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Speaker 1: At this 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 Steelers Nation.

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Speaker 2: Radio and welcome back.

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Speaker 3: I'm Dale LOLLI he is the Matt Williamson and it

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Speaker 3: is time for the Fantasy Football Focus. It's a Wednesday.

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Speaker 3: That means we go around the league and see who's in,

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Speaker 3: who's out.

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Speaker 2: At least get a good feel for the guys you

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Speaker 2: gotta worry about and right, Yeah, make your make your provisions.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it makes it interesting to you know, figure out

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Speaker 3: who is which teams are hurting and well Washington Noah

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Speaker 3: Brown with a groin, was limited today. He's kind of

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Speaker 3: been their number two. Yeah, they rotate the teams. I

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Speaker 3: mean they all kind of get involved.

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Speaker 2: But I don't know if that's great for mconkey or

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Speaker 2: you know, the other guys, but it is noteworthy. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Brian Robinson with a knee, officially limited on Wednesday.

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Speaker 2: He did not play last week. He did not know.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, moving over to the forty nine Ers, Jordan Mason

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Speaker 3: was limited on Wednesday.

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Speaker 2: Okay, it's better than I kind of thought initially.

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Speaker 3: By Jon Robinson given a rest day non participant in

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Speaker 3: practice today. He was not overworked in that game.

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Speaker 2: No, it wasn't like he was the only show in town,

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Speaker 2: nause hairstyle or anything.

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Speaker 3: You know, what's the first two touchdown game of his career.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I've heard that, which is he's still really waved

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Speaker 2: in the passing. Yeah, it was the key for him.

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Speaker 3: Evan Ingram with a hamstring limited on Wednesday across the pond.

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Speaker 2: Is that what he missed time with. Yes, I think they're.

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Speaker 3: Probably just kind of they don't want him to reaggravate it,

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Speaker 3: and yeah, aggravate it.

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Speaker 2: He can't reaggravate it. That good boy.

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Speaker 3: Travis atn officially limited on Wednesday with a hamstring. I

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Speaker 3: thought it was a shoulder initially.

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Speaker 2: I don't know what the injury was, but maybe that

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so that's definitely worth keeping an eye on. And

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Speaker 3: he might be losing his job over there as it is.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm wondering if he on the trade block too,

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Speaker 2: Like why don't we keep you healthy until we get

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Speaker 2: back to the States and shippy to Dallas or whatever.

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Speaker 3: Gabe Davis with the knee, was limited on a practice

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Speaker 3: on Wednesday. He had two touchdown catches and that it'd

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Speaker 3: be nice to get him out of the way. Yeah, right,

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Speaker 3: you will starting them, but get him out one of

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Speaker 3: those one of those guys need to get out of

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Speaker 3: there because it's just too too crowded.

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Speaker 2: Thomas is the only one you can really start confidently.

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Speaker 2: I thinking now, I don't even know.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know that I could start Thomas confidently confidently.

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Speaker 2: Good. Well, I think you didn't talk a dog game

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Speaker 2: last week. Brow that that that that seems that it's

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Speaker 2: that they could lose the Patriots. They could. They're a

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Speaker 2: real disaster. Uh.

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Speaker 3: Jedrick Willis with a shoulder and knee limited on Wednesday

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Speaker 3: for the Browns.

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Speaker 2: I thought he might be one of the guys you

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Speaker 2: could get in trade too. I mean, if there if

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Speaker 2: they're gonna have I don't.

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Speaker 3: Think they can trade in the offensive lineman unless they just, Hey,

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Speaker 3: we want to get to Sean hurt so we can.

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Speaker 2: Not have to play him anymore. Then you get better

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Speaker 2: and have a better pick if you got him hurt,

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Speaker 2: better pick. They're picking two right now. That's what you get,

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Speaker 2: a worst pick. If we start winning games of getting

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Speaker 2: beat up, you're right, Yeah, he has. He's been sacked

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Speaker 2: nine more times than number two on the list, I mean,

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Speaker 2: and a lot of it's on him. But yeah, it's bad.

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Speaker 3: Denzel Word with the hamstring listed is limited on Wednesday.

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Speaker 2: Could he go?

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Speaker 3: They just signed him last year. I think Martin Emerson

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Speaker 2: After the year. Yeah, he would be working.

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Speaker 3: There were some you know, early in training camp and

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Speaker 2: That's good. Between the two of them. In Newsome, they

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Speaker 3: David and Joku with the ankle practiced in full on Wednesday,

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Speaker 3: so that's at least heading in the right direction. Miles

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Speaker 3: Garrett with the achilles was limited Wednesday. Jerome Forbe with

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Speaker 3: the hamstring for the Browns mispractice on Wednesday. Deontay Foreman

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Speaker 2: Wow. So he's probably gonna play, certainly looks.

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Speaker 3: That way because all the other guys are banged up.

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Speaker 2: But yeah, there was talk this time next week they

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Speaker 3: but I'm not starting him right at it's not behind

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Speaker 3: that offensive line. Just how dysfunctional and how Yeah, their

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Speaker 3: offenses just hasn't worked. I mean, the passing game just

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Speaker 2: It at least a week.

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Speaker 3: Is he going to be in the shape to handle

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Speaker 3: because he's been working out, but he's not been playing football.

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Speaker 2: Or taking hits or he's happy, right, it's a different world.

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Speaker 3: Anthony Richardson with the oblique practiced in form Wednesday and

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Speaker 3: they've already come out and said he's starting this week.

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Speaker 2: They have to.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Michael Pittman, with a back issue, did not practice

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Speaker 2: So I think he's ago on ir this time last week.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, he survived that Tray sermon mispracticed on Wednesday, so

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Speaker 3: uh he is sound as Taylor sounds like he's going

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Speaker 2: I thought, so. Yeah, goods, and so I keep an

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Speaker 3: Josh Downs with a toe did not practice on Wednesday,

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Speaker 3: the same issue he had last week and ended up playing.

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Speaker 2: I would bet him and Pittman are okay. You know,

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Speaker 2: they're just getting over these injuries.

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Speaker 3: Devin a Chan with a concussion practiced him full on Wednesday.

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Speaker 3: Skyler Thompson with ribs logged a full practice on Wednesday.

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Speaker 3: Uh, as this being a fantasy segment. Jaylen Warren no

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Speaker 3: They took him off the injury report last week week

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Speaker 3: they listed as a knee. I expect Jalen Warren moving

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Speaker 3: He just wasn't real effective running the ball early in

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Speaker 2: I think that's a real case of that actually happening.

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Speaker 2: He's getting you know, you know again, kind of like

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Speaker 2: the Chubb thing. I didn't you know, he wasn't off

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Speaker 2: as long as Chubb. But it's hard to get right

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Speaker 3: Yeah, he's been out of sight, out of mind, but

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Speaker 3: now I think moving forward it becomes that fifty to

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Speaker 2: And for fantasy, I think he's a by low. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I mean this town will be tough, but I mean,

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Speaker 3: Wandell Robinson with an ankle limited at Wednesday's practice for

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Speaker 2: Wonder about neighbors. I hope he's back soon with a concussion.

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Speaker 3: Dexter Lawrence with a hip was sidelined from practice on

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Speaker 3: Wednesday for the for the Giants, the Giant coming to

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Speaker 3: Pittsburgh in two weeks. Darius Slayton, with a groin limited

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Speaker 3: on Wednesday. Brian Burns with a groin misspractice on Wednesday.

