeties.

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Speaker 2: Somehow they did. They sure did. They're bad. I mean

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Speaker 2: they really are, and I watched a lot of it.

572
00:26:35,080 --> 00:26:37,879
Speaker 2: I thought Seattle didn't play very well, but then they

573
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Speaker 2: started to kind of get their feel and started to

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Speaker 2: really play. They're just better team, you know. I Mean,

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Speaker 2: it was new coaching staff in Seattle and they weren't great.

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Speaker 2: But the Denver's lack of talent just shows up. I mean,

577
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Speaker 2: bo Nicks, like all the rookies, struggled in week one

578
00:26:54,000 --> 00:26:57,000
Speaker 2: and I'm sure he'll be better, but anytime he went

579
00:26:57,040 --> 00:27:02,120
Speaker 2: deep or anything that was not a layo throw was horrible.

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00:27:02,640 --> 00:27:04,439
Speaker 2: They didn't get much in the running game. It was

581
00:27:04,480 --> 00:27:09,560
Speaker 2: more McLaughlin than Williams. Actually, certain's great, but the rest

582
00:27:09,600 --> 00:27:12,480
Speaker 2: of the defense is just lacking talent. Really. The pass

583
00:27:12,520 --> 00:27:16,200
Speaker 2: rush is okay, but it's not a real daunting team.

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Speaker 2: I Mean, the thing that worries me most about the

585
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Speaker 2: Denver game is it's in Denver early in the year. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Nick's twenty six or forty two in that game for

587
00:27:23,480 --> 00:27:25,960
Speaker 3: one hundred and thirty eight yards. That's three point three

588
00:27:26,040 --> 00:27:29,640
Speaker 3: yards per pass attempt. Yeah, that's not gonna beat anybody.

589
00:27:29,760 --> 00:27:33,879
Speaker 2: It's not gonna beat anybody. And he did make It's crazy.

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00:27:33,920 --> 00:27:36,600
Speaker 2: I mean, times have changed so quickly at the court,

591
00:27:36,640 --> 00:27:40,040
Speaker 2: you first round quarterbacks that all these guys are athletes,

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Speaker 2: you know, as he as good an athlete as Jaden

593
00:27:41,840 --> 00:27:44,720
Speaker 2: as Daniels. No, but he made a play with those

594
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Speaker 2: legs and he scored, and so you know, those guys

595
00:27:47,320 --> 00:27:50,080
Speaker 2: can hang around a little bit while they learn. But

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00:27:50,160 --> 00:27:53,080
Speaker 2: he's a long way away. And I was trying to

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00:27:53,080 --> 00:27:55,840
Speaker 2: find it here because he had some crazy numbers about

598
00:27:56,240 --> 00:27:59,800
Speaker 2: he threw twelve passes that were ten or more yards

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Speaker 2: down field. Ten I mean, that's not much. He only

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00:28:02,800 --> 00:28:06,920
Speaker 2: completed two of them for forty two yards and two interceptions. Yeah,

601
00:28:07,400 --> 00:28:09,200
Speaker 2: just on the yards. Yeah, ten yards of past a

602
00:28:09,240 --> 00:28:13,199
Speaker 2: line scramming. Yeah, the Steelers defense could feast again this week. Yeah,

603
00:28:13,480 --> 00:28:17,520
Speaker 2: his average air yard completion was only two and a

604
00:28:17,560 --> 00:28:20,360
Speaker 2: half yards down field. Oh, I mean, like that's rough.

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00:28:20,480 --> 00:28:21,640
Speaker 2: That's hard way to live man.

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Speaker 3: Well, and that's why you look at they averaged per catch. Yeah,

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00:28:25,200 --> 00:28:28,680
Speaker 3: this is per reception five point three yards of catch. Yeah,

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00:28:28,720 --> 00:28:31,359
Speaker 3: so he must have that is ridiculously low. So it

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00:28:31,400 --> 00:28:36,159
Speaker 3: sounds like their average completion left his hands went two

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00:28:36,240 --> 00:28:38,920
Speaker 3: and a half yards downfield, and then they got another

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Speaker 3: two and a half on top of it after the catch.

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Speaker 2: That was their average completion for the day. Yeah, you're

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Speaker 2: not going to beat this defense. No, you might not

614
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Speaker 2: score a point due that. Yeah, right, that's that's brutal.

615
00:28:50,480 --> 00:28:53,800
Speaker 2: But I'm sure certain will get pickings and that's a

616
00:28:53,800 --> 00:28:56,320
Speaker 2: brutal assignment. But I bet that defense on the field

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00:28:56,320 --> 00:28:57,760
Speaker 2: a lot too. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Josh Reynolds had five catches for forty five yards. He

619
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Speaker 3: had the twenty five yarder, so his other four catches

620
00:29:03,640 --> 00:29:04,959
Speaker 3: went for twenty yards.

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Speaker 2: Okay, so that's five yards of catch. Did he get

622
00:29:07,840 --> 00:29:10,800
Speaker 2: hurt in the game that? I don't know who was

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Speaker 2: the other because there was a receiver i'd never heard

624
00:29:13,160 --> 00:29:17,160
Speaker 2: of Von Vailey. Vailey, Yeah, that one of the receivers

625
00:29:17,200 --> 00:29:20,640
Speaker 2: got hurt and then his production spiked after that.

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Speaker 3: He had he led them with eight catches for thirty

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Speaker 3: nine yards.

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00:29:24,680 --> 00:29:27,720
Speaker 2: No for nothing, thirty nine yards. They're not using mims,

629
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Speaker 2: they're not using Franklin Doulschitz, the tight end had like twelve.

630
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Speaker 2: He ran as many routes as all the other tight

631
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Speaker 2: ends combined. And he's not scary. I mean, it's it's

632
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Speaker 2: an uphill climb for those guys if they can't run

633
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Speaker 2: the ball.

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Speaker 3: Vailey had a nine yard catch as as long you

635
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Speaker 3: take that out of the equation. He had seven catches

636
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Speaker 3: for thirty yards.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and I really hadn't heard of him before that.

638
00:29:53,080 --> 00:29:54,920
Speaker 3: Portland Sutton had four for thirty eight.

639
00:29:55,480 --> 00:29:57,320
Speaker 2: He's fine, you take that out of the equation.

640
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Speaker 3: He had a seventeen yarder, three for twenty one.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's all short. Protection was bad Seattle, I think

642
00:30:05,240 --> 00:30:07,800
Speaker 2: confused the young quarterback a lot. He was double hitting,

643
00:30:07,800 --> 00:30:10,280
Speaker 2: you know, double patting the ball a lot and just

644
00:30:10,360 --> 00:30:11,840
Speaker 2: taking you know, not getting it out quick.

