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

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

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Drive. I'm Dale Lolly with Matt Williamson

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Speaker 1: and say Wednesday here in Pittsburgh Steelers getting back on

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Speaker 1: the practice field today. Unfortunately practice was closed today since

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Speaker 1: it was indoors, so I could not attend. Um all rule, folks,

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's just if they're indoors, I we're not

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Speaker 1: allowed to watch, which boggles by which we usually are.

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Speaker 1: It's a COVID but usually it doesn't matter where they are,

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Speaker 1: we're allowed to watch. But this year, because of the

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Speaker 1: COVID rules and they go inside, we're not allowing in

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Speaker 1: this massive to say, I'm not a or airplane hang,

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Speaker 1: but I spent a lot of time in that indoor

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Speaker 1: and it might as well be outdoors. It's just a giant,

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Speaker 1: you know, huge ceiling, lots of open air. It holds

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Speaker 1: a football field and more with space despair, some people

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Speaker 1: kicking punt in there. The ceiling is you know, very high,

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Speaker 1: and they have these huge garage doors that are open

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Speaker 1: and you know whatever. Um So today Dan Moore practicing

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Speaker 1: in full today, Uh So I would assume that if

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Speaker 1: that's the case and he plays at left tackle, um,

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Speaker 1: because he's been the starting left tackle. Is the starting

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Speaker 1: left tackle, folks, I mean, if you haven't gotten that

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Speaker 1: through everyone's head at this point, maybe early in the season,

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Speaker 1: he wasn't you know in Stone, But it's not We're

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Speaker 1: gonna bump jokes the left and put banner it right

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Speaker 1: then more to the left tackle. Yeah, Zack or has

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Speaker 1: not played this year more because of what Dan Moore

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Speaker 1: has done than anything else. Right, right, he's our left tackle.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna keep him there. And that's not just a

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Speaker 1: move for the future. He's our best bet now and

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Speaker 1: as Ruethlsberger said, probably going forward. And the core four

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Speaker 1: has been five off. Core four opened this season is

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Speaker 1: everybody's favorite. Oh he's terrible, He's awful. He's an average

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Speaker 1: starting in the NFL. And I consider bringing him back.

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Speaker 1: I mean, is that the best bookends you've ever seen? No,

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Speaker 1: But they're only going to get better, right there, both,

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Speaker 1: I mean, they're both the core for his two years

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Speaker 1: of starting experience under his belt. Damn Moore now has one.

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Speaker 1: Guys are going to continue to get better. O By

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Speaker 1: the way, um, as I saw something today, Um, somebody

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Speaker 1: said that are there any Steelers offensive lineman that would

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Speaker 1: start for any other team in the league? People need

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Speaker 1: to look at and watch more football. But I mean,

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Speaker 1: I'm not saying the Steelers are not a bottom ten line, right,

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Speaker 1: but all those guys would start somewhere except for maybe center, Yes,

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Speaker 1: I mean would start somewhere, and I must say the

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Speaker 1: thirty second worst center in the league. But maybe the

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Speaker 1: Texans center or Dolphins center wouldn't be benefited by adding

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Speaker 1: the Steeler guys at this point. But Trey Turners starting

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Speaker 1: on lines more more than that, you know, I think more,

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Speaker 1: and Shooks are starting on ten easily, and Dotson I

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Speaker 1: need to watch more football. If you think the Steeler's

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Speaker 1: offensive line was the worst in the league, Miami's is

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Speaker 1: really Miami's forrendous giants, really hard to watch. Texans really bad.

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Speaker 1: This one wasn't hard to watch. But again, I think

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Speaker 1: they're not solo. The only one that's bad out there

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Speaker 1: is people tend to I also thinking, you know, until

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Speaker 1: they were they were gaining traction from the Green Bay game.

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Speaker 1: Run until Dawson got hurt, and then once Dawson got hurt,

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Speaker 1: they were they were rotating that left guard. Spot was

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Speaker 1: a different guy every week. What's the thoughts on him?