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Speaker 3: Malik Neighbors with the concussion officially limited on Wednesday. So

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Speaker 3: that's the first step in coming back. He's missed two

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Speaker 3: games with that thing. Say, but it's a week longer

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Speaker 3: than you would have liked. Yeah, so at least he's

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Speaker 3: trending in the right direction.

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Speaker 3: Devin Single, Yeah, Devon Singletary with a groin injury a

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Speaker 2: And I don't think they'll rush him back. No, I

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Speaker 2: don't know that he'll get his job back either. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: In Green Bay, JayR Alexander with a groin limited on Wednesday.

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Speaker 2: That's very important. Their other corners are just okay.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Tucker Kraft with the shoulder was limited on Wednesday.

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Speaker 3: Jaden Reid with an ankle limited Wednesday, Yeah he is.

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Speaker 3: And Ontavian Wicks shoulder limited on Wednesday, as was Christian

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Speaker 2: Doesn't change my opinion on anything. It's just a mess.

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Speaker 2: I mean, you start read. If somebody else gets hurt,

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Speaker 2: maybe you start watching or WIX. Sounds like Dobbs is

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Speaker 2: start yeah, just start laughing. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Uh, Deontay Jackson or Johnson I should say with the

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Speaker 3: ankle didn't practice on Wednesday, but that's kind of been

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Speaker 3: with That's been status quo for him and he's produced.

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Speaker 2: Oh he's been good. Yeah. I wonder if he gets traded.

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Speaker 3: Taysom Hill with the ribs doubtful for Thursday Night's game.

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Speaker 2: As is like the entire Saints offense.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Chuba Hubbard did not practice on Wednesday, but that

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Speaker 2: This is not what you want to hear. You're in

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Speaker 2: a lot of running backs getting rest now they've getting

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Speaker 2: beat up all year.

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Speaker 3: I didn't see this one before, but this is new.

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Speaker 3: Rashid Shahed with the knee, Yeah, to undergo surgery could

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Speaker 2: I mean, the Lave is not playing, Hill's not playing.

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Speaker 2: Actually may pull it up.

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Speaker 3: Lave with a concussion ruled out, Yeah, laves out.

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Speaker 2: So Nick Underhill is like the most well known Saints

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Speaker 2: reporter and I just retweeted it. I mean of their

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Speaker 2: starters on offense, Kamara Moreau, the tight end who's not

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Speaker 2: fantacy worthy at all. And the two tackles for Logau

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Speaker 2: and Penning are the only ones playing this game from

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Speaker 2: their Week one starters.

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Speaker 3: On offense, Moreau might be fantasy relevant this.

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Speaker 2: Week, right, I mean, like bub Means is going to

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Speaker 2: be like their number one receiver. I mentioned him earlier

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Speaker 2: in the week we were talking about pickups. Yeah, he

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Speaker 2: might might be the only game in town.

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Speaker 3: U Zamir White with a groin injury practice Wednesday.

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Speaker 2: Okay, do you plug him back in your lineup? No?

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Speaker 2: I don't think no. I mean, even if he's a starter,

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Speaker 3: Aaron Jones with the hip uncertain to play in Week seven.

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Speaker 3: The team is hopeful that it played, but depends on how

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Speaker 3: James Cook with the toe, expected to practice today, as

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Speaker 2: Him, Yeah, why not keep it rolling? Just trade him.

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Speaker 2: I don't disagree. It'd be really valuable too. Yeah, he's

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's not the contract's not ridiculous. Jonathan Brooks with

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Speaker 3: I'm sorry to be determined if he'll play in Week seven.

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Speaker 3: They got the Titans. It might just be a handful

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they can just get through. Yeah, that shocks me

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Speaker 3: I don't think he plays so again, Pollar the only

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Speaker 2: So keep an eye on Goodson. Keep an eye on Goodson.

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Speaker 2: Could be a good DFS play. Yeah, yeah, I bet

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Speaker 3: Terry McLaurin was given a rest day, as was zach

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Speaker 3: Ertz Dallas. Goddard could miss a few weeks.

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Speaker 2: Not gonna die are but didn't. I mean he was

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Speaker 3: You interested in Grant Calcitara, not very I gonna be

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Speaker 2: Like I'm not picking them up. I mean I actually

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna pick up like Parkinson over Calcata. I mean

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Rashad White, this is the expectation coming out of this.

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Speaker 2: Man's not manageable.

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Speaker 3: No, Jerome Ford, I did not practice. I mentioned Salvon

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Speaker 3: Well, he's now with the with the Colts because I

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Speaker 3: think Taylor, Taylor and sermon again, that teams tell you

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Speaker 2: Back goods and should probably be in leagues. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Andrew Thomas again, the Steelers play the Giants in two weeks. Uh,

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Speaker 3: he had that foot issues a Liz Frank. He played

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Speaker 2: Game alone on Hendrickson the whole time.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, he underwent successful surgery. He is out

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Speaker 2: That's a huge loss. I mean, he's a He's the

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Speaker 2: they help everybody else. He's one of their absolute best players.

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Speaker 3: Another one that's a fantasy noteworthy Brandon McManus. Brandon McManus

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Speaker 3: had missed already like five kicks, and Simon McManus. He

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Speaker 3: had been under investigation by the NFL for some allegations

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Speaker 3: on Manus was Yeah, on a team flight, Oh yeah,

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Speaker 3: I remember that now. Yeah, Packers offense is good.

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Speaker 2: He's gonna get chances. He's a kicker. It's a good vironment. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: So I mean, just noteworthy that he was out there

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Speaker 2: Relevant.

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Speaker 3: Right.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean he's one of the best thirty two

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Speaker 2: in the world. And again, that's a good offense. It's

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Speaker 2: a good offense. Yeah. I mean maybe when the weather

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Speaker 2: use him for a month or whatever.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely, But some interesting stuff there. We saw some wide

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Speaker 3: receiver movement yesterday. I think there'll be some more wide

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Speaker 2: Yeah. It's not always great for fantasy though.

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Speaker 3: Not always, Like we haven't talked about that. So let's

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Speaker 3: do that real quick. Amari Cooper going to Buffalo. I

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Speaker 3: think that increases his stock, increases his stock, but it

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Speaker 2: Really hurts kin kid in my opinion, I think it

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Speaker 2: hurts you here. I think Coleman is the one that

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Speaker 2: I feel like they're all slots. Yeah, you know, and

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Speaker 2: Cooper's not. I mean he's an outside X online of

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Speaker 3: So you know when they go to two receiver packages

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Speaker 3: and they want to play twelve, is it going to

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Speaker 2: I'm thinking it's you here, but I don't know. It's

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Speaker 2: a good question. It's definitely gonna be Cooper. Yeah, so

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Speaker 2: it's not all his fault. I mean, like I heard

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Speaker 2: my head, but they were talking about how many catchable

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Speaker 2: It was well under one hundred this past week. And

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Speaker 2: I guess Cooper is like PFF's last ranked receiver. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: I think he was kind of mailing it in.

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Speaker 3: Yes, Yes, I think he's he just realized I'm going

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Speaker 3: to go out there and run these routes and he's

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Speaker 2: It's just such a ripple effect though. Yeah, I partially

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Speaker 2: don't even blame him, you know. I mean, you should

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Speaker 2: your head. You know you have no chance, you know. Uh.