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Speaker 3: Julian McLaughlin had five catches for one yard, Yeah, one

646
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Speaker 3: yard on five.

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00:30:17,000 --> 00:30:20,200
Speaker 2: He was a better runner. I mean Williams one yard run,

648
00:30:20,280 --> 00:30:22,840
Speaker 2: five catches. Come on, you could see this week.

649
00:30:24,320 --> 00:30:27,520
Speaker 3: Ten guys, ten Steeler defenders at the line of scrimmage

650
00:30:28,680 --> 00:30:31,760
Speaker 3: and make it Fitzpatrick just cleaning up fifteen yards back

651
00:30:31,800 --> 00:30:33,280
Speaker 3: and say, okay, just play goalie.

652
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, No, I think it could be some of that.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, because they're not gonna They're not going to try

654
00:30:37,680 --> 00:30:38,600
Speaker 3: anything down the field.

655
00:30:38,800 --> 00:30:41,080
Speaker 2: No, And I haven't thought about the Broncos a time.

656
00:30:41,080 --> 00:30:44,320
Speaker 2: I get Seattle's pass rush too, right, which is getting

657
00:30:44,360 --> 00:30:46,280
Speaker 2: a little better, and they're starting to get some dudes,

658
00:30:46,280 --> 00:30:50,040
Speaker 2: but like Pittsburgh's, I'm sure poor girl will be on Sutton. Yeah,

659
00:30:50,080 --> 00:30:52,160
Speaker 2: I mean, what's this passing game will be like without Sutton?

660
00:30:52,400 --> 00:30:53,760
Speaker 2: I mean, if if he can do what he did

661
00:30:53,760 --> 00:30:56,560
Speaker 2: to London, London's a lot better than Sutton.

662
00:30:56,960 --> 00:30:59,720
Speaker 3: Sutton had Courtland Sutton had twelve targets in this game.

663
00:30:59,760 --> 00:31:01,560
Speaker 3: He had four catches for thirty eight yards.

664
00:31:01,760 --> 00:31:05,240
Speaker 2: I think a lot of them are just uncatchable too. Yuck. Yeah,

665
00:31:05,320 --> 00:31:07,640
Speaker 2: it's it's rough, as we like to do her. Let's

666
00:31:07,640 --> 00:31:08,560
Speaker 2: go through their lineup.

667
00:31:08,960 --> 00:31:12,360
Speaker 3: Okay, a quarterback, it's Bonnick, Jared Stead in the backup,

668
00:31:12,440 --> 00:31:16,080
Speaker 3: Zach Wilson, the third stringer there. I don't care who

669
00:31:16,080 --> 00:31:19,520
Speaker 3: the Steelers start at quarterback this week. They have an advantage.

670
00:31:19,560 --> 00:31:20,960
Speaker 2: They do, they do, There's no question.

671
00:31:21,760 --> 00:31:25,640
Speaker 3: Running back, it's Javonte Williams, glim McLaughlan, Rodrick, esteam Ay,

672
00:31:26,600 --> 00:31:27,400
Speaker 3: Blake Watson.

673
00:31:27,760 --> 00:31:29,880
Speaker 2: I'm not sure a steam May won't take that backfield

674
00:31:29,920 --> 00:31:35,280
Speaker 2: over sooner than later. I'll take the Steelers backfield. Yeah, yeah, yeah,

675
00:31:35,320 --> 00:31:36,080
Speaker 2: I agree with that too.

676
00:31:37,120 --> 00:31:42,480
Speaker 3: Wide receiver, it's Sutton, Josh Reynolds, Marvin Mimmes, with Vailey,

677
00:31:42,640 --> 00:31:44,920
Speaker 3: Troy Franklin, little Jordan Humphrey.

678
00:31:45,120 --> 00:31:49,000
Speaker 2: Yeah, not a great group. I think Reynolds did get hurt,

679
00:31:49,280 --> 00:31:51,760
Speaker 2: especially he's not great. But the Steelers could use a

680
00:31:51,840 --> 00:31:56,000
Speaker 2: Josh Reynolds. He's a fine player. Yeah, it's about a wash.

681
00:31:56,240 --> 00:31:58,920
Speaker 2: I mean, Mems and Franklin are names, but they can't

682
00:31:58,920 --> 00:32:02,880
Speaker 2: even see the field. One of them was inactive. Yeah.

683
00:32:02,920 --> 00:32:05,880
Speaker 2: And I'll take Pickens over Sutton. Yeah yeah, yeah, he's

684
00:32:05,880 --> 00:32:06,720
Speaker 2: a much better player.

685
00:32:06,800 --> 00:32:11,760
Speaker 3: Yeah, tight ends, Adam Troutman, Greg Dolcich, Lucas Krawl Steelers.

686
00:32:11,920 --> 00:32:14,440
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's not great. I mean I think they've won

687
00:32:14,480 --> 00:32:17,920
Speaker 2: the worst rosters in the league. They have two fullbacks

688
00:32:17,960 --> 00:32:24,160
Speaker 2: on their roster, Nate Adkins and Michael Burton. Okay, fair enough,

689
00:32:24,520 --> 00:32:25,520
Speaker 2: they get the fullback edge.

690
00:32:25,600 --> 00:32:29,600
Speaker 3: Then the offensive line is Garrett Bowles, Ben Powers, Luke Wattenberg,

691
00:32:29,840 --> 00:32:32,000
Speaker 3: Quinn Miners, Mike McGlinchey.

692
00:32:32,080 --> 00:32:36,280
Speaker 2: Miners is a star. The guards in general were decent.

693
00:32:37,000 --> 00:32:39,640
Speaker 2: Bowls is probably a little above average left tackle, but

694
00:32:40,320 --> 00:32:43,719
Speaker 2: far from great mcglinchey's. And then all of them are

695
00:32:43,760 --> 00:32:47,800
Speaker 2: all run blockers. First, the center's bad. Yeah, he's one

696
00:32:47,800 --> 00:32:51,880
Speaker 2: of the worst already centers in the league. It's uh,

697
00:32:52,440 --> 00:32:54,920
Speaker 2: you'd be a great schemer and offensive mind and all that.

698
00:32:55,200 --> 00:32:58,480
Speaker 3: Steelers have a huge advantage with that defensive front against

699
00:32:58,520 --> 00:33:01,120
Speaker 3: that line, especially if they're going to run.

