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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Drive. I'm Dale LOLLI here with Matt

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Speaker 1: Williamson and Matt The news coming out of the South

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Speaker 1: Side today, pretty intriguing stuff. Break it here for us.

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Speaker 1: Juju Smith Schuster designated to potentially return uh to uh play? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: right right. The Steelers have twenty one days now. Of

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Speaker 1: course that that season, you know, but they activated him,

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Speaker 1: allowed him to return to practice, and um, I gotta

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Speaker 1: tell you that I get a feeling he may play.

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Speaker 1: There's the chance. I mean, this isn't just some smoke.

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Speaker 1: This is this is not subterfuge or anything of that

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Speaker 1: that nature. He had a broken collar bone, right, No,

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Speaker 1: I think it's a separated shoulder, every shoulder, so I

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Speaker 1: mean the wheels should be fine and fresh and all that,

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Speaker 1: you know. I mean, if it's healed, maybe put an

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Speaker 1: extra pad on it or something. I mean, he's got

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Speaker 1: a lot to play for financially, you know. I mean,

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Speaker 1: and you know there certainly it would be a welcome

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Speaker 1: edition on the field. What do you think he brings

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Speaker 1: to the offense. Let's just hypothetically say he's starting to

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Speaker 1: snap one and he's the old juju. I mean, what

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Speaker 1: do your what's your take on that. I got a

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Speaker 1: couple of things that he brings some some toughness. Um,

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Speaker 1: he brings uh experience, which is one, you know, one

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Speaker 1: thing that a lot of these guys don't have. And

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Speaker 1: he you know, he brings that that knowledge that third down, uh,

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Speaker 1: you know it's third and five. He's gonna get your

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Speaker 1: five yards. I mean, certainly familiarity with Ben. I mean,

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Speaker 1: that's gonna pick up right where it was, you know.

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Speaker 1: I mean that he's a trusted option here in a

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Speaker 1: group of young receivers flat out. I mean I think Claypool, Smith, Schuster, Johnson, Friar, Muth, Harris,

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Speaker 1: it's pretty formable. Five. You know, they haven't had that.

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Speaker 1: I mean, if you look at it, how many those

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Speaker 1: five if you're not many? Um, you know, if you

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Speaker 1: look at their that the Steelers schedule, they had him

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Speaker 1: in Buffalo, Okay, yeah, they didn't have it the next

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry. They did have it the next week against

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Speaker 1: the Raiders and then Deonta John Deante Johnson got hurt

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Speaker 1: in Week three against the Bengals, or against the Raiders.

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Speaker 1: He got hurt at the end of the Raiders game.

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Speaker 1: No Johnson Johnson Johnson Johnson missed the game against the

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Speaker 1: Bengals the first time around. He came back against the Packers,

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Speaker 1: and then Juju got hurt in the first against the

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Speaker 1: BRONCOSK So they really their first five games. It's been

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Speaker 1: like two and a half games and no fold of

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Speaker 1: Friar moves. He was getting acclimated the league. He wasn't. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: he was who was right, right? Right? I mean he's

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Speaker 1: grown up since then, which is big. You know, Harris

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Speaker 1: got thrown right, and Harris has grown up since then. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean, but he was in in the mixce day one.

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Speaker 1: Is every snap type of guy. Um. Some other things

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Speaker 1: I think are really important. Another middle of the field presence,

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Speaker 1: you know, with some physicality to him. It's not that's

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Speaker 1: trying to candy coated a little, but less Ray Ray

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Speaker 1: the better for me in terms of offense. And you're

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Speaker 1: not losing the reliability. And I think a huge key

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Speaker 1: is ju Jus their best blocking receiver without a doubt,

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Speaker 1: without a doubt, I mean, if that's on a screen,

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Speaker 1: certainly in the run game, whatever, and you know he's

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Speaker 1: gonna bring a little more energy to the room too.

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Speaker 1: He might be their second best blocking eligible, Yeah, behind Gentry,

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Speaker 1: Behind Gentry. I mean that's like clude what I guess

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Speaker 1: if you're any reading the Chiefs right now, what are

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Speaker 1: you doing with that information? Like I would think you're

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Speaker 1: gonna Does this affect your preparation? Well, the Steelers are

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Speaker 1: as much as any team in the league really married

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Speaker 1: to eleven personnel, one back, one tight end. It's the

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Speaker 1: first two numbers of people don't know, and twelve personnel.

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Speaker 1: I mean, so very few snaps are anything outside of that.

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Speaker 1: little more certainly more options and ones that you haven't seen.

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Speaker 1: There aren't on tape recently. They aren't on tape. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I mean, if you're Indy Reid, now all of a sudden,

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Speaker 1: not you're looking at the last five games, including the

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Speaker 1: a look back. How are they using this guy? What

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Speaker 1: So you've just a lot of targets. You've had just

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Speaker 1: added probably three or four hours of prep yes for

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Speaker 1: their coordinator. Yeah, right, exactly. You're you're practicing something you're not.