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Speaker 3: With DeVante Adams going to the Jets, I think it

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Speaker 2: I think it does dramatically. He the most targets in

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Speaker 3: The yardage. The yardage hasn't been there for him. He's

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Speaker 3: But I think those go down, yeah, because he's going

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Speaker 2: I even think before the Adams trade that their run

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Speaker 3: I do too, because it's been really high. Briest Hall

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Speaker 2: That had to be priority.

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Speaker 3: I don't know if that's sustainable. I wonder if that

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Speaker 3: We got to we have to beat the Bills, and.

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Speaker 2: Allen's good good. Yeah. I do think they'll run the

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Speaker 3: Mike Williams is obviously the guy who gets pushed completely

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Lazard's probably shot too.

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Speaker 3: I don't know if he's shot because he's still cut him,

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Speaker 2: Yeah. It does hurt Wilson without question. Yeah, but you

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, you can't expect Lazard to have he

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Speaker 2: Right now with five touchdown touchdowns.

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Speaker 3: hundred and fifty four yards and five touchdowns. That's all

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Speaker 3: so that's not going to happen anymore. So if you

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you're not gonna be able to play him. I'm

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Speaker 2: not saying cut him, but I would say you don't

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Speaker 3: So that's just where they're at with that, And I

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Speaker 3: three fifty four with five touchdowns. Adams is good, he's

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Speaker 3: better than he's better than those guys, But I don't

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Speaker 2: I don't. I mean, like all his zard stuff go

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Speaker 3: five catches for I don't know, four hundred yards or

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Speaker 3: wouldn't have forty one catches right now now, target he'd

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Speaker 3: have thirty instead.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, So it's not great.

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Speaker 3: It's kind of moving the moving the chairs around again.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, Now I were saying, and it's not great, and.

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Speaker 3: Like people expect this all their passing game is going

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Speaker 2: I mean that has been the problem. Ne necessarily, protection

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Speaker 3: And they're averaging as a team and the preestall's run

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Speaker 2: He said right now, he's had one good game. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: you know, and I hear you. I don't know that

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Speaker 2: all to set them over the top. Yeah, but I

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Speaker 3: It makes them harder to play against, there's no doubt

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Speaker 3: about it. But the offensive line is still not good.

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Speaker 2: No, it really isn't. Wilson I think is gonna get

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Speaker 2: his no matter what not like this, But yeah, I

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Speaker 3: I mean he's he's on pace right now for about

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Speaker 2: No, No, he'll end up with maybe one hundred.

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Speaker 3: Maybe one hundred, maybe forty one now.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, but he's more of a receiver too, I

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Speaker 2: it helps Rogers a little. And Breeshall still catches the football. Oh,

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Speaker 2: Breese Hall's hands. Yeah, and I get it.

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Speaker 3: Anyways, let's get to a break that's going to do

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Speaker 3: it for the Fantasy football focus. He is Matt Williamson.

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Speaker 3: I am Dale Lolly. You're listening to the Drive here

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Speaker 3: There we are, you know, keeping everybody up the date

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Speaker 3: on everything, and the comments this week have.

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Speaker 2: Been interesting, but a lot of quarterback stuff, A lot

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Speaker 2: of quarterback.

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Speaker 3: Stuff, obviously, Matt, we haven't looked at the DVOA stuff

460
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Speaker 3: as of late. And to me, one of the reasons

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Speaker 3: why I think Mike Tomlin is making the move at

462
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Speaker 3: quarterback right now. In terms of offensive output, the Steelers

463
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Speaker 3: are twenty third in offensive DVOA.

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Speaker 2: Doesn't surprise me, which you'd like that to be better?

465
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Speaker 2: It needs to be better.

466
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Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, and I know this isn't the be all,

467
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Speaker 3: end all, but I think we can all agree that

468
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Speaker 3: the offense, while good in spurts, has i mean slow starts.

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Speaker 2: The slow starts have been a problem, definitely been a problem,

470
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Speaker 2: been some first down issues. You know, you've cited the

471
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Speaker 2: play action not being useful at all really in terms

472
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Speaker 2: of being productive at all. Yeah, even more from the

473
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Speaker 2: running game too, Yeah, I mean, just a little more consistency.

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Speaker 2: And one thing about this Jets the defense, they don't

475
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Speaker 2: allow a lot of big plays, but their run defense

476
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Speaker 2: allow a lot of successful runs. You know.

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Speaker 3: It's also twenty two runs this season already of ten

478
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Speaker 3: or more yards.

479
00:22:08,000 --> 00:22:08,240
Speaker 2: Wow.

480
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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a lot, which is at the bottom, you know,

481
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Speaker 3: to the bottom of the league. So I mean you

482
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Speaker 3: can you can get some chunk ish runs against this team.

483
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and they need to because I don't know.

484
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Speaker 3: Their cornerbacks are good coverage coverage players, right, but if

485
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Speaker 3: you start making them tackle Nauseie Harris or Jaylen Warren

486
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Speaker 3: or even Cordero Patterson for that matter, I don't know

487
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Speaker 3: what the backups are like, I don't know they're gonna

488
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Speaker 3: like that all that much.

489
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Speaker 2: And even their edge guys like McDonald is a leaner,

490
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Speaker 2: not an edge setter. To guy you know, James Harrison,

491
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Speaker 2: he's a speedball off the edge. Yeah, it was interesting.

492
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Speaker 3: Mike Tomlin mentioned him at his press conference on Tuesday

493
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Speaker 3: and said he and Nick Herbig were his two favorite

494
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Speaker 3: edge rushers in that draft of two years ago.

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Speaker 2: Interesting, and people might remember the Steelers leap frog the

496
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Speaker 2: Jets to take Roderick Jones, assuming the Jets were going

497
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Speaker 2: to take them, and they might have, but they took McDonald, Yeah,

498
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Speaker 2: which kind of felt like a consolation prize at the time. Now, Hutchinson, Jill,

499
00:23:05,960 --> 00:23:08,080
Speaker 2: you got worse acts, right, he's been good.

500
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Speaker 3: So looking at that, the Steelers right now sixteenth overall

501
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Speaker 3: in total DVOA. Okay, the offense is twenty third, the

502
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Speaker 3: defense is tenth. Now I think that, you know, the

503
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Speaker 3: two games that they lost, Dallas game probably hurt that

504
00:23:23,680 --> 00:23:26,400
Speaker 3: a little bit. Yeah, but still minus eight point two

505
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Speaker 3: on that side of it. Minus being on the good

506
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Speaker 3: side of that. That's what you want. Special teams.

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Speaker 2: They're now fourth, Yeah, you said that earlier, and really good,

508
00:23:35,880 --> 00:23:40,560
Speaker 2: really good, not missing kicks, creating big plays. Returns have

509
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Speaker 2: been good.

510
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Speaker 3: Returns have been good, The coverage has been good. Yeah,

511
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Speaker 3: they're giving up three point eight yards per punt return. Okay,

512
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Speaker 3: I mean you'll take that all day long, all day long.

513
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Speaker 3: And we still haven't seen Patterson return of kick.

514
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Speaker 2: No.

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Speaker 3: I think that's going to be coming here, you know,

516
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Speaker 3: as we get more into this. The other interesting thing

517
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Speaker 3: about this matter, if you start looking at the schedule,

518
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Speaker 3: they played the twenty third hardest schedule to this point,

519
00:24:02,640 --> 00:24:04,760
Speaker 3: and so everybody looks at it and goes, well, their schedule

520
00:24:04,760 --> 00:24:08,040
Speaker 3: gets much harder down the road. It's fourteenth the rest

521
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Speaker 3: of the way. Yeah, I mean, because this is what

522
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Speaker 3: these teams are now.