700
00:33:01,000 --> 00:33:02,120
Speaker 2: This style of offense.

701
00:33:02,040 --> 00:33:06,360
Speaker 3: And this style of offense is the reason Russell Wilson is

702
00:33:06,400 --> 00:33:09,400
Speaker 3: no longer the quarterback. Oh yeah, yeah, I mean this

703
00:33:09,480 --> 00:33:11,960
Speaker 3: is that they're running the Drew Brees offense here, yeah

704
00:33:12,000 --> 00:33:16,239
Speaker 3: without without yeah yeah right, and and Ramcheck and all

705
00:33:16,280 --> 00:33:17,800
Speaker 3: the linemen they had there too.

706
00:33:19,040 --> 00:33:21,320
Speaker 2: When we get the defense, this blew me away. And

707
00:33:21,360 --> 00:33:23,360
Speaker 2: I was just looking at their depth start like you're

708
00:33:23,360 --> 00:33:25,920
Speaker 2: doing now. I'm like, they don't have any first round

709
00:33:25,960 --> 00:33:29,280
Speaker 2: picks on defense. Certain's the only one they have one

710
00:33:29,360 --> 00:33:33,240
Speaker 2: first round pick, like pick up the bust from a

711
00:33:33,320 --> 00:33:35,560
Speaker 2: year or two ago and see if you can make

712
00:33:35,600 --> 00:33:38,280
Speaker 2: them into a backup. Like there's no pedigree on defense.

713
00:33:38,440 --> 00:33:44,080
Speaker 3: Yeah, the defensive ends are Zach Allen and John Franklin Myers.

714
00:33:44,600 --> 00:33:48,080
Speaker 2: They're both bullies. Yeah, you know, they're not edgebender types,

715
00:33:48,120 --> 00:33:52,400
Speaker 2: they're bully types. The nose tack was DJ Jones, another

716
00:33:52,720 --> 00:33:55,080
Speaker 2: fine player that would be in the mix here, you know,

717
00:33:55,160 --> 00:33:57,800
Speaker 2: but you know he's not great. Wouldn't be starting, No,

718
00:33:57,800 --> 00:33:58,640
Speaker 2: it wouldn't be starting.

719
00:33:58,680 --> 00:34:02,400
Speaker 3: He's like an Adams the out the linebackers Baron Browning,

720
00:34:02,480 --> 00:34:05,840
Speaker 3: I like Browning a lot, Alex Singleton, Cody Barton on

721
00:34:05,880 --> 00:34:09,279
Speaker 3: the inside, Jonathan Cooper on the strong side.

722
00:34:09,160 --> 00:34:11,880
Speaker 2: And Browning's really an edge bender speed guy. You know,

723
00:34:11,960 --> 00:34:14,080
Speaker 2: he's a pass rusher. Those other dudes are more off

724
00:34:14,120 --> 00:34:16,240
Speaker 2: the ball, but they're not dynamic.

725
00:34:16,280 --> 00:34:18,439
Speaker 3: It's almost like they're playing they're playing a three four

726
00:34:19,000 --> 00:34:22,279
Speaker 3: defense without the edge rushers without.

727
00:34:22,400 --> 00:34:24,480
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the gooday of putting it, because like, Zach

728
00:34:24,520 --> 00:34:28,319
Speaker 2: Allen would be a nice three four defensive end type

729
00:34:28,360 --> 00:34:31,080
Speaker 2: guy here, and Franklin Myers is that type of guy.

730
00:34:31,160 --> 00:34:33,880
Speaker 2: But where it's not Von Miller and de Marcus Ware.

731
00:34:33,760 --> 00:34:37,279
Speaker 3: Anymore, Browning would be the Steelers three, you know, yeah, yeah,

732
00:34:37,400 --> 00:34:39,279
Speaker 3: And he's a nice player, but he's not as good

733
00:34:39,280 --> 00:34:42,000
Speaker 3: as Heighsmith, right, I mean, it'd be battling herbig like

734
00:34:42,040 --> 00:34:42,640
Speaker 3: he'd love to have.

735
00:34:42,600 --> 00:34:46,680
Speaker 2: Him Cooper would. And they're inside guys are off the

736
00:34:46,719 --> 00:34:49,640
Speaker 2: ball line Singleton and Bartner, Yeah, Yu and their mid

737
00:34:49,719 --> 00:34:53,200
Speaker 2: round picks a playlate mid round picks uh Certain at cornerback.

738
00:34:53,320 --> 00:34:55,600
Speaker 3: So with Roley Moss on the other side, Moss a

739
00:34:55,640 --> 00:34:57,960
Speaker 3: younger guy they drafted out of Ioway. They seem to

740
00:34:58,000 --> 00:35:01,600
Speaker 3: like him, Yeah, but still a young guy.

741
00:35:01,680 --> 00:35:02,239
Speaker 2: Yeah.

742
00:35:02,280 --> 00:35:07,520
Speaker 3: With Jakwan McMillan as the nickelback, I give the Steelers

743
00:35:07,560 --> 00:35:08,040
Speaker 3: the edge there.

744
00:35:08,080 --> 00:35:11,799
Speaker 2: Two. I mean, Certain's good, Ratain's awesome, But I mean

745
00:35:11,840 --> 00:35:14,440
Speaker 2: I'll take Jackson. Jackson carries a lot of weight In

746
00:35:14,440 --> 00:35:14,800
Speaker 2: that converse.

747
00:35:15,040 --> 00:35:16,920
Speaker 3: Porter and Jackson are the next two guys if you're

748
00:35:16,960 --> 00:35:22,160
Speaker 3: ranking for group, and I think Jackson the gap between

749
00:35:23,360 --> 00:35:25,920
Speaker 3: Moss and Jackson is maybe greater than that than it

750
00:35:26,000 --> 00:35:29,160
Speaker 3: is between Certain and Porter. Certain's good. I think Porter's

751
00:35:29,160 --> 00:35:30,080
Speaker 3: reaching starting to reach it.

752
00:35:30,120 --> 00:35:31,799
Speaker 2: Start to get in the neighborhood at least. No, I

753
00:35:31,800 --> 00:35:34,520
Speaker 2: agree with you. I mean, yeah, if you could take

754
00:35:34,520 --> 00:35:37,759
Speaker 2: any Bronco you want. Certain Yeah, without I'm not even

755
00:35:37,760 --> 00:35:40,480
Speaker 2: sure he number two would be on my list. The safeties,

756
00:35:40,880 --> 00:35:42,319
Speaker 2: I'm not sure they are off the top of my head.