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Speaker 1: I was thinking he would be back by now. Now

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Speaker 1: they have until tomorrow to activate him. I don't think

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Speaker 1: he's coming back. Um, you know, it's just it's a

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Speaker 1: high ankle sprain human being. Yeah, yeah, I mean I

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Speaker 1: get it. I just was hoping to get one more

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Speaker 1: playoffs and those kind of things. And he's a better

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Speaker 1: player than the Glue's not. I mean, yeah, the glue

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Speaker 1: has been fine. He's a fine. Um, he'll have a

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Speaker 1: tenure NFL career. Put enough tape out there. That's how

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Speaker 1: they're like backup quarterbacks too. Yeah. I mean there's which

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Speaker 1: goes to the point of there's a lot of bad

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Speaker 1: not there's anything wrong with that, because there's there's a

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Speaker 1: shortage of offensive lineman across the NFL. There seems to

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Speaker 1: be this narrative, uh that somehow the Steelers dropped the

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Speaker 1: forget that part. They were six million. They had six

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Speaker 1: million dollars in available cap space going into free agency

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Speaker 1: team at that point. Um, they didn't Yeah, they didn't

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Speaker 1: get money until the Castro was was released. Then they

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Speaker 1: Roethlisberger's contract just to have the money to be able

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Speaker 1: to make some minor moves in free agency to bring

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Speaker 1: after Those are the Castro moves. Those were those were

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Speaker 1: to be major players on the free agent market. They

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Speaker 1: were up against the cap as as badly as any

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Speaker 1: but the Eagles and Saints got hit the hardest by

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Speaker 1: sure who was fourth. I mean they were close. Three

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Speaker 1: they could have gone out and signed you know, offensive

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Speaker 1: lineman on the free agent market, it's it's completely and

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Speaker 1: utterly false. I'm sure you've heard this too, because they've

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Speaker 1: played the Chiefs twite, They're about to play him twice

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Speaker 1: in a month. Basically, Well, the Chiefs have an all

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Speaker 1: new offensive line. Why isn't the Steelers as good as theirs? Well,

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Speaker 1: to their credit, they found Tray Smith in the fifth round.

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Speaker 1: you know good. Okay, that's a nice pickup. Right tackle

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Speaker 1: has been a problem for them. They got a star

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Speaker 1: I get it. I mean, I guess that's a conversation.

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Speaker 1: But there's some Monday morning quarterback going on there, right,

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Speaker 1: Freed Humphrey was not considered the number one he's not

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Speaker 1: Thuney is the highest paid guard in the league. Like

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Speaker 1: that is not the Steelers were not gonna be able

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Speaker 1: And where would the Steelers be if they gave up

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Speaker 1: You know, I mean, And that's the that's their offensive

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Speaker 1: other thing about the Chiefs, I just was fiddling with

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Speaker 1: missed like no time, all those guys. There's five guys

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Speaker 1: whole was played like twelve hundred. It's Mahomes and those

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Speaker 1: They are on their fifth left guard. The right tackle

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Speaker 1: has been two guys, you know, swapping out at like

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Speaker 1: Trey smith is is Yeah, he's fine, six holding penalties

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Speaker 1: this year. He's not a superstar. He's a working progress. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: if he was, if he was with the Steelers right now,

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Speaker 1: would he be starting, yes? Would would Would people be

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Speaker 1: complaining about him? Yes? It wouldn't be like all of

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Speaker 1: other thing about him and I wish him no ill will,

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Speaker 1: but he failed a lot of medicals. So he made

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Speaker 1: two years and now United who keep talking about him?

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Speaker 1: And I'm not even sure what his ailments are, but

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Speaker 1: not belong for the league exactly exactly. Creed Humphrey had

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Speaker 1: four holding penalties this year. I'm not sure like people

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Speaker 1: I think he's I think he's a very solid prospect.

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Speaker 1: the league, no, I mean to me, I mean he's

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Speaker 1: not at like a Kelsey level. No, he's not Corey Linsley,

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Speaker 1: He's not. You know, there's there's some established veteran guys.

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Speaker 1: The point being Mahomes makes those guys look a lot

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Speaker 1: better than what they And who are they facing? What

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Speaker 1: kind of defensive style are they facing every week? Are

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Speaker 1: they ever ever seeing a load of box? Right? Never?

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Speaker 1: Never putting eight guys in a box against the Chiefs?