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Speaker 2: Exactly exactly, and we've seen enough football to know that

524
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Speaker 2: these are a lot more accurate. Like the first week

525
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Speaker 2: or two of DVA can get a little crazy. Yeah,

526
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Speaker 2: the Saints were like all time high or whatever. Yeah,

527
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Speaker 2: they're not there anymore. No, things level out and you

528
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Speaker 2: figure out who the good teams are, who the bad

529
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Speaker 2: teams are. And clearly you get the Browns on your

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Speaker 2: schedule twice. They are a bad team. Yeah, I mean

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Speaker 2: you said they're a distant last. They are offensive dead.

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Speaker 3: Last in DVAKA at minus forty five point four.

533
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Speaker 2: It's terrible.

534
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Speaker 3: The offense average is zero. Average is zeros. The next

535
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Speaker 3: closest team is Miami at minus forty point eight.

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Speaker 2: Talking about offenses or team overall, Okay.

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Speaker 3: On offensive DVOA, they're minus forty three point three. The

538
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Speaker 3: next closest team is Miami at minus thirty point nine.

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Speaker 2: That's a captain. It's different. That's like the.

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Speaker 3: Grand Canyon right right right, And how bad their offense

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Speaker 3: has been.

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Speaker 2: I mean, if you look at I don't know, the

543
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Speaker 2: tenth ranked team compared like there's probably no other gap.

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Speaker 2: That's fourteen deva points between it, I mean from ten

545
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Speaker 2: to eleven, eleven to twelve, whatever it is. You know.

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Speaker 3: Not only that, but the defense is twenty first, it's

547
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Speaker 3: a positive three point eight.

548
00:25:23,040 --> 00:25:25,120
Speaker 2: Again, you want to be negative on the defensive side.

549
00:25:25,119 --> 00:25:26,600
Speaker 2: You want to be you want to be a positive

550
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Speaker 2: average defense.

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Speaker 3: Right, It's been a below average defense, and I think

552
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Speaker 3: it's only get worse.

553
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Speaker 2: It's only mean. It's kind of like the Cooper conversation

554
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Speaker 2: we had. It's like, it's hard to give it your

555
00:25:36,800 --> 00:25:39,160
Speaker 2: all when you don't think the coaching staff, in front

556
00:25:39,200 --> 00:25:41,520
Speaker 2: office and ownership's given it. They're all put their best

557
00:25:41,600 --> 00:25:44,880
Speaker 2: quarterback out there, you know what I mean. It's human nature, right, Well, tough.

558
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Speaker 2: Where are the Bengals.

559
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Speaker 3: The Bengals are now at where they at? They're actually

560
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Speaker 3: at thirteen thirteen overall. I'm sure their offense is very high.

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Speaker 3: Twelfth on offense, twelfth on offense, no, I'm sorry, eighth

562
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Speaker 3: on offense, twenty second on defense, twenty first on Spence

563
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Speaker 3: teams that.

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Speaker 2: Ends up being thirteenth. We clustered in. They're pretty tight

565
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Speaker 2: with them.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean those teams are all kind of you know,

567
00:26:07,240 --> 00:26:10,680
Speaker 3: mixed in there this Jets team.

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Speaker 2: Where the heck are they at? Looking for the Jets? Jets?

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Speaker 3: Jets Jets eighteen twenty first, all right, they are twenty

570
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Speaker 3: first on offense, they are sixteenth on defense and twenty

571
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Speaker 3: eighth special teams.

572
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Speaker 2: Special teams is an issue for them. Surprise are that

573
00:26:31,359 --> 00:26:33,560
Speaker 2: low on defense? I mean they rushed the passer well,

574
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Speaker 2: I don't think they have a lot of takeaways. I

575
00:26:35,359 --> 00:26:40,440
Speaker 2: mean they're it's not extreme. Defense has been really good

576
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Speaker 2: over the last couple of years, but.

577
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Speaker 3: You can run on them a little bit. They they

578
00:26:43,640 --> 00:26:45,560
Speaker 3: are giving up one hundred and twenty five rushing yards

579
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Speaker 3: per game. What's happened to the Jets this year is

580
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Speaker 3: that they've lost to the good teams on their schedule

581
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Speaker 3: and beaaten the bad ones.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they're pretty much Yeah. I mean I think that

583
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Speaker 2: if you would look at cumulative record of win versus

584
00:27:00,359 --> 00:27:03,400
Speaker 2: cumulive record of losses, it'd be pretty drastic for New York.

585
00:27:04,600 --> 00:27:07,199
Speaker 2: Who else I can ask about? What are the Eagles?

586
00:27:07,200 --> 00:27:09,120
Speaker 2: Because I was thinking about the upcoming schedule when you're

587
00:27:09,160 --> 00:27:12,480
Speaker 2: talking about like, clearly the Browns aren't what we expected

588
00:27:12,480 --> 00:27:15,200
Speaker 2: to be before the season. The Bengals are less than

589
00:27:15,200 --> 00:27:17,560
Speaker 2: that than we expected to. But I bet the Eagles

590
00:27:17,600 --> 00:27:21,879
Speaker 2: are pretty low. Philadelphia's twentieth. That doesn't shock me. And yeah,

591
00:27:21,960 --> 00:27:24,159
Speaker 2: I give Aaron Schott's credit, he was really down on

592
00:27:24,200 --> 00:27:25,199
Speaker 2: them before the season.

593
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Speaker 3: Twelfth on the offense, twenty sixth on defense, Yeah, twenty

594
00:27:29,480 --> 00:27:31,040
Speaker 3: seventh on special and special things.

595
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Speaker 2: They're a contender. I mean, I think they're defense is bad.

596
00:27:34,000 --> 00:27:37,320
Speaker 2: Defense is bad. They didn't fix it like fighting for playoffs.

597
00:27:37,440 --> 00:27:41,199
Speaker 2: They're just ahead of the Jets right now. Okay, so

598
00:27:41,280 --> 00:27:47,960
Speaker 2: your body, your top ten is Minnesota, Detroit, Baltimore, Kansas City,

599
00:27:48,600 --> 00:27:54,320
Speaker 2: San Francisco, Houston, Buffalo's at seven. Kind of surprising that

600
00:27:54,400 --> 00:27:57,800
Speaker 2: a little bit Green Bay is eight, Tampa Bay nine,

601
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Speaker 2: Atlanta now tenth. I think those we did power ranks yesterday,

602
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Speaker 2: I guess it was and I felt like those top

603
00:28:04,400 --> 00:28:08,040
Speaker 2: eight that he mentioned are the true contenders right now. Yeah,

604
00:28:08,080 --> 00:28:11,320
Speaker 2: you know, am I sure if the Niners weren't in

605
00:28:11,320 --> 00:28:15,080
Speaker 2: that list yesterday, but I think they're still a contender.

606
00:28:15,359 --> 00:28:25,359
Speaker 3: The bottom ten in Dvoa, Arizona obvious, yeah, Arizona, the Giants, Dallas.

607
00:28:25,400 --> 00:28:27,320
Speaker 2: Where are they bad? Defense has to be bad.