757
00:35:42,800 --> 00:35:45,240
Speaker 3: P J Locke and Brandon Jones.

758
00:35:46,440 --> 00:35:47,040
Speaker 2: That's not good.

759
00:35:50,680 --> 00:35:55,399
Speaker 3: Brandon Jones was a player five years ago. Yeah, when

760
00:35:55,400 --> 00:35:57,719
Speaker 3: he was in Miami. Okay, that's the brand. I wasn't

761
00:35:57,719 --> 00:36:00,880
Speaker 3: sure Jones while I was sitting there thinking, I'm like,

762
00:36:01,000 --> 00:36:01,919
Speaker 3: is that the same one?

763
00:36:02,280 --> 00:36:05,879
Speaker 2: Uh No, ain't that's not even him.

764
00:36:05,960 --> 00:36:10,120
Speaker 3: Never mind, I'm completely wrong. That's not that Brandon Joe.

765
00:36:10,960 --> 00:36:13,520
Speaker 2: These guys are. I mean, this is a brutal roster.

766
00:36:13,600 --> 00:36:15,640
Speaker 3: They wouldn't even be on the steel As roster.

767
00:36:15,880 --> 00:36:19,080
Speaker 2: No unless they're great special teamers, and they really wouldn't.

768
00:36:19,160 --> 00:36:21,640
Speaker 2: I mean, so I just want to double check because

769
00:36:21,640 --> 00:36:24,319
Speaker 2: I want to The Russell Wilson trade hurt them. I mean,

770
00:36:24,360 --> 00:36:26,879
Speaker 2: they they didn't have a second round pick this year,

771
00:36:27,360 --> 00:36:29,839
Speaker 2: they didn't have a first in twenty twenty three, and

772
00:36:29,880 --> 00:36:33,000
Speaker 2: they didn't have a first in twenty twenty two. So

773
00:36:33,719 --> 00:36:36,680
Speaker 2: what's what's Nick Benito's story? Was he not in the

774
00:36:36,719 --> 00:36:38,680
Speaker 2: mix or is he on injured reserve or something?

775
00:36:39,200 --> 00:36:41,279
Speaker 3: He is backing up Baron Brown okay.

776
00:36:41,360 --> 00:36:44,040
Speaker 2: He's a good edgresser too. So I assume Browning and

777
00:36:44,080 --> 00:36:48,640
Speaker 2: Benito will be the two edgebender guys. And they're fine,

778
00:36:48,680 --> 00:36:50,400
Speaker 2: but they're not high spand on want you know, I mean,

779
00:36:50,440 --> 00:36:51,120
Speaker 2: like they're okay.

780
00:36:51,239 --> 00:36:53,560
Speaker 3: Drew Sanders is another guy they drafted highly a couple

781
00:36:53,560 --> 00:36:55,000
Speaker 3: of years ago. He's out for this, you know, he's

782
00:36:55,000 --> 00:36:56,239
Speaker 3: on okay right now.

783
00:36:56,280 --> 00:36:59,640
Speaker 2: Yeah, they have not drafted very well. And Jonah Ellis

784
00:36:59,680 --> 00:37:01,680
Speaker 2: is another one of the edge guys. He's a rookie

785
00:37:01,680 --> 00:37:05,520
Speaker 2: this year that will play. But I'm looking at this draft,

786
00:37:05,680 --> 00:37:10,680
Speaker 2: the drafts lately, it's not very good. Yeah, they got issues. Yeah,

787
00:37:10,800 --> 00:37:13,760
Speaker 2: it's not a good roster. No, it's not. And I remember,

788
00:37:13,840 --> 00:37:17,640
Speaker 2: like before the draft, I forget what. I was a

789
00:37:17,640 --> 00:37:20,080
Speaker 2: guest on some show and they're like, who would you

790
00:37:20,120 --> 00:37:22,879
Speaker 2: want to least be in charge of I'm like, I'd

791
00:37:22,960 --> 00:37:25,280
Speaker 2: rather be the GM of thirty one teams than Denver

792
00:37:26,040 --> 00:37:28,799
Speaker 2: and bo Nick doesn't change that for me, no, you

793
00:37:28,840 --> 00:37:31,120
Speaker 2: know what I mean. He's a good fit there, but

794
00:37:31,239 --> 00:37:34,200
Speaker 2: I thought he was overdrafted. If he took him at thirty.

795
00:37:33,920 --> 00:37:37,239
Speaker 3: I would understand the second round guy. Yeah, yeah, I

796
00:37:37,360 --> 00:37:39,279
Speaker 3: traded him down to Denver in the in the in

797
00:37:39,320 --> 00:37:41,880
Speaker 3: our pre draft stuff because he did fit this offense,

798
00:37:41,920 --> 00:37:44,000
Speaker 3: and Peyton has all the control when he's gonna hand

799
00:37:44,000 --> 00:37:45,600
Speaker 3: pick his guy, and Knicks might be fine.

800
00:37:45,680 --> 00:37:47,920
Speaker 2: I mean, he may end up being not Drew Breeze.

801
00:37:47,920 --> 00:37:50,000
Speaker 2: We might end up being a good player. I just

802
00:37:50,000 --> 00:37:51,319
Speaker 2: thought you could have got them ten picks later.

803
00:37:51,320 --> 00:37:53,520
Speaker 3: But they got like five guys in their entire roster

804
00:37:53,640 --> 00:37:55,440
Speaker 3: that you look at and go, yeah, he could be

805
00:37:55,480 --> 00:37:56,200
Speaker 3: on this one.

806
00:37:56,120 --> 00:37:58,480
Speaker 2: Sure, Like yeah, I'll give you a fifth round pick

807
00:37:58,520 --> 00:38:00,480
Speaker 2: for Courtland Sutton and throw them off that, you know,

808
00:38:00,560 --> 00:38:02,080
Speaker 2: maybe a fourth to me, I mean, I'm not gonna

809
00:38:02,320 --> 00:38:04,680
Speaker 2: he's not going to be a game changer. Knights too.

810
00:38:05,080 --> 00:38:07,960
Speaker 3: They're paying McGlinchey a bunch of money, but I don't

811
00:38:08,000 --> 00:38:10,680
Speaker 3: want him over Roger Jones right now? No, or Fatan,

812
00:38:10,719 --> 00:38:12,720
Speaker 3: who don't you'd like to have Quinn Miners.