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Speaker 1: Nobody is They could be in in third inches and

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Speaker 1: you're not putting You're not putting eight guys in a box.

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Speaker 1: That brings me to something too, I dug up today.

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Speaker 1: Is the Chiefs ball carriers? You know, have the worst

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Speaker 1: you that stat last Nay, they have this year. Nagi

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Speaker 1: Harris has nine broken tackles this season. Okay, okay, we

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Speaker 1: looked at it different acts. The mine was rushing yards.

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Speaker 1: The Chiefs is a team, have twelve as it's their

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Speaker 1: whole team, including my homes and you know they've a run.

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Speaker 1: They have a quarterback that runs, and that's every ball

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Speaker 1: carrier has created the least amount of yardage after they've

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Speaker 1: been touched by a fingernail or getting drilled or whatever.

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Speaker 1: They know. I mean, so very very different. They're different styles.

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Speaker 1: It's different. You have to take that kind of stuff

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Speaker 1: into into account. How many how many loaded boxes do they? Never? Never? Never,

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Speaker 1: nobody's nobody's putting eight or nine in the box against

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Speaker 1: the Chiefs. Yeah, you're you're playing your plants, you know,

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Speaker 1: seven sometimes eight, you know in coverage, always a two

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Speaker 1: high showl against those third and one is probably a

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Speaker 1: two high shell against those guys. And Mahomes as we

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Speaker 1: talked with this guyesterday, Mahomes is, you know a dodd

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Speaker 1: is average at the target is down, but it's for

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Speaker 1: a much different reason than pends down. And I don't

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Speaker 1: think either one of of us are implying this, But

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Speaker 1: if you put Mahomes behind the Steelers two thousand twenty

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Speaker 1: one offensive line, you'd say it's an average offensive line.

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Speaker 1: it's an optimistic view for next year. They're not going

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Speaker 1: to have a Mahomes level quarterback next year. I'm not

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Speaker 1: saying that, but sacks and old line play are a

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Speaker 1: there was one highe one low and one you know,

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Speaker 1: has not been written. No, I hope not. They should

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Speaker 1: I think so. But that's the you know, the Steelers

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Speaker 1: situation um injury wise and otherwise, any other injury news

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Speaker 1: of note today. No, that was it. Okay. Wellt was

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Speaker 1: coming through the concussion protocol. Splaine was the one I

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Speaker 1: do you think the i LB, you know, snap count

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Speaker 1: usage gets divvied out. I think he's the one. Look,

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Speaker 1: Now that again, that was with with Shobert and Bush

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Speaker 1: a very unique in a different style of play. I

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Speaker 1: referenced great Costell all the time, and I've heard him

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Speaker 1: say thirty times over the last two years. Yeah, but

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Speaker 1: last week was the Ravens that you don't when when

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Speaker 1: you do all the analysis, throw that one out because

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Speaker 1: it's you know, they're they're teams that you prep you

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Speaker 1: prep differently against that question, you know, and you know,

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Speaker 1: if you're gonna get a go against a run heavy

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Speaker 1: him going back to Schoberton Bush this week. Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: think I think they would tell you we don't have

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Speaker 1: Bush runs well, but he doesn't read things well, and

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Speaker 1: he's you know, you know all their strengths and this

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Speaker 1: is none of them are where they want any of

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Speaker 1: them to be, to be honest with you, you having

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Speaker 1: they're searching and hoping one of them steps up, and

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Speaker 1: they haven't, or they would be a one. And probably

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Speaker 1: I mean Spillane is probably the most consistent. You know

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Speaker 1: what his limitations are. But he's not gonna highest or

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Speaker 1: lowest ceiling. Yeah, yeah, he is what he is. He's

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Speaker 1: probably a number three right for the rest of his career.

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Speaker 1: All the wrong with that, that's fine, you know, um,

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Speaker 1: but you need a one, you have a two. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it was going to take a break. He is Matt Williamson.

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Speaker 1: I'm Dale Lali. You're listening to the drive here on

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Speaker 1: Steelers Nation Radio. And we come back, we'll continue breaking

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Speaker 1: down the Steelers Chiefs and we'll start taking a look

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Speaker 1: at some of the other games that are gonna take

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Speaker 1: place this weekend as well. We will do that right

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