608
00:28:28,040 --> 00:28:33,000
Speaker 3: They're twenty fifth on offense, Yeah, twenty fifth on offense,

609
00:28:33,040 --> 00:28:35,320
Speaker 3: twenty seventh on defense, number one on special times.

610
00:28:35,320 --> 00:28:38,200
Speaker 2: Say special teams are good. Aubrey and the returner Turpen's

611
00:28:38,200 --> 00:28:39,560
Speaker 2: a good play. They can't run the ball at all.

612
00:28:39,960 --> 00:28:41,440
Speaker 2: They can't saw to one. They can't run.

613
00:28:42,200 --> 00:28:46,959
Speaker 3: The Rams are twenty fifth, Tennessee twenty sixth, Jacksonville twenty seventh,

614
00:28:47,480 --> 00:28:51,320
Speaker 3: Vegas twenty eighth, New England twenty nine, Carolina thirty, Miami

615
00:28:51,360 --> 00:28:53,640
Speaker 3: thirty one, and Cleveland at thirty two.

616
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Speaker 2: Think about those are the sellers at the trade deadline for.

617
00:28:57,720 --> 00:29:00,479
Speaker 3: The most Again, that's that conversation, you know, we had that.

618
00:29:00,680 --> 00:29:02,680
Speaker 2: I don't know if Miami would be one quite yet.

619
00:29:03,080 --> 00:29:04,920
Speaker 2: It would be if two us out there or not.

620
00:29:06,160 --> 00:29:07,160
Speaker 2: Could you get Cooper Cup.

621
00:29:08,800 --> 00:29:10,480
Speaker 3: I've seen his name bandied about there.

622
00:29:10,480 --> 00:29:12,520
Speaker 2: He's got to play first. I think he's supposed to

623
00:29:12,520 --> 00:29:14,040
Speaker 2: play this Week's supposed to play this week.

624
00:29:15,760 --> 00:29:17,920
Speaker 3: I wonder what you would cost surprisingly though, I mean

625
00:29:18,000 --> 00:29:21,280
Speaker 3: now they're they're twenty fifth. I mean, the defense is thirtieth.

626
00:29:22,200 --> 00:29:23,479
Speaker 3: The defense is awful.

627
00:29:23,560 --> 00:29:27,320
Speaker 2: It's just a bunch of youngsters. Yeah, if I were them,

628
00:29:27,360 --> 00:29:31,280
Speaker 2: I would consider moving Cup because this season shot. Yeah,

629
00:29:31,320 --> 00:29:33,040
Speaker 2: and you're young everywhere else.

630
00:29:33,080 --> 00:29:34,840
Speaker 3: But again, you're you're you know you're in LA. You

631
00:29:34,840 --> 00:29:35,680
Speaker 3: gotta sell tickets.

632
00:29:35,760 --> 00:29:37,640
Speaker 2: No, I get that part. That's all part of it

633
00:29:37,680 --> 00:29:40,160
Speaker 2: as well. The Max Crosby conversation. Yeah, I got a

634
00:29:40,160 --> 00:29:42,680
Speaker 2: hard enough time getting people in the seats.

635
00:29:42,720 --> 00:29:45,320
Speaker 3: You know how many Cooper Cup jerseys you you're selling?

636
00:29:45,400 --> 00:29:48,040
Speaker 2: You know that kind of stuff. It matters. I mean

637
00:29:48,240 --> 00:29:50,840
Speaker 2: it does. Like I don't think you get Waddle or Tyreek.

638
00:29:50,920 --> 00:29:52,920
Speaker 2: I don't think those guys are to that point yet.

639
00:29:53,000 --> 00:29:54,400
Speaker 2: Plus they've resigned both of them.

640
00:29:54,680 --> 00:29:57,400
Speaker 3: But that offensive d v A ranking for me, is

641
00:29:57,440 --> 00:29:59,480
Speaker 3: this thing that's holding the Steelers back right now.

642
00:30:00,040 --> 00:30:02,520
Speaker 2: Get up to fifteen ish in the next couple of weeks. Yeah,

643
00:30:02,960 --> 00:30:06,080
Speaker 2: quarterback change could kickstart things.

644
00:30:06,240 --> 00:30:08,720
Speaker 3: Well, here's the thing I think people were overlooking with

645
00:30:08,760 --> 00:30:13,080
Speaker 3: the change at quarterback. They've not been good at running

646
00:30:13,080 --> 00:30:14,600
Speaker 3: the ball on first down. They've not been good on

647
00:30:14,640 --> 00:30:17,959
Speaker 3: first down period. I think the quarterback change helps that.

648
00:30:18,480 --> 00:30:21,400
Speaker 3: And here's why I think. You know again, I said it.

649
00:30:21,920 --> 00:30:24,200
Speaker 3: I tweeted this out early and after their first two

650
00:30:24,280 --> 00:30:28,959
Speaker 3: possessions in against the Raiders. The Raiders are coming out

651
00:30:29,000 --> 00:30:33,520
Speaker 3: there in single high. Yeah, and immediately the snap of

652
00:30:33,560 --> 00:30:37,160
Speaker 3: the football, this the strong safety is just charging the

653
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Speaker 3: line of scrimmage, like he is running across the run

654
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Speaker 3: a field at Gettysburg trying not to get shot. Yeah,

655
00:30:43,240 --> 00:30:46,080
Speaker 3: and just shoots into the backfield and makes play. Trevor

656
00:30:46,120 --> 00:30:49,600
Speaker 3: Morey shoots into the backfield and just he's blowing stuff

657
00:30:49,680 --> 00:30:53,240
Speaker 3: up left and right. If you're throwing the ball there

658
00:30:53,400 --> 00:30:55,760
Speaker 3: on first down, or your quarterback sees that and goes,

659
00:30:55,760 --> 00:30:57,240
Speaker 3: all right, I'm gonna check out of this.

660
00:30:57,160 --> 00:30:59,600
Speaker 2: First two plays, you see that, like, well, okay, I

661
00:30:59,640 --> 00:31:02,240
Speaker 2: know what's up in here, right, you know you got

662
00:31:02,240 --> 00:31:02,400
Speaker 2: to go.

663
00:31:02,480 --> 00:31:04,400
Speaker 3: You got to throw them out of that, yep. And

664
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Speaker 3: I think that softens everything else up. So if you're

665
00:31:06,640 --> 00:31:08,720
Speaker 3: able to back the safeties off a little bit, you're

666
00:31:08,760 --> 00:31:10,959
Speaker 3: able to back the linebackers off a little bit by

667
00:31:11,000 --> 00:31:13,200
Speaker 3: having some success throwing the ball on early down.

668
00:31:13,080 --> 00:31:15,600
Speaker 2: Get into better plays. Yeah, you know, I mean first

669
00:31:15,640 --> 00:31:18,600
Speaker 2: and second down you get the most generic coverages. You know,

670
00:31:18,680 --> 00:31:21,760
Speaker 2: third downs when people get totally exotic. But like Flack

671
00:31:21,800 --> 00:31:23,880
Speaker 2: and we saw the Flacco and Dak you know, like

672
00:31:23,920 --> 00:31:26,440
Speaker 2: they've just been around the block. I mean they're not,

673
00:31:26,520 --> 00:31:29,320
Speaker 2: they're not. I'm sure Aaron Rodgers will have successful first down,

674
00:31:29,400 --> 00:31:30,960
Speaker 2: you know, I mean, like they're old. They know where

675
00:31:31,120 --> 00:31:32,840
Speaker 2: the coverages are, they know how to beat them, and

676
00:31:32,920 --> 00:31:34,800
Speaker 2: they checked the line of scrimmage of the right routes.