813
00:38:12,880 --> 00:38:14,919
Speaker 2: Miners is a star and Miners would be my next pick.

814
00:38:15,080 --> 00:38:16,640
Speaker 2: Not that the Steelers need them, but I mean, like

815
00:38:16,719 --> 00:38:19,040
Speaker 2: the two days, I see two building blocks. A quarterback

816
00:38:19,080 --> 00:38:20,360
Speaker 2: aside is certaining Miners.

817
00:38:20,640 --> 00:38:22,600
Speaker 3: So it's a cornerback and a guard and a guard.

818
00:38:22,800 --> 00:38:26,839
Speaker 2: Right, It's they're in a bad situation. It's not good.

819
00:38:26,960 --> 00:38:29,160
Speaker 2: I mean, even like Bulls is a free agent after

820
00:38:29,200 --> 00:38:32,640
Speaker 2: the year. You know, I have him anyway, right, he

821
00:38:32,680 --> 00:38:34,480
Speaker 2: was good the year he could hold yeah, you know.

822
00:38:34,920 --> 00:38:37,680
Speaker 3: And other than that, I mean, I think I would

823
00:38:37,680 --> 00:38:40,040
Speaker 3: be surprised if he does them multiple penalties in.

824
00:38:40,000 --> 00:38:43,960
Speaker 2: This game, probably if even plays. Yeah, yeah, so no,

825
00:38:44,200 --> 00:38:47,680
Speaker 2: it's not a stiff test on paper, but Peyton will

826
00:38:47,719 --> 00:38:48,400
Speaker 2: do some stuff.

827
00:38:48,440 --> 00:38:50,600
Speaker 3: And the road game is that the other factor that's

828
00:38:50,760 --> 00:38:52,480
Speaker 3: playing on the road there.

829
00:38:52,760 --> 00:38:57,320
Speaker 2: There's I'll pull it up. But their history is with

830
00:38:57,440 --> 00:38:57,839
Speaker 2: the other thing.

831
00:38:58,520 --> 00:39:00,839
Speaker 3: The other thing about this Matt and this just goes

832
00:39:00,880 --> 00:39:05,760
Speaker 3: to show you as much as people want to say

833
00:39:06,120 --> 00:39:10,239
Speaker 3: Russell Wilson was bad last year in Denver.

834
00:39:10,400 --> 00:39:11,480
Speaker 2: He's playing with a lot of these guys.

835
00:39:11,560 --> 00:39:13,840
Speaker 3: This roster is not markedly different than what it was

836
00:39:13,920 --> 00:39:14,359
Speaker 3: last year.

837
00:39:14,440 --> 00:39:17,200
Speaker 2: I think they won eight games. Yeah, I mean, that's

838
00:39:17,200 --> 00:39:20,200
Speaker 2: the way I'll kick their coverage in terms of win losses. Now.

839
00:39:20,239 --> 00:39:24,120
Speaker 2: I understand that it's different when Elway and Manning were there,

840
00:39:24,560 --> 00:39:29,240
Speaker 2: but all time, they're eighty three, thirty three and two

841
00:39:30,000 --> 00:39:33,040
Speaker 2: at home in September. That's the thing that scares me.

842
00:39:33,320 --> 00:39:36,560
Speaker 2: It's the light air, it's the lack of oxygen. Guys

843
00:39:36,560 --> 00:39:40,000
Speaker 2: that aren't in shape. Yet they hate playing there in September.

844
00:39:40,040 --> 00:39:42,560
Speaker 3: But I'm not concerned about that for this particular team though,

845
00:39:42,560 --> 00:39:44,040
Speaker 3: because the Steelers have great depth.

846
00:39:44,080 --> 00:39:46,920
Speaker 2: That's what I say. The defensive line depth is great.

847
00:39:47,440 --> 00:39:49,680
Speaker 2: If wat only plays sixty percent of a snap and

848
00:39:49,760 --> 00:39:53,279
Speaker 2: Herbi g has to play forty, Okay, I still think

849
00:39:53,280 --> 00:39:55,719
Speaker 2: you can easily win this game because you're still more

850
00:39:55,920 --> 00:39:57,759
Speaker 2: Your two's are going to be more talented than a

851
00:39:57,800 --> 00:40:00,359
Speaker 2: lot of the guys are even going against. Yeah, it's

852
00:40:00,360 --> 00:40:02,640
Speaker 2: a bad roster and the offense. I mean not o

853
00:40:02,800 --> 00:40:06,560
Speaker 2: line and quarterback, but Arthur Smith rotated dudes in like crazy.

854
00:40:06,920 --> 00:40:09,719
Speaker 2: Yeah that's that's kind of his calling. Come. Yeah, so

855
00:40:09,920 --> 00:40:12,960
Speaker 2: that doesn't worry me as much. Yeah, it's I'm also

856
00:40:13,080 --> 00:40:15,439
Speaker 2: not the one out there running wind sprints and without

857
00:40:15,480 --> 00:40:18,840
Speaker 2: getting oxygen. But people got players hate playing there early,

858
00:40:19,200 --> 00:40:19,839
Speaker 2: no no doubt.

859
00:40:19,960 --> 00:40:23,120
Speaker 3: Yeah, looking at this roster, Matt, it's bad, man, it

860
00:40:23,200 --> 00:40:24,520
Speaker 3: might be the worst one in the league.

861
00:40:24,920 --> 00:40:28,879
Speaker 2: I might rather rather have Washington's or the Patriots. They

862
00:40:28,960 --> 00:40:32,400
Speaker 2: at least have some Carolina Yeah, I mean, give me

863
00:40:32,480 --> 00:40:35,799
Speaker 2: Drake may or in, you know, some defensive dudes, and

864
00:40:36,320 --> 00:40:38,160
Speaker 2: at least Washington has a couple of things. I mean

865
00:40:38,160 --> 00:40:41,759
Speaker 2: those it's right there with those teams. Though it's bad, bad, Yeah,

866
00:40:41,880 --> 00:40:44,480
Speaker 2: Carolina is rough, but there it's this one's right there

867
00:40:44,520 --> 00:40:47,000
Speaker 2: with them. And this is what Peyton wanted. This, this

868
00:40:47,080 --> 00:40:50,720
Speaker 2: is what he I mean, he's building it. He inherited Wilson,

869
00:40:50,719 --> 00:40:56,399
Speaker 2: which didn't help things. But it's problematic and I think

870
00:40:56,400 --> 00:40:58,480
Speaker 2: they can be picking in the top five. It's the

871
00:40:58,520 --> 00:41:00,799
Speaker 2: game you gotta win. Yeah, is a game again, oh,

872
00:41:00,880 --> 00:41:01,799
Speaker 2: no doubt, no doubt.