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Speaker 1: You weren't, didn't plan on practicing this year, and now

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Speaker 1: it's you have this. This happened Thursday afternoon, that one

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Speaker 1: You haven't had a chance to look and see what

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Speaker 1: what Smith Schuster does for the office. So now tomorrow,

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Speaker 1: So no, I think it's a wrinkle that the offense

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Speaker 1: it's nothing against Kenneth Green any rookie with strong, brutal gig.

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Speaker 1: If you pick the left tackle one say you're the

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Speaker 1: That's why Ben things he's a guard, you know. I mean,

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Speaker 1: it makes sense, you know. And what mouth mouth move

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Speaker 1: Does that mean they're gonna win. Doesn't mean you're gonna win, right,

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Speaker 1: but you you're not losing thirty six to ten. And

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Speaker 1: we've mentioned this a couple of times this week too.

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Speaker 1: I mean, things that have to happen to me opinion.

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Speaker 1: In my opinion is you can't lose the turnover battle.

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Speaker 1: I frankly think you have to win it and maybe

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Speaker 1: even steal two possessions. You know, win the turnover battle.

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Speaker 1: By two or more, or depending how you want to

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Speaker 1: count it. Block a kick, you know, fake punt on

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Speaker 1: side kick, you know, steal to possessions somehow. Then I

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Speaker 1: like the chances, you know, if you're just plus one

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Speaker 1: in possessions, slash turnovers. Okay, but I don't think Evan's

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Speaker 1: gonna cut it, let alone losing it. If you're Mike Tomlin,

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Speaker 1: you win the coin toss for this game, you want

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Speaker 1: the ball or you want to in the second half,

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Speaker 1: I don't know. I generally prefer to get it in

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Speaker 1: the second half because I have a better feel for

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Speaker 1: the game, right, and you can close out the first

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Speaker 1: half that yesterday too, I think I asked you this,

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Speaker 1: so as a rule of thumb, I think I'd prefer

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Speaker 1: could potentially leave my homes off the football field for

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Speaker 1: maybe an hour of real time close out the first half.

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Speaker 1: There's the thing too, this game is gonna be cold.

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Speaker 1: It's gonna be cold, yeah, I mean I just looked up.

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Speaker 1: It's gonna be in the teens. Um. There's other weather

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Speaker 1: doesn't look like a lot of precipitation. The snow is

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Speaker 1: teens at game time, like the lowest. The low for

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Speaker 1: the day in Kansas City's like eleven. I can't imagine

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Speaker 1: it's gonna be too far off of eleven at night, right,

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Speaker 1: I mean, I guess the logic of getting the ball

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Speaker 1: first would be to try to quiet the crowd a

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Speaker 1: little bit, show the world that, you know, Land the

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Speaker 1: first punch, you show that this is gonna be and

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Speaker 1: this is not going to be a rollover game. You

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Speaker 1: know we're here too. Um, I think you can do

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Speaker 1: that with your defense, right, I mean a big sack

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Speaker 1: or you know, something like that too. Now I think

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Speaker 1: i've I'm giving them a ball and if it's seven

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Speaker 1: oh right off the bat, so be it. I mean

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Speaker 1: I can live with that. Yeah, I'm cool with that.

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Speaker 1: You know. The more I dig into this game, the

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Speaker 1: more just get the idea that it's going to be

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Speaker 1: like the Steelers chances more now than I did Monday morning.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I'm more homeworking with it. And this Chief's

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Speaker 1: offense is really good, but it's not what it used

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Speaker 1: to be. It's not yet. This is not the two

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Speaker 1: thousand seven Patriots. No, we're really the Chiefs in the

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Speaker 1: last couple of years, and the numbers in the end

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Speaker 1: are really good. It was points a game is not healthy,

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Speaker 1: you know. I mean, I don't wonder what Kelsey situation.

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Speaker 1: Run the ball particularly well, and I you know, they

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Speaker 1: get it. I think people know this, but they get

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Speaker 1: the highest percentage of two high safeties in the league

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Speaker 1: and a lot of it's, you know, run after the

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Speaker 1: catch if you tackle a catch pretty well. And we're

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Speaker 1: doing a Steelers Live Today video and I use the

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Speaker 1: analogy of if you can make this team kill you

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Speaker 1: with death by a thousand paper down the field, Okay,

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Speaker 1: you know right, you tackle, you make them you know,

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Speaker 1: sustained long drive, I said. I asked Keith the same

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Speaker 1: question today because Chiefs are seventeenth and red zone offense, yeah,

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Speaker 1: they can't. They don't run the ball particularly well. And

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Speaker 1: that's the red zone is pretty good. The number five. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: we'll see, uh something else. One other thing I wanted

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Speaker 1: to talk to you about. We'll get to that in

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Speaker 1: the next segment alright, has to do with the Chief's

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Speaker 1: offensive line. We'll do that right after this