677
00:31:34,840 --> 00:31:37,200
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's like somebody playing somebody in Madden who's been

678
00:31:37,200 --> 00:31:40,320
Speaker 3: playing it for you know, he's played a thousand consecutive days,

679
00:31:40,360 --> 00:31:42,640
Speaker 3: and you just picked up the controller, going okay.

680
00:31:42,400 --> 00:31:43,880
Speaker 2: Well how do I do this? Yeah, Like, what's the

681
00:31:43,920 --> 00:31:44,320
Speaker 2: B button?

682
00:31:44,360 --> 00:31:44,440
Speaker 3: Doo?

683
00:31:44,520 --> 00:31:49,280
Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, right exactly, it is there a button? Anymore

684
00:31:51,360 --> 00:31:54,080
Speaker 2: of that spins you around in a circle or something. Yeah.

685
00:31:55,080 --> 00:31:56,280
Speaker 2: I've never played Madden once.

686
00:31:56,920 --> 00:31:59,120
Speaker 3: I used to play back in the day, and you

687
00:31:59,160 --> 00:32:01,160
Speaker 3: know then I had kids, and yeah, I have a

688
00:32:01,200 --> 00:32:02,959
Speaker 3: feeling i'd like it a lot, and it's been much

689
00:32:03,000 --> 00:32:07,720
Speaker 3: of that was part of the problem. Yeah, but yeah,

690
00:32:07,720 --> 00:32:10,520
Speaker 3: I mean, if you can get that d v A again,

691
00:32:10,560 --> 00:32:12,960
Speaker 3: I think it up and by opening up the running

692
00:32:12,960 --> 00:32:15,520
Speaker 3: game a little bit more nausey Harrison. Every time he's

693
00:32:15,560 --> 00:32:17,240
Speaker 3: on the field, teams are going, okay, we're just gonna

694
00:32:17,280 --> 00:32:18,960
Speaker 3: run down Hell because he's getting the football here.

695
00:32:19,120 --> 00:32:19,640
Speaker 2: Yeah.

696
00:32:19,400 --> 00:32:22,280
Speaker 3: Yeah, however you get out of it, that needs changed.

697
00:32:22,320 --> 00:32:24,280
Speaker 3: So you know, last week you got Jalen Warren back.

698
00:32:24,720 --> 00:32:27,320
Speaker 3: Now you're putting Russell Wilson. It's basically a new offense.

699
00:32:27,440 --> 00:32:29,520
Speaker 2: He lost her center to you know, yeah, I don't

700
00:32:29,520 --> 00:32:34,040
Speaker 2: love at all, but that's a short term thing. I

701
00:32:34,080 --> 00:32:36,520
Speaker 2: wouldn't mind seeing that defense around five though, to in

702
00:32:36,560 --> 00:32:37,080
Speaker 2: a couple of weeks.

703
00:32:37,200 --> 00:32:39,920
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I mean that it certainly is, and

704
00:32:39,960 --> 00:32:41,880
Speaker 3: I think if you know, the sacks haven't been there,

705
00:32:41,880 --> 00:32:44,560
Speaker 3: but I think that's largely because everybody's just getting rid

706
00:32:44,560 --> 00:32:45,600
Speaker 3: of the football.

707
00:32:45,360 --> 00:32:48,320
Speaker 2: Yeah so quick. But takeaways are and you know, I mean,

708
00:32:48,480 --> 00:32:50,840
Speaker 2: it's still a big play defense.

709
00:32:50,480 --> 00:32:53,800
Speaker 3: And they're still stopping the run for the e p

710
00:32:53,920 --> 00:32:57,760
Speaker 3: A for the Steelers is still extremely good against the

711
00:32:57,800 --> 00:33:00,600
Speaker 3: brun and the pass. They're still negative and both of those,

712
00:33:01,200 --> 00:33:02,959
Speaker 3: which is where you want to be at. I'm kind

713
00:33:03,000 --> 00:33:05,360
Speaker 3: of surprised they actually are tenth. Yeah, and that shocked

714
00:33:05,360 --> 00:33:07,040
Speaker 3: me too. And you said that I figured they'd be top.

715
00:33:07,280 --> 00:33:09,240
Speaker 3: I mean, just looking at the teams that are ahead

716
00:33:09,280 --> 00:33:09,880
Speaker 3: of them right now.

717
00:33:10,000 --> 00:33:10,960
Speaker 2: Sure, the Ravens are.

718
00:33:11,480 --> 00:33:16,200
Speaker 3: You're looking at Minnesota one, Houston is two.

719
00:33:16,640 --> 00:33:19,120
Speaker 2: They rush the pass or well plates of bad teams.

720
00:33:18,880 --> 00:33:22,200
Speaker 3: To the Chargers at three, and they played some bad

721
00:33:22,240 --> 00:33:26,560
Speaker 3: teams too. Detroit at four, San Francisco at five, Chicago

722
00:33:26,600 --> 00:33:31,640
Speaker 3: at six, Denver at seven, Kansas City at eight, Tennessee

723
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Speaker 3: at nine, and then the Steelers at ten. Baltimore is thirteenth.

724
00:33:35,680 --> 00:33:38,440
Speaker 3: They don't stop the pass, you can't. They cannot stop

725
00:33:38,440 --> 00:33:41,040
Speaker 3: the pass. That's another reason to make this move. If

726
00:33:41,080 --> 00:33:43,360
Speaker 3: you're gonna beat the Ravens this year, if you're gonna

727
00:33:43,400 --> 00:33:44,400
Speaker 3: do it putting the ball in the air.

728
00:33:44,680 --> 00:33:46,560
Speaker 2: But Steelers could be better than a handful of those

729
00:33:46,720 --> 00:33:49,000
Speaker 2: defense Oh yeah, listed, Yeah, that's not a hard group

730
00:33:49,400 --> 00:33:51,200
Speaker 2: and some of that's who these teams have played, Like

731
00:33:51,600 --> 00:33:55,160
Speaker 2: Denver's gonna shoot way up that list after Thursday night's game. Yeah,

732
00:33:55,200 --> 00:33:56,560
Speaker 2: and they've had some pretty easy matchups.

733
00:33:56,640 --> 00:33:59,200
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean they're playing New Orleans that might as

734
00:33:59,200 --> 00:34:00,840
Speaker 3: well have the four of us in this room on

735
00:34:00,880 --> 00:34:01,280
Speaker 3: the field.

736
00:34:01,400 --> 00:34:03,000
Speaker 2: I mean take the under that. I'm sure the O

737
00:34:03,080 --> 00:34:03,880
Speaker 2: runner is ridiculous.

738
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean Denver is the slam dunk must start

739
00:34:08,480 --> 00:34:09,760
Speaker 3: defense this week in DFS.

740
00:34:10,320 --> 00:34:13,680
Speaker 2: It's nobody right, Yeah, it's on the road on Thursday night,

741
00:34:13,719 --> 00:34:16,359
Speaker 2: but still I don't care. I don't anybody catch the ball.