873
00:41:01,880 --> 00:41:04,200
Speaker 3: And it's a road game. It's about to back row games,

874
00:41:04,200 --> 00:41:09,160
Speaker 3: which again is a challenge. It's a challenging situation. But yeah,

875
00:41:09,160 --> 00:41:10,120
Speaker 3: it's a game you should win.

876
00:41:10,200 --> 00:41:11,000
Speaker 2: It's a game you should win.

877
00:41:11,040 --> 00:41:13,000
Speaker 3: Steelers favored by two and a half points in this one.

878
00:41:13,239 --> 00:41:15,160
Speaker 3: Just looking at some stuff from around the league here.

879
00:41:15,680 --> 00:41:18,000
Speaker 3: As I mentioned earlier in the show, Lamar Jackson not

880
00:41:18,080 --> 00:41:22,000
Speaker 3: present during the open portion of Monday's practice for the Ravens.

881
00:41:22,080 --> 00:41:24,680
Speaker 3: No explanation on that. In fact, Harball was asked about it.

882
00:41:25,680 --> 00:41:28,040
Speaker 2: I remember him limping around in the game or anything

883
00:41:28,080 --> 00:41:28,359
Speaker 2: like that.

884
00:41:28,440 --> 00:41:31,920
Speaker 3: He said, he'll give you an injury updates on Wednesday

885
00:41:32,040 --> 00:41:34,239
Speaker 3: when he has so we'll see what that is.

886
00:41:34,640 --> 00:41:36,279
Speaker 2: They did a lot of crying after that game.

887
00:41:36,320 --> 00:41:42,040
Speaker 3: By the way, complaining about the calls you know that

888
00:41:42,160 --> 00:41:46,640
Speaker 3: happened on their offensive line, complaining about that not being

889
00:41:46,640 --> 00:41:47,359
Speaker 3: a touchdown at.

890
00:41:47,239 --> 00:41:49,040
Speaker 2: The end of the game, when it was obviously it

891
00:41:49,040 --> 00:41:51,080
Speaker 2: was not a touch pretty clear. That's why they have replay.

892
00:41:51,080 --> 00:41:52,120
Speaker 2: I mean he was out of bounds.

893
00:41:52,200 --> 00:41:57,239
Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, Yeah. Anyways, Josh Allen with the Bills cleared

894
00:41:57,280 --> 00:42:00,360
Speaker 3: to practice. Apparently he has a left hand injury problems.

895
00:42:00,360 --> 00:42:02,960
Speaker 2: They play Thursday, Yes, yeah, but I mean he finished

896
00:42:02,960 --> 00:42:06,200
Speaker 2: the game, but he has a wrist slash hand injury.

897
00:42:06,600 --> 00:42:09,040
Speaker 3: This is a bad one for them to Ron Johnson

898
00:42:09,120 --> 00:42:11,920
Speaker 3: with the forearm will not play in that game.

899
00:42:12,000 --> 00:42:12,880
Speaker 2: Broke his forearm.

900
00:42:13,000 --> 00:42:15,239
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's like the best slock corner league and they're

901
00:42:15,239 --> 00:42:19,280
Speaker 3: playing the Dolphins this week. Yeah, that's a noteworthy mentioned

902
00:42:19,280 --> 00:42:22,799
Speaker 3: in Carolina Panthers a moment ago. Their best player Derek Brown.

903
00:42:22,960 --> 00:42:25,319
Speaker 3: This is horrible, potential season ending injury for them. He's

904
00:42:25,320 --> 00:42:27,000
Speaker 3: the best player, like he said, Yeah, he's their only

905
00:42:27,040 --> 00:42:28,359
Speaker 3: good player on deep. We're one of the only good

906
00:42:28,360 --> 00:42:29,120
Speaker 3: players on defense.

907
00:42:29,440 --> 00:42:29,800
Speaker 2: Uh.

908
00:42:30,000 --> 00:42:33,839
Speaker 3: In Chicago, Roma Dunzie, their rookie top ten draft pick.

909
00:42:34,040 --> 00:42:37,200
Speaker 3: He is set to have an MRI today on his knee.

910
00:42:37,600 --> 00:42:38,359
Speaker 3: Not good news there.

911
00:42:38,400 --> 00:42:41,000
Speaker 2: That would be terrible news too, as it looks like

912
00:42:41,000 --> 00:42:45,200
Speaker 2: he is a really bright Freuzer for the Browns. David

913
00:42:45,239 --> 00:42:47,600
Speaker 2: and Jokhu considered week to week with the ankle injury.

914
00:42:47,880 --> 00:42:50,000
Speaker 2: I think it's an he's not gonna play for a

915
00:42:50,040 --> 00:42:50,600
Speaker 2: couple of weeks.

916
00:42:51,320 --> 00:42:54,279
Speaker 3: Linebacker Mohammad Diabate with the hip his week the week.

917
00:42:54,520 --> 00:42:57,960
Speaker 3: Defensive tackle Maurice Hurst his week the week with an

918
00:42:57,960 --> 00:42:58,600
Speaker 3: ankle injury.

919
00:42:58,640 --> 00:43:01,920
Speaker 2: No offensive tackle news though, No, Okay, I think Jones

920
00:43:02,040 --> 00:43:03,600
Speaker 2: definitely came out of that game. Yeah.

921
00:43:04,719 --> 00:43:07,840
Speaker 3: For Dallas, tight end Jake Ferguson has a sprained m

922
00:43:07,880 --> 00:43:09,320
Speaker 3: c L and a bone bruise.

923
00:43:10,000 --> 00:43:12,240
Speaker 2: The people thought it could be a season end of knee,

924
00:43:12,239 --> 00:43:15,560
Speaker 2: but it looked bad. The bone bruises are They can

925
00:43:15,640 --> 00:43:18,080
Speaker 2: linger too. Yeah, that's something that's a little more. They

926
00:43:18,120 --> 00:43:19,400
Speaker 2: don't have a wealth of weapons.

927
00:43:19,880 --> 00:43:22,680
Speaker 3: Here's the Garrett Boles news for Denver. He exited with

928
00:43:22,719 --> 00:43:25,400
Speaker 3: a dude on an ankle injury. He has a contusion

929
00:43:25,480 --> 00:43:27,359
Speaker 3: and both X rays and m r A came back.

930
00:43:27,520 --> 00:43:31,120
Speaker 3: MRI I came back negative. According to Sean Payton on Monday.

931
00:43:31,200 --> 00:43:35,160
Speaker 2: Okay, well, the least he's got a chance to play then. Yeah. Uh.

932
00:43:35,800 --> 00:43:36,760
Speaker 2: For Green bay.

933
00:43:38,320 --> 00:43:41,400
Speaker 3: Malik Willis will get to start in week two if

934
00:43:41,480 --> 00:43:42,840
Speaker 3: Jordan Love cannot play.

935
00:43:43,280 --> 00:43:46,040
Speaker 2: Jordan Loves not gonna play. I thought that was a

936
00:43:46,080 --> 00:43:48,360
Speaker 2: four conclusion. I thought they might sign Tannehill.

937
00:43:48,360 --> 00:43:50,600
Speaker 3: He said, if he's not cleared to play, there's still

938
00:43:50,640 --> 00:43:51,760
Speaker 3: a chance Love could play.

939
00:43:51,880 --> 00:43:54,600
Speaker 2: Okay, I thought that was Don's an mcl sprain, so

940
00:43:55,040 --> 00:43:57,360
Speaker 2: you know, they might just put a brace on it

941
00:43:57,400 --> 00:43:58,520
Speaker 2: and get shot or whatever.

942
00:43:58,960 --> 00:44:00,560
Speaker 3: You know, he didn't run it all all.

943
00:44:00,800 --> 00:44:03,040
Speaker 2: Now he didn't. I wasn't really impressed with how him

944
00:44:03,160 --> 00:44:06,040
Speaker 2: or Hurts played in that game, to be honest. Yeah,

945
00:44:06,040 --> 00:44:06,919
Speaker 2: for Indianapolis.

946
00:44:06,920 --> 00:44:10,280
Speaker 3: On the other side of that game, defensive tackle DeForrest Buckner,

947
00:44:10,320 --> 00:44:13,600
Speaker 3: according to Shane Steichen, is progressing well with a back

948
00:44:13,680 --> 00:44:16,600
Speaker 3: injury that's not good for him though that issue is

949
00:44:16,640 --> 00:44:19,799
Speaker 3: not good, very very important for them. Josh Downs his

950
00:44:19,880 --> 00:44:24,239
Speaker 3: status is yet to be determined. He may with the

951
00:44:24,239 --> 00:44:29,600
Speaker 3: ankle injury and place kicker Matt Gay also his status

952
00:44:29,640 --> 00:44:30,240
Speaker 3: will be determined.

953
00:44:30,280 --> 00:44:32,560
Speaker 2: He had hernia surgery, so he didn't play in Week

954
00:44:32,560 --> 00:44:32,919
Speaker 2: one either.

955
00:44:33,719 --> 00:44:36,600
Speaker 3: For Jacksonville, cornerback Tyson Campbell's gonna miss some time because

956
00:44:36,640 --> 00:44:37,640
Speaker 3: of a hamstring injury.

957
00:44:37,840 --> 00:44:40,000
Speaker 2: Far and away their best corner. Yeah, there's a huge

958
00:44:40,040 --> 00:44:42,400
Speaker 2: drop up after that, and they just gave him big money.

959
00:44:42,760 --> 00:44:46,440
Speaker 3: In Kansas City Wide receiver Marquis Brown, with the shoulder

960
00:44:46,440 --> 00:44:48,760
Speaker 3: injury heading in the right direction, could make his debut

961
00:44:48,800 --> 00:44:49,040
Speaker 3: this week.

962
00:44:49,120 --> 00:44:51,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, I heard that. That's rich get Richard, you know.

963
00:44:51,800 --> 00:44:56,200
Speaker 3: For the Raiders defensive entiree Wilson suffered a knee sprain

964
00:44:56,400 --> 00:44:59,919
Speaker 3: against the Chargers. Not considered long term, but we'll see

965
00:45:00,080 --> 00:45:00,960
Speaker 3: what happens with.

966
00:45:01,000 --> 00:45:03,520
Speaker 2: The Okay, he has not been impressive yet in the league.

967
00:45:03,640 --> 00:45:08,160
Speaker 3: No, and cornerback Josh Jones or Jack Jones not expected

968
00:45:08,200 --> 00:45:10,920
Speaker 3: to be suspended by the league for his involvement with

969
00:45:11,000 --> 00:45:13,719
Speaker 3: a scuffle with wide receiver Josh Palmer near the end

970
00:45:13,719 --> 00:45:14,240
Speaker 3: of the loss.

971
00:45:14,719 --> 00:45:15,640
Speaker 2: That was a pretty big fight.

972
00:45:15,840 --> 00:45:18,480
Speaker 3: Yeah, he still could be fine. Both were rejected from that.

973
00:45:19,160 --> 00:45:22,200
Speaker 2: Now, that got kind of ugly at the end. Two

974
00:45:22,239 --> 00:45:25,480
Speaker 2: new coaches trying to be tough guys and instill that you, yeah,

975
00:45:25,520 --> 00:45:28,360
Speaker 2: build a program fighting kneecaps. Yeah, a lot of that.

976
00:45:28,840 --> 00:45:31,279
Speaker 3: For the Rams, Putka Nakua placed on injury reserve. He's

977
00:45:31,280 --> 00:45:33,439
Speaker 3: out a minimum of four weeks. That's a minimum. People

978
00:45:33,520 --> 00:45:35,840
Speaker 3: always say he's out for four weeks. It's the minimum.

979
00:45:35,840 --> 00:45:38,000
Speaker 2: I mean they know he's going to be out four weeks. Yeah,

980
00:45:38,040 --> 00:45:38,840
Speaker 2: that's why they put him on.

981
00:45:39,120 --> 00:45:44,359
Speaker 3: Uh, Steve as an mcl sprain. He's gonna have an MRI,

982
00:45:44,560 --> 00:45:46,720
Speaker 3: but we'll see how long that is. Typically that mcl

983
00:45:46,760 --> 00:45:47,960
Speaker 3: sprain is two to four weeks.

984
00:45:48,040 --> 00:45:50,239
Speaker 2: Okay. And again he was a center that they turned

985
00:45:50,280 --> 00:45:52,600
Speaker 2: into a guard a week ago and then he got hurt.

986
00:45:53,120 --> 00:45:56,600
Speaker 3: In Miami, Devin a Chan dealing with an ankle injury.