742
00:34:16,480 --> 00:34:20,000
Speaker 3: No, So just interesting just to take a look at that. Here,

743
00:34:20,520 --> 00:34:22,279
Speaker 3: we're gonna talk a little more of the special team

744
00:34:22,320 --> 00:34:24,720
Speaker 3: stuff because I think this is very significant. The Steelers

745
00:34:24,719 --> 00:34:27,879
Speaker 3: have a significant advantage on special teams in this game

746
00:34:28,320 --> 00:34:31,560
Speaker 3: coming up on Sunday night. H I sat down and

747
00:34:31,560 --> 00:34:35,439
Speaker 3: talked to Corless Weightman earlier today and uh, he's been really.

748
00:34:35,360 --> 00:34:37,480
Speaker 2: Good at punter. We'll talk. It's a nice find. Yeah,

749
00:34:37,520 --> 00:34:40,680
Speaker 2: we'll hear what Corless Weightman had to say right after this.

750
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Speaker 1: This is the Drive with Dale Lolly and Matt Williamson

751
00:34:48,680 --> 00:34:50,879
Speaker 1: on your twenty four to seven Home of the Black

752
00:34:50,920 --> 00:34:53,800
Speaker 1: and Gold Steelers Nation Radio.

753
00:35:01,440 --> 00:35:02,800
Speaker 2: Welcome back. I'm Dale Lalli.

754
00:35:02,880 --> 00:35:05,520
Speaker 3: He is the Matt Williamson and Matt as we just

755
00:35:05,600 --> 00:35:08,600
Speaker 3: talked about, the Steelers have a big advantage in this

756
00:35:08,680 --> 00:35:11,480
Speaker 3: game on special teams. They do, and one of the

757
00:35:11,520 --> 00:35:14,440
Speaker 3: big reasons it has been because Cortless Weightman has done

758
00:35:14,440 --> 00:35:17,160
Speaker 3: the job at punter better than adequate.

759
00:35:18,080 --> 00:35:19,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, more than adequate.

760
00:35:19,080 --> 00:35:21,239
Speaker 3: In fact, I think he's given him I don't want

761
00:35:21,239 --> 00:35:23,520
Speaker 3: to say, you know, as Bob Laberiula said earlier, he's

762
00:35:23,560 --> 00:35:26,279
Speaker 3: not been Cameron Johnston, who I think people were really

763
00:35:26,280 --> 00:35:27,880
Speaker 3: looking forward to could have been a weapon for the

764
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Speaker 3: Steelers this year.

765
00:35:29,600 --> 00:35:31,560
Speaker 2: But he's been really good as much better it's been

766
00:35:31,560 --> 00:35:33,279
Speaker 2: the last couple of years. Yeah, I mean, there's no

767
00:35:33,280 --> 00:35:35,319
Speaker 2: doubt about that. And special teams in general has been

768
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Speaker 2: quite strong. You got one of the best kickers in

769
00:35:37,239 --> 00:35:40,120
Speaker 2: the league. As Bob mentioned, you've blocked two kicks. I mean,

770
00:35:40,160 --> 00:35:41,799
Speaker 2: like that's hard to do in a shorten mind's time.

771
00:35:41,800 --> 00:35:42,239
Speaker 2: It really is.

772
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Speaker 3: To do it back to back weeks is like never

773
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Speaker 3: happens in the NFL.

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Speaker 2: I mean, Jets have missed three or four kicks already. Yeah,

775
00:35:48,920 --> 00:35:51,400
Speaker 2: and are the bottom of the league in most special

776
00:35:51,400 --> 00:35:51,879
Speaker 2: team stuff.

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00:35:51,920 --> 00:35:53,680
Speaker 3: Yea, as we just talked about their twenty eighth in

778
00:35:53,760 --> 00:35:57,640
Speaker 3: DVOA and special teams. The Steelers much higher than that.

779
00:35:58,320 --> 00:36:01,680
Speaker 3: Uh sitting there at number four, that matters a b

780
00:36:01,960 --> 00:36:04,200
Speaker 3: A big advantage for the Steelers in this game. But

781
00:36:04,640 --> 00:36:06,279
Speaker 3: I had an opportunity to sit down and talk to

782
00:36:06,520 --> 00:36:09,400
Speaker 3: Corlis Weightman earlier today, and so let's hear what the

783
00:36:09,400 --> 00:36:10,680
Speaker 3: Steelers punter had to say.

784
00:36:11,160 --> 00:36:13,839
Speaker 2: You jump on this movement train here, as Michael works

785
00:36:13,920 --> 00:36:15,480
Speaker 2: to say. But it's a little different for a punter

786
00:36:15,560 --> 00:36:15,880
Speaker 2: to do that.

787
00:36:17,239 --> 00:36:18,960
Speaker 4: Wait, what do you mean your job is to go

788
00:36:18,960 --> 00:36:21,279
Speaker 4: out and kick the ball? Yeah, yeah, five, six, seven,

789
00:36:21,320 --> 00:36:23,080
Speaker 4: eight times a game. However money it is, oh yeah

790
00:36:23,120 --> 00:36:24,960
Speaker 4: for sure. And you've been here before, so it's a

791
00:36:25,000 --> 00:36:28,840
Speaker 4: little bit different. For you in terms of the getting established.

792
00:36:28,440 --> 00:36:29,960
Speaker 2: And yeah, I think.

793
00:36:31,400 --> 00:36:33,839
Speaker 5: I think being with a team all year of course

794
00:36:34,040 --> 00:36:36,680
Speaker 5: very beneficial, like doing preseason and everything. I was best

795
00:36:36,760 --> 00:36:40,160
Speaker 5: enough to be somewhere for the preseason, but of course

796
00:36:40,200 --> 00:36:43,680
Speaker 5: coming from your house into a game the same week

797
00:36:43,719 --> 00:36:45,239
Speaker 5: and so of course different. You got to get back

798
00:36:45,280 --> 00:36:47,239
Speaker 5: in that group. But I mean in the NFL, you

799
00:36:47,239 --> 00:36:49,520
Speaker 5: gotta be ready for whatever. So I just prepare myself

800
00:36:49,640 --> 00:36:51,680
Speaker 5: while I was home, like I was going to play

801
00:36:51,680 --> 00:36:53,200
Speaker 5: in the game on Sunday. So that kind of helped

802
00:36:53,239 --> 00:36:55,160
Speaker 5: me just get up mentality of like, hey, I could

803
00:36:55,200 --> 00:36:57,680
Speaker 5: be playing the Sunday and it actually worked out to

804
00:36:57,719 --> 00:37:00,759
Speaker 5: be that way. So as especially listen, always gott to

805
00:37:00,760 --> 00:37:03,360
Speaker 5: be mentally ready because especialist, you know, you might be

806
00:37:03,400 --> 00:37:05,240
Speaker 5: home one day and then you might get signed somewhere

807
00:37:05,560 --> 00:37:06,080
Speaker 5: the next day.

808
00:37:06,160 --> 00:37:08,560
Speaker 2: So that kind of helped me get that before.

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Speaker 5: Here I have on Christmas Eve, I think Christmas yeah,

810
00:37:12,200 --> 00:37:14,040
Speaker 5: so I've done it before, but yeah, you gotta be

811
00:37:14,080 --> 00:37:15,680
Speaker 5: ready for those type of things. So I try to

812
00:37:15,680 --> 00:37:17,880
Speaker 5: be ready and just before.

813
00:37:18,160 --> 00:37:20,000
Speaker 2: And to be ready was the kicking part.

814
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Speaker 3: I mean, you know you can kick right, but the

815
00:37:21,760 --> 00:37:23,360
Speaker 3: holding and stuff that I mean, you you.