987
00:45:56,640 --> 00:45:59,359
Speaker 2: He did not practice today. They play Thursday, Yeah, they

988
00:45:59,360 --> 00:46:01,800
Speaker 2: play Thursday t I think he went back in. I

989
00:46:01,840 --> 00:46:03,759
Speaker 2: think he finished the game, but he was out for

990
00:46:03,760 --> 00:46:04,120
Speaker 2: a little bit.

991
00:46:04,360 --> 00:46:06,520
Speaker 3: Sometimes those ankle injuries, you can go out and finish

992
00:46:06,560 --> 00:46:06,759
Speaker 3: with it.

993
00:46:06,880 --> 00:46:09,400
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you take the shoe off and it blows up.

994
00:46:10,080 --> 00:46:12,600
Speaker 3: Raheem Moster with a chest did not practice.

995
00:46:12,719 --> 00:46:14,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think the rookie played quite a bit at

996
00:46:14,600 --> 00:46:14,880
Speaker 2: the end.

997
00:46:15,160 --> 00:46:19,800
Speaker 3: Tracy, Yeah, Malik Washington with a quadricep did not practice.

998
00:46:20,120 --> 00:46:23,719
Speaker 3: Jalen Phillips with an achilles was limited. Jayleen Ramsey with

999
00:46:23,760 --> 00:46:25,440
Speaker 3: the hamstring limited.

1000
00:46:25,520 --> 00:46:29,320
Speaker 2: After signing a monster deal. Yeah. Uh, a lot of

1001
00:46:29,360 --> 00:46:30,319
Speaker 2: injuries for a Thursday Night cam.

1002
00:46:30,400 --> 00:46:34,520
Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, guys in Minnesota. Jordan Adison dealing with a significant,

1003
00:46:34,640 --> 00:46:38,360
Speaker 3: significant soreness in the ankle injury he suffered.

1004
00:46:39,080 --> 00:46:42,040
Speaker 2: We'll see what his status is moving bat that could

1005
00:46:42,080 --> 00:46:43,839
Speaker 2: be worse than that for.

1006
00:46:43,880 --> 00:46:47,120
Speaker 3: New Orleans Marshaun Lattimore dealing with a minor hamstring injury.

1007
00:46:47,200 --> 00:46:50,120
Speaker 3: They play the Dallas this week. See how that goes.

1008
00:46:51,280 --> 00:46:55,960
Speaker 3: For the Giants, Gneralshwsky dealing with a groin injury. Could

1009
00:46:55,960 --> 00:46:59,239
Speaker 3: be out several weeks for that and warms up warm ups.

1010
00:47:00,080 --> 00:47:05,920
Speaker 3: Darius Slayton is in concussion protocol. Linebacker Carter Coughlin he

1011
00:47:06,000 --> 00:47:09,120
Speaker 3: has a pictorial injury. He'll be out several months. And

1012
00:47:09,480 --> 00:47:13,040
Speaker 3: cornerback Nick McLeod day to day with the knee injury.

1013
00:47:13,920 --> 00:47:16,160
Speaker 2: So and they were pretty bad.

1014
00:47:16,760 --> 00:47:20,280
Speaker 3: Yep, So just like okay, Cornerback Bryce Hall in Tampa

1015
00:47:20,320 --> 00:47:23,400
Speaker 3: Bay just located ankle and fractured fibula.

1016
00:47:24,360 --> 00:47:26,120
Speaker 2: Out for the season. He's a starter for them, right,

1017
00:47:26,760 --> 00:47:30,000
Speaker 2: he might be their nickel Okay, But yeah, yeah, not Bresaw.

1018
00:47:30,040 --> 00:47:31,160
Speaker 2: It's Bryce Saw, Bryce Hall.

1019
00:47:31,880 --> 00:47:35,800
Speaker 3: And safety Antoine Winfield likely out a couple of weeks.

1020
00:47:35,640 --> 00:47:39,160
Speaker 2: With Yeah, that's the one that worries you. Yeah, yeah. Uh.

1021
00:47:39,239 --> 00:47:42,799
Speaker 3: In Tennessee, Dylan Ratouns has Bruce rib expected to be

1022
00:47:42,800 --> 00:47:44,759
Speaker 3: limited in practice this week. We'll see if he's able

1023
00:47:44,800 --> 00:47:47,680
Speaker 3: to get out there. And the Washington commander is changing

1024
00:47:47,760 --> 00:47:52,759
Speaker 3: kickers going from from Cade York to Austin Cyber So.

1025
00:47:52,920 --> 00:47:55,080
Speaker 2: There's one of those teams with the revolving door kicker

1026
00:47:55,120 --> 00:47:55,799
Speaker 2: probably all year.

1027
00:47:55,880 --> 00:47:57,640
Speaker 3: Yeah, and it looks like the Browns are going to

1028
00:47:57,680 --> 00:48:01,680
Speaker 3: sign York back. They've already cut there. No, they cut

1029
00:48:01,680 --> 00:48:06,640
Speaker 3: their okay, so they traded York too. Yeah, okay, they

1030
00:48:06,719 --> 00:48:08,800
Speaker 3: must not be happy. Well, that's not a long audition

1031
00:48:08,880 --> 00:48:11,480
Speaker 3: to be absolutely whoever they kept. Yeah, he's the reason

1032
00:48:11,480 --> 00:48:14,440
Speaker 3: they lost on Sunday, the same thing in Washington. The

1033
00:48:14,520 --> 00:48:15,359
Speaker 3: kickers the reason they.

1034
00:48:15,360 --> 00:48:21,880
Speaker 2: Yet, Uncle Rico, Matt. It's going to do it for

1035
00:48:21,920 --> 00:48:23,680
Speaker 2: the show today. Yeah, we got a good one tonight too.

1036
00:48:23,920 --> 00:48:27,160
Speaker 3: Absolutely got a big game tonight Jets at San Francisco.

1037
00:48:27,280 --> 00:48:29,520
Speaker 3: So we'll keep an eye on that one. But that's

1038
00:48:29,560 --> 00:48:30,960
Speaker 3: going to do it for our show today. So for

1039
00:48:31,080 --> 00:48:33,959
Speaker 3: my partner Matt Williamson, for Justin Miller here on site

1040
00:48:34,040 --> 00:48:34,680
Speaker 3: keeping us.

1041
00:48:34,520 --> 00:48:36,080
Speaker 2: On the air, I'm Dale Lollie.

1042
00:48:36,160 --> 00:48:38,120
Speaker 3: We thank you for listening to this edition of the

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Speaker 3: Drive on the Steelers Audio Network.