816
00:37:23,440 --> 00:37:25,480
Speaker 2: Worked on that when you were here. Yeah, Aly, you

817
00:37:25,480 --> 00:37:26,959
Speaker 2: hadn't done that in college, right much.

818
00:37:27,600 --> 00:37:31,360
Speaker 5: I did, But I was a kicker too, and eventually

819
00:37:32,000 --> 00:37:33,680
Speaker 5: I had to just pun and kick off and I

820
00:37:33,680 --> 00:37:35,160
Speaker 5: had to learn how to hold. But yeah, I did

821
00:37:35,200 --> 00:37:39,640
Speaker 5: held in college coming in here my rookie year, worked

822
00:37:39,680 --> 00:37:41,840
Speaker 5: on it as well as I went to Denver and

823
00:37:41,880 --> 00:37:44,759
Speaker 5: other teams. Got to be a good holder, otherwise you

824
00:37:44,800 --> 00:37:46,520
Speaker 5: won't be a pun in the league. So I always

825
00:37:46,560 --> 00:37:49,120
Speaker 5: took proud of that. Try to get better each and

826
00:37:49,160 --> 00:37:51,480
Speaker 5: every every day and everything that I do. So holding

827
00:37:51,600 --> 00:37:53,680
Speaker 5: is a big part of the punter position for sure.

828
00:37:53,960 --> 00:37:56,080
Speaker 2: Was there like a confidence level having done that with

829
00:37:56,120 --> 00:37:58,320
Speaker 2: Chris before, you're like, all right, this is like riding

830
00:37:58,320 --> 00:38:00,360
Speaker 2: a bike. Can we can do this? Yeah? Where he

831
00:38:00,360 --> 00:38:01,680
Speaker 2: wants the ball, I know how he wants it.

832
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Speaker 5: I mean, bos knows. He tells you exactly how he

833
00:38:04,480 --> 00:38:06,160
Speaker 5: wants it, and that just work on it every day,

834
00:38:06,760 --> 00:38:08,920
Speaker 5: which makes it easy because he's a good communicator, So

835
00:38:08,920 --> 00:38:11,520
Speaker 5: it makes it easy to adjust and and have the

836
00:38:11,560 --> 00:38:13,200
Speaker 5: best hold for him because he's a great kicker, so

837
00:38:13,239 --> 00:38:14,440
Speaker 5: I want to be a great holder for him.

838
00:38:14,480 --> 00:38:17,920
Speaker 3: So yeah, your your average is up there and among

839
00:38:17,920 --> 00:38:20,640
Speaker 3: the league leaders, with the net average.

840
00:38:20,360 --> 00:38:25,360
Speaker 2: Is even better. I mean it's been it's been seamless.

841
00:38:24,960 --> 00:38:26,600
Speaker 3: Even I mean everybody was kind of like, oh when

842
00:38:26,680 --> 00:38:29,359
Speaker 3: when gam got hurt, But you've more than done the job.

843
00:38:29,680 --> 00:38:32,680
Speaker 5: I'm just trying to perform as a punter. Put your

844
00:38:32,719 --> 00:38:34,680
Speaker 5: put the defense in a good position where they can

845
00:38:34,760 --> 00:38:36,799
Speaker 5: just go go and hunt, you know what I mean.

846
00:38:36,880 --> 00:38:38,800
Speaker 5: So at the end of the day's still a long season.

847
00:38:38,840 --> 00:38:41,600
Speaker 5: You know it's gonna get colder. You got to be consistent.

848
00:38:41,640 --> 00:38:43,239
Speaker 5: Technique got to be good. So I'm just trying to

849
00:38:43,320 --> 00:38:44,719
Speaker 5: keep this keep this train moving.

850
00:38:45,040 --> 00:38:46,960
Speaker 3: Danny still like the directional stuff as much as he

851
00:38:47,280 --> 00:38:49,279
Speaker 3: used to say, does Danny still like to do the

852
00:38:49,320 --> 00:38:50,439
Speaker 3: directional kicking as much.

853
00:38:50,320 --> 00:38:51,719
Speaker 5: As he used to Oh, your NFL, you gotta be

854
00:38:51,719 --> 00:38:54,120
Speaker 5: able to direction the kick. Every team you're going to

855
00:38:54,160 --> 00:38:56,360
Speaker 5: be on. You got to be able to pin and

856
00:38:56,440 --> 00:38:58,160
Speaker 5: help your coverage team. You can't just punt down in

857
00:38:58,160 --> 00:39:00,600
Speaker 5: the middle of the field. It's dangerous. The punters are

858
00:39:00,719 --> 00:39:05,040
Speaker 5: I mean, the returners these days, you could explosive. They're fast.

859
00:39:05,200 --> 00:39:07,720
Speaker 5: If you punted out a middlefield, it's it's it's risky.

860
00:39:08,400 --> 00:39:11,120
Speaker 5: So you want to be direction was sound to last

861
00:39:11,120 --> 00:39:11,760
Speaker 5: in his league.

862
00:39:11,800 --> 00:39:15,200
Speaker 2: I believe. So, yeah, he talked about the weather. Obviously,

863
00:39:15,200 --> 00:39:17,479
Speaker 2: he kicked from Denver last year, and any worse weather

864
00:39:17,520 --> 00:39:19,439
Speaker 2: than yeah, Coler than what you saw here.

865
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Speaker 5: I played outside my entire career, so I'm kind of

866
00:39:22,480 --> 00:39:25,480
Speaker 5: used to it. I kind of like it too, because, uh,

867
00:39:25,600 --> 00:39:27,080
Speaker 5: you know what to expect, you know what I'm saying.

868
00:39:27,120 --> 00:39:30,200
Speaker 5: You know, you have to be technically sound. So yeah,

869
00:39:30,200 --> 00:39:32,839
Speaker 5: I'm I'm I'm ready for whatever. I appreciate you, John,

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Speaker 5: Thank thank you appreciate it.

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Speaker 3: That was Steelers punter Corliss weightman earlier today with me

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Speaker 3: and uh, nice young man.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and pretty fortunate to find him to be absolutely

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Speaker 2: he was available. Was it was a big get.

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Speaker 3: I mean, he kicked last year in Denver and uh

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Speaker 3: it wasn't bad. It just didn't work out for him,

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Speaker 3: and so the Steelers were lucky he was still available again.

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Speaker 3: A guy that had come in here and punted. You know,

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Speaker 3: they needed a guy. Uh, few years ago when Presley

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Speaker 3: Harvin was dealing with the death of us a family

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Speaker 3: member and signed him for that game in Christmas game

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Speaker 3: in Kansas City, And like, as you said, I was

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Speaker 3: sitting on my couch and next thing I know, it's

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Speaker 3: Christmas and I'm kicking in Kansas City, you.

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Speaker 2: Know, yeah yeah, and then knock on wood. There's been

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Speaker 2: no holding issues or any of that kind of stuff too,

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Speaker 2: so good yeah, good for him. But Matt, that's going

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Speaker 2: to do it for our show today.

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Speaker 3: So for my partner Matt Williamson, for Justin Miller here

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Speaker 3: running the hotline and keeping us on the air, and

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Speaker 3: for Tyler Viittmeyer keeping our videos up there. You can

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Speaker 3: check that out later on YouTube. I'm Dale Lolly. We

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Speaker 3: thank you for listening to this edition of the Drive

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Speaker 3: on the Steelers Audio Network.